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Gun control would make just as much sense as lighter control if you think about it. Lighters can burn down a forrest or a house..

software is like an ebook because it's copyrighted material written by authors trying to make a living. I write in c instead of English.
So as one data point in this comparison, I have a pretty good version of a scrolling grid plugin that swaps in and out existing row dom elements as needed and loads that data dynamically from a backend. It's not totally done and not ready to open-source, but it's generic enough that another day or so of work will make it so.

HN records that my original comment was posted 21 hours ago, and I assure you I spent a good deal of time sleeping and eating inbetween, so this is definitely doable in html/js.

Now, as to the bigger point, that most developers don't know that they should do this to get performance, or that we shouldn't have to write it ourselves, those still stand.
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It absolutely is intentional. And with that same intention Apple forbids other companies from writing web browsers that fix these and other issues with mobile Safari. Auto-playing audio and video in the browser is also forbidden, which prevents any sort of online music, or video app from being created, among other things.

So games, music, and video apps in mobile Safari are all hopelessly hobbled, and if you build a browser that fixes these issues you'll be banned.

Happy developing!
One thing I hate about those kind of urbanscape is their utter blandness, even if people were to fill it up.
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Apps are functions from 0 or more inputs to outputs. Books are functions of 0 inputs to output. They're zero-arity apps.
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Until now most of the Microsoft reporting I've read has been "they need to move" and "they're feeling the heat from (Apple, Google etc.)". This is the first time they're past-tense, over and done with.

I'm not sure, though. They're surfing a wave of Windows/Office and XBOX cash and still very relevant for business with a huge ecosystem of developers, schools and universities educating future Microsoft users and sysadmins.
Au smelters are a some what special case though I take the point.
Do you have a citation for that fact?
Maybe from here:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schaltsekunden-Bug-in...

Heise.de got it directly from Hetzner, they acknowledge and thank them for providing it in the update of the article
Its interesting to see where MS diverts from this; WP7 and Windows 8. WP7 and Windows 8 are both responses to disruption from iOS and Android.

With WP7 Microsoft jettisoned compatibility with Windows Mobile phones (which had been somewhat popular in enterprise) and with Windows 8, they introduce a radically different UI.
It's not so simple. I have several "interactive book" applications on my iPhone. These have book-like elements (there is a story that can be read), but there are many other application-like elements to it also (you can touch things to hear noises, there are supplementary puzzles and coloring pages, the book can read to you, and I bought it on the app store). Where do these fall?

Clearly my application is not just a collection of html and js. But at what point do you stop calling something an application and call it an ebook? Is a binary wrapper around the ebook enough to make it an application?
Thanks - I'll read up. I've long interpreted E=mc^2 to mean not just that energy and mass are interchangeable, that energy and mass are one and the same.
What I can't quite get my head around yet (just need to read up more) is how they figured out something about the rest mass of a photon - something about using superconducting rings or something like that.
(Because photons aren't generally at rest, and they don't accelerate, right?)
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The footage from the video reminds me of the empty city in the movie Inception. It's pretty eerie seeing so much housing with no life.
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I can't say what the best long term strategy is, but I can say that as a tech journalist I almost always prefer to hear from someone involved in a company rather than a PR firm. But hiring a full-time internal PR person isn't the same thing as hiring an agency.

As inthewoods wrote, the reason for hiring a PR person is for their contacts. Agencies will make a lot of claims about how many contacts they have, but I've heard they'll often stick low-priority accounts with junior PR people or even interns (and the quality of pitches and press releases I've seen from well known agencies about unknown companies seems to confirm this).

Jagermo wrote: "i get a lot of mails from marketing people who think they know what journalists want. Most of them do not."

I get a lot of e-mails from PR people who think they know what I want, and few do. I get a lot of the same from marketing, but a lot of journalists end up in PR or marketing at some point in their careers and they often do know what other journalists want. Some people just seem to get it, whether they've been journalists or not, and some don't. I imagine it's easier to keep track on who's doing what and how good they're doing if they're internal and not outsourced to an agency, but I wouldn't know.

FWIW, some of the best pitches for startups I've gotten have come from investors.
I respect Ryan and usually enjoy his advice, but I must say I disagree with most that's written here.

Having freelancers who have 0 emotional attachment to your vision build the first version of your product and then replace them with someone else is a really bad idea in my experience. Your #1 employee should be someone who is almost as excited about the product as you. Furthermore, they should ideally have substantial skills and experience and complement you and the rest of the founders well. Most important: they should be a culture fit. Competitive salary and benefits shouldn't be cruical for the first employee. Vision and stock options should. Trying to save money by hiring someone less experienced or indifferent to your vision does not pay in the long run.

Ryan's advice is more about economics, but I feel that, since we're talking about hiring the first person, it should have been about vision and personality.
The fact that so many of the comments replying to yours are quick to defend Apple says it all really.

Developers will put up with more crap than they should when platform religion gets in the way. Sure, there are arguments against switching platforms to Android or Windows, but most of these mean very little. Those that refuse to ditch iOS aren't doing so because they'll miss out on potential customers, it's because they like the idea of building apps for the most popular phone on the market, despite the crap they have to put up with.

It's the equivalent of dating a bitchy model. You could be a lot happier with the cute girl next door, but you'd rather put up with her shit just because you can say to your mates "I go out with a model".
I understand that there are different fields. More so my question is, why are there a finite (as opposed to infinite) number of fundamental waveforms for any given field? My intuition is that this is because the domain of "candidate" waveforms is restricted to those which exhibit particle-like behavior (i.e. compatible with a particle physics). I'm not sure if this intuition is correct however.
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It makes sense that they would have detailed logs of why people were banned, hence should be able to confirm the truth, if they wanted to.
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Go ahead and downvote me for being off-topic. I put in several honest posts, and have no moderation or replies to them. Frankly, I'm left to conclude that this place is just like a bar. People venting, and not actually working. Except perhaps you people feel like this is part of your work. I know code has to compile, and there is downtime, but there are also wonderful books that are available for free. But I guess that doesn't feed ego. Nearly all of you want to become billionaires--have fun trying. I'm going to hug my dog now.
Having seen the hairballs of creative PHP in the wild, I'd think the only sane way to do this would be some sort of deprecation warning whenever a symbol lookup matched only case insensitively.
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Wait for the iPhone 5 or go Google Android?
To tell you the truth, I couldn't really see the bug in the video. It's probably just me. Since the bar every time eventually turned green in the video, I couldn't see the case when it does not turn green. Nor could I see the bug in the video game.
I am sure folks at Apple or regular game players will be able to tell.
“I see Microsoft as technology’s answer to Sears,” said Kurt Massey, a former senior marketing manager. “In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, Sears had it nailed. It was top-notch, but now it’s just a barren wasteland. And that’s Microsoft. The company just isn’t cool anymore.”

Probably the best line from the article.

The point about stack ranking - good observation. I've heard about it for years from MS people as well as mini-MS and such. It struck me as problematic even back then. In one way it's "just another internal policy", but it's pretty obvious it's going to create internal competition, which is the last thing a company needs.

I remember around 2000 or so - when the DOJ trial was going on - the stuff coming out of MS was "we're the underdog - we see everyone as competition or potential competition" (paraphrasing, obviously). I don't know where that mindset went, but the last decade, they've not really acted like it.

Gosh, I'm not saying this well. They have acted like it, but haven't chosen their battles well, perhaps. Trying to compete in dozens and dozens of competitive landscapes at the same time has led to little focus. Yes, "Office and Windows" are cash cows, but the respect (and fear) for MS is largely gone - they've squandered their image playing "me too" catchup in too many fields, and they've got a long way to go to be the leader in any field that they once were.

At least one tech generation, probably more, never experienced MS as the big leader to be feared - back in the mid 90's, any conceptual startup had to consider "what if MS gets in to this market?". You had to be able to answer that question. I doubt that's a question anyone has asked themselves in at least 10 years, if not more. Replace MS with "Google" or "Apple" and that would instantly make sense to today's crop of startups. But if you said MS, no one would even take you seriously.
From the video around :30 seconds in, "...this is when surprises might happen. Any day could be the day that changed the world."

I am still looking for an answer as to how the world could be changed by the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle. What are some possible outcomes for society? I do not doubt that it will change, and I agree fully with it's value, however, I can't find any specifics in what ways it might change or what new technologies might be created with or without the Higgs Boson.

Also, at a 9 Billion USD price tag, how were our governments convinced? There must be something beyond scientific intellectual curiosity. Those of us with this curiosity may be happy to pay for it, but how were politicians convinced? What value will this provide to the governments of the world who made the decision to purchase this answer.

I'm sure it's not this...

Scientists: "We need 9 Billion to find out if the Higgs Boson particle exists."

Governments: "OK, here is your 9 Billion."

... 15 years later

Scientists: "The answer is yes. The Higgs Boson does exist."

Governments: "Oh, that's really great."

Update: I understand and agree fully with the value of this research. I am asking if there are any specific technologies that are expected to be advanced or if it is just added knowledge that could lead anywhere. I am also wondering how it was explained to politicians who don't have specific interest in science.
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There are cases of overbuilt areas but I think these stories are the West's insecurities on display about China's success.

In the US (Nevada) and Canada, there are areas where the developers have overbuilt, perhaps not on the scale of these Chinese development projects.
Fair comment. I think most people get too mired down in hiring that first person, instead of getting to MVP. Better to crank it out, get traction, and then build the proper team. Sure, it'd be better to hire the perfect person first, but this isn't always an option.
Wonder what Paul Krugman think about this.

Edit. It's an honest question, these towns might turn out to be a good thing, I don't know.
This can't be a ghost town, I saw 2 pedestrians, more than on my weeklong visit to Silicon Valley.</yada>
Ah, snap. Haven't thought of that.
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I can't imagine this surprised anyone.
This article has got it wrong; Sinofsky is remaking Microsoft. He is, of course, remaking it into an even more competitive, Apple-ish kind of place. But the market will reward him for doing that, and we as consumers will, too.

I think I'd rather have two Apples in the world, (although MS has a long way to go to do that) than two IBMs.
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Are you trolling? I understand you said in your parent that you don't have JB and are strictly going by the video and demo.. but how could you miss this? It's in the first minute.. multiple times.

You do not have to "wait ~7 seconds before you notice that it was wrong" so you can "re-issue the change". The result is displayed immediately. You can cancel the auto-action (which you first said didn't even exist), or force it through before the ~5 seconds (not ~7) elapses.

Go re-watch the entire video in the foreground, please.
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I see loads and loads of empty ghost towns, when I drive to the factory every two weeks in China..

They're not filling up right now. Even the city where the factory is located seems very deserted (big almost empty roads) except inside the factory compound, where all the factory workers live and work..
Some aspect of the national zeitgeist wants an egalitarian approach to elitism? Since "elite" artists that only appeal to the very few are seldom market winners, we (politically) recognize they are the "little guy" and desire to given them a hand against the torrent of the commercial art market.

I admit, it all sounds so strange; we tell ourselves that just because we don't admire their product, the problem must be with us, and we can overcome our unworthiness by public support.

Or maybe they just have good lobbyists?
>Can we get back to making clever and disruptive solutions please?

So wait, when MS was abusing its IE product then HN is justified in angry anti-MS rants, but when Apple purposely keeps html5 gimped on iOS and refuses any other browser on iOS suddenly you're all about tolerance and double-standards.

This a very legitimate issue. Apple can't applaud HTML5 in public and piss on it in private. Yes, its a threat to your app ecosystem. Accept it, fix the bugs, and allow other browsers. This is HN worthy, if not extraordinarily HN worthy.
I'm not sure if you want clarification, or you're a Flash fan and want to imply an ad hominem. I try to follow the principle of charity on the internet so here's clarification.

Flash seems like a crash-prone plugin. I recall Apple had data to back that up when they pulled support for it on iOS. Since I want assurance that my web code will run reliably in as many places it is deployed as possible, I don't look fondly on Flash/ActionScript (the old IDE wasn't my favorite either, no idea how much that has improved over the years). I actually love the idea of a write-once-run-anywhere rich media platform, but in practice Flash had too many downsides, at least for my work.

I'm not sure animations are a priority I'd set for CSS. I think it has bigger fish to fry. People want to push CSS toward being more of a script language than a markup language, hence the new Webkit variables. I seem to hold an unpopular view but I think these things will complicate and possibly make CSS less attractive to use. I'd rather see CSS be improved syntatically, incorporating features natively like those SASS gives you. (EDIT: to clarify the apparent contradiction, SASS has "variables" but they are really immutable constants, very different from what the CSS var RQs specify)
> “They used to point their finger at IBM and laugh,” said Bill Hill, a former Microsoft manager. “Now they’ve become the thing they despised.”

I was under the impression that Bill really admired IBM, and wanted to emulate them.
I think the DOJ results had a big impact on that aggressive competitive spirit -- Microsoft sort of seemed to go into a quieter sort of ecosystem mode, where they used combined marketing launches and strategy to achieve the lock-in they had been just out and out dumping on consumers with technology.

I would say the brio left after the DOJ trial, but it may be back with Surface. If Surface sells, I would expect a new CEO and an invigorated Microsoft.
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Look how spiky the power usage is normally. Is that all the cron jobs set to run at the top of the hour?
> this encourages the property owners to "shit or get off the pot" in terms of utilizing the property:

And why is that good?

Imagine that someone has good reason to believe that item X will be worth $1,000 in three years, which means that in a 3% interest rate regime it has a NPV (Net Present Value) of $915.

Right now he's got an offer on the table for $800, but if he accepts that and the resource gets used up, he (and society) lose out on $115 of value.

Slap a 10% annual tax on the asset, and he WILL sell it, right now.

...and, congratulations, you've destroyed value.
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Just curious. Is it a 100 page document? What are the most important aspect of the agreement?
He said "related to", not "due to", but the tone of the article did lean towards the "due to" line of thought.

You know what was the great divorce creator before Facebook? Telephones! And before that? Pen & Paper! We should go back to cave living.

I'm surprised this off-topic rubbish heap of words made it to the front page on HN.
I thought it means that the Chinese are in for potentially even bigger trouble than the west.
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Same reason basic research is mostly funded by the state - there are things that are valuable to a society that no one individual will pay for.
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You should have just gone with the snark, it would have made your comment less dumbfounding.
I think it's great that you're complaining in the way you are. It'll be interesting to see whether Apple responds. MS-Word has retained some of its obvious bugs since 1995.
Huh? I received my mail in English :)
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Sorry, French here indeed. It is strange. I have made that mistake for several years when writing in English fora but recently, in the space of two months, I got several people making me noticed this. I am trying to lose this habit in English but why is it that this mistake is now fought more thoroughly? Has there been a particular event raising the awareness of this?
> gay rights activists are not just asking to be left alone, they're asking that we explicitly expand our definition to include their relationships.

How dare those gays demand to be treated like everyone else? How very dare they?

If anyone needs me, I'll be catching up with the latest in modern thinking over at the Westboro Baptist Church site.
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Your distinction is an important one, but I think it amounts to the same effect in the end.

Back then, you couldn't make money by selling many copies of your art because making copies was too difficult.

Now, you can't make money by selling copies of your art because making copies is too easy.

But in both cases, the effect on the artist is the same: he cannot sell many copies, so he must find other ways. Like concerts and patronage.
I believe that means you're clear as long as you never accepted the terms of the license. With OEM Windows that shouldn't be a problem.
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I did not paste the Clojure example from anywhere. I wrote it. It was not intentional on my part to write broken code, but if it was, it actually nicely illustrates my point.
"Eichenwald’s conversations reveal that a management system known as “stack ranking”—a program that forces every unit to declare a certain percentage of employees as top performers, good performers, average, and poor—effectively crippled Microsoft’s ability to innovate."

This is the most important sentence in the article. Because many companies over the years - a lot of them start ups - would point to this practice by Microsoft and try to follow their lead. Microsoft has been stack ranking almost since conception. It was always a horrible way to run a company. But it took decades for it to actually bring the company down.
This doesn't seem to have much to do with MVC. Assuming that the beginning of the requested page can be returned while more processing is ongoing, it seems like a controller method would be a good place to do this.

It might be interesting to try something like this with a generator, so that "for response in process_request(request): send_response_to_client(response)" would work.
Exactly that is what is forbidden, by my reading. From the press release:

Therefore, even if the license agreement prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the resale of that copy.

As to copyright, it merely stated that on resale, the making of a digital copy cannot be prohibited, but the seller's copy must be rendered unusable.
I think this whats really at work here. For the same reason they won't let Mozilla, Opera, or Google make their own web browsers. Apple is affraid of people building their own HTML5 apps and subsequent app stores. This would cut into Apple's app store monopoly and cost them their 30% on every app that is sold.

Apple only cares about what makes it money, not delivering the best experience to consumers.

And you can be damn sure that they don't give a shit about developers, especially if they aren't making native iOS apps which aren't being sold in the app store.
Grr, generators. They leave so much cruft lying around.
Everytime I see the name Cringly I'm reminded of a chap who was building a plane and thru a major emo at the cameraman.

I know he has been going on about this lost interview for years but $3.99, naaaa. I call that cashing in like ew conning a TV studio to pay for you to build a plane for yourself.

Maybe he can move on now it's been `found`.
Marine Physics Lab was part of Scripts Institute of Oceanography - scientists there from around the world - doesn't seem like the kind of place where classified work would be done.
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