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IIRC, Apple rewrote the entire Finder in Carbon (and not
in Cocoa) in order to test the Carbon library for bugs.

This may well be true, but my own suspicion is that it had as much to do with Apple having hundreds of core system developers already familiar with the C++ APIs, and a limited timeframe to get Mac OS X released. Either way, both assertions point to Carbon being a compromise choice.

UFS was blown away and replaced with HFS+

In order to maintain compatibility. And it wasn't just ported code -- HFS+ support was rewritten from the ground up as a UNIX file system. Surprisingly, the result wasn't a delicate hack, and the fact that we're still using it today (on iOS too!) speaks to the engineering capability of Apple. (And NeXT, since it's all one big family now.)

Quicktime was ported

QuickTime was also ported to Windows.

as were 3D facilities and game APIs

In order to maintain compatibility. The recommended way to write games on Mac OS X has always been the OpenGL APIs, and you can hardly describe OpenGL as a legacy Mac technology.

Java, up through 1.3.x at any rate, came from OS 9

Java came from Sun. I have no knowledge of how Java was implemented in Mac OS X, but to the extent that any platform-specific or processor-specific hooks were lifted from the OS 9 distribution, that's hardly a Mac "technology".

I think the font facility, always an ugliness in
NeXTSTEP, was replaced with Apple's

Font handling in Mac OS X is part of Quartz, a new technology developed for OS X. Not only was it not taken from OS 9, the whole technology direction was abandoned. (Remember QuickDraw GX?)
Your seminar was outstanding!
I hope you organize more presentations on this...
Is there available any link from your presentation?
Tabloids aren't considered a good source. As to "science papers published on a university website", that all depends. I remember a few months ago that one joyous postgrad student was hosting a pretty off-the-wall theory on his personal university space and trying to get it into Wikipedia as "published by the university". On the other hand properly peer reviewed papers get used all the time/
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No; although a lot of editors do tend to reject them out of hand without actually reading the policy (this really annoys me). Nothing actually precludes using a primary source - so long as it is on a purely factual basis and is not "interpreted"/analysed etc.
That's why you should use SHA-hashes when you need cryptographic security.
Actually, you can Ctrl+Shift+Click anywhere on the Start menu in Windows 7 to get this menu, not just the power button. In Windows 8, it was also added to the ctrl+shift+click menu on the taskbar as well.

Ctrl+Shift+Click (and sometimes just Shift+Click) works all over Windows Explorer to provide extra context menu options. For example if you Shift+Click on a jumplist program item, you'll get more options on that menu as well (Run as admin (Ctrl+Shift+Click on the taskbar icon to invoke this as well)).

There's even more new in Win8 (I don't have Win7 handy to test on, not sure if these were in there too): Shift+Right-cclick will give you 'Open in new process' and 'Open command window here.'

Edit: Thanks SquareWheel - you're right only Shift is needed for 'Open Command window here' and some other options.
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Part of Xerox's paroblem suing Apple would have been that it got its ideas elsewhere too (e.g. Alan Kay "discovered" OO programming after reading the source code of a simula compiler; most of the GUI concepts came from Englebart's lab)
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The site is amazingly fast (at least subjectively), even though there must be a higher traffic coming from HN. Has anyone inspected the code to see how it's done and if there's some kind of a web framework for D?
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>most of Wikipedia's content is currently unmaintained

"Most" by what measure? By bits? By number of articles? Possibly. By pageviews or importance, no way.

I cannot remember googling something, checking out its wikipedia entry, and finding it unhelpful. It's been at least 5 years since that has happened.

Sure, there's a bunch of low-quality articles with no maintainers, but to claim that that makes wikipedia bad is to claim github's bad for the same reason.
The post might be old and filled with link bait content.But it has a few valid points. Big companies like TCS, Infosys etc, are destroying the lives of thousands of software engineers. I used to work in TCS about 3 years ago and I knew a guy who had done his Masters from IIT (which has the brightest minds in India). He was hired from IIT for a good pay and he was put on a maintenance project for GE. It was a dumb job where he used to monitor some stuff and call up the responsible guys if he saw something wrong. And he was a mechanical engineer.

So, TCS effectively took a guy who might have done a lot of good in the mechanical field and just wasted him. I am really pained by things like these.
I don't understand how Steve Job's personal charisma affects how majority of Apple customers feel about their products.

Correct me if I'm wrong, majority of Apple's customers don't go around looking for Steve Jobs (if they know the name in the first place - before he passed away of course) videos and sales pitches.

(RDF or NOT) --> (People around SJ) -/-> (Average Apple customer)
The closest thing that Apple can do to "print money" for a developer is to feature an application on the App Store. Apple does this to highlight software that it likes. The fact that Apple does this already shows that they are trying to get great apps in front of users.

In terms of personal curation, I think Genius solves that. It isn't as complicated or thorough as it could be, but it works.

As a dev what would I like to see?
All my apps being featured. but seriously;

1. The ability to respond to reviews. A review of one of my apps said this: 1 Star, "This is total junk. I don't even know why but it's horrible. Don't buy it. It's not worth it. Trust me"
The context is that it's a free app (with no ads) and every other review has given it 5 stars. Who knows how many users that has scared away?

2. A more effective ranking algorithm.
Preferably one that isn't as susceptible to gaming via these bot farms mentioned in OP. Apps that deserve to be there should not have their spot taken. You can see the benefit of fair ranking on the paid list because no-one has even tried botting that.
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"The context called for a piece of clearly inferior hardware"

No, you misunderstood the article. The context called for a piece of SUPERIOR hardware. Your entire complaint here is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the point Gruber was trying to make.
I agree. I mean think about it...

Imagine locking people up for 10 years for downloading an unlicensed music file.

I thought SOCA was the serious organised crime agency. Weapons, rackets, gangs, people trafficking are on a different scale from downloading music files for personal use...
That is the worst <form> I have ever seen in my 10 years of web development. I had no idea it was even a form until I tried clicking the "Submit This" button at the bottom because I had no idea WTF was going on.

Also, you don't need to create multiple threads for the same thing.
What's interesting about this app is not that it's a better todo list, but that it's an app based almost entirely off gestures. Using only gestures means that it must use different paradigms of navigation than you might typically find on mobile, desktop, or web interfaces.
I'd like to see prices for both WPA and WPA2 encryption.
First, this article is 4/5 years old. Second, this highlights another unfortunate Indian tendency to revel in cynicism.

Well, I am a programmer based in India, and know many others who also are. And although I also prefer to use the 'programmer' word, but believe you can substitute it withe 'coder' without taking away any respect (remember there is the elite topcoder.com site )

India is a land of billion people. So you can find all various kinds of people here. So certainly, you will find a lot of people who may be close to the stereotype described in the essay.

But if you actually see there are lots of guys, who are doing their best to try and be world class programmers.

And not just programming. They are taking full advantage of the Internet to learn the silicon valley best practices to create a similar environment within their own Startups. I know quite a few of such people, actually.
I think that cmd actually was designed so that it wouldn't collide with ctrl. If you look at the keyboard for the Apple II, it had a ctrl key, and I believe it was used for control characters. On later keyboards, they introduced the open apple key (ancestor of command) while retaining the ctrl key. Apple manufactured their own keyboards, so it was relatively easy for them to have separate keys for control characters and keyboard shortcuts. Microsoft on the other hand, did not have this luxury. They were inclined to base their software around existing keyboards, and so they co-opted the ctrl key for shortcuts.

One cool thing I learned while researching this is that Emacs-style keybindings work in TextEdit or any native OS X text area.

^A go to beginning of line
^E end of line
^L center line vertically
^K kut (cuts text till end of the line and stores it in a separate buffer from the clipboard)
^Y yank (pastes from the kut buffer)
^D forward delete
(^ = Ctrl)

http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/apple2keyboard.jpg

http://www.oldapplestuff.com/Images/Apple2Computers/Apple2eS...
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This really is an interesting case of plagiarism since there are multiple versions of this article by different authors, each who has slightly changed the other.

February 17, 2007. Author: timesofindia staff?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/A-myth-ca...

February 18, 2007. Author: Brajeshwar (who does attribute "an article" in Times of India as "inspired by", but without a specific link)

http://brajeshwar.com/2007/are-you-a-programmer-or-a-coder/

April 5, 2007. Author: Avinash Singh

http://avinashsingh.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/a-myth-called-t...

2010. Author: Mohamed Sardhar

http://www.citehr.com/26128-myth-called-indian-programmer.ht... (exact copy of all 3 pages of the Times of India article, with no attribution to original, just a new byline added)
Which one? https://market.android.com/developer?pub=orbitingPluto

Sorry, don't know why this is upsetting to ask...
While he is wrong that Wikipedia is a failure, I wouldn't dismiss this guy's rant out of hand. The editor trends he cites are real. But more importantly, experiences like his are becoming more and more common.

If you think of the product that Wikipedia delivers as being editor satisfaction, it's currently succeeding more in spite of itself than because of its virtues. Part of the impetus behind the GUI editor project is to indirectly broaden the editor base.

I think a more direct solution may be a kind of karma system, perhaps modelled on Slashdot "meta moderation". Most Wikipedians, even the ones that really piss other people off, are usually acting in good faith. If you investigate these disputes, invariably the complainer actually did do it a little bit wrong, or at least there is a legitimate difference of opinion. But the problem is, Wikipedians start a conversation with you by reverting everything you just did. At best you are told to go read a few hundred pages of policies to understand why you were wrong. It would be nice if we had some system whereby the greater community could gently nudge these revert-happy editors, and remind them there are more constructive ways to engage. Just as new Hacker News contributors get downvoted to oblivion when they post memes or GIFs.

I know for a fact that some people at the WMF are interested in a karma system. It's not easy for 5 or 6 people to stay on top of what 10-100,000 people are doing. One concern is that the WMF may be paying too much attention to soul-sucking trolls who rant on Foundation-L, and not enough to awesome people who are quietly doing great work. I don't work at the WMF any more, but maybe some hack day I'll do this....
> Either you're confusing "peers with a whiteboard" with "meetings", or you're living on a completely different planet from me.

I guess I have different meetings to you.
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>"Most" by what measure? By bits? By number of articles? Possibly. By pageviews or importance, no way.

Are you positive not by pageviews? Sure, the articles that get a lot of pageviews are maintained, but I imagine there's a pretty big long tail of articles that get small number pageviews each, and not all of those are maintained. I don't think they're necessarily going to fall into disrepair, though.
If content contribution is the problem…

Why is updating and extending wikipedia pages not part of normal school or university work.
E.g. teams of two students get topic and have to create a value contribution to wikipedia. Not only recite current knowledge but go beyond that and extend the "common denominator" of knowledge called wikipedia. It would teach about research, team work and to some extend about editorial quality and processes.

I proposed it once in college. The teacher suggested to bring it to an multimedia course. Maybe the world would be more open today.
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You don't need to group your regexes if you're not using the captured values for anything.

Don't use .htaccess if your site actually gets traffic. It requires a stat/file read on every request you receive. Put it in your VirtualHost in the Apache configuration.
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As far as I understand, you only need to hold shift for extra context menu items. I use this with "Open command window here" frequently.
I am really sorry this pissed you off. We'll edit the form and make it simpler.

Multiple threads went off sadly because while diwank was typing the whole thing, his noprocast kicked off. Plus, a shitty network doesn't help things.

So we really noticed after both the posts had gone up. Will try and take it down asap (when the noprocast goes off)!
It's a free service. Unless your company forces it to use it, OpenDNS is opt-in.

As I said, it makes people mad because ISPs effectively force you to use their DNS, and some use it to serve ads.

Nobody complains about Google serving ads on their pages, but if your ISP inserted ads through some kind of MITM, it would make people pretty angry.
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Not pissed off, just making an observation. Unintuitive = bad. :)
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It would be nice to have a look at the ads they server per second. I am coming from the perspective that saying Facebook isn't high technology cause it is merely a social network, would be highly inaccurate. Working at such scale requires its own set of challenges.
There really isn't. Getting the thing to work is the bare minimum.
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I just learned recently that Ctrl-Shift-Esc brings up Taskmgr.

Up until then I'd been relying on Ctrl-Alt-Del, which in W7 tends to bring up its own screen and is slower due to shell context changes.
The title of a paper doesn't need to tell you exactly what the paper has in it. (It can't, except in those cases where the content of the paper is perfectly expressible in a single snappy sentence.)

It does need to (1) give a clue whether you want to read it and (2) let you recall what the paper is about when you see the title on a later occasion.

In this instance, #1 goes like this: "Oh, it's by Lenstra. And it's got a cutesy title. It's got to be worth a look, if only to see what on earth the title means." And #2 ... well, do you think any interested party who read this paper is going to have any difficulty remembering what it's about, say, 10 years from now? I don't.

You can't get away with this sort of thing if you aren't as big a name as Lenstra -- or if your paper isn't about something vitally important that (in hindsight) is easily associated with the paper title. But that's OK. Most of Lenstra's papers have titles like "Fast Irreducibility and Subgroup Membership Testing in XTR" and "Factoring Multivariate Polynomials over Algebraic Number Fields".
The problem with organically grown neighborhoods is that it is difficult to build efficient public transportation that connect them, hence I was going for planned ones.

This is false, though. The method of growing doesn't affect the feasibility of public transport: the density of the areas in question does.

And no matter how the areas grew, an economically growing public transport network will naturally connect the most dense parts of a city together. That is, provided there are dense areas. Think London's 100+ year history of the Underground where underground railway companies, as soon as funding was secured, built little stretches that made the most economic sense.

Also I believe the dead space problem will take care of itself as demand for space increases.

It doesn't if the environment doesn't lend itself to grow, change, and adapt as needed which is a big problem with designed areas. An area also needs both old and new lots and buildings to offer space for businesses that wouldn't survive with market rents. This is something nobody can design.
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The great thing about humans in groups - once you are charming enough to sell the right 10-20% of a population on your own, with luck, other people will soon start to copy them, and pretty soon you are the Catholic church, or Facebook, or Apple.
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The current implementation of 6.170 is "build a webapp in python". I seem to recall that they were using Flask, but that might have changed as this is pretty new.

6.00 is a class on programming in python. There are IAP (January) classes on C++, python, and a few more.

Other than that, though, it's all in the context of "do a project with language x" and not "learn language x."
Thanks for catching that bobbles - fixed :)

I couldn't agree more about the value of drilling in the guidelines. Lucky for me the luxury of working with the Summify boys was their egoless-ness - ideas won on merit
It looks like web.d implements the response handler from scratch, so I doubt there's a framework. Maybe a framework will be extracted from this in the future.

It looks like there isn't even a template language -- it seems to build the html using the plain old string concatenation method.

html.put(
`<tr class="thread-post-row`, (post.info && post.id==selectedID ? ` thread-post-focused thread-post-selected` : ``), `">`
`<td>`
`<div style="padding-left: `, format("%1.1f", OFFSET_INIT + level * offsetIncrement), OFFSET_UNITS, `">`
`<div class="thread-post-time">`, summarizeTime(post.time, true), `</div>`,
`<a class="postlink `, (user.isRead(post.rowid) ? "forum-read" : "forum-unread" ), `" href="`, encodeEntities(idToUrl(post.id)), `">`, truncateString(post.author, 20), `</a>`
`</div>`
`</td>`
`</tr>`);
Actually, CAD taskmgr is slower because it has to switch from the secure desktop session to the current session.

As it happens, Raymond recently did a blog post on this as well! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/30/10261...
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Well they won't be able to use that for long. Android should surpass iOS in number of apps this year. They are already equal in apps downloaded per month - about 1 billion each.
It's funny how hard taking action can be for some people who aren't used to it. It really is the hacker way, but it's so foreign to many others. Hackers are great company :)
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I think it's much more similar to Goliath than to Sinatra.
I love Summify, probably one of my fave startups. Sad to hear they got talent acquisitioned, but happy for them. I still look forward to my daily Summify in the morning while I'm having coffee or tea. I got a whole bunch of friends using it through word-of-mouth. I really hope Twitter doesn't mess up the core functionality.
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Well... 1 no password confirmation, 2 no way of seeing it as I type it, 3 obviously not going to use a password I already use. Chances were high this would happen.

My username is the same as here though. Doesn't let me reuse the email address.

I'd rather have openID, or just let the user create password-less accounts. Who'd want to vandalise my account?

Also, if you are going to ask me for my email (supposedly for password recovery, a feature that doesn't exist at least for now) then you might as well not force me to come up with a user name and let me use the email address instead.

Also, why do I have to mouse-over to see the tags? tags that are terribly inconsistent, by the way. Since I can't log in I don't see if any user can vote on tags, or modify them, or just set tags for his own submissions. I suspect it's the latter and they're not curated. I mean, there are only a bunch of pages worth of books and they're already inconsistent enough to be basically useless as a means of categorisation. You should probably edit them to give the site an initial push.

Every little inconvenience exponentially increases the chances of the user not coming a 2nd time.

I like the concept, but at its current state this site makes me want to spider the hell out of it and do my file management locally.
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