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Your hunch is correct, Rust's developers have stated that Rust isn't aiming to be a language with which to implement kernels or device drivers.[1]

It's interesting to see that the domain of "systems" programming languages appears to be splitting into "kernel-level" domains and "perfomance-critical application-level" domains. In this light, it seems more like C++ is the one caught straddling the gap. Should be interesting to watch this space for the next decade or so.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-project-FAQ
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the Wall St logic is that since Apple are not spending the cash and it is just sitting there and earning almost nothing then you are better off giving it back to investors to invest for themselves (buying t-bills isn't hard, we can do that ourselves).

the century old idea of stocks (and what buffet et al subscribe to) is about generating a yield from profits. the secondary effect is that now those types of investors will buy into Apple since it yields a dividend, like a good old blue chip stock should (which in-turn raises demand for the stock, which in-turn raises the share price - meaning the cash is being put to better use).
What Apple will do with its cash has long been a topic for discussion, with analysts and investment specialists crying for a dividend
Calling Perl domain specific? I think those would be considered fighting words in some places. ;)
As I've said on HN several times, Disney.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=brudgers+di...

Disney would actually brighten Apple's halo, they have a devoted customer base which would accept the merger, and produce the most salable content in the world.
The board aren't the owners, they're just the board, the owners are the share holders. The company literally belongs to them, as does this money.
I'm noticing that a good amount of these successful game apps are remakes of popular children games and Milton Bradley games.

Angry Birds - Slingshot
Draw Something - Pictionary/Hangman
Words with Friends - Scrabble

You'd think that MB would do extremely well with their catalogue of board games.
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that's only true in theory. the largest investors are usually pension funds and in general they approve whatever the board recommends.
>> Apple has moved humanity forward

Twaddle.
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He's not saying that it's a zero sum game.

He is not denying economic realities, he is not denying the right for people to be rich, or to become rich, or to aspire to become rich.

He's just saying that a small amount of people helped themselves to a (too) large piece of the pie, and he tries to understand how we got there and whether or not this is a bad thing.
Link to non-swipe version - http://www.sofamoolah.com/personal/so-ive-invested-in-an-iph...
If it doesn't have a free tinkerer level pricing tier, I'm not interested.

This is what App Engine and Heroku have going for them.
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"Clay seems to understand that you cannot compromise."

Perhaps I'm cynical, but having had no experience with Clay this statement fills me with dread. Care to elaborate?

Edit: ah, I see elsewhere you've defined what you mean by "no compromises." Still, I'd be interested in hearing what makes Clay the front-runner in this field if you care to tell. :)
Intel’s New Xeon Chip Set to Storm the Clouds
Intel’s New Xeon Chip Set to Storm the Clouds
A relevant HN'ers blog post and the HN discussion:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Double+your+price+%28and+no%2C+I%...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639712
Why not buy Applebee's or invest in ice hotels?

At some level it's necessary for a company as tight and as focused as Apple is to maintain a cohesion in its corporate expanse. They could easily spend their money on growing the company in a myriad of ways. They could invest in pharmaceuticals or unicycles, but the farther afield they get from their core competencies the less likely they are to succeed, and the less likely they are to remain a single, cohesive company.

At the end of the day the key question remains: what is Apple other than just a big ol' wad of money? If Apple is something other than just an amalgam of various profitable enterprises then they should keep on being that instead of trying to be something they're not.
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Given that Google hired Guido Van Rossum and that python is one of the three (and up until very recently two) supported languages for GAE, I think we can safely assume the Google isn't entirely anti python.
The Cloud Continues Its Drive Along the High Street-as Two More Retailers Go
The Cloud Continues Its Drive Along the High Street-as Two More Retailers Go
Why on Earth would you want 64 bit ints by default, though? I'm not sure why they are thinking about changing it.
udev related? I'm having an udev issue on my Thinkpad T420s where udev doesn't detect the trackpoint if the touchpad is enabled in BIOS. The people that work on udev must have very little hair on their heads, I can only begin to imagine the frustrations of incompabilities and bugs they have to deal with.
I hate to say this is a bad idea, but dividends signal to the market that you have no better way to spend your money than just giving it back to investors to spend elsewhere.

Combining a stock buyback plan is smart at least because perhaps they can balance the two and counteract the dividend effect by buying up shares.

In reality Apple could probably just become a private company by buying back most/all the public shares, but I doubt they want to do that. There are obvious PR benefits to being the "most valuable" or "most profitable" public company in the world.

Also, as far as space travel and exploration, that makes no sense for Apple. Apple is not a company that invests huge in R&D projects that won't pay off for decades. It would ruin their incredible focus on what they are doing now and for the next 5 or so years. If you get too far out ahead, you build things the world isn't ready for yet or you stop executing on the here and now products and services.

Apple's still got a ton of room for potential growth on phones, pc's, and tv's. There are also a whole slew of "post pc" computing interfaces and devices that haven't even been dreamed up yet. Space travel would be a distraction.
The title is wrong. It should be "Why I Don't Want to Learn Go and You Shouldn't Either"
Economic inequality hurts societies: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
I'm not saying Rust will "fail" like Go seems to be doing so far

I think it's way too early to tell if Go is failing or not; it was announced less than three years ago. How successful was, e.g. , Ruby in '98?
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Agreed. If it costs money to learn how to use a new PaaS, adoption will most likely suffer.
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> This is what e.g. Haskell does, and Go as well, I think.

This is what Erlang does by default, GHC >= 6.12 will do it when using `+RTS -N -RTS` and Go requires explicitly setting GOMAXPROCS, the runtime defaults to single-threaded (as far as I know, GOMAXPROCS still hasn't been retired) and there is no way to have it auto-detect the core count.
He might have not said that it's a zero sum game, but you effectively did - "He's just saying that a small amount of people helped themselves to a (too) large piece of the pie"....pie being the keyword here
At the end of 2010 I think the war of H.264 was reignited and I am surprise that this time by Google.But still H.264 has some big advantages such as such as it supports efficient hardware acceleration and its also an efficient decoder of the browser.
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Several positions in the table ({ | } [ \ ] @) were meant for "national variants". I guess those characters were deemed unimportant at the time.

Here is some more info: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#national-ascii
The dividend and buyback has been an attempt to mitigate the stock price flatness problem. It's a very serious issue for the company, especially at the employee level (what's the use of stock grants and options if they have no value beyond mere cash payments?
For some reason the vertical split patch (available on Macports) stopped working once I upgraded to OSX Lion and I find myself depending on terminal "tabs" to mimic it (which is slow and painful). Well, maybe it's time to make the move to tmux!
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> I bet someone does it on their live site.

I doubt it, as this method breaks forward/back functionality, thus probably breaking most sites.

Having said that, for all links, you could do a further re-write using the history API, before allowing the redirect to take place. I guess that would actually make it usable even if, as you say, it's futile in the end.
What are their other options other than simply accumulating cash and not being able to spend it versus a dividend. Having a war chest is nice, but at a certain point it's being wasted if you could basically buy any company on earth tomorrow if you wanted.
Same here... when people ask "where will the next Steve Jobs come from" - my attitude he's already amongst us, and his goals are loftier and perhaps more socially pragmatic.

Keep in mind the man wants see Mars in his lifetime, taken in that perspective learning rocket science is a pretty small feat. Creating SpaceX is the first step to that goal, and leaving anything on the table - ie. just being a CEO/leader, and not being able to work hand-in-hand with the engineers/scientists he has under employ is a risk.

To me, the key takeaway is if you want something bad enough the seemingly difficult becomes doable.
Is it really fruitful for the country?And also how long it will be safe?
you mean an extra obscurity measure.
also, detailed complete list of changes:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/11.0/releasenotes/bugli...

SPDY support is of course the biggest deal IMHO

Firefox 12 beta1 is also out and working great without any extension compatibility issues for me (had to disable harfbuzz on XP though, they changed it again).

I'm now a believer in this "rapid release" schedule.
Of course it's not a zero-sum game.

We're a consumer economy. If the bottom 90% are having trouble paying their bills and don't buy as much stuff, the top 10% are going to feel the slowdown eventually. Think of it as your rational self-interest.

As a matter of fact, you know that graph in the linked article, how it shoes that inequality was way lower from 1941-1979? Guess which period of the 20th century had the highest GDP growth.

BTW, Bill Gates was in favor of a higher income tax in WA last time it came up, and as we all know is in the process of giving all his money away.
Then Apple can put their space exploration ambitions up to a vote of the shareholders, who are the ones who actually own Apple's money.

Hence today's dividend announcement.
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I wonder why they changed that particular character and not one that is literally everywhere in DOS.

I've wondered about that as well. My guess is that they looked at it and thought 'who needs two kinds of slash anyway?' I would love to know the actual thought behind that choice.
What about posting to HN like we did today, but with a little more lead time, maybe a week like you suggested?
No.

While the individual energy of a single gamma ray can be very high the total energy flux of all of the gamma rays is quite low, many orders of magnitude less than the power available from ordinary sunlight. Also, it's very difficult to convert gamma rays into electrical power efficiently.
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Open != free. H.264 is an open standard, in that the specification is open, and you can implement your own encoder/decoder as you wish. H.264 is not a free standard is due to the fact that you cannot implement anything useful without using some patented technologies.

WebM is free. Good luck implementing your own encoder/decoder.
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Patents on specific technologies expire, but there are always new patented technologies. I don't see us getting out from under patents for decades if ever.
> Standardized doesn't mean "open".

Nor does "open" mean "free".
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I was egarly waiting for this release.At last it comes----
> life is not fair

Then the line can very well remain drawn where it already is drawn: same price for everyone. Also, see top comment with an estimation how little price difference there would be between "petite" and "overweight". It would cost the airlines a lot more to implement this and then prices for everyone would be higher plus it will add a lot humiliation on top of the shenanigans the TSA is already putting you through.

This whole idea is nothing but minutiae and micro-managing, being lost in details and on top of that very unrealistic when you think about implementing it.

Also, I am surprised how quickly all human rights and rights of equal treatment suddenly seem to stop existing when it is about "fat people".
I can see that (and re: antitrust I don't think the gov would have a problem with an Apple/Disney merger either), but I think Apple see themselves more as the enabling platform.

Why take a risk on the downside of creating content when you can charge a 30% toll across all of it? Also a different type of business and model. It would also leave them in conflict with the other media companies.

What I could see is buying Netflix, but Apple would be in a better position to just build that from scratch with better terms (again, the toll for accessing the Apple ecosystem/platform/whatever-you-want-to-call-it).

The other one is Akamai - Apple has been a long-term customer (probably one of the largest), they are delivering a lot of content (and ever increasing) but don't have any real hardcore infrastructure in the way Google and Microsoft do.
Lastly, you forget that Marco makes his own business decisions

How so? I didn't forget that whatsoever. Many devs do make individual choices to support only one platform or another, for many reasons (business reasons, bias, etc). That's life.

The person I responded to claimed that Arment had empirical reasons for his claims. Hardly. Arment is a cheerleader of the worst kind, with little professionalism about the market as a whole.
People tend to define open however it benefits them. It's not really worth feeding the trolls.
That last two paragraphs really sum it up: We have no idea why this happens, all we know is that it's really really important because everyone (except for a few crazy libertarians) says it's a big deal. Even people who used to like Ayn Rand think it's a big deal, so you know it's legit.
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The thing with Go is, it's really easy to write your critical path in C and then write the other 95% of the code in Go and not have to deal with crap like null-terminated strings and a lack of built-in data structures.

Go has better integration with C than any other language I've seen.
Good read even if you're not an AWS shop. The interview has insights that go beyond AWS specifics such as dependency management in large-scale systems and relationships and roles of dev and ops teams.
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who cares what percentage of the pie someone has, it matters how big the pie is. Suggesting or alluding to redistribution of wealth will inevitably shrink the overall size of the pie.
For every Bill Gates there are many people who got rich by extracting a larger piece of the pie vs making the pie larger. Consider 401k's where designed not to maximize retirement income for middle class Americans they where setup so the companies that administer them could extract the largest possible slice of someone other persons pie. Over the lifetime of many plans they extract 20%-50% of all gains though direct and indirect fees. The SSA could administer the same program for literally 1/5th what people are being charged.

Many housing developers get rich not from building houses, but buying land and then rezoning it to be worth more and then building houses. Effectively they leverage an areas existing infrastructure to increase the value of that land without paying for it. And often the way the do this is though direct and indirect bribery of local politicians.

From this perspective the idea of zoning is simply a way for the well connected to make money. If instead you charged people for their share of the construction costs of existing roads, schools, bridges etc when they added a new single family home you could automatically pay for any needed upgrades rather than having existing homeowners subsides their infrastructure either by having already paid for it or sharing in the cost of building new infrastructure to support new immigrants.

Edit: Of course when you start to dig into things Bill Gates also leveraged his connections to make most of his money. The reason he could sell an operating system he did not have to IBM vs them dealing with the guy that created it has everything to do with his connections and nothing to do with him actually building anything.

PS: Often people get rich by doing both. They make a the pie slightly larger yet end up with a larger piece than the size of their increase. I would argue that the best way to separate the wheat from the chaff in this case is a direct tax on wealth say 1.5% per year on anything over 2 million instead of traditional capital gains. While it does little to those who are directly making money it drains the type of passive old boy networks that most damaging to economic growth.
Zayo to Buy AboveNet for $2.2 Billion to Extend Fiber Network
Zayo to Buy AboveNet for $2.2 Billion to Extend Fiber Network
19 famous software disasters and 1 movie plot.
Well we already know that crowdsourcing works for funding---that it works for coding is no surprise. The folks over in Bio have learned that lesson. All of which makes me wonder about a future (at least to me) formal mechanism to allow projects to adopt crowds as part of their overall coding methods. Parsing the useful from the cruft might be a pain, but it seems like it might well be worth it depending on the need and circumstances.
Are you denying that wealth has a gravitational effect towards wealth (i.e. it concentrates it) and that effect, when taken too far, has a negative effect on the society in which it occurs? There are plenty of examples from history (distant and recent) and plenty of studies to support the point.

A broader based of wealth occurs when a society is balanced not solely because of the supreme talents of an individual. You could have all the talent in the world but if the infrastructure is falling apart, the educational system is struggling, and there aren't people who earn enough to purchase your goods, what good will it do you?
Baggage storage is very limited and usually packed full way more than passenger cabin space.
lol actually this rise from being excessive chatting.I don't think improving writing skill is not very difficult for the native English speaking country.
Apple's cash reserves grew about $30B last year, they're announcing that they're going to spend $45B over the course of 3 years. Assuming the current cash reserve growth continues at the same rate, I really don't think the market will look at the dividends as not knowing how to spend their money...
HN's previous speculation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3682280

As for this Wired article, feel free to stop reading after:

> A custom framework allowed DuQu’s authors to meld C code with object-oriented programming.

The rest is just Costin Raiu spewing bullshit.
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So if a small group of people have all the pie, but that pie is enormous, that's great? Even if you are not in that group and will never have a chance to come near the group, except perhaps, if you're lucky, as a pie server or perhaps one who cleans up after the pie party?
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This problem, like many problems in the world are often examined only a few layers deep. The conclusions are always the same: Poverty/Slavery are the consequence of corruption, or an evil dictator of some kind.

While it is true that dictatorship, blind eyes and cruelty are the embodiment of these issues, religion is the sword that is wielded. Each year the west makes more progress in what I would consider the eventual realization that religion has no place in our society. We make the mistake of relenting that religion is used for moral guidance – when nations with higher atheism are the ones with the least problems. Tolerance of intolerance is not the moral high ground.

Toyota made the fatal mistake of making a faulty floor mat which, only caused a handful of deaths. In that, Toyota fired a fleet of people, re-evaluated their whole process while battling media and governments for months. We burned Toyota at the stake for a handful of deaths, but we pay no mind to the religious implications of our world's enormous head counts all tied to religion. We let millions of innocents die because, what? It makes us feel all fuzzy inside to say others benefit from religion? Really? Why doesn't that rule apply to any other regime or group of followers? And when is it ever a good thing for many people to forfeit critical thinking in place of a template?

Religion on our side of the world looks rosy. If you look away from the west, you will see how religion enslaves and dilutes entire populations into believing this is what god wants.

If we want to really solve the world's problems, we must finally stamp out the tools used to cause pain for millions, and if we look to the roots, the catalyst is most obvious.
Thus, the characters that appear in those positions - including those in US-ASCII - are somewhat "unsafe" in international data transfer

...

Systems that support ISO Latin 1 in principle may still reflect the use of national variants of ASCII in some details; for example, an ASCII character might get printed or displayed according to some national variant. Thus, even "plain ASCII text" is thereby not always portable from one system or application to another.

That's awesome! Hard to believe that systems have worked as well as they have. It's pretty obvious nobody was expecting that one day all computers would have to read each other's data pretty much constantly.

So I guess the question is: why did the DOS developers pick the character that happens to vary from region to region? I guess they didn't know?
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I actually found myself disappointed that it turned out to be something as pedestrian as C on Visual Studio - I thought (hoped?) it would be something really obscure and exotic.

I confess that I'm tickled silly by the whole mystery of Stuxnet. It must have been a fascinating project to work on.