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Indeed, it's a shame many devs have been lured over to Chrome in the past (myself included), while every day it becomes more aligned with Google's corporate interests.

Let's not forget the good Mozilla has done in making a free and open web. Also, Fantastic Mr Firefox recently becoming a worthy competitor on technical merit alone, is a truly inspiring milestone.
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If you look at the styling of the pull-down notifications on iOS and Android, they actually look different. ICS pull downs looks significantly different than iOS. However, if you google images of samsung galaxy products, you'll see that many of their interfaces are identical.

For example, take a look at the samsung galaxy keyboard, the buttons & layout are identical to the iphone, why would you throw away the Android keyboard and replace it with something that looks identical to the iphone? The galaxy dock connector is also identical to the iphone, so much that one can actually plug the samsung connector into an iphone. Personally, I like the usb connectors better -- they're more versatile and I don't need to carry a bunch of specialized cables around, but samsung would rather copy apple than pick a sane default.
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Uh in one case they've gotten permission and are paying to use it and in the other they're not? The morality is clear.
The title of the story is "help a linux dev[eloper]"
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This is slightly off topic, but I don't really understand Miguel de Icaza.

He is a "free software programmer" according to Wikipedia, and I really value his contributions to both the GNOME and MONO projects.

I am not trying to in anyway put down his acheivements but his comments on social media (G+ and twitter) are often about ordering truckloads of Apple products.

Was there a falling out with the Gnome project or why is he such an avid supporter of the Apple brand? Perhaps its just a case that he has moved on from his free software roots. I appreciate that his company xamarin are working solidly on Mono which is open source, but a number of their products are not open source such as Mono Touch and Mono for Android.

I'm not saying that he shouldn't be allowed to sell software but I am curious what has caused this shift in philosophy or perhaps his involvement with the free and open source software was simply about producing code rather than the free principles behind it.
Yep. The indexing and slicing are quite powerful. For those familiar with MATLAB, this is a fantastic resource: http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users
Sorry if I'm derailing the conversation, but is Google trying to capture the market share with the Android or is it trying to make a profit?

What is Google's goal with the Android? Ads? An extension to search?

Again, sorry if I've derailed the discussion. I'm just curious to see what HN thinks.
This is total abuse of patents and copyrights! Of course, the obvious way to do things should never be patent-able in the first place!! Someone definitely needs to re-look @ how patenting works... I think the rules have obviously become archaic... and not useful anymore. Another example of this is the Indian Judiciary... completely meaningless laws and rules all over the place. A law book to govern a nation should ideally not be over 150 Pages, but now we have one which is like 5,000 pages and its completely meaningless!! Dawh!!!
As a manager who hires developers I'd say no. Mainly because any single thing isn't going to be enough to get you a job, or possibly even an interview.

My suggestions:

1. Put up as much of your course work as possible on GitHub. This gives an employer the chance to look at your code, and shows you can use Git.

2. Take on a project to build something. Possibly your course work covers this, I don't know. I'd suggest some simple app/website/gizmo which actually does something. It doesn't have to be unique but should show you can build a larger project without creating a confusing mess.

3. Rinse and repeat. The above would be enough to land you a junior developer job assuming you're actually good enough at the coding. You can always learn more and more, ie security, scalability, design etc. I'd look into any of those if they interest you. Otherwise wait until you need them.

I run a developer jobsite btw, the link is in my profile.
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And how's that profit sustainable?

They currently have near-monopoloy perceived first-mover prices and margins as 'the only credible device' (iPad) and 'the coolest device' (iPhone). They have the perception as being 'the only system with the good apps' (iPad) - noticeably they don't have that any more with the iPhone. Realistically, how long can they keep it with the iPad and, once lost, what means do they have of getting it back? And what's Apple's plan to maintain its current market advantages of consistency once the mobile market moves from high-end luxury to commodity that needs a tiered product range?

How many new Android devices come out per year, even just from the major top-tier devices? How many from Apple? To sustain the current position, Apple have to win and be lucky every time. Android can afford below a 10% hit rate and it'll still innovate faster and grow more strongly as a platform than iOS.

Apple now are in much the same position as they were the first time they lost Steve Jobs. Their five year outlook is, IMHO, grim - their profits come overwhelmingly from iOS but it's under heavy attack and has no obvious strategy to grow their base without cutting off what made them a success.

Apple are (medium-term) on the crest of a wave. Their long-term outlook is only down IMHO, and this time they can't bring Steve back.
Yes that's insane. I also suggested about health tourism on the blog page. I think you may have the operation and after care - first world grade - in Turkey for ~50K. May be even lower.
I agree with the article that it is socially awkward. For now I try to beat this game by not playing - that is, leaving distant acquaintances in a perpetual unanswered request state. I realize Facebook may not let me refuse to play, forever.

The same awkwardness applies to unfollowing people you know on Twitter, especially because they could be using a service that lets them know. Except since I have to play that game, I just play it and don't worry about it. Can't say how most others play, though.
I find the smart-phone answers encouraging. I had never heard of the quantified self movement before, but it is a neat thing. However, just imagine the power for science when thousands and millions of self-reported health data are aggregated (hopefully anonymously). You could watch viruses spread geographically in real time. You could find "cancer hot spots" much faster. You could "see" genetic abnormalities propagate over generations.
* You can't extend a static method call - ie, it will always refer to a specific class, you can't replace it with another without changing a lot of calls.

* Lots of static calls are indicative of function classes - classes as namespaces for functions, and not a real OOP approach

There's nothing wrong with static calls per-se, but lots of them is a code smell in most cases.
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One suggestion: please get a copywriter to write your headlines and subject headings. The current "we just built a site that saves lives" is epically bad. You are leaving money on the table when you make ambiguous, poorly written copy.
Today Apple went down in history as the biggest patent-troll of all time, stiffling innovation and competition like nobody has ever done before.

If you are a software-developer you should recognize the fundamental threat which Apple represents to your profession.

Boycott Apple if you want to be able to stay in business in the long term future. Throw away your Macbooks, iPhones and iPads. Ditch your iTunes and iTunes account. Get rid of everything Apple. All of it.

Be vocal about your code of ethical software conduct and how that prohibits involving anything made by Apple into anything you ever do.
No, you still have a problem in your database. Running a database smoothly with large datasets is the main performance problem for web applications. As fast as you can get with smart DB architecture, DB calls still take the bulk of the time compared to code running time.
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I have some clients that have been doing this for a couple of months. I think their site looks way better. Plus: Obama Socks

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Funny

Apple bought the "coverflow" look from a small company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverflow
To me, there are two potential benefits to all innovation:

1. to improve the standard of living for the general population (consumer/user)
2. to reap the rewards of making your ideas reality (inventor/creator)

My understanding of the patent system was to balance these two concepts - the inventor has the right to get the benefits (financial or otherwise) from their creation for a reasonable time but must in return share their idea so that it becomes public knowledge. In my view, patents aren't necessarily about protecting small businesses - the system is designed to incentivise innovation.

In theory this is fairly sound, however the potential for abuse, specifically trolling, is high. In practice, we live in arguably the most innovative time of human history.

Of course the system isn't perfect, I'm not pretending it is. It seems to work OK most of the time though. The tech advances are putting strain on a system intended for physical manufacture and so we'll probably see a reform soon. Here's hoping they don't screw it up (though they prob will).

The thing that strikes me about this article is that the patents such as pinch to zoom and double tap were NOT obvious to me at all before the iPhone existed. I'm fairly young though and I didn't really know about what the cutting edge of tech was like when the iPhone came out. I do remember how much the device amazed me when it came out though.

Now these methods of interacting with a touchscreen are so ubiquitous that I get annoyed whenever a touch screen doesn't implement multitouch, two finger scrolls etc. You probably do too.

It doesn't matter if they're obvious now - it matters if they were obvious when they were created. In that sense, I can understand where apple is coming from. After reading the 150 page leaked document where Samsung blatantly stated they would copy hundreds of features of iOS I think this situation is a bit more grey than the "Fuck Apple, I'm using a Samsung TV as a computer now" position that the author has taken. See also the Samsung store in Sydney, Aus.

My startup falls exactly within the 'obvious in hindsight' category - it's an app that can work out what emotions a child is feeling. You can bet your ass I will be patenting it everywhere we plan to sell for exactly that reason.
Quoting ...

"Let's give Apple millions," seems to be the attitude.

Like handing a bully reigns of the school yard. Not great for the valley and technology, it seems.
So I guess windows 8 is fine for super-experts who know all the shortcuts, as well as for the completely new. But I expect both categories make up quite a small proportion of the userbase.
kevin rose kinda repeats the same idea today
http://kevinrose.com/the-boolean-graph
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here is a talk form SciPy 2012 about Numba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYi1cymszqY
I would guess the problem is with your proxy... or some rare hiccup while pg did some testing.

in any case: what are your request headers?
Those prior things you speak of were absolutely terrible. I had all those devices and they sucked compared to the iPhone.

I think that those "innovations" seem simple now in hindsight, but why didn't any of the companies previously making smart phones or PDAs (Palm, Windows CE, HP, Compaq, Dell, etc) come up with something that not only the hardcore nerds would actually want to use?

I really don't think it was just marketing. Apple made a smartphone that almost everyone could pick up and enjoy using.

I definitely see both sides to this story. It sucks that Apple is killing fair (and unfair) competition but it also sucks that Samsung can just sit there and blatantly copy Apple's innovations. There needs to be a balance.

This is the best quote I've seen about the verdict:

"Samsung only found itself in trouble with the products that copied liberally from Apple. It did not help their case that they had a hundred page document describing what to copy nor the fact that Google went to them and said "do not copy Apple that blatantly"."
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Is open sourcing it really all that bad?

I presume anyone with some skill could recreate such a simple game, and there are tons of copies on the app store.

Showing that it's possible to create the game in html5 and showing the source is amazing and very helpful for anyone wanting to create a real game with html5.

Of course, making it look exactly like Doodle Jump isn't the best of ideas, although it doesn't compete with the actual product since it doesn't work on mobile.
Good article -- more constructive than whining -- but none of this seems easy to learn (or remember) which is probably the problem.
In case the question was not tongue-in-cheek, what's the citation for the original premise? I have trouble imagining what would be a citation for "(dis)proving" that something is socially awkward.
That runs incredibly smoothly in Chrome, far better than on my iPod or phone when I had them :)
Do you have any idea how many different things Perlman is involved in? If he had put every last cent into on-live our future would be worse off. Google the work he is doing in the wireless networking space(DIDO). Your iPhone 7 is probably going to run it.
How many months of medical coverage through health insurance can you buy in the US for 55'000 USD?

In the case of my own health insurance outside the US, I could pay the premiums for about 11 years.

As a sidenote, living in a country where health insurance is mandatory and not linked to having a job, I am always shocked that Americans loss job and health insurance if they get fired. Isn't the getting fired bad enough, especially in today's economy?
It's cool to hate Apple because elite hackers don't like closed systems, despite the fact that their walled garden is actually better for 99.9% of consumers out there.
The astonishment of the Xerox guys has a lot to do with the utter incompetence of their management.

But yes, Apple had a deal with Xerox
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> Then the magical aspect of patent law called "prior art" would come into play and it wouldn't be patentable.

I have difficulty taking the "prior art" system seriously. It's especially unbelievable with software patents (there are so many things where different patents exists on the same technology), but it leaks over into the whole patent system.
Agreed, and another thing

Make patents unsellable.
Name one pre-iPhone smartphone that you'd be willing to pit against the iPhone.

Oh, and Apple's vendor lock-in is still a damn sight better than the telco lock-in it replaced (in the US).
I had a Cingular 8125 (HTC Wizard) a year and a half before the iPhone was introduced and it was perfectly fine

No, it was not "perfectly fine." Otherwise they would have sold a hundred million of them.

Give credit where it's due, for Pete's sake. It is a fact that prior to the iPhone, cell phones sucked ass. It is also a fact that granting Apple a twenty-year legal monopoly on trivial "innovations" will hurt consumers as much as it will Apple's competitors.
> Apple revolutionised the industry - before the iPhone we were using tiny screens with Nokia SMS interfaces or Motorla RAZR

Even if that were true, the problem for me is Apple didn't patent the iPhone. They patented tiny little implementation details, like pinch-to-zoom and slide-to-unlock. The iPhone was revolutionary not because of rounded rectangles and a regular grid of icons. It was revolutionary because it was a phone that people actually enjoyed using. Did pinch-to-zoom and whatnot play a role in that? Possibly, but this whole case hinged on a handful of tiny implementation details and that's what I'm disappointed about.

It's like blocking the sale of a car because someone had a patent on having the indicator paddles on the steering column. Are there other places to put the indicator paddle? Sure, but it's only a tiny detail in a hugely complex system.

Having said that, I'm happy Samsung got done for the trade-dress stuff, because that was pretty obviously blatant copying.
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"but then they hadn't to consider how a new HCI impacts the brand, since they had no old mobile HCI that mattered."

And that's the BS that Apple ignores and that it makes them go forward.

They should consider how shipping crappy products impacts their brand (are you listening Motorola)

There is a reason I don't even look at the prices for Motorola products anymore.

"Funnily, Android/Google was in a similar position as Apple, ... and they seemed to prefer the old style for now."

That's what happens when you only have engineers making decisions.
Well, it could be useful to create a more comfortable atmosphere. This hypothetical assisted living center would be set up to look just like a small open air mall surrounded by apartments, except all the workers in all the shops are nurses.
I really like the new Windows 8 Task Manager. It actually works as you would expect!
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That is one of the problems in the US right now. Unless you or your spouse works at a business that gives good health care benefits, buying it yourself is prohibitively expensive.

The Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) is trying to remedy this by creating the insurance exchanges and making everyone buy insurance. That should all be setup sometime in 2013 I think.

Until then, I'm staying in Germany where health care is actually affordable for self-employed people.
This will be chilling for innovation and competition and will only encourage Apple to take their paten-trolling further, to illegitimately gain bigger market-shares in the smartphone market (where international figures shows they are now in a dive).

This is not a good result. It may not have been as bad as it could have been, but it's still nowhere near good.
I clicked on the demo and then on the positive tweets and the page that opened was just too huge, add pagination or date grouping or something. My firefox exploded. Also 2 scrollbars in windows/firefox14.01 http://i.imgur.com/9QdZE.png . Also how are you filtering the tweets, do you get every single tweet from twitter or can search for certian tweets containing keyword?
> Either way, the consumer loses, and for what?

If you take the lawsuit for what it is, namely that only Apple can have pinch-to-zoom et.al, yes the consumer loses.

But if this lawsuit makes vendors keep a little more distance between each other, I'm all for it. As a consumer, I'd rather have a wide array of choices rather than one cash cow and its copycats, and I'd argue that this is what most people would understand as innovation. (And this is the opposite of innovation: http://allthingsd.com/20120807/samsungs-2010-report-on-how-i...)
It really really depends. If you're young and healthy you can buy many years of health insurance for $55,000. If you have cancer in remission, on the other hand, you probably can't buy health insurance on the open market for any price. Many other people are somewhere in between those two extremes.

On the plus side, it looks like the employees here are eligible for COBRA, which lets you buy into your previous employee health plan for up to 18 months. That at least gives you a semi-fixed group rate that doesn't depend on preexisting conditions. The regulated health insurance exchanges that should be opening by January 1, 2014 under the new healthcare reform will also (if all goes well) make things much better, albeit still much more complex and bureaucratic than necessary (living in Denmark now and contemplating moving back to the U.S., I'm not looking forward to the huge increase in healthcare complexity).
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I guess you misread my comment. I was criticizing the comparison of feature phones with the iPhone not comparing iPhones with smartphones. It's a big difference.
If the iPhone would have been the first smartphone you could probably call it revolutionary. But you can't. Evolution ok, Better as the competition at the time of release ok. I'll grant you that already. Still a big difference.

The first iPhone didn't even support 3rd party apps (and afaik in the beginning Steve Jobs never intended to support native apps). Other smartphones had native apps for ages, though.

People should just stop to pretend that apple invented phones with big screens, it's ridiculous.
I'm an avid Win+{Key} user, so I won't have problem adapting. My family, though ... I'm not so sure.

I'm a Windows developer, and I confess that I haven't tried Windows 8 yet. I'm usually eager to try new OS's and learn new things, but this time I'm not. I think it's a sense of dread about having to spent several hours learning an environment that just seems tedious.
If you use windows regularly it is easy to learn/remember. Win+E.xplorer Win+D.esktop Win+left move win left. Start there then learn a new one every few days, soon you'll be a power user ;)
I have a soft spot for Windows Phone, because it's clear Microsoft has been trying very hard to catch up. Internet Explorer 9 and 10, for example. They've put a lot of effort into those. Windows 8 was a complete rethinking of user interaction with Windows. And Windows Phone 7 was a complete rethink of Windows Mobile. I hope they get something for their efforts.
I used this and springy (https://github.com/dhotson/springy) to make a cool force directed graph editor for state machines in a few days. Performance was great really.
Apple's message is that it only pursued Samsung because they so blatantly copied them.

That's what they say, but realistically Samsung is the most successful Android vendor and thus the biggest threat to Apple.

The lawsuit found the Nexus S to be at fault. That's a device running vanilla Android, co-developed with Google.

Let's not pretend this is "only" about Samsung's designs vs Apple's designs. They won win patents that would cause all Android devices to infringe, as far as I can tell.
Really well said- for all of Jacques great posts, this opinion piece isn't well supported and doesn't go very deep considering its length.