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AFAIK Microsoft dominates in Israel because for the longest time their products had (and maybe still have) the best support for RTL text.
I'm working on something similar that I want to open source. Is anyone else interested in building an open source platform to do this sort of thing?
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ActiveX is (among other things) used to run JScript in the browser. JScript can be viewed as a super set of JavaScript and will allow you to interact with the file system and such.
Facebook to launch the new App Center
Sorta like a java applet, but more insecure and only works on windows.
This "nothing we can replace it with" sounded wrong to me, so I spent a moment trying to quickly draw on my tablet some possible alternate metaphors for many of the things used in this article, and I came up with these:

http://drostie.org/icons.png

(Disclaimer: my ability to draw is very limited so this looks unintentionally minimalist, because my "boxes" are just squares.)

You could have some convention which says, say, "the present file is a sort of ball or rounded object, the filesystem is a box where we can put our balls, the clipboard is some sort of stack of stuff," and so forth. Phones could look more like mobiles do now, if you put them in a bit of perspective and gave them a keypad. Rather than using the page for a generic document, we have the ball for that purpose, so we use the page instead to indicate printing, since you're converting the ball into a piece of paper.

I think wrenches, magnifying glasses, and binoculars can stay as iconic things -- but since people now use magnifying glasses for "zoom" we should perhaps stabilize on binoculars for "search"/"find". (And come on, I'm not Sherlock Holmes. I'm not trying to find a clue, I'm trying to find last night's homework.)

Email is much trickier; if we don't keep using envelopes, I don't know how we would iconify that.
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A more descriptive title would be good... but regardless, that's a pretty gushing fluff piece.

The Barclay brothers bought Brecqhou because channel islands make for handy tax havens, they use their funds to bully the locals on Sark extensively, and all those vineyards have been planted at the expense of large tracts of habitat for the native fauna (Private Eyes passim ad nauseam).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Frederick_Barclay#Cha...
I'll start with "the moral of the story" for me...

I need to stop taking articles so seriously and taking all of the fun out of an otherwise highly nostalgic blast from the past.

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This is an old article (2009).

Even so, I can't imagine that this is true:
"Click-for-click, nothing has wasted more time than Minesweeper...."

It's probably just hyperbole to get the point across, but to then come out and say that "The most successful game ever made isn't World of Warcraft"... really can't be said without saying by what qualifications you are saying a game is successful.

- If it's pure mouse clicks, I'm sure a gazillion percent sure that WoW has had more clicks.

- If it is $$$ than that's an easy one too.

- If it's time wasted... then I'm sure it's not Minesweeper either.

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> Why isn't this SVG?

SVG is a terrible technology with absolutely no support for scaling to small sizes (no hinting).
Nice. Suggestion: Make the default walkthrough speed only 4x. 10x is too fast.
What do they call it if it is a sportsperson repeatedly regaling stories of their "fastest of all time athletic performance".
Interesting. I just texted a friend "car insurance, need car insurance, buy a car and I need insurance".

My next advert on Gmail was "Ford Transit from £179 pm The Best Prices Guaranteed."

Possibly a coincidence, I'm not sure. I don't drive currently and haven't emailed anyone about wanting to or planning to, etc. I also use Ghostery and rarely am signed in to Gmail.
!g yeah, goodbye and hello google.
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"2) icon design business is going to profit."

Yeah!
I'm the same age and I remember paste. More commonly we had rubber cement, do you remember that?
Mobile Safari performance is absolutely worse than a native app. That is why I'd like to know how the HTML5 apps running within a webkit frame in the FB app will perform. If the answer is similar to a native app it would allow HTML5 apps to 'code once and deploy everywhere' within FB's apps. Which would be f%$&ing amazing.

I suspect however the answer is that they'll perform simliar to Mobile Safari, which as others have mentioned has some pretty severe limitations for all but the simplest HTML5 apps.
Downside to government getting involved in business transactions poorly, at least.

Denmark has quasi-standardized on a two-factor online security solution, NemID, which works fairly well, and is now used for login to most government services and most banks. Previous to the government getting involved, there were some truly horrid ActiveX and Java plugin solutions in use at most banks. The actual technology is developed by a private company, though; it was selected for implementation by the government, but not developed in-house.
>So, is someone going to do a startup to obliterate Adobe's print and graphics production monopoly, or what?

Sure, they would just have to build a compelling set of apps, for Windows and Mac at the least, that have 90% of those features that Adobe has built to their apps since 1990.

There DO exist competing products for Adobe stuff, but they are disparate. The best of them is Quark (vs InDesign). Final Cut Pro/Avid et co do a nice work against Premiere. Inscape is quite good to replace Illustrator, maybe Corel Draw too. Gimp is not there yet, but Corel Photo-Paint and Painter combined would make a compelling proposal. So, you have parts here and there, but not streamlined nor combined. And for all the "bloat talk", Photoshop can handle huge images with ease whereas lesser programs throw the towel even at 200MB or so.

(We have tons of 20% solutions -- they are not any good for professional printing and graphics work with the ease and breadth current designers are used to, even missing extremely critical parts, like CMYK in some cases).
But browsers are are allowed in the App Store. Indeed, you can download Opera for the iPhone or the iPad from the App Store for free.

There used to be a ban on apps in the App Store that share the functionality of the inbuilt apps but this hasn't been the case for quite a while now.
No he didn't.

http://www.europe.cnn.com/2012/05/09/tech/web/abraham-lincol...
What the fucking fuck, seriously, that is just a straight-up implementation of the pseudocode "Ranges can't be backward, can't start at impossible negative indexes, and can't end beyond the last element of the array".
Windows RT will apparently have an implementation of the classic Windows desktop with all the traditional Windows APIs, but only Microsoft applications will be allowed to use it. In fact that's the entire point of Mozilla's complaint - the bundled IE has an unfair advantage by being allowed to use the more powerful classic Windows APIs whilst other browsers are stuck in Metro.
Pixelmator + the rest 200 features pros use + an assorted family of products for DTP/Vectors/etc.
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Ask HN: Dealing with a crush at work
I work at and partially own a company that builds websites. My office environment is filled with photographers and designers with me being the only developer. It's easy to feel out of place in such a work environment, especially when you're the kind of person that finds it difficult to interact with others. Lately, I've found myself falling for a lady at work. She shares similar interests and we've had some long chats. Unfortunately, she works for me. It's made things difficult for me at the office and has been negatively affecting my productivity. I both loath and love going into work but not for the right reasons.

While we're not necessarily a tech startup, we are focused on making cool things in the digital magazine arena here in New Zealand. I feel this entitles me to post on HN and ask for some advice. Surely, we developers and entrepreneurs have faced a similar problem at work? What can I possibly do?
"The great thing about Chrome is that it remembers your preferences across all your computers—I only needed to switch to Bing on my desktop, and there it was on my laptop, too. (Thank you, Google!)"

Did the OP get it at all?
That's one of the reasons to ditch Google. Collecting data, no privacy, down to the tiniest details....
That's my blog. Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. Basically the situation hasn't changed since 2007, sad to say.
Looking at this and past news from Adobe (Flash stuff for example), makes me realize how good companies go bad and die.
Because letting in FireFox means letting in Chrome which means letting in Google to entirely subvert their beautiful new OS and turn it into ChromeOS. MS needs to be in a position - just like Apple - to ensure that browser based apps remain at least just slightly worse than native ones so they keep a chokehold on the tollgates to the river of digital money that will come flowing through their app store.
However you can't supplant Safari as the default app you, and as such the app in which other apps without any knowledge of the rest of the system, can send links to. Granted it's possible with custom URL schemes, but that means apps wishing to open URLs in external browsers need to know about those external browsers up front. You can't ask the system for a list of apps that handle URLs, and choose one.
If a car company sells you a car engine that bursts into flames, they're still held liable for damages. They can't just say "Uhmm... The engine may burst into flames, you should buy our next model".

The fact that Adobe can get away with this amazes me! With the theoretical engine problem you need to recall/repair each and every engine individually. With software, once you've developed the patch you can distribute it at next to no cost. There's no excuse for this.

Why can software engineers and companies get away with such horrendous practices?
I wonder if Windows 8 will be the death of the Windows platform. Horrible Desktop experience, great Tablet experience but no apps.

But if Windows dies, what then can replace it? Will we see another XP, except one that goes unreplaced? Microsoft making a U-Turn?

Or possibly, another Operating System? Android? Chrome OS? Ubuntu?

Whatever happens, Windows 8, its launch, and aftermath will certainly be interesting, "good" or not.
I just hate having unecessary cruft personally. I need to organize everything
Energize.js: A tiny JavaScript snippet to make links snappy on touch devices
Conversely, how about redesigning them for something older...
They had flexible cardboard cases once and were 8 inches across, so they were floppy originally as opposed to removable disc packs which had rigid platters. They were still called floppy discs when they stared appearing in smaller rigid plastic cases because the old ones were still commonplace and it reminded people they were the same thing.
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It's not clearer at all for me, especially when some of these characters won't render reliably on several platforms (for instance, the java char isn't showing in this browser right now).

Extensions and filenames can be made not to be so central, which I'd consider a more reasonable development over superficial silly hacks like that. This is IDE domain, definitely in 2012 and for years to come.

If you want to render your extensions to funny happy Unicode symbols in your specific purpose file manager, then fine by me. Actually storing filenames like that would just make you a number of new enemies.
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Quick OMG-google-translate-sucks-translation:

A judge has ruled downloading site The Pirate Bay will have to be blocked by providers KPN, UPC, Tele2, T-Mobile and Telfort.

The providers don't want to block the website, according to Tele2 it's pointless. The block can easily be avoided by more skilled computer users.

The Brein Foundation sued the providers in April. After an earlier law suit, providers Ziggo and XS4ALL were forced to block TPB. In England five British ISPs were also recently told by a judge to make the website inaccessible.

The Brein Foundation defends the rights of authors. Internet users can download music, movies and software through links on The Pirate Bay. The files that are offered often contain copyrighted material.

Downloading files isn't illegal in the Netherlands, but offering copyrighted files is.
Swiper: Mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions
Just because some of Stallman's predictions have become true, doesn't mean every stupid BS he says is true. As civilized people we should discuss and decide what is true and what is BS, which is what many do on HN.
I'm working on something similar that I want to open source. The idea is to be able to build apps quickly on the front end, and only have to mess with the back when necessary.

Anyone interested in this sort of project?
Vista? Actually I remember seeing flowers instead of mines in Windows ME already... Am I remembering uncorrectly?
Longer-term, one of the few rays of light for S. Korea is the work that is just starting around providing JS-based cypto in the browser (i.e. not via a plugin.)

http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/

http://domcrypt.org/

If you are interested in helping to get S. Korea off Active-X, your help in getting WebCrypto developed and standardized is probably the best thing you can do (as a developer.)

(I work for Mozilla but not on DOMCrypt.)
This is a great example of why governments should not pick the winners when it comes to technology (or any other competitive endeavour).
Ask HN: Dealing with ganglions/RSI
Just been to to doctors after noticing small cysts on my left middle finger - diagnosis is ganglions[1] caused by RSI (the constant nature of typing has worn out the protective membrane in places around joints in my finger, allowing fluid to leak out and cause cysts)

It's not causing me any pain currently, though I have noticed slightly decreased mobility in the finger they're on.

Doctors advice was mainly to invest in speech recognition software (I work as a support analyst/developer during the day and am bootstrapping an idea in the off-time) so I wondered if anyone else on HN suffered similar, and had any suggestions for things that might help (I mentioned it in #startups and was told that change of posture and exercises would possibly help, something my doctor didn't mention)

I already take regular breaks from the keyboard (usuaully 5mins or so out of every 60 I step away completely during the work day)

Oh, and here's what mine look like for reference

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/730422/Photo%2010-05-2012%2011%2012%2051.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/730422/Photo%2010-05-2012%2011%2013%2010.jpg

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cyst
Do you know why Chrome and Firefox are not on iOS? Because Apple only allows Safari Webkit. V8, Gecko or any other rendering or JS engines are not allowed.

Opera Mini is based on Webkit and does any custom processing in the cloud, which is far from ideal for users.

Why doesn't Apple allow third-party browsers? Because they might soil the oh-so-beautiful garden of apps that Apple is carefully curating. Imported roses are strictly prohibited, because - gasp - the thorns might prick the little soft fingers of these lovely obedient children.

Trillion dollar cash piles don't come about by playing nice with competitors.
The HackerNew extension makes searching from the search bar at the bottom of the page extremely difficult.
Citation required, my understanding is that CC predates emails and would designate those to whom carbon copies were to be sent.
It doesn't matter what the icons look like as long as they are different enough from each other to be recognizable.

Someone who hasn't used a computer before isn't going to know that a floppy disk icon means save, even if they have seen a one before and know what it is used for. For all they know it's means open a file.
For a titanium example I recommend Wunderlist. It is used by millions of people on multiple platforms, I use it everyday and it works well. Moreover Wunderlist is a good example for hackers because it is open source: https://github.com/6wunderkinder/wunderlist

main site: http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/

One caveat, I'm not sure how many of the current apps (there are 5 versions with an addtional blackberry app in private beta.) still uses Titanium, and Wunderlist has been ported to platforms that are not supported by Titanium. However I know that the first few releases did use Titanium.
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> No, but you're on the cutting edge of straw-man argumentation trivializing.

If only I was that good!

Research contributions generally have be novel AND significant. We have seen that novelty alone is not sufficient (sitting in the chair). Significant generally means applicable to a broad range of problems. Monads are significant, as one abstraction can encode a huge range of structures (containers, control flow, etc.) Building a game in Haskell is not a priori novel OR significant. People have done this before (e.g. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Frag). Haskell has good facilities for managing concurrency and state. It's not obvious to me that one would need to go beyond these to build a game. A game would probably need to bind to some C libraries but I don't see this as a significant contribution.

The original post made the following points:

- Writing a game in Haskell in novel (No. See above.)

- Writing a game in Haskell will generate significant contributions to the wider community. I don't see this.

Furthermore, it trivialised the accomplishments of both the functional programming community and those who really are on the cutting edge of research.
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Aren't sync items encrypted at the browser level? I thought they were...
You are aware that Mobile Safari (on iPad, I mean) is possibly the best mobile browser by far? All other browsers (I've tried tons) are much much worse.

I'm not saying I like how my iPad doesn't provide a way to change default browser or email client (I'd use Sparrow on my iPhone if that was the case). I think it's a huge downside. I'm just saying that at least in the case of Mobile Safari, the un-changeable default is much much better than the alternatives and no harm has been done yet.

I really wish they change this policy in iOS 6, though.
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(More sinecerely: Thanks for responding.)
Who are your users going to be? What are their use cases?

If you focus on including cool features, your program will end up as difficult-to-use bloatware.

(I am not one of your future users because I don't use Windows.)
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Given that right now there are already two more popular (extant) choices, iPad and Android Tablets, I fail to see how this is an issue.

Back in the day when Microsoft got in trouble you couldn't really argue it was feasible to get a PC without Windows.
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One could also consider using a Google scraper like startpage.com.
Sure, that's possible. But still - why not at least give artists that choice?
Except for me it's actually "yes" (with caveats - more details in my comments to the blog post)
NYTimes refers to Path as "a photo sharing application" and nothing more
You should let her know what you feel, talk about it and together decide what to do next. You only have a problem if the feeling is not mutual.

My wife is also my employee and we had no problems whatsoever.
Yes and no. There is a standard (microUSB) but they don't have to adopt it. The devices makers just have to make sure there is an adaptor to microUSB for their device is available (they don't even have to ship it with their device, just has to have one in the market somewhere). So much for standards I guess.
I've seen code (and still have the mental scars) that used VBScript on the client to open a database connection directly from the web client to the DB server - including the database username and password in the client code (this was, of course "sa").
Its whatever you make of it. The internet creates opportunity and solves problems of all types and all scales. It can mean anything to anyone. There's no such thing as a mutually exclusive definition of what the internet should encompass for everyone.
The best introduction I have seen so far is the Udacity course on robotic cars, although it touches very slightly the Kalman filter. I think the exposition, starting with the general case of bayesian filtering and then deriving from it several types of filters is very clear.

If you want to dig more I think the best book, by far, is "Applied Optimal Estimation" by Arthur Gelb. (I have not read yet Probabilistic Robotics, though).

Finally, a finer point of Kalman filtering which is not normally mentioned is that you don't need your distributions to be gaussian. If your distributions are gaussian the Kalman filter is optimal, if they are not gaussian then the Kalman filter is not generally optimal, but it is still the best linear filter.
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Couldn't the various JIT languages piggyback on the CLR? That is, they wouldn't JIT to ARM, but compile to CLR and then execute that.

Of course, that's some mighty overhead for "just one" platform.
He really meant national pride, and like any type of pride that can be justified or foolish.
> I have trouble reconciling 'privacy' and 'you can buy it'.

I'm not sure, but I would assume that the idea is that data from Adwords, etc. is more anonymised. You can't build a system that tracks peoples searches across visits (using cookies).
People have always complained about new versions of Windows. They bitch and moan and they cry and vouch never to touch it, but in the end, it does not matter.

Most people buy a new PC every few years and it comes with some sort of OS and it looks different every time. Whether that was XP or Vista or 7 or 8, they won't know. And consequently, we can complain all we want, but if it comes pre-installed and IT departments like it, it will work.

Don't get me wrong, Microsoft will die eventually (just like we all do), but it will be a gradual, less painful process. Maybe this is one of their last serious stabs at something exciting. But they will die of obscurity, not concrete failure.