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Ok, with those semantics (and I think I understand the basis implementations that would cause them), do you perform the "resync" step (which has the property that you can at least get the catch-up changes in a single bulk and hopefully fast download for the entire bucket, even with the internal reordering that happened over time) as a single transaction (by locking the persistant store coordinator); and if not, why?

With keeping the objects on separate timelines, do you or can you run into any problems with CoreData inverse relationships? I'd be concerned that my objects would have issues where a change got synced for object A that had it linking to object B, but somehow my application crashed before it got the synchronization for object B sent. I can imagine various reasons why this concern is stupid, including "saurik doesn't understand how CoreData works" (as I only even learned of its existence a couple days ago).
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If this attitude from Adobe continues maybe there will be a larger drive toward open-source alternatives to Photoshop crosses poor student fingers
I pretty much use duckduckgo as my main search site now. Though I still use google for some queries each day, I don't feel as reliant on google as before.
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From the comment section, Mike Linksvayer quotes:

http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s

Why was SEED developed in the first place?

South Korean legislation did not allow 40 bit encryption for
online transactions (and Bill Clinton did not allow for the
export of 128 bit encryption until December 1999) and the
demand for 128 bit encryption was so great that the South
Korean government funded (via the Korean Information
Security Agency) a block cipher called SEED.
Refreshingly honest, considering it's written by an appcelerator employee.

The main concern I have about either of these is that there are no awesome ahowcase apps out there that prove they work well. There are quite a few awful ones. I am attracted to titanium's promise of native look and feel, but the author admits that there are unresolved performance issues and other drawbacks. Phonegap seems even worse when compared to native UI.

What is the best nontrivial, well-performing titianium or phonegap app you know of?
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You know, every so often, a Stallman item or quote or something shows up on HN and there is much wailing and laughing and mocking and gnashing of teeth.

Folks feel ashamed of his words, are outraged at his lack of tact and manners, and constantly and publicly denounce him as an anachronism, an inconvenient throwback to the bad old days of the free software movement. We drink beers, sip coffee, hack web apps, compare term sheets, and chuckle at this old goofball.

And then shit like this happens.

And you know what? Maybe he's right to be that crazy, and maybe we're wrong to be so dismissive and consider him so alarmist, and maybe everyone should take a good, hard look at what we value in tech and what we can do to protect it.
What gives me a bit of hope is the fact that after the scary letter with a lot of legalese, SparkFun and the Police Department were able to just talk about it as people and do what was best for everyone. The police was not interested in having to sift through a big pile of irrelevant data; SparkFun was not comfortable handing over sensitive information of innocent customers. I wish it were more common that people just talk and cut the crap.
You should check that statement again!

http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

The official 2.8 release was what, a week ago? I don't think it's a big deal if it comes out on one platform a few days late. :)
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What's really interesting is that a lot of these rudiments (save, open, copy, paste, print) simply do not require icons in modern software.

I can't remember the last time I saw a save icon in any of the software I use. Not because saving has gone away, but because it's so fundamental to document-based applications that it doesn't need a dedicated button to call it out, and having one just wastes space. Saving isn't special functionality requiring an icon - you either use File>Save, or Cmd/Ctrl-S, or even just close the document and follow the prompt to save.

Copy, paste, open, these things don't need to take up valuable interface space as if they're some novelty functionality that uses must carefully be introduced to. We don't need a new save icon, because we don't need a save icon at all.
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The phone is good but the windows market place sucks
> The United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to build well-designed cities that housed and employed millions, in part by persuading foreigners to invest heavily.

In part, yes. But rich "countries" generally exist as low-population centers keeping many people out with strong borders. The UAE keeps out the more numerous Yemenis next door, Hong Kong (all 7 million of them) the mainland Chinese, and Singapore (all 5m) the Malaysians and Indonesians. The richest countries, like Norway, Canada and Australia, are low populations with large natural resources.
I think the eBay (Android, at least) app is made with Titanium.
This was also the case in China when I was leaving there a year ago (and I guess it still is). A lot of website were working on IE only, and even if it worked on other platform to do a payment or access your bank account you needed an activex.
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One thing that came up in the discussion about some other related offerings (such as Firebase) is the question: "what is your durability story"? When I'm spending the time to store things for my company, I make certain to ask such questions as "is this data important enough to keep on multiple servers, or is having a backup sufficient".

When storing data in services provided and managed by other companies, it becomes more difficult to be certain that the risk tradeoffs are reasonable, as I'm in essence trusting that you aren't just storing the data on a single server in RAM on memcache or something ;P. Some more details would thereby be much appreciated.

(I understand, btw, that I can also have a server keeping a mirror of all of my data, which is definitely awesome, but I also would then want to get a better understanding of whether I would be a fool not to be doing that, or whether I can feel comfortable with having data stored on your servers ;P.)
A bylaw was created that said government Web sites must
accommodate at least three different Web browsers

They do; IE6, IE7 and IE8.
It isn't just IE that is a problem. The encryption scheme developed by the government is largely broken (due in no small part to IE and ActiveX vulnerabilities). South Korean banks and other organisations are losing money due to fraud and blackhat activity but there is next to nothing they can do about it. It's really a huge mess. That and the government's encryption app is closed source and not peer reviewed.

As always, the cause is that you are never smart enough to roll your own encryption standard. Any time someone asks you to roll your own encryption pinch yourself and smash your head on the desk, if you still want to code it smash your head again.
> But it's ok for Apple, but bad for Microsoft?

Well, Microsoft are doing something worse than Apple. The iOS browser is based on the open source WebKit, which Apple contributed a lot of the code to. There is nothing open about IE.

Not that that has anything to do with choice, but it'd certainly give me more of an incentive to try replace IE than Safari.
No. You could probably do it the other way around (i.e. run WP7 apps on Android), perhaps, but apps for Windows Phone are heavily locked down and the APIs are nowhere near as powerful, so there'll be things you just can't do. The only solutions are to switch phone OS, wait for apps to be ported or write your own :-)

By the way, you might want to change your title so that people know what this question is about.
I'm still pissed that Gmail's icon redesign wastes tons of space and is only marginally better when I put it in compact mode. I'm on a 14" laptop here, not all of us are carrying around 22" monitors in our pockets!
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I use both myself, depending on whether I'm using the mouse or a terminal, i.e. I "open a folder" but "list a directory". I've heard others do the same.
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Governments ought to keep their noses out of the internet for the benefit of all.

They have all the precedents and all the advice that they could ever want, all pointing to the disastrous effects of centralisation and monopolies and yet they keep pushing for them. I, for one, find it hard to sustain the belief that these kinds of decisions are 'innocent mistakes'.

Unfortunately the more likely explanation is that they care a lot more about their own power enhancement than about the general benefits of their subjects. I don't even mean any particular government. This is endemic for them all.

Additionally, in the particular case of encryption, they are terrified that someone might criticise them behind their backs and thus they keep trying to control encryption.
> they don't care about protecting the privacy of the people they're investigating.

That seems like an overbroad generalization. All else being equal, I'm sure the police don't want to compromise people's privacy. To be sure it's not their top priority, and if they had to choose between missing important data and dragging too many innocent people into an investigation they will probably err on the side of too much data.

Even if the police don't much care about privacy, there are a lot of people who do. For example, there's no way a court would let any of this subpoenaed evidence into the record unless it was specifically relevant to a charge being brought.
I agree wholeheartedly. I have a solution that I've been using for years - a stylesheet that overrides everything. I just got tired of having to adjust to different fonts and color schemes for each website. After years of using computers for 8+ hours a day I have settled on the perfect (for me) combination of color, contrast, font styles and sizes, button styles, link styles, etc., and that's what I want to see. If that's not enough I have a Scriptish script that formats any page to my specification with a keypress.

I actually think this is the future of browsing (at least for people who do a lot of reading in-browser). Books that used non-standard fonts and colors would be laughed at (say, Papyrus on a beige background for body text), but just because it's easy to go wild with websites doesn't mean people should do it.
Adobe certainly do beta test, they just get their paying customers to do it for them.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Right now I'm a cog in a big company and I know what I do isn't as valuable as what entrepreneurs do. I came in to a team who had a horrible software system, replaced everything and brought running costs way down by decreasing code size while increasing features and maintainability. But in the end, it's all for nothing. As soon as I'm gone the team will either be decommissioned entirely, handed over to some other team who will have no use for what I've done or outsourced somewhere that will rewrite everything again.

Big companies are just a game of musical chairs for managers. They just need to show something on their 360 reports so they can get a promotion and they couldn't care less what happens to their previous team once they get that. They don't even care about the company itself, only climbing the ladder. If the company fails then they can just move somewhere else with their new higher rung experience and start the climb again. If you're a developer in such a place either you're trying to play the game yourself or you're literally whoring out your mind and fingers for cash. The job itself is utterly meaningless and can never be made meaningful because what you produce is irrelevant. The only part that matters is the politics.

It's true that many of us end up here because we have no other choices, but it's important to keep in mind what you're actually doing. Don't romanticize being an intellectual prostitute. Save up as much as you can so you can get out. If you're happy to stay in such a place, then yea I do have less respect for you.
>"This upgrade addresses critical vulnerabilities in the software."

Not only broken, broken with "critical vulnerabilities." They have no shame, do they?
That sounds like a TOS violation.
hahaha. Next you'll be saying the programmers that did this will unionize.
Great! Looks similar to some scripts in scriptographer (a js scripting layer for illustrator) and paper.js

http://scriptographer.org/
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That's not something limited to computers or technology. Many entities are represented with an icon of the first or first popular iteration of am item. A train has smoke, lights are bulbs, authors use feather pens etc.

One could argue that it's actually faster to parse words than icons sometimes (don't know what traffic sign planners would think about that)
They might have until around 2001(/2002?) when they got serious about security, to be fair.
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I've tested several combinations of blocking, non blocking, readFile, streams (pipe) and using chunked transfer encoding.

Results vary a little but all way below the Vert.x results.

See blog post for the stats.
On HN I'd rewrite the last part of the statement "but it's only a big deal if Microsoft does it".

Around here, Apple can be as abusive and monopolistic as it likes, and nobody will raise their eyes from their MBPs at all.
Mobile web programming is a bloody mess
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@Taligent: "What an offensive and ridiculous comment"

What an offensive and ridiculous comment! Google for 'Hypocracy'.

Meanwhile, back on topic....

I came here Googling for the warning after receiving it from Facebook for this exact comment following the discovery of the 'beat box' feature in Google translate:

"Amazing! Personally, I think it's also very cool that if you type an English sentence instead and press the button, it will read the English with a pretty convincing German accent."

Spammy? Jury?
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...WinRT. It wadls written in c# which is where the issue is I think...

You can write WinRT in C++ as well. This was shown again and again on the Build Windows launch conference.

Edit: I don't know how restricted the WinRT APIs are though and how being restricted to those (as opposed to the traditional Win32 APIs) affects what you can implement and not.

Edit2: This post seems to answer it. Browsers will have issues.

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/FYI-No-JIT-on-Windows-8...
The problem is no one discusses the real performance problem.. specific areas of DOM and the way we use it for CSS and html decreases performance, and that is is sometimes different and sometimes the same going from a multi-core mobile cpu to a virtual machine...remember WebOS?
It hurts and annoys me to no end that web developers don't take a stronger stand against Apple for its ridiculous policies against allowing browsers. To me, the browser is the single most important piece of software on any computer.

People love to talk about how iOS native apps totally win over web apps. But do they stop to think why that is the case? Because, the one native app - a better browser - that could change the situation is not allowed on iOS.

Firefox and Chrome pushed the boundaries a lot when they first appeared on the desktop scene. But now they've become too caught up in standards compliance to actually do radically innovative things (except B2G, I'll admit).

I'm betting on a new kickass browser on Android to either force Apple and Microsoft to open up, or make them irrelevant.
A little history would help here...

Mozilla are a non-profit. They came into existence because round about the year 2000, Microsoft had a monopoly in browsers and operating systems.

It's hard to express how extreme this was, if you didn't live through it. Basically, the rest of the IT industry was being strangled to death.

Two companies turned things round - Google and Apple. Both depended on, and encouraged, the open web. Google fundamentally built all their products on the web, and Apple relied on the web being open so that OSX and iOS could compete with Windows. (Would people really have brought the original iPhone if 99% of websites hadn't worked on it?)

The only reason the web was good enough to allow new companies like Google and Apple to thrive against Microsoft, was because of Firefox (which created Mozilla-the-non-profit).

Firefox was THE project. It was a non-profit project. It could not have been a for-profit project (well actually, someone like IBM or Sun or the like could have done it in a visionary way, but they didn't).

Firefox was basically run by volunteers, including a massive, complex marketing campaign, which involved not just geeks persuading their friends and parents to upgrade to Firefox, but also people asking website owners to make their websites work with web standards, and hence with Firefox (at the time many websites only worked on Internet Explorer).

So apedley, your criticism utterly misses the mark. Sometimes there are factors outside of the control of the entrepreneur. Microsoft's monopoly of the operating system and web browser was such a factor.

It can happen again. (Likely some kind of oligopoly of Apple and Google :)
The difference between Office and Safari is Microsoft has a monopoly with Office and Apple doesn't with Safari.
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Firefox isn't the only browser allowed by Mozilla on Boot2Gecko. Not only would that be permissible in our web store (as far as I'm aware), but you could freely distribute it on your own without having to jump through hoops. That is one of the points of the project, and is very much by design. If the IE team wants to build a new browser for B2G, I'd love to see it!

(Disclosure: I'm a B2G team member but these are my views, etc etc...)
I'm 32, and I'm not completely sure what an actual jar of paste is. I've certainly never seen one. Logically, I'm presuming it's used as a paper adhesive (like wallpaper paste). I'd use the verb "to glue".

So "copy and paste" or "copy and glue". How does pasting go with copying? I copy something to the clipboard (...whatever) and then copy it from the clipboard to my document. How is that like gluing something? It really makes no sense.

And then I remember cutting. "Cut and paste" makes more sense. You might cut something out of a magazine and glue it onto a collage. Okay.

But the point is that none of this matters. "Paste" is a new word that means to copy something from your "clipboard" to the current location. It's not a metaphor anymore, it's a thing in its own right. A new definition for an old word.
Those of you who are surprised must not be actual Adobe customers. Only when you've been through the process of handing of thousands of pounds for their software will you realise how awful a company they actually are.

It's a more of a subjugation than a transaction, like a sacrifice to a cruel god, the cherry on the cake is you have to actually wait until a person "approves" your purchase/sacrifice.
Microsoft still has a business software monopoly with Office on the desktop. Using that monopoly to privilege their tablet platform over other tablet platforms (e.g. via better interoperability) can easily be an antitrust issue (depending on what they specifically do, of course).
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"Don't open TIFF files."
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Apple should do that.
Even without shared working directories, with the current branch as a dir workflow, you have no easy way to see what branches you have, how they relate, nor to express how they should relate (which one should follow which other one). For instance, this means that if I open a new branch on my public repository, there's no automated way for people pulling from my older branch to notice that fact. To me, it is a more compelling but rarely stated argument for in-vcs branching.
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Why not create something new instead of pirating someone else's work?
Perhaps because HD got railroaded by the TV people and now it's commonly taken to mean 1920x1080 rather than a DPI measurement?

Also, your "more technical" definition is off by a long shot; people have been using 100-125 DPI screens for years, that's 100+ and it's not what would pass for a retina display unless it was 40" across and you sat at TV viewing distances away. Retina is being used in the generic sense to say "2X the DPI you're used too", or 250+ DPI for the current examples available. But even that DPI measurement is flexible because it's related to viewing distance.

So rather than stretching for generic terms that dont actually make it any clearer what you're describing, lets just stick with "retina" until we really have a better term :)
One would guess that this is done by Adobe to push paying customers to use the new subscription program:

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/buying-guide-subscri...

The marketing ploy will probably be that with a subscription you will always have the latest, secure, version.
Which is interesting, because you'd think that credit card scammers would buy Bluetooth modules in bulk from Chinese sellers that are both cheaper and harder to subpoena.
OT: daeken, great to see you're now working on B2G! I'm going to their hackathon in London this weekend - can't wait to see a B2G device.
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