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this whole article goes over my head, because it assumes the reader is already familiar with the sandboxing issue. I'm not a desktop OS X developer; I'm not familiar with the topic. I searched around and the only articles I could find are blog posts about how the sky is falling, with no sources from Apple that plainly state the app sandboxing requirements.

If you're going to write an article about how some upcoming thing is a doomsday event, please explain the event clearly and link to the proper sources, especially if your article is a criticism of a technical specification. That one or a few applications are backing out of the app store is not, in itself, evidence that they are justified in doing so.

This article has taught me nothing, but it has made me more afraid.
The Republicans have given their vision of how we build our future—they've said, 'I got mine, the rest of you are on your own'.

Which is, in turn, a poor job of paraphrasing the actual small-government view, which would be better stated as 'I was on my own, I made it, and you can do the same.'

And not all Republicans/libertarians have made it yet. For them it might be 'I haven't made it yet, but I will -- and so can you.'

Her line implies that the view is an asymmetric "benefits for me, but not for thee" philosophy, which isn't the case. It'd be great if more ideologues had enough confidence in their own views to accurately depict and dispute the opposition's, rather than relying on strawmen.
Why not something like MonoDroid/MonoTouch or Unity?
I still don't see it. Say you have conflicting transactions T1 and T2 that both update data on two machines M1 and M2. If these transactions race to commit, how do you guarantee consistency? Even if you have a perfect, zero-latency oracle that can tell you that T1 and T2 conflict, you still need M1 and M2 to form consensus about which transaction commits first, and to make sure that both machines either commit or roll back (I am assuming that both machines have their own transaction log). It still sounds to me like 2PC is required.

Specific questions: does each machine have its own commit log? Is each machine authoritative for its range of the keyspace, in that it can serve reads without having to consult other machines?
FYI, since it isn't mentioned on the OP, the Amazon version only costs $9.99. The downside is that it's Kindle only, though with no restriction on number of Kindle devices.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008NSO6SI
If you're tired of deadmau5 mixtapes you can head to musicforprogramming.net for some new coding tunes :)
wasn't aware there was a site just for that, oh the web!
thanks.
It looks Twitter is currently inaccessible. I can't reach it and neither could this site checker - http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.twitter.com
Very true, I've been in IT for over 20 years and have worked at sites ranging from 10 users to over 13000 users. I can attest to the flat filing system as the exception not the rule. At my current employer, looking at public folders on network shares the average folder depth is 5 deep. Many have a main repository and then secondary and Tertiary hierarchies using symbolic links to the same contents to help people find what they are looking for.
That would be a good start, although a significant expansion in the available sandbox entitlements would also very likely be needed for developers who have already fled to go back to the store.
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Other search engines have this feature, too. For a refreshing change from Google, I prefer this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip

And if you really need to confirm your IP address with Google: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+ip

(check out the many other '!' features)
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Have you tried purchasing the "latest" version of World of Warcraft?

You can't. There is no standalone "latest version". You have to purchase the original, and each version since, and finally the current version.

Correlate those game content / game mechanics updates with In-App Purchases, and it's clear how someone could offer "major upgrades" if they stop thinking in terms of version numbers and start thinking in terms of actual upgrade features. (See "Navigon" for an app that has done this.)

And if the entire app architecture changes, make a new app.
I'm in a startup that uses C# and ruby, ASP.NET MVC, and PostgreSQL.

All software we right has to pass tests on windows and linux (we'll add os x when we get an os x computer). I know we're not conventional, but we feel like these are the best tools.

Anything else is just an argument from popularity and isn't worth our time.
> It took about 10 years for my mother, a daily Windows user, to understand folders.

Are you really sure about that? I have a hunch the difficulty wasn't with the folders themselves, but rather the badly-designed navigation interface of the Open dialog, and where it's starting from.

I've found that understanding the folder concept is one of the easiest things for new computer users to grasp.
This all boils down to a rule I have for myself whenever addressing a large audience: start by stating the obvious.

This does two things. First, it gives people an easy mental on-ramp to follow the thread of what you are saying. And second, it forces you to back way up and cover the ground that is so central to your world you would probably forget to say it, even though it is completely unknown to most of your audience.
I'm guessing that no-SQL documents are written at a more course granularity than SQL table rows. One document could well represent 3, 4, 5 rows in a normalized SQL database.

OTOH, if you put all your "documents" in 3rd normal form, you might not see much gain.
Soooo, Warcraft 1 was mostly made by a junior programmer with 3 years of experience.

That's so awesome and so very bad for my ego at the same time.
> Since Steve and I first learned of digg (a couple weeks after we launched) all the way to right now (as a board member) -- I'm always reminding myself of how little there's to be gained from thinking about competition. Founders, regarding competitors, be aware but don't care!

I don't think people realize how rarely we talked about or looked at Digg in the reddit office. Every time I see founders who have a screen in their office dedicated to their competitors website I cry a little inside. Luckily it doesn't seem to happen often.
Here's one thing I imagine: 10.9 by default won't allow apps outside the App Store, and you have to buy the 10.9 Server upgrade to have this privilege. They would bundle XCode with it or something to rebrand it as a "developer-friendly" add-on, and developers will be happy to pay, but all the consumers will be chained to the App Store.
Or at least require each and every voting member to implement the standard in a freely chosen programming language.
On second thought... Might not work so good for large standards as HTML5 though, writing your own parser, renderer and layouter :)
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Yea... its down
Think the problem is policing it. Apple doesn't want it to become the standard that people are being charged for bug fixes every version.
A "little funding", are you serious? DARPA is part of the freaking DoD.

Are you really going to criticize the government for investing in American companies of which a couple ones failed on a VC news site.

Yeah, companies fail. Yeah, the American government invests in American companies. Yeah, the American government can afford it. Right now the US treasury bonds that are indexed to inflation have negative interest rates[1]. Investors are _paying_ Uncle Sam money to take care of their money. The market is telling the government: invest, invest, invest.

1. http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in...
How is this different from popset?
FWIW, al3x wrote the forward to that book in addition to the one that old_sound mentioned.
Given his affinity towards programming languages, he sounds more like a computer scientist than an engineer, frankly. I wish the two roles didn't get conflated so much.
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Maybe there is and I just haven't heard about it. I haven't been looking in that area at all. That's a great idea though, thanks.
The problem is getting customers of version 1 onto version 2. There is no way to do this with MAS. I have a mechanism built into Shave so I can push "news", but it's annoying and bad user experience.
One of the other risks with magnets is that they'll be swallowed at slightly different times and be in the intestines slightly location (=time) shifted. Perforation and doom.
I think the only viable way to do this would be for Apple to make Macs obsolete. Like boiling a frog, if they upscaled the ipad to a desktop-lite device over the next few years, and eventually replaced their fully featured cousins with these devices, they would be able to accomplish it with far much less resistance.

(The iMac may have been a few years too early - they could have positioned the iMac as the trojan horse in this story).
I can only speculate, because I have never used datomic.

Like FoundationDB, datomic does appear to separate transaction processing from storage.

A few relevant differences:

- Datomic provides transaction isolation through stored procedures which run on its single "transactor", while FoundationDB provides interactive transactions.

- To my knowledge datomic does not claim to be interested in high write scalability, which we definitely are.

- Datomic is designed to keep multiversion history indefinitely, while FoundationDB keeps it just long enough to execute short transactions.
I'm wondering how soon until we see OSX being jailbroken.

I suspect system level choices like this are bound to continue in order to push users in the direction of iCloud and AppStore usage (ie. vendor lock-in).

Though such moves appear draconian from our perspective, I believe Apple times such moves around when some internal metrics indicate a tipping point has happened, namely the developer backlash won't be substantial enough to affect Apple's bottom line.

It's only a matter of time before the iPhone dev team puts some effort towards serving the OSX crowd that wants to jump ship but not give up "OSX" completely.
I agree, pre-launch sign-ups are important but there needs to be engagement with the emails collected until the product is ready. Fab did a great job with this by creating a mood board that allowed folks to post stuff they like before their actual service launched.
That will be the day I go back to Linux.
down :(
At least Google Talk is back up.
Good thing that's not what I said, then.
twitter.com does resolve... it is just unreachable. Still nothing on status.twitter.com
I swear, the way people panic when it drops off, Twitter is way more like a protocol than a website. It's like someone saying "Email is broken... Everywhere".
hardlinks? Jeez... most programmers and sysadmins I've mentioned them to don't even understand hardlinks.

Are you suggesting that hardlinks are good enough for my mom, too?
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Not accessible from mobile or web. Hand raised for being "that guy" who tried to check on whether Twitter was down, by going to Twitter.com.
What's the point of a status subdomain if it doesn't contain the current status? http://status.twitter.com/
alias myip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com"

alias myip2="curl -s icanhazip.com"
Sorry, that was from a common perspective.

VXJunkies is a great source of information, particularly regarding recalibrating voqueon deltas.
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Can anyone give a 101 explanation specifically around what the "sandbox" issue is?
> by developers Apple has specifically certified.

There is no "special certification", it's just a matter of creating a developer account and generating a certificate.

Also, right-click -> open will bypass the verification under the assumption that if you know about that command, you probably somewhat know what you're doing.
Dude I checked web, mobile and API.
Jail broken? What for? You can run any app you want.. Just not accidentally.
Fail whale =/
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Somewhat unrelated tip: The font on this blog is too small. I just measured and it is taking up only 20% of my screen.

I'd suggest a bigger font to make it more readable. Over 85% of people use a screen bigger than 1024x768 [1]. Take advantage of that. :)

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
The neckbeards will buy from the developer. The ordinary customers Apple has been relentlessly targeting for a decade will buy from the Mac App Store. Which group is bigger?
RSS is still up.
iOS has never had a legitimate way to install code in userspace outside of the App store. OS X has a long and rich history of allowing people to run any code in userspace that they want.

This is one of those situations where you can't really close the barn door after the horse has already left.
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With the most basic of TV service, taxes, fees, etc. my total bill comes to about $116.81/mo. If I punted the TV service, my savings would be about $4/mo. I don't bother with TV service because to get the one channel I want, the required pre-reqs and equipment would double my bill.

Regarding Verizon, I'd love to have FiOS, but they won't deploy in Boston without major tax breaks, which Boston refuses to offer. FiOS is great if it's available, but it's not in most markets. There aren't many other options in the continental US where you can get 100Mbps service for ~$100/mo if FiOS is unavailable (and for most of the US, that's the case).
I get HTTP 500
But having to use the app to manage files, is a whole new paradigm that someone has to learn which is exactly what people are trying to avoid in the first place. So either teach one paradigm to a new user and stick to it (aka using the file system) or application specific paradigm (aka use iphoto to manage photos, itunes for music files, etc). So depending on how good you are at controlling the application usage from one app to another you end up having to learn each applications way of doing things instead of learning one way of doing things and using that throughout.

As a developer and previous life as IT support I fully support the teaching the file system paradigm because it works better overall.

All of the tag resorting you are doing within iphoto can and is done rather easily within the file system as well so what has that added other then more complexity?
I'm in Jail.

God is just

Yer fucked.

God says...
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trough; but he seeing the other approach hailed him in a loud
voice, "O thou, whoever thou art, rash knight that comest to lay hands on
the armour of the most valorous errant that ever girt on sword, have a
care what thou dost; touch it not unless thou wouldst lay down thy life
as the penalty of thy rashness." The carrier gave no heed to these words
(and he would have done better to heed them if he had been heedful of his
health), but seizing it by the straps flung the armour some distance from
him

----

"It is not for him who is buckling his armor to boast as though he were taking it off."
What is this going to look like for document stores, columnar databases, key/value pair and other so-called NoSQL databases where the data (or the map/reduce program) is the model? I'm interested to see how these products and vendors evolve. Informatica was pretty quick to jump on the Hadoop train.
Unfortunately I dont know the answer to that.
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... so why does it become an acceptable defence in politics and journalism?

It didn't sound like a defense, but an observation that, sadly, this is common behavior.

I also suspect it was a sly reference to some of the comments on HN, too.
You may at some time feel like you know everything about web programming but, just as with any other topic, you'd be wrong.

Programming (and web programming even more so) is a highly dynamic field. The field is vast and new technologies and techniques pop up at an amazing rate. I still learn new stuff pretty much every day and I've been doing this for 16 years as a hobby and 10 years professionally.

It's definitely not bad to realise your own limitations and constantly strive to expand and improve your skills. It's what separates those who can grow from those who are narrow-minded and/or complacent.
ever work on a non-gnu box? (old solaris, *bsd, stock os x, etc.) there's a decent chance they don't have -r at all.
Fine, but you said that in the context of adults swallowing them, which is what I was addressing.
I think the GOP's voting record is enough to show that they can publicly proclaim support for public infrastructure, education, civil rights, and healthcare but then do exactly the opposite when it comes to legislation.
Cool concept. Should shoot whoever coded up the flash player.
"Microsoft is going the same way too with Metro."

Not exactly. Metro and its app store are only "half" of Windows 8. The other half isn't sandboxed in the walled garden style. To put it another way, Microsoft isn't building the Windows App Store on the back of existing software, but from the ground up using only sandboxed apps.

Microsoft isn't likely to create the sort of moving target for developers that Apple has recently because doing so would not be consistent with the B2B model that underpins their corporate culture.
While true of Republicans, imo the quoted argument is equally dogmatic. Its not as though its used as a simple painting of Government as symbiotic; today's liberal arguments take it much further. Something like the following: "Government invented the internet. And without government, NO ONE would have invented the internet."

That, imo, is silly. PEOPLE invented the internet. There's time's and places where private investors are better at backing these people, and times when government forces are necessary. These blanket assertions that pumping money into either (without direction) will lead to improved innovation and economy are reductionist and, to a large extent, fundamentalist.

Its not simple. Investment is tough, and both sides get it wrong more often than right (that's the nature of business).
So you require quorum over data centers to stay up? How do you provide transactional consistency between dcs? Multipaxos over blocks of transactions with delayed failure?
There's no sandbox on the OS. RTFM.
A search for 'Pinwheel' returns 'Pinweel' - so it appears to cover homophones not just identical spellings.

I would always suggest doing a quick search on at least the trade mark registry in the territory where you are based when you are considering a new name. Only takes a very short while...

http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp
> verifiable fact that the U.S. government deserves credit for funding and helping create the Internet?

Because it's NOT verifiable.

Some of us believe in historical determinism. Moore's Law meant that chips were getting better and cheaper. Telecommunications was growing. People were already using modems to build ad-hoc networks.

I argue that there was going to be an internet in the year 2000 whether or not the US government pushed a piddly amount of funding into Arpanet or not.

This is distinct from my take on rocket technology: I think that the market would NOT have perceived human spaceflight as worth doing, and if the US and Soviet governments had not pushed it, there might not yet be a person in orbit.

Reasonable people can differ on whether the US government "caused" the internet or merely jumped in front of a parade and then later declared itself the leader.

...but your opinion that one of these is "verifiable" is nonsense.
How about a content rating system? People are familiar with this from movies, television and music. A developer could declare their un-sandboxed application the equivalent of NC17 while most users live happily in their equivalent of a PG13 universe.
"Are you really going to criticize the government for investing in American companies of which a couple ones failed on a VC news site."

I am. The government is not a VC firm. It's investment are invariably political and not business based. There's a huge potential for waste there, not to mention conflict of interest. A DoD project that happened to have civilian applications is a different beast entirely.
I think you are absolutely right to suspicious of such narratives. They are always a product of both the observer's bias and the systemic bias of the environment in which they operate. I didn't immigrate here, which changes how I experience the place, and as someone who tends to work for 5 to 10 years at a place the half dozen places I have direct experience at are a small fraction of the total number of companies.

The effect I've observed is that Silicon Valley has such mobility (which is to say between jobs) and such commonality between business structure, that the larger companies get, the less pronounced their differences become. I attribute that to the challenge of assimilating folks into the company culture that is too far off the valley 'mainstream.' It also provides a tremendous amount of cross fertilization where people say "Oh at my old company we used to do X" and if its a better thing than what the locals do it has a good chance of being adopted. So management techniques, office layouts, and programming methodologies have a sort of viral nature to them as well. This seems to homogenize the way companies evolve than you might expect.
try hitting the "windows" key more often :) case in point, hitting the windows key immediately gets you to the tile view where you can start typing the name of program you want to launch and its instantly there.

its a bit of a learning curve (a very small one) but once you're over you'll be glad for not having to browse through the Start> All Programs > XXX > yyy mess ...
On a side note, Renoise is a terrific DAW/Tracker, and has built-in Lua scripting, plus native OSC support (something still lacking in Live).
I suspect you'll have to write something yourself - I've not seen an LZ-style compressor (either lz78/lzw/"arc" or lz77/lzss/lzma/zip) that can do with so little memory and have reasonable performance. (The memory mostly has hash tables; less memory with these algorithms essentially guarantees much, much longer run time or much, much lower compression ratio).

Note, though, that's only for compression. LZO can decompress in-place, as can snappy, and I'm sure others can too.
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I've been using this for a while... it was certainly around last year, maybe even the year before that.
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I'm all for regulating toys, and this toy has been adequately regulated. It has a big warning label saying that it's not for kids, and that it's dangerous if you swallow it. The step that goes too far is trying to ban them outright.
I'd like to understand the implications of sandboxing too. It must have some large negative impact on Instapaper for Marco to care this much. What is it?
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But you need a Mac to develop most (i)OS applications and I cannot imagine some of the more complex apps being developed on an iPad-like device.
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It can be a bit of an effort though to get your code to run on multiple platforms w/ C#. Mono is awesome but it's not perfect by any means.
I guess the main reason is to have the status page separate so it can truly monitor the twitter service.