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That happened later, Symbian spun out of Psion. The first Symbian based phone was the Ericsson R380. The biggest difference between all the members were that the ones who took control of a UI built up more control. These were effectively Nokia and Docomo, hence why Symbian was used so much in Japan on their "feature phones" and S60 became strong.

UIQ used by many of the other manufacturers was never developed by any of them and was effectively an orphaned UI company.
You said before : "If you were ok, you should still be."

I wasn't OK with it when they introduced the mac app store, I got really unhappy with it when random open source tools suddenly disappeared offline and became $2 pay-to-play software on the mac store. Then the sandboxing restrictions and now the signature things.

I never wanted to play in apple's walled garden. It was fine when it was all the way over there on ios. But the walls are going up around OSX as we speak, and someday they might even remove the back gate, but at that point it will be too late.

Because you will already be living in a world where to get into the nickle-and-dime scam that is the mac app store, you need to bow to apple's wishes, which get even more erratic as it gets more powerful (see sandboxing).

For anyone who doesn't want to play on the app store they now have to now get 'certified' by apple that they are allowed to write software for the mac. If you don't play by those rules, you can expect your software to be widely ignored regardless of the quality or malware status.

And really, the operating system is so much less important than the browser these days.

*edit: typo
> In my experience, it's always taken at least a few days to transfer registrars, even with an EPP code in hand and instantly responding to confirmation emails

It should take no more than an hour, usually less. If it's taking more than that something's gone wrong or your registrar is manually processing what everyone else does automatically.

I moved a couple dozen domains from GoDaddy in December... all were at their new registrar less than an hour after I confirmed the transfers.
I don't even see them as "problems"; at least not in some altruistic form for the platform necessarily. I just think that a curated, managed platform is something that Apple has been very, very, very successful with (and obviously because people are down with it), and it seems obvious to me that OS X is moving in that direction.

Like I said, I don't think it's fair to imply that they will shut out non-AppStore apps or what not, but it's clear that OS X is becoming part of the LARGER Apple ecosystem in a way that I really don't feel like it was in Leopard or Snow Leopard.

I mean, they're ALL doing it as the app/branding craze comes full circle. Ubuntu is pushing the USC, Windows is pushing Live for login/user management, Apple is integrating iCloud at a very core level in OS X. I guess part of my surprise is from how quickly Apple has thrown iCloud together and integrated it compared to how long Windows has been scrambling with Live and Windows.
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If purchases are public, where can I get the data so I can build my map of the economy?
I always thought we could create a better language based on more efficient grammar rules and language habits. I just don't think the rest of the world can follow. I'm intrigued to try this out though. I'll see how it goes over the next couple of days.
Why include EXP or eNULL at all?
Don't be surprised if they start moving GPLed packages like bash, ruby, and emacs into this free CLI tools download, making OS X "GPL clean".
I'm not; I'd be surprised by any research that upheld any of those claims. They sound 100% rectally extruded.
Is this a piece of satire?

I might be able to use it, but I still feel that I would need space between characters otherwise there is a risk of error, without needing to slow down and make sure things are aligned properly. Also the examples make it apparent that the font size would have to be nearly doubled for accuracy purposes.
Isn't this true of any platform? Apple can (and does) pull the rug out at any time. Microsoft has a history of being responsive to devs, but they're certainly not immune from bugs. And Linux and Android are so fragmented in hardware and software, that all bets are off when it comes to user experience. (I'm aware that this is a sweeping generalization.)

Ultimately you have to factor in not only the quality of the platform, but also the responsiveness of the company and devs who maintain the platform. And the good news is, Google and Mozilla are usually pretty responsive. But platforms have to move slow to prevent destabilizing their other citizens, and sometimes your project gets caught in the middle. So it goes.
Why high error rate? Do your own research by giving it a try. It'll only take you a few minutes.
very interesting...it seems rather precise in location
It's optimized for nothing, as far as I can tell.

Efficiency: letter frequency is not taken into account.
Internationalization: no capital letter/lowercase distinction. No final letter forms. No circumflexes, accents, gravures, hats, dots, umlauts... punctuation is not specified.
Physiology: no attempt to take into account how human eyes work.

If this were going to work, Braille would be a lot more popular among sighted folk.
My friends and I used to do a Safeway card swap party once in a while to avoid exactly this.

Everyone would throw their Safeway card into a pile and then randomly select one to keep.

Not even we knew who's card we had.
These all sound like problems that can occur on any system, let alone browser-based, html5/javascript games (and often do occur in cross-platform games). I fail to see a problem here.

DISCLAIMER: I work for an html5/javascript gaming company.
The tie-ins to the closed Apple ecosystem are really startling. Take someone like myself. I have no iOS devices and have friends on various operating systems and services. Perhaps I'm a minority, but this is how it breaks down for me.

iCloud - not useful, no iOS devices.

Messages - not useful, too Apple centric, I already use Adium to interface with several non-apple services.

Reminders - not useful, wont' sync to my phone. I already just use CalDAV via iCal for this.

Notes - not useful, wont' sync anywhere, I already use the much better Evernote.

Notification Center - maybe, but it only works with App Store apps of which I have few. I used to use Growl from the command line to notify me when long running computational jobs were completed, but if it's locked to App Store apps I suppose I won't be able to use it for that.

Share Sheets - maybe, but I already use Sparrow instead of Mail and Chrome instead of Safari. I use another photo hosting site that isn't Flickr and don't use Twitter.

Twitter - don't use it.

Game Center - not at all a compelling feature for me.

AirPlay Mirroring - don't have an Apple TV and prefer more open platforms for this.

Gatekeeper - this is a good idea in principle, remains to be seen if it gets in the way.

The exclusive partnering and increasingly closed Apple ecosystem is really showing. Maybe I'm a very small minority, but this direction is not in the slightest bit thrilling to me. Where are all the options to plug your own services into the system?
Remember when you learned the ABC's and you had to use really large letters? It's not because kid's don't have good eyesight. It's because your brain's recognition of patterns improves with exposure. Try the example on the bottom-left.
If the creator happens to read this, I'd suggest upping the font size significantly.

There's a reason children's books have such a large font. When we learn how to read, it's much easier to focus on large single characters. Only after we become accustomed to reading individual characters can we then start to recognize words.
I might be convinced if I could see a list of words. The symbols are too difficult to distinguish individually, but common words could eventually become recognizable, perhaps.

My opinion is: if you're going to learn something enough to be fluent in it, why not make it a real language spoken (or in this case, written) by actual people?

And finally, I'll give the author twenty bucks if he can read arbitrary text that I supply. (This would have to be an in-person thing.)
Productivity comes and goes in waves. Restful sleep increases the amount of time the wave is in and decreases the time the wave is out.

If you haven't slept soundly and regularly over a period of 5+ days I'd concentrate on that before worrying about anything else.

I came to this realization myself a few years ago and it was quite an epiphany. I realized that nearly all my bouts of nonproductive could be traced back to poor sleep habits.

I think sleep should be treated as methodically and rigorously as any form of exercise. When you sleep, how well you sleep, when you wake up, what you eat/drink before you sleep, etc, etc.

When I'm doing good on sleep I manage to program productively for around 6-10 hours a day and it's generally invigorating rather than draining.
Auto matching brackets in gdb!!!! Fucking finally! I nearly fell out of chair as shear joy overcame me.
Never mind rectums. Try it yourself before you judge. If you're so smart, you should be able to memorize 26 letters without much of a problem.
I can't tell whether this is supposed to be serious. Here's a simple test, show someone the dot => alphabet mapping for A to E. Next, write a dot in the middle of a plain white piece of paper and have your test subject tell you which letter it is.
/etc/sysconfig is Red Hat. /etc/network is Debian.

Of course ifconfig (or better yet, the ip) still work.
" The latin alphabet (abc...) was created thousands of years ago, and is optimized for writing, not reading. "

... that's demonstrably false. Cuneiform is optimized for writing (with a stylus). Gregg shorthand is optimized for writing with a pencil. The Latin alphabet forms have lots of redundancy (though not quite enough) in 2D visual space in order to be clearly recognized and distinguished. Lower-case is better than upper, in most fonts.
Very true. I recommend using Command + (or Control +) to blow up the size. Didn't want to make it unnecessarily large by default.
Typographically, this has horrible legibility: the letters are difficult to distinguish and recognize on an individual basis. This contributes to poor readability when the letters are grouped to form passages of text. This seems much more about compacting information in a human-decipherable format than creating a more readable alphabet.

There are no ascenders or descenders in a traditional sense, no contours or apertures, and there is no stroke contrast. Also, the baseline is thrown off in many words. Put this all together, and you have text that's miserable to read.

This isn't even to mention the difficulty of getting readers to abandon tradition.

In all, I'd consider this an interesting experiment, but a practical failure.
http://old.nabble.com/GLIBC-and-executable-builds-on-Gfortra...

'I have been attempting unsuccessfully to try the latest gfortran snapshot executables...The reason for the problem is that they require the bleeding-edge
version of GLIBC to run:'

http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/linear_collider/cernlib/cernlib_2...

key excerpt being: 'One problem is that the functions csqrt, csqrtf, csqrtl of libm (glibc) which are used by gcc4 are still buggy for x86_64 architectures...'
I think we should get rid of the 9-5 and have staggered times. Different companies start different times of the day... I'm fairly sure theres a group of who like to start at 10, and go home 6, or maybe start at 11.
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Not to mention another big flaw. It's nearly impossible to differentiate between A, B, C, D, and E as individual letters since they are all represented by one dot.
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That makes about no sense (except as really deadpan satire), the strength of the human visual system is in "chunking" shapes, and making letters into clouds of disconnected dots is about the last thing you want to do to it, if you don't have to. If you do have to, there are already well-established systems that do this (Morse code and Braille).

Teletypes switched to printing actual letters as soon as they could, even though there were people very highly trained in reading the dots and dashes.
The ironic thing was most of the people he cited as agreeing with him basically didn't, or agreed that TEDx was crap (which is a separate argument from TED).
If the app store can truly compete with an open marketplace, why won't apple let me install arbitrary software on my iDevice?
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I believe the collective noun for a group of self-proclaimed gurus is "a douche of gurus".
I'm downloading Corona as I write this and I'll give it my best shot! It might take a little more than a weekend but this might be the push I needed to really get into this game. Thank you!
I moved into a rental house and we had a stack of these that we'd just throw on the counter and take them whenever. As far as I know each one had been used by at least 2 generations of renters before me.

It must have been odd.."Wow, this vegan keeps buying the cheapest hot dogs ever..."
Just wait until an adult dies. You get tons of mail in their name. Some of it even tries to sell them life insurance.
Yes I remember that, but my eyes are actually adding elements to it and creating more noise around them.

If you want to fit more information into a smaller space a script without a 1:1 relation to Latin alphabet might be better. It's almost like being asked to learn another language, and there are already other languages with higher information density in their character symbols.
Usually the savings from employing these people, will end up being spent somewhere else(More eating out for example?). Allowing a different sector to grow to compensate. The money being spent on their salaries does not disappear... and has to spent or invested somewhere.
I guess as a bonus anyone shoulder-surfing your screen will think you're jacked-in to The Matrix.
I don't understand this mentality... At least by judging from your response, it would appear that Google offers superior service for you. Why not use it then?

Is the promise of no tracking/bubbling a big draw for you?
I'd listen to GEN McChrystal about 1) "how to not talk to reporters or 2) JSOC secret squirrel stuff. His role running Afghanistan operations was comparatively minor compared to what he did in Iraq. Of course, there's no way he could talk about what he did in Iraq.
Honestly, people "stealing" my source code isn't that much of a worry for me. People already have ten million dollar games cracked and distributed before they're released, and honestly, I don't think somebody taking my code would change much. If they try redistributing it, I still have legal rights to it whether or not they got uncompiled code.

My biggest problem is that you can have a completely working project that's literally broken overnight with a silent update. Operating system updates generally require the user to knowingly upgrade and there's always the implied risk of something strange happening. Developers can easily publicly announce incompatibilities with certain OS updates on their download page to warn new users, while an HTML5 game requires you to test every single release of every browser ever, and since everybody uses a slightly different version of a slightly different browser, it only takes one glitch for one person for your entire market to be scared off.

I never said I didn't anticipate things going wrong, but that when things do go wrong, it can completely out of control in the browser world. My development of games in HTML5/Javascript has been 98% pure bliss, but the thought of a single dangerous bug making it past the testing phase gives me nightmares. I knew what I was getting into and it was primarily a test of "can I do it?", but it doesn't mean I can't complain. ;)
That's only effective if you shop with cash.
> letters are difficult to distinguish and recognize on an individual basis

The important part is that the words are not difficult to distinguish.

> Put this all together, and you have text that's miserable to read.

Interesting how you can come to that conclusion in a few minutes. It would be tempting to write off Kanji if you encountered it for the first time, no? Give it a try before you shoot it down out of hand.
The ease of memorizing 26 letters is as irrelevant as the age of the Latin alphabet, really. This thing doesn't appear to have the least bit of intersection with any research.

I suspect it's an art installation or something though. I've seen much weirder.
if this idea has any legs at all, the first improvement will be to distinguish vowels from consonants ... and then to make sure common letter sequences that have particular meaning (English), -ing, -ly, -tion, un-, in-, etc., stand out visually. I can live without upper/lower-case distinction for most reading.

and common 1- and 2- letter words need to look unambiguous when floating independent of a readily visible base- and top-line you'd see in most longer words.
Maybe you can try to library for sound. SoundManager 2 does html5 sound and falls back to flash. http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

Apparantly there are issues with looping (http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/api/) but it points to (http://www.flickr.com/photos/schill/4499319436/) as a way to fix sound loops.

Regarding other technical problems: I've had that issue too with Chrome beta, using csstransforms caused my textboxes to be unclickable(but still tab-able). My solution was to downgrade to the normal Chrome version and hoped it'll be fixed by the time it hit stable.
There isn't a way to write one million in Roman numerals on a standard keyboard (it would be M with a bar over it, or "M" 1,000 times). Instead the shortcut "thousand thousand" (MM) gets used.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned 'cryptonomicon' and detachment 2702 so far. Basically, Target are doing the same thing, i.e. planting information to mask statistically significant results.
Hackers have a problem with Paypal...
... but there are several of us who work there, and are genuinely trying to make it better.

There is an internal conference in a couple of weeks, and part of what they are trying to figure out is why pp is not considered a "destination for technologists". I'm not 100% positive what that means, but in my mind it means that they recognize the company has moved away from its hacker roots and want to make it better.

I know that if you hate the company, then you have no reason to help us make it better, but if you're willing to tell me why you hate it, maybe I can use that to convince the organization to move in a better direction. This is your chance to tell me the things that you want the people in power to hear.

Posted from a throwaway acct. Gotta be secretive.
Yes, and that would be as simple as disabling HTTP in the commercial browsers (allowing only HTTPS.) The remaining handful of nerds who compiled their own browsers would require far fewer resources to track.

Note to self: don't buy a SSL certificate from GoDaddy.
Have the search results degraded that much in your opinion? I still find their results the most useful.
I totally agree. I'm not a Gruber fan and I've never owned a Mac, but I was still interested in his analysis of why they held the meetings in the fashion they did. Letting us in on some of Apple's inner workings and their collective "thought process" is a valuable service to readers.
Please explain the advantages of this over reading Braille dots (which lots of sighted people can do already), and please explain the lack of reports by sighted people saying "hey, I noticed that reading in Braille is faster and easier than with the regular alphabet."
A fie on on Forbes for slapping a click-baiting headline on another publication's professional reporting and hard work.

It's one thing to tweet about it, but to reprint numerous chunks of the original article? Wrapped in your own ads? How is this journalistically sound?
> letter frequency is not taken into account.

False.

> no capital letter/lowercase distinction

False.

> No circumflexes, accents, gravures, hats, dots, umlauts...

True, but not impossible to overcome though if you'd use your imagination.
You do know there are socialist models that also use markets?
But that would solve the issue of tracking issue by giving her a personal card to use?
Thanks for the link! Erickson's notes appear to be a treasure trove of insight into algorithms. I flipped to the section on dynamic programming and was impressed by how well the idea was boiled down. Also, sorry for the pedantry, but that link is to a 374 page PDF. For any one that is truly insatiable, peel back the link to algorithms and one will find an everything.pdf that is indeed over 800 pages!
True, but those unsolved, more urgent problems often require more educated labor. Many taxi drivers who find themselves out of a job likely don't have the skills necessary to quickly reintegrate into the labor market solving the tougher problems you're talking about.

As machines continue to replace humans in tasks that can be automated, fewer unskilled jobs will be left for less-educated segments of the labor force. As technology automates new processes that previously required human labor, the educational barrier to entry becomes higher for the jobs that are left, because the easier productivity problems have been solved.
I'm pretty sure it should stay that way... no?
Well, in all fairness calc() lets you solve a bunch of problems that border-box can't solve.
HATEOAS yes, "Hypermedia API" no -- reducing the distributed state engine of HATEOAS at the same level of RPC-style APIs doesn't adequately convey the purpose of HATEOAS
Regulations is one thing, but when do we expect self-driving cars to reach the market ?
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This feature isn't for us. Playing Captain Hindsight and telling a regular user "you shouldn't have opened that suspicious attachment" doesn't get their data back.

Put simply, a computer is a dangerous tool in inexperienced hands, no different than a table saw or a gun. A user has the ability to do serious damage to themselves, by destroying or leaking personal information; adding a reasonable safety feature that is activated by default is not an infringement of your freedom when you have the ability to disable it trivially.

Now, if we're talking the App Store, then I agree with you completely. iOS should behave exactly like Mountain Lion, and if I had my druthers, the level of vendor lock-in they employ on that platform would be considered anti-competitive and illegal. If it turns out that Gatekeeper is merely a stepping stone to similarly walling off the Mac ecosystem, then I suppose I will have to eat my words.
The register printed coupons I get have plenty enough digits on them to be individually tracked. I imagine they are, but I haven't tried to figure it out. Several uses do come to mind, tracking the campaign, linking credit cards, things like that.
I'm confused, didn't they open source it almost five years ago? http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2007/07/yslow_rel... (though the license is now BSD.. but is this newer YSlow a different version that was not previously open source?)

(Update: Aha, there's a blog post at http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/02/welcome-y... - it doesn't explain much to do with my question but it seems becoming BSD makes it more open source than under the Mozilla Public License? :-))