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> In regard to his "objects compare higher..." point, I think he was referring to this:

That all comparisons between objects, except equals and strict equals, return false doesn't seem terribly unreasonable.

> In regard to his "there's no pass-by-object identity..." point, there's no way to do this:

class MyClass {}
$myclass = new ReflectionClass('MyClass');
$anotherclass = $myclass;
$instance = $anotherclass->newInstance();

$myclass = 'MyClass';
$instance = new $myclass();

> I really don't have the energy to refute the rest, but most of them are relatively subjective.

I think you'll be hard pressed to find too much fault with my criticisms of that article. The author doesn't even know common language terms like private/public/protected. And clearly he's never even seen C++.
For Git, I just followed some examples I found online. I don't remember the exact procedure, but it didn't work. After around an hour of trying I just gave up. In fact, I found it just as difficult as trying to install Git on the OpenSolaris servers, which is saying quite a bit.

As for Java, I couldn't update despite using the Software Update menu. It worked on Windows, but OS X just hadn't gotten around to adding it. And, as is usually the case with Apple, there was no good way around it: since Apple hadn't update Java, I couldn't just install it myself. (Or, at least, there was no obvious way of doing this.)

I don't know exactly what my friend tried to install AucTeX and the rest of the LaTeX ecosystem, but he certainly did not find it easy. And this is somebody studying CS at a fairly good university: certainly not unintelligent or unfamiliar with tech.

Over all, your descriptions make OS X seem worse than Linux in the very areas it supposedly excels in!
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It. _is_ IE6.
Sorry, we're experiencing the issue described here: http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=4180339

But basically, we schedule online courses and add email/text you when you should be watching your online course.
Really? Have you watched any of the videos on the http://angularjs.org/ home page? Or taken our awesome tutorial: http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial

One of the design goals of AngularJS is to be as close to HTML and browser as possible - picking the good parts and enhancing it for building web applications.
Skilled developers defending software patents is shameful. You should know better.
php is like the mysql of databases. everyone hates you for using mysql, but everyone uses it.
This is the motivation I needed to spread my EC2 instances across multiple availability zones. When the power comes back.

(fandalism is down)
Maybe if a big enough amount of people gave them some bad PR they would stop doing this monopolistic and unethical actions. I propose to make #AppleIsAnUglyTroll a trend on Twitter (for the masses "Ugly Troll" is more appealing than "Patent Troll")
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Even though this is incorrect, I agree that this seems to totally violate the spirit of GPL which is meant to be used with free software. It's one thing to open source your code and have people donate to get support and fund development. It's quite another to charge for binaries. Others can just redistribute your binaries instead of you, so what is the point? Also, you are open sourcing and GPL'ing it, and yet you won't follow through and actually provide the built code- that's just shooting yourself in both feet. But, you have to appreciate the fact that he did open source it and that he is trying to make money off of it.
idea for heroku : allow customers to host a "my app is down page for blah blah reason" where they host their status page (rackspace I guess?). Who think this would be useful? My users see a blank page right now when they go to ZeTrip, I'd rather show them a static page saying : "our site is down due to amazon lack of redundancy."
Thank you! Good ideas, I will think about it.
Why wouldn't Google+ also throw ads at us, since that's their core business?
There used to be plenty of search sites that were querying multiple search engines and showing a combined result set.
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I can't get to netflix.com. That is no good. Luckily all of my 75+ east servers seem to be ok.
I don't think it's a software patent problem. But it is a ridiculous patent problem. Who could consider checking two databases is a significant innovation over consulting one.
Don't assume that'll save you.
AngularJS has very many similarities with Knockout, except the templating vocabulary is completely extensible (you can create components by creating new HTML elements and modify behavior of existing elements using custom element attributes).

Also in contract to KnockoutJS, AngularJS doesn't require any special wrappers for your model (no ko.observable() all over the place), which means that it's less intrusive and allows you to create models the way you want them to be (need a native array, primitive or custom type? no problem).
It is ok to build on somebody else's business IFF you have a contract in place protecting you. The problem is, today, there are few contracts signed because that would prevent tomorrow's pivot (that screws all of today's partners).
Short Guys Finish Last
> informative titles get changed

> uninformative titles left intact

hn 2012
don't hate the playa, hate the game

none of these companies are leveraging truly novel patents in their lawsuits. few of these companies are even generating novel patents. they're all accumulating (likely bogus) patents to wield as a club against their competitors. the theory was mutual assured destruction would keep all parties in line but Intellectual Ventures pioneered tactical patent strikes that forced all players into an ever escalating cycle of violence. now they're all just scrambling trying to stay ahead. put simply, it's sue or be sued

it sucks, but until there's meaningful patent reform, it's how things are going to be
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EC2 status:

8:21 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.

8:31 PM PDT We are investigating elevated errors rates for APIs in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, as well as connectivity issues to instances in a single availability zone.

8:40 PM PDT We can confirm that a large number of instances in a single Availability Zone have lost power due to electrical storms in the area. We are actively working to restore power.
Yup, I can confirm from here in Montana that both Netflix and Herkou are down.

However, I have 20 instances on us-east. And haven't seen any problems, even during yesterday's outage on AWS.

Edit: that doesn't mean this isn't an AWS outage.... It almost certainly is.
Ask HN: us-east-1's zip code[s]?
The last outage is supposedly related to the storm. Does anyone have this information?
Because part of EC2 is down because of a storm in VA... supposedly.
Can consumers sue Apple for denying them the opportunity to acquire Galaxy Nexus?
netflix.com is down here as well
Google's tablet business model is actually superior to
Amazon's. Google has better ad. monetization than Amazon, and just as good a theoretical monetization of digital media (movies, music, and books).

Amazon has sustainable advantages in a shitty business (retailing/warehousing/shipping physical goods) but when it comes to digital media, it's just bits, a commodity. It is much easier for Google to sell digital content than it is for Amazon to monetize web browsing and email, which is what most people do with tablets.
Looks like it's back now, with 300,000+ likes. Thanks on behalf of the internet, whoever works at Facebook and saw this. :-)

https://www.facebook.com/ModernSherlock
Even now that it is updated it has yellow triangles for "performance issues" instead of red circle for service disruption. Seems like they are in denial.
Intent is not the same as action, and as you said, no one (including you) thought it was urgent to upgrade your security. Shortly thereafter you discovered that there are black swans.

The above is also very easy for someone (like me) to say when you´re not in the middle of it. You want to grow your business, and the benefits of working on security are hard to measure. I get it. That´s when you need to ask yourself what your priorities are, and if you´re in the business of selling turnips, or handling valuables such as bitcoins.

Brian, you are where Zhou Tong was a while ago, although there´s no hype around your service yet. It has great potential, especially with the backing of PG et al. Please don´t make the mistake of putting security on the back burner. If anything you should use it as your primary selling point.

If you´re comfortable with it, subject your internal architecture to public scrutiny. If you´re not, think really hard before you say "trade secret".
You are all way to biased about the whole thing. Thing about it. They just freaking copied Siri. Would you feel cool if someone else just copies your innovative product feature. Apple has all right to sue them and get them blocked.

You can hate my comment. You can down vote me. You can hate Apple as much as you like but all of you know before there was iPhone and iPad there was nothing close to any of it. So how can anyone say all other companies aren't copying? Eric Schmidt just stole every inch of the iPhone...
I'm no lawyer. Is this ruling stating that the court believes the patents are valid, or simply that if they are found to be valid that they are being infringed in this case?

There's a huge difference between the two, and the article isn't quite clear on what the finding is. The bond makes it sound like it could be the latter, but everybody here seems to be assuming it's the former.
Cloudflare lets you do this afaik. I'm not sure I'd trust a service to show a proper 'this site is temporarily down' page when something very bad has happened.
"heroku status" command returns :
All Systems Go: No known issues at this time.
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Just started up try using filepicker.io and it seems to be down too.

Beginning to feel pretty lucky though -- this is at least the 4th AWS-East outage that has made enough of a splash to notice but missed my instances. Upgrading to multiple availability zones was scheduled for Monday anyway.
I remember the 90s, when we all just built fan pages directly on the Internet itself.

Well, ok, that's not fair. We also made fan pages on AOL and Geocities, but we got rid of those after a while since gated Internet couldn't compete in the long run with regular Internet.

I guess now we have Facebook, though, and it's different... though I forget how.

Remind me, why did we make yet another gated mirror of the Internet?
"Skilled developers" need to understand the system as it exists today or they will fail. Raganwald wasn't defending software patents; he was explaining the fallacious thinking in the parent's comment.

Software patents are a horrible joke, but to stick your fingers in your ears and shout "I can't hear you!!!" won't result in a positive outcome for your company. As much as it makes my stomach turn, I'm forced to consider the ramifications of patent and IP (especially now that it's first to file instead of first to innovate) nearly every day.
Kinectable_pipe dumps skeleton data from Microsoft Kinect to standard Unix pipe.
The best thing is to make some local friends that will help you out with this kind of thing, but there are also rental agencies etc that can help you. Cell phone usage is simple. Just buy a SIM card in any shop and pop it in your phone.

For insurance I've used World Nomad's travel insurance.
Anyone who is trying to one-up someone else is exhibiting social intelligence. The "socially awkward" excuse is completely illogical. Nerds who act that way are acting just like all the jocks we disparage. Just because they are using lines of code and obscure knowledge instead of pushups or interceptions caught doesn't mean they aren't doing exactly the same thing.

I think that bad behavior is more acceptable in tech because people think being abnormal and living in a "meritocracy" gives them a right to treat other people, especially normal people or anyone they feel superior to, badly. It leads to lots of trying to prove you aren't a "normal" person or somehow inferior so the people around you won't treat you badly. It is a miserable way to live.

The people who are actually weird and different are treated badly by the so-called "socially awkward" nerds. I agree with you: it is an excuse for why they shouldn't be expected to know better. There is no such thing, though. I'm dyslexic and I still had to learn to read and I'm still judged on my spelling. Even if something is harder for someone, that just means they need to work harder at it or find another way to get to the same end goal.

The people I have known who are actually on the autism spectrum, rather than just using it as an excuse, all have.
Comcast's login server looks like it's down too: http://login.comcast.net. Prevents me from logging into HBO Go. No Netflix either. :(
Sony may be evil, but they're much less insidious than Apple. Why? Simple: Apple is, whether we like it or not, popular. Sony isn't. The real problem is not just Apple's behavior, but also how many people like them despite their behavior.

Of course, I won't claim any moral superiority here. While I don't have any Apple devices, it's not because of moral reasons but simply because I am genuinely unimpressed with their efforts. Overrated, over-hyped and fashionable, but never practical or optimal.
Reddit also seems to be experiencing some difficulties. Are they still on AWS?
Confirmed in California as well.
Yeah, my ~20 instances are okay. I think we had a hiccup with our (multi-az, whooo!) RDS though.
Can't say I condone the method, but interesting anyway.

I'm intrigued now. Why not? (Because of the risk of the KKK getting the donation?)
While not a Clancy thriller, I appreciate the well-written insights from this paper. I don't know the author yet, but thanks to him for taking the time to write this.
I met alexis during a a meetup event in NYC and I had no idea that this was a part of his story. I love both reddit and hipmunk and I hope he continues to make cool products!
Agreed. I've been doing iOS dev for about a year now and I really enjoy the hardware and the APIs but I'm getting very close to the breaking point with their behavior.

I'm not proud of enabling them by contributing to their ecosystem.
Congrats! May the patience be with you!
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How many times does this have to happen before heroku spreads across multiple regions?
I live in DC. It was an amazing storm. A transformer in my area went down fairly quickly. Fortunately, I live near a large hospital.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -
Eleanor Roosevelt.

If only we'd find a way to teach this as a practical lesson early in school, instead of a "sounds nice, if only" stumbled on as an adult.

You don't have to feel inferior when someone else is behaving superior. Society just assumes you do.
I'm pretty sure they have more profitable things to attend to.
8:49 PM PDT Power has been restored to the impacted Availability Zone and we are working to bring impacted instances and volumes back online.
did the datacenter get flooded or what? this is just "major" downage.
Confirmed in Missouri.
Netflix uses EC2, which seems to be having serious issues, that's probably why it's down.
It's likely related to the power outages across VA
I'm afraid to report that you have also abused the term "scalable". You have instead described something normally called the Marginal Product of Labour (MPL). I believe the claim in the OP is to the effect that Groupon's MPL is flat or even declining and have to concur with the assessment that a high-touch business model requires huge technological support to remain competitive.

Indeed your own example, McDonalds, is a prime example of this. They are not particularly notable as a human business, rather they represent a case study in very high efficiency supply chain management and process optimisation.

I don't disagree that a strong and skilled front line enables enduring customer relationships and opens many doors. But the recommendation - to do so with a clear eye for efficient processes & systems - is exceedingly sound.
What if you are the innovative company and somebody is coming along and stealing every innovation you put in front of the market? Since they are one step behind, they don't have to spend money on the innovations that fail, thereby having much lower costs than you do?

This is much more complicated than "Dude, Apple are such duches. They can't think of anything new so they just sue everybody."

IP protection in the US (and world, thanks to treaties) is seriously messed up. Apple is aggressive, but it is naïve to think any large company wouldn't be (and small companies need to recognize that!).
I don't have answers, but I know that unless an element is very rare in the Earth's crust, price signals are usually pretty good at making supply rise very rapidly. I was reading about the beginning of the nuclear age and how everybody thought that uranium would be in very short supply, but it turned out that once it becomes a valuable commodity, lots of cash goes into exploration and many new significant deposits are found. If there's no incentive, of course there's no point in even looking for the stuff.

I know that's fuzzy, but I would guess that professor Sadoway did what he said that he did, which is to pick an element that is common and that should be cheap.

I'm also not sure quite how many of these types of batteries we'd need. There are other methods of storage (ie. hydro power in places like Quebec, Norway, etc, which can act as giant regional batteries) and we can make the grid much smarter about demand-response and things like that. The solution won't be a single silver bullet, but a combination of things, including efficiency (lots of low-hanging fruits there, despite all the progress we've made -- the Rocky Mountain Institute has a lot of good stuff about this).
Have they tried making the people have a hair color that is between the accepted and rejected ones? Bisect the acceptance/rejection continuum.
Limewire was this way to some degree. The source was free if you were willing to check it out from CVS, or you could download a binary from Limewire.com which strongly encouraged you to pay for "Pro".

This produced tons of scam sites that at best just compiled the binary themselves then took people's money, and at worst just bundled malware. It also produced Frostwire, which I think was a net positive, but was really just a re-branding. Limewire's open source community never materialized, and they got the worst of both worlds.
i think netflix ceo just signed up for a rackspace account
Like http://appfog.com/ has?
Opera is still the top mobile browser worldwide, still used by many on iOS when you want to save bandwidth.
But you seem to want to emasculate them all.

That is totally out of line. It breaks every standard of civility we're supposed to be keeping here. I feel ashamed for HN.

I don't know if you're aware of this, but your comments frequently come across as abrasive. An occasional bite is one thing, but with you the needle always seems to be fluctuating into the red. I usually try reading what you have to say because you seem smart enough, but then this nastiness comes out and it's a drag.

But "you seem to want to emasculate them all" is on another level entirely, so mean and so rude it's like a parody.
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Instagram is also down, which leads me to believe it's (another) Amazon problem.
I thought McDonalds was a real estate and leasing company? McDonalds only owns about 15% of its restaurants, it doesn't have as many employees as you think.
Developer Rules of the Road
A bit over 15 years ago, Sony was extremely popular.
I think this is a Great wake-up call to everyone who builds on someone else's platform. You are not the master of the house - and can be kicked out at any time.

One way to circumvent this is to have binding legal stuff in place, another is bring so much unique value to the platform that the owners are scared of mass defections should they break your app.

With Twitter I do not see any Third-party app in this category. Only companies of the likes of Apple & Google have the necessary influence to cause Twitter to think twice before making incompatible changes. Others are toast.
I agree with both of you. For some professionals (sports photographers, journalistic photographers), this will be insanely useful (and maybe mandatory).

For artistic photographers, capturing the moment as seen in the mind's eye will continue to be critical, so this won't be useful.

The nice thing about the first group: they have the financial backing of large media companies (or contractors looking for ways to differentiate themselves). Seems like it might be a reasonable direction to go.
Well, until we figure out plausible ways to control weather reliably on a large enough scale, at least. Without killing the atmosphere or our species or anything like that.
Yet another reason things systems like Twitter and Facebook shouldn't be silos with centralized control, but distributed, decentralized, self-hosted systems built on open standards.
Almost all armies do this, and they do it really, really well.

As a veteran I can tell you that everything you do is critiqued, and everything your boss does is critiqued, and so on.

At certain levels it's peer review, at others, hierarchtical. The whole point of it all is to increase your chances of survival.

It's a great process, and I've noticed that most military folk are great at speaking plainly and accepting critique, much more so than civilians. I beleive these processes are a huge part of the reason.
Of course my analogy is "defective" -- that's a feature of analogies, not a bug because all analogies break down rapidly. An analogy is a loose likeness between two things; one is not a wholly accurate representation of the other.
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Google's Nexus line so far has been to set a standard for their partners to follow, in terms of price, features, and more importantly, to show the partners how they mess up Android with their bad customizations.

I believe Nexus 7 is intentionally designed to be too small to leave room for Android tablet partners to innovate. In all likelihood, it will be yet another successful failure by Google - by provoking partners and rivals to sufficiently respond to the Nexus 7, in terms of price and freedom (as opposed to the Kindle) so much that it makes Nexus 7 irrelevant.
For the last couple of years I have been trying to stay objective about this (I actually do quite a bit of iOS programming in my day job in addition to Android) and have always tried to be more pro-android than anti-Apple, but I am finally done trying to walk the fence. Enough of this bullshit. Its time for consumers to be aware that every time they buy an Apple product, they are damaging the software industry and the spirit of innovation. Its like buying blood diamonds. Sure they are pretty but the cost isnt worth it.

My question: Is there a central point for sending out this message? I would love to see someone setup a messaging page like "Say No to Apple" or something like that that I can link to. Some activity the level of the SOPA blackouts would be awesome (though probably not realistic, but hey, I can dream), with JavaScript popups for idevices etc.What about things like Twitter badges or sidebar widgets that we can install on our blogs, profile pages etc?

I think the normal folks (consumers) don't get how bad this is.
Hey Walter. I remember that you did a lot more on the Newton than the object store :)

NewtonScript made me a better programmer. I don't say that about many languages.