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I was one of them. In fact I thought the Apple had surpassed MS in its assertion of essentially useless patents. Guess I was wrong.

On some level this is good. Once software development becomes dominated my lawyers the markets will find ways to shift away from the US market. So this problem will eventually solve itself: Either the patent system is fixed, or innovation is going to happen somewhere else soon.
Looking at my laptop, the touchpad is exactly centered. I don't know if this is standard or not, but it's perfectly comfortable. I'm right handed, but I sometimes use my left hand to scroll around if I'm sitting in an odd position, and that's been fine too.
This is a throwback to thick client-server computing. Welcome to 1992 everybody!

I'm not a web dev, but I like the client side rendering. (Even if I hate JS with a passion). This is a fantastic move as it lets you very clearly seperate presentation from business logic and the database. Also, the rendering HTML/JS can be easily cached. So you get a normal page load the first time you try the app, every time after that you get _instant_ results. Nice.
What makes you think thy've had a tough time scaling with early demand? I'd think that this scales horizontally pretty well, given that each request is largely stateless and there's no interaction between users.
"All the pages can be rendered on both the client side via JavaScript as well as the server. How this work I cannot tell you"

There are plenty of templating engines that have been ported to Javascript. Mustache is the first example that comes to mind: http://mustache.github.com/

Once you have the templating engine the rest of the logic is pretty easy to build.

Rendering web apps entirely on the client in general is pretty awesome although there are two problems: 1) the push state API is not supported in all browsers yet, which forces you to resort the fragment identifier + onhashchange to approximate the same functionality. And of course the fragment identifier only affords you a fraction of the same luxuries as the push state API. And of course onhashchange is not supported in older browsers. 2) When you fall back to the fragment identifier rendering on the client is actually a little bit slower. The fragment identifier is not sent to the server meaning the javascript has to be loaded in the browser before anything at all is rendered. Does this lead to several seconds of delay? No. But it is noticeable. At least with push state you have the option of rendering the initial content on the server and all subsequent requests on the client without increasing complexity too much, assuming you have a good templating solution in place.

But yes I agree. Modern Web Apps are Here :)
I agree that Modern Web Applications are here. The key point is that they don't have to be architected the same as Battlelog to be considered modern.

Most of us are too concerned (or straight up scared) of the JavaScript/HTML5 revolution that we can't see what is possible right now. Sharing templates server and client side is a magic bullet that everyone should be using.

Web applications are only going to get faster, and if you want to keep up, you're going to have to do implement modern solutions like Battlelog and Google+ do.

I can envision a time when full page refreshes are the exception and that isn't a bad thing.
this is great; though as an android user, i much prefer the ui of taptu personally.
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If you render the initial view on the client you still get indexability. Twitter actually still uses the old version of their site for this purpose.
I completely agree with your general sentiment. I think everyone who is downvoting you has installed in themselves a despicable world-view: that professional psychiatric support along with medication is a necessary part of having a fulfilling life, for those of us who were unlucky enough to go through hell on earth. It's not getting real results in the real world, or having fulfilling relationships, no, these people are sub-human because of their mental illness, they have to sign up to see a _therapist_. As for all of you disagreers: No, don't support these people, or question how your actions day-to-day might affect the well-being of others! Fully buy into the notion of man as sociopathically selfish and live it to the hilt, as you were well trained to do by school (and startup culture).
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In my experience (and many friends' experiences), Facebook is and always has been unbelievably buggy on that front. I don't know why, and I personally think Facebook is better than G+ for general social networking (I see G+ as more of a fusion of LinkedIn and Tumblr with some FB-like features), but it's still a pain to use.
"I can envision a time when full page refreshes are the exception and that isn't a bad thing."

Agreed. Different clients should get different views. I don't think we're that far off from having to support the js-light "web crawler" view, although we already have the tools to make this really easy.
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My vote is for the learn to code approach.
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Why would the recommendation for someone who is busy with a startup be anything different than the recommendation for any other busy professional?

If you absolutely have to feel productive, go spend an hour on a treadmill, bike or elliptical listening to tech podcasts or something. Typically you won't be able to do intense, short-burst training while doing this. That's ok, a bit of long slow distance won't kill you.
Interesting, as Battlelog has been criticized by the gaming press including the Penny Arcade guys, who call it buggy and hard to use.

I have to say, too, that in my experience the more client-side state a web page keeps, the buggier it tends to be. Building applications this way is harder, and I hope we don't end up losing the characteristics that have made the Web so successful in the transition.
Right.

So, a Salman Rushdie account appears. Facebook is afraid that, given Salman Rushdie's sometimes infamy, that this might be a troll account that can be more inflammatory than it's worth.

So they verify Rushdie's identity and are suitably convinced that it really is him.

... So they make him change his account name? How does that make sense?
I don't see how this is different than using any of the myriad javascript mvc style frameworks that are out there in tandem with websockets.
Not _quite_ full source code --- some proprietary graphics drivers are supplied in binary-only form. It won't matter much for most uses of the source code, but purists will be displeased.

http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html
Do you have any sample sites who are using your service? If so, you should feature them on the front page.
I invested a lot of time in learning and deploying Flex. It's been a lifesaver when I had to code quick visualizations, dashboards, analytic tools, db interfaces, etc.

Now I would like to transition over HTML5, but it seems that all the tools and frameworks are incomplete, not easy to integrate, etc. and now I need to know javascript, html, css, etc. and the language to code the backend (In my case usually very CPU intensive). With Flex I only needed to know as3 and my backend language.

What would be best framework similar to Flex that would abstract the ugliness of javascript, html and css? It's not my idea of a fun time to fight layout bugs and different javascript/css/html implementations.
This reminds me of Quora's LiveNode stack: http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/How-does-LiveNode-...
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well, don't trust pictures. the touchpad if of course centered. on all models.

i have a MBP1, MBP 13 mid2011 and a MBA mid2011, the MBP is louder than the vaio on average (that is I can hear the fans).
The vaio is dead silent til I compile stuff on all CPUs, then fans are loud, although not as loud as the MBP 15.

The article took the Z21 as target to make an example of "what not to do", not a MP3 player. If it did, maybe i'd agree with it. But, it did not. And unfortunately for him, the Z21 is actually awesome.
Both of those: credible sources.

Techdirt? Not so much.
Cloudkick does, I got to work with it this summer.
>Just consider the fact that Apple stuck with one standard connector -- however flawed -- for the iPod since day one

Conversely, Apple has gone through a plethora of different types of video connectors over the years.
Wow, not sure how I missed the existence of Pulse. It's a really interesting news reader.
The reference I can quote here is from a recent essay PG wrote: http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html. Watch the definition of startup #10 (Avoid Distractions) - http://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences

The other source again from PG, that I can infer as not doing too many things/working on too many ideas is: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Read the #18 (A Half-hearted attempt)

I am sure there are folks who have juggled more than one Idea and succeeded in all of them. Also, I think the relevance of these posts also probably make sense to someone starting out early (like say during building the product/company) and probably not for someone who already is working on established companies (like in Jack's case). IF you see Jack in fact moved out of twitter to completely focus on Square and only when it had hit the road running, did he embark back on twitter.
If you are in US, try buying from Microsoft Store. They have a website, and few scattered individual stores. And then there is always Apple.
Interesting. What was problematic with the arrows compared to a PC? The inverted T is pretty standard. Do you mean the lack of home/end/pgup/pgdn ?

I could point you to solutions I use like controller mate - pretty handy to remap.

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> Look, that might be a cute experiment in New Hampshire where the population is described in terms of villages

San Jose's garbage service is nominally provided by a private firm.

What is it about garbage service that you think requires govt employees?
Question---rather than inundating the DFI with complaints yourself, would it make sense to inform their competitors of violations, and let them do it? I can see the DFI ignoring violation allegations from you, but I notice both Verizon & Airbnb are on the list---perhaps notes to AT&T and some hotel lobby might be effective?
A successful entrepreneur I know impressed upon me once the importance of just picking up the damn phone. He wrote about it here:

http://www.mcstartup.com/blog/2008/2/23/ive-got-an-idea-shou...

and here:

http://www.mcstartup.com/blog/2011/8/13/where-do-i-start.htm...

You get the idea...
Battlelog by itself would be fine if it was just for statistics and socializing. On the PC it's also how you launch the game as there's no in game server browser. When you launch BF3 it launches origin which in turn opens your browser to battlelog. The context/app switching is annoying and slow as you go from your browser to the game and then back to the browser when it's time for a server change. When the game first was released and things were slow and buggy (in game and on battlelog) it was very painful.
They don't make him do anything outside of what he is supposed to do as per their policy - use his real first and last names on his FB account. The problem arises when he is well known by his middle name and has been using it as his first name. Which once they clarified with him was allowed on the site.

Side note: It is common for people from that part of the world (Indo-subcontinent) to use their middle name as their first (like Salman and I do).
That's what probably happened. And I can also assume that Rushdi never tried to claim there "I am the real Rushdi", only tried to show that "My name is Salman Rushdi [too], see my passport, therefore I should be allowed to use this name". While FB was trying to protect that name for the real Rushdi.

If FB employees really knew this is the real Salman Rushdi they are talking with, this probably would have never happened.
> it's a pretty niche app (leadership
> development for corporate ethics),

You are probably better off exploring other online channels and driving them to your market page.
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This might not be the best way to say, but whenever I see the patent and IP situation in US, I fell very happy that I live in India.
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Whose crazy code is that? NOT idiomatic. If you need to recover from bad slice indexes then your code is broken and you have way more to worry about than a messy recover closure.
clojure-script uses closure as part of compiling clojure to js. I'm not sure if any significant projects are using it though:

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript
You'll never--as you've discovered--be able to do either activity particularly well if you're doing them concurrently. That is a dead-end; Just bury it. Focus fully on one thing and one thing alone.

Next, get rid of your elliptical. It's a wildly inefficient use of your time and effort.

Finally, get a Kettlebell.

According to a recent study from a well respected fitness research organization, in collaboration with an equally well respected research University, Kettlebell workouts can burn up to 20 calories per minute. This is primarily due to Kettlebell workouts being comprised of total-body movements that bring cardio and strength training together, in one quick workout.

The only other activity known to man that is that efficient is cross-country skiing, uphill, at a fast clip. Considering that your work-space likely lacks snow and hills, a Kettlebell may be more readily appropriate. ;-)

For more info, see: http://www.acefitness.org/getfit/studies/kettlebells012010.p...
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San Jose's garbage service is nominally provided by a private firm.

Under contract to the city. The competition happens at the tender level, it would be highly inefficient to have multiple garbage pickup companies vying for the business of each individual resident. Past experience with private fire engine companies and the like suggests that this would end badly.
All this uncertainty will hold up a lot of projects until the dust settles.
Sure, but there's nothing illegal about Apple kicking someone out of the App Store on a whim either.

Doesn't matter if you are breaking the law or not, plenty of legal apps get rejected. Apple sets their own terms outside of US law.
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oh wow, ok, so that wasn't just me then? good. Engineering blog is fine, probably getting clumped in with some flagged .twitter.com domain spam......oh well
My problem with Battlelog isn't necessarily that it's browser based. My problem is that I'm forced to run 2 other system based applications on top of it. Namely Origin, the sole focus of which seems to be forcing me to buy EA games through EA exclusively.

Battlelog as a stat tracker is great. As a system of convenience run in conjunction with Origin and the actual Game EXE it sux.
But isn't utility pleasure? If reading a novel gives you pleasure, then you derive utility from it. Same thing for playing cards. Investing into making yourself a better person is simply investing in future utility, ie. extra pleasure that you may be able to derive from being successful, owning a house, having stronger relationships, etc. These have to be balanced against the worth of immediate utility, which may mean that you'll spend a night playing cards with friends for some immediate pleasure, and the next night learning a language, in prevision of future rewards.

My impression is that you are reducing utilitarianism to a Mr Spock kind of pseudo-logical thinking. You seem to be forgetting that the ultimate goal of utilitarianism is happiness. It's not about gaining knowledge or even self-improvement. Playing cards for pure fun is not at odds with utilitarianism.

(Disclaimer: I am not a philosopher nor do I have more than a basic knowledge of utilitarianism)
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The obvious differences over the House Bill are;

1. individual participation level has been decreased from $10k to $1k.

2. Companies must use a public crowdfunding site.

3. Must be incorporated and also pick a primary state to do business under.
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As a Computer Science TA (and author of this post), I'm just not sure learning to code is a one-size-fits-all approach. Some of my favorite founders (Evan Reas at LAL, Joe Cohen at Coursekit) are not technical, and it's just not their thing. It remains to be seen whether things like Codecademy are going to open the possibility of coding for more people, but still - to each their own.
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Yeah, unless someone happened to have a huge cache of real device IDs...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dear_iphone_users_your_...

(I hope the app store magical-vetting-code is smart enough to ensure the new hit app "Somewhat Annoyed Birds" isn't capable of fishing around in the phone for the Siri ID and sending it back to the developers website along with the high score you just got...)
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How does that work? I thought all verification of certificates was done in the browser...
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Couldn't there be a complementary article titled "How Adwords (used properly) works better than cold calling?
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There is a highly theoretical point of view which states that a "side effect" is anything other than a function A → B which takes an A and returns a B. This includes things like exceptions (A → err + B, which is Haskell's Either), state (A → (S → B * S), Haskell's State monad), and Maybe (A → () + B, as mentioned.) In fact, Haskell is only mostly pure, because it contains the nontermination effect (A → ⊥ + B, i.e. functions might not always return a value because of infinite loops.)

It's true that most of these "effects" are implemented in terms of pure functional code, e.g. the state monad—which models a very imperative construct—is also pure and has no side effects from the implementation's point of view[1].

The point is that from one point of view, these are 100% pure: "Of course, it's implemented in pure terms, so of course it's pure!" There's another point of view that they're entirely impure: "I'm manipulating state in this function, so of course it's impure!" All of which is to say, if you ignore the plumbing, the water appears out of nowhere. [invocation of Clarke's 3rd law excised for triteness]

The same could be said about Haskell itself: "Of course it's impure, because there's a call stack being destructively modified as it runs!" (Conal Elliott went the other way and suggested that C was a pure functional language[2].) It's just that, of all the monads, some of them (e.g. the IO monad, the X monad, &c) use some kind of "magic" to interface with external effectful functions, while other ones mimic state using pure functional constructs. Still—to a programmer, the Cont monad appears to jump throughout your code, making it "effectful" from an appropriate level of abstraction.

[1]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Understanding_monads/St...

[2]: http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...
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I'd like to understand why Google didn't use a copyleft licence.
I didn't watch it because it got cliché pretty fast like LOST. The worst offender I reckon was Dragonball Z [0]. I realised this pattern and that greatly put me off many games and movies, eg WoW, FarmVille, etc. It was a grind. I want something novel.

[0] Do: Scream, build up tension, to be continued, until Infinity. Replace scream with drama (twists).
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Apple has to comply with its contract just as the developers do. I did just check the agreement and either party can terminate with 30 days' notice for any or no reason, so they could theoretically terminate.

Given this is completely out of the scope of the App Store or even the SDK (contrast with the security researcher who got unapproved code executing), however, I don't imagine Apple will feel the need to terminate. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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Good luck finding developers for WP7...
Exactly. As it currently stands, battlelog is not an improvement over previous systems. If you were to compare the time it took to get into a game with friends on Bad Company 2 (the previous Battlefield game) and Battlefield 3 you'd see this.
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None. Sorry to break the news. GWT might be the least out of the bunch but at the end of the day, it is still css and html.
This doesn't always work. Remember the tumblr fiasco from two months ago?

Mark Rife was a pastor who built a church in Hawaii, found and married his wife Sarah, and settled into doing what he loved. His wife fell off the edge of a waterfall and survived, but died in her sleep six months later.

Mark remembered something his wife had wondered aloud a few years earlier after they had just watched Romeo & Juliet... "would he still have done it if he had waited a thousand days?".

So he quit his church, his family and friends and used his wife's insurance money to travel the world for 1000 days. Charity work in Asia and Africa, road trip across the USA, etc.

1000 days later he found himself under the Eiffel Tower, and the time had come. He found he couldn't go on.

He returned home, set his affairs in order, and ended his life.

He also documented the entire 1000 days in a blog that he only revealed in a video released on Vimeo after his death. His dying wish was that people would read it and understand and maybe as a result, respect his decision.

Tumblr took the website down.

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I take issue with this. I think MMORPGs can be a LOT of fun. The problem is, like with anything, eventually it stops being fun and feels more like work. As soon as that happens, most people have the good sense to quit. However, MMORPGs have just enough "community" to keep some people playing long after the stopped enjoying it. I myself quit playing MMORPGs years ago and will readily admit I do not enjoy them anymore. But I can't deny the thrill I had when I first started playing through World of Warcraft when it first came out.

Did I get better at anything useful? Not really. But that's okay. There's more to life than an endless treadmill of getting better at things.
They've made posts in the android-building Google group when making GPL code drops. Here is the most recent, corresponding to GPL portions of Android 3.2.1.

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