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> You can have a writer on a marketing checklist; quality writing is important for marketing to certain demographics.

I agree. Many of the "news outlets" reported on the operating system itself, as that's what their readers want. They're not really that interested in the fact that this private Q&A is different, and who attended, and how good the coffee was.

Daring Fireball readers obviously do, and it's probably why Gruber runs a fairly successful site: he found a good niche.
Infiltrate the hub supplier? The hub supplier is probably already owned by the Chinese army, if my experience with other Chinese companies is correct.
Two and half, three years ago, people predicted this move for OS X after the locked down nature of the iPhone really took hold. There are people that swore up and down that signed applications would never come to OS X and that there would never be a walled ecosystem on a non-iOS Mac product. Now we know this to be blatantly false. Apple's biggest money comes from devices that have an exclusively walled ecosystem. It seems pretty clear that they want users using what they provide to them. I don't think it's incredibly inaccurate to say that they don't care that they're not supporting major competing applications.
There are better solutions than restarting applications in that case -- specifically, c/r solutions aren't too hard, and require no work from app developers to support.
Sorry, read that backwards (grass vs. grain). My mistake.
It's a preview. The final version won't.
The entire time I read this article, I was well-aware of the fact that this one-on-one presentation was only an Apple PR move, and I felt that he as a journalist knew it too. What he wrote reflects this as well. It seems condescending to both him and his readers to surmise that they wouldn't understand this.
It was 4GB.
“It won’t truly be an autonomous vehicle, until you instruct it to drive to work and it heads to the beach instead.”
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The NDA covers prerelease software, which this is not.
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I see it less as being noble and more of a practical strategy for a small business. You can't afford to apply for a patent on everything you think up so why not publish it so at least you will not be locked out of using your own idea by someone who comes along later and does apply for a patent.
Or "posthumous pardon dna".
html5boilerplate used to be my goto html / css structure for starting a project. I recently build one using bootstrap 2.0... and it was significantly less hassle, but still looks good and works on desktop and mobile
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> I wonder if there's a compelling reason for these add-on distros (Fink, Homebrew, Macports) to be strictly "build from source" with no option for binary package downloads.

For that to happen, someone has to take responsibility for creating, managing, and distributing those binary packages. That's much easier said than done.

So, the simple answer is that no one has, as of yet, volunteered to do the work.
Or if everyone moves towards self-driving taxi's, then the car takes you to work, then takes someone from near there somewhere else, etc, so you're really talking not much more extra driving, but saving tons on building fewer cars, fewer parking lots, and economies of scales for buying gas and maintaining the cars.
What part of the treaty are you thinking of? I'm not aware of anything that would bar Iran from applying its laws to its citizens just because they've been living abroad for a while, though I am admittedly not the most well-versed in international law.
Sorry, I don't think you understand how OOP works. In classical inheritance, each object only contains its data and a reference to its class. The class owns the methods - they are not copied to every instance. Most uses of prototypal inheritance follow a similar pattern.
Yep. Hate the installs. Good point. I have an Android phone. So you can skip IOS :^]
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I guess what I was trying to say is that cars were designed to be driven by humans, and although there are situations where machine's fault is hard to prove [1], in reality adding additional layer of decision-making piece of hardware will make it even harder to determine who's fault was when my children, hypothetically, died in a car accident smashed by a second car.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1300880/Toyota-defen...
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Interesting read, but I don't see why I'd care about my "blunderbuss" TN panel - it's good enough for work. Also, I think the color gamut picture is flawed - since I have a TN panel, I can't possibly see the IPS gamut, and yet there is a clear difference - how is that possible?
There's not really an advantage to embryonic stem cells anyways.
Presuming one can get it to compile; is there any reason we can't have gcc in Homebrew now? Since it's not included anymore, it doesn't clobber any default software[1] (anything that expects `gcc` to be ordinary gcc stands a chance of breaking anyway)

[1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formula
Agreed. You really can't have a hybrid of the two. It ends up being neither fish nor fowl -- a suboptimal experience in either form. Either rip off the band-aid, and go swiftly but painfully through the transition to pure-iOS on everything, or keep OSX and iOS relatively separate (if, perhaps, working gradually toward more interoperability).

My guess is that Apple is waiting for the day when cloud computing is the standard, and there is no longer a great deal of need for the hardware-based functionality or design of a laptop. When that day comes, a simple iOS-style interface might be fine for everything. In the meantime, however, there are still plenty of distinct use cases for Macs and iDevices. Arguably, we're still in the awkward adolescence of cloud computing. We know it's going to grow up quickly, but that day isn't quite here yet.

(And let's not forget that Apple is a hardware company and, accordingly, is probably hesitant to hasten the demise of any of its key hardware lines).
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It might be aggressive to suggest you put it immediately into the trash, but "... has not been signed by a recognized distributor and may damage your computer" is totally accurate.

The suggested "The app Adium hasn't been checked by Apple. It can't be trusted. Use the App Store to find trusted apps." is less scary, but more inaccurate. Apple doesn't check signed apps - they only issue the certificates. The app store is also not the only place to find trusted apps, which a major point behind the Gatekeeper system.
If v8 is fast enough for anything that I might want to do with it, further performance improvements (as opposed to other changes) are not going to be really high on my wish list. That's why the performance case doesn't work for me.

Other people might have different tradeoffs, of course. Which is fine. But nothing I've seen the Dart crew say yet explains in plain English who those people might be, and why the particular set of tradeoffs in Dart is better for them than either v8 or, say, some other language reduced to strongly typed bytecode for PNaCl.
check chill.com most amazing app this seems very similar to chill.com
Do you work for the Iranian government? If not you might want to schedule an MRI.
ssh-agent has shipped from the very beginning (that's part of the ssh distribution). The only thing that was different was that it wasn't bridged to the system keychain until recently. Or more accurately, the system keychain now runs its own version of ssh-agent automatically.
Well now with this new small download you can come back to OS X then! :-)
Works fine on my own machine (13, Linux). But that doesn't help people who are stuck on machines where it doesn't. I suppose the code could detect low frame rates and reduce quality or shut down?
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Sure, I am the same, but the problem is that for one "you" there is a hundred that aren't you, so your lost business will be well offset by the business of others. For them it's just a number game.
I'd guess something between 150 MiB and 4 GiB.
If your experienced with PHP, I'd highly recommend litecommerce which runs on Drupal. It's relatively flexible to customize; it's extremely simple in the front-end - in fact I fell in love with litecommerce mainly because of its UI. Well, the community is not as active as other platforms, but the the drupal community can definitely make up for it. I believe it does utilize a plugin architecture. It has some pre-made plugins that you can use. Although a lot of common features need to be achieved with plugins, but they are quite accessible. One thing to note is that it only runs on PHP 5.3 or above.

And if you are more experienced with Python, you can find a lot of flexible platforms that run on Django.
what do you know about Soviet Union?
> Is that a bad thing?

It is a very bad thing. I agree that it looks like this is where the industry is going, and I really, really, really dislike this direction.

Files are an incredibly useful abstraction. Sure, there are programs that work with photos and songs, but thee's a whole class of applications that works with "data" no matter what this data is. Think of stuff like backups, synchronization, compression, encryption, etc. If somebody comes up with a new encryption algorithm, filesystem lets me instantly use it for all my data regardless of which application I used to create it. But we're heading towards the world where we need one program to backup photos and another one to backup songs, and only OS manufacturers are allowed to create utilities that work with all my data in general. This is not good for innovation.
Does anyone have any comments on protecting the private key / API in an unsecure client (such as Javascript, or a mobile app where the source code can be readily viewed)? He mentions it in this article, but no one seems to address it in the comments and the solution offered of "reset the private key" doesn't seem terribly secure.
I never heard of "Hypermedia API" either - sounds like some REST people are lazy, don't leverage things like content negotiation, URI de-referencing, etc and wind up with an HTTP-RPCish monster with a REST name tag on it.
Just last night I found a post on TUAW about something called AirParrot (http://www.airparrot.com), which provides similar functionality. I've been looking for something like that for a while, so jumped at the chance to download it (cost me $9.99). It's in beta, and the developer makes no secret of that. It does not pipe audio, and has a few other quirks but I managed to: run a powerpoint presentation, run civilization v, and play some youtube videos from my machine to my appletv. I have no affiliation with the developer, but i must say - to pwthornton's point above, it's pretty effing cool to airplay out of your mac. I bet the official release from apple will be that much better too.
I strongly believe that recoining the term REST to Hypermedia API won't help preventing misunderstandings. But it sounds more like what Fielding wanted to get across.
Definitely. For instance, X is still supported on OS X after all these years, in large part due to Jeremy Huddleston:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2011/Nov/msg00058....

It's reassuring that I will be able to continue to use my Mac and rxvt-unicode into the forseeable future.
Similar case here, but it was 1984 when I was 15 and had email. Didn't have internet then of course, but BBSes were already linked, with email and forums being synced among the others in the network every night.

Even then I knew I was late to the game, Compu$erve was in it's prime, and the grassroots infrastructure was rapidly maturing.

That's what kills me with this guy pulling the "IT Professional" card. 10 years later claiming regular people didn't have email. That's like 100 computer years.
Are we going to lose innovation in desktop software?
Everyone in my family apart from myself still uses ugly desktop software of which costs a fortune in comparison to equivalent web apps or mobile apps.

I feel with all the best engineering talent moving to mobile and social that innovation in this market will slow right down.

Anyone I talk to in desktop are all getting into the OSX app store. We can't forget the huge number of Windows users. I still see around 1 Apple laptop for every 9 Windows counterparts on a day to basis in the UK.

Is anyone building cool desktop software?
Thanks, but, what do you mean? Won't what? Won't require an Apple developer account?
How is a one-time download while setting up your system of any significance at all? Sure sounds like picking a screwdriver based on how fast you can unbox it.
Mine was 663mb...
But I also changed back to Linux from OSX because the window manager sucked, and there was only poor package management then.
This is one of the best explanations of the hypermedia constraint in REST I found, and it uses the term: http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/hypermedia-apis
So Amnesty International has a hidden agenda here? Are you serious? What's wrong with the even simpler theory about investigating the string of innocent people getting the death penalty and the idea that these justified killings are political messages by the iranian government to the iranian people with regard the upcoming elections?
Do you mean:

1) it's a single page app

2) you're using ERB fragments (or something) as "templates"

3) MVC fat-client

Is this... more or less it?
That won't help. Everyone in the area will likely be travelling to work around the same time.
Apple doesn't use glibc.
Having spoken to the product manager at google, I got the following response:

While there is no service level agreement (SLA) for the Google Identity Toolkit, Google itself uses the same infrastructure as GITKit to support federated login for Google accounts. Google users can even opt-in to use an Account Chooser in place of the traditional Google login box.

https://code.google.com/apis/identitytoolkit/v1/learnmore.ht...
Yeah, but if insurers have to assume that liability until they can maybe recover damages (just think, the car manufacturer or software firm might not even exist anymore and the car still on the road), insurance is going to be very expensive for these things. Insurance companies aren't a charity, they're going to have to pass on those losses into the premiums.
My first impression was that the "sheet" visual metaphor is brilliant. I'm all for physical-world-based visual metaphors when they can be implemented well, ie. not overly obtrusive and well balanced. In addition, if the the performance is as good as it seems in the video when multiple sheets are overlayed -- that's very impressive as well. I'm very curious how it was implemented.

Previously I haven't preferred Basecamp but this new version is looking great so far.
My comments:

http://groups.google.com/group/beginning-of-infinity/browse_...
Given Apple's counter-intelligence tactics...you still don't know that.

Just like we don't know whether those iPhones were actually "lost" in a bar...both times.
"We call it page stacking and we think you’re going to love it."

This sentence is sooo very apple.
Err, no, that came later. Much later. The original released homebrew was the Twilight Princess hack. There were a few others internal to the group first, but the attack you're referring to didn't happen until a good year, year and a half later.
Wait, are you trying to reform Iran to internationally end the death penalty for certain crimes? Or are you just playing into CIA psyops to overthrow the Iranian government.

Maybe the U.S. could do that too...? Hmm. Too bad there wasn't this same energy to stop the U.S. from executing Troy Davis, or murdering Al-Awlaki's 16 year old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen. Probably couldn't get that support in racist North America.
Looks cool, but now I hope to go further from my "Hello World, now I scrape You" app :)
Why "no way"? I don't have any problem with your suggested models either, but see no reason why public car services couldn't coexist.
Yeah, I played around a bit with this and it's alright, but I didn't find anything different from the others (twitter bootstrap or foundation, etc), I mean besides combining boilerplate and bootsrap.
Unless I'm missing something? because there's no demo or documentation! hehe :)
http://dropafile.com/boilerstrap/
I needed it for my gcc and gfortran install. I am not sure whether osx uses glibc for xcode. Somehow despite removing and replacing everything related to glibc, it was still broken. Never did figure it out.
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Have we even reached 2% penetration for ICS yet? Stop rushing out these new releases, start working with OEMs and carriers well in advance of release so we can stop this ridiculous BS where basically no significant amount of Android users are at the latest OS at any given time.

I see more users with old versions of Android more than anything else. It reminds be of BB or WinMo back in the day, where it had the OS it shipped with and you were lucky to get bug fixes, let alone a major version upgrade. That sucked then, and it sucks now.
Desktop UI toolkits improve and there are lot's of innovative ideas there. Qt is a major example.
Kinesis keyboards would be even more awesome with Cherry blue switches 
Kinesis contoured keyboards are great, but the brown switches just aren't as nice to type on as the blues. I happened to have a spare Kinesis so I figured I'd just replace the switches myself !

Kinesis kindly obliged in selling me the replacement logic boards, but for the life of me I can't find ANYONE who wants to sell me the blue switches (part # MX1AE1DW).

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get about 80 Cherry blue switches ?
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The original source about seeing ultraviolet is interesting:
http://www.komar.org/faq/colorado-cataract-surgery-crystalen...

Worth noting is that the eye filters shorter wavelengths partly to protect the cone cells. Most animals (like various insects) that see further into the ultraviolet have much shorter lifespans than humans, and so damage doesn’t have as much impact.

The rest of the article is just somewhat muddled rehashes of Wikipedia articles (which makes me realize once again that some of these color vision articles need dramatic improvement to avoid confusing people). For instance, this guy’s changed ultraviolet sensitivity doesn’t give us any insight into how tetrachromats see; he is still a trichromat, just with a slightly different short-cone-cell wavelength response.

To understand color vision, I’d recommend Bruce MacEvoy’s site, http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html
I would not be surprised if the first couple accidents were the result of nearby drivers 'ooh'-ing and 'ahh'-ing at the driverless car.
Cars can be programmed to avoid traffic jams.
Are you sure? How was this determined without doing experimentation with embryonic stem cells?
Yeah, I just checked up on the man page, and the agent actually works the way I'd want it to. So it's just a question if a sandboxed app has access to the agent.
"May damage your computer" is accurate, but alarmist and misleading. It will dissuade more good software installations than it prevents bad installations, and it will raise distrust of computers and lower computer aptitude and overall understanding.

Personally, I disagree with it because it continues Apple's strategy of intellectually hamstringing its users. This could instead be turned into a powerful educational tool: "We recommend that you find a computer user to explain this error to you" or "Follow this wikipedia link to the page about gatekeeper to learn more about this and to find links to explanatory material".
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It's a complex question, but I think the main reason was just for child-rearing space. Crime wasn't an issue when the first suburbs exploded in the 50s.

With fewer people having children I think that's less of an issue.
Interesting data. Crap presentation of interesting data.
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40MB.
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Unless/until ClojureScript can target it, I'm not convinced I care.
Have you tried digikey? They don't seem to have the exact part number you are seeking. But they do have MX1A-E1NW which is a similar part but without the internal diode. Not sure what impact this will have with the Kinesis keyboard however.

http://search.digikey.com/us/en/cat/switches/pushbutton/1114...
You wouldn't buy a car, you'd just order a ride when you needed it, and the car would come pick you up. Think Zipcar
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Almost all auto fatalities are caused by human error. I think saving 1 million+ lives per year is worth the legal wrangling to determine fault for the remaining few accidents.
Seems like a glorified back-button to me.
The question of the self-driving car is much more complicated I think than the benefit it will bring. The consequences to the labor market will be interesting to say the least. Just imagine.

- No taxi drivers
- No UPS delivery truck drivers (automated delivery anyone)
- No truckers
- Less cars produced, less people building cars.
- Less doctors, hospitals etc due to less accidents.

I don't remember who said that we are entering a period of massive labor change. A second industrial age where there are less need for labor.

The first one brought marxism and communism what will this one bring?
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It's accurate but overly technical and unnecessarily frightening. You shouldn't be using terms of art anywhere in your copy unless that's the language your audience speaks, too.

The average user will think they're about to get a virus or do irreversible damage to their computer, both of which are very, very far from the truth.

It's as bad as this type of error dialog:

+---------------------+
| |
| |
| An error occurred |
| |
| [ OK ] |
+---------------------+

What am I supposed to do with that? It provides no information and doesn't give me the opportunity to fix the (very mysterious) problem.

In some ways this is worse because while the dialog is technically accurate, the presentation will alarm anyone who doesn't understand exactly what's happening.

tl;dr: Imagine if your grandma saw this error message. How would she react?
apps that have been signed by a recognized distributor may also damage your computer; the signature isn't proof against errors or intentional maliciousness. So that wording is ridiculous.

And 'It can't be trusted.' Really? That's ridiculous too. It's entirely possible it could be trusted. There's lots of software that Apple hasn't signed which is trusted and has been for decades.

This dialog just confirms suspicions. The intent is clearly and explicitly to throw FUD on, wall off and eliminate non-Apple-approved software.
Also, check out the available buttons on the dialog---"Cancel" and "Eject disk image". I'm guessing that "Cancel" is the one you need to click to say "Cancel the warning and mount it anyway", which in other contexts is known as "OK". Argh.
HTML5 Boilerplate is more of a best practices HTML/CSS template. Bootstrap is a css design framework for creating a nice user interface with little effort.

They actually have some of the same stuff like css resets and normalization, but they are used for different things.
Adobe has dropped android, not the other way around.
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