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I am with Mike on this one.
I am in the position of seeing this whole story from far away from SV from a small Eastern European country. I think to be far away helps me have a perspective on this 'playing the racism/sexism card' story.
I know lots of Eastern-European guys who has been programming since they were 12 yeaers old, are very good at it, are intelligent, etc. but have incomparably worse 'social status' than anybody in the U.S, even black people or women.
Lots of talent wasted, lots of people earning fractions of money what they could with a little more connections and 'social proofs' behind them. Here in Eastern Europe we are used to that life is hard, you have to be so good that they cannot ignore you. You have to convince people about how good you are through email or skype, you have to try to get a visa, etc... Women and black people who are born in the U.S. are much more privileged compared to most of the world's population. I have worked at local branches of U.S. companies. I had lots of white/black males/females as my bosses. All of them earned much more money than me and not all of them had the knowledge I have on software development. Anybody with even absolutely mediocre knowledge and not very much experience from the U.S was called 'senior associate', but even very experienced eastern europeans were sometimes titled simply 'associate', etc... I've seen lots of brilliant people with Ph.D-s doing the most boring grunt work, because that's what is outsourced here. But that's life. You have to earn 'social proof' with hard work. I don't think black people or women who are citiziens of the U.S are in especially bad situation in this regard.
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This reminds me of a fight in a church about how high on the wall the cross should be hanging.

Bitter arguments among side-stream groups (church-goers, linux-users) are a much bigger reason why these groups do not attract mainstream audiences then what it is they're fighting about.

Unity, Gnome, and KDE are all headed towards a more Mac-like UI because Apple is the most lauded software design company in the world.

Like church-goers, Linux users should be supporting and celebrating innovation in design that are meant to increase use in the software. If such innovation was more broadly celebrated for its own sake, then it is much more likely that one of the major players would be willing to risk new design decisions - to really experiment with the UI. Instead, the same changes are all adopted by the major players because trying something too different will get your ridiculed, and that leads to losing early adopters, and that leads to a diminishing user base.

If you want to see Linux become more mainstream so that a generation of computer users can have a little more software freedom, then join the discussion by celebrating experimentation instead of condemning it.
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Hey Apple, there's a shop near my parents simply called "Apple". It's logo is a picture of an apple. That seems a more likely candidate to go after.
This is one of the very few times i'll come to Arrington's defense, i think Arrington is a tool but i really dont believe he's a racist. Like he mentions, his mind categorises people and companies by what they do, if they're smart, get funding, have a track record, gaining traction etc etc, ye know, actual merit, rather than things that dont matter, like what race the founders are.
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Europe has more Firefox usage, but the rate of change in IE (or Firefox or Chrome) usage doesn't seem to have been affected materially by the government intervention.

It's also quite variable within the EU, compare UK to Germany for example.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-200807-201110

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200807-201110

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-GB-monthly-200807-201110
> A year ago the standard response to a new user inquiring about Linux was "install Ubuntu, it's easy, there's lots of help available. Go get 'em tiger." Now, Ubuntu is usually spoken of with a kind of regretful contempt.

True. I used to suggest Ubuntu myself (actually, I was one of the people who started with Ubuntu, now I'm on Arch).

I've switched to either suggesting to install one of the forks of Ubuntu (mostly Kubuntu or Xubuntu), Linux Mint or even Crunchbang.
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Quite so. One quibble: ex is Bill Joy's reimplementation of ed. I think it was always intended to be part of vi.
It's not particularly unusual, other examples are developing nations jumping straight to online banking (skipping chequebooks) or mobile phones (skipping copper phone cables):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
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In general, this type of sandbox is a Good Thing. I would love to live in a world where the default environment for any program is a very limited sandbox that can only interact with the outside world via standardized UI elements. That is, outside a data store specific to the application, it can only access files via the standard dialogs, and so forth.

The potential for malware distribution would be significantly reduced in such a world, because yes, there will always be stupid users, but you cannot blame all the stupidity on the user.

Even I as a power user would like to try out little programs that I find on the internet - and that includes small games and screensavers, which are cliche carriers of malware. Yet I simply cannot safely try them out without an exorbitant amount of work. Having a proper sandbox environment as de facto standard outside of web browsers would be awesome.

That said, it absolutely sucks that Apple combines an idea that is a Good Thing in principle with idiotic policies - if it is indeed true what the article claims.
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This article needs some citation to the lawsuit.

It's certainly appalling if true, and would be another example of big business putting a glass ceiling on independent entrepreneurship, but I would like to know the exact reason behind the lawsuit.

Given Apple's nature, I would be more apt to believe the story of Appleaday was using a hackintosh for their POS system.
I agree.

It would be nice to see one or two more innovative startups around the place though.
This would worry me if there weren't at least two other major Operating Systems available to choose from.

The Mac is moving more towards simplicity and safety - targeting normal consumers.

That's fine.
Ironically, now Linux and Windows (and anything else that comes up down the line) will have to serve as the 'Computer for the rest of us'
It's interesting to me today how so many people view "business" as some sort of monolithic political entity, just like teacher's unions or the NRA.

So if a politician is upset about the economy (and who isn't?) he meets with "business leaders", much the same way if he were upset about proposed rifle regulations he might meet with the NRA, or just like if one country doesn't like the way another is acting they meet with the leader of that country. Likewise, if a CNN reporter is upset (or smells a story) about minorities in the startup scene, she ambushes a leader of the startup community with questions about racism.

It shows a complete lack of understanding the thing you are talking about. While you might make a case for institutionalized racism when it comes to funding, there's no way in hell an internet user is going to know the race, gender, religion, nationality, or sexual preference of anybody who runs a webapp. Traction on the net is for the most part stereotype-free. Plus from what I hear funding doesn't have the impact on startups that it had say five years ago. The dynamics have changed. You'd have to be an idiot not to fund a startup that had traction because of the race of the founders, and if you're not using team and traction as primary metrics, good luck with your VC business.

The entrepreneurial world is not a centralized, monolithic thing that somehow you can talk or meet with any small number of people and understand and/or control. It's a very poor mental model to use and promote.

I just find it weird that somehow reporters, or even politicians, expect there to be a person they could go to in order to talk about the pantheon of entrepreneurship. It doesn't work that way by definition. It's not like there's a startup club where they hand out all these freebies and you're not invited. To slant the coverage that way, even unintentionally and subtly, is really whacked. It implies that economic problems are simply dependent on meeting the leaders of various groups and gaining consensus -- that economics is really just politics by another name. I understand why politicians do this -- they have a faulty mental model of everybody being in some sort of political group to be negotiated with -- but reporters need to up their game. This kind of reporting screws over the viewer big time.
> What happens when the merchant doesn't care he's paid by the right customer?

Same as with credit cards: There'd be lots of fraud complaints. Square will realize there's a problem and depending on what their contracts look like they'll either charge them heavy fees and/or fine them to fund having to deal with the fraud, or cut them off.

Credit cards has this exact same problem. Physical control of the card pretty much gives you free reign to pay for stuff - most shop staff can't even be bothered to look at the signature or ensure the name has any chance of being yours.

> How does the system handle the common use-case where you give a third party (wife,friend,kid,..) the money to go and pay the bill.

The article states the current app already allows you to press a button to pay, so presumably you just forgo the convenience and make them press the button if their face doesn't match up.

And/or add a way of adding additional authorized people whose images will show up.
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The fact that Michael can't come up with a single black entrepreneur, when asked to come up with one off the cuff, actually speaks more for his LACK of racism.

Michael talks to a LOT of entrepreneurs. He looks at their quality of their companies. Sounds like he doesn't look at the color of their skin first.

I really appreciate the fact that he does NOT categorize them in his brain, like: "This is my list of entrepreneurs. Blacks on the left, whites on the right." No, he thinks of them first as entrepreneurs. When asked to come up with a black entrepreneur, he has to think through the entire list, checking their skin color.

I really didn't find his comment snippet to be particularly offensive either. He was asked to come up with one on the spot, and couldn't. BFD. (I wish he would have said "I don't consider the color of the person's skin when I meet entrepreneurs", because isn't that the ideal world? And he basically said the same thing by struggling to come up with a black entrepreneur.)

Ask him to come up with an entrepreneur that drives a blue car, or has red hair or has an ear piercing only in his left ear, and you'll probably get the same struggle, where he has to think about it for a while, and can't come up with one. So what!
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The people who murdered millions in the USSR also saw themselves as "building socialism". Today "socialist" merely means a Western European country bound for bankruptcy, with the formerly[1] free market US following close behind.

I suppose that's progress of a sort, but it's mystifying as to why one would claim the label, let alone the label "communist".

[1] In recent years the US has plummeted on measures of economic freedom, falling further behind Hong Kong and Singapore, and even dropping below Canada.
How awful, I just saw [ja27 17 hours ago]. I've even managed to describe it in almost exactly the same way..
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> When asked to come up with a black entrepreneur, he has to think through the entire list, checking their skin color.

Heh, reminds me of database column indexing.
On older iPhones you can already play specific albums/songs/artist using voice recognition (eg: 'Play artist Nine Inch Nails') and that doesn't need to send your request to the cloud first.

From what I've seen/heard of Siri I'm totally underwhelmed, and planning on upgrading to a Galaxy SII from my iPhone 3Gs.

I should point out that I'm in the UK, so most of Siri's location based stuff wouldn't work for me, which is a bit of a deal breaker in my eyes.
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again.. i dont need karma, i am just saying that if someone disagrees with me, just comment and tell me why, so that we can discuss or i can know why am i wrong.
Hey, wasn't the third guy in the Man From Uncle?

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Now if only they can implement something like this for Safari so that individual browser pages are sandboxed from each other, as is the case in Chrome.
yeah, but for various (historical) reasons people like to DO IT ALL IN UPPERCASE TO DISTINGUISH LANGUAGE SYNTAX FROM "actual data".

As usual, computer science is an embarrassment for the computer.
It doesn't need to be "either move in the direction of total dynamism or move in the direction of static guarantees".

At the very extreme end of total dynamism, you get facility to implement whatever kinds of guarantees you want as libraries. Sad that in a language without meta programming features, the power is indeed reduced, but nevertheless extreme dynamism can be powerful enough to implement the guarantees that you need.

For example, if JS gets a facility to "run this code when an unknown method of this object gets called" and "-ditto- when an unknown field gets set or read", you can implement a public API for an object using a proxy object. You'll also be able to enforce member naming conventions if you want to. If you're doing the wrapper only for checking, you can keep the wrapper during development and leave it out when you deploy the code. You get a lot of flexibility.

Furthermore, if JS lets you install hooks like python decorators, you can implement guarantee mechanisms in JS as a library similar to what decorators get used for. Again, if it gets you better performance, you can strip decorators from deployed code during the minification phase.

So indeed, why not shoot for extreme dynamism in JS?
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I think the term "socialist" has a different connotation in the US than in Europe. In Europe, a third of all voters (roughly) vote for parties that call themselves socialist, while these parties are really center-left, in all likeliness quite to the right in terms of what the average American considers socialist.
Most people hate Unity. They are sticking with it. Canonical needs to be profitable.

OK, so which distribution is everyone switching over to in place of Ubuntu?
God HN has grown - few Adelaide users on here now.
Similar story with a small cafe in Germany:

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-wants-a-german-cafe...

I'm curious if more stories like this one pop up.
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You are also paying insurance. When the project fails and blame gets assigned, you did the "right" thing.

If you hire an incompetent, it's your fault. If you hire Oracle and they send you an incompetent, it's theirs. Good luck with getting the money back though.
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> That's fine. Ironically, now Linux and Windows (and anything else that comes up down the line) will have to serve as the 'Computer for the rest of us'

I'm expecting Windows to move towards a more sandboxed experience as well, at least for Metro/WinRT. I know Miguel de Icaza also hopes for broad sandboxing support by default.

Regarding TFA, he does not make much of a case against sandboxing (applications not being able to write wherever the hell they want without warning the user counts as a positive in my book), and his final quote (of Tim Bray) is relevant to appstores, but it has no relevance whatsoever to sandboxing. Not impressed. Even the plugins stuff has limited relevance in the grand scheme of things, it will affect some applications for non-technical users (more technically oriented ones will likely be able to put their plugins where they know they should be).
http://zerp.ly is similar too. I like the clean style of resume.io though, I wish zerp.ly provided something as simple.
You could always do this. For example, with AT&T, [10DigitPhoneNumber]@txt.att.net. Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and others all have their own email address to send texts to.
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(That is how much merit this discussion has.)
> The iPhone keyboard is somewhat painful to use, but for rm -rf /tmp/build-2011-* it suffices.

Is it just me, or does the thought of typing rm -rf on an iPhone keyboard sound a little... dangerous?
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I had to whitelist at least 4 different scripts and cross-site requests to get the desired effect. It's quite funny, but nothing I would usually notice due to my Firefox setup (NoScript, RequestPolicy and some other script/tracker blockers).

I have to say though, I like how the website works without all the scripting. It's rather rare to find a website that works decently and doesn't look severely broken without Javascript and Flash enabled. Which is really, really sad.
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Doesn't the Square solution work like a common separate-hardware credit card terminal? You run the flow on your regular POS system, including any receipt printing, and then just use Square at the very end to handle the payment?
Actually, it happens quite often and not just with Apple. The mobile company, Orange, has been doing the same to companies with the name 'orange' in it. It normally starts with threatening letters from lawyers, where small companies often can't afford decent legal advice to defend themselves. Some yield, others put up a fight, but the aim is to reduce as many other companies using a similar name as far as possible.

It's strange that the best examples I know of are all the names of fruits.
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The question is, has Apple "solved" UI? Some might argue that they have succeeded on mobile devices. But what about the Desktop? In my opinion, the desktop is still a ghetto. Be it Windows, Ubuntu or OS X. Open a couple of applications and documents and well, OS X crumbles from a UX point of view. Do I need to see all open Finders, applications and open docs when I should be getting stuff done? Multi-tasking leads to high complexity and the visual organization of all the information seems to be unresolved problem.

Secondly, is it worth wile to bring the mobile experience to the desktop?
This is only about certain behaviours of the Back button. On my Samsung phone I have four buttons on the front of the phone plus volume control and on/off buttons on the sides. The four buttons are invisible in dim light and even after using the damn thing for a year I'm uncertain of which button is where. As far as I'm concerned the buttons are broken.
We don't know that much about the Mac App Store sandboxing yet, it could be perfectly benign. This is mostly a bunch of conjuring of ominous fantasies.
Incorrectly, see my comment on your link. But thanks for trying :) If you want my PoV on this, the right way to fix it is delete the comment.
We're currently testing several hypothesis and assumptions:

1) People want to pay for online content or services that deliver value for them

(League of Legends creator said: "if it delivers a tremendous value to them that's highly replayable, people will spend money")

2) There's a large segment of people that don't have international credit card or paypal, yet are online and want to pay (or people that don't want to use a credit card online), and have a cell phone.

3) Webmasters and game developers are willing to accept a large percentage cut in exchange for much better conversion rates.

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You're not just getting insurance... if the project is delayed or just needs a hand or two, Oracle will throw more people in to meet deadlines. If a consultant leaves the project, they will be replaced to keep continuity. But it all depends on how strategic an account you are to Oracle.

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"Apples core product is the hardware and the OS on either platform."

Okay then, iOS 4 for iPhone 3G.

Checkmate.