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I'll agree on everything except that last part.

When is the last time in any business you've seen or even heard of non-technical management (including clients) accepting blame for a technical malfunction?
Chrome is using the UIWebView control (same as Safari, sans NitroJS), so I don't know if that's even possible.
Is there any expectation that this design will be workable over a WAN, or this a LAN-only solution?
SMP Erlang DOES use threads, it then uses green-processes and a custom scheduler to schedule processes fairly and preemptively across those threads. It doesn't use like 1 thread per process, but threads are a key component of how it works.

It is absolutely nothing like spawning OS level processes. They are micro-processes, green-processes than live inside the Erlang VM.
Thanks dude, I cancelled my 8GB and ordered the 16GB.
Interesting to think of it from that layer of abstraction. I definitely agree, but "Why Files Exist" fits nicer as a title
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Same in that they are both AWS and sometimes generate errors - yes. Not the same in that East has had four significant outages in the last 16 months and West has not.
There were some dark times during the 1990s for Apple. They fundamentally had a technology stack though. They had vast amounts of technology that made them look like an incredibly valuable target for purchase.

There also had an army of loyal supporters. Supporters longing for their return to greatness. That and they had, in ways, carved out a safe harbor, they didn't have to compete head to head with MS or the clone makers. We're talking about a rare turn around though, that doesn't happen often. Comparing companies to Apple is going to be the new Godwin's law..

RIM is just in a different spot, the game changed and they didn't. They had some good stuff but the rules are just so different, if they made a product that was on par with Android of iPhone, that's simply not enough.
I signed up, but it didn't appear to accept my password, presumably to the aforementioned JS bug, but trying to sign up again afterword tells me that my email is taken and won't log me in.

Is there a login link I can visit?
I miss the old background color :-(
Sparrow tried to position it like that, but that was not the real story: it was not Apple "blocking" them, it was that they did not want to put in the effort to setup a real push service, and instead wanted to run all the time on the device (using battery) to maintain an open connection. Which, of course, not having every app doing that is exactly the problem that push notifications, as implemented by Apple, were designed to solve.
Once I got a letter from Bank Of America that they had noticed weird activity on my home equity line of credit, with a weird phone number to call to talk. No one answered that number, and I don't have an equity line.

It turns out the letter really did come from BoA.

EDIT: and once Chase sent me a letter telling me to reply by September 31. http://danweber.blogspot.com/2009/08/chase-does-it-again.htm...
It's the oldest, yes.
One of the programs I inherited once had been written by a programmer who loved alert boxes of the form 'Are you sure you want to Delete X'.

I was watching a user a month or so afterwards to notice they just pressed enter every time an alert box popped up, immediately, without reading and without thought.

Alerts on computers aren't there to be read any more. They're confusing annoyances that you just click yes to. They're usually badly written in that they tell a normal person nothing, they're without context and usually ultimately exist because a programmer was prevaricating on making a decision.

We nagged our users too much as programmers, to turn around and blame them for not thinking is a sublime irony given that we were the ones not thinking and constantly asking for reassurance that it was us not making a mistake.
We see turnover all the time. The network effect is interesting, but creative people can and do overcome it. reddit overcame it by faking user activity until they actually had a community. Facebook overtook MySpace with exclusivity combined with an exponential rollout. LiveJournal lived and died because of its community and the "network effect"; Tumblr has now achieved what LiveJournal had only dreamed about. The network effect is a difficult hurdle to overcome, but the best do and as a result we end up with a "new internet" ever 5-10 years or so. Craigslist might be the next giant to lose their golden star, and I wouldn't be especially surprised if they do.

Google failed in part because they never really communicated what Google+ is. I still don't really grok what it's for or why I should use it, and that's why I don't. They really just didn't produce a compelling product, brand it well, or market it effectively. For whatever reason, Google's marketers doesn't appear to be of the same caliber as their engineers.

Someone will pull Twitter's pants down and at the same time eat their lunch. I love Twitter, but I can't wait to see what cool thing replaces them.
Ever think to link to a file (e.g. excel spreadsheet) for a forum, like you can for an image with imgur?

other than Dropbox public url's the services that exiist have so many images with the word "Download" in the resulting link, all of which look exactly like a UX element, that you have to click about half of them or play Sherlock Holmes to uncover the real download link. It's like a scratch-off lottery.
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I've been using Chrome in iOS since it went on the App Store yesterday, and so far not being able to set it as my default browser doesn't seem to be holding me back too much. It replaced Safari on my dock, and my browser is usually within a single swipe on the multitasking tray at the most. Sure, you'll be thrown into Safari here and there, but that's the case for Mail as well, and I can still enjoy Sparrow.
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Amazon RDS Multi A-Z didn't work today, what can I do?
Some RDS machines of us-east-1 went down today. And I was like, Who cares? I have Multi A-Z so I'm covered. Well I was not... Multi A-Z didn't work, the machine kept booting on the same availability zone and it was impossible to get access to it. According to Amazon's Console this was due to "Timed out waiting for a state safe to initiate user requested failover" . And that made me think. Accordingly from what I've read online, "Multi A-Z makes a hot copy of the production instance. If this instance fails In three minutes you'll be in a 'backup instance' exactly as the production instance". But what if I'm writing something to the DB and the disk fails? The database will get corrupted, and If they're really making a hot copy of the disk, how can they (Amazon) ensure the customer that the data of the "backup instances" will not get corrupted? Amazon's support team couldn't give me an answer. But they told me that they will get in touch with me when they get more information from the RDS engineering team. I also asked WHY Multi A-Z didn't work, and they didn't have an answer for that either. Does anyone know HOW does Multi A-Z really work, and how does amazon's ensure consistency in data? What will be the best infrastructure to get high-availability on databases in an Amazon environment? Thank you so much!
There's no option other than "Clean computer." No ignore, repair, quarantine.

Note to malware coders: add ignore, repair, quarantine buttons that run the same code.
This reads like a patent.
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One day these things won't be "selectable" to prove to us that they are HTML

Selection is probably not the best way to check whether something is browser content...

-webkit-touch-callout: none;
-webkit-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
Isn't Apple notorious for shutting down apps that usurp their markets?
Android's full disk encryption is supposed to solve that problem. You can't root her device and make it look the same (so she doesn't notice), because that would require breaking the encryption.
So far, there have been two userland exploits of the iOS browser (Safari) since Apple implemented code signing in 2008, at JailbreakMe.com. Both of those required tons of extra work compared to what they would have required otherwise.

It's not a "weak argument", it's the reason why iOS is one of the most secure platforms out there, and way more secure than Android, Windows, (most) desktop Linux, and OS X. Other preventative technologies (e.g. ASLR, DEP/w^x, etc) are on those platforms, but none of them have the same kind of pervasive code signing that you see on iOS (and often video game consoles).
I'm not an expert at this so please correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly all I had to do to jailbreak my iphone was go to jailbreakme.com and click the button on it. That was it.

So it seems that if I can trick someone to click that button then it is possible for me to not only jailbreak their phone but also run any sort of malicious code afterwards (because instead of Cydia it can install just about anything).
Right, that's why I qualified my statement with ...unless the GIL is subverted via C extensions or similar.

The sky isn't falling, in the worst possible case you can still use Jython or whatever.

Sigh. I could port to C++ or whatever, too.
I have a lot of sympathy for that. But the end of that road is the 50-year-old programmer looking forward to spending the next 15 years doing mind-numbing maintenance on vital but terrible corporate code while hoping they don't get laid off. That's what happened to a lot of COBOL programmers, for example.

Software development is a Red Queen field [1]. If you don't take the time to keep up, you will eventually get left behind.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_Hypothesis
This is pretty straightforward. I'm intrigued, but question how someone else (who has not thought about the problem as long as I have) be able to communicate the solution more effectively than me? Further, you don't guarantee anything if I think your pitch sucks. It feels like I might just blow $25 for entertainment and hope for the best.

Maybe re-position your value prop like so:
"For $25, we'll consult with you for 30 minutes to help you refine your existing pitch or create one from scratch."

You can still earn your keep but allows your customers to be involved in shaping a pitch that actually reflects their vision.
That's what happens when programmability (JavaScript, Java, Flash, plugins...) is added to a presentation format (HTML). Maybe this is the right time to revive Gopher and give Usenet a fresh breath of life.
I don't disagree with allowing that flexibility, but letting Redis instances do dual duty would greatly simplify things for some really common types of deployments. It's awfully nice with Mongo to just run three members and get a pretty decent failover feature for "free", versus having to worry about maintaining an entirely different set of processes.
So.. microsoft is only a 5-7 billion dollar company?
Never respond. Always take the initiative.

If something asks you about update/downloading/etc., reject it. You decide what to do and when, and you type the URL into the browser, or go to the normal menu/dialog/tool for updating.

(This is partly why Chrome browser is right and the normal approach is wrong: if/when it needs update, it just does it.)
yup. we got a cease and desist as well along with padmapper. we're trying to contact craigslist and see if there's a way to work with them. wish us luck!
That sort of sounds like how Morbidity and Mortality conferences at hospitals are supposed to work. It isn't about assigning blame(unless someone really screwed up) but examining the mistake in front of the whole department so that everybody learns from it.
Python and ruby are just scripting languages - Java is a structured type safe language which is battle hard. No comparison!
they very much do care. If the only button anyone clicked on the home screen was "Firefox" and then did everything from there forever, pretty soon people would realize they don't really need an iPhone and would buy a far-less premium device.

This is exactly what will happen in Apple allows Chrome. They should remove it from the app store. It's against their policies and just like flash in mobile safari (firefox on ios is exactly like flash in mobile safari): All the arguments about not being "as native" are just as true, and Apple no longer has a Safari community across its devices to corral around and for developers to target.

Tim Cook is running Apple into the ground by removing Apple's user experience differentiation. He is creating beige boxes. Samsung can do that. Asus can do that. He needs to take a look at what the fuck Apple even is.
If that's true it could be a good time to speculate/gamble a bit. I'm tempted to throw $500 or so at it, for the chance of another bubble.
Back when "Verified by Visa" first came out, and I first saw such a page, I called my credit card company to see what was up.

The customer service people at the card had no clue what was going on. They'd never heard of it either. They told me they'd escalate the question to a manager and call my back, but they never did.
I used 1.5 minutes, but I spent probably 30 seconds or more starting the text editor and opening a custom html document with the form values.

It has to be said that I had already made tools for converting the two first challenges :-)

I think they should have added some additional puzzles like fixing a bug in a JavaScript function or something, but it is a good way of making sure that the free tickets goes to someone that has some experience.
I hope he goes to law school as well to learn about antitrust issues.
Agreed. We just started sending an email to anyone who signs up for a free trial for our software asking when they're free for a one-on-one phone demo. This has increased sales more than anything else we've ever done, and the amount of time it takes is easily worth it.

Sure, it's a bummer that we'll have to hire a few more customer service people as we grow, but it's much better than the alternative. You open up so many opportunities by being willing to do something as simple as talking to someone on the phone.
I agree, as someone that's still just getting my toes wet, as soon as I saw the leaderboard aspect I was like "Ah, this isn't going to be my type of place.."
I was about to say that. Rights to source is determined by the contract. To my ear, someone who hates Flash because their devs won't cough up source is someone who (1) doesn't code (2) doesn't understand the law, and (3) made a bad contract and blamed the flash dev, and now is taking out his bitterness about the experience on Flash as a platform. Which is ridiculous.

As a coder who doesn't, and never will, sign works-for-hire agreements, I'm the model of a dev who won't give you the source if you fire me or treat me like shit. In one incident, a customer who paid $100k for me to develop a flash app, then sold it to News Corp without mentioning to them that they didn't actually own the source for it. News Corp had, legally, every right to reverse-engineer that app; moreover I actually gave them the source because I'm a nice guy, but I stipulated that they couldn't repackage it without my assent, and that the classes which had been developed outside the project at hand (some of which had been coded on other customers' dime) were not for resale at all; and that in no way could they claim ownership and try to prevent me from reusing any of it for my own purposes. News Corp then hired a team of coders, paid them in excess of $300k to try and reverse-engineer my code. When that failed, they called me and offered me $50 an hour, half my regular wage, to help them, if I would just sign their NDA, which happened to include handing them eternal rights to everything I'd ever done. I told them to fuck off, and the project died a week later.

But more importantly, anyone who knew what they were talking about and who wasn't just a frat boy shilling for HTML5 because that'as what douchebags talk about at Q's on Fridays would know that technically, there are 101 decompilers for Flash, and legally, you can decompile code you paid for and have someone else edit it as long as you aren't reselling it, even if you didn't have the coder under a works-for-hire agreement; and morally, if your coder is telling you to piss off and not giving you the source then you're probably an asshole who deserves it.
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Not sure if there is an easy answer but there are quite a few threads on this topic on stackoverflow or even HN. Django and flask in my limited experience are both great frameworks but the difference is that flask is micro while django is fully loaded. That does not necessarily mean more automation with django since your project could have specific custom requirements which django out of the box may not work and hence you could use something like flask and extend it to your specific needs.
I personally prefer Flask since it makes me learn a little more about stuff and in love with the Jinja2 templating supported by Flask.
The first half of your post is basically a long-winded appeal to popularity. Yes, most people on the web use PHP and Apache. Most people on the web also need nothing more than a WordPress installation and their online needs are met. Does that mean WordPress is the best tool out there? You should stop confusing popularity with quality, because the two rarely overlap.

> C10K is not a problem and never was.

Somebody better tell the developers of nginx, Lighttpd, Tornado, node.js, Cherokee, Apache Deft, IIS, and Jetty! All those hours wasted developing solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.

> Which is why people continue to use Apache.

For someone who just decried a situation "infinitely more complex" a few line breaks ago, you sure did generalize the reason millions of servers use a certain piece of software. It couldn't be because Apache has an easier installation on most of the common distros or that cPanel/WHM, the most-used virtual hosting control panel, only supports Apache as its web server. It also couldn't be because of mod_php.

This all stems from your conflation of popularity with quality. PHP did not become popular because it was good. It became popular because it was easy to learn and run.

> Except that article was written by somebody who doesn't have much experience in PHP and most of those complaints don't apply to the current stable version. The rest are easily avoided with sane design.

Most of his criticisms were completely valid, so I'm not sure where you're getting the author doesn't have much experience in PHP. Which ones have been fixed in the current stable PHP? And which ones can be avoided "with sane design"?

> Which explains why Python is so unpopular.

Now I know you're spouting nonsense: https://github.com/languages/
Also, GWT Steering Committee is founded:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vaadin-to-support-google-we...
http://blog.daniel-kurka.de/2012/06/gwt-steering-committee.h...

with membership including Vaadin, Sencha, Arcbees (GWTP).

Related, GWT compile times are still dog-slow with 2.5.0-RC1.
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I really liked the article. But look at how much of this thread is spent talking about that bit of snark. I think that mixing the snark in with all of the rational reasons for Python 3's existence and not working on the GIL made some people less receptive to rational arguments. In other words, I don't think it was worth it.
Personally I much prefer the 'awesome bar' in Firefox, for the single reason that it indexes page content and auto-completes based on title tags, page titles, etc. This is the one feature that I really miss when using Chrome.
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Actually I see PHPs lack of multithreading as one of it's few good features
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more specifically, Apple is Apple for shutting down apps that usurp their markets. But don't worry - Apple won't be Apple for much longer, and it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots.
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So, the UK intelligence services are openly admitting to being able to decrypt TLS/SSL connections, which by the way also include AES?
I don't think the business of selling "single mom makes $700/day online" business plans is an honest living, but judging from the amount of ads and comment spam at least a few people are making a living at it (and google of course takes a nice cut as well). From what I've read, even though it converts better than online pharmacies and rogue anti-virus, you can get more traffic to the latter two.
That's exactly right. Files don't exist. The "filesystem" just a big fat KV store.

Somewhere along the way someone decided it'd be a useful abstraction to imagine a hierarchical organization system (directories) on top, so that was glommed on, but it's not real either.

It was never a perfect system, but it worked well enough when most users were fairly technical and had a humanly comprehensible set of labelled data streams.

I appreciate the effort to insulate users from the complexity that has grown up underneath them. The simple fact is that most people fail at large scale taxonomy and organization. It's hard. And it's a lot of work to maintain even if you're good at it. See: library science. So I don't think there is another model that will succeed as well as "files" have.

iOS hides the filesystem, but it's still there obviously. So far all we've seen is insulation for those who need it, as a byproduct of huge control loss for everyone. The other (valuable) byproduct is security.

We haven't found the compromise yet. There might not be one.
Does WebKit on iOS ships with LLInt? I think not, so there's a room for improvement for unJITted version.

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108309

http://wingolog.org/archives/2012/06/27/inside-javascriptcor...
But they do, most of these malware scams involve the user going to their website and buying their special malware removal tool.
try a different decoder (utf-8 is the key here i think) :)
I forget what the term for it is, but there's a principle that any dialog that's asking the user for credentials or authorization must be clearly delineated from the rest of the UI and thus "unspoofable".

The example I recall was a "ribbon" in the OS that slide out to reveal the dialog. If a dialog presented itself but the ribbon remained along the edge you could immediately tell it was spoofed. Of course this requires the OS not allow untrusted code to reposition/hide the ribbon or present a full screen display without prompting the user.

Another example is iOS grays out the background (including status bar at the top) when presenting a modal password prompt. However this could easily be spoofed by a full screen native app. The only way to solve that is to require authorization to enter full screen mode.

Browsers are improving. At least Chrome shows the URL at the top of all popup windows. Entering full screen mode requires user authorization.

That of course doesn't solve the OP's problem of spoofing a floating window purely inside a webpage, but that really needs to be solved at the OS level.
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Maybe you could build up confidence working on something else -- an open source project, for example -- that has better personal dynamics. You get something to be proud of, a clear demonstration of your skills, and you've helped the community.
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