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> If it wasn't for the developers that filled the appstore with content apple would be still years back.

Plus, if it wasn't for jailbreakers and first Cydia not-native apps that Jobs hated and for a long time was against an idea of giving third-parties abilities to build so-called not-native apps, Apple would still not had their App Store and never grew to today's sizes.
So, tell me something: How do you adapt to not receiving an event?

The only choice is to do something completely different, but I can't think of anything that doesn't profoundly change the nature of the game (continuously jump makes a completely different game, use upward motion to jump will have a lot of false positives) and is basically an admission that a game that involves two buttons like this is simply impossible. And that's an unreasonable outcome.

(The continuously jumping game has interesting potential, but it is a different game. Plus I've think I've seen it way back in the day and it's very visually tiring.)
"What you don't know could kill you?" I'm sorry to see such an article posted here.
I am an organist first and foremost but I play piano/keyboards in general. I also have played the violin since childhood
On the other hand, if the appstore didn't exist then mobile developers would still be begging for crumbs from OEMs.

All companies exist to make money. The subtleties of how they do so is not nearly so black and white as you want to make it.
I had tweeted Ryan the suggestion of writing this post yesterday and am delighted that he's published it already. I was considering hiring employee #1 for WP App Store and this post has given me some extra confidence that the time is right. Thanks again Ryan. I'd love to hear experience and advice from HN'ers on this topic as well. Fred Wilson, perhaps a post of your own?

I haven't drafted the job posting yet, but if you're interested, sign up to the email newsletter at http://wpappstore.com and I'll send out an email in the next couple of days.
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Mass is just resistance to acceleration, right?
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I would hope they are not doing this on purpose. However, then it has to be incompetence or lazyness. I heard some european VP was recently let go by Cook, so perhaps he is already taking care of it.

Anyway, there are some horror stories regarding the defective Nvidia GPUs where Apple denied repairs and said it was another problem - even though Nvidia fully paid the repair because it was their fault.

http://www.seattlerex.com/seattle-rex-vs-apple-the-verdict-i...
What? This is the most ridiculous thing I've read in the past month.

Extraterrestrials would have to target specific buffer overflow bugs or something in SETI executable code, which to know about, basically means they're already visiting Earth in UFO's and walking around NASA as spies. And if they're already doing that, I don't think they need to create a computer virus to accomplish their goals.

There's no such thing as a "general" computer virus. Viruses are OS/program-specific.

This article/headline is pure science fiction, and pretty bad fiction at that.
Oh I agree there are many other areas. But no other area than physics have given us so many inventions, because no other area is a fundamental as this. We are playing with as close to universals as we can come here.

Just think about the amount of years it took from the inception of QM up to today and how much it has given us in return.

Extraordinay returns require extraordinary investments. But yes there is a limit obviously.
slippery slope arguments are a fallacy :)
date -s "$(LC_ALL=C date)"

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A related tweet from him:

"I love state machines. They turn asynchronous event problems into nice tidy well known problems."
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Or, if used physical books can be sold, why not used eBooks?
That number seems a bit much. Aside from even teenagers with multiple accounts, pets, and such.. let's not forget spammers. They'll create accounts as fast as they can.

Just google search for buying facebook accounts, and you'll find a simple paypal transaction will get you thousands of phone verified accounts.

Even if facebook can claim 500 million active users, I would question how many of them are actual people.
So let him swear at his wife. Or at Apple. Why should we have to read it?
Many attribute Apple's success to Steve Jobs, therefore reminding everyone once again he's no more by promoting an interview (or banning it) probably wouldn't be wise. No controversy here IMHO.
I haven't seen that around me. My only issue is that a PWS that was near my house went offline, so the "nearest" to me is a buoy in Lake Michigan which in the evening is about 10-15 degrees cooler than everywhere else.
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Here's the requisite graph http://i.imgur.com/hsUDE.png
Made worse by the time you took to type that. Clearly you don't value your time.

And clearly neither do I.......
Could RIM come back to life by partnering with Microsoft?
Why anyone would delegate handling of their address book to Facebook is beyond me.
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Directly from the research center:

http://www.mpl.ucsd.edu/resources/flip.intro.html

and image gallery:

http://www.mpl.ucsd.edu/resources/flip.image.gallery.html
Instead of selling a license to use, you sell some sort of authentication service. So that when the actual right to use is transferred, the new owner would need to pay for the authentication service.

I sorta feel/hope such clear attempts to avoid the law by trying some sort of Jedi hand wave would not pass muster with the courts.
Indeed; do questions about the Cardinals give different answers during football season? And if it's the time of year that people are playing both baseball and football, does it distinguish by whether you live in St. Louis or Arizona?

Edit: or Vatican City?
Classically, yes.

Quantum mechanically, acceleration is a rather ill-defined quantity, so I don't know how to answer the question other than through Ehrenfest's theorem - <F> = m <a> when we're talking <averages> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest%27s_theorem]
Because we upvoted it.
They didn't. They fired half of the team.
1. Press and hold a finger in the blue area (do not move this finger)

2. Tap a second finger somewhere else in the same blue area (again, do not move your finger only tap)

3. Observe the orange bar. It should become green when both finger are touching the screen. Response time should be near instantaneous. It is not. Additionally, about 1 out of 3 touches results in an inconsistent state in which the bar remains green after both fingers are removed.

I'd remove the "straight down" part altogether.
Same for LGPL.
Thanks Roger, that's helpful input. I'm adding a "client-timestamp" to the SnowPlow querystring instead of just relying on the CloudFront timestamp ;-) Out of interest, is there anything about the MixPanel mobile client libraries (Android/iOS) that you would do differently if you were starting from scratch?
That's how I used to treat my copy of Turbo Pascal. I was the only one who used it, either at home, or in the engineering firm I worked summers at. Borland had a "treat it like a book" license, and I was the only one I knew who'd use the software, so I didn't uninstall it when I left for the day and re-install it in the morning.
Don't forget that when you get to the point of Hiring Employee #1, tell them that you may have to fire them or that they may be let go through not fault of their own if the revenue and expenses don't line up the right way.

I have had that conversation with each of my new hires (we're at 10 people). I want them to know up front that they're taking on some risk and that there's no free pass in a small company in the same way that there is in a big company.

That all may seem obvious to anyone reading here. It may seem to be an implied part of joining a small company (or any company). But that part of the conversation is important. It also reminds people that their work has actual value.
Just tried his test case and at first I couldn't reproduce it at all. On my iPhone 4S, you have to do the second finger tapping quite quickly for it to go wrong -- just touching it the way he does in the video is not triggering it for me.
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That second one has a huge effect. We need to find a way to motivate scientific progress that doesn't involve war.
I found a blog post that gives a rundown on the evolution of MVC (https://billkrat.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/hello-world/) and links something similar to the document I had originally read (http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/1979/mvc-2/1979-12-MVC.pdf). I think I had originally found something that was more of a prototype of this document, but the wording appears to be the same and more succinct. The blog post also links to an earlier version of the MVC model that included a fourth part, a "Thing".

One thing I found interesting in the blog article was the notion of "smart controls", but I can rationalize that away as another MVC module; after all, the Windows OS itself is handling all the interesting behavior, and the GUI app is borrowing the behavior. Depending on the toolkit that interfaces with the "smart controls", we get access to events (mousedown, keypress, etc) that can serve as input to one of our application's controllers.
if I can ignore the license terms, what does that do to GPL?

The GPL is not an EULA-type licence. It's a copyright licence. It is not a contract that you must sign/click "I Agree" which goes above and beyond copyright law, it is only copyright law.

You can no more opt out of the GPL, than you can ignore copyright law.
I'd like to see a citation on the claim about 1 in 5 divorces being due to Facebook.
If the leap-second does all this, just imagine the 32-bit rollover issue in 2038
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A digital copy of a movie or a book has zero resale value and doesn't cost a dime to manufacture, but most publishers insist on setting the price of this to nearly equivalent to the physical version. It's infuriating.

If I buy a Blu-Ray disc for $10, I'm reasonably assured I can unload it used for $2 to $5 later on. I can also lend it to people. The digital HD copy I bought for the same price that's typically locked to an individual device has zero resale value.

You can't purchase digital goods these days. At best you get a long-term rental agreement.
Who else is affected by this bug. And by who else, I don't mean this one guy's customers / users. If the answer is no one else, or if no one else has reported it, then it's probably so far down the list as to be inconsequential. Which probably means the new guy on work experience gets to deal with it.

Not all bugs are fixed. There's only so many hours in the day, and some bugs are simply not worth fixing.
Chrome uses Mobile Safari's "WebView" internally. It's the same browser engine - Apple doesn't allow other browser engines on iOS. So the bug is present in Chrome as well.
Yeah. I hope OpenStack can catch up soon.

[The first line of the comment was intended to keep this on-topic. I didn't really have any financial interest in Bitcoinica at the time of the hack. A major management handover took place three weeks before that and the 100% of company was sold in 2011. The community assumed that I was still the owner but it's simply not true. The hacked mail server (the "root cause") didn't belong to me either. But yes, I learned a lot by being both an insider and an outsider, and these are fortunately free lessons. I still follow some of the valuable experience in dealing with Bitcoinica's infrastructure in my new project, which doesn't deal with money. Startup infrastructure has a big market. Now I use KVM to build a small private cloud for my new project on top of dedicated server(s) simply because I love the flexibility of cloud deployments. If someone brings that to developers who are not sysadmins, it'll be cool.]
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Letting an obscurant input handling bug fester so that they can drive people to a 41% margin product instead of a 40% margin product? Doubtful.
Very interesting, but assuming that getting 9 billion over 5 years is a given, and with Nokia finally releasing quality phones that are solid competition.. why sell?
That means that in case it mis-understood you that you have to wait ~7 seconds before you notice that it was wrong.

If it immediately confirmed like Siri, you would know right then and could re-issue the command.
>Change the game design slightly?

There aren't many game concepts which work with just one button. Actually, having just one button is so absurd that people turned this particular limitation into a competition (similar to <=4kB and the like).
Indeed, a better plot would be to use social engineering to let us build the virus/whatever for them:

they send us instructions on how to create some beautiful technology (e.g. a fake superluminar com) which is so obscure and intricate that it hides his real goal: a sophisticated AI which would then study us and plan for next move <put here your evil plan of choice>.

(Variation on the theme of A for Andromeda)
I also gave it a try to create a central summary of several open source licenses and what to do. Without a search, but just a list of the licenses and todos, maybe you find it useful too:
http://www.patrick-wied.at/blog/how-to-correctly-use-code-yo...
For embarrassing outages, sure, but have you ever had to try and find out why some of your instances have disappeared? Good luck with that. Gold support, which you'd think would be good, just prioritizes your emails, apparently little more.

Linode, in comparison, has always been straight-forward, personal, and as honest as a company in that space can be.

What's perhaps odd is Amazon's customer service for their material goods is usually superb.
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If the outage happened in two time zones, which time zone should they use to report? The priority is to make the write-up clear, which means picking a single time zone and being consistent. I guess you could argue it should be UTC, but practically it makes no difference.
We've already found it, it's call capitalism.
The writer's resume includes "Twitter" under the Relevant Skills section.

Which is not to say one should be skeptical about the post. For that you need only look to the lack of citation for everything in it.
Question all you want... I don't actually know any people IRL who don't have an active or semi-active Facebook account (except a handful of contrarian geeks, of course).

Nearly everyone is on Facebook.
The user "confusion" was caused by Facebook's actions, and the blowback is the only non-confused element; people don't like having things like that altered out from under them. It makes them "confused, or angry or litigious.
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Yes, there are plans (though not without some controversy) to include H.264 and MP3 decoding at least in B2G (Firefox OS), and possibly on other platforms where they are available from the OS:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/-xTei5r...

The patches have already landed in B2G: http://bugzil.la/714408
Throwing my 2 cents into the bucket:
I'm involved in a small embedded device project, where we wanted our UI to be completely decoupled from a legacy, very heavy, single-threaded component.

We decided to model the whole UI transition flow into DFA's, using events from the touchscreen (pre-processed) as inputs. The state machine is modelled with boost::statechart, which has proven to live to it's thread-safe reputation.

The jump in development speed and the absence of flow bug is nothing short of remarkable from this experiment.

Although I pushed for it, I was a bit fearful that the formality would make developers resist the architecture, but I'm pleasantly surprised the opposite has happened!

...but, we haven't launched yet, so, fingers crossed. :)

EDIT: Added plug to boost. Boost is awesome.
Fixing my app was easy. I was checking for empty? but now I'm checking for nil? or empty?

I still think it's weird Facebook would do this.
This is what pop culture hacker movies have wraught.
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Don't put spaces in front of question marks. If you're French, okay, you're forgiven. However, a regular space is still completely wrong and it will totally break word-wrapping.
As my parents said when my brother made a similar arguement- "So who are you shacking up with?"
I challenge your assertion that it "doesn't cost a dime to manufacture" an ebook unless you're trying to be overly literal and ignore all of the non "manufacturing" costs that go into ebooks.

"To produce a quality eBook takes just as long and costs just as much as producing a quality paper book. Yes, you save some money on paper, printing, and binding. And you save some money on warehousing and shipping. But you incur other costs."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-zack/making-ebooks-is-h...

In fact the difference in price between many ebooks and the the print copies is often more than the cost of the physical book (which is usually less than a dollar).
could I resell just the part of a GPL distribution that did not include the source code?

No. GPL software is copyrighted. Law (ie not contracts, actual acts and laws) says you cannot distribute a copyrighted work unless you have permission of the copyright holder. In the case of the GPL, the copyright holder only gives you permission to distribute if you include the work under the GPL.

what license does that resold portion now fall under?

The GPL.

since Copyleft is derived from Copyright

In reality, copyleft is copyright. "Copyleft" is just a term to appear different. It is, legally, copyright, but giving people more than is commonly given (e.g. the permission to make derived works etc.)

A lot of confusion is from the mixing of copyright law and contract law. EULA-type "licences" are contract law, and you must agree to them, like a contract. The GPL, despite "licence" in it's name, is not a EULA-type licence, but merely a statement of what rights the copyright holder gives you. You do not have to click "I agree" to be bound by the GPL.
I don't.

I'm one of those Australians who moved to the US to work at Google, and then left to join a startup, Puppet Labs.

There are a lot of Australians in tech in the Bay Area, particularly working in operations, and a regular topic of conversation is "what would I do if I moved back to Australia?"

I'd still probably try to start a new tech company in the US, but I feel much less strongly about that than I did a couple of years ago, and hopefully that trend continues.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was intentional in order prevent devs creating HTML5 games on par with those of the AppStore.
the EU has anti-circumvention rules similar to those in the DMCA.

Oh? Didn't know that. Got a source/details/explaination/more information?
This is the value of using outsourced HR with a company like TriNet. They allow you to offer really competitive healthcare plans.

I think it's really important from the beginning to say that you care enough about your employees to get them the best healthcare you can afford.

It's not really that expensive, so why wait?
Well, the obvious answer to that is the DRM and license attached to the ebook – which is exactly what makes the ruling in Germany so interesting, of course.
I live in France. Every single hardware device out there has one year warranty, with possibly optional paid extension from the reseller. Five second search example [0] shows "Garantie 1 an.". None of their manufacturer get any sort of bash, except Apple.

[0] http://www.fnac.com/Console-Xbox-360-250-Go-Microsoft-Halo-R...
That irked me too but from a purely anecdotal standpoint, I believe the author makes a point when he describes Facebook from the perspective of someone in a relationship.

You get such a biased view into other people's lives (because people post happy things way more often than they discuss their real problems on their profiles/pictures) that it's easy to get overwhelmed with the greener-grass feeling.

Now I'm not saying it's a reason people get divorces (I won't believe that until I see some stats) but I do believe it has the power to amplify an already existing feeling of displease at your couple or significant other.
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To be fair I dont think this one needs a tldr...
It's not like the title didn't give away the fact that the rant would be full of swearing. Also, you didn't have to read it.
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Did that actually happen to you when you made that change or are you just assuming it would?

(In my experience most Wikipedia edits are gratefully received, assuming you provide references for your claims. Kind of like HN, really)