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> requiring that clocks be set to within, say, five minutes (Kerberos 5) is a design consideration.

Right. I love this. You can't assume it unless you document it as a requirement and make someone else make it true for all the systems your software runs on.

Never forget that specifications are a contract, an agreement entered into between the implementer and the user. If either side lets down their end, the agreement is void and the software can only fail. Either. Side.

Even if you have a mathematical proof that your software is correct, it's still only correct given certain assumptions taken as axioms in the proof. Violate those axioms and your software can't be held responsible.
Apple specs missing the number (and dimension?) of "antennae."

http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/renderingasset...
Make donation here to add unofficial support for Asus RT-N66U in OpenWrt:

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=37069

By the way, I think most TP-Link products are using an Atheros chipset. Very affordable and really well supported by OpenWrt.
A+ for following through, thank you. I wish my experience weren't so sour.
Don't pretend you're the world.
I'm a developer originally from New Zealand, lived in London also for a couple of years and now I'm in SF on an H1B. I totally second Alex's comments - SF and London are a world apart, and in almost every way I prefer SF; the only things I miss from London are cheap flights to Europe and curry from Brick Lane.

And truly, the weather is pretty good - never too hot, never too cold, sunny more often than not.

Other things that make SF amazing: Dolores Park (featured in Alex's post), food trucks, the hills and the easy access to wilderness, the number and variety of restaurants and bars, and so much more.
I dont see any reference to pen input in surface. Is it true that Surface has pen input too ?
Wow that's quick. Would it be too much to ask to see video of you opening a "not-so-small" project? Maybe startup time isn't my chokepoint.

But thanks for making the video. And nice title, ha.
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I agree with you. This is the device I want. I want a device that I can take with me, plug into a proper monitor, keyboard and mouse when I need to work, but use as a tablet when on the move or when lazing around.

The convergence would be perfect for me.
I can see several obsticles that will hamper the development of a fully web native environment. This is no way an exhaustive list, nor is it necessarily complete or correct within each item, so take it with a grain of salt...

1) Security. By default, the web is untrustworthy. This means we have to treat any incoming web page or application as if it were filled with digital anthrax. The browser quarantines the javascript and HTML. Likewise, the server providing the service has to treat the input from the client in the same way to protect against SQL attacks and other hacks. This limits the user to a whitelisted set of features that were deemed safe by the application's programmers. Apps have less restrictions, but the parent platform still imposes significant sandboxing to prevent malicious attack.

2) Platform. While the ecosystem for Apps and web applications is indeed varied, they depend on the complex abstraction of the underlying platform. In the case of the web and app platforms, this is the web browser and tablet/phone OSs. In the case of the latter, that means the developer is beholden to "The Powers That Be" in order to get their app accepted. This works better on the web, but to get that freedom we sacrifice access to the underlying OS because of the security problems.

3) Persistent Connection. There is no such thincluding contenting as an offline web app. While tablets/phones can enjoy a disconnected existence, most rely on the assumption of constant connectivity, which is no way guaranteed. I ran across this issue driving across Texas, where there are HOURS of no signal on the interstate 10.

4) Data ownership, persistence, and portability. This is a nebulous area that is very important for anybody dealing with intellectual property. Most websites TOS claim they own your pictures and content, and many apps either don't save or have a proprietary format that can't be accessed outside of itself. Portability and persistence are linked because we are dependent on these services to be always up. What happens when something crashes or the company goes under?

5) Money. Ultimately, servers and developers cost money. A service is a recurring cost. The user pays for this, one way or another, through subscriptions or advertisements. Apps can be immune to this if they are entirely independent of the internet to function, but there still would be a cost if only to support the developer.
For me it was even earlier, when they casually re-animated a 2000-year-old mummified head with what appeared to be a Taser, then promptly forgot they had that technology for the rest of the film.
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Why not just use objects in your favourite shitty OOP language as usual and take regular snapshots of the data in memory and save them to disk as rollback points instead? Bam! Nothing new to implement in the application. Bam! Lightening fast access and write times. Bam! Data persistence.

Bam!
2004: http://www.processor.com/articles//P2651/07p51/07p51chart.pd...

2005: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/08/68403?...

2007: http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-end-o...

2007: http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/brent_simmons_t.html

2007: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/who-killed-the-desk...

2008: http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/do-these-...

2009: http://allthingsd.com/20091119/chrome-the-end-of-desktop-app...

...Just a few examples. I'm just saying we've had this conversation quite a few times. Maybe this is the final nail, maybe it isn't.
Alright fine I believe you. I can't pinpoint why I have such an issue with VS. I mean, I don't have much use for it since I'm a(n) RoR developer, but I don't really know why I hate it so much. Freshman year of high school I took my first CS class in Visual Basic and I really liked it.

I said "I" 9 times. Sorry.
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I'm a computer science graduate (aka, I hope I'm a geek) who did the whole html / css track at Code Academy in about 3 hours (aka, hopefully I'm past lesson 0, I haven't taken any web dev classes or some such ever) but trying to keep all the possible tags in my brain at once is still hard. I feel like this kind of tool does nothing if the newbie doesn't know the tags to match the ideas they have for the page.
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Encouraging public services to clean up the streets isn't damage in my book.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2007/10/dirty-trick-cau/
"In fact, iTunes doesn't even exist on the iPad, so you don't really know what you are talking about, at all.
(edit: Two instant downvotes on this, but I notice nobody is refuting my facts.)"

Considering that Bud was spouting out of a bodily orifice, the rest of his argument is suspect as well. This, despite the fallacy of jrockway's argument deserves to be corrected.
It looks cool but what is with Microsoft's naming conventions. Apparently the official name for this product is "Surface for Windows RT," as it is referenced here:

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/about.aspx
Actually, you could program for the eMate (NewtonScript, which is surprisingly powerful -- you do need a mac to build the app but you could write code on the device itself, there were apps for this), and you could connect to the internet, too -- I had a PCMCIA ethernet card with a pop-out jack in mine. I fondly remember printing to a HP laser printer via the IR port in the library, bypassing normal printing limits.
"Screw-up is relative..."
Call me a cynic, but there's more to a good app than refactoring an existing one with a new UI.
I've spent many an hour staring at somebody else's code. I love it, but so often when I'm in the middle of a project I totally forget about those time's I've seen code that made me go "wow, I should do that."

Am I doing something wrong? Notes or something?
Just like how we used to call our computers IBM PC compatible.
Being pedantic; the stylus used here (and in the Galaxy Note, etc) isn't working off a resistive screen, but an active digitizer (likely N-Trig or Wacom).
If you ignore the RROD
Security. Portability. Privacy. Reliability. All of these are issues that present problems (non-insurmountable in the long run, but problematic in the short to mid-term).

Fundamentally, I'd argue that many users prefer to have their apps and data locally, at the moment.

In many cases, this is due to government or industry regulation – millions of HIPAA covered users/researchers will likely not move their data/apps into the cloud.

With the growing trade of industrial espionage and intellectual property theft, I fully expect that many companies will continue to be reluctant to put their data anywhere that will make it less secure.

Similarly, there will continue to be users who want to work in places where they do not have continuous or fast network connectivity (planes, trains, automobiles, boats, etc.)

Unless browser-based apps can offer local data storage and offline functionality, I'd argue that we're at least a decade away from such a mass migration to online services.
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I tend to agree with this. There is a lot of work out there on the PHP side.
Ahh didn't look too hard at the app, my mistake.
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I wish that could be the case, but the journalist's goal is to help the magazine profit, like any other employee. (For more info, Robert McChesney is a good historian of journalism.) The two roles are often symbiotic: the PR rep feeds the journalist. The journalist's company generally sells eyeballs to advertisers, which have interests in common with the companies that the PR reps work for. The reviewed company may even be a major advertiser.

(Of course, there may be some differences of interest, since they're not employed in the same corporation.)
Everytime I read about A/B testing I remember this posting about why you do better than A/B using solutions to the multi-armed bandit problem: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132
I'm a big fan of fluid http://fluidapp.com/ which lets you containerize web applications into a single app like thing. Also for mail, I'm a big sparrow fan.

If you need flowcharting/diagraming similar to Visio, Omnigraffle is great.
Yes. This machine may be The One. I've been craving a handwriting-friendly OneNote Extender for ~5 years. I envisioned it back then with e-ink for good battery life and as a dedicated, OneNote-only device. Times have changed.
Could the future be Gregg shorthand via stylus? Apparently over 200 wpm...
i just don't understand why they named the OS after the API it's restricted to, something consumers will never encounter. the end result of WinRT is just Metro, something marketable and relatable. why the hell don't you just call it Windows Metro, Microsoft?
Remember the original iPod commercials? They were completely devoid of "meaningful content"; it was just people dancing. Consumers went apeshit for it.
Ah thanks, I misread the CES announcement as 2011 sales, not cumulative sales. 9 million a year isn't much compared to Apple selling 315 million iOS devices since it all started. Not to mention all the notebooks, iPods and desktops shipped.
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I guess I'm old and inept, but I've never gotten a QR code to scan properly with a "click of a button."
It's perfectly equivalently poor.

What makes those platform APIs useful are all the tools they provide to simplify the creation of great, well-performing UIs that exceed the user's expectations.
Speaking of routers, did anyone ever get a free Bismark router from last year? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2782504
I run a small site[1] that links to most of the popular developer job boards, and I browse most of them intermittently. Even a site like StackOverflow Careers only gets a few posts per week for a location like Boston.

Are you charging money to post? Do you have any incentives for developers to sign up (like email notifications) or is it a chicken-and-the-egg problem?

[1] http://careers.sh/ (no ads or referral links)
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> amazed that they could get wifi without paying TW $5/month

Hm. I'm kind of amazed leasing a router from TW wasn't written into the contract.
Any updates on the status of freedombox on this front?
Or you'd have sidewalks totally littered with advertisements.
Long story short, not a single bid. A lot of people would ask some questions, but would seem to ignore the info on the page. I didn't bother paying extra to have them tweet the site on their twitter, since they tweet seemingly hundreds of times a day and nobody seems to listen.

I'm used to selling items on the Envato marketplace, which provides all of the 'advertising' for me. But it seems that with Flippa, there is so much noise and one has to do their own finding of buyers.
Whatever was serving their .js files seemed to be down.
Can't wait to see how well the Pro version runs with Norton or McAfee burning up cpu cycles. Hope that's not the "desktop" experience they're aiming for.
Ah, you are of course right, I apologise. The update just hadn't been pushed to the ftp yet.

(As an aside, it still hardlocks my computer...but according to their forums, they "are working on a fix" for the soon-to-come 304.*)
I do wonder a bit, how will this blurring of the laptop/tablet line affect their cash cow, Microsoft Office? The business world is trained to believe: they NEED office, and office == productivity. The iPad, long without these apps, challenged this ideal. How would the tablet world spilling into the laptop world affect Office sales...
But thats what this shift to cloud computing is about. Web applications simply shift all difficult computation to the server and deliver the results straight to the client. As for client-side JS code, your point about the increased resource usage is correct, but moot for the next 5-10 years IMO. Hardware is going to follow Moore's law for a few years at the least, and as long as that happens, the efficiency simply isn't an important factor for most applications. History has shown that (at least as long as Moore's law holds) the tradeoff between developer time vs. running time is constantly shifted to favor developers.
nope. you're definitely a troll
About point 3. That solution is actually already pretty well in place for some browsers, people just haven't been building them out yet.

http://usejquery.com/posts/create-a-self-caching-website-rea...
You can say all that, and you might be right.

But the entire site is crap. And I'll admit I'm saying that on a primarily emotional, rather than rational or practical, basis. The images are just straight links, the renderings are poor half-assed CAD drawings, and the colors make it seem like a play-dough ad.

I'm sorry, but this is not professional work. It looks like something I did in high school, in one weekend. As good as the product might be, the site is not good marketing, no matter how you spin it. It's shoddy and lazy. I'm honestly surprised at how poor it is.
Three hours later still not working, at least on Chrome/Ubuntu. Just FYI.
Nonsense. You don't need you be the world, you just need to understand it.
That was not the "original iPod commercial" that was an early iTunes-era iPod commercial. The original iPod pitch was "1000 songs in your pocket" which was great copy and got right to the point.
Does anyone know if Windows 8 (or whatever is powering the Pro version) is resolution independent? Or will developers have to compile a version for the Surface Pro, and a different version for the x86 desktop market?
"7. 7.A week (or a month) always begins and ends in the same year."
Not sure what the (or a month) is doing there. I'm pretty sure the end of december is the end of the year and the beginning of January is the beginning of the year. A month can't span multiple years...can it?
I was going to drop a mention for Code til Dawn, but you beat me to to it, Israel. Cool to see St. Louis get some Hacker News love...
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Yeah, so what? If you read HCI papers from the 90s (it's what I do for a job-- I'm a PhD student in HCI), you'll see that a lot of very respected researchers claimed that speech technology is not useful (their claim is well-founded: it is slow, environmental noise is unavoidable, what to say is often not obvious, and there's the Midas problem).

But, here we are, with people praising Siri. It's how technology works-- every input modality is useful for some tasks, and at some level of maturity. Dismissing technological potential based purely on past technology is short-sighted. [For examples of how Pen+touch is a good idea see http://billbuxton.com/Pen+TouchUIST.pdf. Add type, and it could be powerful indeed]
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The comments suggesting Wash U's CS program has (too much of) an academic slant have a point but also miss it entirely. In my experience, the academic is certainly emphasized over the pragmatic (for example, lots of talk about algorithmic complexity but zero mention of testing or version-control). That isn't in-and-of itself a problem, it's just a mistake in the order-of-operations. I needed a lot of real experience to motivate the academic in me.

In college, you couldn't pay me to read cutting edge CS literature because I was sure the academics were never going to teach me anything practical. Fast-forward five years and I'm bored of what I was doing and interested in the same hard problems academics are. (Of course, I'm coming to worse but occasionally good-enough solutions.)

It'll be good for Saint Louis and Wash U to have an injection of that context earlier because it might motivate the academic side of CS early enough for students with a couple of years left to give more of a shit.
Right. When I see a Rothko in a gallery I know pretty much immediately it's one of his before I walk up to the info card. And my immediate gut reaction is usually one of incredulity. But like most modern art you have to try and learn about the context of the piece to appreciate it. And the more I dive into the context around his work the less I like it.

I generally like Banksy too. At first glance I like the aesthetic, and then when pondering a work, I enjoy the satire, symbolism, the cultural references and imagery.

And even if the final work is made in a few moments, I know that he spent time, perhaps hundreds of hours building out the stencil set, planning the piece, choosing a subject, etc. for the final image.
And since most of the processing metal is in the keyboard half, I'd say it's cover-as-a-screen instead.
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searching for keywords seems to work quite well.

I think the problem is that for people that have problems navigating the web to start with, using QR codes will be tougher than just suing the search bar on their iPhone etc
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If you are that particular about your tools you should consider making them yourself, or using software you can really claim ownership of. iTunes and Chrome are not your software in any meaningful sense. Even less so probably because they are free (gratis).

With Mozilla you might have a claim, and I assume you are free to make your own version that has the columns in your preferred order or whatnot. For official support you just have to convince a sufficient number of like-minded programmers that yours is a problem worth solving, and then some minor technical bits like "What determines the central theme?" and "What scripting language shall we standardize on?"
is their an Android tablet that hasn't been dead on arrival

There have been millions of Android tablets sold. In most product spaces that is an incredible success, and it's only relative to the astonishing success of the iPad could that be called "dead on arrival".

And that was the rather terrible phase one. The incomplete Honeycomb, the rather terrible Tegra 2, and toothing pain hardware.

I've noticed my online electronic store absolutely pushing the next wave - the A700, 7" tablets of all sorts, etc. All of them finally featuring price advantages over the iPad.'

Anyone who buys the Android failed on tablets thing has been misled. It has been an ugly adventure but they're actually doing okay, and have set a pretty good foundation for success going forward.