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I see where you're coming from, but perhaps a better way is to make it possible to offer discounts for a new app. E.g. Funky App 2 at half price, and to be able to notify users of the app at that new price.

The rationale behind this is that users can still be notified of major release versions without forcing them to upgrade or die (sometimes people continue to support older versions for a bit while the new version gets traction). For example, the new version of Coda when it came out was pretty buggy compared to the older more stable version and app store reviews showed it, but there's no way for people buying Coda 2 on the app store to upgrade to Coda 3 at an upgrade price when it comes out. Having the ability to provide a discount for not only Coda 3, but other Panic software at upgrade time could generate more sales for things like Transmit etc.

I'm not singling out Panic, just a recent example.
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Almost all of these will never happen, since they are against Apple's philosophy. They've tried to simplify things (which makes sense for a small device), and get rid of old metaphors (files). All most of these things do is clutter things up for the average user.
Not to mention the ventilator, the HDD, and the rest of the electronic components.
No there are not. Not if you don't live in the States. The US is not the only place on earth you know :) It's hard/impossible to get anything new (and most things old) in other countries legally streaming.
From your link: "Initially, COMECON served as cover for the Soviet taking of materials and equipment from the rest of the Eastern Bloc, but the balance changed when the Soviets became net subsidizers of the rest of the Bloc by the 1970s via an exchange of low cost raw materials in return for shoddily manufactured finished goods.[46]"

So it looks like they used eastern bloc resources to restore Soviet Union devastated after the war. Explainable action under their their (enforced) ideology of socialist countries mutual aid etc
All true. I considered mentioning Excel, GUI builders, HTML, and flash (I'm too young to remember hypercard) but couldn't fit it into the post without rambling. That said, nearly everybody ends up at the command line eventually. Javascript error console, learning a second language, building a daemon or a library, what have you. Having started on GUI builders myself and stalled until I moved to the command line, I think that other paradigms are good for catching new programmers' attention, but the command line is where you really learn what's going on, and you have a slightly better time if you start out there.

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The target that matters is probably the high school classroom. $35 (or $100 if you include a monitor) is small enough to be covered by a bog-standard lab fee. They can't send a desktop home with every student - too bulky, wouldn't be homogeneous, even recycles are too expensive - but you can hand them all rpis.
maybe the biggest improvement in c programming over the last decade is valgrind, making purify-like debugging available to everyone. it's completely removed a whole class of annoyingly hard to fix bugs from my code.
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Huh, the vimeo one is weird. I'd think we wouldn't be able to hear them talk, let alone move boxes (at around the 1:00 mark).
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Yep and no; it doesn't suck; everyone just downloads them illegally as there is no other viable choice. Waiting for them to come out in EU is not viable; we live in a global, continues contact world; on Facebook people will be talking about the 'latest Game of Thrones' ep and you didn't see it.
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I have tinnitus and I often wonder how I would feel in such an environment and what the whistling in my ears would sound like.
This is why Zed pushed it so hard in Learn C the Hard Way.

Some people actually had the gall to complain about him ensuring the noobies learned to use valgrind before proceeding to write any real code.

Ingrateful dipshits don't remember what the pre-valgrind/dtrace days were like.
Invert your polygon (so all points at a distance `x` from the center get moved to a distance `1/x`), apply Visvalingam, then invert the result back.
And I imagine even them are not louder, just that you're a lot more focused on them.
Buying direct has another important advantage if the buyer doesn't live in the US: Pricing!

In the Mac App Store, prices in non-USD currencies don't compare favorably with the original price in USD due to the exchange rates Apple uses. If you can still buy an app directly from the developer in USD, the price is usually less than in another currency. In many cases, the difference in pricing is substantial and the developer gets more from the paid prices anyway.
four finger swipe left and right not good enough?
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I was waiting for his take on the framework
Looks borked from here: http://imgur.com/6ZDvR
Informational goods covered by copyright are ones already made public.
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It seems a superficially similar problem to 3d mesh reduction.
Yes

I remember reading one of the guides created by an American University to their foreign student

It goes in such excruciating details to things like dating, etc

I suppose this is for the benefit of students from some forgotten city in southeast asia that may think of getting a goat to impress the ladies

Still, it sounds awfully patronizing sometimes.
You have backups but apparently no feasible restores.

I have always an up-to-date image of my Macs created and updated each night with Carbon Copy Cloner (before that, I use SuperDuper!). In case of a problem with any of my Macs, I can simply boot from the image on another Mac and continue to work. If I cannot fix the problem, I copy the image to the respective Mac or a new Mac …

Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC): http://www.bombich.com/
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Input (Go):

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package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")
}

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Response: "This looks like actionscript. It could also be haskell, though. I'm not completely sure."

FAIL
Talk about being too smart to solve the problem... The article is comparing apples to concrete blocks. When you're hungry, you want apples. When you're building a retaining wall, you want concrete blocks. One can't substitute for the other.

Statisticians, academics, math enthusiasts, and People Who Spend Too Much Time Building Tables and Graphs want concrete blocks. They want to build a case or a report or something that suggests a point using a mathematical model. They deal with "statistical significance" because that's how the tools they understand work. Thus A/B testing.

Web workers, businesses, advertisers, people looking for better conversion rates, etc. want to eat. They want apples. Talking about statistical significance, trial sizes, and frequency measures don't help if they don't get more apples. The article showed that MAB gets more apples than A/B and by a wide margin.

Comparing the two isn't just missing the point, it's drawing an equivalency between "statistical significance" (whatever the tools say it means) and actual real world significance, a.k.a. better results. If A/B testing fails to even simulate better results, the proper word for that is worse.

(And don't even get me started about trying to run a statistical experiment until significant results are found... someday that practice will be labeled as fraud.)
Set it up as an internal SaaS tool. After you and others on your team have 'eaten your own dogwood' for a while, then start selling it. Even if it is a sideline product, it's still worth pursuing.
I'm not sure about the rest here, but as I have said before and will say again; I PAY (a lot if need-be) for your creative work IFF (if and only if) you make it trivial for me to purchase it when I want it. I am not going to jump through hoops, wait for ages because I happen to live in EU etc. I buy nearly every nice indie game that comes out, I sponsor indie movies; both are always super easy to get, worldwide without delays.

Edit: case in point http://www.humblebundle.com/ => how much easier can it get?
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The Prince is an excellent book. However, it provides practical and ruthless advice on how to run a country. It's insights into human nature aren't very helpful in how to perform in the business world.
I started with assembly language and I thought C was heaven. Of course, there are easier languages, there are more powerful languages, there are fancier languages and whatnot. I like Python and I adore Lisp. But I still love C most.

C is the sweet spot where I can extend my programs to do high-level stuff while still keep my hands down on the actual hardware I'm programming. I like that a lot, probably because I grew up banging hardware. Or maybe it is because I like to keep in touch with the actual device that I program: bending some definitions, C is what my machine does. Even if I embed Lua and script parts of my program, I'm still conceptually working on a C runtime, complete with addresses, pointers, integers and registers. That's why I also like LLVM as it abstracts away different instruction sets into a generic high-level instruction set, much like C abstracts different assembly languages into a generic high-level assembly language.

C also has the property of being most enjoyable code to read. I've spent a lot of time just reading C out of sheer enjoyment. C is tricky: it can be a total mess or it can be terse and beautiful and clear. No matter what, it describes exactly what it does to my machine. Read some of D.J. Bernsteins source trees to get an idea of how neat C can be.
It wouldn't be direct file access, but document access.

My vision for that is an API to expose documents in my app, and letting other apps open my editor in a fullscreen dialog, just like the email composer dialog.

The iOS today is very app-centric, and this would make it more document-centric.
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I agree, and I hate this.

Even more though, I'm sad that people are forced into a position where they have to run unethical services if they want to build services like this.

It is time content owners were forced to provide statutory licenses for streaming video content, just as they are forced to provide licenses for streaming audio.
Well the command line is simple, however it looks daunting at first

As I said - for certain definitions of "simple". For example

* Looks "daunting at first" means it doesn't meet simple if you're talking about approachability or initial ease of use

* Command lines if fantastic for many operations (piping is wonderful in Unix land, moving a stack of files based on a regex, etc. - all much quicker to do in command line land once you know what you're doing). So it meets simple for "easy when you know how".

* Selecting and moving a set of randomly named files - probably slower than with a GUI. (Doesn't meet "simple" for tasks where you can't leverage the command line advantages much).

* I really miss the pre-OS X Finder when I could have a single physical layout for my files and WIP. Made me stupidly productive.... even when I was just using my Mac as a chubby-client to my Linux box).

I loath GUIs for some tasks. Love 'em for others. s/GUI/command-line/ and the same applies :-)

It's just using words like "simple" without qualifiers raises my UX hackles (which are equally raised when GUI fans use words like "intuitive"). It's more nuanced than that.
Doesn't seem to be familiar with factor:

: foo ( seq -- nseq ) [ 1 + ] map ;

"This looks like ruby.
It could also be lua, though. I'm not completely sure."

I would have expected a guess at forth, but I really don't think it looks like ruby...
So it seems that there was a bug in the two factor authentication affecting "some accounts" during the recovery procedure (see the update to the article). Slightly worrying that the two factor authentication can be bypassed when resetting a password.
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Facebook lets you pay to promote your post
Now you can pay to promote your Facebook posts.

I can't find a blog post anywhere announcing this feature.

Some people see it as "Announce" while some see it as "Promote".

2 screenshots:

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I agree, I think this will also be the reason why iOS popularity will fade over time. Either they adapt and make their OS more powerful, or people will move to alternatives that let them do more quicker. Simplification was a good selling point but features will become important again as smartphones become the central window to computing .
See Grayling: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/10197-graylingsqu...

"'ethics' is either the organised philosophical study of the concepts and principles involved in systems of morality [i.e. a 2nd-order enquiry of morality], or it is the set of principles, attitudes, aims and standards adopted by individuals or organisations by which they live and act [i.e. a superset of morality]".
Cloudflare supports hacking group by providing them services -> gets hacked by them. Reminds me very much of what happens in every episode of 24, the terrorists kill their accomplices after they're finished with them, it never works out for anyone involved.
It is good to see an unbiased article admitting that iOS can learn from other platforms.
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ConTEXT, fond memories! ConTEXT was my favorite editor 10 years ago when it was actively developed. Nowadays I mainly use an IDE.
More info:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/asia/09japan.html?_r...
The headline of this submission is misleading.

tl;dr; Hacker used social engineering to add a secondary recovery email address to the victims Google account.

2-factor wasn't even enabled on the victims personal account but the hacker didn't need a 2-factor code to reset the password on the victims company account.

From the article:

Google reports that they discovered a "subtle flaw affecting not 2-step verification itself, but the account recovery flow for some accounts. We've now blocked that attack vector to prevent further abuse."
I love Eco's fiction but am now just getting into reading his essays. Which is the one you're referencing?
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valgrind, is only available for a few platforms/architectures.
If you are unable to writer proper C programs without valgrind's help, please go home. :-)
Which "hacking group" was supported by Cloudflare?
I'm in the camp (which might be naive) that if there are alternatives people wouldn't download illegally (as much). I never illegally copy Indie games or movies simply as they are easy to buy. The perceived pressure of 'pirating' might get people in the EU streaming content at the same time the US gets it within our lifetime. Without that pressure, there is no incentive for this. All people I know would never download/watch illegally if they could watch legally. This is simply not the case and so pressure needs to build in order to force the issue.
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Lulzsec was the most prominent, they used Cloudflare to keep their sites online, Cloudflare used it as a marketing tool, here's a blog post about it: http://blog.cloudflare.com/58611873
laughinghan, I don't buy your physical / virtual goods distinction. Your argument is inconsistent - if you were prepared to shoplift the same movie from a store I wouldn't agree with your ethics, but you would at least be acting consistently.

Good point RE social stigma attached to this, but IMO it's simply a reflection of the penalty most territories attach to physical theft compared to virtual. The latter is also a lot easier to perpetrate.

I can't cite evidence immediately, but it's fairly accepted that length of jail terms influence per-capita crime rates of most crime types.
So the total funding will be something like:

$484K =~ $316K from KS + $18K from YC + $150K from Start Fund?
I've had Macs around the house for personal stuff for a few years now. We have a Mac mini hooked up to the TV for watching stuff, and after putting an SSD and bumping up the ram it flies better than when I first bought it. No reason to upgrade, everything I ask it to do it does just fine.

I recently bought a top-end 15" Macbook pro for work and put 16Gb of RAM in it. Despite the positive experience with the Mac mini, I feel like I'm sometimes fighting the MBP to get what I want done. I realise that this is probably me not doing things the Mac way, but it is mildly annoying to say the least.

If Windows 8 is (as expected, and it was when I tested the consumer preview) similarly different, your point is absolutely spot on.

I'll keep the MBP mainly because of the hardware quality, but if I was buying it again I'd definitely reconsider - both against because of the differences, and for because of Windows 8 (and the touchpad).
You will never get that from Apple. What's more, you will lose that in OSes from others.
Why? Because file system is not a solution, it's a problem.
"Normal people" don't think in terms of file system, they think about their documents, spreadsheets, photos and movies.
Cooper and others wrote about that years ago.
But even after resetting the password, two factor authentication is needed to log in right? How was that bypassed?
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I absolutely love writing C. Up until late 2011, it was by far the language I used the most. I am now learning Lisp (not exactly, I'm using Lisp in SICP), and use Python more than before.

One thing I realized, is that reading C is more tedious than code in other languages. Sure that's a gross generalization and is not true for every piece of code out there. However, I find I have less troubles picking up a Python project, understanding how it's written and start contributing than I have with C.

A few weeks ago, I was looking at the code of Qemu. The code relies heavily on preprocessor macros and some weird gcc-only syntax that made my head hurt. It was difficult.

I guess what I'm trying to say, my only problem with C is that it doesn't force the programmer to write in a clear understandable way. Or maybe that's just me.
Lulzsec and the people that did this are not necessarily the same.

I find it a bit strange to lump a hosting provider together with terrorists accomplices.

News report about CloudFare and Lulzsec: http://www.it-networks.org/2012/03/01/how-cloudflare-kept-lu...
Depends what you mean by "proper". Any fool can get a C program to work, but ensuring there are no memory leaks etc is very hard without a tool like Valgrind.

If you don't believe me, just run Valgrind on random sampling of C programs that didn't use such a tool - I reckon it will find issues with most of them.
Can anyone think of cases where some blog post has been listened to by Google/Microsoft/Apple about what they, apparently, should do?
When I asked the guy running the local tourist/visitor-center in some small town in PA what to do out there, his second question (after 'where you from?') was: 'So how are you baptised?' It took me some time to think about an answer. This question was odd to me for a couple of reasons:

1) I have never been asked that question in my whole life.

2) I haven't been baptised.

3) I didn't want to offend him, so after some time I figured it would be more offensive if he caught me lying.

4) It still was uncomfortable because the german stereotype of the religeous american is one of a superficial radical. This stereotype would be tested the moment I'd answer him. Would he drop his friendlliness towards me? Would he treat me differently?

He was strucked by my atheism in third generation. His mood went down. He was honestly concerned for me. I think I ruined his day.

In conclusion: My impression of the religious american (the most religeous one that I've met so far) was a good one. He was open about his believe, believing it consequentially (from what i've saw) and not a bigot (he didn't drop his friendliness).
Has the Rotten Tomatoes API improved recently? A few years ago I tried to work with their site to extract some data and automate some of my personal movie recommendations and it turned out to be a huge mess. At a point their web interface even inserted place holders inside the query strings. If they made some improvements I would be happy to work with the site again.
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I know the groups are different, my observation was that Cloudflare supports these groups by providing them with services and in return they themselves become a target of such groups. My terrorist comment wasn't comparing them to terrorists, I guess a better point would have been "no honor among thieves". Cloudflare support these sort of groups and in return they are targeted.
It's sort of a chicken/egg problem, but I can't think there's not money to do it now after 2 years. subtle plug - jsmag.com and groovymag.com both do pay authors - usually $100-$150 depending on the length of the article, and authors retain the copyright to republish later.

I've had two or three authors over the years who've donated articles completely free, but the majority appreciate some payment, even if it is token. One author just told me he's buying a new macbook with the payments from his articles, so, over time, they do add up :) Not trying to hijack the thread, but I understand your point about payment, and it's been one of core things that motivated the publications - paying authors for the contributions.

Subtle plug 2 - we're always looking for authors. :)
Dear god yes, that is the whole point I've been trying to make. Thank you for that.
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Cloudflare doesn't necessarily "support" hacker groups- although their CEO did a great talk at Defcon last year about keeping Lulsec up (which I consider more of an activist group than a hacker group, personally). However, they do very little to keep their network safe- they have no dedicated abuse team (or, if they do, they're impossible to contact directly), are slow to response to abuse requests (if they respond at all), and even when they do respond take only the most basic steps to filter the issues (which takes literally minutes for their account holders to work around, and they don't actually disable the accounts).

Dozens, if not hundreds, of hacker and malware related sites use Cloudflare to mask their origin and essentially use the other shared sites as hostages. If you block one of the malicious sites then you also end up blocking legitimate sites, and since Cloudflare goes out of their way to not take down sites (even those hosting malicious programs- including the drive by exploits that install them) it makes it very difficult to trace the malware back to it's source or actually take it down and stop people from getting infected.
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I'm in the Boston area and this sounds quite interesting. However, I am by myself and all I would be able to ship are screenshots, logic/sequence diagrams...I am trying to build a web software for small businesses but can only do the graphic portion. Would that work?