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I'm failing to see the big picture here. One author who provides detailed links to a competitor's site gets rejected for a book about self-publishing. It isn't like Apple is rejecting political books with which they disagree or preventing users from reading specific content on their devices. Their store just chose not to sell an item. Supermarkets aren't obligated to stock every possible variety of orange juice, nor should Apple be held to any higher of a standard.

Apple doesn't have an obligation to sell anything and everything. It's their store. They choosing to not sell something isn't "bad" -- users of Apple devices can still read whatever they want.

Acting indignant like Apple has some mandate to sell anything that anyone wants is ridiculous. If you were Coca-Cola, would you let people sell Pepsi from your machines? Of course not. Is Coke bad for choosing not to sell Pepsi? Want Pepsi? Go to a Pepsi machine.

The terms of submission for the iBooks store are pretty obvious. Having that lady's book rejected shouldn't have come as a surprise. A simple RTFM would have told her exactly what would have happened when she links to competitor's stores.

You want to play ball in Apple's park, you have to follow the rules. Disagree with the rules if you want, but don't complain when you don't follow those rules and are asked to leave.

Every few months we seem to go through this Cycle of Indignity. Usually it's because of some App Store rejection. We all piss and moan about it, but for the most part, the App Store has remained a high quality experience (and a profitable one for devs) even though occasionally someone gets offended about something or another.

Put the pitchforks away -- this isn't that big of a deal. Thousands of writers sell through the iBookstore without any problems. This lady's story is an outlier in an otherwise pleasant place. Her real problem is a lack of a decent web developer.
OS X apps don't use a lot of "Advanced…" buttons but they certainly have lots of "Advanced" tabs (usually rightmost, having a gear icon) in their Preference panels: iTunes, Finder, Safari, and Calendar all do.

Where you do see lots of "Advanced…" buttons is in System Preferences…
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I don't know if we are talking about the same article, I'm talking about this one "How well does Khan Academy teach?" by the Michigan University math prof who outlines, in detail, basic concepts like adding decimals and multiplication that are taught at Khan Academy in a way that goes against research.

There is no religious bias, its a difference between a ineffective and wrong way vs. an effective right way. The professor performed no smear against Khan Academy, but the fact he only saw two videos that cause confusion in basic math concepts, it should make one skeptical, especially when someone like you justifies it on the basis of popularity, pragmatism and "minutia".

It seems like you read one article from the Washington Post that wasn't written very well and from that one article, deduce that WP is on some smear campaign. Absurdity of the highest order.
Get a VPN that gives you a UK IP and watch it on the BBC website. Got tons of results on http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+ip+vpn

I use a similar one to access Facebook when traveling to China.
The list of <supply count> <thing to build> is pretty standard and a lot of people find it easier to follow when playing, than a fancier layout. But there are also those who hate the format :) Might be best to poll the target audience before investing time in a particular layout.
The only thing I could think of when I read that article is; how long until Coca-Cola sends a C&D against them for likeness of Ninja-Cola?
Very interesting otherwise.
Time to short Apple. Somehow, I don't think this would have happened under Steve.
No, the proper response to this is to fork out more money for a certificate that is more widely supported! It's email, it should be secure / trustworthy?
I'm not sure why, at least at this point — it seems like it'd be really weird for Twitter to turn off the ability to post statuses/photos/etc and have an OS-wide account sign-in feature, which is basically all Apple's OS integration does. Like, so weird that you'd think Twitter would probably be making themselves irrelevant, so you wouldn't really care anyway.
It's not likely relevant, really. Sometimes people are depressed after flu or ear infection and attribute it to that.

There's some sense in:

1. If you're stressed and/or avoiding sunlight, you're more likely to be depressed and fall ill.

2. You feel less pleasure while severely sick. Personally, I notice my affect when thinking about everything is dramatically different. I discount it for that reason.

3. Depression apparently involves some feedback loops that can make it a fairly stable equilibrium; so the shift in experience during the sickness might linger (perhaps the isolation and lack of sun while sick lingers).

I don't see any studies showing a strong link. To present my own anecdote, I had a dozen ear infections before my teens and have never experienced depression. This is a very small bit of evidence, though.
In a store there is a physical lack of shelf space. Not so in an online store.

That's why people get annoyed, even though apple is clearly within its rights.
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For more fun, let's look at the adoption numbers of Jelly Belly or whatever the Android crowd calls it these days. Let's not even open the can of worms that is Windows adoption rates.
>> But is it also true that people who are depressed may also (always, sometimes) be resistant to the suggestion from others that they may be suffering from depression?

I had a girlfriend once, who suffered from bipolar disorder.
The problem is the feelings that you have while having a depressive episode are real problems to you, in the sense that they affect you very deeply at that point. When someone suggests to that person that maybe you are just depressed, it often seems to them that you are trying to ignoring the issue and instead trying to shift the blame on them. This infuriates them further and they either lash out against you or shut up. After screwing up a couple of times,every time I realized she was possibly having an episode I tried to put it very gently to her and only after talking about whatever is bothering her.
I will also suggest going through this link to understand how people having a depressive episode feel(Even though the article is about lupus). http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christ...
The difference to me is that they're calling this a "bookstore," and the thing that they're selling is supposed to be a new way of consuming the thing that we traditionally know as "books."

That's what I used to believe their business was.

Now, it's clear that an iBook is not a book. It is a digital material sold to people who like to consume content via their pretty and pricy devices. I agree that Apple makes it fun to consume content their way. And I'm sure that for the most part, people can still mostly absorb all the same knowledge that they would from a traditional paper book. But, this content has to be approved and modified to be consumed and therefor, it is not a book.

So the reason I am not comfortable with all this is for the reason I stated above. I was essentially tricked into believing they were selling books. Now that probably sounds extreme. But, the truth is that I am an educated "tech person" who looks at this stuff every day, and I did not think about this problem until now. The people they are trying to sell to are those in education, who are going to be raising and educating young people by reading these iBooks. When I was a kid, we were taught that books were magical and that the more we read, the more open our minds would become. In elementary school, we made us sing songs about books to make reading seem more fun and appealing.

If schools are adopting this form of content, then they are telling young people that the best way to learn things is via a model that is filtered (simply to increase Apple's profits).
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I disagree. The vegetarians I know are more concerned about the handling and treatment of animals than the environment or their own health. And veganism's whole premise is based on the reduction of suffering.
I'm blown away by the speed. Can you share a few on the architecture behind to archive this? Edit: I just saw on your blog that you already working on a blog post. I'm looking forward :)
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Yes, lets just perpetuate mistakes in perpetuity. And I highly doubt everyone would end up with the same misconceptions. However, the fact that Khan Academy is a) not rigorous, b) has no type of human interface with the teacher, c) has no type of input from professors and lead academic institutions, d) is purported as an educational savior by influential people when there is no such thing, e) uses outdated and confusing teaching techniques, f) has yet to put problems over exercises, and g) has no type of human interface between students it has a long LONG way to go.
"Trading off against partinonability" is kind of a strange concept -- not only can you not prevent network partitions, you usually can't tell when they've happened until it's too late.

The real upshot of the CAP theorem is that you have to choose what goes in the face of a partition. An ACID system says you lose availability (writes, and possibly reads, fail if you can't reach a majority of the participants); an Eventually Consistent system may pick either.
Understandable... One other thing to keep in mind also is that you're using free software when it comes to Firefox. If someone wants to give me something for free with the requirement that it automatically updates to both keep me secure and push the web forward, I'm all for it. Given that the majority of users don't know what the hell they're even using, I think it makes sense to turn on auto updates for the average user, while the power users like us dig deeper to turn it off.

edit: also, to nitpick your analogy amendment of my fictional alarm company copying a key without your knowledge, I don't think opening software and having it "fix itself" automatically is anything akin to having a person steal a key to your house and enter it without your knowledge... However, I do agree my analogy was a bit flawed and that the reality is somewhere in between both of our views.
Now would be a great time to put forward a simpler solution to 2.0 so yes please post a completed version!
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Disabling SSL is even worse - there is no way I'm going to trust someone with something as important as my email if they don't offer SSL or can't get it right.
Perhaps she should have invested in Time Machine backups?
I wouldn't be surprised is Samsung is not paying anything to Microsoft for the IP in question but has instead agreed to commit some of its smartphone production line to Windows phones (and this is what Microsoft wants to hide)
Can someone explain the concept or value of multiple instances on this? If an app is getting hit pretty hard can you just turn on another instance, albeit with less ram? Do you have to write your code in such a way to support it being run on multiple instances? Are there certain types of apps that are CPU intensive and RAM light, making the many instance/not much ram trade off a good idea?
$20 per month, per user seems a little high when compared to Gmail which is either free (personal) or $5/month (business). The fact that Google is able to charge for email is partially due to the fact that they offered it for free for so long and got so many people to like the experience that it created a lot of demand in the workplace for it - I think you really need a way to let people experience your application for free if you want any shot at enticing people to pay $20/month for it.

There may be some subset of people willing to pay $20/month for ultra-configurable filtering, but I'm not really sure how big that market is, and I doubt it will help you break into larger organizations.
My apologies. As donatzsky correctly assumed, I haven't checked the site on Windows for a long time. An overwhelming majority of my readers have tended to be on OS X or Linux. But thanks for letting me know. I'll make sure to test on Windows too the next time I do a design update. Cheers!
For most users it seems fine, but as someone with an interest in researching historical software, I do find some of this stuff a bit troubling, unless there's a way to turn it off. It's getting harder to install and use old versions of software, without resorting to running things in carefully controlled snapshotted sandboxes.

Also a problem with games, which sometimes significantly change gameplay with patches. You used to be able to archive the original binaries and then also archive each incremental patch, but auto-updates (and other things such as DLC) are making that all tricky.
But it's also pretty terrible that anyone expressing the slightest bit of self-doubt or unhappiness is publicly torn to ribbons

Add to that pathologically stupid stupid advice it evokes, and you would have to be pretty desperate for attention to post your private problems on the internet.
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I would love to see this happen aswell
Which Unix or Linux would that be?

It's not which. It's Unix and Linux as a whole.

Interesting that you think desktop computing is an anomaly. I must have imagined the whole PC revolution thing then...

Apparently you don't know what anomaly means.

Also interesting that you think that the current split in HTML5 standards is going to lead to good things. Care to explain how?

That's not what I said, you're putting words in my mouth. I said it's not necessarily bad.

But personally, I trust Mozilla and Opera; if they felt the creation of the WHATWG was important for the development of web technologies, then it's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
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The main problem of OAuth is not really the specs: it is tendency of us engineers to implement something different - even though there is no need to reinvent the wheel.

Meaning, why does not a new service X model their implementation as Facebook - or maybe Twitter?

But no - every new service starts from scratch and tries to reinvent the wheel. Even wrapper libraries cannot keep up with all these "understanding" of the protocol.

(This rant is valid for APIs in general)
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EXACTLY!

No one seems to get this, not HN, not Quora, Digg (though that doesn't matter any longer...)

Its about increasing the information consumption rate and navigation rate. Collapsing is critical to navigating threads with thousands of comments, even tens of comments!

Any UX designer who does not see this, is, in my book, worthless.
Banned for defending apple on hackernews ? Are you actually believing what you say ?

If anything, I would say this place is a little too full of apple fanboys, not the other way around. Get a grip on reality.
That's a good question and I'd be very interested in reading about why so many popped up out here. I posed a question about this on Quora so hopefully I can report back soon with some good answers.
In the UK it is quite easy (and free obviously, NHS and all that) to get somebody seen by a mental health professional. I have suffered from several mental health problems over the past 3½ years and the only reason I am here today replying to your post is because of the fantastic support provided by the NHS (and my family of course).

I feel so sad when I read stories like yours of friends and loved ones who need help but don't get it :(
I remember when there was a gulf between people with cell phones and people without. Then cell phones got super-cheap. More recently, smartphones were a "digital divide", but that won't last long either.
Of course, today, in large part thanks to a large number of people who died horrible deaths investigating this during the time period documented in Ignition!, it's not hard at all. But it was sure hard until the 1960s.
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I posted this [1] here a few days ago:

>Just off the top of my head you know what I would like to see as an email interface: Reddit.
Each headline being the suvject being an email with all the comments being the replies. Different users can reply in a threaded way to all the recipients of the message etc.
Obviously it would need in-line attachements and in-line pictures.
It would be interesting to allow a vote system on messages. Rather than file them, you down or up vote them. But in your box, you have more than one vote so you can apply more or less weight to info. Along with tags and groups and many other things that I can think of...
That would be cool.

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I think you're on to something if you can incorporate the reddit model moreso in your app...

Though I think you need a designer pretty badly, and the costing model is too high.

But Email needs disruption.

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[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292608
> Apple doesn't have an obligation to sell anything and everything. It's their store. They choosing to not sell something isn't "bad" -- users of Apple devices can still read whatever they want.

Apple has that right. And potential Apple customers has the right to say that they will not stand control freakery like that in their store.

Apple has backed down before. Like when they tried to force everybody to use Objective-C/C++ to make iOS apps.

> Acting indignant like Apple has some mandate to sell anything that anyone wants is ridiculous. If you were Coca-Cola, would you let people sell Pepsi from your machines? Of course not. Is Coke bad for choosing not to sell Pepsi? Want Pepsi? Go to a Pepsi machine.

If they want to be a general book seller, they should know they will get questioned every time they refuse to carry a book due to its content. There is no way to avoid that.

> Put the pitchforks away -- this isn't that big of a deal. Thousands of writers sell through the iBookstore without any problems. This lady's story is an outlier in an otherwise pleasant place.

What is the problem, do you think it will become a less pleasant place just from people raising questions about their policies? Why does that prospect bother you so?
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You are generalizing quite a bit here. We are specifically talking about web browsers. Plenty of developers stuck with Netscape then Mozilla and wanted to support them. And sysadmins have lots of control at some level. "We can only support browser X, but not browser Y. As a firm we only support IE". Anyway, good luck getting off of XP and those old IE's. The rest of the world is moving on. When IE10 comes out, I'll email the link to my mom, etc and they'll be upgraded in minutes. Corporate America? Well, there are a lot of overpaid people working on it.
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Very nice. After getting feedback, this is basically what I imagined ThemeSquirrel should turn into. Good job grabbing the screenshots of the live preview, and directing right to it. I was too lazy to adjust ThemeSquirrel to do that but I really should have. Also great idea of aggregating the marketplaces.

A few thoughts:

-I'd make the "Large" thumbnail default. It was the biggest complaint I got, and I noticed a lot of people switching to the large size when I checked my analytics.

-Open the previews in a new tab/window. I know most people scroll-click things, but it'd be best to make that default (imo). Most people don't buy the first theme they click, so you ideally want to keep them at your site as long as possible.
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You've been misled into thinking that you need features X, Y and Z. Web pages can be functional without flashy new features.

Your browser is your choice, and we as developers need to respect that.
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CA is 973M as zipped csv. CA is a bit over 10% of the US population, so the whole data set will be about 10gb. You can fit that on one of the cheaper linodes pretty easily.

With a few indices and maybe even a materialized view (or even pruning data you don't need), you can answer most queries so fast that latency between linode and the census > query time.

I know munging csv's and writing sql isn't as sexy as JSON APIs or mongodb, but sometimes the simple solutions are the right ones.
Let's try that question the other way. Is it fair that Apple is trying to extort $27 per device out of Samsung (many times more than Samsung is asking for on its FRAND patents)? While we're at it, is it fair that non-iPhone users in the US subsidize Apple's huge profit margins? Because, Apple demands such a high subsidy (and competitive pricing on-contract) that the carriers make the difference up on other customers. So, is it fair that I'm forced to pay higher rates on my plan because Apple is intentionally leveraging their size to distort the market?
A Big Six publisher had an eBook rejected by Apple because it mentioned there was also a Kindle edition available.
In the Netherlands you can watch it via NOS. They have explanations for how to watch it on your pc, mobile, tv, radio, twitter/fb. See http://nos.nl/os2012/volg-de-spelen/.

To watch on your pc, they partnered with Youtube Live:
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which gives me:
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which is a bit strange (living in the Netherlands).

Fortunately it is quite easy to proxy stuff via the UK :)
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This might be an issue with - "purchased certificate must be combined with a root CA certificate for it to be trusted by browsers", see https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl-certificate i think it is an nginx thing? And definitly do NOT disable ssl
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