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Wow, I just tested this on an age old HTC Hero (Android 2.3) and it runs a lot smoother than most native apps. It even loads much faster. While it may not be the next Battlefield, I'm impressed. I never gave HTML5-games much of a chance for mobile phones because of all the additional overhead and quirks. But if it starts quicker than Reddit...
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That has to be the reason, because any software(libraries or executables) that contains SSL encryption code is covered as a weapon under export rules.
Why isn't there a Developer Relations department at Apple to handle problems like this? Apple has made billions upon billions of dollars because developers have decided it was the best environment to make money and they put their weight behind iOS/Apple, yet somehow stuff like this drops through the cracks.

I mean am I really going to feel safe quitting my job to make iOS/Mac apps if Apple can just cut off my revenue stream without recourse? This is an easy problem for Apple to fix and it'll cost them somewhere down the line where someone with the next big app decides not to chance it because he's heard that Apple may just dump you and not give any reasons why.
Unless the grandparent is on the GM of WP7 he should have the full IE9 Trident engine. Support isn't the greatest, as the vast majority of mobile sites seem to target Webkit, but it's far better than the release was. Tango should bring IE10
As of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), it's an improved version of the IE9 rendering engine, and is generally not bad. It doesn't work with a lot of mobile sites that expect WebKit (as with Opera Mobile or Firefox Mobile), but it's not a bad browser by any stretch.
Maybe, I haven't checked it out (I'm a diehard Apple Fanboy). But what I'm envisioning is that this model could be applied to various desktop software and SAAS sites.
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Indeed, a sizable chunk of those 100K individual customers are likely going to find a way to nag, review-extort, and support-whittle your $1M down to almost nothing.
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Also whether or not a year is a leap year is easy to calculate:

Year divisible by 4? => leap year; year also divisible by 100? => not a leap year unless year also divisible by 400
Not complaining, just thought it was funny how they had to have the last word.
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TL;DR version - another new guy discovers TCP slow start, and not doing it, wow major speedup! Now, imagine the whole Internet doing that, whoops.

I once peevishly pointed out that if you weren't required to stop at stop signs your commute would go faster, but if nobody was required to stop at stop signs it would be slower because every other intersection would have an accident blocking the way.

This is also very much true of TCP congestion control algorithms. And while a few people not using them can get away with it, everyone not using them and you will find your network latency goes from a median with a low standard deviation, to a slightly lower median with a HUGE standard deviation.

One of the things that slow start does is it spreads the change in median latency over a longer period of time. You can think of this intuitively where each new connection starts slow and then gradually gets faster, until it is as fast as it can be, and as more people start connections they start slow and get faster, while the current connections get slightly slower to accomodate the new traffic. The result is a non-chaotic adjustment of the network flow.

The converse is that everyone starts out going as fast as they can, they not only overwhelm the node the node ends up getting massively congested for a moment trying to sort things out. And of course IP doesn't care if you lose a fragment, you'll eventually resend it. So now during this massive congestion the re-transmits are causing more congestion. You get lots of pushback and finally everyone is back to a level where the network is doing ok with it and wham! a new connection opens up and everyone gets hosed again and backs off again, and then ramps up again.

Moral of the story, if only you don't do slow start you can be fast, if everyone doesn't start slowly, the network latency gets really unpredictable and poor.
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I don't understand. Your software works for months with 28 or 30 or 31 days. Why does it break for months with 29 days?

I think unless you're messing with non-Gregorian calendars, this is a solved problem. Am I missing something?
This happens all the time because of how confusing our calendar is. Lots of dates are figured out by counting the number of seconds since 1970. It's really easy to miss a little detail like a leap year, since they happen so infrequently and they didn't always exist.

It's not just Microsoft that does stuff like this either. Apple regularly messes up iPhone alarms during daylight savings.
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I've seen a lot of mathematical visualizations floating around, with nice JS widgets to tweak function values and formulas and whatnot. It'd be incredible to have a platform to build your own visualizations, built on top of a message board.

I'd imagine an interaction like "why does f(x-a) shift f(x) to the right and not left?", where teachers and students could explain the answer with a graph that showed certain values as you slide a knob to adjust 'a'. Using some cleverly defined/usable toolkit. It sounds really tough to pull off, but I'm optimistic!
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I can imagine a situation where a 20 dev shop gets closed because of something like this and they can't make payroll. There are lot of people here basing their company on an App in the app store. I'd be terrified.
Often times, enterprise software buyers have a large team working for months (or years!) to evaluate, test, and negotiate the purchase. In those cases, it's good to take it slow and steady with the customer.
Thanks for the comments, everyone.

It sounds like my instinct wasn't wrong. 50-50 sounds like the way to go.

Appreciate all your comments :)

Thanks
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Because they don't have to. Because they can screw you as much as they like, and you will still be developing for their platform, buying their hardware, paying for their developer program, etc. Because you have no choice - they are a monopoly in mobile space, and you can't just ignore them (while they can ignore you). Because by not being their customer you're hurting yourself more then them.

Basically, because they can.
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This brought a huge smile to my face just now because your blog is running on http://jekyllbootstrap.com =D

Very nice implementation of 'the minimum' theme by Yuya Saito as well.

Sorry if this is off-topic, I'm just happy to see your blog exist.
I wish I could blame my own impoverishment (and consequently my family's) on anything other than my own foolishness but I can't, so I donated. The money's probably safer with him anyway.
It's more complicated than that though. Slow start is tuned for long-lived pipes sending large files, which doesn't match the observed load. And in any case the congestion bottleneck on modern networks is almost always in the last mile to the client anyway: most web services can freely pump as much data into the network as they want[1].

[1] Jim Gettys and his bufferbloat posse might have something to say to you though.
That sucks, and I hope you get things sorted out. My apps are just for extra cash, but I'd still be pretty upset if I were in your situation.

Unfortunately, this highlights the drawbacks of relying on a third-party for all of your income, especially when the relationship is one-sided. Apple's App Store is an incredible opportunity for a lot of developers, but for the vast majority, Apple has very little accountability to you.

This is no different than the people who build a business around AdSense, only to be terminated and receive the silent treatment at some point - which itself is nothing new, as this has been going on with affiliate programs since I got involved with them in the mid-90's. If I've learned one thing, it's this: Don't ever build your company around another company unless you have a really good personal relationship with them or a strong, fair contract.
Realtime access to offline services via simple interfaces is awesome. I love Exec's UI because it exemplifies this.
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That's false. For example, I've done some work on computational models of the visual cortex. Researchers in this area have in the past made testable predictions about the structure of the visual cortex regarding for example, distributions of synapses, types of neurons and their function, etc. All this done based on computational arguments about time/space complexity, etc. The brain is basically a computing device, it makes perfect sense that it should be analyzed as such.
You are using Paypal for donations. There have been many horror stories on HN about people doing a donation drive and getting accounts closed by Paypal citing ToS.
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All that being said, there is still something to be considered about adjusting the parameters to more closely match the network as it is today. That's mostly what this is going on about, not about completely doing away with congestion control, but instead making it fit better with the higher bandwidth connections that exist. What the right changes would be I have no clue.
AFAIK the issue is the way they listen() to the socket, as well as whether the accept is concurrent in some way.
Post says the driver was benched at 25k rps. But yeah that C implementation sucks.
The converse is that everyone starts out going as fast as they can

As far as I can see, nobody is recommending that. This isn't about getting rid of slow-start. They're just talking about tuning the initial window to be larger.

If you were writing this algorithm today, you would look at the value for the window that most systems end up on and then pick an initial value just slightly below or equal to that. I doubt that number would be 2.
This is likely why he mentioned $10, the US monthly is $15
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Huh. I think Common Lisp would be a much better choice than Python. It's much faster, for starters. And it lets you do some fairly low-level stuff if you want.

In general I think Common Lisp's virtues as an implementation substrate for other languages are much greater than most people appreciate. It is flexible, expressive, and fast. Its dynamicity comes in very handy. And some of its vices -- its sheer size, its lack of orthogonality, and its occasionally archaic naming conventions -- are much less problematic for a language implementation task than they are for general programming.

There are exceptions, of course. You wouldn't want to implement C++ in Common Lisp. But for dynamically typed languages it ought to be a leading candidate.
It's funny you should mention the virtualbox gem. Originally the library did just what you described but the switch back to shelling out was made for windows compat in 0.9

Worth checking out again.
Yes, I think those bloated buffers can easily absorb 10-packet bursts. If bufferbloat gets fixed there may be packet loss in the initial window burst and people should adjust window sizes back down. But I wouldn't worry about less-slow start unless it actually causes packet drops.
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I don't know. I don't think it exists yet. But have you ever seen an expert using etags/search/debugger/etc to bounce around a large codebase? The location of the functions in the file hierarchy doesn't matter at all. The important graph --the important graphs-- are latent in the code itself.
He was exaggerating a bit when he said "tens" of years ago. It wasn't that long ago that dialup was downright pervasive in North America and Europe. At that time it didn't take too much abuse to discover just what an overstuffed pipe would do to your connection.

On the other hand, we have so much more bandwidth now. 56kBd is a fart in today's gale. Of course we shouldn't start out at full throttle, but the factor of 5 he's endorsing is virtually nothing and it still gives a higher proportion of overhead than we had back then.
Yeah, that was probably an exaggeration. Server-side third-party tracking is scary.

I use AdBlock and Ghostery to block pretty much every client-side tracking and analytics tool (including everything from facebook), so the best that I can say is that no data goes directly from me to an analytics service. But I honestly have no control over same-domain server-side scripts that pass my data to third parties behind my back.

At least they'll have to go through a lot of hassle to track me across different sites.
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This isn't just an Apple problem. There's a disturbing trend here. All of the dominant internet companies exhibit this kind of nonsensical "evil" behavior: Google, eBay, Apple and Paypal, to name the most salient examples.

Way back when, Microsoft was openly painted by Apple (and the Apple cult followers) as being evil. Interestingly enough, Microsoft never sought to have this kind of a death grip on its users, at least not by force. And, I've never heard of MS killing-off someone's revenue stream like that. You buy their tools and develop for the platform. They don't have a say at all. That's the way it should be.

Somehow a united front needs to be organized and presented to these companies in order for them to understand that they are causing serious damage.

To say that, as entrepreneurs, businessmen and developers we don't want to see the tech landscape develop and evolve in this manner is probably an understatement.

I wonder if CNBC might be interested in doing a documentary on the damage to small businesses and entrepreneurs done by the likes of Google, Apple, eBay and Paypal? That could be an interesting angle.
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Please elaborate on the details. This is something that should be brought to light.
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Divisible by 4 => leap year

Also divisible by 100 => not leap year unless also divisible by 400.

It's really not that complicated.

[edit: Oops. I messed it up. Irony. Fixed now.]
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Maybe that's why they cancelled the Zune in 2011 to avoid having to fix the leap year bug.
I'm not saying they aren't, but I wonder whether it would be helpful to facilitate it from YC's perspective (granted, I do not know what accepted candidates actually do)
I wonder if he's planning on figuring out how to make money from software sales in a way that doesn't involve Apple. They're total asshats when it comes to things like this.
One of the many issues I saw today was around converting times to and from different formats. Let's say you have a timestamp in epoch, and you want to calculate a year long offset. You add seconds_in_year to your epoch time,, and call your date conversion library to get some kind of iso date (dd-mm-yyyy). Yes, it's wrong because seconds_in_year is not a constant, but this stuff sneaks its way into a large codebase and nobody realizes because all the tests pass until it's leap day.

This is only the beginning, there are so many possible issues related to an edge case like this, while it might be a "solved problem" that doesn't mean it's something developers are thinking about every day. And don't even get me started on daylight savings time...
Also divisible by 100 => not leap year unless also divisible by 400. Complicated enough to mess up.
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Check out wikipedia's page I just noticed they have the algorithm spelled out in pseudocode ;p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

What baffles me is did they really have to rewrite that again somewhere else? Don't they have libraries in whatever language they are using with something to do the date calculations they need?
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This is very far off from what I am proposing, the Linux kernel team decided to implement a recommendation that is still under review by the ietf, every release of Linux from 3 onwards has IW 10 enabled by-default. Like it or not, IW of 10 is probably here to stay. The 3 line has 3 stable release branches, all with this change. The majority of web servers online are still running 2.
This is something that I think is slowly going to bite us big time. So much memory out there so much ability to "absorb" and retransmit. That gives the network a sort of 'resonant' frequency with respect to packet retransmission. I could imagine doing the Tesla trick of injecting burst of packets into the network at the resonant frequency and being able to get all the buffers to explode.
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Hm - spreading out the ramping-up over time may not be necessary for getting the window up to size while keeping congestion low. One idea that I found intriguing is "probing" the appropriate window size by "trying out" a large range of window sizes in a single round-trip time: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jasleen/papers/infocom09.pdf

So you can start slowly, but time isn't necessarily the axis along which your start is "slow" or "fast." I am really interested to see whether the above or a similar protocol will be able to spread out "slow"-start over an axis of window sizes that the protocol probes for. Then maybe we will be less concerned with who gets to decide what the initial congestion window is, because you can't ramp up too "fast" when you know what to ramp up to.
However, and probably due to Apple, the new Windows 8 tablets (and the Metro UI for all forms of Windows 8) will only run applications from their new Windows Store.

So while they may not have before, Microsoft is certainly not immune from this trend.
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On iOS, you can usually get sound effects or music working pretty well int terms of latency, but not both. For a while Android had decent flash support for multiple sounds at once in the browser. I agree, sound is really the most lacking in mobile browsers.
I think you've proven my point more than your own.

Just because a particularly successful combination of traits looks like a giant leap doesn't mean it is (consider things like Nobel Prize winners or Olympic medalists born to "ordinary" parents). Similarly, the relationship of the iPhone to its predecessor phones is tighter than you think. Almost all of the traits that made the iPhone what it is were present in the predecessor population of smartphones.

In particular, I'd say the iPhone is what you get if you cross two specific devices and add the mutation of capacitive multi-touch (and the inevitable march of Moore's Law, of course). Those two devices are:

1. the O2 XDA (full touch screen, no keyboard, "enhanced" browser with desktop-like ambitions [even if it was Pocket IE])
2. the Danger Hiptop (consumer focused device with similar built-in apps, centralized app download catalog / store)

Those ancestors were chosen quite carefully, of course. The manufacturer of the O2 XDA was HTC. A bunch of ex-Danger people (most notably Andy Rubin) went on to start Android. A smartphone cross in the iPhone's immediate vicinity was going to happen regardless.
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