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There is something Wikipedia does that is not usually done in a native-gui app, and that is provide destinations for hyperlinks. Part of its utility is that you can link to it from blog posts, from essays, from all sorts of stuff.

Which is the point of the OP. he’s comparing micro-walled-gardens to linkable web sites. If we are talking about a native-gui app or rich internet app that supports linking, you may have something.

Then again, you may not. It is incredibly annoying to me whenever I try to access an IMDB link on my tablet and it asks me to install its native app. I now no longer to go imdb links because I’m tired of the speed bump.
I get how frustrating this is but when you provide this kind of service to the general public like Amazon has you're taking a huge risk. They have to be extra cautious about the slightest hint of abuse and because of that these things happen. If you really want aweso,e customer service you're better off with a regular merchant account and payment gateway. Contrary to popular belief, just about anyone can get one. I feel for the author but I just can't get behind the boycott the author calls for.
You're saying someone whom you refer to by his email username completely abstains from modern methods of communication?
So check the single core version:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

Oh look, PHP is still 30 times slower than java. A 60% improvement to that still won't get it within an order of magnitude. And PHP is not significantly faster or easier to develop in than java, so you are losing execution speed to gain nothing.
Remedied! There was one pending claim which I was still testing. The other gigs have not had people actually submit claim requests for yet. I am a 'single founder' - lots of stuff to be done, that one didn't get sorted before you saw it.

The hang up is that the people who claimed them didn't realize that international payments aren't supported yet, unfortunately. (This is still is causing some communication problems. I wish I had a better payment solution. I have tried to make the language more clear.)
It doesn't "just work" for Facebook though, look at all the effort they have exerted to be able and use it. They don't get the main benefit of PHP, but still get all of its flaws.
What's the economic incentive to provide better support? You don't make Amazon much money, but an appeals process would cost them money. So why would they do it?
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You're getting downvoted by people who disagree with you, not because you aren't contributing to the discussion. I just wanted to make it clear that they are wrong for doing that, and that your comment, whether I agree or not, is appreciated.
There's no justification for a law prohibiting shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, and such a law is unconstitutional. What is justified is holding people liable for the consequences of their actions, so if you shout "fire" in a crowded theater and a panic occurs and people are injured, you should be punished.

You don't need laws prohibiting arbitrary behaviors that might or might not cause any actual harm, if you just enforce strict liability. And the deterrent effect is still there, since anybody reasonable (read: the same people who would obey "the law" in the first place) would know better than to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, due to the consequences. And in the freak occurrence where somebody does shout "fire" in a crowded theater, and nothing happens, they aren't punished for a non-event.
agreed. but you also need to be the change you want to see in the world. in a hiring role? ensure you allow remote/home-based team members. evaluating working for someone else? filter for that and demand it, else seek elsewhere. it's what I do (well, trying to do. mostly succesful so far.)
Here's Rachael Ray selling out her race to the "jewish" agenda again.
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Time to analyze the structure of the application, and examine all the different parts in it.
I sketch UIs a lot, but all in pencil. I wonder why he doesn't even mention them. They automatically let you vary your line value, and you can actually erase them, among other benefits. It tends not to copy well, but a good scanner should be fine and if it's just a prototype then you were going to recreate it on the computer anyway.
You get a popup asking which app to use. I don't think there is a "save as default" because that would necessitate a way to manage those defaults, which would expose the underlying mechanism to users, something Apple is generally averse to doing.

The reality is that it doesn't get used a whole lot. Browsers, Dropbox, and other apps of that nature tend to provide the data while miscellaneous apps consume it.
If the people you find to write code aren't capable of learning something other than PHP, you should find new people. People who write code for Facebook should be good at programming, not just "good" at PHP.
I think the real reason that you see apps on mobile devices is that an app puts an easy to use branded icon on the "desktop" instead of requiring the user to open a browser and navigate to the site. I don't think it has anything to do with lack of access to capabilities (e.g. Mint doesn't need access to my camera).

Try this thought experiment: What do you think would be the reaction from users and developers if Apple simply renamed Safari's "Add link to home screen" option to "Install App"?
The economic incentive is increased business. Amazon may not need the business, which is up to them, but "service" is pretty much the only difference between Home Depot and Lowe's, as far as I have been able to tell, to provide one example.
The difference is that Microsoft created .Net and the patents covering it together, so they're fairly narrow patents and it'd be a hell of a lot harder to find relevant prior art to use against them. (The same's true of OOXML, incidentally; Microsoft even tried to get a patent covering both it and ODF but the examiner narrowed it to just OOXML based on a huge amount of prior art dating back to SGML in the 80s.)
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we actually had the same experience with early versions of concrete cms. Everything was on the page and it was a hard experience. We then pulled things more into overlays and it made a lot more sense for people, and was easier/more consistent to develop with.

Generally the promise of in-context editing is you can fix a typo from the same place you see it. I think trying to make it a pixel perfect "edit looks EXACTLY the same as view" deal is too literal.

http://concrete5.org is doing quite well with the overlay approach, and no one says our software isn't intuitive enough because the editor is in a window.
Deep linking is perfectly possible in apps. The !# hasbang is ugly, yes, but the HTML5 History API corrects this with the ability to pushState, replaceState and popState without necessarily having to deal with hashes.

Moreover, this style of linking matters most with publicly available data. For private data, such as the stuff I'm working on storing in the browser with IndexedDB, having a public link isn't necessary for data that's not publicly available. I of course want to support browser history/links in full (see http://warpspire.com/experiments/history-api/ for an example of what's possible) but my point is that when apps are personalized there is not always a need for a link that can be shared across the web.

If I wanted to prognosticate about our web-based future I'd look beyond vanilla hyperlinking and at Web Intents instead.
My experience with them. First they close your account, than they keep your money for six months (you agreed to such terms). Few months down the road, Amazon will start selling the product you were selling themselves.
More thoughts. One commenter here snarked about this article for linking to Steve Pavlina's writings on polyphasic sleep, which he gave up after about six months. This is an old article so I kinda feel that's okay, it's from around 2010 - though Pavlina did it in '06 or so.

That said I was thusly looking at Pavlina's blog. And at the entry where he looks back on it, one year later (http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-on...) and talks about how it's transformed his sleeping, even when he's gone back to "normal" sleep. And I think my month or so doing polyphasic left me with a little something, too: I now have a very well-tuned alarm clock in my brain. I don't have to get up for a day job any more, so I don't have to use it very often - but as I'm going to sleep, I can tell myself "I'm getting up at 7:00" or whatever, and I will be awake when the alarm goes off.

(I still set alarms, though, because they give me that extra boost of HEY YOU HAVE A REASON TO GET UP!)

In fact, I'm taking a plane trip tomorrow. Flight's at 7:40 so I basically need to be up and moving by 5:40 or so. I did those calculations and told myself when I was going to be getting up, and I could FEEL my body going through... something. Some adjustment of my cycles to get me to be tired in time to be up and moving then, these weird little waves of... levels of awakeness kind of cycling in me for a few minutes.

As to people saying that "we evolved for the eight hours sleep and trying anything else is fighting against evolution" - no, no we didn't. Babies basically do polyphasic. It was considered completely normal in the pre-industrialized days to go to bed around sundown, then wake up for an hour or two in the middle of the night and do some stuff by candlelight. It's only since the adaption of massive industrialized society that we've been expected to be up ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

(And hell, right now I'm visiting my mom. She basically does the Everyman schedule since she's retired - it's not formalized, her throughout-the-day naps are kind of randomized - but she's got one biggish core sleep at night, and several midday naps.)
This is really a fantastic theme. Using it from now on.
The first subheader of the linked article is "Kickstarter for Open Source?"
Wow, you sound like a fun person. Since your paranoia is so heightened by the OP's assertion, what exactly do you think he was doing? You're so sure of yourself, you must have some hypothesis.
From my experience, this is immensely helpful in dealing with the problem of procrastination, which has come up a lot here on HN. I found it to be most useful in two scenarios:

1) You have a complex problem that will require a complex solution, and you're procrastinating in figuring out how to deal with the problem.

2) You're coming towards a milestone in a project, and it's time to plan out the next steps and goals.

For both of those scenarios, just taking a walk with a pen and a notepad can be the most efficient use of your time. Sometimes a bit of fresh air and slow, methodical thinking goes a long way.
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This reminds me greatly of the GTD "review" process, which is frankly the part of GTD that I'm worst at doing.

Basically it's scheduling a time to review and evaluate everything on your to-do list. This seems to be a forward looking "what else can I do?" variation on that.
Which is exactly the thing that should be legislated up front. There's no need to spend decades waiting for a good case to challenge bad law. I shudder to think about "oh, we'll just work it out in the courts" before the law is even passed.
+1 for that and not to get back, not mad or something at all, did it just to ask for a better explanation next time :D
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It's definitely possible to design a great product with a very manual design process, but you can also write a great novel using pen and paper. Computers make a lot of things a lot easier, and you should leverage them when they make sense. (like for instantly making exact copies of designs you make, or even better making slight variations along the way.)
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"I'm all about carrying a torch & pitchfork when it's necessary"

You are illiterate.
Having two windows open at the same time, at least for me in EMACs is all about running command on the two windows at the same time, I don't think you can do that with two windows open.
Not everybody using PHP is serving web pages. Zynga use PHP to do server side game simulation, I expect there are a myriad of smaller companies doing CPU intensive tasks in PHP that will welcome these developments.
I believe that Flash's DRM is supported on Linux. (Of course, it also has fundamental security flaws, but those are unrelated to the Linux support.)
I was won over by a recent article that said 7.5 hours of sleep wasn't as good as 8 hours, but 8.5 hours was. I started setting my alarm clock for 8 hours from when I go to bed, and I try not to get up until the alarm goes off. It has gone really well; I never feel tired and I can easily stay up for 24 hours if I need to. If you're permanently "maxed out" on sleep debt, you can function, but you can't take on any more debt. If you're always all paid up, then you can function the one time when you need to sleep for three hours and then be up for an entire day. That's my theory, anyway.

(One key to this is not going to bed too early. Sometimes I'm tired in the middle of the day, and then sleep from, say, 6 to midnight. This fucks everything up.)
It's not like those requirements arose all at once; at first they wanted to get stuff done using tools they already knew. Then, somewhere north of a million LoC they were like "oh right, speed". At that point, it's no surprise that building a VM was cheaper than a full port.
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> a 4 core machine with varying amounts of parallelism

Let's force the programs onto one-core.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/php.php

> aggregate CPU time is more important than wall time

Both CPU secs and Elapsed secs were shown.

> Be careful with benchmarks. They distill a comparison into a single value for easy use, but it's not going to be the most appropriate metric in all cases.

afsina pointed to a program-by-program comparison - not something distilled down to a single value.
I agree for the most part, but that sentiment depends on individual usage patterns.

For example opening multiple windows works alright until I want to Find in Project at which point I have to switch to the project window. A minor annoyance but day in day out that gets old fast.
This is an important project. Apple, Google, and Amazon are putting up walls between developers, users, and their applications.

E.g., why should I have to buy Plants vs. Zombies 3 time - Steam on my desktop, App Store on my iPhone, and Xbox Live on my Xbox? An open app ecosystem would let me buy the game once directly from PopCap, or thru an open app store, and play the game on any web-connected device.
I would imagine that a lot of communication needs to be with the team lead- so his lack of participation would make it pretty useless.
I used pencil & paper for wireframing for years. Scissors, photocopying, etc., exactly as the article explains.

I struggled off and on with various replacements: Visio, Photoshop, Powerpoint. All of these gave me to much control over the final product, and I inevitably spent too much time trying to get things pixel-perfect, choosing the right colors, finding the right icons, and more - things that my graphic designer peers should be doing, not me.

Then, I discovered Balsamiq mockups, which I've been using nonstop now since early 2009. No longer using pencil & paper.
I would not be surprised to find posts about healing crystals on that site.
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What's the problem with this? You're still up at 9 after sleeping 6 hours, which is not too shabby.

My natural cycle seems to end at around 6AM, and then I need 8 hours of sleep, so I'm not up until 2PM. This make social obligations a bit more difficult.
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I really think people need to change their perspective on sleep. People wake up, do thing A,B,C,D,E ... "shit... I really wanted to do F-J today too, but I have to sleep!"

Sleep is not the enemy. Sleep is fantastic.

I'm no expert on sleep in general, but a good nights sleep makes me feel great upon waking up (usually for the rest of the day). I can remember things from the day before with much more clarity and recall, giving me a tremendous edge over those who didn't. Plus, I'm pretty sure it feels fantastic nearly the whole time I'm doing it... I just happen to be unconscious for that part. :) It certainly must be better than a good deal of the things I do while I'm awake.

A close relative of mine is on the uberman cycle. He's narcoleptic. He sleeps nearly instantly upon his head hitting the pillow (seconds, not minutes) and wakes up 15-20 minutes later, unable to continue sleeping. It's literally a nightmare, not only because the world is 'monophasic', but also because he's in a fog, can't focus/falls asleep when not moving (e.g. driving a car), and has a hard time distinguishing reality from dreams (since they all run together).

Thanks, but I'd rather continue hacking the other parts of my lifestyle to make room for more fulfilling activities, like sleep.
When I asked on IRC I was told that the new icon is permanent. It's really nice in my opinion, but I do find it a somewhat odd choice for a text editor.
It looks like the commercial version of CouchDB is being discontinued.
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Tinfoil hat Just wait, once the US government at large finally understands IPv4 networking, someone with too much power will look at IPv6 and the phrase "Look we don't have to do NAT anymore!" Then the government will assign a unique IPv6 address or two to every citizen to use as ID (they'll need a replacement anyway once they get rid of social security). Then they mandate the ISPs to track IPs, and they make it illegal to share or mask IP/IDs since that's something only pirates and thieves and other bad people do anyway. And we'll look back and say "Remember The Right to Read? rms was right again!"
> "You are wrong.You haven't learned it properly"

Do you have a link? Maybe this unhelpful behavior can be figured out in person.

I always experienced the Scala community as a very friendly and helpful one, focused on getting stuff done.

Imho the talk about “bad behavior” outnumbers the actual occurrences of bad behavior by a few magnitudes.
performance reviews are regimented checks that often completely fail to provide the needed feedback, because no one wants to appear to be doing a bad job when it comes time to talk salary.

There are enough companies decoupling performance and salary reviews (e.g. 6mos apart) that there are already well-established techniques for dealing with the problem you mention. Beyond that, my experience is that companies bad at communicating by means of performance reviews (i.e. they're late/irregular, or not substantive, or tied to salary) are bad at communicating in general, and inquiring about performance reviews can be seen as a leading indicator in an interview about how communicative about important stuff they are in general. Don't mistake loud offices/people with opinions about the business to be the same as managerial communication.
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I don't have a large enough data set or experience to declare any sort of average but in my experience the conversion rate is highly correlated to two things:

1) The message and design of the landing page.
2) The message and media used to drive traffic to the page.

Low quality on either will result in low conversion (5% of traffic).

A highly targeted campaign that points out a pain point and a landing page that is well designed and speaks to that pain converts at a far higher rate. I now frequently see 15-20%. I should note that those rates are for registered users, not for other metrics farther down the line (some sort of interaction for example).

Two pages that convert registered users at 20%: http://www.styckyd.com/sell_race_cars, http://www.styckyd.com/sell_modified_cars

Facebook ads have been the most successful generator of quality traffic for us so far.
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office post:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-calling-within-us-and-canada.html
SFXR/CFXR are so much fun to play with. I'm glad this dev listed them as inspiration.
I pretty much like the Eclipse plugin. The IntelliJ one is still better, but the Eclipse one definitely gets its stuff done.

Sounds a bit like you used an old version ...
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I've acquired a growing distrust of Amazon's seller accounts in the past year. For a while, I was making my rent on used books I'd acquired over the years. However, I found Amazon was more likely to side on the buyer side, even when there was a preponderance of evidence that I had done nothing wrong. So, Amazon closing a person's account and giving no reason is right up their alley.
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But the language itself is conducive to writing a lot of code rather quickly. There is no memory management to worry about, there isn't a bunch of verbose boiler plate like in Java. You just write code and even if it's not perfect, you can iterate on it quickly.

That's not to say that's how I'd run Facebook given the opportunity, but from talking with people who have presented HipHop here, these are the reasons they give.
We could spend a lot of time and energy trying to figure out what city is the "coolest" for startups and produces the most innovative new social photo sharing app.

Or we could simply spend all that time and energy on building our businesses from wherever we are.

I'm doing the latter (from Chicago).
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One factual error that the article makes is that DRM'd content is harder to pirate. That is simply not the case; every piece of content ever released is easily pirate-able. The only thing that DRM does is hurt legitimate users.

Also, I was kind of upset by the "letter" that the person who uploaded the torrent wrote. "Art is meant to be shared"? Why bother justifying it with something that sounds stupid when you could just say nothing or say, "I thought people might want to get it this way, so here it is". Depressing.

And finally, I never realized that Louis C.K. was so mainstream. I thought his humor appealed to me and maybe three other people. Oh well :)
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downvoting w/o explanation will not make your counter-argument more rational.
I think the problem is actually the way people are attempting to define an app the same way they tried to define a pc. The pc exists today and we are by no means in what many refer to as the post pc era. The form factor has changed but the pc remains. Similarly I think Dave has a point as to what is lacking in apps and assuming things like offline data storage get sorted along with better responsiveness and longer battery life, all that'll mean is that the form factor of the app has changed. Not that the app has lost and the web has won. I think web is simply the medium of delivery for an app like how the mobile OS is currently the medium for those apps to work in. Apps will remain the future. No matter how they change it'll still be the future.

A more detailed writing on my blog in response to this : http://techstopmuse.blogspot.com/2011/12/apps-confusion-as-m...
I don't see any mention of this under notable changes since 1.5.10, but does TM2 undo more than one character at a time yet? This was the deal-breaker for me with TM. I like being able to undo and redo quickly.
Web app icons don't make sense as you 'd soon end up with thousands of them. I imagine future phones will just have a voice-recognition-enabled search box instead of icon grids.
If you've ever looked at some of the black hat seo forums, this is a method they use for "marketing".