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> Hello!!! You are posting this comment where???

Apparently, posting on Hacker News now means "you're supposed to disregard the entire world except web firms, or else you don't belong here"? Come on, man.
Motorola Wins Europe-Wide Sales Ban Against iOS Devices
Firebug is a memory hog? Prove it (Please)
So Firebug 1.9 is coming out soon, and bugfixing is top priority.

Firebug does some interesting things in order to follow requests, keep a handle on DOM nodes, etc., but most of these things use APIs that were not designed for us, aren't well know, maybe even undocumented. Let's just say that the chances of an bug like a stray reference or event listener are quite possible, resulting in memory being held and never released by the garbage collector.

So we are looking for volunteers to do the real work: start with a clean profile, no other extensions, and show us a STR (steps to reproduce). You and millions of others will reap the benefits. A nice stocking stuffer for sure!

http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/I_found_a_Firebug_Bug!
I have a '10 MBA 13. It's really an almost ideal laptop.

Pros:

-It runs a Unix based OS, but one that I don't have to install and configure myself.

-It's thin and light

-Battery lasts 7 hours (although recently I've been getting ~5:30, which is not quite enough for "all day usage")

-The display is high res. Has the same res as many 15" displays.

Cons:

Limited storage and RAM with huge markups for upgrades.

edit: love is probably too strong a word for any machine, esp. one you didn't design & build yourself.
Drinking lots of coffee likely doesn't increase cancer risk, but it can be an indicator of poor sleep habits.
I said "linux" where I should've said POSIX. Sorry about that mistake.
Putting alerts in what should be a vaguely mathematical/functional construct seems very, very wrong.
Retina iPad 3 and Galaxy Tab 11.6 in February? Moore humbly disagrees
Should I or Shouldn’t I? (start a business)
"CoffeeScript has been getting a lot of press and that's not a bad thing, but it's giving JavaScript a bad wrap.".replace(' wrap', ' rap')
If the great firewall of America materializes, I will teach my kids to say "...with liberty and justice for some". .and when the teacher corrects him/her and gets sent to the principals office. he will have a packet of material proving my case beyond all doubt.
Lenovo w520 here. Running kubuntu 11.04. I have no issues with it now, but there was an issue until recently with Intel's speedstep and power management. They just released a new bios that seems to have fixed it. Here's a long thread on it: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-S...

Other than that, it's a great dev laptop. Also keyboard and screen are great!
It's kind of like how the reference for tetris for many people is the gameboy version.
I'm not sure where your argument leads. Are you justifying smoking as a choice, based on the numbers? Are you attempting to explain why people choose to smoke, based on the likelihood of cancer? Something else?

Regardless, smoking increases your overall risk pressure along with all of the other risky choices you can make. It's cumulative with the rest of life's choices.
There is only one best charity
Yes and no. So, it really depends on what you're defending against: if your concern is solely about an attacker using the GPU to compromise the CPU, then IOMMUs get you a lot in terms of restricting what's possible -- sure, an attacker could find some buffer somewhere in the accessible address space that they can use to attack the CPU, but it's another barrier. But if you think about what's on the GPU itself -- all your UI elements (in many cases), your webpages, etc -- it suddenly makes that data seem very important; if I can get you to go to a page that will let me grab all of your running windows, then suddenly I may very well have things like your passwords, credit card info, etc (all depending on when I grab the data and how often that data gets flushed out).

I think that proper protections should be put in from the hardware on up through the drivers, but it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of research to get it right.
I personally don't think that Motorolla will enforce the ruling in case they lose the obvious appeal (and $134M).

However IF Motorolla decides to enforce the ruling, it is bad news for all the users in those markets. I personally don't have any problems with Apple products or Apple itself. I think that they have done a great job in what they have offered us (the end consumers) thus far, but also understand that the intellectual property has to be protected.

Still, either way you look at it, someone is going to end up losing big time. Whether this is the end users in Europe or Apple with a hefty licensing fee or replacement costs for devices that have to be adjusted to remove the infringing technology, it remains to be seen.
No. I am saying that all the examples and the ones that you mention, perhaps except the HP TouchPad, are different enough not to be plagiarising from Apple, unlike Samsung's devices, which are flagrant rip offs of Apple design's for a tablet. For instance the radius of the corner could reasonably be anything between <5mm - >25mm, changing the aesthetic substantially. The bezel could have a different finish; acid etched for instance, it could be a different size or had an inlaid trim. Using a morphological chart you could discover many more options http://wikid.eu/index.php/Morphological_chart, some good, some of them not so good. Quite simple really. Of course you are entitled to disagree with my opinion, however to claim that other devices merely "all look similar to the iPad" is not really understanding what design is, just like the articles author. 'Design obviousness' to me is an indication of a successful design. It is also a bias of hindsight. It's tantamount to stating that anyone can produce an Andy Warhol piece.

>>The Sony tablet was pointed out in this article as a poor design that was over engineered.

The article is neither factual or authoritative. It is opinion and supposition.
I'd be down for considering corporations that retain software patents [1] to be malicious. But I'm not sure I can get behind intimating that groups are being maliciously or aloofly disruptive simply because they aren't participating in Open Source working groups to the degree that we might like.

Again, if the timing is disruptive, the group should have set an earlier deadline for disclosure. If Apple's honoring the rules, then their timing is only as disruptive as the rules allowed in the first place. So it seems more reasonable to critique and revise the rules than to cast aspersions about dedication and motives.

[1] i.e. do not simply file for and retain ownership for defensive purposes, but freely license them to prevent any offensive use on their part.
People always say this "interest-free loan" thing, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. In an average month I spend under €1000 a month on my debit card, but let's round it up to that just for an example. My bank doesn't pay interest on current account balances. Even if I were to go through the hassle of setting up a term deposit for that, the total interest I'd receive on that in one month is 78 cents.

I can think of any number of reasons why I wouldn't bother taking advantage of that.

The question as to whether a credit card is more/less/even risk to a debit card is pretty much the issue at hand here, but even leaving aside the slightly odd issue of psychological risks and hassles, I've heard plenty of horror stories from people in the US where something went wrong to make their monthly payment late (including the credit card company just deciding to change the due date), thus triggering all sorts of badness.
Yup. Problem is poor health doesn't produce visibly harmful results right now, so it's hard for us to envision the long term effects.
Any reason to use your children? You wouldn't want to go in there and speak to the principal yourself?
using a 2011 MBP 13" 8gb ram, now hooked up to a 30" monitor. It's honestly overkill for me.

I like it more than the legendary Lenovo T500 I formerly had (screen wasn't bright enough, wireless/sleep issues bugged me)
> I'm sorry, but I'm really not interested in the whole Linux vs Microsoft flamewar.

Oh, how I wish it was a flamewar. You sir, are apparently willingly ignorant. I have listed many cases where Microsoft have actively harmed projects and community processes. Actions with documented, measurable economic harm. It does not become a flamewar just because you are not interested.

This is a business war. I consider the side you support (by virtue of paying them) unethical. If Microsoft "won" the war on free software earlier, e.g. SCO managed to discredit Linux to the point of no one using it, Redis would likely not have happened the way it did.

> I doubt we'll be able to change each other's minds here.

Agreed.

> Thanks for pulling me out of context.

I don't think I was pulling you out of context. The rest of your statement is basically "you're entitled to be bubble filtered". But his response was considerate, detailed, to the point, and certainly NOT ignoring the reality.

> "you're bubble filtered" an insult feels a bit, well, naive to me.

I understand it to mean "you're unaware because of the way you live your (professional) life". It isn't necessarily an insult, but it implies ignorance -- whereas antirez demonstrated the opposite. It's just out of line at that point of the discussion.

> I'd pay for a Redis version on Windows.

Make antirez an offer then, it might be worth his while if many people do that. If you don't have the cash (I'm running a startup myself, I know how that is), you can offer equity.

> However with the tech we're using (such as, for example, parts of .NET 4's Entity Framework), I doubt we'll be able to move to Mono soon.

Cool. Don't be surprised that your choice of platform and tools, e.g. the latest-and-greatest .NET 4 Entity Framework, limits your access to other tools, e.g. redis. Life is a tradeoff.
Why would anyone use this as opposed to the proven open source alternatives?

Additionally, how does this actually actually solve any realtime requirements?
Facebook uses git. Many open source projects with more than 100 contributors do too, of course.
What on earth are you talking about? Nokia sued Apple first after it became clear they weren't going to be able to compete with the things Apple was doing. Nokia was able to successfully extort money from Apple. Apple was taught that this is how you play the game. If people want the system to change, they need to lobby for it, but please remember your history. Apple didn't start this and everyone is doing it. Who is playing offense and who is playing defense depends on how well you remember the timeline and which "team" you side with.
The fundamental problem people are having seems to be "antirez won't support Windows".

Let's say BigCorp really wants to use Redis, but only supports Windows.

Why is it OK for them to ask antirez to support Windows, but not OK for antirez to ask them to support Linux/POSIX?

Don't go with a kneejerk response, think about it.

Neither party in this relationship has any special obligation to the other, there's no contract, no money is changing hands.

BigCorp wants antirez to support their preferred software (Windows), antirez wants BigCorp to support his (Linux and/or POSIX).

It will cost BigCorp more to support POSIX, you might say. But cost them more relative to what? Of their tens of thousands of employees, billions in revenue, BigCorp would be dedicating an infinitesimal fraction of its resources to supporting a POSIX-compatible OS.

Meanwhile, a huge fraction of antirez's time will be spent dealing with the effects of trying to maintain a high-performance, low-level datastore on two utterly incompatible platforms, and the time he spends on that is time taken away from work on other bugs and features, which also amounts to time taken away from all the people who already use Redis on POSIX.

There is no incentive at all for antirez, his employer VMware, or the Redis community at large to go through the pain of integrating Windows support into Redis mainline. There is some incentive for BigCorp to support Linux, since they want to use Redis effectively.

The incentivization is exactly backwards, so it should surprise absolutely no one that antirez isn't prepared to deal with supporting Windows.
I create $0.00 of value for the company, because I'm building and not selling my product. (rolls eyes)
This kind of clarification is exactly why I posted this link. It's great to clear the air in one respect and at the same time ask the question, "is there something on the CS site needing change to avoid this confusion?"
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of development do you typically do on your MBA?

I have a 15" MBP, and considered a MBA, but I am worried that having available real estate a tad smaller would be a detriment, even with the high resolution.
And the reference for me is the version that was bundled with 4.0 BSD in 1980 (also the distribution that introduced Zork)
I'm extraordinarily impressed by the paradigm of functional medicine. I went so far as to buy this book to figure out how to interpret my own comprehensive nutritional testing results. http://www.metametrix.com/learning-center/books/2008/leifm It seems like functional medicine basically has the right answers, but is still broad and vague enough that alternative practitioners can wrongly use the paradigm to make whatever conclusions they want.

I'm 5 days into a post-paleo diet of the type described in this video and have never really felt better, happier, or more energized. I also have an auto-immune disease that might make me respond unusually well to this kind of dietary intervention.
Even if the standards process could be carried out in another country, as you said, countries where patents exist would not be able to implement the resulting standard. The end result would be an api that is anything but standard.

It's important that the groups work slowly to clear all legal issues so that standards can truly be used on a global scale.
Besides the event flooding mentioned previously, the built-in Android GestureDetectors leave something to be desired. In the revamped Firefox Mobile that's under development we're noticing all sorts of bugs (e.g. http://bugzil.la/706684) that are related to gesture detectors malfunctioning, and we already reinvented the kinetic panning gesture detector because we were unhappy with the responsiveness of the built-in one (it does too much rounding).
> maintaining swift response times on an issue that isn't even theirs?

But the problem is theirs. Their site says it all:

"No setup fees, no monthly fees, no card storage fees, no hidden costs: you only get charged when you earn money."

Therefore, if you're having an issue with your checkout form and their API, it very much is their problem. You're not able to process payments, so you're not able to get paid. Because you're not getting paid, they're not getting paid.
Huxley said

>Not disagreeing that it is an area where Apple should have behaved better

So why would you read it as a claim that "it's OK for Apple to do this"? He's just pointing out an interesting bit of history.
My x120e, the immediate predecessor, is my everyday machine. I'm sad that I've just got an AMD Fusion instead of an i3, though.
Don't think any of the SaaS billing providers today really suite SMBs in cost wise. Merchant account costs, transaction costs, billing provider costs could easily add up to around 10-20% of each transaction.
Hey, zemaj -

I'm looking to move from the US to Sydney, but now's not the best time for me to pull the trigger. How frequently would you guess an offer like yours comes around?
I think just creating the standard is not the problem. If W3C had a policy "We don't care about patents", nobody could sue THEM.

However, if anybody wanted to actually use those standards, he/she would get sued.
Lenovo Ideapad != Lenovo Thinkpad

I made that mistake once and only once, the Ideapad is trash, like your average, low-end Dell/HP/Toshiba laptop.
The "Internet of Things" Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms
Great idea, might I ask what the stocking stuffer is?
I wondered who the man with the clipboard was, micro-managing every step of the process.
> There has been moves to improve driver security through the ARB_robustness extension

IMO, GL_ARB_robustness is almost completely worthless. The one thing it gives you is the ability to time out rendering, in effect, which of course prevents certain types of DoS attacks. There are many other provisions in the extension, but those are already universally implemented in ANGLE and the like; they don't do anything to help with the security of the lower level.

> The reality is that web 3D's time seems to have arrived. It doesn't matter if it's through WebGL, Flash, Unity the issue you raised is present in all those solutions. Even Native client has that potential if the sandbox is not watertight.

NaCl has the same issues regardless of the sandbox, but I agree entirely: hardware accelerated 3d on the web is worth the risk we'll be dealing with for the first couple of years. I've stopped writing desktop 3d software/demos entirely in favor of WebGL simply because I believe so much in it, but it's not stopping me from doing security research into it as well.

At the end of the day, I'm convinced that a reasonably skilled attacker could do terrible, terrible things to my system via WebGL. But the benefits outweigh the risks for me.
I have a 12.5" lenovo thinkpad x220. i5, 8gb ram, kingston hyperX SATA III ssd. The screen is an IPS screen.

I run 64-bit ubuntu.

I have a 9 cell battery which, after running powerTop, I get ~12 hours battery life out of coding.

This machine is great because I can travel, but it also has VGA out and HDMI out so I can connect to a larger monitor. The SATA III drive was VERY easy to swap out and is ridiculously fast (~500mb/s read/write)

The other benefit of this machine is that there is an mSATA port...you can boot off of the mSATA and use a larger platter drive for storage, even boot other OSes that you don't use too often.

The i5 vs i7 performance isn't too big of a deal unless you're utilizing multicores all the time. I have a desktop at work with an i7 and honestly, I don't feel much of a difference. In fact, the SSD makes my laptop feel a lot faster.

My wife has a MBA 13" that I use from time to time to maintain my IOs app...Thank goodness I didn't get it as my main laptop.

As for the review site, try notebookreview.com. I've always used it and is pretty good

edit: formatting
1) Amazon is not Silicon Valley.

2) I am rather interested to hear what you mean by "deeply entrenched in the real world". Are Google's and Amazon's profits somehow not real?
IPhone Twitter App Styles - Goodbie Tweetie
"Even so, so many people using Notepad++? WTF?"

I've seen more than a handful of really smart developers use notepad, even without the ++. It's always surprising, but there's probably a lesson to learn.
I have been looking everywhere and can't find one. Please post if someone finds one.
Do you have a reference for that? I can't remember who was first anymore but I did seem to think it was Apple.
Assrockets and Opportunities (or: Why I Changed Jobs)
If we're talking about the UI instead of the hardware, I don't remember any PADD interactions that involved pinching or dragging. They were always "tapping on buttons" from what I remember (but voice was a major UI element). But I don't know that any of that's really relevant to Apple's design patents.
A quick guide to DIY animated videos
Sadly one of the things I was most looking forward to didn't make it into 24. Threading T_T
"It can't be both obvious AND non patented before."

As long as an obvious idea can be turned into a patent (and they definitely are! remember the swing patent [1]?) then one attempt to patent it has to be the first. Your statement can't be true unless all obvious ideas have somehow been patented since the dawn of time.

[1]: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2178-boy-takes-swing-a...
Is MBA short for MacBook Air?
The diagnosis
I would have hoped we all know how we felt and try not to do the same things Microsoft did. What comes around goes around and I really don't want to be on the receiving end again.
It's only as secure as the weakest extension in your current profile...
Some of that falls into my "healthy" category, some not. As to palatability, much depends on preparation. I like fruit and vegetables, but you'll find that some herbs and spices, heating (especially roasting) and a bit of oil (olive oil, butter) really bring out flavors. Mostly for me it's veggies, a few whole grains, some fruit, ample protein (from clean sources) and healthy fats (good mix of saturated/unsaturated & Omega3) from meat, dairy, fish, olive oil, coconut, and grapeseed.

My list of unhealthy foods is largely: processed/highly processed foods, industrially raised meats/eggs/dairy, processed carbs, sugar, HFCS, soda, flour, baked goods (sorry), trans-fats, white rice/potatoes. Few vegetable fats (corn, canola, soybean, etc. oils). Allowable in very small quantities, but frankly few of these appeal to me at all after a few years of eating clean.

And the quality-of-life benefits are huge.

The other underappreciated element to fitness is strength training. One article that's been featured at HN before that's particularly good at highlighting what's wrong with conventional wisdom on fitness is "Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie": http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...
Why 3x580 instead of a single eyefinity Radeon? Would seem like a obvious choice for such project.
I've never used a non-trivial piece of cross-platform software that didn't have significant platform-specific bugs. If you're claiming yours doesn't, I'm going to have to ask for access to your customer support email...
Here is the thing you need to look at

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5177/holiday-2011-laptop-buyer...
I have a 15" MBP and I've played around with the 13" MBA and I will say that the real estate issue isn't noticeable. Unless you have difficultly in reading smaller icons and fonts, having the same resolution made very little difference to me.

I will also note that the keyboard feels better on the MBA and the weight is a SIZEABLE difference (~3lbs vs. 5.5lbs).

The downside of course is if for some reason you need better specs, the MBA is only an i5 and maxes out at 4GB of RAM.
Wow. I'd completely forgotten about audio-tape.ps. It had all sorts of nifty built-in graphics for various bands, and I remember learning way more than I ever expected to want to know about PostScript adding similar customisations for others.