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Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Mac OS X (and iOS) history and internals knows that Gates' (and therefore the book's) claim that NeXT technology wasn't the basis of OS X is laughably false.

In fact I think Gruber himself continued to understate the role NeXT technology played. Gruber writes:

> It is in fact, completely and utterly wrong.
> NeXTStep was not “just warmed over UNIX”.
> Apple did get NeXT’s OS to run on Mac hardware.
> Mac OS X 10.0 was a hybrid of Mac and NeXT
> technology, but it was clearly the NeXT system
> with Mac technologies integrated, not the
> other way around.

Gruber should have gone further and pointed out that Mac OS X wasn't even a hybrid, but rather the latest iteration of NeXT technology combined with new code that reimplemented the Mac experience. The modest quantity of ported or migrated Mac technology (e.g. the Carbon APIs) existed purely to form a compatibility layer with existing Mac apps, and don't form the basis of any future development path.

It would be also fair to say that iOS does not have any legacy "Mac" technology in its stack, and shares its spiritual lineage with NeXT alone.
There's a fine difference between uploading and storing, and uploading and not storing.

The issue with Path is that they stored the data. Instagram and 4Square do not. They have to re-crunch the "numbers."
One thing I noticed was that some books were shown twice on the list. Otherwise, great job!
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Sorry about that. Do you have an email address in your profile? I could hack up a quick password recovery system to let you back in. The accounts are only necessary if you want a shelf of your own. If you're simply lurking - which is perfectly OK - you can browse everything but you won't get the full experience.
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Okay, from the GI point of view I see what you're saying. I thought you were referring to the satiating effect of fats vs other macronutrients from the phasing of you're initial response; please forgive my knee jerk reaction.

It depends on your dietary goals and expected physical activity, bur personally, I'd reach for for some quinoa or make a lentil-based dish as a pre-run meal instead of nuts.
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Attempting to install redhat-lsb on CentOS 6 drags in:

alsa
cups
ghostscript
gstreamer
pixman
qt
fonts
poppler
and more (102 packages in total!)

Now, this is on a server, so I have no use for audio, printing, streaming, pdf creation, nor any sort of GUI components. Do you really think it's reasonable that all that needs to be installed just to tell me what version of the operating system is running?
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In some sense, it's a case of "spare the rod, spoil the child": if from a very young age, students learn that plagiarizing and cheating are allowed and expected, that's what they'll do in college too.

Schools need to be responsible for enforcing academic discipline -- and to a large extent they reap what they sow. A similar, albeit lesser-in-magnitude problem exists at many schools in the US, where teachers are pressured by administration to overlook plagiarism or give students "second chances". Unsurprisingly, when you teach that cheating is profitable, people learn to cheat.
The anonymous twitter account tweeted this. I copied and pasted the link directly from there. The article isn't even well written but I thought it was interesting that someone can have something this horrible done to them because of a mere accusation of being a "hacker" (not even a conviction)
I've thought about that. Can I really make a good prototype of something out of it, though? I have some coin to throw around (~$1,000) so I want something that I can make a MVP. Of course, I'm new to this, so maybe I'm wrong about that, too. :)
yes, and its turtles all the way down, but its much harder to compromise (multiple) key servers than a simple download mirror. Its also trivial to setup some sort of totally unknown checking setup, that downloads the packages daily and checks if they are properly signed, and activates big red sirens if it is not.
It's interesting that someone supposedly from Red Hat decided to drop support for anything without this. I just checked on a CentOS 6 box (closest thing I have) and it doesn't have /etc/os-release
Gruber: But “Design is how it works” is a much better statement of Apple’s philosophy

Nope. Function is how it works. Design is what it is.

Jobs got that, whatever else anyone can say about him.
I would like to inform the creator, about a miss-spelling in Jeremy Ashkenas' name, here: <http://hackershelf.com/book/77/the-little-book-on-coffescrip...;

It also would be really nice, if it had wiki capabilities.
I mean for editing such things.
One of the most frustrating examples of people telling lies about Jobs is the meme that he told an iPhone user that they were "holding it the wrong way" when they complained about the iPhone 4 antenna. What he actually said was (and this is the entire email): "Just avoid holding it that way."

Sure it's terse, but it's a long way from telling them they're doing it wrong. Jobs isn't known to be always nice and given this person's situation his suggestion is the best way to fix the problem in the short term. Apple later made amends here, too; admittedly only because people complained, but if the success of the iPhone 4 is a good indication (you can decide) this really was never really a problem.
How does it accomplish that better than say, clojurescript+node?
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Because they were bored and if you wanted to play a game, then that was what you played. So you were either a) reduced to brute forcing puzzles (use xxx look yyyy) or b) called Sierra's hint line.

Thinking back, I think that might be the reason a lot of the puzzles were so obscure - to get you to spend some more $$$ to win the game. Kind of like proto-freemium.
Good Job. I noticed the book 'Learning Python' is listed there. But it is not available for free download. Should one flag such books (i.e. ones that are not available legally free) for abuse ?
I agree with the Linux running on a MBP part... indeed, I'm planning to do so when I buy my MBP in a few months. However, I do recognize that I'm not the typical use case for a person using this device, spending most of my time in the command line, etc. For actually developing something, there's a much better ecosystem running linux.

On the other hand, I'd take iOS running on, say, the Galaxy Nexus. If I jailbreak iOS, I can easily run iSSH, install inetutils, vim, etc, and come halfway to an amazing development device with access to the whole app ecosystem. For me, that's the dealbreaker (or maker, depending on the perspective.)
This is pretty cool. I personally like comb's executeInOrder http://pollenware.github.com/comb/symbols/comb.html#.execute...
You can look up some first hand accounts about the reality distortion field from folklore.org. Andy Hertzfeld has no secret motivation or an axe to grind.
"Your posts in support of Apple are so breathless. I don't want to go all ad hom, but this is a little...much."

You're talking to the person, rather than to the point. I'm not the point.

"Steve Jobs was a man, and that's OK."

Translation: Whenever someone says something false about Steve Jobs, the only reason someone might correct them is because they're a koolaid drinking cultist who cannot tolerate the idea that Steve Jobs was anything other than the second coming of christ.

Yeah, I'm glad you didn't "go all ad hom".

Edit:
I'm sorry if this post feels like it is making you the point. It actually is not intended to be that way. I'm trying to illuminate the tactic. Just as I'm trying to illuminate a tactic in my original post, and Gruber is illuminating the tactic Issacson used to discredit Jobs. The fact that the RDF was coined during the Mac project by the Mac team was known to me, and is a very different use of the term than the popular one I'm addressing.
That theory was debunked by members of the Android team shortly after that G+ post made its way around the internet. It has more to do with the number of drawable contexts and the limitations (still) of how they're handled in mobile processors.
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I don't mean to nitpick, but he did lie about FaceTime.
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This is just a side-effect of Apple using a non-standard modifier key. I don't think that the CMD modifier was chosen so that it wouldn't collide with the use of ctrl- sequences in terminal emulators.
I've read it extensively. The thing is, people act as if Jobs is the second coming and is, was and always will be the same person. He was young once, just like everyone else. Back in the Macintosh era, he often would come around to another person's way of thinking without realizing he'd coopted their idea. (Or maybe he realized it and was too insecure.)

But honestly, which is the bigger reality distortion:
Jobs saying that the iPhone is "revolutionary".

Or Bill Gates saying that none of NeXTSTEP made it into OS X?

Why is Jobs confusing his opinion for reality such a crime while flat out fabrication is given a free pass?

It is far more common for people to criticize Jobs for "reality distortion" than it is for people to criticize Gate for telling lies (and Gates is almost pathalogical- for years he managed to kill companies by lying about what Microsoft was going to do.)
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Indeed, the Arrowhead of Minnesota and Isle Royale are farther from the nearest U.S. McDonald's, as the crow flies, but they're only about fifty miles from the Micky Dee's in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Again: you're right in the case of SHA1, but rainbow tables don't apply to bcrypt because of the varying work factor, also you can use a different salt for each person.

Crypto is actually really cool these days, there's pretty much a solution to every weakness :)
> and then various other Mac layers (GUI, Cocoa, etc).

Incorrect. The GUI wasn't ported, it was rewritten for OS X. Cocoa's heritage is NeXT to the core. Nothing vaguely resembling Cocoa existed in the classic Mac environment.

> a pulled-in, non-NeXT BSD application layer

Incorrect. There is little of "BSD" in the Mac OS X environment, save for some FreeBSD userland components, most of which only matter on the command line. The application layer of Mac OS X is Cocoa.

(There is also the Carbon application layer which does partially derive from classic Mac, but that existed solely to ease application porting of existing Mac apps. But even Carbon is a hybrid, and was actually back-ported to Mac OS 9.)

> Technically there is nothing wrong with his statement.

Any Mac OS X software developer will know enough to confidently refute the accuracy of Gates' claims.
One of the most frustrating examples of people telling lies about Jobs is the meme that he told an iPhone user that they were "holding it the wrong way" when they complained about the iPhone 4 antenna. What he actually said was (and this is the entire email): "Just avoid holding it that way."

Wow. What's your take on whether Al Gore invented the Internet?
... Okay. I'm pretty sure the "Reality Distortion Field" was coined by people on the Macintosh team[1]... To describe exactly what i was talking about with regard to Steve Jobs.

Sooo, now I just feel awkward responding to the rest of your post...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
What I find most striking about this map is that it is eerily similar to maps of distance from or concentration of supermarkets in the US, which are fairly commonly used after Ravenstein's human mobility studies to track things like urban expansion. Simply put, this map would suggest to me that McDonald's has become so entrenched that it actually serves as a reliable landmark for human evolutionary and sociological studies. Which is frightening.
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This site is going to send you on a date with three girls offline. If I were a girl and someone told me to go on a date with a dude who was unwilling to even share his number with the coordinating party, I would feel very unsafe and vulnerable. I would want to have this guy traceable to a real live human being to feel secure enough to go out with.
I'd like to know this too, considering you have stuff coming up in Orlando which none of the SV startups care about usually.
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I think LA's automobile and subsequent parking lot history has a lot more to do with it's incredibly low density than potential earthquake damage.

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I suppose as this Hangout feature will be used more for stuff like this Google will find a way to scale it....and take its cut, of course.
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You think what you've quoted from their privacy policy exonerates Twitter, but you may simply be misinterpreting it.

Twitter Inc. has acknowledged that after mobile users tap the "Find friends" feature on its smartphone app, the company downloads users' entire address book, including names, email addresses and phone numbers, and keeps the data on its servers for 18 months. The company also said it plans to update its apps to clarify that user contacts are being transmitted and stored.

The company's current privacy policy does not explicitly disclose that Twitter downloads and stores user address books.

It does say that Twitter users "may customize your account with information such as a cellphone number for the delivery of SMS messages or your address book so that we can help you find Twitter users you know."

As with many online social services, Twitter allows users to look for friends that are also registered users. In the case of Twitter's iPhone app, users see a screen noting that the service will "Scan your Contacts for people you already know on Twitter." The short description of the feature does not mention that it also downloads every entry in the address book and stores it.

Twitter's current privacy policy notes that some categories of "Log Data" are stored for up to 18 months.

"Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages visited, your mobile carrier, device and application IDs, and search terms," the policy says. "Other actions, such as interactions with our website, applications and advertisements, may also be included in Log Data."

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I beg to differ. The ability to think is an essential byproduct, but knowing Shakespeare is inherently important.
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There's not really much different between the two quotes. People were pissed because Job's response wasn't an adequate answer to their problem.

Apple talks a lot about how "well-engineered" their products are, and yes, the 4 was cool, but Job's answer seemed like something from http://thereifixedit.com. Don't hold it that way? It's a phone.

People wanted a proper response and they didn't get it until they were big enough to make a big stink about it. That's not good customer service.
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The rhetorical questions at the start of this article were easy for me too - but surprisingly, they were the complete opposite of Gruber's. I primarily run Windows 7 on my MBA.
The app looks great, congrats on that. The thing that bothers me though is that it posts stuff on my FB timeline without my approval first. This does not sound like a good practice.
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protecting the ball is different than how you fall. Protecting the ball is practiced, and there are fundamentals for it (covering both tips of the ball, pressing the ball tight to your body, putting 2 hands on the ball in traffic, and transferring the ball from one hand to the other safely), so commentators are correct to judge a player for not protecting the ball properly.
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Two things: first, by all means put in the work to find an ADD regimen that works. It makes a huge difference. I now take Strattera (60 mg) and Ritalin (80 mg), but had to slough through a lot of duds (maybe 5 different ones) to get there. I experienced a huge difference between amphetamine and non-amphetamine stimulants.

More pertin made a gigantic difference for me was fish oil (the kind you buy in softgels). I talked to my psych about using a lot of fish oil (10+ pills a day) and he said, sure. I started learning all kinds of skills much, much faster. Like 5x faster.

So, one really easy thing you can do is talk about different stimulant and fish oil with your psychiatrist.
They are using Appcelerator Titanium, which is a cross platform app SDK.

You write your code in Javascript, and Titanium actually generates native code that is then compiled into an app.
I don't know much about iPhone hardware, but a good example of this is on the 2010 13-inch MacBook. Apple has been a leader in enabling their software to offload tasks to the GPU (see OpenCL, etc). This enabled them to stay a generation behind on their CPUs for MacBooks (keeping the Core 2 Duo alive longer than expected, giving several advantages) without falling too far behind on overall performance.
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I don't know why you'd use a != a instead of isNaN(a). The former hides what you're doing. Though treating two NaN values as equal doesn't even make sense in the first place.
Blindside blocks happen on plays like kickoff returns or plays where the receiver or running-back break free on a long run. Often times supporting offensive players will make b-lines toward ensuing tacklers and launch themselves full force into the unaware tackler, causing major damage.

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Typically cluster compute for production, yeah. I also did a couple tutorials where we used m1.small in "student clusters ".
I think this depends on how you define complexity. It's true that the Scala spec is shorter than the Java spec, but Scala has a number of very powerful features that can interact with each other in very intricate ways. I can pretty comfortably fit the handful of core ideas in Java in my head but I don't feel this way about Scala.

I have enjoyed writing Scala code, but I'm pessimistic enough about its longevity that I haven't been doing any side projects in it for a while.
While I can't speak for the author of that comment (And for what it's worth...) it's a well known fact that Steve Jobs had Wozniak do his job at Atari for him on multiple occasions. (Including the famous breakout incident. LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs#Early_career)

I've read multiple times from material written about both of them that their skills were in management and vision, not necessarily code and electronics. Honestly though, to extrapolate no legitimate skills (Let alone talent or work ethic.) from that is a stretch at best.
You made a specific allegation and I provided three examples with a plethora of historical and technical facts that refute your allegation. I've long been aware of where the term originated, and the common use of it is not based on that origination's meaning (it was at least in part an honorific) and I was responding to the popular use. Further, you were not using it as an honorific either, but broadening it out to a very wide audience to apply to anyone who persuades a team to believe in a mission "without any facts at all to back it", so you obviously weren't using it in the same way that the Macintosh team was, and are simply now attempting to back peddle in the face of a fairly extensive refutation of your claim.
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"we currently don't have any plans to offer other forms of authentication, simply because it would slow down the onboarding experience by at least an order of magnitude."

I think you are overestimating both the time required to fill out a questionnaire and the reluctance of people to do so.

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that people generally don't want any chance of their online dating lives to intersect with their social media profiles. The peace of mind of knowing that there is no interaction between a dating site and their Facebook newsfeed is enough to justify filling out a few duplicate questions.
Indian students do not learn from a young age that plagiarizing and cheating are allowed and expected. Plagiarism and cheating is taken seriously at a high school level (although I'm sure there are a couple of bad apples in the bunch) and even, ironically, at the college entrance examination level where being caught cheating will cause you to be banned for several years from taking the entrance examination.

The problem with plagiarism in college is that it goes way beyond the graduate level. Most professors will have several published papers - all plagiarized from prominent journals. They will have published several books - all rehashes of standard CS literature which they will set as course textbooks to their students to make money. In this case it is a judgmental error on the part of the students. Most of them have had a fine education up till the high school level and are now adults, and they should realize the scam in front of the eyes.

There are alternatives. In my day, there was no Khan Academy. No open courses at MIT and Stanford. No Udacity.com. No iTunes University. And of course, they always have the option of graduate school in US which doesn't burn a $100k+ hole. I am not exonerating Indian schools of their responsibilities, they are certainly broken and need to be fixed as soon as possible. But at the same time, you don't need to be an outlier to beat the broken system and avoid becoming a 'coder'. I just have this strong suspicion (which of course I have no way of verifying) that all these 'coders' would be dropping out of CS programs if they were studying in an US educational institution instead of an Indian institution.
My thoughts exactly after reading those first paragraphs. My ideal setup is MacbookAir, gorgeous hardware/ascetic design, Linux for teh business end.
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I'm curious, have you actually done any Mac or iOS development?
So your solution to providing a "secure" way to compare phone numbers, etc, between users is to make the hashes non-comparable? Remember, the goal is to make it so two people can come up with the same hash in order to "find" each other.
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