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This is one of the reasons I have been a champion of the Macbook Air. Even on the old 11in 1.4ghz C2D it's blazingly fast for 90% of stuff people actually do on their computers. As far as reliability, I have had many more regular HDs die on me then SSDs, however I only buy 5 star reviewed products off Newegg/Amazon which generally makes sure you're not buying a dud product (like the aforementioned OCZ drive).
How about Iceland? At least this web hosting company http://www.orangewebsite.com/ is touting "better level of privacy and lower censorship" as a selling point. (Although, I note it itself is using .com) Anyway, I think it won't be long until some countries or territories will wisen-up to create internet freedom friendly jurisdictions as a competitive advantage to lure tech capital and talent away from the increasingly hostile US with its IP and military industrial complex weapons of wealth destruction.
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to write it! I am tempted to submit your comment to HN... oh wait we already are at HN.
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At risk of being called on an Ad Hominem, the moment I saw this was from Dustin Curtis I completely discounted everything he has to say: He's trying to follow the path laid by Gruber and Arment, building web credibility on the back of endlessly criticizing Android while holding iOS as the beaken.

He has little credible knowledge about Android. Has never said anything interesting or insightful about Android. Why does he bother with Android? I don't get it.

There is a massive documented history of discussions with Android engineers (not some second-hand claim of a discussion that reveals absolutely nothing) where they argue their case regarding GUI compromises. This blog entry adds less than nothing because it simply tosses more effluence in the information stream.
Not exactly:
"There is a maximum daily limit of £5,000 for all payments received through the service."

Sounds ideal for small businesses.
Not that any of my clients would do this (or, candidly, I'd fire them), but suffice it to say I've heard of places where you can make enemies by being a wee bit too effective at plucking low-hanging fruit like this.

I think 9 figures is likely to be an exaggeration but say it is 7 figures (or low 8 figures) per year, which is probably pretty easy to verifiably achieve. Large corporations being what they are, there's a high probability that someone will be personally identified with the decision made 5 years ago which a) you're suggesting reversing and b) you're suggesting cost the company ~$40 million dollars. This combination makes you a threat to that person's career. Likely as not, that person is a VP, and they didn't get where they are without having political capital and favors owed to them by people who also might have eventually risk getting demoted for gross incompetence if that were possible to do with "mere numbers." So you have to watch your back.

I once had a consulting proposal where I suggested that a process change could improve outcomes by let's call it $X0 million (and I was charging $X0k). Apparently a VP had sponsored the current process, at a cost of $X million, and he was directly in the line of signatures required to get the consulting gig approved. That ended that.

Startups/small companies aren't immune to this sort of pathology but you tend to get a lot less of it in my experience.
Your description is more accurate, I was just trying to articulate the possible consequences of thumbing your nose at a member or members of Congress.
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Of all the arguments for the author to pick, the "archaic" editor issue is probably the most insignificant/ most misunderstood. There is no arguing (at least in my little world) that using tools like vi/ emacs make you a FAR better programmer than hand holding IDE's like VS. When you need to make vi/ emacs do something for you, a knowledge not only of the programming process, but also the inner workings of the editor must be understood. There is really no better way to expand knowledge than being forced to do things for yourself. Perhaps one could make an argument for productivity (in regards to things like VS), but I believe that a skilled vi/ emacs user will be more productive in many languages, whereas most Microsoft coders live in a world of .Net, or Java coders live in a world of Java.

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It's a security measure against the wrong crowd. If someone is going to use root for malicious purposes, they'll just take apart the app and remove the check for root. Blocking casual root users is doing nothing for your security.
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I kind of agree, i felt a little weird about him sayong all that stuff with his full name behind it, but then i think back to all the clubs i snuck into as a teen and talked my way into once i was of age. In the clubs once security or the doorman vouches for you you're golden so the trick is to know the staff well. Then when there's a pr company flack managing a tight ass door you've got support of the bouncers if you're not waved in by pr. I'd hate to see door crashing involve breaking any laws or hurting charities when it is so easy to attend a list events via befriending every doorman /bouncer in town on a text message basis. Cant say i have the energy for much of that anymore however. Once i hit 25 i started wanting to workin the day and party for my own enjoyment at night. Schmoozing 24/7 while also working on a project is exhausting
It'd surely be nginces (for n. and a., anyway).
Worse, there are websites where you cant scroll on the ipad. Even worse: all research journals that are published through Elsevier's sciencedirect.com do this.
Android became popular with manufacturers because they desperately needed to all gang behind one platform to have any hope against the incredible success of Apple. While quite a few vendors signed onto Android even before the first handsets, they did so at no cost and in name only -- the original Android army were the absolutely miserable G1 and G2 (HTC Dream and Magic), and it stayed that way for some time. At the time I was sure the platform would fail.

As Apple grew, the necessity to commit to Android grew.

Boring parables about why Android made a mistake because it isn't like iOS are as old as both operating systems, during the same time that Android has done gangbusters. My wife has a Captivate Glide with Gingerbread and Samsung's TouchWiz on it. She loves it. She doesn't know or care what ICS is, gets constant updates for the mapping and market and book reading and video viewing, etc. For the average real, non-blogging human being the model works remarkably well.
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It almost seems too fast for improvements...The Lion only came out 5 months ago.
So John Gruber is basically an official Apple announcement channel now?
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I've been using hotels.com for many years now and they've actually gotten better and better during that time. Not as good as you might like, but still. :)
I think Opera has DDG as default search engine too
Doesn't seem to be via text.
Somewhat disconcerting news about ChromeOS if it's true. To me it now looks like Android was just a stepping stone for Google to eventually become the doorway to the internet for a huge audience, something it couldn't achieve alone with Chromebooks. The privacy implications of using ChromeOS in this way are frightening. Say you log in with a Google account. Assuming you are like most people and don't read/know/care/understand about privacy options Google could theoretically have your web history, your email (GMail), viewing habits (Youtube), your documents (Google Docs), your social interactions (Google+), purchase history (Checkout) and now your location at all times (aGPS), contact list and call history. Now with Dart, NaCl and their Web Store they'll also be responsible for licencing you your games and applications. Assuming they will want all this (I have no doubt they will) they now have a new 'privacy' policy they can combine all this data. That's a kind of control and knowledge Microsoft hasn't even dared dream about. I'm not calling Google evil. No one is forcing users to do this and Google are not alone in doing this....
Although I haven't tested this in any meaningful way, I'd be willing to bet OnSwipe simply relies to heavily on JavaScript. My iPad 1 struggles with any page loaded up with scripts, even ones that seem like they might not have any at all. For instance, news websites are often chock full of scripts for analytics, social media plugins, and advertisements.

OnSwipe probably works pretty well on desktop machines where it's developed, but today's tablets simply can't handle the processing and memory requirements necessary to make it an enjoyable experience.
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Good point about curl - a strong motivation of mine was to make the API easy to access through tools like curl.

[I have seen some discussions about adding explicit support for OAuth in curl]
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I assume an embargo was lifted and we'll get a bunch of these. Another possible implication may be that Mac OS X becomes a free update for everyone.

The three tiered app security thing is huge and great. I love it. I hope they've ditched some skumorphism.
I can't give specific numbers but partners are currently a very small portion of our traffic.
This was mentioned in the article: "But Einstein, constantly tested, isn't out of the woods yet. Some physicists (Alley is one of them) believe his general theory of relativity is flawed. If there is a flaw, lunar laser ranging might yet find it."

Does anybody know what specific flaw(s) they're talking about?
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That happens whenever anyone is paying attention to anyone else, at least amongst apes. I vaguely recall an experiment about chimps watching people pick up oranges.

Observation producing strikingly similar brain activity to participation is why amputees with phantom limb cramps can be helped by observing the opposite limb being loosened up and relaxed reflected in a mirror placed where the missing limb would be.
Yep, but if Google just said "Here is our OS, you may put it on your products, but you may not deviate from principles set out by us" none of them would have taken up on it.

Mobile phone hardware is generally the same across most devices these days and most of the "Joe Public" don't care what's on the inside - so the software is where the manufacturers try to differentiate themselves from each other as a selling point
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Incredible. I wish someone had told me this a few years ago, would have saved me a ton of grief. Jeremy Keith said it best in the comments: "box-sizing: border-box is the bee's knees."
Interesting, however from my test searches I could not find the same websites with the same keywords with DDG that I can with Google. Maybe it's the lack of history they have on the websites but the weighting is defiantly off when the #1 company to do XYZ in a given market and matches the keywords exactly is on page #2 while it's the #1 result on Google. In my test case google was way more accurate at giving me the results I actually wanted (the point of search).

If they can get some Google search Fu in there without doing a strip-search looking for loose change I'm all for it and would be more than happy to change.
Hm.

* The "Gatekeeper" concept is interesting, but I expect we'll hear a lot of grumbling about the default setting. We also all remember the concern about the App Store eventually becoming the only way to get software for your Mac; this will do little to allay that.

* Hopefully Launchpad will have some keyboard-based shortcuts, search-as-you-type (the way a Stack does), perhaps a separate/faster editing view than drap-and-drop, and other usability enhancements to make it more useful. I like it in concept, especially with the trackpad pinch shortcut, but not enough to keep using it once I got all of my programs installed.

* Whither new iWork?

* Some of the tweaks Gruber talks about really make logical sense, and I'm excited to see them. I hope that reliability & clarity hasn't suffered by the time of release; each release of OS X has seemed jam-packed with more "stuff" at the expense of much of that stuff's stability and polish, it seems.

* Gruber didn't mention a new Finder, so we're left to guess and find out in just a few days.

* I wonder who the other journalists are. This format for a press reveal of a product is... interesting, I guess, is the word I'd use right now.
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He probably believes in every word he writes, but Apple sure seems him as one channel.
It's not even like these are major motion pictures. They are clips from a television news program that are released for free over the air and have an effective shelf life of less than two weeks. The potential downside to posting their videos in iPad compatible h.264 seems minuscule.
When it comes to security please do not try to hack together your own thing it rarely ends up well.

People still think OAuth is complicated. OAuth 1 was very complicated and caused untold issues for implementers who didn't use libraries and for those of us who maintained libraries who to this day tell us that our proven libraries implement things wrong.

OAuth 1.0 should not be used for any new applications. OAuth is dead long live OAuth(2).

OAuth 2 is essentially ready to be used, but unless you need to deal with token issuance and delegated access you don't even need that.

If all you need is an API token over SSL then use the Bearer Token spec is what most people call OAuth 2 and is just a single token in a http header or query string. It is incredibly easy to implement and you don't even need a library.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer-16

More complex but if for some reason you don't want to use SSL or if you need to share url's similar to Amazons signed urls where you need to give some access to a resource such as an image or download use the Mac token, which is receiving serious security analysis now:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-v2-mac-token-0...

Both of them are still officially drafts, but are mainly receiving wording changes now. I'd say they are both ready for primetime.
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But that's not the same value proposition.

The deal is "professionally shot/produced/edited video shot at in a venue with good lighting and sound, in front of a live audience". You're not replicating that for $500.
Yeah but I got to put stuff on my resume like experience with windows mobile 2002 and Symbian UIQ :)

At Orange we toyed with pushing an Android precursor from Savaje. However, the timing wasn't right - hardware wasn't powerful enough and Orange/FT didn't have the balls or corporate DNA to establish something like the OMA.

At Orange (or probably any carrier) getting a device out the door was a clusterfuck. You had to coordinate between the Device manufacturer (who never had any flexibility in their software schedule), the various operating companies who wanted phones in shop by Nov 1 for the Holiday or else, and various PM's running about trying to get features on the phone to help with their particular mandate (at the time it might have been music, IM, etc).

So yeah, anyone with half a technical clue could see that you could get shit done faster with a common OS. WHat's amazing is that with a little bit of juice from Google and a crack engineering team from Rubin they managed to totally dominate the non IOS smartphone market in a couple of years.

People seem to have this odd view that Android is deficient because it doesn't have some IOS optimizations. But look - if I told you to build something on one set of hardware and make it great that's 10x easier than building an open system. Yeah, closed systems may win in the end (and Apple is winning) but ANdroid couldn't be Android without a wider perspective.
> What I despise, however, is the article's tone, which tries to make it look like this minor difference is important to the user, and he will hate Android for it.

The major thing that would prevent me switching to Android is precisely this issue. I've used a Galaxy Nexus, and while it has undoubtedly improved greatly, it is still not really there. Maybe Android 5...

I suspect that it's one of these things that you'll only be really irritated by if you've used a device with proper smooth scrolling for an extended period.
> Surely when the studio optioned the rights, they got exclusivity as part of the contract. That is: it doesn't matter if he got "permission": at that point Asimov's estate had no right to grant such a thing.

IIRC, if the studio didn't record a grant of exclusivity in the Copyright Office, then the Asimov estate's subsequent grant of permission to the student would not have been binding on the student. That is, the studio might have a claim against the Asimov estate for breach of contract, but the estate's grant of permission to the student would still have been valid.

This assumes, of course, that the Asimov estate did indeed grant an exclusive to the studio; that's one of the (probably-many) things we don't know about the situation.
> I hope they've ditched some skeuomorphism.

It's worse than ever—have a look at some of the screenshots[1]. My favourite is the tweet dialog[2].

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/165407/2012/02/hands_on_with...

[2] http://images.macworld.com/images/article/2012/02/tweetsheet...
On the other hand, I've never seen anyone use 10M to mean 10k, so there doesn't seem to be any actual confusion caused by this.

1000 = k

1000000 = either m or M or MM
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I didn't read the article, but love the mouse effects outside of the content area :D
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Is there a developer API? I'd love to have a system where customers can, eg, scan a QR code, get given the details of what they're paying for, and then hit "confirm". Would remove quite a bit of friction from people fiddling around with entering your phone number.
yeah, I guess you could mount your source tree into windows and use RM in windows, but then all of the interesting features like rails integration wouldn't likely work - and I have no interest in running rails on windows since that isn't the deployment environment.
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I would also like to know this. :-)
I somehow have the feeling that moving out of GoDaddy won't protect you from any of this. Potentially the US "authorities" can take down your dot com domain (operated by Verisign), your hosting if in US, or maybe even prevent DNS resolutions to your domain inside the US (they can ask large ISPs to update their DNS servers). What you are left with is using a non dot com, non US hosting, and avoid having too much business from US customers. Then you might run into the same in Europe, etc. That does not sound like a good long term strategy.
Wow, I didn't know it was open-source. Just looked it up and I had no idea it could read/write Word XLM, Office Open XML and OpenDocument Text either! Learn something new everyday...
Ah, no. On release, for a few months, the iPhone was _$500 with contract_. Yes, really.
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The way I have been getting around this until the last year or so was just double wrapping divs. Setting a wrapper to have the width you want with 0 margin and padding, and then assigning the padding and margin you want to the inner div does essentially the same thing
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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.
As it's been said in the comments, it's amazing that after years of lobbying IE to change its box model to match W3C, we realize that maybe IE's model made more sense after all.
Ok, I'm feeling rather naïve and waking up slowly this morning. Why do they care to know that? I mean, what about their business does that help them improve? Because, I think we can take it somewhat for granted that such information probably isn't something which the individuals involved, their customers in this situation, enjoy knowing is being collected about them. "Hey, you know that activity you probably consider rather private, we like to record everything about it we easily can, because umm... customer service."

If I kept track of the porn watching habits of my neighbors, that would be considered strange and maybe rather pervy. And I don't see how it makes a difference in that evaluation whether they are or aren't renting the tv they use from me.
A common strategy is to pre-announce when you know a competitor is ready to release a product but yours is in the pipeline.

I'm not claiming that this is the case, but if some other comedian is ready to release on Friday (and therefore become the second significant person to do it), Gaffigan's pre-announcement may actually be part of a well planned strategy.
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What the startup industry needs is for the business world to feel that they can pay a reasonable price and get a great bespoke software product built. In just the same way they pay for insurance, legal fees, IT, staff, they also pay for somebody to build them bespoke software for their company.

If the business world thought like this, then we (developers) would not have to 'guess' what would be a good or valuable idea, the business world would give it to us.
This is incorrect. As the article states, Mountain Lion will only allow applications signed with an Apple Developer certificate. They don't need to be installed through the app store. Still not sure whether thats a good thing though :/.
Command and control, of what? The ramp instances? Why would they need that?

And if the actual attack is direct, how will they escape the ISP's filters? According to The Spoofer Project[1], no ISP lets you spoof packets with IPs outside of at least the same /8 subnet. Can you even get a consumer connection with an IP in those subnets?

[1]: http://spoofer.csail.mit.edu/summary.php
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