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Is it just me or is the iMessage Beta icon very very similar to the HipChat icon? :)

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This says it will display whatever is on your screen, but if you're using itunes, drm will kick in.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/16/2801047/mac-os-x-10-8-moun...
What article?

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Messages is great, but is there a way to get every iMessage duplicated across iPhone / Mac? Otherwise you send an iMessage, close the mac, grap the iPhone and go away, but never get the reply back. And so forth.
But this update feels like it's creeping towards a heavily consumer facing product.

Two questions:

1) you think you are different than a consumer how?

2) what exactly do you see this update taking away from you?
Written in 1998. Go, ColdFusion!

But I've found a lot of current devs are missing some of the basics that folks used to have to know so it doesn't hurt to talk about HTTP response headers and the like every now and then.
There are two reasons:

1. `module` is about defining the modules that you're using in your program, some of which might be remote resources. `import` is about bringing names into scope.

2. Using `module` this way lets you, the client, decide on names for modules, which means we don't have to rely on module authors to come up with and use naming conventions (net.substack.airport, anyone?).

This feeds back into 1, where we use bindings to reference modules, even remote ones.

Also, if a module is never referenced or imported, then the resources shouldn't need to be pulled down at all. So partly it depends on the way you look at things.
We're not quite here yet. I think a better version of Gatekeeper would offer:

Only those from Trusted Sources
Only those from Trusted Sources or which are signed by a developer ID
Any app, whether signed or unsigned

Where "trusted sources" is something that future Gatekeeper would give you control over.

Enterprises spend a ridiculous amount of effort in locking down and pushing out software to workstations, so allowing them to maintain their own code-signed internal "app store" could be game changing. Apple has almost no enterprise presence, and this could be an opportunity for them to steal market share from Microsoft, who lately appears directionless and out of touch.
I'm sure you wouldn't be alone.

However, from Apple's perspective, if there are "enough" developers who can't or won't leave (because they develop Mac software or iOS software or both), Apple might not care if you do.
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> If malware on OSX is as small a problem as you're suggesting, why is Apple bothering with any of this?

Presumably, in order to keep the problem small. If OS X grows in marketshare, it will become an increasingly attractive target for malware developers. If the default is that the majority of Apple users only run signed applications (this also means that the certificate wasn't revoked), then the number of possible "users" for your malware is greatly reduced, making OS X a much less attractive target platform for malware developers.

> After all, if developer IDs are so easy and free to get, and will make it easier for people to install your app. Why wouldn't you get it signed?

If you are a legitimate developer, then there's no reason not to (assuming it actually is free and easy, which isn't clear). As a malware developer, there's little point; as soon as the developer ID is being used for malware, Apple will revoke the corresponding certificate, and your malware won't run.
Right, because I can't think of any reason why Apple wouldn't support Flash on a mobile device...
> Only if one accepts the slippery slope fallacy that they'll eventually remove the "No unsigned code" option.

Not at all, for several reasons. First, defaults are powerful things. The vast majority of users never change them, or even become aware that they can be changed. This remains true even if you throw an unskippable dialog box right up in their face -- lots of people will just blindly click "OK" to accept whatever the default in the dialog box is, without stopping to consider the alternatives. The result is that default settings tend to become "the new normal," even when they're sub-optimal.

(Example: why did IE6 rule the Web for a decade, despite being demonstrably inferior to the alternatives for most of that time? Because for nearly all users, it was the default.)

This seems especially true in the case of this particular preference, for two reasons. First, it's a technical question ("what's 'unsigned code?'"), which means many users will avoid changing it for fear that they don't fully understand the consequences of doing so. Second, it involves security, and users have been trained that in questions of security departing from "standard operating procedure" puts them at risk, so others will avoid changing it for fear that doing so will expose them to new vulnerabilities.

In other words, it's not unreasonable to expect that offering unsigned code will quickly become an infeasible strategy for OS X developers, even if users still have the option to accept such code. The option may be there, but those developers will find themselves marginalized simply for being something other than the default.
Looks nice and clean. It would be very easy for a novice to work with it and get their site hosted.

FYI - Your demo site is very much live ... as in I can upload and host files on your s1 server. Might create a demo account that doesn't have real FTP/MYSQL users.
Some people had to wait for a while before actually getting the space bonus. I only got mine this morning.

This link redirects to the topic with the latest beta version: http://forums.dropbox.com/forum-build.php
I'm surprised they didn't integrate sooner.
Since it mostly just wraps the closed-source standard Cocoa text system, it isn't that big of a deal.
When did they switch to a new style?
Why do you feel the need to be so overdramatic? You don't seriously believe that do you? Many users regularly need access to the Terminal. Developers for one user it all the time. I use it for git. Many people (including non-developers) use vi. People run scripts from it and use it for automation.
http://screencast.com/t/yZIkmNkMV8wp
^ Fresh Opera install. Opera ships with DDG but not as the default. Frankly I would guess that the impact this has is insignificant: Opera has a small user base in the first place, and ddg is just one of several options in a list. How many people will, without prompting, explore what this new search is in their Opera, and understand the benefit of using it? At first blush (without knowledge of the privacy protections, bang syntax etc.) DDG is just a cleaner, slower, unfamiliar google with worse results. (I say this as someone with DDG as his default on all browsers.)
First look: Mozilla's Boot2Gecko mobile platform and Gaia UI
>"You can then publish it on websites exactly as you did and those who choose the appropriate security setting can run it."

The need for a non-default security setting in order to run the software is a pretty big difference.

Requiring a developer license to work with the default security settings - thereby allowing Apple to unilaterally delete your application from your customer's computers without recourse - may only raise the bar a bit.

However, it is an entirely different development ecosystem from the one described. Microsoft couldn't delete your application or block customer's access to it arbitrarily back in the 90's.

If iOS is a precedent, the probability of Apple changing the terms of service in regards to their developer agreement in ways which have adverse effects on the saleability and distribution of existing applications is significant.
It is unfortunate that AppleTV's video output (out-of-the-box) still does not support true 1080p resolutions and everything is upscaled from 720p.
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As one of their main features is the lack of tracking, I don't see DDG Mail or DDG Plus as a likely follow-on project.

I'd like to see better integration with maps; geographic constraint and context seem to be in the natural progression of search engine growth.
It's duplicated for me. A conversation I had with a friend via iMessage and his iPhone sync'd up on my phone a few minutes later.
I'm head of API at Bump. We've been hard at work on version 3 of our API for both iOS and Android, complete with quite a lot of dogfooding. Both betas are significantly easier to integrate, and offer excellent performance in addition to more features. We are constantly looking for feedback from developers and integrating this quickly into our development cycle.

Working out of the box is something that we demand and is the typical experience for an API user, both in the old versions and in the new ones. If it doesn't, then we are available on email and our Google Groups and respond quickly.

A concrete example of how we are always pushing the limit: greater than 90% of all matches are now displayed on the handset in less than one second from time the of bump.

https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-ios

https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-android

http://groups.google.com/group/bump-api

http://groups.google.com/group/bump-api-android

We love feedback. Please email us: api@bu.mp.
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Ok so I guess it's just the "beta" part of the issue ;) Thank you.
Sure you can change the existing default, that's what people wanted IE to do.
Click around and read some archives on that blog. The author writes lots of interesting things about all different kinds of technology, lots of it quite old. But he also writes from a perspective of what it means to him. Far from infatuation with the latest and greatest from Apple. That's an example, for crying out loud. Just read the last paragraph of the OP over and over until it sinks in.
Command-Space opens spotlight, and if you're gonna search, you might as well already have your hand on they keyboard.

I actually like it better -- I'm much more likely to activate notifications with a mouse, so I'd much rather have that be the "bigger" target.
If malware on OSX is as small a problem as you're suggesting, why is Apple bothering with any of this? Is it to wrestle further control of the app eco-system on OSX? Or is it just security theatre? Or both? Something else?

I don't understand the question. Apple has been improving OS X security mechanisms in every OS X update. From "address space layout randomization" to the "first run warning". This is another step in the same direction.

Are you implying that Apple should only do something about OS X security AFTER malware on OS X get's to be a problem? Because, I'd rather they do it BEFORE.

And I fail to see how pro-actively making an OS more secure is "security theater".

Then it will be a lot easier for them to require apps to be signed. For your own protection of course.

Of course. I miss the irony here. Signed applications are touted by security experts as a highly successful security measure. Are you suggesting it is otherwise or are you just confusing the potential of misuse of that feature with that feature being meaningless?

* After all, if developer IDs are so easy and free to get, and will make it easier for people to install your app. Why wouldn't you get it signed?*

Yeah, why? Surely not for the $100 it takes.

SSL certificates cost money too, but I don't see anybody suggesting running your web app in plain HTTP is better, or that paid certificates hamper secure web application development.
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177
It would be interesting to see what might happen in either of those use-cases for an app which syncs address books with a remote service, such as Google, Yahoo! or CRM tools. It's entirely conceivable that if a user hits no it could have rammifications to other systems which wouldn't expect either of these results.
Wow, I thought this was a community that valued shipping. All the top comments here say otherwise. Where are the makers?
word on the street is that will change before summer.
Xcode 4.4 Release Notes, including new Objective-C features
R7RS public comment period
Google maintain a controlling interest, but the founders themselves don't. I believe at IPO the founders controlled about 37.6% of the votes in Google and the board controlled 61.4%. So Google still got to direct Google (rather than their public investors), but the founders personally could be overrun by the board.

Facebook is one of the very few companies I can think of which is IPOing with a personal controlling interest from a founder.
I did not know that I should be a product manager
Historically, Apple has rarely provided free software, hardware or services to the education market. It appears to me that their strategy since the Apple II days has generally been to monetize the education industry to the highest level the market will allow. They may offer small student discounts off of list price on college campus bookstores, but I suspect it increases sales more than enough to raise profits.
He meant like every iOS updates were free.
It will be free
Some teenagers cannot legally work.
An analysis of the Soyuz-1 flight (Komarov's death)
Would be really nice if I didn't have to scroll down to see errors.
European Court of Justice blocks social network's anti-piracy filtering system
To me it depends on what happens when you attempt to run the binary. If there is an override button which remembers that setting, fine. If not, to hell with Apple.
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I expect to see a 1080p Apple TV this year, since the A5 and upcoming A6 can both do 1080p video. The current Apple TV is A4 based, which is limited to 720p. With the new iPad having a resolution above 1080p, Apple finally has a reason to have 1080p iTunes content.

Beyond that, Apple may not have wanted to take A5 chips away from the iPhone and iPad to sell in Apple TVs. Now that all of the new iPads and iPhones will be A6 based this year, Apple will have more supply of A5s for other devices.

None of this helps people who already own an Apple TV, however
To be clear, I'm not wild about Reason and my position wasn't made or particularly aligned with the argument in that article.

But I didn't feel like typing a three-thousand word essay and that article covers many of the problems and was fairly easy to find.

I'm also not out to persuade anyone. If you're not convinced, cheers. But at least be aware of the technical limitations of the breathalyzer, the liberties being infringed by drunk driving checkpoints and mandatory breathalyzer and blood tests and the punishments that begin at accusation or assertion of your rights, rather than after due process.
> Why do so many web developers think that tablets are an excuse to break the functionality of the web?

ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, INTERNET, PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS, READ_CALENDAR, READ_CONTACTS, READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS, READ_PROFILE, READ_SMS, READ_SOCIAL_STREAM, SUBSCRIBED_FEEDS_READ

user: scroll, scroll, grumble, scroll, scroll, scroll, finally!, ALLOW
Where the traditional box model starts to make sense is with fixed-size elements, such as images. Adding padding to an element shouldn't alter the dimensions of the contents within the element.
Android has dropped Flash, too, for anything beyond ICS.

So has Microsoft for the new Metro browser.

So has Adobe, for that matter, if you read between the lines (yeah, they've only "officially" dropped mobile Flash, but desktop Flash is on deathwatch).

A year from now neither any new mobile device nor the default browser on desktop Windows will have Flash.

Time to learn some new tools.
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Zoomooz: an easy-to-use jQuery plugin for making any web page element zoom
Please, Scala maintainers, stop adding features. You'll not please every developer in the world and it's not cool to be a kitchen sink. Again, just stop!
Won't phishing be an issue with the full screen API? If antiviruses can be faked in web pages with such accuracy complete with Windows and Mac look and feel, the full screen API might allow for more convincing fakes. Firefox does show a dialog, but it sounds relatively harmless.
I think he meant how easy it is now for China to install key loggers on, say, American computers.
Torrent sites don't derive content from Hulu or Netflix because the quality is poorer than iTunes. There's no conceivable reason for pirates to settle for a 1 mbps Netflix stream when the 6 mbps iTunes is available.

It has nothing to do with the security. (Heck, iTunes video has some kind of DRM attached.)
So the signing key for $COMPANY will now be worth money for extorsion.
Product launched by ArrayShield that can be a secure alternative to passwords
Innovating product for protecting against Identity Theft. Who said that Two Factor Authentication is not cool?
the apps are carefully reviewed

Carefully reviewed to ensure they don't upload your whole address book.
The W3C box model would only be useful if the W3C also provided a way to specify a width as "percentage of parent box width minus a fixed number of units" to compensate for the padding adding to the total width.

However, they did not, which means that in order to make a decent flowing layout, you have to change your document markup to insert artificial and otherwise unnecessary elements (DIV tags usually).

Thus the original model was flawed, did not make sense, and ultimately was not consistent with their own stated goals (separation of content and style).

[edit: FWIW petenixey said essentially the same thing, and what's really clever is that he said it first.]
There's a reason for that. U.S. accounting law requires that non-subscription devices that are upgraded have a fee associated with the upgrade under Apple and many analysts’ interpretation of the law.

This is why iPod Touch owners have to pay for upgrades while iPhone users do not.

I think Apple may have relaxed that recently though, and I wouldn't be surprised if they release Mountain Lion for free.
You have to agree with the guy. "Process Cults emerge, putting more faith in ritual than in ideas." - a very dangerous thing.
I went up and said hi and left it at that. I didn't really think ill of Teller for the whole thing, I can't imagine what it's like to be bothered all the time. I more than anything thought it was funny to be yelled at by a guy who is possibly more famous for not talking than anyone in history.
This author enjoys turning a nice line of code or structuring a nice program as much as anyone. Read his past posts. I don't see anything here remotely against art or enjoying the challenge of your work. The point is for him it's important not to get lost in the tools at the expense of not making things.
I'm assuming that most users don't know what root access is or the implications of having it
"somewhere new" - sounds good, keep track of cities I've previously booked flights to and exclude these from my results
My favorite one. Really easy to use.
There's no non-commercial argument (or fair use rights) in the uk either.

A school for example could have licenses for a TV program do be played in a lesson but if the soundtrack includes music then they can be in breach of copyright in those songs ... if you're listening to a radio at work and someone else overhears it then it's considered to be an unlawful performance and you can be given a hefty fine (the PRS, as it was, did over several police forces on this one). You can buy a license of course for only a few hundred pounds (yes to listen to advertising-paid radio or even the BBC).

UK have been considering making format shifting legal though. We'll finally be able to legally watch a movie we bought on a mobil device then; as long as you watch it alone and no-one hears the soundtrack or looks over your shoulder at the screen ...
The latter is the default. So for other people to use this application I wrote as a minor, my users would have to change the setting.

Yeah, but should users configure their systems to the distribution convenience of some developers?

Or should Apple keep signed apps forever away from OS X for the same reason?

Or should they introduce them, but make unsafe apps the default, and thus render them useless for non security minded people?

All of those options seem a little strange to me.

Nowadays I couldn't even get /permission/ to try because these various developer programs require you to be an adult due to various organizational issues.

Yes, but consider some other things:

a) nowadays computers are a dime a dozen and more kids have access to them than ever.

b) nowadays there are tons of compilers, programming environments, most of them given away for free and/or open sourced.

c) nowadays a kid can make a web app and reach millions of people worldwide. There are tons of ways to put it up even for free.

d) nowadays there are even kids making iPhone/iPad/Android apps, and some have reached hundreds of thousands of users.

e) the sound/graphics/processing capabilities of modern machines were unheard of in those times.

f) High Level languages like Python/Ruby/Javascript trump anything available at the old times for kids (mostly stuff like Basic, Logo, etc). Especially in the libraries department.
What I would really like is if Google Voice could integrate with Messages so all my SMS needs could be taken care of.
The worrying thing about Apple's Gatekeeper feature isn't that they may impose their moral opinions on apps, but that governments and corporate entities will have the ability to pressure Apple into disabling apps which aren't actually malicious, i.e. Tor & BitCoin.

Whether or not it can be disabled is irrelevant. I don't want to have to instruct my customers about how to essentially jailbreak their Mac just to use my app.

And will it just be .app applications which need to be signed, or will it be all binaries, e.g. Vim and Apache?

Worrying times indeed. I don't particularly want to use Linux, cause I really love OS X's elegance, but I can see switching being a real possibility over the next few years if Apple continues the trend of forcing iOS's walled-garden on OS X.
I can't imagine where you might have lived in the US where a beer in public would have even raised an eyebrow, let alone be frowned upon.

Aside from highly religious towns with strict licensing like, say, Salt Lake City, and aside from lunch during the work day, alcohol consumption is pretty well accepted.
I upgraded to Lion because Xcode forced me to, but I really don't see a compelling reason why anyone would otherwise. Same with today's announcement really- no compelling new features for me.
What Android doesn't have is the ability for the user to deny permissions. It does inform the user when installing the software, but there's still no way I can control permissions of Application X and disable it's access to contacts, SMS, and so on.

iOS gives every app the same rights, Android presents a list of permissions without the ability to disable any of them. What's the difference? I suspect that the vast majority of users don't read that list anyway and just click through. Those that do read it and understand it have only two options - ok to everything, or don't use the app.
In Debian and Ubuntu, i can easily add new signing keys for individual people. This way I can ensure all software distributed by ubuntu and from $PERSON is accepted. Can you do likewise with new OSX?
lot's of video formats are not compatible

This will airplay pretty much everything you throw at it: http://beamer-app.com
Well you can solve that by charging for access to the beta program surely?
Better yet, why not deliver first-class support for multiple templating engines, something like ruby's Tilt?
I hate to do this, but it has already been posted 6 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177