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This is false. The default setting for Mountain Lion is App Store and signed applications. You can change the setting to allow only App Store or to allow any applications (signed or unsigned).

I just went through signing the app that my company makes (even though, as yet, we don't need to sign because of the way we distribute). It took me the better part of a week to figure it out (mostly because I did something silly in my script), but I now have several scripts that I can use to make sure our next product is signed out of the gate.

Long-time Apple supporters will tell you that Apple is (a) not requiring all apps be bought from the App store and (b) that they are making mistakes with the sandboxing entitlements that are available, causing apps to leave the App store. In my experience, die-hard anti-Apple folks (like you seem to be) prefer to distort and ignore.
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My reference is living in mid Missouri - we've had a bit of fun recently with tornadoes and other weather related outages are common. Granted, I live in a small town, so we probably have worse infrastructure than KC.
I have no love for RSS, and even if I did, there are many third party apps that fill the niche, but I will say (as a regular Final Cut Pro user) welcome to the club. When Apple does their famous "cutting out the cruft" there are always users like us that are jilted because they depend on that cruft.
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I think most people who want to buy an iPhone have already bought an iPhone.
It's quite common in rural mid-MO where I live. Storms (not necessarily tornadoes) and Ice.
Feed readers are dead. Not at all feeds themselves, but the process of using a reader like mail to pull in feeds to a desktop app is going out the window. When consumers buy products, they should be able to look into the future. If you choose technology that is a bit behind the times, understand that you should be careful before upgrading, as old features are often cut from Apple products.

This happened in every industry, not just the computer industry. The problem here is that the computer industry abandons old features at a MUCH faster rate than other industries, but for good reason.
An excellent example. And every MS exec should study the history of IBM. IBM a huge company managed to turn itself around.
I have a feeling that Bayes is unintuitive specifically because people pick extreme or otherwise bad examples to explain it. As you mention, the way we calculate odds is oddly (pardon the pun) similar to Bayes.

Here is an African Safari example. The probability of an individual hunter being attacked by a lion P(L|H) (assuming any lion who tracks down a hunter will also attack him) equals to the conditional probability of the hunter tracking down a lion P(H|L) (which is a measure of how good the hunter is at finding lions assuming there are lions) times the general probability of encountering a lion in the bush P(L) divided by the general probability of encountering another hunter like himself in the bush P(H). Hence why you can get away with hunting lions alone only if you're very bad at finding lions or if there are no lions.
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Pgrep is super-cool.

Ex: What are all of the python subprocesses started by PID 1234? `pgrep -P 1234 python`

I've been missing it on osx for a long time.
> Feed readers are dead.

At least as far as standalone desktop apps are concerned, I think you're right. I can't even remember a time when I was not using Google Reader. I do hope RSS-fed reading in general is not going extinct though.
The difference is solely intent of the product. If bleach was being sold as a toy then it would be banned; it's only allowed because its not a toy. Lawn darts are less dangerous than knives and they were banned because they are being sold as a toy.

There is a certain threshold of danger that we accept for useful products like knives and bleach; if handled properly then there is no problem. Young children aren't expected to handle them properly. Buckyballs have no practical use and are toys that are expected to be given to children, so a similar level of danger is unacceptable.
Here's a tip when you start working on android. There is a method in the bitmap factory class that can handle image scaling for you on device.
I don't understand what the article is about. Is she trolling for page views? I don't understand why she considers herself "violated" by Apple. Don't people make backups anymore?
This isn't as much about abandoning features as it is deleting content. It would have been great to say "Hey, we're about to delete all of your feeds, would you like to export them?".
Samsung is competing for the same 10%. Apple would be happy if Samsung made a different device for a different market.
Where was the content here? What was the point of this article? It's a bunch of cobbled together nonsense with no logical flow.

Pardon someone grumpy to be up early on a Saturday, but please don't post things that make no damn sense.
We've found the only user in the world that used RSS in Mail! I feel a bond, as I was apparently the only user of RSS in Safari. (as confirmed by informal polling of friends and family).

I moved my stuff into Google Reader and also went to Reeder on the Mac, but tried Newsify on the iOS devices and have to say that a custom newspaper is a much better experience than the hundred takes on master-detail drill down you find in the typical RSS reader.

I resent Apple killing my feature, but I am better off going forward. I should have switched long ago. And I don't live in Stockholm.
most industries have some thought for their customers, and are not so dictatorial. They will at least give some advance warning of feature removal. Feed readers are far from dead, and I find there are more people than ever using them, mainly through Google Reader. as there are huge advantages to having globally maintained read/unread content.
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That's a pretty gratuitous assumption that you're making. And I don't see what the "good reason" is. Let's face it, they just dropped a feature that people were using, without clear upgrade path. Few people were using it ? Maybe. That doesn't make it a good decision, only (at best) a sad but necessary compromise.

Frankly, a feed reader that is already there, and works, needs next to zero maintenance. It's not like RSS format changes everyday.
It's interesting to see how some people change immensely, while others stay pretty much the same. Weight gain and hair loss are probably the most obvious physical factors, but it seems to me being overweight really makes you age faster. Case in point, since I gained weight I practically became a totally different person and I believe if by some miracle (or act of will power) I lost it again I'd still carry around the physiological debt from that period indefinitely.
I'm impressed that the data is being returned as JSON rather than XML.
The very first example on that post is at best misleading, and at worse just plain wrong. b() will be called after a() has returned, unless of course an asynchronous call is made to a function such as XMLHTTPRequest whilst passing a callback function.

Javascript's async 'issues' are not an issue at all, all that is required is a little effort to learn Javascript..
There's also a downside: a huge spike in usage. People will be willing to commute a lot further if they can sleep en route. That means more traffic and more energy used.
But a feed reader inside another program that IS changing does indeed require maintenance. Even just testing to make sure it still works isn't free. It also adds complexity to the user interface.
They also kicked the web-Sharing configuration. :( I got to work and wondered why my localhost did not respond. I installed mountain lion the night before. so I thought I have to re-enable websharing but couldn't found the confit anymore. After some googling I got the answer: it has moved to a so called "Server" App for round about $20. It provides many things I didn't use ... and the "old" websharing. :/ Remember Steve's promo quote? "it just works" ... the new one should be: "it just worked before"
GMail is not even close to a replacement for exchange in a large company. Small companies like mine can use it just fine but I can't see it working as well in a large company. In fact if I still had to write large quantities of mail (which I used to) I would still use outlook as a client as it has much more developed workflows and a richer set tools.
Apple removed rss from Mail because it was pretty crappy. Anyone interested in RSS should hit the appstore and snag one of many RSS readers that blows Apple's offering off the planet. When I discovered Reeder I knew my browsing habits would change forever, it's that much better.
I would argue Marconi and Maxwell share equal credit. They both stood on the shoulders of giants to accomplish something they could never have done alone, and it is likely that if either hadn't done what they did, somebody else would have done so fairly soon.

But critical to the argument, Marconi stood on Maxwell's shoulders. The wireless would not have existed without the fundamental, "pointless" work of Maxwell and others. I would imagine cell phones were far from Maxwell's mind when he did his work, yet those, too, are a legacy of his discoveries.

I look at things like the LHC and really question whether anything practical will come of it. In the end, I don't care, because we are learning, and our species seems to do better when exploring new frontiers, no matter where they are. (I do question whether we could learn more by funding a lot more smaller experiments, but that's a different issue.)
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Sooo.. Move over Derby: Socketstream is the other high speed node.js framework in town? Anyone? ;)
In general the kind of thing you are talking about on the Mac is app specific if the app developer thinks it should be an option. From way back Apple's design philoshy has been "don't provide the user with too many pointless choices" and Microsoft's has been "allow the user or, more likely, the sysadmin to choose".

By the same token there's no way to do this for the web. (you can override style sheets willy nilly but don't expect a lot of stuff to work).

I suggest you might need to get used to reading text on backgrounds that aren't a "pleasing greenish" color, write all your own software, or learn to live in a world of pain.

Instead of allowing people to set the default edit field background to magenta (which windows does) Apple spent engineering effort on, say, universal access.
I've had people ask me where I got my great store of useless facts from (not quite trivia). I've always told them I'm working on a book: A Million and One Useless Facts. I was hoping this would tell me that there is some great advantage to being full of useless information.

The author's definition of useless differs from mine. I wish I had Maxwell's level of useless knowledge! :)

(And, yes, I realize the author is being ironic.)
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Tomatoes is a pomodoro timer and time tracker.

IMO one of the best Tomatoes' features is its low approximation of real work tracked time by design. Tomatoes tracks only real working time through pomodoros (pomodoros are time tracking quantums for the Pomodoro Technique®), so it could be used to estimate and compare work time effectively.

Each "tomato" has tags, I always used this feature to group tomatoes by project. When I work for "projec A" the first tag of every tomato is "project A".

Following this logic I created Projects to group tomatoes by tags and get access to project specific statistics.

You can try Projects by signing in and creating a new project at http://tomato.es/projects/new. Now start a new tomato and tag it with one of the project's tags, it should compare in project statistics.
There are plenty of websites to order take-away (from multiple restaurants) in the UK:

http://hungryhouse.co.uk/ (with iPhone app)
http://www.just-eat.co.uk/
http://eatstudent.co.uk/
http://www.eatitnow.co.uk/ (with iPhone app)

All support online payments when you order.
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If you don't like a product, don't use it.

If you don't properly research a product, don't complain about its features.

Do some research next time.

Take responsibility for your actions instead of blaming others.

These are elementary principles.
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I am living in Europe/Vienna. I do not know the US situation too well. However I think they really need an option in between. I think neither option is really interesting to the average user. The buy once option with 5/1Mbps seems too low for the average user, while the 1GBit seems really too expensive.

Wouldn't offers from 30 to 100MBit make much more sense. That's the broadly available offer here for 20 to 50EUR.

Of course we have symmetric fiber offers with 10MBit for 17EUR and 100 for 25EUR too, but that's only available in bigger cities.
I guess it's because Apple removed a useful feature, with no reasonable upgrade path, even if you do have your old data?

I could have written a similar article about the upgrade to Xcode 4 - but, because I'm a relative newcomer to this whole Apple "thing", perhaps I'm just more acutely aware how useless it would be, if I told anybody apart from Apple about this (radar bugs: 11405857, 11252538, 11207936, 10985344, 10779669, 10596415, 10596323, 9624250), because you just don't get any sympathy. And I didn't even use Xcode Interface Builder plugins!
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Speaking as someone who finds RSS to be useless (having tried all kinds of ways to consume it) and knew support had been dropped from ML, I think you're being condescending. It's not like apple advertises unfeatures on its product page. I would have no problem if RSS support were hidden by default for people not obviously using it, but this is pretty stupid. apple has gone from shoving RSS down our throats (default crap in Safari, etc.) to not supporting it at all with no warning for typical users.

Doesn't affect me, but it's stupid.
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I think the point was that if this as an ideal world then CERN would have used the most revolutionary personal computer available in the 80s - the archimedes - rather than just a 680x0 unix box in a fancy metal case
Is that still true though? (genuine question).

When I was a boy, twenty years ago I firmly believed that I would need to move to London as soon as I could, just for the British library and access to information. Then the internet happened (well the web, and it was already happening but for me, that's when it happened). The internet made distance so much less of a factor, and i suspect that this trend will only continue. I suspect the density/creativity association will break down, but I have no evidence either way, so I could be completely wrong.
I do think Apple was right to remove support for their crappy reader. In any domain where you have tons of options (like rss readers) I'd rather have no feature than a poorly executed one. No feature means I'll go out and get a good version of it. A poorly executed feature (especially from apple) means I'll probably put up with it longer than I should.

However, given that they were going about destroying access to user's data (the collection of rss feeds), I think the classy move would have been to run a script on install that checks if the user is subscribed to any feeds. If they are, export them into a well formatted file on the desktop, and give the user an alert through that highly touted new alert system, and give them a link to the app store that searches for rss readers that can receive the exported file. They'd get to introduce a bunch of new features that they seem to be very proud of, and they wouldn't destroy[1] a user's access to their own data. Which does seem like a pretty big deal to me.

[1]Yes, I know she was able to access her data eventually. That seemed like an unacceptably difficult process to go through for the sort of users Apple is trying to appeal to.
I guess I'm still hanging on to old tech too. I likes rss in mail because I leave mail open all day and use several feeds more as a notification system. Now I have to remember to open another app and leave it open all day as well which is annoying.

I understand somebody has written a plugin to add rss back to safari. I'm kinda hoping somebody does the same for mail.
They did. It's called Bada. And it's terrible.

But they're a great hardware company.
Outlook works just fine talking to Google Mail; our Windows users connect to Outlook. The rest of us Mac folks use Sparrow (which is not long for this world, unfortunately).

Everyone has iPhones, which work great with Google Mail and Google Calendar. I'm exceptionally happy that, for most small and medium sized businesses, there's no need for anything other than Google Mail.

I'm not entirely sure why "Enterprises" would need Outlook, but I'll cede that's a market I don't know very well, so there may be very good reasons for it.
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I have a line with that connection, and its only 50 euro a month (only in the cities though, out in the bogs its 8mb if you're lucky).
The thing I find most bizarre about Khan Academy (which, in principal, I love) is the whacky focus on Khan. Why not crowd source the tutorials?

In my opinion Stack Overflow is a better model for this stuff. Imagine something like Stack Overflow focused on video tutorials covering concepts that got up voted. (heck, maybe it exists.) why can't I upload my take on "slope" (or whatever) rather than just post Q&A on Khan's?
> Anything is possible, but we remain hopeful that that won’t happen, at least in part because the W3C standard is more of a branch than a fork.

In terms of VCSes, it's essentially a release branch, with "HTML 5" being the eventual endpoint (tag) of it.
Yes, but this misses the point: An OS upgrade hosed her data. Only the fact that she is (apparently) a small minority prevents this from being a big deal, a fact which itself sort of concerns me.
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I think at the moment China considers those mountain borders to be a feature.
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IPUMS is often used by the researchers (including myself) who would download the entire dataset and do regressions on it, which might be one reason why they haven’t bothered to create an API.
To remove something is ok. But you should clearly inform the user and give him the possibility to easy get his data back and really cool would be to provide a solution for the now existing problem. Maybe to point him to an App Download. Just dropping a feature without any response is bad practice.
Because they removed not only a feature but the access to her data. While she was able to recover it, it wasn't easy.
I don't agree -- you're papering over an enormous distinction. Unix tools and the shell are the biggest success story in software reuse that we have.

To be clear, I think there's a distinction between writing a library for well known use cases. I wouldn't suggest stdio is a waste. But it's almost always a waste of time to emerge from a client project with a bunch of libraries for functionality that will likely never be used again.

And among good developers I think this is one of the biggest problems. I've encountered many times good programmers building elaborate frameworks that take as long as the main project itself, who then present the utility of this framework, which we never use again. They didn't understand the problem space well enough to know when reusability made sense and across what pivots.

So library reuse is not all it's cracked up to be, but that's not what McIlroy is doing. His solution to the word count problem is fantastically and obviously better. It's real reuse.

Knuth also reused. He reused a compiler. He reused input output capabilities. He reused subroutine abstraction capability.

IMO it's less what they used and more what they produced (as all developers reuse). Knuth didn't produce a bunch of reusable tools and I think that is justified and the right approach most of the time.

I went back and reread the paper just now and McIlroy even alludes to this:

"The utilities employed in this trivial solution are
Unix staples. They grew up over the years as people
noticed useful steps that tended to recur in real
problems. Every one was written first for a particular
need, but untangled from the specific application.

With time they accreted a few optional parameters
to handle variant, but closely related, tasks. Sort, for
example, did not at first admit reverse or numeric
ordering, but these options were eventually identified
as worth adding."

What he describes is the right approach -- and what Knuth wrote is the first step here. I'm fairly certain if Knuth was a systems developer and this came up over and over again you'd see refinement and tools/libraries that made certain aspects of this more reusable. But that's neither his domain nor the specific ask for this client.

McIlroy's rant here seems pretentious in light of this. A much better rant would be to show how Unix tools could in six lines replace LaTex for typesetting (without using anything provided by LaTex).
It wasn't - the actual construction was under budget.

The problem is that "the budget" figures that get quoted are mostly pulled out of the air.

When a politician at the bid stage wants to make it sound affordable they use a number that is just the spent cost of running the event. When they want to make it look like there has been a great investment - they use the figure which includes all the new transport links and all the development grants to the region.

There are also budget numbers that aren't spent. So the cost went up by a $Bn when the government decided that it had to charge 20% VAT (federal sales tax) on everything - but of course that goes straight back to the government. Then there is the $Bn security costs - but it's not like they weren't going to pay for having an army for that two weeks anyway
Yeah but that is also hardwired into us and not part of some intellectual process. So that's kind of cheating :)
As I got to this page via FeedDemon I think "dead" is an exaggeration.

Sprained seems reasonable though :->
Whether it is stupid, even if we're just going to assume such a thing can be viewed objectively, is beside the point.

If you think it is stupid, don't use it. If you want your money back because you bought something that you didn't properly research, why not ask for it instead of whining about it on your blog?

And, on the point of Apple not advertising 'unfeatures' (I like that term), we, as consumers, make decisions in these situations about how much we're willing to research different investments ahead of time. Likely, for most, an OS is not something to research in depth when it's only $20. But it's only $20. Downgrade if you hate it so much. Live in the past. But don't claim you feel violated... when you made the decision. She violated herself if anything.
You would still hope that an OS upgrade wouldn't leave your data in an unusable state! As someone above pointed out, it would've been pretty easy for the OS install to determine if you had feeds and export them into an open format and let the user know where they had been exported too so that they may then do something with it.

I don't think the lack of the feature is the main complaint in the article it's that her data seemed to be suddenly gone (I know she eventually found it but it took a third part tool to try to export the proprietary format into something usable).
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