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> You know of many people coming up with ideas like pinch-to-zoom and just throwing them away?

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My favorite was the mud-robot dominated by a timepiece.
That didn't solve my curiosity.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we end up with people making a compatibility layer between the two somehow. Without a major backer, WebOS won't ever be a big deal. But if you could run Android apps on the WebOS UI...
While they may not directly need the 3D acceleration it may be being used to their advantage still, that was one of my questions but they said that lower end cards were resulting in stuttering. It looked to me like it was all stuff in web browsers so they might be using newer chrome/ie and the like with hardware accelerated rendering.
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Oh, that Clinton, right.
Thanks for the feedback - I really appreciate it. I'm currently in the middle of developing v1.9 of DataTables and backwards compatibility is key for me here. v2 is a good way off, and I'm certainly not committed to removing the hungarian notation (actually I find it quite useful personally). 1.x and the current API have been going since 2007 and is going to be supported for as long as I can see at the moment. If there are any breaking changes in v2, will be supported in parallel.

I know I don't want to update my own code for a new API on every release! Going back to the point of the OP there are certainly cases when writing custom code is beneficial for that reason, and equally (I believe) there are times when a tried and tested library such as DataTables is suitable.
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I used to doubt that too but having seen how they have dominated Electronics market and for that matter Mobile market, I am bit bullish about Samsung's performance in Tab market. Rest time will tell.
Pretty cool, I'm setting up a VPS to test this out for a possible San Diego wiki. Definitely would need some help with administration and populating it with content though, if anyone's interested.

Edit: Temporary home here - http://173.255.215.222/Front_Page
If one refuses to cooperate with an arrest it's reasonable for the police to carry out the procedure without the person's cooperation, but this is a far cry from forcing the person to cooperate through physical abuse. If one goes limp during an arrest, it's not unreasonable for the police to carry them, but it's highly unreasonable for the police to kick a person on the ground until they decide to get up of their 'own' volition.

Also, it's not my job to brainstorm ways for the police to carry out their missions, and some things will always be physically impossible for them to do. Tough. For example, it's probably impossible to read my encrypted disks. Does this mean the police, in the process of collecting evidence, should be able to beat me until I unlock them?

> In other words, you want to abolish govt spending. Great!

You state this as if you expect it to be incongruent with my beliefs. Honestly, the most worrisome part of OWS is seeing supposed small-government people supporting heavy-handed disruption of the protesters.
thinkvitamin? boingboing? google, even? I think the name doesn't matter, the content does.

Actually, you think so to: http://cultivatus.com/2011/11/30/the-real-reason-why-domain-...
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There's doesn't seem to be a reason to doubt it to me. Samsung has emerged as a top-tier player in the mobile and consumer electronic world.
1 huge reason: proprietary drivers.
Lots of rumor in that article, but it should easily be possible. Samsung can launch with an item that can only be produced in small quantities. Apple can't go iPad retina display until they can produced in huge quantities.

There was a similar effect during the Macintosh clone period. As Motorola would tick out faster processors, the cloners would launch as soon as they could get silicon, meanwhile Apple had to wait until they could get enough processors stockpiled and the Motorola's production rate up enough to support a new Apple model. It created a market where the cloners were perceived as the higher performance machines and Apple was always late to the party.
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Really wish I could get PCRE search and replace...
Yea..b8ry has always been an issue. But I hope, samsung will definitely be working on this issue. Lets just hope that Samsung make this thing true.
There's still so much to build
Isn't it a little too late now? WebOS is way behind in terms of functionality compared to Android and so even someone picks it up they need to spend considerable time and resources to bring it up to par to compete with it. It has to be some company that does not mind waiting and spending the resources. I don't see any one in that position right now. Unless this is purely a move to generate excitement in the developer community so that HP can at least make a meaningful effort to push it.
> In my book, that's pretty decent behavior.

I'd reserve judgment about this specific case until we see how things actually turn out.

I've been dealing with Microsoft for more than twenty years, and I'm not holding my breath for their decent behavior, although it happen occasionally.
From my experience in consulting (over a decade), I have to agree. It's extremely difficult to convince people to do things right. It's sooo much easier to give a friendly grin, a firm handshake, maybe dinner or a round of golf and state emphatically that "you need an ERP or CRM or other three-letter acronym".

Ultimately, it comes to corporate Darwinism... the companies that evolve reasonable processes prevail. Others will only leave a fossil record. Unfortunately, we have governments as well as corporations.
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My sister smoked in college. We're both of us somewhat anxiety-prone, and she said smoking helped her a lot around finals time, when papers were due, stuff like that.
Chilling and unfortunately accurate, I am sure.
whatever. at this point, open sourcing it is probably the best possible outcome anybody could have hoped for. be happy they didn't just say "we're going to lock it in a safe and nobody will ever see it again"
This is a sly move by HP but probably the only move they could make cheaply. Still, managing a platform as opposed to owning it can unlock tremendous value.

HW people have been looking desperate for an alternative to google as it tip-toes ever close to an official "Google phone". The Motorola purchase was such a move and it has the HW partners nervous.
If the driver links to the Linux kernel underneath, porting shouldn't pose a big problem.

Oh... Isn't distributing proprietary drivers linked to the Linux kernel a violation of the GPL?
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It's really easy to miss updating a comment somewhere. I mean, people introduce bugs into programs even with extensive automated tests. Rendering a comment obsolete is something your tests will never catch, so it's easy to miss the fact that you've broken something until you actually need the comment.

By contrast, it's nigh impossible to forget to include a commit message, since failure to do so will cancel your commit.
TestFlight does a good job of providing some of this information, but is expressly for the testing phase of development.
Impossible? I'm not asking for a personalised quote here, just what options are available to UK startups. I probably clouded the water by mentioning my personal situation, but really I'm just interested in what's out there.
You're assuming that. The OP may wish to explain it more elloquently than his child can. The OP may teach their child quite well, but also wish to provide them with more powerful evidence than they could recall off-hand/ensure their facts are right/etc.
OK... Now, who'll make WebOS devices?
The Apache foundation is turning out to be where large companies send their projects that they acquired through acquisition and never really loved or understood to die. It's kind of the old folks home of the software industry.
My impression is that if you install TexLive and Aquamacs, you are pretty much set. If you also install Skim, you've got a nice synctex setup. You might need to tell aquamacs that you are using skim etc, but this is explained either on the aquamacs or skim faqs.
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Not always.

The house just voted 406-17 to keep the NDAA (indefinite military detention bill) conference committee closed to the public.[1]

1. http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2447-Indefinite-mi...
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I agree with one sentiment of one of the commenters on the article: this seems like a soft shut-down. Even if HP was not making any hardware for it, at least one hardware partner would be nice. Some kind of commitment to at least one more device coming out with WebOS native. If that had happened, I'd say WebOS would be fine. If no one announces any plans in the next 3 months though... I'm not one to cry doom and gloom, but it's not looking terribly bright. HP wouldn't have done this unless it was their only option. They wanted to sell it and no one was buying.

One thing we can look forward to, custom ROMs that hopefully boot faster. My Touchpad takes a minute and a half to start, which is pretty unacceptable for a tablet.
Well, if nothing else, good publicity.

(There might be other upsides, but that must be a fairly major reason)
jws : Your point about Samsung's ability (or rather say safe play) to produce & launch in small quantities is absolutely spot on. That's what makes me (personally) very bullish about Samsung's future prospects in Tab market.
> it's hard to know ahead of time where those bottlenecks will be

Exactly. So the only reasonable policy is to use a language which is fast to write, and fast to change. Then, once you have software working, test where the bottlenecks actually are and change those parts (the majority of the time this does not require writing in a lower level language, just changing the design, fixing bugs, adding compiler hints, etc...)

> In a marketplace where users will dismiss your app immediately over tiny glitches and pauses, I'd be inclined to write everything in C++ other than the Objective C stuff.

By writing in inferior languages, you are creating apps with more bugs that take up more developer time (leaving less time to fix bugs, update older apps, etc). By your own claims, this means your apps will be dismissed. It's a mistake.
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I skimmed the page and it seems to be so complicated (comparing with the localwiki). For example, page http://www.lokusapp.com/entry/united_states/texas/mclennan/m... is almost empty (no information) but it is cluttered a lot by empty boxes. Maybe you should focus on the design for a while.
I still don't totally understand the issue. If your commit fails you can return a "500 error" which will cause the IPN to retry.

I can see how the validation step might be confusingly described. For what it's worth, the validation step merely compares a hash of the variables to confirm the authenticity of the IPN. It doesn't touch the DB at all.
> Also, you seem to very much want me to demand that antirez codes a windows port, for free, pronto.

I apologize for implying that if I did. That was not my intention.
This may be true assuming that targeting those platforms is desirable.

Now if you're in the market to do something new...
As a heads up I'm from GC but as quick responses:

1) It's little known but the protection under DD are arguably stronger than those under cc (http://www.bacs.co.uk/bacs/businesses/directdebit/collecting...); but your point still holds for as long as this remains little known ;)

2) Fair point, although this varies a lot by country (consider CC usage in Germany) and is not the case for B2B transactions

3) No it doesn't. There's a pan-European ACH network (SEPA DD), also if you look at PayPal they offer Bank transfer in US & Europe using ACH in a similar way
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Android may be further ahead in features, but there's a lot of people who got a TouchPad in HP's firesale who would want extra functionality and now they can add it. I hope a OpenOS project starts soon rather than loads of people rushing to add small bits.
My app falls into the rather broad category of "gambling, gaming, and adult". This means all US providers (I've seen) aren't interested due to their gambling regulations, and UK providers consider it high risk.
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too late? Why? The iPad is only at version 2, and Android tablets are having a hard time to take off (while the HP TouchPad has been selling very well apparently). Honestly, I am using one, and I have an Android phone (Nexus S) I don't think it's that far behind (and there are other good features I don't have on Android).

Disclaimer: I'm right now an intern at HP, but I'm first a Free Software hacktivist and user.
This is exactly how we did process review / analysis at my last company. It was always awesome to uncover the differences between what the stake holders thought the current process was, and what the people actually doing it did.

After that we tried to reconcile the differences and usually made the in-software process a mixture of the two (where possible)
Upside: They look slightly less foolish?
I'm eager to try stripe myself but it wasn't right for our business due to the transaction costs. We do anywhere from a quarter to half million per month in transaction fees and it's amazing how those fractions of a percent and one penny turn into thousands of dollars! We looked at losing about $20k per month so it didn't make sense.

But I have a generic payment processor API that I wrote and I plan to add support for stripe into that for personal projects.
Jardin has always been a fantastic writer. While this news is certainly terrible, the silver lining is the beauty and honesty with which she delivers it.
iambot, I was wondering if there is a bona fide web service for Hacker News, like a WSDL document, endpoint, etc.. Specifically, it would be called a syndicated web service in .NET.
Hope she finds time to bring that show to Washington DC.
I don't know - when a $290 Radeon can drive 6 monitors per card (with enough acceleration to draw basic 3D on each), is there really a place for Matrox any more? The card you linked is $1800.

I know either is a small fraction of the cost of the overall device, but you'd still want some kind of benefit for the price increase.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121...
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The paper you and "gujk" are referring to, I believe must be Winston Royce's paper.

It's wrong to say that the paper is a description of how not to do software development. Rather, it's suggestions for a set of improvements to the process, while retaining the sequential nature. In the paper, Royce considers waterfall to be a good process, but with flaws which result in high risks. These flaws is what he addresses in his paper.

His suggested approach is derived from pure waterfall, and is very much similar. It falls into the "modified waterfall" category of life cycle models, together with a group of other similarly waterfall-derived models.
The game industry writes buggy and poorly performing (relative to how they could be) games in C++ instead of writing better and better optimized games in superior languages.
Thanks for the insight. I've done some asking around and it sounds like a lot of the UK payment provider restrictions are actually due to the merchant provider they use; there's a possibility that I could use any UK provider as long as I negotiate my own merchant account directly with a bank.
I use the Apple key as Meta and the Caps Lock key for Ctrl. On a Linux box I use the Alt key as Meta and the Caps Lock Key for Ctrl. With this setup the keys are in the same location for every keyboard and I don't get so confused.
I think you'll be fine. It IS great hardware and even if you don't fall in love with OS X the way so many of us have, you can install your favorite flavor of Ubuntu/Windows. Of course some things will be a bit jarring at first but a little time with something new goes a long way. Personally, I never click my trackpad (tap to click, two-finger-tap to right-click, three-finger to drag) and don't look directly at the finder all that ofter (command-space to go to open spotlight search, return to open something).

Of course, if you work in an SSH terminal, there will be basically no difference.
So, they work for free?
The worst are the Thinkpad keyboards that have Fn where the left Ctrl should be. This is the sole reason I started to use Caps Lock for Ctrl and now I'm in love with it.
I should be happy, but I rather wish all the patent nonsense would go away. It makes everyone involved look bad.
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It's not only impossible to do everything yourself, but it's not effective. If he's doing stuff you don't want to do, then good. There much more to success than any product.

If he's really doing nothing, then talk to him and change the split.

If you continue they way it is though, don't waste your life thinking "I could have had more.", blah blah It's not healthy.
The reason they use a chroot instead of a native boot is because WebOS has the drivers for the system already loaded. By booting Ubuntu inside of WebOS, they avoid not having compatible drivers for the system inside of Ubuntu. I don't know if all the drivers are open source or if today's announcement will change that.
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Some of the contact stuff they did in WebOS with Synergy is actually very much ahead of it's time. Android had now caught up to it a bit with ICS and their "People" card.
There's also a fairly large "homebrew" community for WebOS with lots of hacks, etc.
Love them or hate them, this ruling isn't exactly a good thing for anyone except Motorola. This one ruling, even if Apple loses appeal too, won't change the way Apple operates. This will only hurt consumers in Germany. Like it or not, people love the iPhone and iPad and there's a huge number of people who would prefer those products over anything else. Poor German consumers. You can say the same for Samsung in the US too and I'd agree (but I would also say far less people would shed a tear for not being able to buy a Samsung phone or tablet. My opinions are just that, however, opinions)
Anyone want to help bootstrap a localwiki for Chicago? I've got 13k Chicagoland Twitter followers on @windycitizen we can set loose on it after we get the first 100 entries or so up.
That would lead me to ask, why is he making the site? Apparently not to make money. If it's for an honest exploration of good ideas, people are going to have to use it. If they don't even 'like' it, I presume they won't use it.

I could make a site that had nothing than an animated picture of a duck spinning around on the middle of the page, but I wouldn't expect people on Hacker News to think it was meaningful.
To be fair, it's not so different from the way we operate in every other situation.

e.g. championing free and fair elections and decrying other people's failures while passing a seemingly endless stream of poll-tax-esque disenfranchisement legislation here at home, in the name of combating voter fraud problems we've never actually seen manifest.

or decrying the "crony capitalism" of Taiwan and then China, while regulatory capture leaves us looking just as bad.

or decrying the income inequality in banana republics as evidence of corruption and social injustice, while deregulating and tax-cutting our way to the top of that list.
Fantastic news.

WebOS > Android
That response is even sadder. I haven't chosen the "just code" koolaid, but your religious beliefs are so deeply ingrained that you can only perceive me through that lens. As a result, you miss out on the great big world of "every situation is different and you should do what is appropriate instead of what some dipshit hawking books and seminars says".
the auto industry never got into this mess because car companies weren't quite so evil, and patent judges at the time weren't quite so stupid. yes, apple is at fault here for pursuing their patents, but the real problem is that the patent courts are actually granting design patents for rectangles. if you want an analogy to the car industry, it equivalent to patenting the a round wheel, and saying that other cars should try different shapes for their wheels if they don't want to infringe. this was never an issue, because the system wasn't so broken back then.
Maybe his family/personal problems are serious. After all we are all humans. If I would be in your place I would take this list you made here, present it to him and ask what he thinks should be done to improve things - and maybe you have your own ideas too. I would first present your concerns to him and try to talk this out in a friendly matter.
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Really big???

This is really big:

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/viz_systems.html
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Problem isn't so much kernel level drivers, but user space. Or undocumented proprietary APIs to firmware. I suspect it is not a problem for most components. Most phones are just recombinations of the same components. The problem areas would be the radios and possibly the graphics.

Check the tear downs of the HTC Sensation and the HP TouchPad .. virtually the same device inside. ;)
I hope they realize how damaging their own in house legislature like SOPA is damaging to their international efforts. They already look a bit more suspect with SOPA on the table and were it ever to pass they'd have the credibility of China.
I have to admit that I'm resisting CoffeeScript. It looks interesting but for me it seems like just an extra step for something that isn't bothering me. I'd rather write code that's a little more verbose than to have to "remote control" it via another syntax. Am I missing the boat?
If the rumor is true, it's unlikely that you or I would be able to run the system even if we could get it loaded. Windows 8 Dev Preview didn't have drivers for my SATA drive, I doubt it comes preinstalled with drivers for the Touchpad. If HP has it running, it's because they ported their drivers to Windows 8. AFAIK, they have not released those publicly.
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And yet some of us keep charging at windmills, trying to do what they allegedly engaged us for. With about as much success.
Have you gotten this to work recently? It looks like this script fetches the images that are listed on http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 which they say "will shutdown and become completely unusable on November 17, 2011".

Someone has reported this a couple days ago on their forum http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_xp/w... but there's been no response.

Other questions on that forum indicate that there was exactly the same issue in 2010 and in 2009, so it looks like in practice, you can test with old versions of IE for free, but only in the summer months. It's certainly better than nothing, but it's not something I would depend on.