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this is wrong, please read the below threads about this;

"There is plenty of GPL software available legally on Apple devices, particularly Macs. On iOS devices the conflict is the EULA only. The approval process has nothing to do with it. GNU/Linux distributions have approval processes too.
More about how the EULA conflicts with the GPL: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
I'm not sure why this is Siri specific. I can send text messages using my voice with Android as well. Maybe I'm missing something, but this looks like a service that interacts via SMS instead of anything specific to Siri. I do like the concept of this service and I can think of many uses for it.
Don't forget Canada Poste.

E-commerce is significantly stunted in Canada due largely to excessive government protection of monopolies.
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The App Store terms of service add additional restrictions on what you can do with the software you get through it: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
That is not a touchscreen. That is a stylus driven OS. Much like the Newton, which preceded it.
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But I don't want to waste my time anymore. Honestly, I have no public projects at all, nor current personal projects. I know I need a good portfolio, but ... I have no idea on what to build, neither for personal/public purposes nor for portfolio. And I'm sad due to that.

I remember several years before I was building some new stuff for myself, I explored things, formed my toolbox (which, BTW, changes very often). I felt more self-satisfaction that time, now I feel almost no self-satisfaction. :(

And a though about portfolio doesn't give me a new portion of energy. And doesn't gimme a portion of creativity to generate an idea on what to build.
"I care about perfect code and perfectness at all."

"While going to projects' pages at github I looked up Issues in a hope to see some feature requests. But most of issues was bug reports or pull requests. I didn't want to work on bugs, I wanted more to add new features."

This is a huge problem in open source projects, and you're not alone. Throngs of developers who get off on clean, functioning code, but then turn their backs when presented with an opportunity to replace ugly and/or broken code with something better. I don't get it. Why the hesitance to engage in the pursuit of what you profess to care about?
If only things were so simple in real life where liberty is often abused so as to threaten the safety of others.
Huh? Have you ever worked on a shared document before?

To an end-user, the directory tree is a system of record. Many types of files need to "freeze" at a certain point in time -- say a letter that needs to be crafted by multiple people, or a budget worksheet.

In the case of the budget sheet, I don't mind if you copy the file and change some numbers to figure things out -- you're on the Team, after all. But I may mind if you decide to modify a file after we have a consensus that it is "done".
Anybody with any knowledge of what both Jobs and RMS have achieved and how their vision has affected our work and our lives can only have respect for both of them.

What we do every day would be very different without them.

And for fuck's sake, no matter how you feel about RMS as a person and his undiplomatic, uncompromising stance, listen when the man speaks. He's been right more often than not.
I find the first sentence to be inadequately motivating.

Besides, if DARPA does invent this who's to say they won't turn it on the American populace? And who's to say that folks won't go back to burning their documents?
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It cuts both ways. In the past, the smaller number of Canadian banks made it easier for them to push common payment projects, albeit ones that don't challenge their business model.

For example, debit cards were in common use in Canada at least ten years before they started to appear in the US. I would visit the US in the late 90s, and it always struck me as anachronistic how many people were still paying for everyday purchases with checks. I doubt any Canadian store has accepted personal checks in more than a decade. It hasn't been until recently that Americans seemed to catch up with Canada in debit card use.
Perfectly said.
I think most entrepreneurship events will consist of majority HN users so maybe they are already meeting each other at some many other events that no one has saw a need to create an official HN one (I have not heard of one yet). But I think it's a great idea :) and I would love to attend it! Maybe there should be a HN pre-meeting before each entrepreneurship event since we're all most likely to be there already! Speaking if event, if any of you are interested in meeting me (I'll wear my HN username for easy identification), a fellow HN user, I will be at this entrepreneurship event on Nov 11 :) http://rainmakers3.eventbrite.com/
I'd be interested in seeing case studies on different startups that have applied the Lean Startup approach. Not so much explaining the theories it embodies ... just a "preaching to the choir"/examples book. I'd especially be interested in seeing cases where — even when applying his approaches — companies failed for some reason. It's not that I'm against Eric Ries's methodology or theories (I'm actually a big fan) ... I just would be interested in seeing examples where it didn't work for some reason, and to hear why those companies felt it didn't work.
Right, so because someone adopted a license, the GPL, that forbids distributing the software under the EULA, you guys are going to blame the EULA, rather than the GPL? And then say that it is Apple's fault?

Apple didn't write the GPL.

And at this point, I'm reminded once again, never to debate facts with people advancing an ideology. You can have the last word.
This is what I was looking for. Many thanks.
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I work on a PHP compiler and runtime for a living, so I'm reasonably familiar with its past, present and future. While Ruby and Python are superior in many ways, these three languages (and Perl and JS) have much more in common than they do separating them: Algol syntax, runtime typing, hash-table like duck-typed objects, automatic memory management, some half-baked (for all but JS) concessions to functional style, etc. If you consider them in a world that includes C++, Haskell, Prolog, x64 assembly, Smalltalk, and Lisp, all of these languages form an incredibly tight cluster in the configuration space.

And granting for the sake of argument that Larry Wall wasn't thinking of ksh, sed, grep and awk were just as AT&T proprietary as ksh was.
> Any consumer, with an iPhone that is not jailbroken, can install whatever software they want, provided it is written in HTML and javascript.

That is the exact, very definition of "not any software they want".

> Further, Apple has worked to make this platform a first rate citizen in its operating system.

Too bad that in order to make it interact with my own computer, I have to install a proprietary, disgusting program with locked-down protocols.
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Not at the time, but it is now. It was owned by the Regents of The University of California, and in the intervening decades, it has gone from being a license you had to pay for, or otherwise negotiate, to a generally open source license.
DARPA has a ton of research done by foreign nationals. (I have worked in labs which have foreign nationals who get paid to write code for DARPA projects).
Also, what about Microsoft surface, which had some multitouch concepts, and had been talked up for years before the iPhone.
In today's world I don't think it matters all that much. Few people don't use these sites and the ones who say they don't are usually liars.

Truth is, if the job itself is good then why not? You have good compensation, five weeks paid holidays etc. You're not doing anything illegal or immoral AND you get to relocate to a cool place in Europe.

On a resume just talk about the day-to-day activities you had to do. It isn't like you are an actor, you're a web developer - it doesn't really matter for whom.

About the comment about proudly telling your kids. Look at it in a different perspective. You are keeping millions of lonely men from blowing their brains out, you are helping provides millions more with a great stress relief. You're working for a legal company that is producing taxable revenue to build roads and other infrastructure projects. You will be doing a world of good for the world - the adult industry isn't a bad thing!

By the way, send me an email (in my account) - I have a cool idea for you.
But it has further use as well. You can have your own personal identity on your gmail address and your official corporate identity on apps. Mixing roles is never a good idea and g+ on apps makes it easier to avoid.
I can't figure out if you are serious or not, because that is such a naive statement. But either way, obligatory PG essay link in case you are unfamiliar.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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> Every time an article involving Richard Stallman gets posted here I cringe as I read through the comments. There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despise Stallman and the FSF.

Oh, his contributions have been (and still are) invaluable. He is the mastermind behind the FSF movement, not to mention that he has written some amazing pieces of software, by himself. I am writing this with Emacs.

But, as a spokesman, I think he falls short on several areas. The movement really needs someone with more charisma, diplomacy, empathy and tact.

Granted, it is not his fault that noone seem to want the job.

> or really, really likes parrots.

Hey, speak for yourself. If there ever was something that really touched me, that was it. I couldn't see the human being behind the persona before.
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The irony is that Stallman can be most closely identified to the heroine in the 1984 commercial, trying to shake up people from their walled gardens of pure idiolatry. (I say this as a happy member of the iPad/iPhone/MacBook Air masses. :-)
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MikeeUSA is not (as far as we know) an abuser of women.

I understand that people usually think of abuse as sexual abuse, especially if it is toward women. But verbal or moral abuse is abuse just the same.

To express an opinion is what we're doing right now, as civilized people, openly, in a mildly non-anonymous way. To harass anonymously, without giving the other part the chance to reply and playing on their weaknesses is violence. For me, at least, it is.

Further, you don't have any "right to be happy".

I do have, as we all do. You are mixing the right to be happy with the right of being granted happiness unconditionally. Maybe it's just semantics. I would also say that everyone has the right to drive a car, expecting that I'm not implying that they can bypass the necessary tests. There is a "potential tense" that gets lost in translation.
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I too wondered why police or some other legal mechanism wasn't involved. That's what they're there for, and it doesn't get much blatant than this.

I guess it could devolve in to a he said / she said of "well, she told me to bring nude pictures of myself". Maybe that'd fly?
OneSchool is looking for beta users to build the first products on top of its API.

The API is part of a larger OPEN movement to liberate data from schools and enable startups to build amazing products from that data.
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"This is a huge problem in open source projects, and you're not alone."

Yeah. And because of it I want to see some project with great Issues, or to see some idea on what to build myself.

"Why the hesitance to engage in the pursuit of what you profess to care about?"

Even though my English appeared to be not bad, sorry, but I didn't get this sentence. At all.
This is great! :) thanks!
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The other day I was at a charity who are really making a difference in my community, but who are lacking much needed IT support. I'm really considering offering my services for free. Not only will I be able to continue developing my skills, but I'll be helping a really great cause.
>One of the Jobs' supporting argument about integrated approach is that the tight control is what enables them to make the computers "smooth".

Yes, encrypting the bootloader of the ipod so I can't install rockbox is necessary so that the default firmware can be "smooth".
> exchange of information within the institution

yes. an organization's "knowledge" is mostly persisted in email. G+ is a huge step forward in knowledge sharing, discovery, and recovery within an organization.
How exactly do you try the app that you built on the device if it's running in a remote VM? Does it somehow remote-map the usb port?
Keep in mind that you are assuming that something that costs on the order of 50 cents a month necessarily implies that only big corporations rather than individuals use it.

There are lots of people who are freelancers or founders who use email at their own domain as their personal email.
I'm in Canada, and all the major banks have online services. Several have iPhone apps. A recent service lets you email money to someone for a 50 cent fee.

Regulation has NOT stifled technical innovation in banking in Canada. It did, however, prevent the banks from getting in up to their necks in the CDO/CDS/real estate boondoggle. I think I like that.

The article laments that there are not thousands of banks like in the US. No thanks. How many of those banks went out of business in the last few years? No thanks. Having a small number of very well regulated, and actually fiscally conservative banks sounds to me like a fair trade for whatever it is having thousands of poorly regulated banks gets you that is so awesome its worth risking a major financial meltdown.
True, and I've heard that iOS 4 didn't run so well on the iPhone 3G in the first place. However, even once support was dropped, the iPhone 3G was still on the current major version (4.3, a relatively minor update, is the version that dropped 3G support), and it doesn't seem like apps required 4.3 until well after that version was out. That's a big difference than being 1-3 major versions behind on Android (especially considering the rather substantial changes in each major version of Android).
200GB x 5 users (what Dropbox gives you) would cost $1950 per year on Jungledisk ($4 + 190gb*$0.15 per user). In practice, Jungledisk could be much cheaper since you only pay for what you use on Jungledisk. But you would have to do the math for your teams expected usage.
It's more about generating publicity for DARPA than an actual solution. Just look at the website design and the language. I mean seriously, a forum?

Most public DARPA projects are awarded via grant application from serious labs, and the funding often goes out before you reach a solution, since they fund high-risk projects with a low enough likelihood of a solution that profit-seeking companies won't want to try it otherwise.
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this shifts the tax burden to small and medium size companies that can't exploit these loopholes with the same ease as larger corporates. it looks like SMEs are the only companies helping to reduce the budget deficit. the system needs to change.
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Sorry, it wasn't clear to me from this link that it was moving out of beta to open.

And the pricing now seems generous (1 TB to start). I wonder how long they can sustain that price. I'm worried that they might be biting off more they can chew with the unlimited offer. In beta, wasn't it 350 GB?
Isn't $10k/yr just the starting price of the enterprise license, don't they have tiered pricing there too?
(according to this model of early populations)
Two separate issues, memory per process (which is limited to 32bits of address space) and total physical address space available to the MMU. It is similar to PAE in fact ARM calls it LPAE.
I only lived up there during a winter, but even during the winter it was either snowing or perfectly clear. Very rarely did we have cloudy overcast days.

It's not just the number of days though. It's the fact that for half the year you get 20+ hours of sunlight a day.
> VMware was probably based on M Rosenblum's graduate work on SimOS, which was GPL.

I worked on VMware's virtual machine monitor from 2000 to 2009. Mendel's students' work on SimOS had nothing at all to do with VMware, full-stop; SimOS was just a full-system simulator, useful for measurement and educational purposes, which has almost nothing to do with virtualization.

The research system of Mendel's that did influence VMware's founding was Disco[0], a virtual machine monitor for SGI's MIPS machines. But the technique Disco used (trap-and-emulate) was inapplicable on x86, and in fact there was peer-reviewed literature claiming the x86 was impossible to virtualize[1]. VMware's first six years of products were instead based on dynamic binary translation; we incrementally recompiled the privileged x86 guest into unprivileged x86 code, in much the same way modern JVMs incrementally compile Java bytecodes into native machine instructions. Our source base was 100% VMware proprietary, and had to be since no open source project was trying anything remotely related at the time.

[0] http://www-flash.stanford.edu/~bugnion/Disco/sosp-html/
[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251316&dl=ACM&col....
I suppose our definition of "startup" differs. It seems a startup can only be a startup if it's attempting to solve a problem that requires significant upfront capital and scaling. I disagree with that view.

For me, a startup is a company exploring the solution to a problem. That can be a BIG problem and that requires significant scaling, or it can be a smaller problem. Once that solution is found, and can be replicated easily, it's no longer a startup.

The question is, how long can a startup be a startup? I'd argue that as soon as any scaling is involved, it's no longer a startup and it's just a business. Startup implies that it's the start. Lifestyle businesses and regular businesses can both be guilty of claiming to be a startup long after they've become "regular" businesses.

When it comes down to it, they're all just businesses, but it can be helpful to have terms to distinguish the scale of the business. If you feel that lifestyle businesses and lifestyle startups are diminishing the prestige of startups, then you're probably in business for the wrong reason. That smacks of too much ego and too little passion for solving the problems you should be solving.
NeXTstep may have been started in the 1980s, but it was still built on many open source (generally BSD licensed at that time) components.

Apple hired Chris Lattner, who started LLVM when he was a graduate student at UIUC. It may be funding development now, but it wasn't "Apple's" innovation. Apple's primary reason for funding LLVM development was likely to be able to integrate their proprietary software more closely with the compiler, something that GCC is designed to discourage.

The GPL and the Apple store EULA are incompatible. Considering that the GPL has been around for decades, the incompatibility can be considered intentional.
Hopefully this includes alternate versions of OSX for testing purposes? Then I can really see this being useful. Running a bunch of versions is hard / expensive.
He's saying that if you are a person who likes perfection, why do you not want to join projects to make bad code perfect, like debugging projects.
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Isn't Stallman all for sharing and openness?
Damn: I missed the edit timeframe on my comment. I just realized that Skud was actually at the panel I went to. She was one of the main people I had this discussion with, and I have a "geek feminism" sticker from it sitting on my desk. Small world!
Not to mention that the richest places are actually having less than two children per woman.
I'd like to hear more on how you setup your service architecture afex (if time permits). Sounds like exactly what I'm trying to accomplish. Thanks in advance!
Do you guys have APIs? I provide consulting at a semiconductor company and I am currently looking into helping them drive product requirements for selling subscription-based software online (optimized for their hardware).

Most hardware companies don't know software and most software companies don't understand hardware. I am interested in finding out whether we could develop something together out of this...
It would be helpful if you could enumerate the ways in which his/her statement was naive. It seems to be a relatively logical conclusion that being told or influenced not to say something is restrictive of innate freedom of speech, no matter how seemingly innocuous a reasoning established social or cultural norms are (ie. don't criticize the recently deceased, it's tactless).
This looks really interesting - I may have to shift around my Monday evening and check this out.
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Been to all of these so far, great events. Keep up the good work Zach.
Its not bank switching, its the MMU mapping the 32bit virtual address space of each process to a much larger physical address space. You are right that each process is still limited to 32 bits of virtual address space but bank switching has nothing to do with it.
The Wii was a fluke that, unfortunately, Nintendo wasn't able to capitalize on. Everything that's wrong with the Wii is exactly what was wrong the Gamecube a generation before.

Nintendo wants to desperately hold onto the idea that they can continue to sell plastic for $50 a pop. They think that iPhone games for $1.99 will destroy the industry, and they might be right, but they also can't stop it.

Nintendo is also locked into the idea that they continue to sell hardware based on gimmicks. Given the success of the DS and Wii, you can hardly blame them. But I think the DS succeeded not because of the "dual screens" but because it hit the right price point with the right capabilities and a touch screen allowed for casual gaming. The Wii sold hugely but is also mostly collecting dust around the world and I don't think they can build more business on that.
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One limitation of non-team accounts is that you can't easily run multiple accounts on one machine. (It's possible with some hackery involving multiple OS user accounts.) I would hope that Dropbox for Teams makes it easy to run the team account in parallel with a personal Dropbox account.