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I was with you until the last sentence. How does that help developers who are being harmed under the advertiser arrangement?

The developers still make up a minority of the user revenue. Even if that flipped...there are multiple customer interests at play. Developers, member users, and the company.

No advertisers is better than advertisers, but I don't see anything that protects developers (except Dalton's word, which you didn't bring up) from similar fates in this model.
Really? When I hear that I think I think "You Beaut!"

A customer who wants to pay you to mess around with new ideas and come up with something great. Nothing more boring than client that knows exactly what they want.
Just finished the minimum viable prototype for a identity and permissions brokering network: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLU1TJmMSjo&feature=plcp

I'll be initially offering services such as single sign on and aggregated micropayments... think being able to charge as low as $0.25 / month / user for your service, without requiring users to sign up for a long period (which can hurt signup rates) or being hit with a $0.30 fee per transaction.

You can poke at the first demo yourself at http://prototype.projectmaelstrom.com
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1. Because being a platform/ an API as a service is its's publicly stated goal.

2. The clear business model of charging users makes that goal viable and feasible.

So far, I have no reason to doubt him. Do you?

BTW, I have no idea if it will be wildly successful. However, I'm certain interesting things will come out of it.
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Can you recommend any good literature discussing Galileo and Kepler and their "faith and reason" view of the cosmos? I do not ask contentiously but with genuine curiosity. In the (post) modern era there seems to be much noise about faith (Christianity in particular) and science being irreconcilable.

What little I do know about many founders of the major fields of science seems to indicate that the founding men and women saw no such dichotomy. Or at the least were willing to struggle with the questions rather than throw the entire matter out as "unscientific."

Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday seem to have both Christians and creationists. Newton was a Christian and claimed that "all my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer." Joule (the unit's namesake) was at least a theist. Then we have Louis Pasteur, Christopher Columbus, George Washington Carver, Samuel Morse, and Blaise Pascal - each "men of faith."

Not that the above list should be taken as an argument by authority for faith. Certainly not. However, it does leave me wondering how these great thinkers saw the world so differently.
Did you think this was a real startup?

This is a parody site representing just about every mobile or web-based startup.

It's fairly accurate (and hilarious!), isn't it?
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Found this blog post which has interesting ideas:

http://www.hollance.com/2012/01/freelance-iphone-developer-o...
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Not surprising considering that website looks like it's from the early 90s.
Care to further explain the purpose of these injections and how they personally affected you?
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I was skeptical that they would reach their goal, but you have to give credit to Dalton aside from the release of the alpha and support from some big names in tech. The blog posts written throughout were all unique and interesting (great Hacker News titles) and the PR was orchestrated extremely well in my opinion. Kudos!
I can't think of any other situations where merely viewing a page is made public.
AJAX as a term and design idea was coined in 2005[1], which is what intent of the quote (though it too is technically inaccurate]. The quote you listed is talking about coining the term, not inventing the technology.

If you read the article you linked, it also says this:

"Finally -- 6 years later -- Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path coined a catchy phrase: the term Ajax was born."

[1] http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-appl...
I'm not sure what they've done, but I know they are focused on bringing Haskell to commercial users and presumably will be releasing software to fill in perceived gaps or barriers to adoption.

Aaron Contorer seemed like a real standup guy in the brief convo I had with him, and I hope we see some exciting stuff materialize in the future.
The Retina MPB has opened up a whole world of fonts. It's amazing how much attention I pay to them when I visit websites now.

There is a downside to such a nice screen -- it makes me painfully OCD. On my previous laptop, the screen was such crap that it didn't bother me. On this one, I notice every subtle flaw.

For instance, image retention (which I'm now convinced that after swapping three of these things out eventually affects all of the LG panels used in the MBPR [Samsung panels do not seem to have the issue]).

Then there's the fact that it's just slightly not bright enough for my liking. I find myself hitting the brighten button a lot when it is at max. No matter that my old laptop looks downright dim next to this.

And despite the fact that it is an IPS display, the colors do change quite a bit with viewing angle. A solid white screen kind of shimmers in luminance and tint when moving my head.

And the black level isn't pure black.

And 220ppi isn't quite enough to complete the no-pixel illusion for me.

And the color gamut could be a smidge greater.

It's like the uncanny valley of screens. It's so close to perfect, but not quite there, that it leaves me paying a weird amount of attention to it.

But I wouldn't trade it for any other.
and for our newbies to autism spectrum jargon out there: GFCF = gluten free, casein free (no wheat, no dairy, nor things derived from those proteins)
I would love to see a listing of logos ranked by price in today's value. Some measure of how the company's value has changed as a result of the new logo (in the case of a redesign) or how successful the company has been would be interesting too.

Anyone know of such a thing already existing?
I think the reason this is at the top of HN is that people want to talk about app.net and, though it may be lacking in substance, the OP brings up an interesting point of view.

A lot of people feel very deeply about some of the ideas around app.net and with people's speculation/discussion you can get a sense of what is really important to people who use HN.
I am very surprised that there is so much support for this feature. I can't think of any other situation where such a passive action is made public.
They are to deal with a metabolic deficiency processing and/or digesting B vitamins. (my daughter has taken the methylated B12 shots before)
I am also tired of libraries being called frameworks. I wouldn't even call this a library. A library infers a collection of something. This is just a simple single function.
Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber.

Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
To be fair, I disagree with his position, but he is willing to call it something else, but the end of the day it is to teach his proposal as opposed what we now teach.
So basically what he is saying is that drilling kids into memorizing math procedures like LONG DIVISION is not a good way to get people interested in math and analytical thinking in general. Ok. Sure. He is right that modelling is probably what "people who don't get math" struggle the most with.

But saying that math is just "computational stuff, turn the crank, let the computer do it" kind of thing is ludicrous. You can use mathematics as a blackbox model to do cool demos and stuff, but at some point you //have// to open the box and see how it is done.

It just happens that the standard math curriculum (numbers, functions, sin, cos, etc.) is a very good mix of conceptual complexity and computational complexity that can all be understood with pen and paper. You won't need to trust anyone, the proof is right there on the sheet. Anyone trying to take that understand in order to replace with with a SolveEquation[.] is not on the right side of intellectualism. Demos yes, but view source (is there view source for Mathematica functions?) and explain source are //sine qua non// for deep knowledge.
Neither of those points safeguard you from it turning into something other than what YOU want. That's the point I'm trying to make.

I don't have a specific reason for doubt, but I don't have evidence for confidence either.

I'm 100% behind a paid API as a service for the purpose of financial sustainability. But I don't think that's what has actually been purchased by the first batch of customers.

They paid for a dream, like you. And that's okay.

My point was to make sure people had a chance to see that's what they purchased. :)
APP.net = ghost town social network with a fee.
"...too green to know that I should have run for my life after that statement."

Yep.
Why the hate, dude? Can you point out anything that is actually wrong with the piece?
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The things that sold me on AngularJS over Knockout were built-in routing and REST (via $resource). I feel like these things should be included in Knockout and by using third-party solutions or attempting to roll my own would have created more code/complexity than the AngularJS solution for my app.
Well, it's possible the autism increase is merely due to more frequent diagnosis, but I dunno...

(it's possible, sadly, that these kids maybe used to be infant mortalities back in the day - but it's also possible that pesticides, vaccines, lead paint, etc are simply poisonous to a small percent of the population as well)
It's always nice to hear about someone doing some real, hands-on good. Keep it up!
I absolutely agree with you on Michael Hartl's tutorial. Now I am going through Rails for Zombies. I am searching for some open source rails apps which will give me a simple framework to start with.
Oracle should just buy them already and make this the default for Java. The JVM GC pauses are becoming a real problem.
Let me just be straight up.

I'm normally an Apple skeptic and I work primarily on Linux.

That said, I don't think anybody else would've bothered to make retina display available to the general public until Apple forced their hand and made it available themselves...
Hey how's this going for you? would love to hear your thoughts after all the comments in the thread.
Great suggestion. Thanks
Yeah, I had the same problem. Not being able to have the same level of control in Heroku was... unfortunate. Even after temporary local fixes were resolved I still couldn't push my app. Hopefully we can all take this as a learning experience and figure out how to utilize npm without keeping it in the critical path!
I disagree. The app economy has changed that and is creating jobs. Let me give you an example. An American has a great idea, but does not have the money to hire an expensive or the skills to develop an app. He gets the app developed in a lower cost company, and the app becomes hugely successful.

Now the same person ends up hiring more designers and marketing folks in US. That person has more discretionary income that is spent locally. The technology companies like Apple, Google and a lot of smaller ones end up hiring more people.

We have had a lot of clients who have done well and had the same path. I was deeply moved when one of our US clients told me that the app we had developed helped him pay the bills during the darkest days of the 2008 recession.

People need to understand this debate better

1. The app economy has democratised the idea to customer strategy. Outsourcing here provides a huge leverage. This is not like some IT department cutting down jobs and moving them to lower cost places.

2. The world is flat now, in terms of skills and not costs.

3. More non US companies are hiring in America and setting up offices there. We are doing the same.
So? He likes the display. So do I. It's awesome. When you read a Gruber article you know what you're getting into before you even read it so I don't see why anyone would complain.

The difference between Gruber writing about the things he enjoys and someone else who say, loves Free Software or something or even another Apple lover, is that Gruber can write and is an excellent storyteller (the two don't always have to go together by the way).
Think about that: a laptop with no performance tradeoff compared to a high-end desktop.

Compared to a high-end desktop which has barely seen updates since 2010, and includes a GPU released in 2009, sure.
I could quote specific claims from the piece but it's just too annoying to enumerate all the breathless reasons he gives why this is yet another Apple product that makes everything that came before it trivial and irrelevant.

I'm fed up with this kind of PR masquerading as tech journalism. He's not a journalist. He's part of Apple's third-party marketing arm and he gets compensated for writing this kind of trash with exclusive meetings etc. at Apple.
It turns out I did not overreact. Apology rescinded, you do not know what you're talking about.
Pls check out the point I make above in response to slurgfest
I've recently been studying typography and it's been really heartbreaking to realize that what differentiates a good and a bad typeface onscreen is how it well it renders. Plenty of great typefaces are just unusable. Most fonts distort wildly as you step up/down in pixel size. I didn't start in print design, but man is web design primitive in comparison!
I'm not sure what your critique is. He's not a politician or TV host getting paid by the bad Apple to write/say nice lies about them... He writes about Apple, and people visit his website to read what he writes. It's that simple.

If you disagree with any of his points, please post them in this topic. But don't go dismissing it just because it's from arch-apparatchik Gruber.
That said, I don't think anybody else would've bothered to make retina display available to the general public until Apple forced their hand and made it available themselves...

The technology was coming, it was just a matter of time. Apple are in the unique position of controlling both the hardware and the software, which makes it far easier for them release this in a nice way where the OS and much of the software works well as soon as they made the hardware available.
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In fact, most people outside finance would be surprised at how much sophisticated analysis and interactivity you can build in Excel. Once you start digging under the hood it's a powerful platform. The only addition you need is a pricing feed e.g. Bloomberg.
> Think about that: a laptop with no performance tradeoff compared to a high-end desktop.

It helps if that high end desktop hasn't been updated in two years.

For CPU performance, laptops lagging a couple of years behind desktops is more or less business as usual.
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So more pixels is great. Is it really that great?

I feel like there are people who look at their devices and people who look at what's displayed on their devices.

For me, text is text is text. I'm looking at it, not so I can enjoy how crisp it is (or isn't), but so I can consume those words and get them inside my head.

I find (I've played around with high DPI devices) that while they do look nice, the niceness is quickly forgotten when I actually start using them for something other than looking at how nice they look. Likewise, going back to use lower DPI devices you notice the difference, until you stop looking for it and actually get work done.

I'm not saying that I don't care entirely, I just... I wouldn't go and buy a new device solely because its resolution was higher. It will be nice when these devices eventually make it to me, but I'm not really bothered either way.

If we were to talk about recent revolutions in the home computer I'd rank multi-core CPUs as a much more important change. No longer can one broken app go on a rampage and block you out.

Anyway, tl;dr; it's great he's passionate about it, I just don't see it as such as important thing.
Here is the url from google search. I should have given it originally: https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=sun+ha...
As he himself has written on his blog, in exchange for this kind of PR he gets invited to private meetings inside Apple.
I have an iPad 3 and an iPad 2. The "retina" display is certainly a nice upgrade but it's hardly essential. This is obviously where the industry has been heading for a while and the only thing interesting about it here is that Apple's supply chain dynamics makes it possible for them to get 6-12 months ahead of the competition.
I would change the statement to 'The US Visa laws are broken'. Empirically H1-B demand is tied to the demand for highly skilled people. There have been years when it was allotted via lottery and there were years when the quota was not filled up.

The companies using H1 already pay a high penalty in terms of the very high fees, which is non refundable even if the visa is rejected. It is a source of revenue to the US govt
Some people make a point of appreciating the small joys of life. Others do not. Much effort and attention is lost on the latter.
Anyone who has used one of these knows they're awesome, and that words do not do it justice.

I think at this point, Grubber just needed to commit that entry to the historical record as a member of the top tier of Apple reviewers/fanboys/critics.
Why oh why promote an iOS app here?

If the key clause is hypermedia and ability to link to anything, an Android app would be just as capable and then some (via intents, and ability to loosely connected link to other apps, which can link to other apps, etc etc).

Not to mention Android is now 4 times bigger in the smartphone sphere (as opposed to equal to iOS earlier) and the Android tablet-scene is just now exploding.

Soon iOS will be the niche player, both for tablets and phones. Whoever put these blinders onto themselves are not doing themselves any good.

If this piece had been about the "app" as the 21st century HyperStack card, I could have acccepted the premise. But no, it had to explicitly be an iOS app. Ofcourse.

In the long term, nothing we know now will define the 21st century. It's a too big time-frame. And in the (shorter) long term I am rooting for the web which he so easily dismisses. Probably not the web I know, but definitely a web, even more fantastic than anything I can imagine now.
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its just not that simple. the article doesn't state how it was taken in most of the cases.

i speak from experience and have seen the results of what happens to kids that mainline h. if you smoke or even ingest heroin its way way easier to do it in moderation because you don't reach the highs that shooting it produces.

most kids that shoot, try to get to a state of almost pure euphoria where your body is in pure ecstasy and you come in and out of lucid dreams. once you try that all other forms of consumption seem like a waste.

i don't believe its easy to shoot up in moderation.
so why not have a link to a separate version (with automatic redirects) to the same content for tax paying Brits?
I'm working on advertising supported niche tools/game aides on Android. Though honestly, that's more a vehicle to build my resume.
I upvoted your post for the same reason that you posted it - in hopes that Quora will decide not to kill privacy on the site. Now I kind of wish I hadn't since the sentiment on this thread is so anti-Quora.

I love Quora, too. The amount of knowledge you gain from even a few minutes there is truly incredible. If HN'ers could get over the fact that Quora is a social site started by Facebookers, I truly believe they would love it too. Quora (and the world) would benefit from more answers from the HN community.
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So, here's a question for those who actually have one of these mega-res displays... how's the terminal? Or any other typically aliased text? Secondly, how well does it work in a dual/2+ boot situation? Obviously other systems have the drivers for such large displays, but without knowing how to scale it... Is there any way to set the hardware to simply enlarge everything x2 in the absence of serious display drivers (for example, a desktopless linux or bsd)?
I think its disingenuous to imply that because someone doesn't notice or care about the increased PPI of a laptop, they don't appreciate the small joys of life.
"A cybersecurity firm claimed to have spotted an Internet relay chat (IRC) message seeking help to hack into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars Science Laboratory Mission,"

So someone joined the anonops IRC server, sent a message asking for help and a security company bothered to write a report about it. Must have been a slow day.
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In China the seat belts in Taxi's are so dirty, if they have them at all (most are removed), that if you put the belt on, your clothes will be filthy when you get out. That is because the seat belts are never used. So it is your safety or or cleanliness and appearance -- even I am reluctant to cover myself with filth for a short trip.
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PERL and MAC (vs. Mac) are equal parts annoying, but at least PERL doesn't mean something different.
So you can’t. Noted.
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You don't even read what he writes, right?
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what is this meant to prove? that friends have political opinions? what if they 'liked' it to enable commenting on the wall with a difference of opinion? facebook 'likes' are worthless.
I don't think anyone would care about this, if Samsung didn't seem to have a compulsion to copy so many Apple designs.

Copying Xcode's UI is not, in itself, a huge issue. But along with all the rest, it just looks rather shabby.
i looked at the rorsach image on his site out of curiosity.

i saw two people facing away from each other, their index fingers raised as if to say "nope, we're not part of a rorsach blot"
Lets go of 4000 Motorola Mobility workers. Big difference.
Does he? What are you referring to? The Mountain Lion presentation? Apple invited loads of journalists to that, they just also included Gruber there.
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Re read what you just wrote. Is there ANYTHING that is guaranteed to become what EVERYONE wants? That includes the owner.

You have no evidence to either doubt or believe. Like you have said, you chose the former, some people have decided to choose the later. That was a cool scenario until you decided your position is the right way.

What I expect from a developer like you is to attempt building/prototyping what you would like to see on top app.net. Non devs like me can speculate on what products might/come from this and things we would like to see.

To be clear, it is very good to raise questions, but let them be of substance . There is a great way to go about it [1]

This is Hackernews, we do not spend all our energy and focus on the several ways things might fail. We have more than enough people wired for that.

BTW, I am not a financial backer yet. Hopefully, I will be soon enough.

[1] https://social-igniter.com/blog/2012/08/why-we-support-app-d...