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You're paraphrasing the parent, and seem to be confusing Open Source (which is a class of licenses) with trademarks.

You're right, HP still control the trademarks. But for a license to meet the Open Source Definition, there can be no 'non-commercial' restrictions.

So selling 'Foo' (derived from WebOS) is fine.But using the WebOS trademark isn't.

Just like Oracle distribute and sell support for 'Oracle Enterprise Linux' - 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' is a trademark that belongs to Red Hat.
especially with multiple app stores

I hope you're not seriously saying that having multiple app stores is a weakness of some kind.
I think the author is going over the top criticizing drop shadows and such. But I can see what he means when he talks about minimize animations and the godforsaken Windows troubleshooting wizard. I've never experienced a single instance where the Windows troubleshooting wizard helped me solve a problem any more complicated than "Is the printer really plugged in?" If it wants to hold my hands, at least it should steer me in the right direction!

It's OK for software to act like a kindergarten teacher from time to time, if it actually delivers enough value to justify it. For example, painting the chrome of a focused window in brighter colors helps the user tell which window is in focus. But when the "childish" feature adds nothing but inconvenience, that's when people start getting annoyed.

Disclaimer: I'm quite fond of Windows 7 Aero, though I always make those oversized, over-detailed icons way smaller than they are by default.
Alright, HP, let's work this out...
It was not caught early. It had already metastasized (gone into a lymph node.) It was good she went in when she did, but not going to the doctor for 10 years was pretty stupid.
Sure thing. What was ww=0; trying to do? It seems to be the only place ww is referenced.
Oh - a part of OSX that I find condescending is the inability to alt-tab between browser windows wie Windows(z.B. two Chrome windows, each with their own set of tabs). Is there a shortcut I'm missing?
Continuing to use QNX's RTOS would capitalize on their strengths.

Having a application development platform that has actual developers and a growing community would path over the weakness of Adobe AIR, which has neither.
maybe hp is planning for a centralized app store. If the new platform flourishes as they envision, then it surely means a lot of money for hp.
I feel like I am completely opposite of this dude. He hates dropshadows around windows. He hates the minimize-to-dock effect in OSX, saying it "wastes time". I just hit the minimize button and it took all of one second - one second in which my hindbrain was given a strong visual cue that I am switching out of one context. I use it regularly and I've never stopped to think about it.

I mean, a lot of the stuff he's saying feels "condescending"? It's all stuff that has preferences. You can change the size of icons. I mostly navigate my Mac's filesystem in the 3-column view.

He's bemoaning the fact that the OSX menu fades out when you leave it versus the System 3ish menus that just popped in and out. And honestly I can't say I notice the fade consciously either - but subconsciously I like it. It's instantly responsive when I ask for it, and it's got a nice slow visual effect as I'm done with it.

But then again, for all that I'm an artist with a bent towards minimalism, the OSX address book really doesn't bug me either. I quit using the iPad's calendar - but that's because it had a design directly taken from the revised OSX one, with that unusable-on-tablets row of tiny buttons for changing weeks. I really don't see supposed horrid UI sins like Calendar's torn page, it's just chrome that's vanished into the background.

He basically seems to be saying that all modern polish is crap and we should be happy with the looks that were pretty much required back in the 90s due to limitations. He disses new experiments like Metro as well, but really doesn't manage to articulate what his dream UI would be. Besides "oh god I wish I could use BeOS". Which looks... god, I feel like I'm using my Amiga when I look at that screenshot. Which I loved at the time but I've moved on.
>I believe we are reaching a point where we have the technology to cure most maladies,

Not to cherry pick or anything, but most cancers still have a fairly high death rate. And chronic leukemias, for instance, are incurable.
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Not interested enough, apparently!
I do miss the older NeXTSTEP interface, and am finding Lion to be a real pain at times (e.g. Duplicate instead of Save As). It seems like adding the Launcher has also been a pain (no real improvement over just putting the App folder in the Dock set to List, Folder, Sort by Name). Some stuff is nicer like the Mission Control.

I often think of what OS X would be like if Apple assumed only Pro users would use it and everyone else would be on iOS.
Anyone who believes that the nipple is an intuitive interface and doesn't require learning time has never been with a mother trying to breastfeed a newborn in its first weeks of life.

There is no such thing as an intuitive interface, only some that are easier to learn than others.
Perhaps, but the health benefits may be outweighed by moving from a city with a large economy out to the country where you'll have to subsistence farm for a living.
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To be fair here, NASA does say to avoid nesting headers. But then it follows up with this ridiculous statement:

In extreme cases, where a large number of header files are
to be included in several different source files, it is
acceptable to put all common #includes in one include file.

I would not trust anything else the author of that guide writes. EMBOSS says not to nest. The Atacama code suggests not nesting but then says:

To avoid nested includes, use #define wrappers as follows:

The last pdf states:

This prevents including the same item more than once when
a .c file includes several .h files (we rejected
alternatives involving conditional compilation as too
complicated).

I guess it boils down to preference since the language allows you to do either, I just don't put a lot of stock in these style guides.
Really experienced mention the third 90% http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/11/gothenburg-sprint-repor... (search 90%)
Surprised that it's taken this long for the accelerator / incubator model to be adapted to hardware developers and makers. Makes a ton of sense. Really looking forward to seeing this first batch. The dual china-us angle makes it interesting, too (the team behind this also runs Chinaccelerator, and one of their startups recently won Techcrunch Disrupt Beijing).
I'm of two minds about this:

I love emacs, precisely because it doesn't use any space reminding me what it can do, but I also love having reminders of what all the other software I'm forced to use in my day-to-day life (but not as often) can do.

In the end, though, I'm much more irritated with OS X's crappy file manager than I am with anything quite so broad as OS X being "too condescending".
In OS X, you command-tab between applications. You can command-tilde between windows in the same application. Mac OS X distinguishes between applications and windows; Windows doesn't.
This is a good reminder not to build anything other than a prototype in a language that you're going to regret later.
I bet Samsung, HTC, Sony, etc. all want to reduce their reliance on Android now that Google will soon own Motorola.
Involvement of a nearby lymph node can still be classified as Stage II.
The comparison with CPAN was more to do with the abandoned modules - if you go onto CPAN you'll find lots of modules which were created years ago and then never updated, but they still show up in search results.
Sorry folks but this is just HP's way of trying to make a dignified end to an embarrassing episode. The world is littered with operating systems. Without a committed hardware manufacturer there is no economic model that works for webOS developers.
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Haha the subtitle for the first sentence in the second video is not what he's saying at all, he's just saying there's a slide on the train station. Made me laugh though!
Open dead is better than closed dead. I've got an Aureal 3D sound card which works perfectly with its Windows 95 drivers. The company died, took its software with it, and that card is landfill material rather than happily providing beeps, bloops, and buzzes in a Linux box.
I've been an iPhone user since 2007 and have had every model with the exception of the 4s. I fully intended on moving to Android, specifically the Galaxy Nexus, but after playing with the Mango UI I bought the Samsung Focus S and I'm glad I did. It is by far the best OS I've used on a phone yet! It makes the iOS UI simply look dated (which in all honesty it hasn't changed much since 2007).
Thanks for sharing this insight. It really struck me with its simplicity. It happens all the time. When I have a clear notion of how to continue, I can't wait to start coding the next day. Just the opposite happens when I am left with a "blank page", and I have to force myself to start working.
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Would be great if all the chinese tablets stopped using outdated versions of Android and adopted WebOS. Cheap decent tablets for one-off projects!
Stage II is not early, it's actually right in the middle. There are 5 stages: 0, I, II, III and IV. http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/diagnosis/staging.jsp
I can't imagine that Facebook regretted PHP until it was too late for them to do anything about it.
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> ...although I suppose not knowing them prevents gaming the system.

Something about security through obscurity...d'oh!
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$1 trillion for banks, $1 billion for startups, you can really see how important this administration feels startups are. Why not just tell banks, lend half the money we're giving you to startups, instead of using it to prop up your balance sheets.
Yes, that was true for Meego as well and see where it got them...
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Smoking causes cells to mutate. So no. Mutation is unpredictable and there is no "immutable" cell. Just some are more susceptible to the effects of certain common mutations than others.
I'd tend to agree with you. While this is great for the hacker community, the lack of hardware is crippling. I don't see major manufacturers like Acer, HTC, Samsung picking up on this, especially since Windows Phone 7 is already a credible alternative to Android. Better developer tools, excellent UI and Microsoft's marketing muscle.

The only hope is that if Nokia becomes successful (wildly) with the Win 7 platform and Motorola does the same with Android, then as a product differentiating factor, manufacturers like HTC may pick up WebOS. Now, that's a really long shot.
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Do you really plan on charging for what is literally a textarea and 20 lines of js to do an XHR post and 10 lines of serverside code in some CRUD framework? Have you really convinced 38 people to type in their credit card into a random shady looking form?

Please don't take this the wrong way but this is the first steps to learn framework, this isn't a product.
HN or reddit?
Why would they do that and why would they run a more recent version of WebOS? The Chinese will put the (free) OS with the most apps available, WebOS has a long way to go to get there... Not even mentioning that all the major silicon vendors are shipping with Android BSPs these days..
You'd know better than I do, I'm just saying, how ever early it isn't, it's also not "late".
Finding a way to start work without immediately hitting barriers was so important while writing my bachelor thesis. I now sort of whish I had known about your tip earlier, that seems easier than having to actively search for a simple way to start while procrastinating.

That said, sometimes it seems it was necessary for me to stop work and just do nothing for a while in order to find that important insight.
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Does anyone know why there's a little thumbnail of "reproduction" there?

My understanding is that in women, a lack of reproduction causes cancer. Basically, each period you have adds to your risk of breast cancer. Did the BBC just get it wrong or is there something I'm missing?
I'm wary of the recommendations in this article. If someone repeating a fact you've heard elsewhere makes you feel patronized, you're an outlier. The greater portion of your users, unless you're in a niche field, will need that repetition. Moreover, if we live long enough to need that help ourselves, we can count ourselves lucky.

We are not necessarily our users.
"It's not the idea, it's the execution" is the "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" of the startup world.
WebOS UI could easily run atop an Android kernel. Programming in some nice web-based toolkit instead of java-like stuff would be a godsend (PS: I always hated java to the bones).
For the record, Carbon Emacs is Emacs 22, which is very old (c. 2007) and deprecated.
You know how sometimes you are reading a book and then at some point you realize that you have no idea what the last few paragraphs were about. There was a study that traced this sudden loss of comprehension to the first word that didn't make sense. Anything between that word and the current position was read, but not understood.

I am guessing the procrastination is similar. I would be working and it all would be flowing along, but then I would hit a problem. Something stupid, like having several variable names 5 characters each, and needing another variable, but not being able to find a 5 char name for it. And that's it. I will just keep idling here.

The remedy in both cases is to realize there was an unknown word or a stumbling block, explicitly identify it and work around it. This really works, though YMMV.
If its a of web app I doubt its "complete" as they never really are (I work for a company with a 10 year old web app thats still having changes made to it), so you can go to him and say, "I've put in 3 months so far, you've put in basically none, now it's your turn" and he can handle the next stage of development, bug fixes, feature additions, etc while you take the back-seat for the next few months and handle the fluff work. If he doesn't like this, then maybe consider pulling a zuckerburg
I think he was making a joke about how if Java was donated then we all would know that Java really is dying.
A lot of the problem is that too many organisations shy away from harm reduction. They will make villains of much safer alternatives like snus or e-cigs. Many people who smoke are self-medicating. Reducing the risk to nicotine exposure from smoke exposure would go a very long way.
Also I've heard people install native gcc. On my end I've got luajit running there (cross-compiled on my OSX).
both went with Android, and I think they did the right move..
Let a thousand Solyndras bloom!

But seriously, exempting smaller firms and fundraising efforts from costly regulations is a good part of this initiative. Routing public funds through private investors, not so much.

While they're at it, they should completely eliminate the wealth tests for 'accredited investor' status. If some fig leaf of 'accreditation' is still needed, it should be experience-based or net-worth proportional. For example, everyone with certain business/economics/legal degrees or certifications (Series 7?) should be 'accredited' as knowledgeable enough for private investing. Or, anyone who has an equivalent amount of money in public investments or government-approved retirement accounts, should be able to invest that same amount with 'accredited' status in private investments.
For Apple people usually want compensation but I think compensation is not the main reason they work there.

Charities get people to work for free because those people believe in the cause the charity stands for. People will take a job at Apple with less pay then another offer because they believe in what Apple stands for.
We're quick to jump on ideas without implementation as being worthless, but is it because it's so nonsensical to have an implementation without an idea? If we could have such a thing, we'd probably deem that pretty worthless too: a software application that doesn't actually do anything in particular, just kind of meanders around, even if it's very well coded and documented.
I feel this guy's pain every time I have to wait half a second for a dialog to "scroll" into place on OS X instead of just appearing, damn it.
That's because you picked the wrong direction to manage things... check out libuv and how they've built their api in the other direction.
This needs to be a post in itself!
They are available to licensing. Motorola offered to license them to Apple under FRAND terms and Apple refused (said the terms weren't good enough) and used them without a license.

This is not the first time Apple has been sued for this - it seems to be a common occurrence for them. People offer them licenses for the FRAND patents they're using under FRAND terms, Apple denies them, and then when they get sued they say "But these licenses are FRAND! This doesn't make sense!"
One prominent chief executive told Fortune he'd heard from someone close to Gates that he might be considering such a move.

And that is what this story was build on? A hear-hear-say?

Wow.
I don't use Apples much but I'm pretty sure that the keyboard has a ⌥ symbol on the option button.
Kinda cool. My startup makes a sandboxing plugin for Firefox, but we plan to extend it to Chrome and IE later. Our sandbox works by doing all the browsing on a completely different computer - sort of a super sandbox.
Yep, I was surprised too to see it on HN :).

I think one of the meta-takeaway is that understanding the fundamentals of web caching can help with your general CS knowledge ("There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton).

Looking at Apache, we see a few strategies:

* Include last-modified metadata
* Include content metadata (eTag/md5 of content)
* Include explicit expiration date
* Include a max-age
* Include metadata about who can cache (public/private/no-caching, i.e. users can cache but proxies cannot)

These approaches could be used when designing data flows with Memcache, Redis, etc.
Welcome the decision. But a honest question - has there been any predecessors for a software succeeding after being open sourced from closed? I can think of Firefox but nothing else.
> Apple tried to license the patent under FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms but Motorola was again able to convince the court that if Apple was judged to have infringed, the damages involved would total more than the FRAND rates that were suggested.

That is from the article directly ... clearly that you are saying is not the case.
It's not a wrong direction necessarily, it is just a different abstraction level. I did what I did, because of the constraints of the existing codebase. If one abstracts above the socket level, things are getting less hairy, but it also translates into substantially more per-platform code. It also makes the abstraction less flexible.
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Some counterpoints to consider:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123758895999200083.html

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=3781
There's a difference between dealing with a little boredom or muckwork in a project (there's always some of that) and the sort of relentless, day-long, can't do anything procrastination the OP describes.

Sure, we all have those little jobs we don't want to do... But if you find you just can't get anything done for days at a time, it means your subconscious is trying to tell you something. You'd be wise to try and figure out what, and take steps to address the underlying problem.
Except that it behaves in a completely different way from CMD-Tab.

Cmd-Tab once, switch to the last activated app. Cmd-Tab again, switch back to the previous app.

Cmd-` once, switch to the next window in the current app. Cmd-` again, switch to the next window (not back to the previous one). This is incredibly frustrating, because usually when I'm doing this I want to switch back and forth between two open windows, not cycle through ALL of them! And I'm certainly not going to remember what "order" 5 windows are in.

Also, having to think consciously about whether a window you're working in is within the same application or not to decide which keyboard shortcut you should use makes the whole keyboard shortcut a frustrating experience in OSX. Windows did it right. Alt-Tab switches to the last viewed window, regardless of what application it belongs to. Simple. Elegant. Genius.
Ideas aren't worthless
The bailout was a mess, but I feel there's some truth to what Kissenger wrote a while back: basically, a leader will never be given credit for choosing between two evils (a possible crisis, or a poorly-executed bailout) because you will never be able to prove with certainty how bad the other option would have been. We have no way to truly know what things would be like without the bailout, and we really ought to think of long-lasting solutions. Like funding startups, right?

Frankly, your comparison doesn't make much sense. The administration is making an obvious effort, but there's a big difference between investing in startups and attempting to patch an economy that looks like it will collapse. Investing in startups is quite literally an investment for a future economy. The bailout was a bit of the opposite -- a quick-and-dirty patch up.
It's extremely important to be working on the right thing. That's why some things just don't feel like work.

http://www.humblepied.com/jessica-hische/

I find Jessica's perspective refreshing. I try to end almost every talk I give by quoting her.
I think what's cooler is that WebP now has support for lossless encoding and will soon support animation.
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I have to disagree very strongly with one of his suggestions: the differently sized buttons. The buttons have different sizes because they're used at different rates. You make things that are more often used bigger because it makes your interface faster: see Fitts's law.