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x is down: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/x-is-down.html
Twitter's down
Woz is a great guy. He gets involved in a lot of things. I remember watching the show 'Dancing with the Stars' just to see him dance. He is a great character.

Personally, I don't support Dotcom's case because he has some blame in the entire 'Megaupload fiasco'.
Now how am I supposed to tell people that Twitter is down!?
Come to think of it. You can't share a video on youtube from a WP7 phone. The default option is Skydrive.
With the recent WP8 press coverage, it's interesting (from a PR perspective) that many stories complain about WP7 phones not being upgraded. Some tech journalists seem almost angry about it.

I don't know if this will die down or not; that's what eventually happened when Google revealed the Nexus 1 (iirc) wouldn't be upgradable to 4.0. So far, though, this point is significantly distracting from the amazing improvements in '8 - note how the linked article mentions it in the first paragraph, and I've seen at least one mainstream article [0] focused entirely on it.

There must be a lesson about product launches in this. If Microsoft had a good answer for this from the start - by "good", I mean one that satisfied journalists and their readers, and/or made it hard for anyone to stoke outrage - the positive press coverage for WP8 wouldn't have been diluted by this.

[0] http://mashable.com/2012/06/20/no-upgrade-windows-phone-8/
My favorite is google images with my almost 2 year old. He names an object/animal and poof it appears on the screen. Fantastic.
Wheres the whale?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ is working fine. Some people say API is down too.
Yes, I think so. I'm in Kenya and I can't access it
Doesn't copyright law already cover this?
I think if you fully commit to that idea we sacrifice the creatives to the engineers. I'd prefer a strict but short term of copyright, giving the creatives the incentives to innovate in the short and engineers the freedom to optimize over the rest of time.
And nVidia acted like a condescending adult with their "Listen to what we say we care about, and ignore our actions" response. Thus the cycle continues.
Oops, you are correct. I hang my head in shame.
I disagree. A blank command line is freedom. It's an invitation to do whatever you like. To discover. To try. To fail. To explore.

If you have 5 (or 50) icons to choose from, where's the blank slate? Where's the great outdoors? Where's the "I built it myself!"?

The boys love to eat the food from our garden that they helped plant and nurture a lot more than food from a store.

If they have ownership and freedom to explore, engagement is natural.

If you don't start with the preconceived notion that the command line is too hard or not engaging enough for children, maybe you will find that it isn't.
Apple’s Illogical App Store Upgrade Process 
Apple's upgrade process in the App Store is illogical, and makes it very confusing for users and for developers who want to release paid upgrades.
I don't believe the article was as simplistic as you make it out to be.

It identifies a working system generated by thousands of years of evolutionary adaptation, and several advantages that may not be obvious at first glance.

This is quite valuable, if you ask me, and I could not find the three simplistic points you criticize anywhere in the article.

Otherwise, I agree with your general stance on b-school teachings. I think I learned more from the bees than from the author.
Twitter Site Issue 17 seconds ago

Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
Robots with feelings - in their fingers
Here a New One | Bizcovering
Ack, that still doesn't prevent slides from going online. Just include your speaker notes. Problem solved. More work of course, but problem solved. Here's a fantastic example.

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2012/GDC2012_Ruski...
Ours is a nosy, judgmental species. Unless you can rely on being self-employed on your own farm for the rest of your life, you are someday (while you're seeking a job or an apartment or a partner) going to have cause to regret having put your True Name on a controversial idea. This is why HN gets substance while Facebook gets cheerful pablum from me, and I'm undecided about Google+.
My wife and I both were reading by the time we were 5.

It's very fluid though: some people do, some people don't. Strangely, children tend to be very divergent in capability at early ages, then they tend to normalize as they get older. At least, that's what people with lots of experience with kids tell me. :-)
My favorite part is the Tweet-Button with zero tweets.
Speaker notes are definitely one option (as is the video mentioned in other comments) but I feel like they're a lazy/weak way of telling the story, compared to actually writing a blog post about the same topic.
Here's a support request I did a while back where I timed page loads:
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Access-and-security/Why-...

11 seconds to load the login page? How on earth can anyone design a system that is that slow on a page that doesn't even load account details?

15 seconds to load the history page?

Loading the homepage 3.5 seconds?

It's ridiculous and I have absolutely no idea how anyone could write something so impressively slow. Notice the funny response from Paypal support "For the getting to the home page it only took 2 seconds and for logging in it only took 6.5 seconds."

Only 6.5 seconds to login lol?

I've also been experiencing other issues such as the cookies it set exceeding the maximum length allowed by the browser which means I have to delete the cookies and login again to continue.

Their website is awful, who cares about a new skin they have when the entire website for me is barely functional.

I can't wait for Stripe to get to the UK so we have some actual other viable options.
I do not feel the kick in the gut when somebody imitates my work. I suspect the feeling is in large part due to how you are socialized.

This is pure speculation - but it is probably important to our social status that we are recognized for our contributions. If others can shamelessly take credit for all our brilliant ideas, they will increase in social status, while we seem not to contribute anything. Thus it makes sense that we would have a deeply seated, hardwired resentment for other people taking credit for our hard work.

Even if somebody copies you and then attributes the work to you, some of the credit for the idea still goes to that person rather than to you. Attributions are often overlooked by 'the public' and the social status often still goes to the person they got it from.

The power of this kick in the gut may lessen the more comfortable you are with your position, and how well esteemed you feel by the people around you. You may be less opposed to having your work copied if you feel, on a deep, emotional level, that you are still in general highly respected for your contributions even if you 'lose' a few to other people copying them and taking credit.

Which reminds me of this comic by Jessica Hagy: http://thisisindexed.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/card2752...
"Woz" is not Apple Founder, Steve Jobs is. "Woz" created the Apple Computer, "Jobs" the Apple Company.
Southstreet - workflow for delivering rich cross-device web applications
First thought: "My girlfriend is going to love this!"

Next thought: "Don't have an iPhone. Oh well..."
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I never said the guy couldn't or shouldn't post on his blog about it, nor did I say it can't be discussed here on HN. If you want something to actually be done about what you perceive as a problem though, you need to join in the community discussion at the site set aside for that purpose. Decisions about SE policies are made by the communities on SE sites, not on HN.
It's down here in Kenya too
Its also that most people perceive US as some sort 'promised land'. There are a lot of people who will do anything just to come to the US, and they would make endless sacrifices if told they would have to permanently settle down there.

Such people get easily used up in these scenarios.
Not even a fail whale. bummer.
From Microsoft's antitrust complaint from last year. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

First, in 2006 Google acquired YouTube—and since then it has put in place a growing number of technical measures to restrict competing search engines from properly accessing it for their search results. Without proper access to YouTube, Bing and other search engines cannot stand with Google on an equal footing in returning search results with links to YouTube videos and that, of course, drives more users away from competitors and to Google.

Second, in 2010 and again more recently, Google blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube. Google has enabled its own Android phones to access YouTube so that users can search for video categories, find favorites, see ratings, and so forth in the rich user interfaces offered by those phones. It’s done the same thing for the iPhones offered by Apple, which doesn’t offer a competing search service.

Unfortunately, Google has refused to allow Microsoft’s new Windows Phones to access this YouTube metadata in the same way that Android phones and iPhones do. As a result, Microsoft’s YouTube “app” on Windows Phones is basically just a browser displaying YouTube’s mobile Web site, without the rich functionality offered on competing phones. Microsoft is ready to release a high quality YouTube app for Windows Phone. We just need permission to access YouTube in the way that other phones already do, permission Google has refused to provide.
What's up with the downvotes?
As does SMS.
It's sad, but my immediate instinct when I couldn't post a tweet was to try searching for other people having problems with Twitter - on Twitter.
If it's a company's trademark, fine -- let them buy the corresponding TLD. No harm done.

Bzzzt, wrong. Trademarks are industry-specific: that's why Apple Records can exist alongside Apple Computer. If there's no likelihood of confusion, there's no conflict.

And of course, trademarks are not fully international.

Winer is right about ICANN being wrong. There's just so much else that ICANN is wrong about.
Is hacker news rigged?
4 see 4 items for "yardsale" on main "http://news.ycombinator.com/" page today 6/21? how can that happen?

why so much karma to yard sale news?

here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4142649

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4142376

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4142338

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4142768

this seriously undermines hacker news!
WNYC’s Radiolab Makes Mobile Debut With New iOS And Android Apps
Wheels down @ Chicago O'Hare. Ping me if you wanna meet up while I'm in town
Sure, but if _none_ of these second tier accelerators are producing _any_ successes, let alone any A rounds, it makes sense to question whether there's really any reward in participating in one at all.
I respect folks that take an existing idea and evolve it. But for some reason the App Store in particular tends to attract a certain type of developer whose entire approach involves cloning other successful apps in an attempt to make a buck or two.

I have had my iPad app cloned (essentially screen-for-screen) and it definitely felt like a kick in the gut when I found out. The only consolation is that it's pretty obvious that nobody is downloading his clone and the developer most likely wasted his time that could have been better spent doing something original.
The issue is the timing of this. The Nexus One was introduced in Jan 2010, ICS was released in, what, March 2012? Over two years difference. I had a Nexus One at the time, and while I was disappointed, I'd got two years of use (key point here: two years is the typical cellphone contract length) out of my phone. Not so for people who bought a Lumia 900 when it was released in April of this year.

The issue from a PR perpsective is that MS don't seem to be controlling the story here. Will WP8 apps work on 7.8? Sources are totally conflicted. Will 7.8 do multitasking? No-one knows. MS should have been all over this out of the gate- explaining exactly what 7.8 users are getting. Instead everyone is resorting to rumour and assuming the worst.
One day I hope to own a festering, global top 50 site, like Craigslist.

You could certainly make intelligent points about ways Craigslist could improve their service, but festering is an asinine thing to say about a wildly successful service that has survived every boom and bust and is still going extremely strong (not to mention it's still incredibly useful).

Festering: (of a wound or sore) Become septic; suppurate. (of food or garbage) Become rotten and offensive to the senses.
They should have done the upgrade like Apple. Everyone gets the upgrade, but not everyone gets all of the features of the upgrade (e.g. I got iOS 5, but not Siri).

It sounds like they're doing just this in spirit by backporting some features to Windows 7, but calling it Windows 7.8 instead of Windows 8. Marketing mistake?
Twitter is down? Now where am I supposed to complain about twitter being down?
this still applies: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
My thought process: It seems Twitter is down? Let's see if someone else on Twitter is also saying it is down? Goes to Twitter.com. D'oh.

This gives credence to Jack Dorsey's claims of "holding the public conversation".
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Don't get me wrong. I <3 Vagrant. I use it all the time and for every project. My new MacBook Air is as pristine as the day I got it. But, Vagrant is not the ultimate solution for me. I don't think it exists, of course. My wish list is too long but...

I want something that:
1) Runs completely locally. I want to be able to work offline, on a plane, whatever without needing remote resources.

2) Minimizes dependencies. Adding chef cookbook servers, apt-get, etc. into the mix is another point of failure.

3) Is scalable/reusable. Most people/companies have multiple projects they work on and much of the vagrant/(chef|puppet) architecture doesn't easily support diverse workloads (this project needs recipes x,y,z, this one needs a,b,x,y; this server runs ubuntu 10.10, the other 10.04)

4) Is all integrated. Sure, I can use some combination of chef, chef-knife, and chef-librarian but they don't work together in my project. Someone can check in a new project setting and unless I run vagrant up, it'll continue to run happily. I want something like bundler that will fail to run unless I'm all up to date, and is unified into a single package.

Given those restrictions, here's what bothers me about the vagrant ecosystem (they're not really complaints about Vagrant per-se but the state of dev virtualization):

1) Every project I get needs a VM (unless I want to start installing stuff locally). This increases the amount of time it takes to get a project up and running. Yes, in the long run it pays off, but can be a barrier to entry for "I just want to fork a project for a quick bug fix".

2) VirtualBox building is slow, takes forever, and requires gobs of disk space. If I have 4 projects, it seems I need a separate vbox for each one. Now I've got GBs of files littering my filesystem. I'd kill for dedupe.

3) Chef / Puppet recipes are one-size-fits-all, and to change them requires adding a whole lot of infrastructure. Sure, you can embed them in your project (chef-solo), but then that's not very reusable.

So you can set up your own chef cookbook server, but then it's another moving part that can fail and then no one can provision new VMs. Bleh. We've gone with symlinking our own cookbook repo into our projects. That's suboptimal but avoids a whole lot of yak shaving.

What I'd like are more extensible cookbooks that have per-project configuration. Yes, they often have some configurable values, but occasionally I want to use a cookbook but it's got some strange version of a lib in there that is incredibly out of date that I can't change.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the Tiny Wings/Wavespark thing. It's a great example of how far execution and polish (and for that matter, timing, venue, art style, etc.) can take a relatively simple, but unique idea and mechanic:

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=1604550&pos...
Very nice app. Nice UI. Just made me realize how much I miss Minneapolis.

Where do u get the data for location of the bus?
Is there someway, I can zoom out on the map?
Same. It gives credence to Jack Dorsey's claim of Twitter "holding the public conversation".
Yep - stalling out big time. Good chance to test your error handling in a real world scenario!
Interesting, thanks for the account. Just another sign that they're still stuck in a traditional possession economy when they're actually trying to sell a free good.

In that case I wonder if Rdio is going to get some flak for this discovery.
> Shipping of disks is also common in the movie industry.

As well as sciences based on massive amounts of data (astrophysics and particle physics for instance, where experimental systems can produce terabytes per day), financial data analytics, or petroleum seismic surveys.
This is really awesome and I finish the whole article. I am 21 now, having almost graduating from a finance degree now and I started to learn coding, there are just way too many things in my head that I want to build. I keep a journal for all my ideas and hopefully one day I build all of them. The excitement is just awesome! I have done some investing and trading and I thought it was my favourite to do but then no...I am like new born now!
I hope they write up a post-mortem on the fallout (hopefully it won't be a post-mortem of Twitter). Those things are always extremely interesting with big infrastructure like this.
I still do not understand this. If I were an English teacher I would tell my students to email me the assignment with the following format

Subject: Assignment 1 - Larry Jones - Romeo and Juliet Meets Robots

Body: [5 paragraphs of text]

Or even better would be for them to have it on a blog, so you get social pressure to do well. Parents might not go for that one though.

Why do we need to be good at margins, double spacing, etc. When was the last time I needed to change the margins on a Word doc? 3 months ago? Waste of time/resources.
Text Expander Updates to Make Filling in Forms/Creating New Snippets a Breeze
Its been ages since Twitter has had one of its famous fail whale outages.
"The app is set up so you can easily cross-post your item on Craigslist, too."

I find that statement extremely interesting. The problem with apps like this is they're only as good the volume of people that use them. YardSale sounds to me like a more beautiful, mobile centered Craigslist. But YardSale is only as good as the number of people who have it installed an use it.

I'm in the process of moving and we're getting rid of a bunch of random furniture. Where did we post it?

Craigslist of course. Because when you need to find something, you go to Craigslist.

I don't envy YardSale. Craigslist has a not-so-pretty interface and it's not exactly the most intuitive.

But when it comes to selling/buying things, Craigslist simply works. Really well.
This one is awesome. Thanks
Twitter: Vulnerable to a DoS Attack? Absolutely
One great thing about this for me: it exposed a bug in my app which relied on twitter being up.
Oh great. It's still AGPL :-|

https://github.com/MLstate/opalang/blob/master/LICENSE
I just ate lunch. It was sooo good! [Checked in to Shake Shack, NYC]
My advisor in college used to joke that lispers would get foot pedals for their boxes to use as paren keys :)
Notably this outage lacks even a whale.
Really should map to tab. Actually should be using super tab or the like.
I am not assuming anything, I simply presented some facts.

My opinion is MS has squandered both the smart phone market lead they had nearly 10 years ago and the TV space as the XBox would have been an obvious Apple TV/ Google TV type platform.

Whether MS can dig themselves out of the hole remains to be seen, at this point I have little faith, but as along time MS proponent now converted to Apple, I would still like to see them succeed, but I do think that will require a leadership change.
I don't want to hear about women talking about women in tech

Is there a reason why you think that your desires are generally held, or why they're particularly important to the creators of the site? I'm assuming by your username that you're a man and the site isn't aimed at men who don't want to hear women talking about women in tech. (I could be wrong on either or both assumptions, of course.)
You can start thinking in vim by reading this answer on stack overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118

Moving word wise,(w,e) is used a lot.

Next occurrence of word under cursor is useful. *,#

Learning effective macros is extremely useful.

di" is one of my favorite commands. Delete everything inside the quotes not including the quotes.

Put inoremap jj <Esc> into your .vimrc so that you can press jj quickly in insert mode instead of Esc.

Remap your arrow keys to nop and get proficient with it; this feels like I am editing super fast. A lot of editor time can be spent with your hands on home row without ever leaving.
Here is the Accenture software for voter registration
Each reason the author gives against the new TLDs also applies to domain names.

For example, he writes:

"Not so sure about Amazon buying .amazon, because it also is the name of a rainforest in South America, and .apple could be a problem for growers and lovers of the fruit."

But the same reasoning applies for domain names:

"Not so sure about Amazon buying amazon.com, because it also is the name of a rainforest in South America, and apple.com could be a problem for growers and lovers of the fruit."
There might be a little pro-Apple bias in some of the way these things are reported. We now have millions of iPod touch devices that can't be upgraded to newer versions of iOS. This is also true of older iPhones (3 and below, I believe). Nobody is crying foul over that. Yet. As app developers start, out of necessity and force, dropping support for older versions of iOS things might change.
What would he be referring to then? There are many, many terminal emulators out there that let you do work on anything that supports SSH. There are word processors, music creators, just about every PC program has an iPad analog.

The "iPad is a consumption only device" meme needs to die. It's completely, totatally wrong.
Spot upscaled images on retina MacBook Pro
Erm, when you take a cat of a bag, you ain't putting it back in without more than a few scratches to yourself.

Usually this is described in relation to a secret or a hidden truth: when it's out, you can't kill the truth, you have to live with the release of the information.