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They wouldn't. They would use Apple's Server Admin Tools (a free download) [1] and Lion Server's Profile Manager [2].

My point wasn't that Macs don't need management, anti-malware or back up software. It is that you don't need third party software that bogs down your system.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1457

[2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/features/
I'm not sure what their 6 recommendations were for preparing for the transition, and I'm unwilling to pay $499 to find out, but I hope one of them deals with the horrible pain in the ass that is Windows File Sharing.

Macs really do not like Windows shares, whether in an AD context or a workgroup context. While some seem to work without any trouble, others have frequent issues with logging in, with browsing, with refreshing, with permissions. It's very frustrating for the users, and frustrating for those in IT support positions who are faced with annoyed users on one side and inscrutable black box magic on the other.
It's all about intent. If you find a phone in Kohl's, bring it to the customer service desk. Don't take it out of the store!

It's amazing just how well the "Find my iPhone" service works. I listened to Santa Clara PD chase a purse snatcher in a stolen car all the way into the southeast side of San Jose. Then they followed the actual phone (inside the purse) as one of the suspects made off on foot.

Long story short, arrests were made, and both the purse and the phone were recovered not long after the whole thing started. I'm surprised Apple doesn't use this angle in some way.
As someone who has worked with David Adewumi in the past, the only hyperbole and over-selling are the attempts to discredit him. His passion is second to none and his leadership style is results-oriented. I am not part of the OneSchool team but if there was one person I'd travel across the country with carrying only $2,000 and a start-up vision, it would be David Adewumi.
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> But you have an iPhone, right? And you no doubt plugged the device to your family? And they bought it in large part on that recommendation?

I do have an iPhone.

My parent-in-laws made the decision on their own to get the iPad (I don't interact with them often). I did gift one to my Mom after she saw the iPad2 and mentioned she'd like one.
I have got the same feeling. It is this idea of moving away from the pencil-and-paper operating system for modeling complex systems. Victor is more about making computing explorable and accessible to the masses, whereas Sussman is more about figuring out new ways to compute things. However, both are basically arguing that our current abstractions are not enough anymore. That is, we need to revisit some of the assumptions that were made 40 years ago about how programs should be structured.
To be honest, they also block 32% of employee-owned PCs. So, calling it "hating on Apple" might be missing the point, which is that companies usually want full control of their IT environment.
Great post, thanks guys, we've been struggling with the exact same thing. I hadn't thought about calling them- I can see how that would significantly increase the response rate.
I've heard in the past one theory for IT departments favoring PCs (besides all of the pro-PC marketing aimed at them) might be that the Macs are very cheap to administer and thus don't require much IT support.

I thought this was an interesting response to this news, over at the AppleInsider forums:

"I work for one of the largest corporations in the world. Surprisingly, they don't do anything to block access to network services, but they don't necessarily encourage other platforms either.

I work on a team of 23 people. The company provides Dell or HP laptops running XP or Vista (Windows 7 is still being 'evaluated'). These laptops would cost a normal human about $600, but for some reason my company leases them instead. We pay about $150/month (if memory serves) over the course of a two-year lease term. You do the math...

Four years ago I paid about $700 for a Mac Mini. I run Office 2011 (and previously ran 2008 and 2004) for Exchange Server connectivity. I occasionally use Word and Excel, but generally prefer Pages and Numbers. For presentations I exclusively use Keynote (PowerPoint is a festering pile of poop). I am a systems admin who supports applications running on both Unix and Windows 2008 Server machines. For Unix I use iTerm and X11, and for Windows 2008 remote server administration I use the RDP client that comes with Office.

My computer currently has a monthly ownership cost of (700/48) about $15. One-tenth that of my laptop. In the past four years I've had exactly zero minutes of unplanned downtime, while every single one of my 22 peers have had their machines out for days at a time for reimaging due to OS corruption, most of them more than once.

The downside is that the $150/month in lease charges covers hardware service. Still, since over four years the cost of ownership is $7200 vs $700, the company could replace my Mini six times over four years and still save money, not taking into account the money saved from productivity.

Executives who don't consider using Macs are simply bad at math."

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showpost.php?p=1975818&po...
What's the point of this over flac?
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I'm not sure if you're joking and I hope so, but she did give talks on coding, and then after giving one talk about women in tech that was quite successful and changed a lot of people's thinking, a lot of other conferences invited her to give similar talks in an attempt to make their own environments more diverse/welcoming, and in fact she turned down many more. I shouldn't even have to say that but apparently someone does. And if setting up a movement to support other women means that we're setting ourselves up as targets "to attract abuse" then you know what, count me in, because that only means we need MORE activism.
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If you're looking for tier-1 network traffic, 100tb.com is with Softlayer, and since they have so many servers, they get massive discounts and can give you 100TB of softlayer traffic for relativly cheap.
Your comment really bothers me. I really just want to respond with "fuck you", but maybe there's still something there to save. How exactly is trying to make your body conform to what your mind is telling you so weird?

Try to use a little empathy, and imagine (if you're a man) waking up in a woman's body tomorrow, and having everyone treat you as if it's always been that way. Might you not want to try to have your body express what you feel you are internally?
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I am not sure that this comment adds anything to the discussion. You can argue that Blecharczyk is reformed, that AirBnB is not currently spamming people, or even that the only reason he is bringing this up now is to generate interest in his anti-Money Transmission Act crusade. Insulting him does not explain why he might be wrong.

Disclosure: I knew Greenspan in college, but I wasn't important enough to be included in his book Authoritas. Sigh.
Glad the Reg is sensationalist enough to spark a discussion (seriously). The orig item didn't do so hot.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3160301
Applied to yc with this idea couple years ago, cool to see it in production. Sharing a loyalty card with a group of friends (i.e. when anyone makes a purchase everyone gets a stamp) was one of the social features we were excited about, I'm interested to see what they come up with.
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Apple doesn't pander.

They don't try to sell product by giving large commissions to the sales people. If you walk into an AT&T store, the sales associates won't recommend an iPhone.

Apple gets smart customers who understand the advantages of what they are buying, not customers who were duped into buying something because some clueless sales associate got a huge commission for selling it to them.
His argument, which seems pretty reasonable to me, is that software is a tool, whereas books are expression, and sees a stronger argument for it being important that people be able to modify their own tools (he does include some kinds of "tool-like" books, like instruction manuals, in that category).

I don't think it's useful to charge people with "hypocrisy" as an attempt to preemptively shut down debate about whether different classes of works ought to be treated differently, in any case.
iTunes does not support FLAC.
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And therein lies the argument... that it would be cheaper to building in data-center redundancy into your design that it would be to ensure that your data center had 5-nines of uptime.

And if you're large enough to require 5-nines (or even 4) of uptime, you should be looking at data-center level redundancy anyway.
iDevices don't support FLAC, IIRC.
Works for me -- I don't really have time to work on it much though.
* rpm, dpkg, apt-get finally killed dll hell

* Various UI improvements: customizable panel widgets, multi-desktop pagers, ..

* git and other dvcs's

* qemu (virtualization through dynamic recompilation)

* gcc extensions

* gdb: reversible debugging

More?
Jobs did not campaign to remove all options he didn't like from existence. Your equivalence is false and sad.
Regarding Queues and Sockets: what? Can you give her explanation for that? Was it just "those terms sound difficult and women don't like that kind of thing", or something even sillier like "queues are phallic"?
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It allows you to play lossless audio on the combined 400 million(1) iPods and iOS devices out there.

(1)http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/apple-lawsuit-reve...
I believe you are testing the requests / sec and not replies / sec. While requests / sec matters a bit, you'll most probably be bottle-necking in your context switches. What matters is replies / sec. This is a more accurate measurement of your server performance and not OS bottlenecks. I'd use httperf for this matter.
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This is Lloyds TSB and they've being doing this for the last 5 years, not sure why you haven't noticed (maybe you get it right every time :) ).

Overseas withdrawal can cost up to £4 and overdraft charges is can go up to £60 Lloyds not to mention they'll decrease your CC limit to £500 when you forgot paying £7.
It's a perfectly fine example. If you read the book, Gould is accurate in reporting that Broca genuinely thought differences in cranial capacity and the racial variations thereof meant differences in achievement. That your abstract reports that Morton's skull measurements were actually accurate actually just reinforces my point.
It plays on iPods and other iOS devices. Other than that, not much -- FLAC's compression ratio is a bit better on average, and more non-Apple devices support it.

The release of this code isn't really all that exciting, as there's already a free reverse-engineered implementation in libav. (It might not support all the modes described in this source release, though.)
Indeed. Due in part to lower birthrates in rich countries and increasing wealth across the board, demographers predict that the current population growth will flatten out around 2050, at an estimated 8-10 billion people. Humanity faces many problems, but "overpopulation" isn't one of them.
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I think that the argument is that since the data center is "reliable enough", you don't feel the need to adequately test your failover option/procedures. If you knew that your data center would go down more frequently, you would better test your failover.

The question then becomes, when is it economically more viable to use multiple low(er) availability data centers as opposed to one hyper available one? (And since you should be designing for data center failover anyway, that is a fixed cost).
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That's a pretty absurd comparison.

For one thing, Stallman's made no attempt to get publicity from Jobs's death. He wasn't out picketing his funeral, didn't grant interviews on the subject, etc. He slipped in a few sentences on his all-text blog that's full of miscellaneous strong political opinions on nearly every conceivable subject, which only people who care about Stallman's political opinions read (the blog is usually pretty obscure), and he didn't call any attention to that post. The only reason it's gotten any attention at all is because the raging Stallman-hating crowd has put in so much effort to publicize it.
Is that meant to be a compliment or a jab? I love Flickr, but it's clearly dying on the vine at this point.
For those unfamiliar with the site, MacOSForge is an official Apple site which hosts repositories for code included in OS X (see http://www.opensource.apple.com/ and the sidebar)

The announcement with timestamp for today is on the homepage: http://www.macosforge.org/
"She didn't know how to answer it"

Yeah, I have a lot of trouble understanding "SLIDE TO ANSWER" too.
consumer products that actually support it?
Not to be a debbie downer, but you can enter any website in Google Reader and get a feed subscription back too, without having to know what RSS means. (It doesn't, strictly speaking, work on non-RSS sites, true, but despite the recent trend we're talking about here, most sites still have 'em if you look hard enough.)

That said, it's a marketing thing. If you can make things click for the everyday joe, all the more power to you!
Can't knock the hustle.
It's quite a turnaround for the voice of Windows in the
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Four hundred and ninety nine US dollars?
My experience has been that Windows doesn't really like Windows shares either. Ever tried to create a network with a few Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 computers? I couldn't get it to work. Instead, now those Windows machines simply access my WebDAV running on Mac Lion Server.
Yes. When the button is tapped, it should start recording audio and streaming it to a public (or private) web location. Maybe video too. Make sure that if the cops arrest a group and take all their cameras, audio and video are not lost.

This needs to be made (maybe I'll start this weekend).
>Greenspan says, using their dorm room as a base, Blecharczyk designed custom hardware and coded his own software to send out millions of spam emails per week

At millions per week, that would make him just slightly less effective than a 12 year old Chinese skiddie. Given that there are 604800 seconds in a week, even 100M emails is just over 150/s. Not much of an ROI for "custom hardware and software".
Blackberry has its own vision as well..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TghiHXK6HIQ#!
Retailers will just buy or rent robots to do this stuff.
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If the publication is anything larger than a 1-man operation, you'll end up w/the wrong person, distract her from her work and probably end up making fewer friends than you make
I hadn't heard this. Can you describe what they do in more detail?
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This is fantastic. Apple uses AAC partly because of the patent royalty (http://mp3licensing.com/) which they have to pay on every iPad/pod/etc sold, as well as because it is just a better format.

MP3 is a total racket held by Thompson Technicolor, on top of being a pretty crap format.

Hopefully this is a portends Apple offering lossless through ITMS on top of the 1080p rights they are hunting down right now.
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MikeeUSA has not been accused of saying "I will engage in violent acts against you, woman."
I doubt the personal ethics of founders sway investors much (if at all), but perhaps the world would be a better place if they did.

Either way, setting up a custom hardware/software stack to spam/peddle pornography as an 18 year old freshman is a pretty impressive feat of ingenuity, but it reflects poor judgement - by an 18 year old (whodathunkit!) Who knows what guy is like now. He might be a saint. Probably not though.
The qik app nicely allows you to record video to an account which you cannot delete it from the phone, but must use the web interface (in case your phone is captured).
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There's no mention of a patent grant. Does anybody know the state of ALAC with regards to patents?
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Probably the best example I have of learning a feature by accident is macro recording. Occasionally I used to hit the q key when I was meaning to hit w to navigate by word. After a few months of wondering what "recording" meant, I looked it up and it has become one of the most important components of my workflow ever since.

However, I would argue that for the vast majority of Vim features, learning "by accident" is unfeasible. Many commands give no visual or verbal indication of what happened (consider marks). Further, both the tutorial and the Vim wiki are very readable and can cover a lot more ground than by hoping to accidentally hit a goldmine feature while mashing random key combinations.
Did you mean Steve Jobs, with "bozo" decisions like "no floppies for iMac", "Only phones with only one button"?
Seems like a great idea! I know a lot of homeless cannot get back in the game because they intrinsically lack the things defacto required to get a job (address, phone). Is there plan for monetisation or is it pure pro-bono? The latter would be more awesome, but honestly I'm curious.
Last time I checked Apple still shipped OSX with GCC 4.2 as the default compiler. And no, Apple did NOT help create LLVM, it was already 5 years into it's development when Apple came aboard.

As for Apple's EULA and it's GPL conflict, the EULA sets a limit on how many devices you can install the program where GPL explicitly grants you the right to make any number of copies of said program. This makes the Apple's EULA and GPL incompatible.
Depends greatly on the subject. On technical subjects, HN threads are much better. On political subjects, FB is much better.
No, although alot of kernel developers disliked the proprietary nature of Bitkeeper, the decision of making Git came when BitMover revoked the Linux developers right to use Bitkeeper for free. Good thing though, as Git turned out to be great as it's popularity shows.
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Someone came up with a reverse engineered decoder 6+ years ago:

http://craz.net/programs/itunes/alac.html

Nice to have an encoder now too.
MP3 may be a crap format, but it's the VHS of the digital world.
When I read custom hardware within the same line as 18 year old I assumed it should be read as "assembled his own PC".
If asked to name the top three people I'd be most unlikely to work with, I'd only be able to name one: Aaron Greenspan. I am so tired of the constant stream of whining (on his blog, HN, twitter, quora, etc) about how everyone is against him and everything is not fair. And now he's bad-mouthing more people, all as part of his overall theme of whining about how Facecash is a brilliant idea that obviously can't get any traction because of the big bad unfair regulators who don't get what he's trying to do.

Aaron, please, please, for everyone's sake, find something more constructive to do with your obviously impressive intelligence. This is just sad.
I am confused. What context switches?
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"Nevertheless, I do believe that we are seeing a continuing trend downward in overall article quality on the front page."

I agree comment quality has decreased, but I'm not so sure about the frontpage. I created http://news.ycombinator.com/classic so I could detect frontpage decline. It shows what the frontpage would look like if we only counted votes of users who joined HN in the first year. Usually it looks the same as the frontpage, but with a time lag because there are fewer voters.
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If you're going to do this, add the ability to retro-record (i.e. when you press the record button, the recording starts from 30 seconds in the past - meaning that you'd have to record continuously and have the 30 seconds on a cache at any given time).
I can run android apps on iphones now?
Aaron Greenspan hates people and loves to whine. That's his whole thing.
Does anyone know what year this was in?

I was pretty active in the spam world in high school circa 2002-03. Of course we all had nicknames so I wouldn't know. Learned much and glad to have moved on from days of Dark Mailer and fighting "antis" :)

That aside, the bigger news is that Aaron Greenspan continues to a bitter man and a constant dick. Grow a pair and build some shit of your own instead of peddling gossip to valley blogs. Seriously.
I don't think that can happen, though. The investment required to make something like the iPhone needs to be recouped somehow. If it were free, people would be able to clone it, reducing the ability for the original developer to create v2.

I would drop my Apple household if I could have a free environment that worked as seamlessly as my Apple environment, not just for me but for my wife and kids as well.

I am making a tradeoff between free (though I don't believe a free phone exists, no matter how open Google claims they are) and easy. I'm willing to make that tradeoff. Calling me immoral (RMS, not you :) is insulting.

That said, I am grateful for everything RMS has accomplished ideologically. I use emacs daily, but more important, things like GNU/Linux exist thanks to his work. I just want nothing to do with him.
People also assume, in the car case, that the law will be rational about allowing them to circumvent restrictions. Locks on the hood? You bought the car, so cut 'em. It can void the warranty, but it can't be made illegal.

In fact, the law usually goes in the other direction: it's illegal for manufacturers to actively put in some kinds of restrictions, like first-party-only replacement parts or only-serviceable-by-manufacturer vehicles. Putting a lock on the hood, if it's intended to prevent third-party servicing, is probably illegal in the first place.
I've had recruiters looking to place engineers get my contact info this way, and I agree with you that it's creepy.
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This is inaccurate, isn't it? The whole point of working in teams is to share files. Any file that is being shared with everyone is being counted against everyone's space. At least that's my understanding of how Dropbox works based on sharing a few folders with friends on free accounts.
I would guess that this might eventually tie into Google Wallet in some way. Perhaps it's essentially the loyalty card part of Wallet just re-packaged until more businesses deploy the new machines at registers?
I am curious what the purpose of disabling zoom for a touchscreen device is - hard to see pictures on an iPhone you can't zoom in on.
More of an ally camp..
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"IMO, this feature should not be part of core G+ experience. It might be useful for top 1% of users to see how influential they are."

Why?