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Yeah, your right. Even if you consider Android, it becomes just a bit more complicated.

Your point is very true for development (It's what I love about iOS) but for design it's a challenge.

It really makes you focus on the one thing. Take gmail for example. On the web, I can do 20 different things, but in iOS the choices are limited to 3-4. It's really hard to make things simple, so where you make the compromises is the challenge.
I think this is largely unfalsifiable. I have not seen evidence that designers, on average, know what people will want in advance. You absolutely need a designer to interpret what people tell you about their experiences with a prototype, but I don't think you can tell a designer "I'm building a tractor for your garden. Tell me how it should work." and expect an a priori good design from it.

I'm open to being disproven on this matter, and I'm obviously biased toward empiricism, so if you have suggestions on references I'd be appreciative.
It really does make me wonder. We feel we have the right to do anything to any other country, yet if it was being done to us it would be the worst thing ever. Can you imagine if Pakistan was flying predator drones over US cities and fighting 'terrorism' as they saw it, accidentally killing US citizens sometimes? And then claim that it isn't a war-like activity?
Actually I'd rather not see the JS framework itself trying to solve this problem. The Rails asset pipeline (based on Sprockets) is an example of a good solution to this problem that is completely agnostic to your JS framework.

I'm serving a substantial Amber app this way and it works great. I'm taking it a step further by writing most of my code in Coffeescript, and I keep all my Handlebars templates in separate files as well. Sprockets just magically combines it all.
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To me, the only one that I would value in a management role would be what percentage of bugs are due to your code the rest of them seem to be items that could be used politically, but have very little tangible value in measuring the value of a developer.

"how many lines of code you write in a day" being the least useful and possible the most harmful to the organization. For an example a developer that knows how to write lambda forms could write a generic routine and inject a reference to a function for one particular portion of customized logic, this would be very compact and efficient code, the same thing could be accomplished by an interface and classes, where each custom class implements a interface that contains the custom logic. The guy that understands lambda forms actually understands programming at a higher order as it is a more advanced concept, but the guy who only knows interfaces and OO will end up painting the better picture by that metric.

That being said, I would pay for the "what percentage of bugs are due to your code" tracking tool in itself, I think that is a valuable metric, if it is accurate.
What do you expect from a US forum?
Anyway, FEMA is activating the camps, hiring staff. And the 'military can arrest and hold anyone indefinitely in the US' act is about to become law.
So they'll all get what they deserve. Will be interesting to see how long the denial holds out.
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Probably the key paragraph, in relation to the recent discussion:

> In fact it was just not feasible to implement hardware accelerated drawing inside windows until recently. Because Android is designed around having multiple windows on the screen, to have the drawing inside each window be hardware accelerated means requiring that the GPU and driver support multiple active GL contexts in different processes running at the same time. The hardware at that time just didn’t support this, even ignoring the additional memory needed for it that was not available. Even today we are in the early stages of this -- most mobile GPUs still have fairly expensive GL context switching.
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Are there many examples of iPhone apps that are simultaneously (and somewhat objectively): (1) beautiful, (2) easy to use, and (3) useful, that still don't go anywhere?

I've been trolling around the app store for awhile trying to understand the market and what I see are tons of novelty apps, fugly apps (by anyone's standards), buggy apps, and apps that break usability in all kinds of ways. And judging by the lack of any reviews for these apps, it's hard to imagine they spent much time on marketing, even just sending some free copies to bloggers to get their feedback and see if they might review it.

I'm not saying it's easy to hit points 1-3 above; it's not. But I wonder if a lot of indie app developers threw together something crappy in a few weekends of work because of all the stories out there about the big money being made, and then when it failed to materialize for them, they just gave up.

The App Store has gotten millions of people to collectively pay billions for software made by indie developers, which is amazing. But it's still a marketplace and the normal rules of any marketplace apply.

I would love for an experienced iOS developer making money to tell me if I'm wrong, and why.
The themes I mentioned makes them visually compatible. Note that there is no fiddling, the widgets are actually rendered using the other toolkit so your Qt application inherits all of the colors and styles of your GTK settings. Of course the toolkits are not isomorphic so there will be some differences, but I've never noticed anything...

And throughout all of X, selecting text with the mouse is "copy" and the middle button is "paste." Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V have also always worked in my experience.
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(PayPal Digital Goods for Express Checkout in fact uses an iframe.)
I cannot recommend Stripe enough. We will be posting a blog post about our (seamless, instant) transition very soon. Kudos!

EDIT: By seamless, I mean "Sign up and get an API key", and by instant, I mean "Read this article, sign up, instant activation, plug in API keys, start charging, switch complete!"
the toolbar is useless. It replaces google search with a search engine powered by, and make to look like google but with a lot more ads. I doubt anybody is using it intentionally.

I tried to find out when they started bundling but couldn't get much info, but it has been a while.
It's the case in all Australian states. I don't know if this is because of a copycat pattern, or if it originated from a Federal initiative, or why. I just know it is a good thing because it increases the pool of premiums and produces fairly even results for the victims of traffic accidents and prevents people being bankrupted for making a mistake while driving - unless they were driving an unregistered vehicle or DUI.
I've found it far less insanely hard than what you need to know to make a kick ass web app.
Exactly right. As an aside, I think the key is to make sure the bully is actually right about what they're bullying.

For example both Gnome (via Gnome Shell) and Ubuntu (via Unity) have already realized that they need to be bullies to see through their grand new UI visions. That much can be inferred by how both projects are interacting with the community and the complaints/praise it generates.

But in my opinion though, the bullies behind both Gnome Shell and Unity are objectively wrong in many of their design decisions, and as a result both products are deeply and perhaps even irreversibly flawed. Unfortunately, a bully by definition must continue bullying, damn the torpedoes; and that's how we end up with products that cause such a deep rift in the community, when in fact the opposite--majority praise at how things have improved--should be happening.

Bullies are essential to good UI. It's a tragedy, though, when the bullies are wrong.
In what way(s)?
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I was trying to make the comparison to iOS (theoretically iphone/itouch) vs web. Whether you focus on a single native mobile environment or multiple, I kinda think the scales at least from the UX design perspective if not also the development side.
it's a very high end B2B financial service. i.e. your customers would need to be huge(i.e. energy companies)...so selling would be a bit complicated...+ it's a mature service, so it's pretty saturated with competition.
Sounds good. Open source projects tend to be lacking non-programmer volunteers and the design aspect gets overlooked a lot. Hopefully you'll find some good projects that are receptive to outside design help.

Sorry, I didn't quite grasp what you were implying earlier. I didn't realize that you were a fan of the mentoring.is project and then offered them your help (which is what I was encouraging you to do), I thought you had just set up a mentoring page for yourself (which seemed unrelated).
Will you allow us to take control of it here in Australia, we have NDA with twilio for other country? timmyholt@gmail.com
Fortunately there are designers out there who are willing to help with OSS projects. Cappuccino is a great example of this. Sofa has made 3 versions of Aristo (our theme) for us; they also helped design many other open source apps.

Even though Sofa is no longer around, there are many very good designers out there willing to help work on open source projects. You just have to ask.
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With this same argument, could I not use the JavaScript I inject into the site (via XSS or whatever) to replace your entire iframe with a different iframe (hosted off my corrupt and evil server) that looked identical to yours? I don't need to access elements of the checkout form: the key problem with an iframe is that the user cannot tell what the URL of the iframe is to do basic verification of where the page is being served from.
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This happened in a different way to me. They didn't take my domain; they threatened my ISP and they deleted everything on my domain, include six other sites that lived there - the music blog was a subdomain.

The thing I couldn't believe was that I'd never posted a track I hadn't gotten approved by the artist; I'd estimate 70% was sent to me by promoters, artists, or the label themselves. If it wasn't, it was likely found on another blog and I only let readers download content that was available for free from the artist themselves.

Totally ridiculous. Trying to get a response for their grounds was impossible, and I eventually had to switch ISPs and rebuild all my sites.
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The main concern for me with native client is webgl and the exposure of 3D device drivers to the Internet. These drivers were not written with this use in mind there have been webgl vulnerabilities in the past: http://www.contextis.com/research/blog/webgl2/

While Google will be aware of these and actively working to provide a buffer with via validation and sandboxing, with pessimistic hat on, I can see this leading to a lot more security vulnerabilities.
To restrict access to a static web site, providing authentication through this api and nginx auth request module[1]? Not even sure if this specific use case is even possible with this API but that would be nice.

That being said, I don't think I would rely on an unknown API for such crucial part of my web app. In there shoes, I would just release it open source so that people can inspect the code and build street cred out of it.

[1]: http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_auth_request_module/file/a29d7...
Nothing could be further from the truth. Australia has been at the forefront of trade liberalisation [1,2], unilaterally cutting tariffs for about 20 years. If anything, our current growth is a product of this liberalisation.

Income inequity is increasing, but the relative equality of income results from a unionised history (less so now), with the concept of "a fair go for all".

[1] http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp279_e.htm

[2] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/push-on-doh...
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Iiiiinteresting. They mention Bastion, which is built with XNA and C#. I wonder how they plan on porting it.
Apple didn't build a freaking photo-frame..they built a tablet computer...
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The unusual aspect to me is that it's on the left side and not the right. It doesn't feel quite right.
We abandoned the plain meaning of the constitution a long, long time ago.

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That's a valid concern; I know another HN user who might chime in with more detail to back it up.

On the other hand, Google has built a particularly good security team for low-level systems code problems like this, and they've done things (like the NaCL security contest) to attract the right kind of attention from researchers.
Ditto.

If this trash keeps showing up on HN, I ain't gonna stick around.

People should go be children somewhere else.
There is one thing that can be observed here, imho. That iOS was made to be sleek right from the start, from there they sacrificed pragmatic system design, which efficiently crimped a lot of flexibility; flexibility such as 3rd party input, etc, of which has gotta be now implemented from system up.

As an Android user, given my (now) better understanding of the Android architecture design, I am happy and safely say that Android was made for the future, and is only gonna get better from here on.
Actually, that is probably a future version of Java. JDK 8 will have closures and something very much like mixins.
So an attempt at a brief summary of (the non-thread-priorities portion of) her post:

The Android model of providing rendering isolation between apps/windows has limited hw acceleration of window contents rendering, which is a cause of some of Android's lagginess. That iOS forgoes this isolation and achieves better responsiveness is a reflection of a different security philosophy.

If this is an accurate summary, it's an interesting example of how platform design is wicked problem with complex interactions between concerns that you might expect to be orthogonal.
>Software evolves, and often dies when it doesn't.

That's what's confusing me about the piece. TeX preserves the ability to evolve (XeTeX, etc.) through stasis.

Or is it simply path dependence again?
I was thinking of the Qantas and Malaysian Airlines mishaps where faulty ADIRU's lead to sudden uncommanded changes in altitude and eventual stall warnings.
At my first job, they brought in a well-known consultant company to update a huge legacy application. At one of the initial meetings, one of our co-workers who was working on the project gave us an overview of their process. Then he said something like:

"And they have a tool which will automatically go through the code, find bugs and then be able to tell us how many bugs each person is responsible for."

My initial thoughts were "Wow, that would be such a cool way to get feedback."

But then he added "I'm just joking about that one. You can wipe the worried looks off your faces."

I think a tool that could directly measure the amount of bugs one produces would revolutionize the industry.
Seems odd these two Stripe stories get frontpaged back to back.
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Huh? So entrepreneurs are "better" than academics? That's just silly and pompous.

Remember, 90% of everything is crap. That goes for both businesses and research.
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javascript.xxx was available, so I bought it on a whim. I do a lot of JavaScript development and thought it would be good branding for a blog / article site on JavaScript based web app development. But I would like to hear other ideas as to what it could be used for, or what other HN readers would use it for.
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I don't know if you're being ironic or not, but I do find tat substantially plausible. Sounds more plausible than all the hi-tech everybody is suggesting iran has.

I understand that most of the people in here are from California, NY or some advanced european country. Being a citizen of a not so developed european country, I would remind you that not every country has high tech at its disposal.
Iran is a rather undeveloped country and it is governed by a rather radical form of islam, resourcing to all sorts of primitive oppression and practices which is everything but inovation friendly. Sure it puts a lot of money in its weapons and it has a lot of inhabitants, but I doubht if it has the capability to develop technology to electronically hijack a high-tech spy device. That would require a solid education system, capable of producing a fair amount of qualified personal and a whole technologically-enabled society.

I am yet to see technological or scientific advances coming from iran. It would be very unlikely that all the highly trained people would be working for the army. It doesn't make sense.

Now there's something fishy with this whole thing. Sounds to easy and too advanced for iran. I don't really buy it that the US just sent a drone that was hijacked. Millions and millions of dollars thousands and thousands of people working full time on this and then it would just 'have a malfunction' and simply be captured... Nah, I have no idea what really happened, but all this sounds rather naive to me.
However, if iOS is able to evolve additional flexibility as it is needed without too much pain, then perhaps they made the right design choices at the start?
The HMAC library in Python still uses MD5 (http://docs.python.org/library/hmac.html) which is known to be exploitable with hash collisions. My opinion is that its not too difficult to roll a MAC setup using some SHA based hash.
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"We could accept all of what we have today, and take it for granted, and we'd live with it forever. But that would suck." The inverse of that is having everything change so quickly that we can't ever accomplish anything. It's all about striking that balance between improving tools and making the product or service.

Given how long Fortran has lasted in the scientific community, something is going to have to be remarkably better than TeX for people to switch. Old ways die slowly, especially in the sciences. As Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions observed, old ideas are usually only replaced when the old people die.
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