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> This gives Apple the power to censor software and is the a step towards App Store-only software on the desktop.

And that will lead to more open platforms being where consumers find the most innovative software, as well as being where commodity software is cheaper and/or better because competition will necessitate it.

Locking down your platform to prevent crapware that users don't want getting onto it is one thing. Locking down your platform when noncrapware that users do want is also available but only one someone else's gear is how you turn Apple back into being what they were before the iPhone: a footnote.

Of course, this does mean those developing for more open rival platforms will have to actually produce noncrapware, not the poor excuse for software many places ship today. It's about time our industry grew up and stopped pretending that shipping junk and charging for it is acceptable anyway.
"Top talent leave an organization when they’re badly managed and the organization is confusing and uninspiring."
Can't get closer to the truth.
The thing that makes me saddest about Einstein is that his last words are forever lost since they were in German to a nurse that did not speak the language.
> He sounds pretty fired up about this issue, which is one of the main reasons why people get into politics.

Am I the only so jaded to think that's comically naive? At least at the State+ level people (successfully) get into politics for power and money, period.
Maybe my sarcasm was too subtle.

However, people do switch to Linux all the time because "Windows got too slow."
What about virtual machines?

Let's say your OSX is locked down, but you can get a virtual PC app from the store that allows you to install Linux without affecting your OSX setup.

Now you can use your Linux VM to program anything you want and share it with a whole community of others who run Linux inside a VM.

Perhaps at this point this whole community grows big enough that it becomes the main target market for companies who produce "power user" software.
I'm not saying they said nothing about paying employees more, but that clearly isn't the focus of the article, thus the headline is still very misleading.
Good example of the term "premature optimization" misused by a management consultant.
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I'm not aware of the maternity rules in the UK, but I believe that in Canada if somebody attempted the same thing and didn't go back to work they would owe the maternity top-up provided by the company. Of course, there is a certain amount provided by national/federal benefits, however that doesn't affect the employer net-net cash if they get that back.*

I agree though that there is a certain amount of uncertainty when folks are close to coming back from maternity leave. However, keep in mind that the organization (big or small) would have had to fill the position in any case during the maternity period.

* In Canada, maternity leave can take up to something like 50 weeks if the father chooses not to use up their paternity leave.
Yes, the benefits from sharing your idea greatly outweigh the risks that someone will “take” it and move faster than you.

With Alikewise, my little labor of love, my decision to pursue it (quit my job) was largely driven by the number of people whose eyes lit up when I told them the idea. Keeping it secret, I might not have thought it more than a trifle.

On the other side of it, think of the chain of events that needs to happen for someone to “steal” your idea:

- They need to understand it like you do – the implications, the possibilities, the vision. Even people that “like” your idea don’t see what you see.

- They need to have the skills to execute it.

- They have to make a sacrifice to execute it.

- They need to get the first 30, 50 and 1000 decisions right.

Not to mention, spreading the idea is a great way to find a partner.
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I had a similar incident with them a couple of years ago (I think they launched with the same $100 coupon deal?).

As a result, I haven't considered them, or even went back to their site, ever since. So much for free hundred bucks.
Rapportive is perhaps my favorite - http://rapportive.com/ - it also has a single call to action, but I think the way they show off the feature in-page is even better.
Definitely a bit intense, but I agree with the sentiment here. It's a shame that someone (judging by the popularity of his reddit AMAs) so talented at communicating science and technology to the public could be so shortsighted in his view of spaceflight's future. In regards to affordable spaceflight, NASA can't, but perhaps SpaceX and other private companies with brave entrepreneurs at the helm can. It would be nice if Neil DeGrasse Tyson were to meet with Elon Musk and hear his vision of humanity's future in space.
The tool seems geared towards beginners, but there are very few beginners that would be exposed to it naturally without some kind of super value add that experienced tweeters would find useful. I would refocus the marketing, branding, and product towards them so that they start sharing how useful the service is (for more powerful features) and keep the beginner stuff for when actual beginners find out about it.
That's odd, because I've got 3 different Windows 7 installs here and every one of them allows me to drag the mouse cursor below the top edge of the taskbar while dragging a window.

I'm not suggesting you're wrong here, just that I've never seen the behavior you're seeing and I use Windows 7 frequently. Perhaps you have some option set that I do not.
"Use your monopoly"? What monopoly is Microsoft using?
I'm interested. I agree.

Apple's devices (and other embedded devices) will never replace PC's - and exactly for the reasons you state. Thus the Raspberry Pi and the PC (PC platform) have a bright future.

Apple's devices will live until Apple EOL's them.
I see too many numbers, it's not immediately clear what for. Maybe create a 5 second test to really help optimise it.
http://fivesecondtest.com/
Xcode is free (as in beer):
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/index.php

You only need to register in the iOS Developer Program if you plan on distributing your apps in the App Store.
I was excited to see this since just last Friday about half (~2500) of my Gmail subscribers didn't get my last Hacker Newsletter issue since it went straight into their spam folder, but it doesn't seem to provide enough information to really learn why it ended up there.
git config push.default current

might be a little cleaner :)
I have to disagree with your characterization of modern biology. I was more trying to make a point on the information value of talks versus papers. Your comment reminds me a frequent quarrel at my school on how math is superior to physics, which is superior to bio/chem. Of course everything in the humanities is "worthless." I don't what to attribute to you beliefs that you don't hold, but this is the undercurrent that I'm feeling: http://xkcd.com/435/

I do think there are many great papers coming out in biology today, and scientists are still fully capable of writing insightful books and essays for the general public. I can see why some papers feel like a collection of trivial data, but trust me, beautiful and convincing data is well appreciated. While exaggeration of results is also a problem, we are trained to read all papers with a critical eye. There are always good papers and bad, but here are some links to ones that I think are good:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v397/n6715/full/397168a...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7058/abs/nature03...
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(09)00963-5
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5928/807.abstract
(Hopefully you'll be able to access these - if not, that's a whole nother problem about academic papers)

I won't comment too much on your generalizations, but I want to note that it is hard to predict a priori which findings from academic research will become useful for industry later on. I think you'll find defunding academic biology to be a pretty unpopular viewpoint. Perhaps you could elaborate on what serious biological research means? (Plus, I'd say paying graduate students 30k/yr is a pretty efficient labor force)
I'm curious, why don't they just provide Windows Server 2008 R2? With the Desktop Experience installed, it's functionally identical to Windows 7, and you can license an unlimited copies on Windows Server Datacenter Edition, which is $3,000 per CPU.

I have a hosted WS2008R2 instance that I can RDP into and use for whatever I want. Are there some other licensing constraints that prevent WS2008 from being used in that manner?
I'm not sure that was his motivation. He seems genuinely motivated by the plight of workers in poor industrial societies. He just went about it in a way that has actually ended up hurting the very cause he was trying to help.

Which was certainly a stupid thing to do. Just not evil.
So the complaint is that Firefox tells you what version it is as opposed to Firefox having new versions on a timely basis? That doesn't make any sense.
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Interesting, our IT department is also in open warfare with my department. It's because the President of the company comes to me and my people when something needs to get done even if it's something IT should be doing. We have become the Skunkworks of the organization if something needs to get done they bring it here and of course that makes the .Net/IIS/"We only buy Dell" guys angry.
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Just about every developer I know has Firefox on their machine, but that's just because our automated tests tend to be written for Firefox. Almost none of the teams I have been a part of use Firefox for development, and even fewer for personal browsing. Chrome's market share grab has been quite impressive.

My most recent experience was with a client who was locked into IE for years, made the switch to Google Apps, and subsequently discovered the speed of Chrome. Phrased as "lots of our users skipped Firefox," it sounded like Firefox was in no-man's land.
I don't know when you were 12-15, but $99 at 2010 prices was about $34 in 1980 and $23 in 1975 [1].

[1] http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi
Free event at Stanford this Sunday, with the number of super-famous speakers verging on the absurd. A subset:

Nils Nilsson: A* search
Marvin Minsky: A ton of AI/etc. things
Barbara Liskov: Liskov substitution principle
Don Knuth: algorithms...
Vladimir Lifschitz: misc. logical AI
Ed Feigenbaum: expert systems
John Chowning: FM synthesis
Whit Diffie: public-key cryptography
I found it surprising Woz would support Daisey, given what Woz said on his upbringing in Jobs' bio. He said his father taught him to never lie, and therefore he grew up with almost absolute honesty, which gives him troubles sometime.
It's rather odd that a person who values honesty so much would support Daisey.
As systems become more reliable (Computers, Cars, Operating Systems) - the need for expertise is reduced. That's a godsend for those of us who use to spend days (weeks?) of every year providing computer support for relatives who's systems were constantly self-destructing.

I found this (recent) article in the NYT interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/automobiles/as-cars-are-ke...

Little details like this are what start to make a big difference:

"“The California Air Resources Board and the E.P.A. have been very focused on making sure that catalytic converters perform within 96 percent of their original capability at 100,000 miles,” said Jagadish Sorab, technical leader for engine design at Ford Motor. “Because of this, we needed to reduce the amount of oil being used by the engine to reduce the oil reaching the catalysts.

“Fifteen years ago, piston rings would show perhaps 50 microns of wear over the useful life of a vehicle,” Mr. Sorab said, referring to the engine part responsible for sealing combustion in the cylinder. “Today, it is less than 10 microns. As a benchmark, a human hair is 200 microns thick."
And that's a wrap.
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This statement just seems weird to me. So do you think a company should make profits that make it exist in a "meaningful way?"
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Great read, some useful advice even for us non techie readers
Yes, but Bell Labs is not a role model. (Many managers were a hassle there too ) There can't be more the than 5% of the industry doing what Bell Labs did or MSR does. So the interesting question for the 95% is, what makes the best of the rest, doing boring but profitable work, better than the rest of the rest? Even at Google, a very desirable corporate job, many engineers aren't really inventing the future.
the iPad is a _great_ couch, porch, or kitchen computer. Just because you buy one doesn't mean it needs to replace everything else :)
I was thinking the same thing. It would be really interesting if it went into details about which aspects of the message were considered spam-evidence, and how strongly they weighed in the decision. That might not be a particularly useful feature, and Google might consider the specifics of its spam filter to be trade secrets, but it would sure be interesting.
This article might have been wrong for HN -- filed in the Leadership section of Forbes, the author specifically calls out "very senior executive[s]" as a narrower focus on the original article.
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Collusion takes seconds to install and you can forget about it for months while it builds an interactive web of tracking.

Ghostery protects your privacy by blocking a large list of web spies.
That's really cool, I'd never heard of these. I imagine the flywheels are horizontal so that the bus can turn without trying to change their angular momentum, but I wonder if there's any effect on banked curves or going up hills.
That's true in the sense that factual correctness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for truth.

Take-away: Whether you're a journalist or not, if you're telling people a story that purports to be true, it needs to actually be true. Even in the case of 'pure' entertainers.
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Installing a large number of useful unix programs is difficult or impossible. This is getting worse (see the recent changes that came with Xcode 4.3). Fink/MacPorts/Homebrew are horrible kludges when compared to what can be done with a full-featured UNIX.

What it comes down to is that the most basic thing I can do with the default install of any reasonable UNIX system (./configure, make, make install) is not possible on a Mac without a lot of heavy and opaque lifting.
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Woefully incomplete. The article doesn't seem to recognize that talented folks can leave because their own goals have changed. Perhaps an engineer is ready to try new challenges that simply aren't applicable at the organization, or perhaps a manager has had a lifestyle change that drives her to resign.

Anytime somebody tells me "there's only one reason this happens," I get suspicious. Life is far more complicated than that.
Wrong. They are a stripped, gutted, non-traditional UNIX with a really nice windowing system on top.
Thanks for the tip! We will check it out.
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

Another name option would be "hypercube," which means the same thing. It does make it sound more related to "cube" though.
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Might as well post links identifying the two sponsors of the bill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rogers_%28Michigan_politic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Ruppersberger
I can see a few uses for something like this, but they are all really irritating to the end user.
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Wow, do you work at the company where I worked last? It's disheartening to see how common the situation is.

> the position is advertised for 20K more than I am getting paid

In fairness, it's pretty much accepted that you have to switch companies to get a sizable (say, 10%+) raise in IT. Not that it should be this way... but I think it's that way pretty much everywhere.
It's the free-rider problem. Prisoner's dillemma refers to making antagonistic decisions with incomplete information about other actors' intentions.
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I'm 25. Maybe I was born in a conservative family on spending but I would have to seriously push my parents for weeks to obtain $60 worth of something as abstract as a SDK (like they even know what it is...)!

And for families that live check after check, they often have a computer but affording a $100 license can be very painful, I was in that situation!
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> Am I the only one who thought that this was extremely unspecific?

He was specifically trying to boil down the One True Reason. Here are the original 10 reasons that were the raw material: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/12/14/top-ten-r...
Exactly, the language I programed while I learned about basic data structures (java) has changed a quite a bit since 1998, but the linked list is still the same. So are recursion, and the binary tree, and a dozen other simple concepts from that class. Similarly, I don't touch C++ or Oracle databases any more, but I still understand joins and how to go over data (fairly) efficiently - those really haven't changed either. If anything, I wish they had used a simpler language, and as a result gotten rid of the wasted hours of going over the languages (except maybe one in depth language course in something like java or C), and instead put more general problem solving (and solutions) into the material. That stuff is invaluable.
I should've also added "a poor tradesman always blames his tools". Next time!
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Looking in my own gmail spam folder, some emails have this different message:

"Why is this message in Spam? It contains content that's typically used in spam messages."

I'd guess this one means they inferred that it's spam based on the actual words in the email, whereas "It's similar to messages that were detected by our spam filters." might mean that it has a small edit distance from messages that have been explicitly marked as spam by many users (though it's definitely vague).

If that's the case, then it seems like displaying one of these two messages is pretty much all the information they could possibly give without actually saying exactly how the spam filter works.
This is just not really that serious. There is not going to be widespread adoption of serious programmers doing this in anger. I promise. It's not going to happen. It's fitting a square peg in a round hole. This attitude wants me to have this overly complicated setup to have a really horrible version of what I can do swimmingly well with a little Thinkpad or whatever notebook you like. Done and done. No nonsense.
I'm with you - I'm an amateur shutterbug with about 100K photos in Aperture, and my house was recently burglarized - they got my EOS7D and a bunch of glass. I promised myself I would _not_ purchase a new camera until I could get something directly onto my iPad. I went to London a couple weeks ago with my (ancient) EOS-10D that the burglars couldn't be bothered to take, and I found, that even though I had a zoom 28-135 + fully charged EOS 10D with the Lens cap off in my hand - most of the pictures I took where with the iPhone 4S. I knew that they would seamlessly get into my photostream, and editing/sharing them into path could be done realtime.

Part of the "Post PC" era, that I'm starting to grok, is also entering the "Cloud" era. Data that is not connected, or highly mobile, is much, much less valuable in that world than it used to be.

Huge (HUGE!) opportunity for an SLR with dead simple and fast streaming into the cloud/photostream/iPad.
“After we stopped going to the moon, it all ended. We stopped dreaming.”

Because we saw what it got us. All that money, effort, and enthusiasm got us a couple dozen guys on a dead rock for a few dozen hours. Adding a couple zeros to the budget improves the situation from grey to red rock. Beyond that, we soon get to what some writer (escaping me at the moment) noted: humans just can't comprehend interstellar distances, the vast effort required to achieve even mundane results. Too much cost for too little result. My hopes remain high, but my expectations are more content with what's happening here on Earth. At 44 I realize how short life is.
I would like to see a network enabled virtual machine approved for the iOS App Store, or the basic human decency of allowing sideloading on iOS, before trusting Apple with the OS of the future.

Now, Tim Cook has shown a good track record of undoing the most extreme abuses from Steve Jobs megalomania (you supporting employee charitable contributions, paying dividends to investors, admitting imperfections in factory working conditions), so there is hope that he will do the right thing for humanity with this issue too.
Just so I know: in what way is it gutted? Mac OS X fully meets the Single UNIX specification and thus is one of the few 'registered' Unices.
But try clicking on one of the letters to read it. Can you find any?
I've come to a pragmatic conclusion about this problem:

When an organization becomes very large, serious individual compromises for the sake of organizational effeciency become necessary. These compromises happen for the sake of allowing teams interact with hundreds or thousands of other developers to produce a large product (often at the oversight of a nontechnical executive). This is a serious turnoff to star workers who are self confident and prefer to do things their own way. Said star workers know their own worth and would prefer to work on their own terms again sans constant individual compromise, so they leave.

Mediocre programmers, lacking the confidence to leave, have a much larger threshold for such individual compromises for the sake of the organization. So they stay.
wow - what is up with their blog layout design? What happend to the simple google blog style?
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That option seems to be for loading previous tabs on start up. I don't see it doing anything for normal tab use.
Well, ESR releases of Firefox are one thing, but browsers do not actually implement different HTML versions separately or as one unit.