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1Password and Coda are both sold direct — what do you mean by "it's already happened"? A developer big enough to set up a direct payment channel is likely to see it pay for itself through bulk sales and site licenses even if that's the only reason they keep it around.

I'd also dispute your last point that we'll be able to clearly see the effects — despite the continued ability to sell direct (Developer ID looks like a great thing), sandboxing as Apple's chosen to implement it is going to result in fewer apps, not merely worse ones.
These guys were being dragged through the mud in public and they got their side of the story out there.

Are you really objecting to that? If it pains you to read it, I'd suggest not clicking.
Your friend appears to have lied by omitting key parts of the story. I'm wondering if he now has to worry about a defamation suit.

https://whoshere.zendesk.com/entries/21514943-the-other-side...
You might have been taken more seriously if you didn't misuse the world "steal" but...
I love how he went to them in the beginning to port their app, listed WhosHere in the search keywords for his app and then acts like these guys appeared out of nowhere to blindsided him.

I'm not sure how strong the merits for the trademark case are but I got no sympathy for this guy.
Same in Ohio and Cali; that is why the disclaimer must explicitly state that legal advice is not being provided. The key is that it must be reasonable for the recipient to believe that they are receiving legal advice. If they are explicitly told that they are not receiving legal advice, they cannot reasonably rely on what they are told.
> I'm tired of the fake arrogance in C.S. culture

I thought the same thing when the opening sentence of his blog post mentioned he had been coded since age 7. I have no reason to believe or not believe that point. But I don't see how that has anything to do with the problem he was about to outline in his blog. Apparently he has a huge trust fund... he could have opened with that.

But I'm still in the "they're generic enough that this shouldn't be a problem" camp.
Now after reading these emails, he comes across as a complete jackass.

I agree. But WhosHere looks worse for the options they're offering him. Both are pretty terrible.
This flies in the face of the extremely believable leaked photographs of the last week.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/29/3049874/new-iphone-backpla...
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I don't really see how you've come to that jump in logic. They seem justified in this specific case and I see no reason how them doing this means they would sell customer data or anything like that. They have not done it with the amount of users they already have. I'm sure they've been approached at this point by a company looking to get in while they can for cheap. It just seems like you are overreacting a bit.
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I use my phone as my "communication bucket". I'm only signed into FB, Twitter, personal email, and HN on my phone. When I get a spare moment, I check my phone. I naturally prioritize text messages first, then email, phone calls, twitter, HN, FB, etc. The key here is to be busy enough that you don't have time to check your phone.

Youtube and other online video doesn't distract me. I usually play one in the background when doing other things. I don't even like when news articles or blog posts are video-only. shrug

At work, my inbox is combo to-do list and "eventually get-around-to list". Each project gets its own inbox. I judiciously use rules to route mail to the correct inbox, and routine noise is automatically marked as read. At work, FB, Twitter, HN, texts, etc are still phone-only. (ok, I'm actually on HN at work, but that's due to under-employment :D )
I'd agree with you that sandbox entitlements offer a path to the future, if their proper name wasn't "Temporary Exception Entitlements":

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Misce...

Assuming that they'll be available indefinitely strikes me as a willful mistake.
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Meh. If you have traction, that may be true, but the typical startup has nothing except a willingness to work hard.
Not to mention that that post assumes that everyone on the planet as identically sized hands.
While we're playing the speculation game...

The ability to arrange home screens in shapes other than grids

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has shown me that the merits of arranging app icons in shapes are numerous. It's easier to find things.

Likelihood: Low

Sync galleries between devices via iCloud

I love the Photo Stream. Photos I take on my phone show up on my iPad and I can select the good ones to make galleries from... fantastic! Only downside is those galleries don't sync back to my phone, so when I want to show a friend on my phone the sweet gallery of photos from Friday night's party I can't.

Likelihood: Medium

Sync notifications between devices via iCloud

If I look at twitter on my phone, when I look at my tablet four hours later the same @mention notifications shouldn't be waiting for me. Ditto to every other app I use on both devices.

Likelihood: Medium-low

Gratis turn-by-turn navigation

Android does it, Nokia Windows Phones do it. iPhone should do it. Perhaps I'm just a cheapskate or perhaps navigation has been devalued so much by Google Maps' ubiquity but I don't want to pay for an app in the app store to do this. Apple bought a mapping company a while back - let's see something happen with it!

Likelihood: ????
Agree. Another way of looking at it is that It's five days from the time product enters Apple's system until it leaves Apple's system. If the product enters Apple essentially complete (direct from Foxconn?) then they really could turn over that quickly. In my experience, contract manufacturers are quite happy buy everything with their own money then send a single bill when the goods are delivered.

Another example: some online computer shops operate by accepting the customer’s payment then placing and fulfilling the order direct. Do these businesses display a negative number for inventory turnover, in that the sale has been made before the money has been spent on the goods?
+1000 for direct file access. Apart from this, I personally find iOS to be an almost perfect platform. But this single omission IMHO cripples it immensely - especially for content creation tasks.
> No. One. Cares.

Sadly, 719 pts and 198 comments (as of now) and a top 3 ranking on the front page (for the other story) for several hours say otherwise.

Everybody loves a David and Goliath story, and the one side of the story that was told first belonged to the little guy.

It was quite fascinating to watch the anger and venom build up in the other thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4055256.

I don't have an opinion on who's right in this case, but I've always found that in most disputes, the truth ultimately lands somewhere in the middle.
Reply to texts, etc without switching away from the current app.
try to make it a play on a famous scientist' name (ie Knewton)
That's not a good analogy. A better one would be if the Kleenex people reached a deal for a second company to market its tissues as "Cleenecs". My understanding is that that would make it easier for a third company to come along and use "KKleenXXX" -- they could argue that the word was becoming a generic term. (Trademarks can be lost if they wind up being used generically. Examples include "aspirin" and "elevator".)

But fine, let's leave the legal questions aside since neither of us is an expert.

I don't concur with your assessment of the ethicalities of the situation. Who's Here was up first and Hamachek knew about it. He could have picked a clearly different name, but did not.
I loved this part:

"What iOS could take from BlackBerry"

iOS already took BlackBerry's entire market. Isn't it kind of cruel to be looking for even more things to take?
The real question, is why did the administration leak the story, and why now?

The latest round of multi-lateral talks on Iran's nuclear program just concluded a few days ago in Baghdad. I think they're trying to send the message to Iran that they will never be able to have a clandestine nuclear weapons program. The world is going to know about it. So if a nuclear power option is on the table for Iran this might give them a little extra motivation to accept all international regulations/inspections as a precondition. What are they actually going to be able to hide? Not much apparently.

The other goal here is to make Iran's position that they only want nuclear power, not nuclear weapons, even more difficult to accept. They are enduring sanctions and refusing to accept all of the regulations/inspections for what purpose exactly? They could have had nuclear power years ago if they were willing to accept these conditions. The longer they hide behind 'nuclear power only' the harder it is to believe. At some crucial point I have no doubt we'll be leaking detailed information about their weapons program. When that happens Iran will have to probably admit they do want nuclear weapons and from there the war question pretty much resolves itself.
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Your experience is still relevant -- disclaimers don't work in every context. The danger is more relevant for a practitioner than a non-practitioner, since courts will interpret disclaiming language in favor of the "client".

However, based on your comment, it sounds more like you are referring to "hedging language" about the reliability of advice offered rather than an explicit disclaimers that the content is not legal advice.
Great point, that makes sense to me. Derivative malware is being created, and the administration went public to send a wakeup call to domestic industries to be vigilant. Rather than telling sensitive companies and organizations like Los Alamos, and waiting for a leak, the administration leaked the info to the NYT to control the message. Now that the story is out, the CIA/NSA can work with sensitive industries to contain the fallout of derivative malware like Flame.

The timing makes sense.
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Yeah, these emails strike me as the kind of thing you write but don't send. I only learned the "don't send" part after a rather too many decisions to send.
Use these sites only in incognito mode, making yourself login to them every time you want to use. It might just work on subconscious level. Remember to close the window every single time.
I'd say the coded since age 7 bit was to try to get people to emotionally connect with him, and thereby get the tide of public opinion on his side. Just one of the many possible tools in the chest when going to a public war.
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What utter tripe. The author of this article "worked at startups in Boulder, CO and New York, where she worked to develop communities and delight users."

Translate that into English as "has spent her time writing navel-gazing articles like this that are unnecessarily idolised by a ton of adoring fans hanging on to every word."
Great point. After reading the article, I completely forgot that Iran was still claiming that they didn't have a weapons program. This now proves that claim is complete nonsense and now that this is public, the US can show the UN security council and infinite amount of data that shows Iran has a weapons program.
"He's holding it wrong."

I don't have particularly large hands, yet have no issue with 4.3" screens. I wouldn't go back to anything smaller—the larger text (or ability to fit more text/contents of the same physical size) is worth the occasional thumb stretching (not that I have a lot of reason to ever reach to one of the top corners on my screen, anyway).
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Those are all good things but to me there's only one thing on your list that can instantly end just about any company with no way to recover. That's not having working backups. I would always put that one first!
Since you do not have the funds to hire a lawyer, it maybe better to look for a settlement in your favour.

Even if you hire a lawyer, they will attempt to stall the case until you run out of funds.

It maybe hindsight now, but I would of created a corporation and move all your assets under it, (website, apps, etc).

Not sure if you can do that now before the default judgement on the lawsuit. I would still hire a lawyer to do that just in case.
I agree. I used BiteSMS for a while when my phone was jailbroken and it works very well and is incredibly convenient. I wish Apple would include this functionality in iOS 6.
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On the contrary--they often go to great lengths to justify it. The German invasions of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands were deemed protective occupations, in order to prevent the Allies from invading them. The Gulf War was justified by a UN resolution. You can find some attempt, however feeble, to justify any recent military action.
As an American who does this in pretty much every conversation I have, this is a difference I would never have thought of.

Semi-related: Do other countries have fragments of speech used as filler such as "like" and "you know"?
I don't care how immature Brian is (and boy is he immature) the fact of the matter is there is no basis for the aggression that WhosHere put forth.

Brian is a douche for not sharing the whole story. He is a douche for saying he could make 400 an hour. He is a douche for pretending that he can't fight a suit when he can.

But the fucking fact of the matter is that he is right. WhosHere is not confusing with the stupid ass name Brian choose. Period. I don't like siding with the asshole cousin, but sometimes the asshole is right.
"Do you really think a successful business can be run while valuing your marks at a dollar? It's business."

To the degree that the business is selling trademark licenses, a case for extremely vigorous pursuit of questionable infringement is justified. On the other hand, if one's business is software development, it is hard to see the described actions as much more than a distraction.
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Their VC firm is Lightbank is run by two sleazy people. They are the same people behind Groupon. Their founders are notorious for their sleazy tactics, which are solely aimed at scamming investors out of their money. Never work for a company or get investment from Lightbank.
Ahh good call. I'm pretty sure the course description used to say java, so maybe the changed it once the course started?
I'm not a fan of huge displays but 4" is actually pretty tame by today's standards. Apple may have come up with the perfect screen size for a SmartPhone circa 2007 but today the vast majority of SmartPhones sold in the world have larger displays so clearly 3.5" cannot be the only perfect size. I do think they have stood by 3.5" in part to see if this trend was just a temporary divergence. Now that is has endured for a couple years it's hard to ignore.

The other factor here is I think as Apple has scaled iOS to include more features they have begun to hit the wall of physical UI space. Let's use Safari as an example. If Apple wanted to add 2 new major features to Safari that had to be quickly accessible where would they even put them? The UI is just about full. They would have to increasingly rely on pop-out controls and other less-than-obvious UI tricks which adds extra taps. The situation is even worse when the keyboard is active taking up half the screen. With the status bar and maybe a visible app toolbar you have about a quarter of the screen available. Reading text messages on an iPhone has actually become painful. You can rarely see the entire message without scrolling or hiding the keyboard. A taller screen fixes that. They may just really need an extra ~170 pixels of height to keep scaling these apps with new features that require UI space.
Bloomberg "learning to code", Obama directing agencies to have an API.

All part of politicians (particularly Democrats) trying to look like they have a clue. Give up already for heavens sake and get back to managing the deficit.
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The closest I think I've come to anything like this is a "soundproof" booth used for hearing tests. I remember that being eerily quiet (to listen for very quiet tones in headphones). Anyone know how this chamber compares to a hearing test booth? Sounds like it's probably quite a bit quieter...
What, nobody mentioned line printers. Dot matrix, ha! <a href="http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer.jpg&#... a pix</a> of the Control Data 512. <a href="http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer-open.... at that hardware</a> and imagine the noise it makes.

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Thanks Jake, but looks like it went under the radar :-(
The only thing I like about this is the fact that they "censored" out the email addresses at the bottom but you can still hover & click on them. :)
I think it would be nice if the linked kickstarter page (which has many "why this" and "what about that" answers) explained why they chose Python. I'm pretty baffled. Just because it's popular? Better to pick C# then. Because it's... er, I can't even think of another reason.
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Yes - this is probably the one major thing that keeps me on Android. Easy sharing between apps.
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Well, in that case refurb's comment is as confusing as the statement in the guide book...
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I think the idea would be for the Pearson exam to act as a compliment to verify your identity more so than demonstrate coding competence.

While the Udacity exam is the actual in depth proficiency challenge that employers will care about, the Pearson name gives some sort of assurance that this person did indeed pass a difficult coding related exam in a physical setting where we can verify their identity, reducing the likelihood that someone cheated or had someone else complete the Udacity course for them. The actual test questions might ask something like "How would you approach problem x, describe what language you would use and how you might structure a program," or for multiple choice, "Which of these is written using proper Python syntax" etc. If you have to learn enough to pass the Pearson test in the end, you'll still have to put in a large chunk of time, making cheating downright impractical.

End result, this partly addresses one of the fundamental issues with online learning that Sebastin Thrun has talked about before, providing a form of physical identity verification and association with an online student username. Of course, someone could always pull a bait-and-switch in the physical testing center, but that's a whole other ball game.
Right that's why you jit ahead of time and then load the result into executable memory when the app starts (vs while it's running)
What about bloom filter + sparse hash? You'd be able to see whether an object isn't in the hash table efficiently and pay the price of a longer lookup time. Could be useful for some situations with tiny true positive rates; say, a web browser's list of malwared sites.
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Sure in places like NY you can get any kind of food. But in my mono-cultural hometown there is little besides hamburgers or pizza.
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The exciting thing about APIs isn't what they directly do for non-technical individuals.

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