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These guys are a good group. I spoke with them last year at some point and they were really bright and seemed fun to work with.
That idea kind of reminds me of the annotated source used for backbone. http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
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FWIW, OFL is an FSF-approved license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SILOFL. Also it was not written by Adobe, Adobe here just picked the most widely used free software font license.
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We've been hearing this for a long time:

“free memory is wasted memory” vs “inactive memory is never released”

“Purge is the worst thing you could do” vs “Purge solves the issue”

We have the kernels's source[1] and DTrace. Let's get some real data?

[1]http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/
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> it makes me wonder how many other giant companies fly under the layman's radar

Many, many huge companies fly under the radar.
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"The absurdities don't end there. According to Britain's Daily Telegraph, Fish and chip stalls have been advised they are not allowed to serve chips on their own without fish as McDonald's is the official chip maker of the Games."

That is absurd. McDonalds sells fries, not chips.
If anybody wants to do this, the HTTP protocol parser from node.js is really good, and deliberately easy to embed:

https://github.com/joyent/http-parser
One unlikely possibility (refuted elsewhere, but posted anyway): they deliberately chose a replacement name nobody would use, so that the public would continue to call it Metro. "Hey, we told them not to call it Metro, but they did anyway! Please feel free to tear up your trademark and eat it."
There was a point about 12-18 months ago where you stopped explaining yourself each time and made more appeals to authority (your own) on crypto issues. Admittedly, you were right, and these were all things which you'd explained in detail before, and on which the academic and practical communities have pretty much reached a consensus.
Every time I want to go to an event at hacker dojo it seems like it gets canceled.

Can I just go there and ... hang out?
do you see an API becoming a "platform" in the same sense as iOS/Android or will they remain services that provide content and facilitate specific features?
No, I don't think that's it. Dalton seems like he'd be a vegan and trolls are especially meaty.
They seem to have become more of a data aggregator and provider than a platform.
SWUs for international flights. Especially if you buy them on eBay for $200. A cheap coach international fare + a $200 SWU puts you in United Business, which is sometimes better than best-carrier coach. (honestly, I'd prefer CX Economy to UA business on most routes, but UA wins for SFO-IAD-KWI.)
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I was suspicious of the claim that Houston was more diverse than Los Angeles, which has to be based on some weird data.

So looking it up, I find it's a study from Rice University, which is in...Houston. Aha.

London probably is more diverse than LA, but not by a huge amount. Large communities of people from pretty much everywhere in the world.
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Correct. The fixed number of coins I referred to is 21 million.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_Currency_Supply
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Thanks for sharing what you did though, it was a very interesting and illuminating read for me.
They work well with per-directory settings. It's a simple convention and it works really well for things like .git, .gitignore, language-specific settings files and so on.

Putting files and directories like this inside another directory would not win you much, especially if you only have one in a given location (e.g. you only have a .git directory). But you wouldn't want to keep tripping over your .git directories either!

However, having a dedicated directory for configuration files applying to a user or the whole system is a different story. I would much rather just have a ~/config directory than a home folder full of dot files.
I know webOS is far from being relevant in the world of mobile operating systems but it will always be my favorite. Open sourcing really was the right way to go, and I applaud HP for choosing that route.
Canada lacks the climate diversity of China or India.

For instance, where's Canada's desert? Its jungle?
> Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android.

It's unfortunate that this persists even though Android now has twice the smartphone marketshare iOS has. It doesn't seem like things will be changing any time soon either.
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I understand why proportional fonts are better looking, but there is no way in hell I would use anything but monospaced fonts for programming. I often have a set of values assigned across several lines - I want those values to line up perfectly, or it will drive me nuts. When I press the up or down arrow, I want to know exactly where my cursor will end up.
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I hope that some of the ideas (namely the cards view and gesture area) come to other mobile OSs. Those are my favourite features by far.
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Agreed. There is no reason I would give any service on the Internet the information I have regretfully given Facebook over the years. Programmers are you listening? Stop using Facebook connect!!!
OK, I think I see my confusion here - in 2011, it would have been profitable if not for the trust fund prepay, but that's not the case in FY2012 (though I wonder how it got $9 billion worse in a year)
Twitter is more a part of a distribution strategy than a platform to build an entire business off of http://t.co/r6wdLpMc $ZNGA $FB
What kind of card do you have? Hackintoshing has gotten a lot friendlier in the last few years. I upgraded a hackintosh I built for a friend from 10.6 to 10.8 and was pleasantly surprised by how everything "just worked" with minimal kext juggling.
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I am in same boat. I recommend to team up with a friend or coworker.
Have you forgotten how much everyone hated the iPad name when it was first announced? "New iPad" only sounds good because people have come to the love the iPad.
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There's a real reason behind all this:

Read here:
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I think many have a taste in their mouths Parker and crew wanted to be the hangout instagram purchase by Facebook. That simply won't happen. What exit strategy is there now?
It appears that Apple has been deciding to partner Amazon in order best Google's Play strategy. I say this as Amazon Prime Videos is now available to be consumed on iPad officially. Also both these developments have taken place after Google launched the Nexus 7. Maybe the talks have been going on for a long time, but I would say this definitely pushed them into making a decision.
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No, I did not. I deleted my facebook account a year ago, and this was a new email on a domain I created a month ago.

Edit: must have been my mobile number, though I can't remember if I went through the confirmation/security step for this one.
Absolutely! Bummer the events got cancelled :(
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I have to disagree with the "signed comments" concept. Maybe if the comments are one-liners, and the signature just initials like in the article. Just like everything else, "signed comments" get abused by the "enterprise software" types. How often have you see a comment that looks like this:

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That's a minimal signed comment in "enterprise software". Usually, there's a huge flower box with required sections, few filled in, or at best marked "N/A". And then the highly pompous signature. People only do that because it's total CYA. Nobody will fault them for writing utter rubbish, and then signing it.

Tracking who did what changes, and why, that's for version control. Flower boxes, elaborate comment format requirements, and signatures, that just demonstrates that you're not even using RCS-grade version control.
This made me laugh. I've never heard anyone so passionately call for a stacked bar chart before - rightfully so it seems.

Good job.
Anyone recall the story a while back where a bunch of IETF engineers were attending a meeting, and they offered to fix the hotel's flakey wifi? Part of the fix was getting rid of a lot of hotspots, because when you have too many hotspots in an area they interfere with each other and make performance crappy.

Won't the same problem happen if there are too many people trying to run personal hotspots in a given area?
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I hope it's not inappropriate, but that is now one of my favorite things ever. Fantastically done.
SF is a bit white and hipster, like the northern half of the country. Try Los Angeles, there are few gringos here, and fewer all the time.
OS X has a ~/Library directory that houses application settings and much else. It is hidden by default.

There is no question there is a need to have a place that "plebeian users" can't access. IMO, dot-files and dot-directories are as good as anywhere.
I think it will depend on your community. In the Django community, postgres has always been around and is gaining a ton of momentum.

PHP world, probably always a MySQL offshoot of some sort.
"French fries", also known as "Pommes frites", are known as "Chips" in UK. Fish and chips is awesome.

And yes, McD is being a douche bag here, but the biggest *rse is probably UK itself allowing this to happen.
Disagree. It was college laymen who made Facebook what it is.
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Wasn't he responsible for PayPal? I'm not even sure a trip to Mars would make up for that.
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~/.local isn't primarily where you should look; check ~/.config
You might be on to something here... As Apple has been in talks with Twitter too it seems they really really hate Google.
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But everybody is going to call it "Metro" anyway!
I notice the $XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable isn't set in my Intrepid install. Maybe its set in later Ubuntu version.

But the value not being set for me means implies to me that it not being set is pretty common. Thus it seems like supporting this standard is going to involve supporting a fall-back of whatever you would do otherwise.

So I don't see "easy" at all but rather extra BS. Sorry.
Android has market share, but iOS has the profit (money and interest).
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this is not happening, there is no replacement for the command line and a simple editor such as sublime text, textmate,..
From what I hear, a ton of those Android phones are really crappy hardware that's given away free by cell phone providers. Android's 70% marketshare isn't all (or even mostly) the Nexus. So it's not even clear whether many of those phones could even run a lot of apps, let alone run them well.

Additionally, for various reasons, iOS seems to be both "hipper" and more profitable for developers. This could be related to the point above, if most of the Android phones are owned by people who don't use apps much, let alone buy them.
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The current prices on mlb.tv are prorated for the rest of the 2012 season (the season is roughly 4 months in with 2 to go).

The 19.99 per month price reflects something closer to the normal price which would be around 20 a month for the full 6 month(ish) season.
Also, if you draw your pixel graphics pre-scaled, you're locking yourself into nearest-neighbor interpolation. There are plenty of other cool interpolation algorithms that you might want to use to use, like scale2x or hq2x.
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I've only been to the UK once, but I don't remember fries being called "chips" in UK McDonalds.

I've always thought of "fries" as those skinny things McDonalds/Hungry Jacks/Burger King sell, while chips are the chunkier version you get at a proper Fish'n'Chip shops or pub. Restaurants here (Australia) generally distinguish between the two.
Maybe not now or yet but I believe that's one of the main goals of it, I think the mysterious creator of Bitcoin even alluded about that.
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I too am most excited about the symfony2 support. Especially with regards to type hinting from the dependency injection container.
If someone thinks hidden files are a misstep, then I don't want them designing a OS. Grandma really doesn't care about some conf file, or anything like that. She cares about the pictures of her grandkids.

The opinion that there shouldn't be hidden files comes from a perspective of someone who is a "power user" and who can't step back and see that most users really don't care for some .config file. To them it's clutter that gets in the way of finding what they really care about.

That said, dot files maybe the wrong way to do it. I like ~/Library in OSX. That's one good way.

Edit: Note that I'm talking about a general trend in the post's comments and on here. Not the author's opinion.
Android has twice the smartphone marketshare than iOS. But, it is so fragmented that building for the Android market requires you to have at least few different devices to test out your app, not to mention that there are multiple versions of Android and modified Android from the network providers. It definitely requires more effort than building for iOS.

App distribution on Android is actually more tricky than the App Store on iOS. There are actually a few "App Stores" for the Android, Google Play vs Amazon App Store.
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My liberal friends have picked up the idea that the Tea Party is a conservative front organization, "astroturf" designed to fool the media into thinking that right-wing ideas have a popular following. But this narrative is straight-up BS. Dozens of GOP candidates with establishment backing, endorsements, and money have been defeated by Tea Party insurgents in primary races as high up as the senate. It's a bona-fide populist movement that traces its roots to a Ron Paul "Tea Party" moneybomb in 2007. Tea Party activists contributed to the historic landslide in the 2010 elections. And it is still alive and kicking. A GOP insider candidate for the Senate in Texas, endorsed by Rick Perry no less, was defeated by a Tea Partier a few days ago.

There is chaos in the GOP because the people are revolting and not voting like they're told, and it is the tea party that is doing it. Maybe you don't know any Tea Partiers where you live, but they are a true grass-roots force.
That's not really fare to KDE, Apple has a thousand times the resources.
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From the spec: If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used. Similarly there's a default (.config/) defined for XDG_CONFIG_HOME. So the fallback is well-defined rather than "whatever you would do otherwise".

Also, for my 2c, you should consider updating your Intrepid install if you at all can. It hasn't been supported for over two years, so it hasn't seen any security updates in that time. The Ubuntu do-release-upgrade system is pretty easy and reliable.
This is making me really angry. Dropping the Metro name is just so... spineless. There are lots of great, simple, evocative brand names that happen to overlap with other totally different kinds of things. There's no more chance of people mistaking the windows 8 UI style with a German retailer than they are with a bus (the Seattle area mass transit service is called "Metro King County").

I don't want to live in a world where cowardly lawyers force every brand name to have an i- prefix, z used as a plural, or missing vowels in the middle.

This is why we can't have nice things.
I understand the grammar of it, but the question is: if one implies, and you don't infer the implication-- did the implication exist? It's basically the tree falling in the forest.
I've never read anything from Facebook that implies this. If they inferred it, they did so incorrectly.
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Completely false equivalence. If MS had just dropped the name 'windows' or 'xbox' then you might have a point. But the name of the metro interface has nowhere near the significance of apple's flagship product, which also allowed it to tie in perfectly with their then-flagship product(/s) without sounding ridiculous. The name iPhone was central to Apple's entire core branding. Metro? No one but geeks are ever even going to hear the phrase probably.

And it's lawyers telling the marketing guys what not to do, they are not making proactive naming decisions.
And China has more than twice as many internet users as the United States. However, I'm pretty sure the American users spend more money per capita and that it's not an accident that most YC startups target them first.
1. While I happen to be American, not all of "us" on HN are. In fact, I have a friend from China who is part of the HN community.

2. How is wishing that all of humanity makes progress rather than just your own country self-hateful? Isn't that the ideal?

3. I know a lot of Chinese people who went to the U.S. for undergrad and really care about both countries, which is a counterexample to your #1.
> Android's 70% marketshare isn't all (or even mostly) the Nexus.

That's very true. However, even amongst those in the know (e.g., those in the HN community), almost no one uses an Android phone, even the Nexus, as their daily driver. Even the best Android phone is intrinsically viewed as inferior to the iPhone, which is why I said I don't see things changing any time soon.

So I wonder how much of that decision not to build for Android is based on personal bias. We see similar things on the web when it comes to supporting WebKit-based browsers first, with Firefox and IE having secondary importance. For example, many of the "hip" webdevs use experimental features that aren't available in non-WebKit renderers.
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The fact of the matter is that at any given time there are three different classes of sitting senators. The requirement of supermajority that is around two-thirds reflects that there is a qualitative difference between a group that doesn’t face reelection for another half decade and one that is likely in campaign mode. Thus, the supermajority is actually a simple majority among the classes of senators.

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Hm can you elaborate on that? In the US they teach that McCarthyism was an absurd witchhunt, but it seems to me that the Soviet Union and the US were pretty much just as much enemies as West Germany. Why is it so much different?
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$HOME/.local/share doesn't exist on OSX either.