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I felt the exact same way for a very, very long time. A few things changed my mind.

The first was the realization that Adobe wasn't going to make any more cool fun stuff for me. I feel like they've just lost their way with all that and now that I look back on it, it seems like Macromedia actually made all the aspects of Flash that I enjoy. The most recent thing Adobe has done for me is Stage3D but even that is so technical that they're relying on 3rd parties like Away3D to build the friendly API on top of it.

The second was doing a project that was as close to an art piece as I've ever come doing ad agency work that was entirely in HTML/CSS3 and JS. It was actually this project if you want to see some pictures: http://inchwormstudio.com/?portfolio=samsung-coast-to-coast-...
What I found while I was doing that project was that the web has changed a lot while I've been doing Flash and I didn't realize how much annoying obtuse boilerplate I had to write in AS3 that just becomes total cake when you're using HTML for markup, CSS for style and JS for slick transitions and communication. My main love affair is with HTML and JS, I still think CSS is...CSS. With HTML I'm getting all the great structural stuff that Flex devs love, without the mind numblingly elaborate class structures they have to deal with. With good JS libraries like jQuery I'm getting the cross browser DOM support that I need because I just don't have those sea legs yet. And when you combine it all you can work really, really fast. I spent the whole first half of that project cursing JavaScript up and down the office. I would make little examples showing how setInterval loses scope and demo it for my team and be like "look! this stuff is retarded! I want AS3 back!" Then one day I had to build this twitter widget, and I sat down and I just cranked it out in no time. And I thought, 'You know, if I had been doing this in Flash I would have spent so much time dealing with URLLoaders and cross policy files and coreLib for JSON parsing...' It just felt like things had gone smoother because I wasn't fighting against the web to make it fit inside my Flash app. And that was about the time that I felt like I got over the hump, and from there it was all downhill.

It totally had warts and I got stung by IE transparency bugs but in the end we sorted it all out and now I know how to deal with those issues. And to be honest, they were pretty minimal. The Facebook API was far worse than the cross browser stuff.

If you're making the transition then read this: http://jqfundamentals.com/
I read it start to finish and it made things so much easier for me. Then once you're comfortable with jQuery, leave it behind and try the other stuff. It feels like there is SO much more to experiment with in the JS world than the AS world and I think that's largely because the community is exponentially larger. Hope that's helpful.
I agree with you, in order to fix a problem the article presents terms that are not suitable.

For instance in the context of a service like gmail, why we should talk about "cloud" or say "SaaS" when it is as simple as a "web application"?

PaaS IMHO it's better translated as "cloud applications platform", or "cloud application service".

Finally I don't think IaaS is acceptable as it covers too much things, especially two things that I would simply call:

* Virtual Machine Service (EC2, Linode, ...)

* Cloud Storage Service (S3, Dropbox, ...)

Edit: yes... I used three times Cloud in the end, so at least for me the problem is that "Cloud" alone means very little.
How did it get to this level?

We have criminal gangs in the US and the police here don't have to worry about that. It's mostly because of our justice system and the fact that you can't buy off any cop with some cash.
It's interesting how the criticism of supporting those that serve usually come from people that have never enlisted.

Anyone that has served in a war deserves total respect for the sacrifices & suffering they endured every day, regardless of the ethics of the cause. All war is bad, not just those we think are 'worth it', so either give soldiers the respect they deserve every day or be quiet, because many of the liberties we personally enjoy (not just in US, but every country) have come through countless lives, right or wrong.

I realize it can make you uncomfortable, but I'll never stop thanking soldiers in uniform for standing in to defend our country so that I don't have to. Thank you.
I tend to agree, but working out how to move a cursor around text, with various combinations of either character by character, or word by word, or to the beginning or end of the line, and either selecting or not selecting text, was pretty frustrating.

3) My keyboard has [fn][ctrl][alt][cmd][space][cmd][alt], there's no [option].
I think Tim is on crack. Snow Leopard was specifically about refactoring and bug fixes—huge under the hood improvements. It's true that Lion has some annoying bugs, but so did previous versions, I wouldn't say it's buggier on the whole (I certainly see far fewer kernel panics than I used to see circa 10.3/10.4). Lion is ambitious, so there are definitely some annoying UI changes, but there are a lot of meaty changes that offer huge improvements.

Some of my favorites are: mission control is much better than exposé + spaces which I could never really put to great use. Fullscreen mode is very cool (although it sucks with multi-monitors, hopefully they'll fix that). Finally the ability to resize windows from every corner. Autosave. Remembering open windows. New gestures are great once you internalize them. What Apple is doing with sandboxing is really a revolution in PC security even if the costs are high to user and developer freedom.

I'm pretty concerned about the App Store model and the future implications, but so far Apple is still doing amazing UX work. I imagine at some point I will have to go Linux if Apple keeps tightening their grip, but that day is not yet here.
His complaint does seem minor as does mine for Windows, can you scroll non-active windows yet?
Would Wolfram Alpha be able to compute that for you?
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I disagree. You can market an app if you have a real product but I will not install an app to read your newspaper or to see where your shop is. Not even to look up a cinema.
Unless there is a real need for client side interaction I dread apps. I don't want to basically have your website on my phone that I now need to update regularly. And I certainly don't want to do social with my grocery store.
Where is the added value for me here?
Seems to be another hidden (in addition to sudo, which is awesome btw) command called "init". Give it a whirl.
Neither the G-V nor C-X are rated for single-pilot operation... :(
Meth production tends to change surrounding the availability of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/etc/cron.html

(The gist is that large labs tend to spring up whenever they find a bulk source for either chemical and then go away when that bulk source is eliminated)
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With 120k uniques and over 1.3M pageviews per day (http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/How-many-users-does-Hacker-...) would advertising revenue not bring in an ample amount of money supposing you could bring in that kind of traffic?
I don't know what's wrong with your computer but my 2010 MacBook Pro running Chrome hits a steady 52 fps.
There are a lot of factors that have gone into this, including but not limited to:

1) "American sized" amounts of money being dumped into a "Mexico sized" economy.

2) (related to the above) The increased utility of any bribe to somebody living in Mexico. (we see this phenomenon in developing nations across the world^).

3) Comparative resources available to the police forces.

4) Pressure from the US to overextend the Mexican police force.

etc.

To boil this all down to "the police aren't doing their jobs" is a huge mistake.

EDIT: ^Apologies, it seems Mexico is now considered a "newly industrialized nation", as of 2011. I don't think this effects my point however.
Yes sir, I did do that. Thanks for the link.
> That said, installing Linux on a Mac seems offensive, like replacing the dashboard of a Maybach with the one of a race car.

It also works less well than just installing it on PC hardware. Apple hardware isn't meant to work well with any other OS, and oftentimes, it doesn't. Even if the drivers for other vendors' hardware aren't perfect, in my experience, they usually work work better than the Linux drivers for Apple's hardware.
I share your sentiments. Me too couldn't get used to OSX even after months of trying. While, with its underlying unix philosophy, it is close to Linux, it's never quite there, and what bothers the most is the obviously intentional decision to disable all kinds of UI customizations. Put a proprietary codebase on top of that and we, as regular Linux users, feel stuck and helpless most of the time.

What I do right now, as I didn't want to refuse the company's MacBook Pro, is dual boot Debian on it. Except for the fact that I couldn't get integrated GPU to work instead of the discrete one, I haven't had any problems with them working together. Excellent OS on excellent hardware (I wouldn't call it stellar though, I have few complaints there as well).
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Let's see productivity growth figures then. We aren't destroying jobs with productivity (yet), we are funnelling more and more money into management and finance, while worker bees get paid less. This is partly due to bad economic policy, and partly due to the threat of outsourcing (which should be easing off, now that China has hit the turning point).

Bad economic policy - the neo-liberals seem to believe in some stupid stuff like the Efficient Market Hypothesis, and don't accept The Theory of the Second Best as consequential. While the EMH is true in a sense, it's also used as an excuse to not refine economic theory. Some non-mainstream economists (such as the Australian Steve Keen) realised that excessive debt was going to destabilise the economy. But the Reserves didn't believe it, so they set policy, and while the market responds it might not be to correct the Fed's mistakes but to take advantage of the bailouts. Then there's The Theory of the Second Best - that one step close to a totally free market may actually leave the economy worse off, not better, despite a free market being the (theoretical) global maximum.
Sorry, I don't see how information could be better presented through a HN type of setup than through a subreddit: a subreddit is a HN type of setup. What differences do you see between HN and subreddits that mean information can be more concisely presented on HN?

(I note your other point about the standard of the communities on HN -v- Reddit being different, but I have no opinion on the level of discourse on subreddits that would be off-topic on HN.)
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Not sure if you got what I meant. I know what a HTML-developer (web-developer) does.

I am asking what the developers OF html is doing. How do they create HTML. HTML is pretty abstract since it is a set of rules/words (html,head etc) that the browsers will read.
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I think Dropbox is considered SaaS (and doesn't precisely fit your definition of "web application"). I would put S3 into PaaS as it boils down to a storage platform.

Right now I agree with saying IaaS is just a VM service, but I'd hesitate because there may be future changes that invalidate that connection.

Keep in mind these terms are provider-centric not customer-centric. For example, Amazon provides their networking and computer infrastructure as a service to you the customer. You realize this service as VMs. Similarly, GAE provides a platform for you to use, and you realize this as a place to run your cloud application. And to finish the triad off, SaaS provides customers with software and they realize it as an application. So it somewhat depends on if you are looking at these things from a customer perspective or a provider perspective.

I believe this NIST document provides fairly clear terminology: http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id...
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45 fps on Chrome, ~15 on Firefox (MBP 2009).
No I mean there used to be two forms of expose - show all within app, which I almost never used (it would only be useful if you had a truly ridiculous number of windows open, really), and show all windows across all applications including the finder. They've taken away the latter, which was the useful one.

Most times I hit expose in the past it was to go to a window of another application. For instance switching between the code I was editing in Coda or Textmate to the webpage I was building in Safari, or the graphics I was manipulating in Preview. In fact I did this constantly. Now it's a two step process: select the app in mission control, and then do expose once you're in the app. It wouldn't be so bad if the way Mission Control stacked the app windows wasn't so useless - when you expand them they should at least fill the screen so you can see everything, instead they become just slightly less bundled together, forcing you to footer about with the pointer to get what you want.

Expose was one of the best GUI innovations ever, IMO, and they've bloody ruined it.
I watch YouTube all the time and sometimes watch BBC iPlayer full screen and my MBP's fans don't become noticeable. I'm not in the habit of watching Activity Monitor without cause.

I do recall that my previous MacBook (the first plastic C2D one) used to peg the fan(s) quite often. Maybe things vary a bit by what graphics chipset is available.
90% of the developers I've discussed Flash with hate it, myself included (note: I haven't discussed it with many game devs). A much lower percentage of designers hate it.

Geoff's article and the comments here seem to reenforce that. The Flash fanboys here all seem to be designers. I'm really curious why this is.
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We're well aware of the Flash situation with non-desktops.

It brings us to a major business decision.

Do we begin migration away from Flash (which we despise with a white-hot passion), even though it represents > 90% of our customers environments? Though a few have asked about our tablet strategy, we haven't had any customers (specific vertical market, enterprise space) push the tablet/mobile conversation.

If it were purely a technical motivation, we would have abandoned Flash long ago. But, we can't yet make the migration away from Flash without seeing good HTML5 support on our customers' desktops.
There are home and end keys on a full-size Mac keyboard, too. They're not there on the compact keyboard layout, but many Windows laptops have home/end mapped to other keys, as well. Granted, that's usually is indicated on the keys, whereas it's not on the Mac, but you still have to go hunting for them the first time you need them and one time is all it takes to learn their location.
"Between 2001 and 2010 Italy’s unit-wage costs soared and its economy grew by less than any other country in the world, except Haiti and Zimbabwe."
Yes, the pc version is a steamworks game.
I don't know, but maybe SW:tOR didn't do proper checks and so it was trying to install something antiquated, and modified the registry beforehand?
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on the PC, yes.
Ask HN: Apps for occupy movement?
Facebook, Twitter have done their part. But when you are down on the street, "#OCCUPY"-ing it - the use case changes. What apps are the 99% using to fuel the Arab Spring? What can we do better with apps during the movement - in terms of communicating, organizing, informing? What app ideas have you spotted for this never before opportunity - passionate connected users with a purpose?
Grrrrr i personally hate this darwinistic way of dealing with people 'if you cant door deal with it, then get out'... this is not like trying to get into the NFL, he should have taken a nicer approach, in fact as a teachet he should have been able to predict this well in advance and shown his students how to transition to other technologies
"2) (related to the above) The increased tility of any brbe to somebody living in Mexico. (we see this phenomenon in developing nations across the world)."

Which is what I said. The reason the US isn't third-world is because most cops don't accept bribes. This sort of behavior infects society as a whole.

"3) Comparative resources available to the police forces."

Why are they out of resources? We need to figure things out if we ever want to stop it.

"4) Pressure from the US to overextend the Mexican police force."

It's because the violence and crime is spilling over to the US side of things. If they were stopping these guys, I don't think we would need to overextend anything. Does the US over-extend Canada's police force?

"To boil this all down to "the police aren't doing their jobs" is a huge mistake."

The police aren't doing their job because of a systematic problem of corruption. So I suppose it's just a symptom of a greater problem, but it still doesn't change the fact that there is a huge corruption problem with the Mexican police.
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Wow, Counter-Strike is still number three, over ELEVEN years after release?!
Meh. When I say "cloud", people understand that whatever it is, it exists "out there", and not in some server in the basement of my office or as an app they need to install on their computer/device.

Nobody cares about the more fine-grained terminology, and in fact they shouldn't be expected to. This is nothing more than a purist rant.
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Adherence to convention is important, but so is quality documentation. I'd argue each of those virtues are on the downswing right now. Lots of new devs, faster platform feature additions, Apple failing to lead by example...pick three and add three of your own.

TL;DR: Put thorough doc under the Help menu. Every time.

Someone mentioned Photobooth hotkey weirdness below. There's definitely a (low, low) threshold at which the presence of mystery-hotkey functionality moves from "easter eggs yay!" to "your doc sucks." Dogcow moof was all the easter egg I needed, really.

The "apps should be obvious from first launch" maxim has had awful consequences here. Are people thinking "if it needs doc I did it wrong"? Because hey kids, it needs doc whether you think it's obvious or not.

Curious whether you'd consider this to be evidence of platform doc erosion:

I develop a pretty simple Mac application and market it through the MAS. It ships with thorough instructions that are available through the standard Help menu.

Aside from the odd feature request, the only question I ever hear from users (maybe 1% of them?) is: "I launched your app and it doesn't seem to be working at all. I went to your website and there's no PDF user manual to be found. Is it broken?"

My responses to that have morphed over time into a very polite text wrapper around a screenshot of the Help menu.

Are these isolated cases of people just not thinking to look for help under the Help menu, or has the overall quality of content under the Help menu declined to the point where a subset of users just never expect useful information to be there?
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> I took issue with this pompous litany of faux issues.

You are either accusing the poster of out-right deception in order to make OSX look back, or you are attacking the user for real issues that he/she came up against. Which is it?

(If it's the later, then I view this as the Mac version of the Linux literate telling new users to 'RTFM' instead of being helpful.)
I've been using finance as an example. Here is subreddits finance page: http://www.reddit.com/r/finance. As we have both agreed, you can tell immediately the level of discourse and content quality are lower.

In regards the information presented, concise might not have been the best word choice. I speculate that the user base for /r/finance are not the users you would attempt to attract with what I am suggesting. I think if you could bring out the wallstreet gurus, traders, entrepreneurs of all types, economists, etc. as regular users, the site would provide a unique and valuable experience.
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Free/cheap tools to use for intranet, proj. & issue tracking and code hosting?
We're 2 partners setting up the infrastructure for our startup and I'd like to know if someone has better ideas.

So far I've been using Jira+SVN in a local (old) server (so Jira is not fast and fisheye is not possible).<p>However, now we will be setting up the company and also collaborating with a couple freelancers in some projects, so we need something more.

We're going with Google Sites for company intranet and (light) project tracking websites (mostly just to manage high-level tasks, documents, discussions, milestones and calendar). Then we're going with Jira+Bitbucket (and therefore) mercurial for issue tracking and code hosting.

So far, this has only costed us 10$ for the Jira license. When/if we get more developers, eventually we will either start paying bitbucket or find an alternative.

I'm wondering if someone else has suggestions. The idea is to cover "everything" from company intranet to code hosting. Any additional tools that could help in other fields important for a startup are also welcome
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I enjoy the spirit of this idea!

I simply fear that clout will ultimately drive it's growth, rather than the desire to correctly inform!

Maybe impart a "prick" score (for lack of a better term) that people can rate a comment based off of how accepting the author is at discussing their viewpoint rather than denigrating the person who has a "wrong" answer!

Best of luck!

-Ben
I'm shocked at the number of closed-minded members of the HN community. If the answer to the violence in Mexico isn't: "let's legalize all drugs!", I get down voted.

I wasn't a troll and explained my points, yet nobody wants to listen. It's sad. It's becoming more and more difficult to fight this mentality.

I thought this was a community of intelligent people, yet I'm beginning to realize that this just isn't the case anymore.
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As far as I know Javascript (EMCA script) is older than Actionscript , so if actionscript feels more 'mature' despite being younger and only developed by one company doesn't that tell you that there's something wrong with the Javascript as a whole?

I agree though that it would be awesome if adobe created a suite of Javascript products that focused on developing creative content in a similar way to what flash did.

I think the reasons most people hate flash are that the platform itself works poorly on anything other than windows , this could be fixed in part by Adobe simply open sourcing the flash VM.

The other reason is that lots of flash developers used the platform to create crap like flash intros and obnoxious advertising , that won't exactly go away with HTML5/JS.
It's pretty easy to push a key and find out what it does compared to imagining a key combination and trying to figure if that key combination even does anything
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> Still it makes me want to write an SKI interpreter.

How about in Perl-style regexes? http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=809842
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