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There's a wikipedia page with tables of differences:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_sy...

In my opinion:
OpenBSD - Focused on security above all else. Host project of OpenSSH and pf/carp/altq?. Lags behind on architecture support and performance (Previously poor SMP performance?). Primary use: Router/firewall.

FreeBSD - All around features and performance (zfs,dtrace,pf,linux syscall emulation layer). The most popular, and I believe has the most development effort. Popular freebsd derivatives: pfSense (firewall appliance), FreeNAS (zfs storage appliance), PC-BSD (packaged up for an easier desktop experience). Primary use: Desktop/server/firewall/storage/database.

NetBSD: Focused on architecture support. Supports 57 platforms/15 processor architectures: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/. Primary use: support on embedded/uncommon hardware.

DragonFlyBSD: Interesting technologies being developed: HAMMERfs (compare with zfs), application snapshots, virtualized kernel. Matt Dillon's fork of FreeBSD adding the spirit of AmigaOS. Primary use: Compute clusters?
haha, good question. I went back for my masters a few years ago in exactly that situation (but for the masters rather than a bachelor's degree.)

I was SO certain that I wouldn't do anything in CS. I took all my undergrad biology courses, and applied to biology grad school. And played with the biologists some. And discovered that nobody over there really valued my CS skills all that much! Bizarre.

But that going into a CS master's program I was able to get permission to spend well over half my time playing with biology and just coast through the program on my experience while picking up a new discipline in biology.

Harder to do that on an undergrad program, I guess, but I bet you can find some way to leverage all your experience.
Anti-trust is based on behavior, not strictly market size.

If you're going to pull in market size, you've got to play to the relevant market as well.

One of the difficulties of anti-trust law is that it's fundamentally about power, which is not something economists have a particularly good measure for, nor are they particularly equipped to find (or be interested in finding) measurements for.

Even in a monopoly/monopsony or oligopoly/oligopsony cannot dictate both price and quantity (supply/demand curve), though in the traditional economic efficiency argument of the Chicago (free market) School, the concentration of buying/selling power means that (for sell-side concentration) prices are higher and quantities are lower, or (for buy-side concentration) prices are lower and quantities are higher, and more net value accrues to the side with greater concentration. The Chicago School cries tears over lost market efficiency.

But that's a far smaller problem than that monopoly allows the monopolist to choose winners. Maybe not for all time, but it's the same argument that's been used against command economies, bailouts, and even just plain government regulation. Generally wrongly in the last case, and mostly in the second.

Free markets are based on the principle that buyers, sellers, and ideas meet on equal footing. Where an entity or cabal can select winners, what you've got is no longer a free market.

Which is a pity, as free markets are generally powerful forces for good.
It wasn't linking them directly but they eventually followed a path where the could make a purchase. I guess it's kind of a grey area but Apple's reviewers tend to side against you when it comes to grey areas.

I don't totally agree with their stance on this but I can see why it was rejected.
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"read/write to a DB is always slower than a filesystem"

This is patently false, reads/writes on a DB are often much faster which is why we use DB systems.

Even image data especially on write can be faster when written to a DB vs. flat file because of sequential writes. Small files are slow to write on filesystems which is why we have DBs.

In most cases with a high read / low write load it's certainly a better idea to put thumbnails on a CDN for a variety of reasons but to think that writing small chunks of data to a file system is always faster than a DB is to misunderstand what DBs do and when and why they are useful.
They are rejecting apps that use the v1.0 or greater of the Dropbox SDK, or apps that use the Dropbox OAUTH API.

Or, perhaps they're rejects apps that allow you to create a Dropbox account. That would cover all versions of the Dropbox SDK.

The specific reasons they gave are:

- "This app contains a link that takes the user to Dropbox via Safari".

- "The concern with this app is that the user is taken to Dropbox's website, if they do not have Dropbox installed on their device, where they have the option to purchase additional storage space."

How would you read that? They seem to suggest that you can't link to any page on dropbox.com.

The problem is that neither Dropbox's login page nor their create-account page provide any links for purchasing anything, nor do they provide links to Dropbox's main site. http://rfc64k.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/dj-xhtrivxl.png

So it seems that merely because the login page is hosted at Dropbox.com, it is forbidden because Dropbox.com can be used for purchasing things. That would rule out all forms of OAUTH.

Their proposed solution was to remove the "Create Account" link, but it's not at all clear whether that was the original problem, or whether it solves anything.

The bottom line is that if your app currently uses any version of the Dropbox SDK or the Dropbox OAUTH API your app may be rejected and you're now in a state of limbo.
What I found most surprising was learning that controversy surrounds the assertion that we are still evolving! The alternative hypothesis -- that technological and social innovation have arrested genetic evolution -- seems fantastical to me. The sun does not revolve around the earth; evolution does not bow to mankind.
The message is clear: If you put apple in your critical path, prepare for crap like this.
Dupe. Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3916826
"So if Apple and Samsung independently do this, there can be norecourse since both of them aren't monopolies even if they have around 90% marketshare together. Even though the harmful effects on the market is the same."

No, abuse of oligarchies and cartels are illegal too.

It is generally understood that small numbers of entities can form oligarchies with no explicit coordination, so independence isn't necessarily a defense either.
Missing the point: you can write a blazingly fast android app in c++ with opengl; but it cant do anything useful because it can't use ui components, and will be stuck with sucky custom in-game ui components which, I think it's fair to say, are universally terrible (the QT port being the one exception to this).

If you can in _any way_ achieve a method of using the existing android ui components and making them faster, this is a massive win.
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I don't think you need a certain percentage of a market for this to start becoming a antitrust issue. And it could be argued that they have a strong monopoly on Tablets at this time.

If this doesn't feel like anticompetitive behaviour, I don't know what does. They are using their rather large position in the smartphone/tablet market to enter another market (in this case storage) and snuff out the competition. And there are other examples.
Like hell he isn't. Go back through his comment history. He's arrogant, dismissive, presumptuous, and yes, outright mocking. This is, intermittently, his MO on other subjects as well, notably infosec, but it's been particularly bad of late in legal subjects.

I've often corrected many of the kind of misapprehensions he seems to see himself as on a crusade against, and it has never been necessary for me to adopt his abysmal attitude in the process.

Edit: To answer your added bit at the end, which has changed several times, I'm interpreting it in light of him. Hence my references to his past history. Some months ago, he went through a particularly nasty period, and when I called him on it, he outright admitted he was intentionally being a jerk.
>read/write to a DB is always slower than a filesystem

This isn't true and has never been true. If you're writing a lot of records, especially small ones a DB is often faster because the writes are more sequential and the database optimizes how pages are flushed to disk.
Oh. I thought they switched to stackexchange or something stupid like that. Whichever, I don't use the site much.
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Essentially, my own fork of 1.2.3. The later versions broke multiple file uploads. I have no intention of using Scala for work, don't wanna dick with massive changes for the sake of changes .. so no, no Play2 for me either.
Are there a lot of examples, where an open and developer-friendly platform came from behind and usurped the incumbent that was also dominant in the market? I'm not sure the Mac-PC analogy flies here since Mac wasn't dominant - it was simply an incumbent. The only remotely-related example I can think of, given my limited knowledge and wisdom, is MySpace vs Facebook. But then again, I am not aware if MySpace was a walled garden and made its residents claustrophobic.

Based on the examples I have witnessed, I simply do not have any hope in the existence of an open platform with Apple-esque quality and eco-system (the assumption being viable eco-system automatically implies major market share).

Sorry if I spoke in circles!
The problem with self-help books -- and I don't think this applies to "How to Win Friends", which is a classic -- is that their authors make money by selling books, not by taking their own advice. The average self-help book does not contain good advice, nor is there any particular reason that it should.
If it doesn't steal my credit card information, I'm not interested.

What can I say? I'm a traditionalist.
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The difference is that the title will go over 80 characters and won't make it to HN, this is not Reddit.

I don't get the complaints about the HN title, it's reasonably accurate given the space limitations and the forum further clarifies things. Not everything can fit in the title.

Also, I see a distinct lack of suggestions of a better title, just complaints that it's link bait.
What did I link to? I'm well aware of the Apple "rules" as well as the rationale behind them. If you have superiror knowledge about Apple that puts them in a better light, then please share details.
"writing erotic short stories in your twitter"

OT: If there isn't a novelty twitter account for this I'm disappointed.
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dsl, vdsl, fiber, u-verse, 4g are extremely location dependent (I live in a top 100 MSA and don't have access to video over any of those modes at home), and even directv/dish have certain requirements (namely clear LOS to the satellite). For me it's Comcast or nothing, and I suspect that's the case (substituting "your local cableco" for "Comcast") for a majority of the USA.
See this, right here, is an actual ad hominem argument. :)

You don't think that maybe this sub-thread is a waste of time? Your opinion of me --- which you can probably guess I don't organize my thoughts around --- does not change the fact that product tying isn't "per se" unlawful.
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Or for that matter, WINE?
I don't get much of what you are saying here.. Any examples? Why would C code be less portable than C++? What C++ brings there that is more portable than C?

I would expect the opposite - some runtimes do not allow exceptions, RTTI, dynamic_casting, or simply ABI interworkings due to name mangling and calling conventions for methods. Also virtual inhertiance and it's interworkings (where the this pointer is stored, and how multiple virtual ihneritance is done).
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No, Thomas, it isn't, because I'm not arguing you are wrong because it's you making the statements. On the contrary, as I said, you are largely correct. I'm arguing you're being an ass. Separate issue.
Trust me if I say that this baby's performance on large problems is to good'ole levmar what Ferrari is to tricyle. Or rather, don't, just benchmark them and see for yourself ;-)
Kier, Sameer and Co. have done an amazing job here.
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So far so good on this upgrade. Like all the recent versions I would seriously look at the changes to pf.conf. It seems like taking advantage of some of the new stuff would be in order.

Also, smtpd seems to be coming along nicely.
"I can unequivocally tell you that pirated media is lightyears ahead of anything available legally"

I find this unlikely. Piracy is just a copy. It's not like anything new is actually created in the process. You are getting a very nice duplicate of the original.

You are part of the entitlement generation. Since you are so used to just getting things for free, you will just keep making excuses to pirate when the company doesn't give you exactly what you want.

This will have many consequences in the future, including:

1) Commercial software will only be serviced-based. So, instead of paying one-fee for software, you will be required to pay for it every month/year. IE: the "cloud".

2) Software developer salaries will be much lower. Although not directly related to piracy, open source being so freely available means that businesses only need people to do updates (software mechanics not engineers).

3) DRM and more protections schemes. DRM was a direct result of piracy, not the other way around.

Continue to pirate all you want, but don't be shocked at the future you helped create.
Interesting, because the comments on other HN posts read like "There is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market", "Apple makes 80% of the money in the cell phone market, Apple is the only one making any money", "If you want to make money selling apps, the App Store is the best since it has the paying customers, Android is full of cheapskate freeloaders who want your app for free and install adblock". With the obligatory links to Asymco and Gruber to "prove" it.

Now it's kind of funny to see some of the same people make the argument in comments here that Apple has no significant marketshare or dominance of anything.
I'm curious, how did you find Hacker News?
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Yeah, I hear a lot of complaining about Apple here, but not much about how Dropbox's SDK update broke apps that would otherwise be approved, and now Dropbox has a new version that fixes the problem.
I have an older device with 256M installed that runs 2.2 and while it can slow down at times it does pretty well running opera, a mailer, navigation and google music streaming all in ram all on top of a bytecode vm. Lets not forget no swap space.

As a lark I just booted ubuntu 12.04 with mem=256M. It got to the greeter reasonably quickly, but it's been 10 minutes since i hit enter and I still haven't seen the desktop. I planned to launch chromium and thunderbird and report the swap used, but you get the idea. Its true that a lighter DE would be more usable, but I think you're looking at desktop RAM usage with rose colored memories.
I understand that you've been trying to make the point that this is a non-story (and I would agree with you, to an extent), but that was just rude and uncalled for.

Is it wrong for the GP to try and start a conversation about the morality of a company as large as apple, demanding such a large degree of separation between users and the ability to make purchases outside apple's control?

I'm about as 'anti-apple' as they come, and even I can see it was just a case of Dropbox's sdk doing something against apple's rules, but that doesn't mean what that what apple's doing is 'right', or even necessary for a corporation as large as them, which is what I believe the GP was hinting at.

In my opinion it's just business as usual. Just look at wall street, and all the large oil corporations and such; a company as large as apple doing something dubious is not exactly shocking. If anything, that's what got these large corporations to where they are in the first place. Is it sad? sure, but it's nothing that we haven't seen before...
He said it was recurring revenue and the context in which he said it implied annual. He also said they kept the team down to three until right before launch and only once they had predictable revenue did they start bringing the remainder onboard. He further explained that during development the team performed client work, which would have further offset their costs.
Try not to think in terms of server and client being separate machines. Or thinking that a server needs to be complex or able to handle an unlimited number of nodes. It's possible to be both a client and a server. And that is in fact what Skype was doing. Some clients were also functioning as supernodes.
Well, I think what is meant here is that for large chunks of binary data, it's faster to go through the file system directly than through the DB. But I just think that it's an irrelevant point in a very significant number of situations.
Sure. Not right now, they don't. My point is that if Apple keeps pushing the walls higher on its garden at some point people will start complaining. iOS could very well become the Windows of mobile. I can imagine a future where a lot of people will complain "I don't want to use iOS, but it has all the apps!". I personally have owned an iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, and iPad and I will probably buy the upcoming iPhone. Apple's walled garden restrictions get on my nerves, but they've been a subtle annoyance. I can live with them, but at some point they'll stop being a nuisance and become a problem.
Think of all the people you know who couldn't function without glasses or medication, and imagine a world where they all died. Evolution does not bow to mankind, but we've thrown sand in the gears for sure.
Congrats to all the founders!

First Etherpad and now Stypi, looks like this area is ripe for further disruption.
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Not if they want to run on Google TV, which doesn't support the NDK.
Adding this much complexity to avoid changing a couple bytes in a config file? Worse: if you fail to do it perfectly, everything looks like it's working but your traffic isn't passing through the cache.
>but don't go out of your way to improve your social skills, because they are not your most valuable asset.

There's a higher volume of people in the world who have succeeded through excellent social networking than there are who have through pure technical merit. (In terms of pure monetary success. Even though the people in the latter category have way more geek cred, and arguably contribute more to humanity.)

Like many pursuits, the benefit gained from social skills isn't a linear function. It's more of a diminishing returns sort of deal. Even a marginal improvement on terrible social skills will pay for itself at least a dozen times over.
To get a sense of Apple's power:

Via Amazon, download any sample chapter to Kindle on iPad/iPhone. Scroll to the end and click "Buy Now" this is what you'll see: http://i.imgur.com/Flqfp.png

This power is good when it comes to muscling user-friendly dataplans from carriers, but with other stuff they are really playing hardball
Well does your Windows XP breaks? Does it still work? Of course it still does, but you will have to pay if you want the new stuff.
I like .NET and I like Mono, but I was disappointed that the article showed no hard evidence of overall performance improvement for XobotOS vs Android. I understand that they probably have more important things to work on, but I hoped that if they could show concrete benefits even at this early stage then their work might pick up more traction. It was a fun idea to read about, at least.
I can't think of the name and some basic Googling failed, but there was a site where you created a profile and people could ask you questions. I'm pretty sure it was a YC company, and exactly what you're looking for.

I remember PG, patio11, Jason Shen and others on there.
i do interviewing/hiring for a successful startup, and, historically, candidates with physics degrees have performed very well.

the one concrete piece of advice i'd have for you is in line with what most of the comments are saying: build stuff in your spare time, make sure the stuff you build is front and center on your resume, and get good at algorithms.
I'm not bothered by much as a female in tech (and believe me, I hear a lot of ignorant, sexist remarks), but this comment really rubbed me the wrong way.
This shows just how differently Apple works. I've seen people from Google and Facebook commenting here whenever issues come up.
>so it would get more apps, and the platform would outsell Apple's iPad with its constraints.

Apple has that covered. You cannot make your services cheaper on other platforms. You have to charge atleast what you charge iOS users for the same service. This is to prevent the success of alternative app stores that will take only 20% or 5% cut. The new ecosystem won't take off because the existing developers cannot afford to completely drop the App Store to jump to a new platform.
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I think the app I made definitely applies here. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/superlasershark/id518924301?m...
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For a company whose figurehead once railed against porn, I find awfully amusing that its reviewers allow the fart apps. (You don't have to lecture me how fart != porn, although I have seen some overlap between the two)
Likewise. I asked about something between dev and the $200/mo. Ronin plan on twitter and received a rather snarky reply about how I was assuming there wouldn't be other plans announced in the future.

Maybe it's just me, but if you're going to announce the depreciation of a solution at a TBD date with no indication of what the advanced warning period would be, and this is the only thing you announce along side that, I think it's fair for people to ask about the gap they see. The announcement of any planned non-dev plans should have been right alongside the announcement that removes functionality; otherwise anxiety is a given.
The "remote storage" category seems to be the new platform battle. Apps and their per-user storage are becoming more decoupled (which is a good thing) and people are going to be picking a place to consolidate their personal storage. Companies offering this type of service are adding features to differentiate and (probably) increase lockin.

Wherever users put their data, and whatever remote storage developers support with their apps, will become entrenched.

Some big players so far (?):

Dropbox
Box
SugarSync
Google Drive
Microsoft SkyDrive
Apple iCloud?

A stardization effort:
http://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/wiki/RemoteStorage
It's like squeezing a balloon. We haven't alleviated the pressure of evolution, we've only shifted it. While science and medicine have ameliorated many of our biological weaknesses -- genetic or sporadic -- other cues have taken there place. What is (temporally) being selected for is a more interesting question.
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How is Stypi different from Etherpad?
@alex_g, thanks for taking the time to provide a very useful critique of the site. i appreciate you signing up and playing around with it a bit. i wanted to put it out early (flaws and all) to get just this type of feedback. so thank you. would love to hear some more thoughts. i'll follow up with an email if that's ok with you!