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Very true, but now I wonder how many reads/sec each of those servers pushed.
> HEY. Hey you. Studies show if you don't read NevBlog.com everyday, you might die

Really? Excellent! Because after reading that post, I will definitely never ever read that blog again on purpose, it makes me feel like dieing.

This so reeks of the same annoying "openess" and impertinence I have only come to experience from typically Indian and Pakistani hagglers on the street trying to lure you into their clothes store.

Congratulations, you played the monkey for an educated business crowd and they gave you attention. How surprising, educated and intelligent people are actually friendlier and forgiving than you thought! But still you were a dancing monkey, nothing more. You really feel proud of yourself?

Here is a hint: these people are getting approached by the likes of you ever single day, you really think they didn't see through your "genius" charade you came up with in 2 seconds? I think rich people can't stand anything less than people who talk to them just because they "admire" their wealth.

Your demeanor and actions very clearly show... you wouldn't stop at anything just to get some money and attention. You are the last person on earth I want to see coming into money because your borderline-religious fascination with it is dangerous and worrying.

> Often out of the ghettoness and scrappiness, emerges something more refined.

You are not ghetto nor do you accomplish anything actually pretty cool or worthwhile through shady means... you are just cheap and greedy. And you wrote a whole blog entry full of proof for that.

And all those "genius" methods of being a cheap, greedy wannabe and what do you have to show for it? You talked to a couple of people... congratulations.
Grey text on a black background. Won't read it.

Who thinks it's acceptable to do this?
The difference is that other journalists who got the preview also write about other products, whereas Gruber only writes about Apple.

When an Apple-exclusive blog gets preferential treatment and news scoops directly from Apple, it's reasonable to ask whether it's anything more than Phil Schiller's astroturfing outlet.
It is ironic that Apple is supposed to be protecting us by having very rigid policies for what and what does not enter the app store but they let an app access contact data without permission from the user!
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I had no idea that this existed and was about to ask whether you knew if there was a place online that consolidated the many legal considerations one must take to start an online business, but then I found this page on the Citizen Media Law Project ( http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/legal-issues-consider... ), which covers both DMCA-related issues and how to pick hosting providers that will fight for your rights. The entire site seems to be a treasure trove of information about things like this. I'm posting this here in case it could help anyone else.
[Note: I am the author of the tool.]

Yes, it's somewhat restricted without SNI support. I wrote the tool back in 2009 when having SNI was not very useful (because there was virtually no support for it). Sadly, the situation has not improved much since. Had you tested with Internet Explorer running on Windows XP (which is what a huge chunk of the Internet population still runs), you will have found that SNI simply does not work there. That fact alone rules out SNI for web sites that have general audience as target.

Anyhow, a big update is planned for later this year. The Rating Guide, which determines the score, will be revised, the tool itself will be tweaked to become more actionable and include more documentation, and a number of very useful advanced features will be added. I expect we will also start showing historical information, as well as start tracking all public SSL sites.

Also, in two weeks' time we will be releasing an SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices guide to help people configure their web sites correctly.
skeuomorph - an object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artifact in another material.
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When I need to learn about a wheel, I usually attempt to re-invent it. But in practice (production), I tend to choose a wheel that someone else has already spent years making perfectly round.

What is learned from re-inventing definitely provides unique insight into how the better wheels are actually spinning and ultimately helps us make better use of it.
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I'm talking about percentages. It's not that the population of programmers won't grow; it's that the population of non-programming users will grow more.
Thanks for this. I'm glad that using a single export function will at least be possible. I'm still pessimistic about the amount of syntax being introduced here.

In particular, I still really dislike the special import "local renaming" syntax since it seems so unnecessary compared to just having an import keyword that returns an object and letting the programmer extract and manipulate the relevant entries. You would still get the static analysis benefits of having static imports without all the awkward complexity of the current proposal. Wouldn't it just be the same thing to Object.freeze() the export object but without any syntax magic necessary?

Plus, overloading `module` to do loading AND defining with the `module Bar at "uri"` form seems really wrong. Why can't it JUST do defining and just let import do all the loading?
Is the messages beta download broken for anyone else? I would really like to send iMessages from my Mac.
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Some inline context - this appears to be about protecting against malicious software. Was always going to catch flak :)

http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#gate...
Wow, that snuck out without much advanced fanfare (or I missed it).

I first glance, the main (in fact only) feature seems to be porting several iOS apps and features (notes, reminders, game center, etc.) to Mac OS X, and syncing everything together with iCloud.

There is also a Growl clone. Surprised this took so long. Then again, I personally don't like Growl, so I hope nothing depends on it being turned on.

I notice that, so far, there doesn't seem to be any new 'technologies', just (mainly) ports of iOS apps.

Looks very ho hum to me, but then again I have an android phone, so iOS syncing doesn't really interest me.
I came here just to post this exact snippet. Does this seem at all ominous to anyone else? Perhaps I'm overreacting.
Good questions of which I do not know the specifics. McNamara's background was with helping turn Ford around by using his statistical and analytical expertise. Later he got involved using those same techniques with the Defense Dept.
me as well.
Great article swombat.

Here's another exercise for differentiating opportunities from ideas: turn the tv on to a random channel, preferably a channel that covers some area you normally aren't interested in.

Pay close attention to the commercials. These are probably for products (ideas) that you find no value in at all. Yet somebody just like yourself is making these commercials and making a boatload of money doing it. Why? What opportunities did they see in ideas that you would find worthless? Can you see how the idea may be completely useless in your eyes, yet the opportunity very valuable?

The title was such that I was able to upvote this article before I even read it! (Yes, I did actually RTA) I knew exactly where you were going. An opportunity is an idea + value. It's the addition of the value that makes it so different than just run of the mill ideas. An idea might be to write a text indexing system built on references like research papers are ranked. An opportunity is making a simple-to-use web search engine so folks can more easily find what they are looking for. Big difference.

The more I think about it, the more I feel we should eliminate the word "idea" completely from discussions about startups. All the talk should only be about opportunities.
they are adopting a 1-year release cycle.
Briefings like that aren't unusual ... just highly unusual for Apple. I've sat in dozens of similar ones unveiling new versions of hardware, software or services for both consumer and business. It offers less launch-day spectacle, but it also offers the chance for more thoughtful analysis that can still be coordinated with embargoes.

It is, of course, a very large departure for Apple, which generally doesn't even return calls from anyone but Pogue or the WSJ, and even then doesn't generally comment.
It's interesting to read some of the Android reviews for the app; an interesting insight into how users value convenience over security.

Or simply how little they appreciate security

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.barclays.apps.ping...
I had a couple comments on Gruber's posting, but one of the things that really jumped out at me about this hands-on is the Notification Center trigger taking Spotlight's coveted top-right Fitt's Law trigger. Also, while I say "ew" to more skeuomorphism, I could see how things like are enjoyed by some users; not that it makes this type of UI "correct", but, whatever.
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Feature rundown:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html

One of the more interesting bits is at the - they're supporting a bunch of China specific services.
How is this start up going to pay the bills?
Security thru obscurity. hmm risky. I wonder how long it will take for someone to break it and Barclays to pull the app. N.b. it allowed me to install but quit straight away with a warning message.
If your device is rooted you're more likely to have routes for malware to get onto the device. When money is being moved out of your bank account, malware is the last thing you want on the device
Oh no, not ominous at all ... look for this list of three choices being reduced to the first two. Coming soon.
Amazingly cost-effective marketing. Most people don't go to an Apple Event, they read the press coverage. So why spend a million dollars on an Event when you can spend a few thousand dollars on your pet journalists, who will then report to all that the coffee was really good?
Not surprised they didn't give a big briefing. An hour of "this is just like the iOS version, but on OS X" would get pretty bad press.
Ah! That’s iOSification in a good way. It’s nice that they are finally fighting cruft. That even lets me overlook the skeumorphism. (I don’t care so much if it’s only looks and not functionality. Sometimes Apple oversteps that line but a more careful examination is necessary to figure that out.)

Next stop: De-crufting iTunes.
There is nothing substantial or worth mentioning there - these little tricks have been very well known for a very long time...
Well, there were signals that something would change as soon as Apple launched the App Store for OS X. I think having signed developer ID's, with the option of allowing unsigned, is an OK step and might even bode for a more open iOS platform ... down the line.

All in all, of the two ways it was likely to go (allowing only App Store apps by default, or allowing only signed Apps that meeting certain criteria), I think this is the much more palatable one.
...is going on an iOS-esque one-major-update-per-year development schedule. This year’s update is scheduled for release in the summer, and is ready now for a developer preview release.

I found this comment very interesting. It seems like Apple will be updating OS X aggressively. Will this force Microsoft to do the same with Windows?

(As an aside, if iCloud will be used to "sync" your iWork documents between your Mac + iPad + iPhone, then that will be a great thing.)
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I'm still running Snow Leopard after being scared off Lion from reports about instability when it was first released. Is Lion mature enough to replace Snow Leopard now, or should I just hold off and see what happens when Mountain Lion is released?
I'm questioning the service, because I had to read about the outage on HN...and not through a warning email from jotform.

At the very least, they should have sent an email, telling people to switch the urls so the forms would work.
I can't really say I love the direction Apple is taking with Mac OSX. They make really radical changes to how things work, and for a phone that might be okay, I don't use my phone that much, but with every update (or so it seems, after Snow Leopard) I have to change my workflow. With Lion I even didn't fully recover.

As an example, with Lion they more or less removed Spaces entirely. This was a killer feature for me (and many many developers / professional users), instead they replaced it with some sort of fullscreen-ish-applications.
I suspect he isn't the only one that got this treatment, though it would be amusing if he was (and I'm sure it will cause a big kerfuffle).
The URL in the confirmation email (http://linkrdr.com/accounts/confirm_email/62d7104dc94af7ccd4...) throws an error for me:

'Settings' object has no attribute 'EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_DAYS'

Also, The error page is too verbose, I got all kind of paths and chunks of code too
Love the concept. It's a shame something like this doesn't already exist. Best of luck!
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Right, I meant they're unusual for Big Fruit. And also, the period between this reveal and release this summer is equally unusual...

I'd say that the lag between announce & release is a little more worrisome and something that I wouldn't want to see become a trend at Apple. I've always felt that a big part of their press was their general tendency to release right at announcement of a product or soon thereafter. Though, now that I think about it, I guess their OS releases have, by necessity, had to have some lead time associated with them.
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Problem: I need to write 35+ pages minimum for a Software Engineering Graduate project. Professor says use any format we want ( Intro – Conclusion –References) When you write project papers what sections do you usually include?

Background: I am a student that is working on his graduate project that ties into my day job. Basically, when I was an intern I wrote an internal Employee/Role Management System in Flash Forms with a ColdFusion/MSSQL backend. Now, for the project I am making a mobile app with jQuery Mobile so that this web application can be accessed via mobile devices, which is why I choose jQuery Mobile.

Value Provided:
* Accessed on majority mobile devices. Can even be accessed via browser, could replace current web app

* More user friendly UI, in current web app functionality is all over the place in different navigation tabs

* First initiative with mobile apps. This is paving the way for more web apps to be converted to mobile app development
I am sure there is a lot of experience here. Thanks all!
> Most of us come here to laud and admire our fellows that are tenacious and ingenious enough to invent, create, market, sell, or hack their way to success. This fellow has done no different.

The overwhelming difference is: the real hackers who are actually successful actually created something while he got to talk to some people he religiously admires (creepy) and he found a way to get free booze. Wow, what a success story!
Look for new scripts for Apple support:

Sir, please click on About this Mac: if there is an icon of a signed page, we are good, but if it has a circle-and-slash around it, well, your Mac is running some unsigned software. Your warranty is void. Please go to the application list in Finder to see which apps you must uninstall...
It's a common practise

That's the definition of a standard in the English language.

but it's not a standard AFAIK

There are no English Language standardisation bodies.
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Will this work with older browsers? Where can I expect support for this?
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If Apple did that they'd kill the devotion from the development community. They may end up making App Store only the default option, but I have trouble seeing a day where you can only install Apple certified software on your Mac.

Overnight they'd lose many thousands evangelists and unpaid tech support staff (ever help a family member with their Mac?).
A client creates a unique HMAC (hash) representing it’s request to the server

[CLIENT] Hash (HMAC-SHA1 or SHA256 preferably) the blob of data data (from Step #1) with your private key assigned to you by the system.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

HMAC isn't a hash. It's not interchangeable with a hash. HMAC is a MAC. If you try to use a standard hash function to create a MAC, it will blow up in your face. This article is not good, in multiple ways; you should disregard it.
is there a specific reason they needed to update the entire OS for this ? Most of the new features are actually apps, and the rest wouldn't really justify a major version change.
I think that definition misses most of the point that the similarity is a deliberate throwback. I'd say a skeuomorph is a (often otherwise unnecessary) design feature that makes a new object feel familiar.

"Skeuomorphs are material metaphors. They are informational attributes of artifacts which help us find a path through unfamiliar territory. They help us map the new onto an existing cognitive structure..." — Nicholas Gessler
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And that where i switched from Google to DDG yesterday, great :)
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Say I use my Macbook for development, and I compile a small toy C program using gcc. Does that mean now that I cannot run the produced binary by default?

Forgive me for being naive, but what does "app" mean in this context? Is a shell script an app? What about a python script with GUI elements?
This seems to me like a good feature, one that finds an actual good use for code signing on OS X. What's the issue?
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Yeah, I'm still with Leopard 10.5.8 ... I don't like the direction they're taking with OS X but I'd seen this coming for a while.

I can see the next release after this being effectively a completely walled garden desktop OS without even a command prompt.
I'm struck by the self-awareness that it takes to NOT have a marketing event for the announcement of your new operating system. Wow.

Also, fascinating how the iPhone is the first step in the halo effect but at the same time is also the most profitable. They are building on the halo effect and lock in of the iPhone/iPad to the Mac ecosystem.
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This is also what was described by John Gruber:

Users have three choices which type of apps can run on Mountain Lion:

* Only those from the App Store
* Only those from the App Store or which are signed by a developer ID
* Any app, whether signed or unsigned

The default for this setting is, I say, exactly right: the one in the middle, disallowing only unsigned apps.

http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion
No mention of an OpenGL update. Still waiting out this stone age here...
Another one I forgot that might be relevant to what I am working on - Windows Integrated Authentication.
Very interesting. From the features list at the bottom:

*It’s a new Mac experience in China. OS X Mountain Lion brings all-new support for many popular Chinese services. And they’re easy to set up. Mail, Contacts, and Calendar work with QQ, 163, and 126. Baidu, the leading Chinese search provider, is a built-in option in Safari. The video-sharing websites Youku and Tudou are included in the new Share Sheets, so users in China can easily post videos to the web. They can also blog with Sina weibo, the popular microblogging service. And with improved text input, typing in Chinese is easier, faster, and more accurate."
And we'll probably see that default move another level up the list by the time 11.0 comes round, before the other options disappear altogether on at least some devices (Macbook Air and Mac Mini perhaps).

I know a lot of people won't like it, it's the equivalent of locking up the box with proprietary screwdrivers, but these restrictions do make life a lot easier for regular users and the people who have to support them.

Also, it's nice to have a choice of operating systems. This kind of thing fits in with the siloed approach Apple takes across the board, so for dedicated Apple users it's not evil, it's just an improvement on what they're already used to.
Apple, as usual, really seems to be getting it right. The feature list looks super promising as a nextstep (sorry, had to) in unifying mobile with desktop. It's nice to see that the desktop OS is not being abandoned but instead updated to better reflect a consumers preference for mobile (with good reason). Microsoft has also got it right by tying their Metro interface in Windows 8 to the Windows Phone OS. The attempt, however, falls short in that it is not really unifying the two platforms but instead providing a common interface and feel. In order to truly unite desktop with mobile, I believe you need to go beyond providing a common interface and really integrate the components so they exist to the user simultaneously instead of in parellel. This is just another verification (and in my opinion, a big one) that mobile is taking the reigns and is the future.
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Good question. I can't see this just yet, but it will happen. Probably by 10.9 which won't even have a command prompt -- or at least not one you can access easily without invalidating warranty or some such nonsense.
Only if one accepts the slippery slope fallacy that they'll eventually remove the "No unsigned code" option. The odds of this happening are, in my estimation, extremely low - it would make Mac software development basically impossible, and the use of Mac in educational establishments (with a lot of custom software) very hard. Heck, Apple are still sponsoring the OpenJDK port for OS X, which I doubt they'd be doing if they planned to entirely eliminate unsigned code from the platform.

The "No unsigned code default" has been coming for a while in mainstream computing, thanks to most users ability to blindly click anything attached to a random e-mail or downloaded from their favourite wallpaper site. Out of the options ("App Store Only" or some other signature system), I think they chose the right one. As long as the opt out is there, not only do I not have a problem with this, I'd suggest it's a positive step forward. The only change I'd want is to remove or massively reduce the cost of getting a developer certificate.
I love how the points 'Gatekeeper' and 'All-new features for China' so naturally are presented side-by-side. Why would anyone want to run an unsafe program like a tor client ? Ask your local gatekeeper.
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Right, so they've completely trashed the interface.
Thanks, this is part of a larger project that we'll share soon. We're just gathering some feedback and data about how people interact with this sort of web offering.