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There is also a very recently developed middle ground, the Linux "x32" ABI, since Linux v3.4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI

As I understand it, this mode gains performance by sticking with 32bit pointers in user-space instead of 64bit pointers, while still allowing for taking advantage of all the new registers etc available in x86-64 ("amd64") CPUs. (Many programs doesn't really need more than 4gb virtual address space, and so using full 64bit pointers can cause quite the overhead - imagine doubly-linked lists with small data structures, for example)
Not that I've been able to find. We were asked to look into making one of our client apps to work on Windows phone. Seems we're noticing some of the same issues this article has brought up and, already, two of the developers are warning we may not want to do this.
The industry as a whole will need to return to simpler UIs and that are usable, functional and practical. We'll need to leave this dark period behind us, but hopefully we can learn from these mistakes to ensure future applications do not fall victim to the problems we are witnessing today.

Well, you have to qualify why Chrome's UI sucks, otherwise it's just an opinion. As far as I am concerned, it is useful plenty.
I was under that impression as well--perhaps something has changed since the initial announcement--but certificates are not free. I just went through this process with my free, non-App-Store Mac app, and there was no way to do it without paying $99.
Those are legitimate criticisms. But they aren't really related to this article. Your 2010 phone is at the end of its contract. This is a study of phones sold in the second quarter of this year (to people who, statistically, have zero demand for "pro audio" apps). There are plenty of reasons for you to prefer your iOS device; please don't pollute a discussion of market numbers with arbitrary flamage.
Looks like I'm out of luck with my HTC Legend... :-(
I wrote a small article on an obscure piece of software, I even studied the wiki syntax and added an infobox & image.

It got fast track deleted the next day.

Wikipedia has reached an equilibrium point between articles that cannot be deleted and deletionist desires to delete everything. In many cases the deciding factor, or the demand to the deletionists' supply, is public outrage.
Licensing is a fair, non-monopolistic way to settle patent infringement. The fact that Android thrives despite the fee is proof of that. Microsoft is using the system as intended. The validity of the patent is another matter, but the companies paying the fee don't seem to be interested in settling it.
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I wrote a manufacturing pull system in VB 6.0 + Access for the application database. That was all they had to work with there ( or more correctly all they wanted to work with.. ) It handled a stupid number of queries per month and was very reliable.

It's important to have good tools, but a robust design beats all imho.
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Please post this sort of question to somewhere like StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/ HN is not that sort of Q&A resource.
No doubt Apple and their lawyers know this too. What they get out of this is temporary removal of a competing product from sale. This almost certainly has bottom line benefits for Apple.

Courtrooms and patents are just another tool big corporations use to compete. Apple is particularly aggressive as is Microsoft but many companies do this. Motorola comes to mind and Nokia as well.

This needs to be fixed at the congressional level but good luck with that. Congress thinks the current patent system is pretty much perfect. Hopefully, with people like Posner finally speaking out, this changes
During my time in the USA, I saw that most people think the private sector is inherently more efficient than the government. As you said it seems like an axiom.

However, I disagree it's people+procedures+technology that make a great organization and none of those concepts are exclusive of either private or public sector.
Let's hope we see more of those sensible decisions in the future.
Sorry, but that statement is just silly.

To bring any new product to market inevitably requires a lot of R&D, development expenses, and a certain amount of risk-taking, hoping you really are inventing the next great thing.

Once a product is proven to be successful it is relatively simple for a competitor to attempt to copy or duplicate the most popular facets of that device. Because they did not have to spend resources on the same development and market testing, it stands to reason that the copy product could also be sold much more cheaply than the original, giving the competitive product a significant cost advantage (or giving the company creating the product a higher profit margin, or both).

I'm not saying anything specific about Apple or Samsung in this case, but product superiority alone is rarely the competition killer you appear to make it out to be.
Ignoring the obvious patent ridiculousness, I'm a little bit surprised and dismayed to see Apple going so hard after Android in this way.

1) As a consumer, competition in this space is overwhelmingly positive. You can already see a number of improvements Apple has made to iOS as a result of Android, and a strong Android OS will continue to keep them on their toes.

2) You have to wonder if it is even good for Apple to win in the long run. They have so much control over the iPhone ecosystem, getting too much market share in the mobile/tablet space would very likely garner unwanted attention from the DOJ. It is possible Android is a significant buffer against an anti-trust action similar to what Microsoft saw in the 90's.
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I'm working on a SaaS product and I wonder: is there anyone here with concrete feedback about how online demos that do not require sign-up (a bit like https://www.optimizely.com/ and stripe) actually increase sign-ups (or not)?

As a user, it would feel nice, but does it have any measured effect?

Any feedback is most welcome!
x32 is clearly a good technical solution. If you're running on a 64 bit kernel, x32 is superior to i686 in every measurable way.

But it's also yet another architecture. It's not binary compatible with either i686 or x86_64. You need your whole userspace compiled to use it. Middleware with embedded assembly (there's a surprising amount of this in glibc, and of course things like ffmpeg, libjpeg, etc...) needs to be ported. You can't run 32 bit binaries from proprietary sources.

And frankly the benefit over straight x86_64 is quite modest. I don't see x32 taking off. It's just not worth the hassle.
It seems like proggit is dying. I've been subbed to it for a few years and there used to be a lot more submissions. I don't have data to back it up and hopefully I am wrong but if I am not I imagine us programmers prefer to go to sources totally dedicated for programming instead of a mixed bag. It would make sense for proggit to be dying out though because Reddit used to be primarily for tech and has of course now shifted out of tech and into everything.
see, and I for one am glad that this happened and that the classic nerds with no visual taste whatsoever have been driven back to where they belong - the backend.

Using Chrome as an example is really, really funny.

How about GIMP? Every Linux distro before Ubuntu? Lotus Notes?

Yes, one thing has been lost though - that smug feeling of eliteness, being able to do something with a computer no normal user could. Like attaching a printer and having it print right away. Or being able to setup a photo album, import them from a bunch of devices and upload it to a safe off-site location.

Now grandma can do it and it sucks, right? She doesn't it even know how it works! Unfair!
Why do you believe an Apple employee wouldn't be allowed to go anywhere but the factory and the hotel? Not that there's necessarily a lot to do in the area, but are you saying they couldn't go out to lunch at a nearby hotpot restaurant? Or at least schedule their return so that there's a weekend to explore Hong Kong on the way back?

Me and my coworkers did a bunch of weekend excursions whenever we were in or passing through Hong Kong such as: hiking up to see the Big Buddha of Lantau Island, having dinner at Igor's (a monster-themed restaurant), seeing the local amusement park, finding a private Thai "dinner club", taking the ferry to Macau to play blackjack, seeing museums to get their take on the local history, or just wandering around to find food or souvenirs (the "Temple Street night market") or illegal software (the "Golden Arcade") or video games that hadn't come out in the US yet (Dance Dance Revolution was HUGE there in 1999)...

Also, I sometimes scheduled my trips to fly to Hong Kong with a stopover at Narita Airport so I could stay in Tokyo with a friend and take a few days of my vacation time there with my company having paid all my travel expenses.

If you like exploring bits of China and the surrounding area, having a business excuse to be going there a lot is awesome. Even if the neighborhood of the factory itself is a bit boring - and it is - the journey there and back can be fascinating. Especially if you like your coworkers - both the ones from your home company and the ones you meet at the factory - and have tried to learn a bit of the local languages. I even had fun interacting with the girls who were working on the line doing electronics assembly - I taught them some magic tricks and brought pictures I'd taken on prior trips and we tried to have interesting conversations despite the language and other cultural barriers.
hhsa's post seems to have gotten dead'd, so:

While I think a lot of people would get used to it (as proven by the amount of people who have all their lives and conversations in public on Facebook), there definitely will still be some who are aware of the consequences.
The whole "overshare your whole life publicly on the internet" situation is starting to get out of hand. I don't need to tell HN'ers, but once something is put online, it's there forever, available to any of the 7 billion people alive right now, and it will be available to anybody else that ever lives in the future. Yet still people continue to post content that is immature, embarrassing, risqué, illegal/incriminating, etc. using their full names and identities for the world to see.
But a full Wikipedia article for every person? Do you really want anybody on the planet to have your full DOB, birthplace, educational history, employment history, place of residence, pictures, etc. AND then have all of that information for your spouses, parents, children?
This is getting too crazy.
>The interesting thing is going to be whether Apple decides to invent their own standard here

The thing to keep in mind here is that NFC requires interoperability to be useful. Not only that, but Sony and NXPI (Philips' semiconductor spin out) own all the related NFC intellectual property (NXPI supplies the IC in the Nexus NFC-enabled phone). So, Apple is free to innovate at a UX level, but the low-level implementation will be based on the NXPI ASIC.
I guess it is just an issue of semantics, but while I disagree with Apple here, I have a hard time calling them a 'patent troll'. To me, that always indicated an NPE who was suing random people over a patent that had never actually been implemented in a product.

I think Apple is wrong (and a little short-sighted) here, but I don't think this puts them on the same level as Lodsys or IV.
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Wow. That's a whole lot of kool-aid.

For the record: all my computers, equipped with 3g modems and touchscreens or not, running a variety of OSes, are running just fine with none of those issues.
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I cut my teeth on perl and don't run screaming when I see to this day. Perl has an undeserved bad rap. I like python as much as the next guy but frankly Perl does some things way better than python. And don't get me started on Pythons rules around scope.
You get a trademark for a specific context.

If Apple's trademark was restricted to the context of computing (likely), then suing anyone who dared using an Appple in their logo was beyond the score of necessary protection.
Am I missing something, or does the top answer not address the question? Memory tricks aside, it seems the questioner is asking whether the physical RAM itself will ever be used. Short of PAE, unless my understanding is wrong, I was under the impression that the answer to this is no.
I don't think that we will see totally autonomous cars _in_our_lifetime

Now you're moving the goalposts to suit your argument.

Supersonic flight was abandoned because it is expensive and prohibitively noisy. Will some set of obstacles also arise to stymie autonomous vehicles? Maybe, but we wont know till we try.

The regression in medicine is due to pure stupidity. Will the same or similar type of stupidity raise its head to block self-driven cars? Again the answer is maybe. Maybe not. We wont know till we've tried.

many, many, many people pay the ultimate price to prove you wrong every day

You misunderstood what I said. My point was that if a computer controlled car's computer fails it can be made to fail-safe. Shut down and coast to a stop. The same cant be said for planes.

Of course we will have scenarios of computers being mis-programmed and causing death. The point being that once a bug is found and eliminated it wont reoccur. Not to mention that a human will never drive as well or recover from trouble (such as a fishtail) as well as a computer. Our interfaces are simply too slow, clumsy, prone to fatigue, prone to mis judgement due to adrenaline etc. the list goes on.

I get what you're saying about optimistic extrapolation being a trap... but we don't have to extrapolate far from where we are today. The google self driven cars have already driven tens of thousands of miles with the only recorded accident occurring when the vehicle was under human control.

Not only that but Nevada has already licensed the cars for testing on its roads. Now you can argue that the testing is not 100% authentic. From what I understand the routes are pre-programmed and 2 occupants must be in the car at all times. But to say that this tech wont go anywhere for the next 50-60 years (however long you intend to live :) ) ... seems to lack imagination.

This isn't everyone using personal jet-packs or interstellar travel we're talking about here.
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Three of the links are broke, here are the working versions for those.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...

http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/wiki/files/shannon1949.pdf

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Having spent the better part of the last couple of months on a commercial windows 8 xaml app, the number of WTF moments per day was phenomenal. If the devs writing the OOTB software were anything like us, it's pretty easy to see why they're turned out crap. WinRT takes the best parts of .Net, XAML etc from the last 5 years and just ignores that it ever existed. The problem is that it tries oh so hard to present as if it's just an incremental change. It's not. Small things changed all over the place, no documentation on why, no progressively better software, because it's a totally new implementation of a bunch of things.

I recommend that people should treat Windows 8 metro as a 1.0 product (maybe do the standard wait for the service pack). It's worrying that it will RTM in 2 weeks time.
Nice idea, however if you lack fundamental knowledge in an area, prepare for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ve23i5K334

(P.s sorry about the title. I guess thats how they get more eye balls on it).
Samsung DID straight up copy Apple. Apple isn't going after other manufacturers, just this specific one for these specific devices. Here's a little side-by-side comparison of what Samsung did: http://atomicsupersky.com/post/26275796849/on-the-samsung-ga...

This all could have been avoided if Samsung didn't blatantly copy Apple. I mean, they even copied the same color for the phone icon. If you go into Photoshop and compare the two greens, they are identical. You don't accidentally do that. Samsung had the intent to copy. It isn't even about the under-the-hood aspects (which can be another discussion,) this is about the clear and obvious ripoff of Apple design.

Samsung did this to themselves. The point of this injunction is that consumers could be confused. After all, even Samsung's own lawyers couldn't distinguish the Galaxy from the iPad at a distance of 10 feet.
If anything, Apple has shown us that design does matter and I feel like software (especially websites) is getting more usable over time. Your discontent over changing UIs seem like those of a long-time user upset by someone moving their cheese. I didn't like Chrome's spartan UI at first, but it won me over.
They aren't going after Android (in this case.) This is about Samsung.
Isn't HN proving the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory wrong? And showing that a decent discussion level is achievable in a anonymous environment. New Users creating their account don't even have to provide a legit email address. And at least your and my account are relatively "anonymous".
Q&A version

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/wjars/iama_exdigg_empl...
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Unfortunately we're also talking about a company who many are used to seeing as implementing incremental change, with a backwards compatible slant. Windows 8 is pretty far from this ideal for the dev experience.
No worries, you are new here - write a blog post on your solution and post that to HN as that is just the sort of contribution this site looks for.
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i said i'd buy one, not that i have one.

and yes, i believe in every adults right to fuck him or herself up. if i want to exercise, let me. if i enjoy fatty food, let me. if i enjoy driving my car, let me.

and why do i need to be productive? who says that? life is short, why be "productive" all the time? how about some fun, self-indulgence and mindless games?

we already have rules to protect the general population, way too many in certain areas, far too less in others. speeding is forbidden, pot as well - but areas like finance are wide open.

how about focusing the efforts of banning things on stuff that impact millions, at the same time rather than stuff that will hurt me and maybe a few folks around me? is that line of thinking too European? does everything in the US that might lead to unproductive, un-puritan fun be banned? nudity, foul language,...how dare people do that?
isn't deletionism irrelevant in a post github world. anyone can just create a gist instead. i hope github forks the wikipedia.
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Could you use AI to find a near match for the image? Using the eye chart as the example: Since this now becomes a image matching problem once Super Resolution is used, search an image database and zoom enhance.
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>the companies paying the fee don't seem to be interested in settling it.

I think most of the companies are not interested in a protracted legal battle with a partner many of them still rely on for licensing arrangements in other businesses. Microsoft is just playing "good cop" to Apple's existential "bad cop" threat. Doesn't mean they like paying tolls to Redmond.
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Excellent post. I have no idea why you were downvoted. As usual, people discussing Wikipedia policy are doomed to rehash arguments long made on Wikipedia meta pages... poorly.

I'm a moderate inclusionist (or I was, years ago when I was active on Wikipedia), but the quality of the inclusionist arguments outside of Wikipedia itself is pathetic. I think this is because there are almost no deletionists outside of Wikipedia which elevate the discussion with good counter-arguments.
Sometimes this leads to a considerably different flavor as well, which is interesting. Often papers are remembered for their "results", but sometimes the results are only a small part of the paper, and positioned much differently by the original author.

This is the case with Turing, for example. If you go by Turing in the secondary literature, he comes across as very mathematical, formal, rigorous. Which he was, but he was also very aesthetically oriented, playful, and philosophical. Many of his original papers are really quite "weird" in a way, at times even allusive/metaphorical. So you get a bit different view of him if you read the originals. (Due credit: I was reminded of that in Turing's case by this article, which aims to convince humanities scholars that they should read Turing: http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/why-arent-we-r...)
Indeed. Years ago, they took a bold choice to use one input box for both searching and url's and now it's one major reason why I use Chrome over Firefox and Safari.
> Short of PAE, unless my understanding is wrong, I was under the impression that the answer to this is no.

PAE is used everywhere and has been around since 1995 Pentium Pros. So the answer is yes, a 32 bit OS/CPU can use 8 gigabytes (and more) of physical memory and an infinite amount of swap space. It all depends on the CPUs physical address size, not virtual.

My "64 bit" CPU has 36 bit physical addresses and 48 bit virtual addresses.
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm just starting development on a text editor (for written word, not code) and found your post useful.
I'll take that over weaponized patents. Microsoft is showing restraint, even if it's only because of their mutual interest in knocking Apple down a peg. I'll criticize Microsoft as soon as they use those patents to block competitors.
"There is an inflexible law of physics — energy taken in must exactly equal the number of calories leaving the system when fat storage is unchanged."

Really? That's an inflexible law of physics? Only if fat is the only source of energy the body has. But it isn't. Simple sugars are a huge source of energy for the body. This is the main reason why the Atkins diet works for quick fat loss- basically eliminates the alternate sources of energy your body would usually use and forces it to start burning fat.
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Remember it was first published under local Microsoft's own account. It probably wasn't even subject to the same review process.
Its not true when they write:
World outside the few largest markets does not exist

I am from denmark (hardly a large market) and had no problems creating a dev account and publishing apps but they are correct that not supporting as many countries as apple or google is wierd, but in the beginning android did not want to sell apps to danes either.
The "arrange" was meant to mean: arrange so that it is completely legal & not considered fraud (etc). I have literally no idea if this is possible though.
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Usability and practicality is down for the likes of us. But for the vast majority of people, who used to despise computers, a whole new world has opened up. We are the minority here.