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I don't see what's so hard to understand about this, apart from the fact that people seem to want to comment on Android based on third-hand talking points rather than their own experience.

Your girlfriend, if she had bought the same phone as me, from the same vendor, would still be on Android 2.1 but without her having to do anything (apart from possibly agree to some updates when prompted on the phone) she would have the latest versions of apps such Google Maps (only requires Android 1.6 and up) which was better than iOS Maps when the phone was sold, and is still better than iOS Maps in the very latest iOS 5. It has many new features like offline maps, Google location integration, 3D vector maps etc. and she can look forward to more being added.

Meanwhile, if she'd bought a 3G (which has near identical hardware) she'd have had to plug her iPhone into a computer, updated iTunes, and then updated the iPhone to get iOS 3 after a year. She'd have had to do this again to get iOS 4, which would have nearly bricked her phone due to it's lack of speed (despite not actually providing many of the actual features of iOS 4). She could then partially fix this by updating iTunes and the iPhone again after a few point updates were released and then would no longer receive any updates to anything Apple considers part of the OS.

Both systems have ups and downs (e.g. I'm surprised that the Android browser isn't something that's updated independently as you'd think that would fit Google's goals very well, but I assume there's technical issues I don't understand). A fixation on the version number of the OS, or false stereotypes about Android and iOS, obscures all of this.

Finally, the point about the JIT (which I realise I wasn't clear about) is that it only provides benefit if the phone has sufficient RAM. Random people on Android forums would naturally assume newer=better and be disappointed that they didn't have the new shiny, but my phone was somewhat unique in having a large amount of RAM (relative to the rest of the hardware specs anyway). It's therefore a good example of people feeling like they're missing out on something, that would actually hurt their performance if they got it.
There's a lot of detection that can be done beyond just the behavior. The problem basically reduces to virus detection (and the ensuing arms race). You check all running programs for something that looks like this kind of bot. Right now it's probably easier to just detect the APM or jerky screen view, but in the long run that's the best way to shut these down.

Personally I'm really hoping Blizzard doesn't go after things like this too actively on SC2. It's unfortunate that there's no offline place for bots to play against each other, because the competitions that arise are really fun. There's definitely less money to be made here than in, say, WoW.
I didn't know that the app won't allow sharing of the creations. Maybe they can get by with that (no guarantees on the app store).
Downvoted why?
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I think "not gelling with the founder" isn't a good reason to leave. Working with people that you don't particularly like is part of what we call "professionalism". As long as your boss is respectful and doesn't constantly underestimate (or overestimate) your skills, it's OK.

On the other hand, working 90+ hours in a company that's not yours is crazy. 15h/day, 6 days a week? Or 12/day, every day? It's simply not worth the downside in health and missed opportunities.
This is a pretty strong reaction to a pretty mild proposal. You know that the US already has a minimum wage and a standard workweek, right? The parent is advocating increasing the minimum wage 20% and decreasing the standard workweek 12.5%. That's not Stalinism.

Now, it's reasonable to point out that skilled laborers are basically fully employed right now, so the proposal would marginally reduce the supply of skilled labor hours -- and could thereby reduce skilled output.

But FWIW I don't think that's a very good point. Skilled labor is not really hour-limited in the same way that unskilled labor is -- that is, the output of a salaried full-time knowledge-worker employee is unlikely to change much (certainly not by 12.5%) if the standard workweek drops from 40 hours to 35. That's not how knowledge jobs work and that's not how salaried positions work. Whereas productivity in unskilled positions really would drop by somewhere close to 12.5% under the proposal. (Which is good; it opens up more of these "job" things that are so crucial to wealth distribution in the modern world.)

At any rate, if shorter work weeks for skilled workers bothers you that much, there's an easy solution: just say that you can only pay the minimum wage for the first 35 hours of the week, after which you have to pay at least 1.5 * minimum wage. Leave everything else the same. (Well, I like the parent's minimum wage hike too.) Now we're only cutting the output of near-minimum-wage workers.

I'm not at all sure that this idea wouldn't be disastrous, but I can't think of any good reasons that it might be. I feel like it's the most obvious way out of the current economic situation.
Where is the data coming from? I'm a little surprised because I'm from Latvia and I knew about citylife and perkamkopa but this is the first I hear about cherry.
The fact you can get away with something because you're famous is just another example of "might is right".

Sure he can get away with it, but that doesn't mean that he's not being a dick at times.

In terms of whose way is working: Stallman has created something that works for him but I wouldn't swap my life for his in a million years (and I'm sure he reciprocates that).

But I don't think he's such a success that his life can be held up as some unimprovable template.
he has to control how everyone else uses it

One of the goals of free software is to allow you to use it for any reason whatsoever, and I don't know if you realize what this actually means, or maybe you are to young, but once upon a time you couldn't use Visual Basic to create a Microsoft Office competitor.

If by usage you mean the copy-left behavior of GPL, I think it's only fair for a software author to demand whatever the fuck he wants from the software he wrote. And it's also in everybody's right to have his own opinion on how things should be done.

Linux people don't even get the freedom to name
their own operating system.

But in fact "Linux people" have always named their operating system however they pleased, which is really what upsets Stallman so greatly. But even so, he remained true to his original beliefs and never included such requirements in his own software or the GPL, he only bitched about it.

You really should look for the definition of "freedom" in a dictionary ;) Here, I'll do that for you ...

the state of being free or at liberty rather than
in confinement or under physical restraint

Are you in any kind of confinement or physical restraint regarding the naming of Linux-based operating systems?
"We have listened to our developers and taken much of their feedback to heart. Based on their input, today we are making some important changes to our iOS Developer Program license in sections 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.9 to relax some restrictions we put in place earlier this year.

In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.

In addition, for the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps. We hope it will make us more transparent and help our developers create even more successful apps for the App Store."

--http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09Statement-by-Apple...
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> Our understanding is still very limited, though. And yes, it is kind of ironic that Lamarck is getting a jab in after all this time :)

Who knows, maybe next thing we'll find is that the concept of "race" is not only a "social construct"?
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I've been using moai recently, which is a cross-platform Lua-based environment for developing (mostly) 2D style games for Android and iOS, and just last night was talking to a co-developer buddy of mine about the very real possibility that we could use moai to build a moai development environment on the iPad .. and now: this.

So, it looks like this is very feasible, and I have to admit to instantly buying this application the moment I read this HN article .. but I haven't had any chance to grok it yet.

If it works out, this could be the start of a new era for iPad/iOS development - certainly my iPad is good enough for editing lua scripts, and with a delicious framework like moai around (I really, really like it) I think it would be very viable. What an exciting future we iOS developers have!
When you think about it in terms of balance sheet vs. the real economy, the Germans' behavior is ridiculous. They build up tons and tons of net financial assets, some of which have been and are still liabilities of Greece. They insist on those assets being "paid back". But what does that mean, exactly?

It means that they are replaced by other financial assets. Why do they now insist that those other financial assets are no longer liabilities of Greece, but liabilities of somebody else? Who the hell knows. As long as everything is financial, it's just a silly numbers game.

You really have to ask yourself the question: Why do you build up net financial assets in the first place? Ultimately, that only makes sense if, at some point in time, you plan to exchange them for real assets.

But Germany (myself excluded) is hell-bent on ever increasing net exports. If they follow this policy, it means that Germany will never exchange net financial assets for net real assets, but will in fact continue to do the reverse.

If Germany stopped insisting on being a net exporter, and started to become a net importer instead, they could use their financial claims towards Greece to import real goods and services from there, and increase their own real standard of living. Germany could be happy, Greece could be happy. But ideology and confusion stands in the way.

It really is Kafkaesque.
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It appears to be a DSLR, a fisheye lens, and a 360precision Atome panoramic tripod head.
Facebook's smart for taking advantage of the cold and such, but there are a lot of factors that go into choosing a location. Tax incentives, proximity to users, and a million other things I'm not aware of.

And while they will probably save massively on the electricity bill and carbon emissions for this, it's not like energy is prohibitively expensive here in Texas...
> real Lua interpreter rendered inside a EAGLView, and not some WebKit/Javascript hack

Just like moai, so I guess I'm off to write that moai-dev environment!
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Every AI I've ever seen or written has always sidestepped inconveniences such as a limited number of actions per frame and a limited field of view. Getting this working in a game as complex as Starcraft 2 is ridiculously impressive.

The thread-like programs is an interesting approach, too. I wonder if the author plans to treat stale state using Bayesian belief models instead of assuming it's still correct until a scheduled poll checks it.
Stallman's ideas on economics are predicated on every programmer getting a $1M grant from the MacArthur foundation, and another $1M from the Takeda foundation. That's how he can afford to do what he does.
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This is not a black and white decision.

There is a big gap between wanting "total income quality", and wanting to close the huge, and increasing, income equality gap in the US, and to increase the minimum wage (or undertake other means) to reach a point where people can reasonably buy a house and send their children to university without requiring crippling loans.
The "fisheye distortion effect that plagues 3D views like this" that you describe is nothing of the sort. You are talking about a very wide angle of view. These images have a limited FOV, and it's not possible to zoom out so much that you get such distortion.

Actually it is not fisheye distortion that you describe at all - it is a rectilinear projection, and it's this type of projection that looks bad in a wide FOV. A fisheye projection looks much more natural if you are looking at a view with 110º FOV.

These things are not "distortion" at all but merely different projections of a spherical image on a flat surface. There is no "correct" way.

You can right-click on this panorama to change projection and understand more what I'm talking about.
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Well, it takes a while but it's great to see native Windows ports of more or less game changing projects like Node and Hadoop (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/microsoft-makes...). Although I guess the fact that innovation happens ever more often in non-Microsoft land is telling enough.
Maybe it's because other countries could follow the same path. Greece isn't that big but if the other PIIGS fail to pay, it could be much more than a few billions.
I'm sticking to my keyboard for near-future development as well, but I hope some more people explore in this direction. It'd be really cool to see this program or similar ones evolve. Maybe one day, I might be able to code high level programming structures with gestures.
once upon a time you couldn't use Visual Basic to create a Microsoft Office competitor

I don't know if you know much about VB, but doing that would almost literally be a case of creating an app with a rich text control in the middle. It would be like changing a few keywords and calling Python your own language.
That's a great argument. We seriously, seriously need to go for a beer.

You've summarized my argument nicely.

How to demonstrate it? Are you asking me to put my money where my mouth is? :-) Good question. I'm working on it. For example, we need to query code. I want to see all aspects of this portion of the UI. We should only look at code in layers, as accounting systems do. For one. I could go on, but I'll leave that for sometime over a beer.
One iPad may be a long way from threatening a laptop for music-making, but 3 (or 4 ..) iPads goes a long way to absolutely annihilating laptops as a comfortable, enjoyable, extraordinarily creative way to make music.

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Ah yeah, I phrased that badly. My intent was to emphasize that the cheat exists solely outside of the game executable. Blizzard runs an incredibly cool, and secretive, program called Warden to do exactly what you said (amongst other things). Details are sparse but my understanding is that every 30 seconds a unique copy is downloaded and run looking for cheats. For small time developers, cough cough, it's a painful problem.
If this company can pull it off, it'll have something far more substantive than a resume or profile on LinkedIn. As an art, software engineering lends itself to opinions and kudos from the community. As a science, software engineering lends itself to measurable outcomes and approximations of difficulty and impact. I'd much rather look for talent through Geekli.st than through Monster, Craigslist, or LinkedIn.

Disclaimer: I know the founders and am crossing my fingers for their success.
Have a look at moai: http://getmoai.com/

I've been using it the last few weeks and I think its a bloody brilliant approach to game development. I can't recommend it highly enough for those wanting to build a cross-platform (Android/iOS/Chrome) 2D game .. its already being used to make big pro games (see Crimson Tides for example) and I see it having a big future as it takes on more and more features..
The moment that moai (http://getmoai.com) gets an onboard editor, this will be a reality. I give it a few weeks. :)
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It seems we mostly agree.

However, I'd like to challenge the belief that modifying the front-end of a compiler is too hard, or unreasonable. Even in the so-called "real world" where screwing up means you're fired.

First, the point is to tweak the language, not the compiler. For instance, we may want to lighten the switch() syntax before GCC does, but we do not want to modify GCC itself if there's a simpler way.

More often than not, there is as simpler way: just write a parser and a printer for your language, so you can do source-to-source compilation by chaining them. Printers are easy. Parsers are almost as easy, except for C++.

Then tweak your parser (lighten some syntax, add some keywords…), do some pre-processing between the parser and the printer (yeah, true macros), whatever.

Now there are some caveats: such a pre-processor may confuse IDEs, and may screw up error reporting (where errors don't track back to the actual source code). I personally don't care much about the former, but to solve the latter, the base compiler need to provide a way to be told where a given line of "source" code actually comes from (very useful for tools such as Lex/Yacc). Unfortunately, taking advantage of this will greatly complicate your pre-processor.
Take another look at the Music section of the Appstore. All-too-many content creation tools in there, you know ..
Has nothing to do with the amount of work you do, but what goals or values you have.
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Too bad the nuclear industry has lied so many times about risks about real current nuclear technology risks and real current costs nobody can trust whether what they are saying might be really true or not about future technology.

How many weeks/months was the nuclear industry lying about everything single thing it said about Fukushima?
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I personally would have preferred to see banks allowed to fail, and get wound down by the FDIC, to bailouts.

I think the reason for the bailouts was not combination retail/investment banks. The biggest recipients of bailouts were pure play investment banks. The theory is that failing to bail them out would have led to contagion across wide swaths of the financial system, but the main vector would not have been retail banks; it would have been the counter-parties to the many transactions that the investment banks had, including such examples as pension funds holding CDOs.

I think the root cause of the bailout was the revolving door among the biggest investment bank players (especially Goldman Sachs) and financial regulators, including the Fed, the SEC and the Treasury Department. It's a classic case of regulatory capture <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture>. I don't think this is so much outright corruption, as the fact that the top finance people in government have gradually come to have the same worldview as the top finance people on Wall Street. So it was easy for them to think that a rash of bank failures was the worst possible thing imaginable, and must be avoided at any cost. At the same time, they could not imagine imposing severe consequences on the management and investors of those banks.

If there's any regulation that is truly critical, it's preventing this revolving door. But I am not sure how we can sanely do that.
> he did change the system from the inside

Yeah, no, not really. Linus did, by precisely following that advice : compromise and be practical. Yes, he couldn't have done it without rms's previous work, but without Linux, Free Software would have been all but forgotten by now.

I'd also argue that one of the reasons why Linux is still at around 1% of the desktop market is similar : blindly following principles at the expense of convenience and practicality.
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[..] the matter of how Greece was permitted to join the
Eurozone with, shall we say, overly optimistic economic
reports that were blindly accepted [..]

I think this is one of the fundamental things about this whole crisis (concerning Greece). everybody knew that the Greece governments were very creative with their way of presenting their financial situations back to the seventies (or even longer), and everybody knew it when the decision was made to let them join the euro.

but nobody checked their balances, but only trusted the numbers the Greeks were serving and which everybody knew were kind of faked.

so in the end, the most ridiculous thing is that there never was a Plan B, or some kind of secret exit strategy. all the ones in charge of in the EU and its member states for more than a decade exactly knew that you can't trust the official numbers coming from the Greek peninsula, and nobody did a thing or thought of a plan to follow in the worst case scenario (which had to come one day)?

Edit: typo
As in, the data that the companies have published in their websites (calculated from all daily deals, taking in account price, discount and number of purchasers)?
I guess their focus was on speed. XML is pretty slow and verbose, and whilst JSON is better, it's not the best solution. MongoDB's BSON is quite cool though.

Web Services and the associated HTTP headers are relatively slow, but browsers can make them, so are kind of necessary.
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