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Don't shoot the messenger. If you don't like the way the patent system works, then criticise the system, but don't criticise a company for making use of it. The 800lb gorilla in the room is patent reform, not Apple. They certainly don't need the money. Given the discovery that went into this case, claims like "Apple didn't even invent it" seem rather far-fetched.
...because you can use functions and namespaces instead? (no, it doesn't make it "bad", but it's a hint that somewhere behind it there might be some overarchitectured OO monster - I admit, it's just because I'm not that much of a fun of OOP and I don't want more objects and classes than it's strictly necessary for the "backbone" of a MVC application)
It's just another word for "I agree".
Uggh, it's getting pretty tricky to work through the moral ambiguity of all this.

Probably because it's 3am and I'm tired, but wouldn't it be nice for a change, to let someone else convince us that "Apple == good" and "Samsung == Bad", or vice versa? But no, reality has to go and be all grey and complex. :p
Awesome. This looks really good. How is the performance with many elements?

Since i first used yahoo pipes, years ago, i have a project in mind where i could use exactly this functionality.

I was always to lazy to give it a shot on my own, but i think now would be the right time. I'll keep you updated.

Thank you.
Congratulations, I couldn't tell the difference to the original version of doodle jump. I read here that a lot of people are worried, because you recreated a game which is protected by copyright, but I wouldn't worry too much, because you don't earn money with the game and did it for fun. But still, it would be the better choice if you had released it under a nickname instead of your real name.
> I feel sorry for you USA, because you lost it and you wont get it back.

The position that the USA "lost" the policy of "health as a right" is nonsensical, because it never previously possessed it in its 236 years of existence. You might want to try a different narrative archetype.
...whenever I see a good framework build in PHP, a part of me wants to smash the developers' heads with a double clawed hammer (just for not doing something better with their lives if not for other reasons...) (I know, I know, downvotes expected, go ahead :) )
You can compare finishing the course on codeacademy with finishing any school or course; the one hiring you will ask two questions:
1) What is the quality of this course?
2) How can I judge the applicant's performance against the quality of the course?

For 1) you have an issue: Codeacademy is so new, that the quality of the course cannot be determined by the quality of previous "alumni". The one hiring you has to make an educated guess. He can look at the courses and estimate the quality himself.

This makes 2) hard too, since he will not know if finishing this course in say, two weeks, is excellent or subpar.

It will probably convince the one hiring you that you have a basic command of javascript, but you really need to develop something that shows how this command is rated outside the course.

- Submit patches to open source js projects and get them accepted
- Answer questions on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript
- Build a js library

This will help validate your codeacedemy skills.
Well, the good or bad experience depends on the quality of your domains. A good generic .com domain will give you great results in an auction. If its a domain which is just brandable or a composition of words which dont normally go together, it wont generate much of a buzz. You can check with the adwords keyword tool to see hou many exact match searches are done for your domain keywords every month. If youre looking at anything below 10k searches, its not a good domain. My personal expectation, being a long time domainer, is to have more than 160k exact searches per month.

Wirh regards to where to establish the auctions, why do you avoid Godaddy? Your result usually depends on the amount of people who see your auction. Many people will see it on Godaddy, so if its a nice domain, it will fetch anywhere frome 10 to 80 bids. Other options are domain forums like namepros.

To answer your question of does domain auctioning work: it does. Ive made 30k from auctions in the past 2 years. Cheers.
A lot of JS tends to be required when you're building a big, dynamic web application, or your website needs lots of modules and lovely little widgets. If you can avoid writing a lot of JS, then that's great - but HTML / CSS alone can't provide the features that a lot of users are expecting.
Well, you must admit the average age of persons using Facebook in the span of a few years went from university age to something like mid-30's or 40's. It's just not "cool" anymore.
But again - "i know any developer her could implement one-click in a day" and indeed a huge number of inventions could be implemented in a day. But you are again applying retrospecitivity (at least in my mind) - you need to remove that. Just because something is simple - doesnt mean it is not innovative. You contend that simply because something is simple that therefore it fails the test of obviousness - but that is not true and it's right that it's not true.

The test is asking whether the invention is an adequate distance beyond or above the state of the art. The state of the art at the time had no idea of such a simple one-click method - if it did - why wasn't it invented ? The fact it can be implemented so easily is irrelevant to fundamental idea that its innovative, non-obvious and unique. The best ideas are usually the ones no one see's and yes I am a front-end dev so I deal with more interaction components than anything.

Patents do not protect development effort - they protect novel, non-obvious and useful concept's. If they protected development effort - it would be a requirement to actually develop the idea and there is no such requirement and indeed many inventions wouldn't be possible to protect if such a requirement existed - that is, you must fully develop the invention before being granted protection. You're contention that because something is simple infers that its not patentable is incorrect in my mind.
Thanks bulltale, very good advice there. Appreciate the help!
I stopped reading after "Apple revolutionised the industry - before the iPhone we were using tiny screens with Nokia SMS interfaces".

Clearly you are very misguided. You are comparing featurephones with smartphones (the ones with screens and stuff). Smartphones existed way before the iPhone.

It makes me extremely sad that the marketing lies of Apple are taken for truth.

Apple may have invented the vendor lock-in, though! :P
Apple just added shiny icons and took away the keyboard and stylus. BFD.

I actually think that is a BFD. If it had a keyboard, the whole idea of dynamic UI's would not exist.

Would anyone think that angry birds is cool if we had to play it with arrow buttons on the keyboard?
Wow Jacques,
I usually love your posts and your comments here are valuable - but I think you are so off the mark with this post.

For starters, the reality is that Apple's revenue streams are quite diversified and their product portfolio is very strong. From iMac, to iTunes to iPods/iPhones/iPads.

So the notion that Apple would launch into litigation "just for the money" seems misguided, at the least - if only for the fact that if they lost the suit, there could be significant ramifications for their sales (e.g. an injunction against selling any of the products in the suit for X period of time, etc.). With sales and revenues growing as much as they are, a wrongly filed lawsuit can be even more risky than rewarding.

For a company as wealthy (and innovative) as Apple, there are more considerations than just protecting market share and trying to extract patent rent from competitors as a revenue stream.

There are many other companies that come out with many features in their products that Apple doesn't sue. See Windows, Safari vs Chrome, iPod vs Zune, Adobe Premiere vs Final Cut Pro, most "ultrabooks" vs Macbook Air, etc.

The issue here is that Samsung, HTC, et al. essentially have done what many companies in China have done. They acted like a hardware manufacturing partner - then using the inside knowledge they gained of the intimate architecture of the products, they reverse engineered them and competed directly.

That's like you hiring a web developer to build your startup - and both of you build it to traction, and once you take all the risk and prove the market, (s)he leaves and builds a direct competitor using his insider knowledge.

It's the most insiduous kind of 'IP stealing' that you can get.

If you had that done to you, and your ex-developer (in fact, he is still managing your codebase) is making a ton of money off of your ideas and IP in your market, I am sure you would be pissed too.

The money is just sprinkling on top.

Also, I think it is hard to argue that Apple doesn't pour their hearts into what they do. That's why they are the most valuable company on the planet and will continue to be for years to come. It's because of the rate at which they innovate.

Not the rate at which they copy.

So cut them some slack, and walk a mile in their shoes.
I suspect the 77% is skewed towards the poor - in most European states only the fairly well off would ever go to a private hospital in the first place.
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I think it's more about the fact that the addition is publicised while the removal is silent, combined with EdgeRank hiding most of your fb-friends' activity by default, hence "smoothing" the departure.

PersonYouDontCareAbout (PYDCA) adds you, you accept, he enjoys the add, a few days pass, you remove him. Because PYDCA wasn't really paying attention to you (his feed is full of other people's activity, supposedly more relevant to his interests), he doesn't notice. A few months pass, he forgets everything about you. Even if he remembers, he'll just think he never added you in the end. Even if he remembers and knows he's added you, you simply don't bump into each other so much that he might care.

What is really, really awkward is when he adds you, you do this dance, and then FB keeps reminding him every day that he should add you. FB should have a button "this guy doesn't care" and stop trying to make me look awkward.
That was very insightful. Thankyou.
I don't know what "doodle jump" was, but this thing reminds me about Icy Tower game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icy_Tower
Imagine an apple battle tank. Would it whale on a samsung tank? Or Drone? Or would Samsung need to down an apple drone then reverse engineer it before they had equality in the war?
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This is absurd and frustrating. Apple is not responsible for the broken patent system.

Apple is a public company. If Apple decided to hold itself to a set of standards more stringent than its competitors, it would be hampering itself and acting against the interests of its shareholders. Complain about, and work to fix, the system. Don't expect Apple to fix it by ceding the rights it currently has to its competitors. Especially when, as a company, Apple genuinely seems to believe that the blatant copying of iOS in Android is unethical.

Also, you know Samsung has filed similar suits around the world, and in no way is opting out of the patent system, right? Buying a Samsung as a fuck-you to patent law is a joke. They aren't working to fix the problem. They're just losing.
Unfortunately Samsung began this fight by having the South Korean government block the iPhone from being sold in South Korea until Samsung could develop their competitor. Therefore Apple lost out in South Korea by being the first mover -- Samsung could just copy the iPhone and save on a lot of time and R&D costs.
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I've been helping someone recently who says he's completed the Python course on codecademy. I have no reason to doubt him, but he is confused on important issues, and cannot write code.

The evidence I have is meagre, but suggests that a codecademy course is not necessarily worth anything.

Of course, it may be that you have aptitude, and the Codecademy course is exactly what you needed to get you started, and that you can (or soon will be able to) program, but I wouldn't hire you based on completing a Codecademy course. I probably wouldn't even telephone interview you on that basis.

I'd want to see something you've written, then I'd want to write something with you. Then I'd want to see you think about an appropriate problem.
Just because you can, doesn't mean that you have to. Look at Google. That's a nice company, which keeps the patent trolling down.
Fair use? For your own sake I highly recommend you take a class on copyright law. I don't say that to be mean. Copyright law is both complicated and important. But if you think that's fair use then you risk fucking yourself or your employer.
Mainly because the author of the Doodle Jump clone stated that because he created "the logic and graphics"from scratch he has the legal right to release it as open source. I can't see any evidence to suggest he has the authority to do that.

Also is it possible to compare an OS with a game, isn't that like comparing a human to the Earth? On the one hand we're all made of the basic elements, but on the other we're fundamentally different things.
Actually, triage is to ensure that those who have the most life threatening conditions are treated first. So you might have a life threatening condition that will kill you in an hour, but a gun-shot victim might die immediately. He goes in front of you.
This is par for the course for Apple:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...
I'd say it's because of inertia. The same network effect that sucks you in to FB, because most people around you expect to find you there, raises the barrier for leaving.

However, social trends are largely about perception. Imagine this: a popular musician says publicly, "Facebook is evil and lame, I'm leaving." Lots of teens say, "hey, yeah, me too. I'm a nonconformist. Facebook is lame. I'm leaving." Suddenly leaving Facebook is a cool thing to do, and the network effect is working against them.

Eventually it's like AOL or MySpace: having an active account is definitely uncool.
Apple genuinely seems to believe that the blatant copying of iOS in Android is unethical.

Its unethical because the Android - iOS relationship can be narrowed down to one person...Eric Schmidt. He sat on the board of Apple, absorbed the process of Apple getting into the smart phone market, then emulated it at Google while he was CEO there. Although to be fair, Android innovates in some areas where iOS does not explore (running the JVM on smartphones).
Probably the next batch. This story is about a late application, but this was still in the YC S12 period: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-instacart-hacked-yc/
> If I have to edit CSS, which files do I have to edit and why?

Seems to be the wrong approach. Framework code shall never be changed. The challenge is to design e.g. your own button that is based on the Bootstrap button. This approach is upward-compatible.
At first I was going to say "what a sad reflection on American culture" (the fact that the car is the enduring anchor of the Alzheimer patient), but then I realized they could use the same single car for all their patients, so it is, in a way, mass transit.
"Are there any android products that aren't currently "in trouble"?"

Apple's message is that it only pursued Samsung because they so blatantly copied them. I think they have a good point on the copying part; IMO, it was more than 'being inspired by the iPad'. Only time will tell whether the former is true.

And yes, I agree that it would be better if patents on how things look and feel would not have played a role in this case.
It is going down to me. http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL
Most innovations are not patentable. Most notably are most business models.

Think of Groupon's business model. There's nothing specifically innovative about it: forced email list, 1 product per day, discounts. But, put together it formed a successful business model. Had they not thought of it and tested it in the marketplace all their copy-cat competitors probably would not exist today either.

At some stage someone someone invented department stores. Someone hypothesized that yuppie americans would like to eat sushi. Someone thought that doing massages in full view in malls would create a new market of people who wouldn't have gone through the book-in-advance, go behind a heavy curtain, 1 hour minimum normally associated with the trade. In Australia I would guess that this last one tripled (or more) the massage therapy market.

It's hard to talk about patents without slipping into the legalize definitions of important concepts like 'non-trivial' but I think a common sense definition is 'wouldn't have been invented otherwise.' A lot of these innovations are genuinely nontrivial by that definition.

They weren't developed in r&d labs but they are all genuinely innovative. They didn't spend huge sums on r&d but someone did the economic cousin of spending, they risked (usually personally) a lot testing them in the market. Much or most of the profits eventually went to copycats. Without the innovator most would not have existed today. They still got invented. I doubt that patenting would increase their rate of invention. I'm sure that patenting would have harmed consumers.

I'm not saying this as a general refutation of patents. I don't know what the correct laws are. I think though that any patent laws are always going to leave us with huge ugly deckfulls of by-catch. Mostly skate & sunfish. But occasionally a walrus, whale or dugong that the crew will not want others to know about.
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"It really isn't that bad as he makes it out to be. End of discussion."

You say that as though you'd definitively disproved the premise, instead of just saying "nuh-uh."

Citation?
I wrote a 195-page monograph on the Netflix Prize, for people interested in that sort of stuff:
http://arek-paterek.com/book
Windows CE 'Pocket PC' handhelds had retracting soft keyboards 10+ years ago.

Handspring Treos were dedicated touchscreen-based phone-PDA hybrids not much later.

PalmOS had grids of icons for its screens from day one.

Apple's primary innovation wasn't technical, it was marketing. They tied a few pre-existing ideas together slightly better, made them more shiny and used the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field to convince the world it was a never-before-seen quantum leap.
Ask HN: Unknown. Not Unknown or expired link, just Unknown.
When I try to load HN through my http proxy, I get a blank screen with "Unknown." displayed in the top left corner.
I've traced this output back to srv.arc and here is the code:

(= unknown-msg* "Unknown." max-age* (table) static-max-age* nil)

(def respond (str op args cooks ip)
(w/stdout str
(iflet f (srvops* op)
(let req (inst 'request 'args args 'cooks cooks 'ip ip)
(if (redirector* op)
(do (prn rdheader)
(prn "Location: " (f str req))
(prn))
(do (prn header)
(awhen (max-age* op)
(prn "Cache-Control: max-age=" it))
(f str req))))
(let filetype (static-filetype op)
(aif (and filetype (file-exists (string staticdir* op)))
(do (prn (type-header* filetype))
(awhen static-max-age*
(prn "Cache-Control: max-age=" it))
(prn)
(w/infile i it
(whilet b (readb i)
(writeb b str))))
(respond-err str unknown-msg*))))))

I don't read Lisp, let alone Arc but it seems like this code is parsing the http response headers and outputting the error message based on the Cache-Control header value.

Am I warm?

Edit: The URI causing this is news.ycombinator.com
Given the number of people on here who appreciate a good life hack, has anyone got any ideas for other solutions? My family's currently going through the to home or not to home question. Arguments for standard solutions are essentially:

- A care home offers full time protection, but displaces the person from their familiar environment. Some care homes also don't attend their patients but focus on making a profit; though we hope that by visiting often and looking at existing patients we can get an idea of which ones are suitable. It costs money, but the money in this case comes from my Nan's savings, and she's not going to be spending it on anything more than basic living costs anyway. My family don't need the money, so though in some cases inheritance is a concert (i.e. people save up through their lives to provide for their family even in death), that's not a concern for our situation.

- Leaving the person in their own home seems the nicest but least practical option. Having family members or carers visit frequently to keep an eye on the person adds in some security, but family can't be there all the time (we're talking a 90 minute drive there in good traffic; so 3 hours round trip) and carers aren't immediately recognised so can seem an intrusion to the sufferer, often leading to stressful confrontations.

- Having the person move in with their children gives full time protection by people who know and love them, but strips their children of freedom (their lives essentially becoming that of full time carers with the added depression of watching someone they love fade away).

On top of the above there are also internal family conflicts; for example my aunt is pushing for the state to fund any care solution (by not doing anything to help ourselves so the state acts as a catch statement) whilst my mum feels we should do all we can as well as taking what the state offers - but both working together (i.e. my mum & aunt have been given responsibility over my nan's care and assets on the condition they use those assets to my nan's best interest - trying to squeeze more out of the state isn't in her best interests, but may mean that my mum & aunt would lose their rights because by not using my nan's assets they're being irresponsible; the state could then take control of those assets and make all decisions without my mum or aunt's input).

Given all of these factors (and I'm sure you can all think of more), what other ideas can you come up with to improve the system to provide a solution which gives people security and dignity, whilst ensuring that families still maintain some freedom to experience their own lives?
I have an iPhone 4 (out of warranty) that all of sudden got stuck on dock mode and stopped playing sounds trough it's speaker. The only time I could hear something from the speaker was the ringtone when someone was calling me.

Before I opened the phone to try to find a fix, I wanted to resolve the issue with software. That because I knew it was a software and not a hardware issue.

Googling around I've found a fix. I had to jailbreak and SSH into the phone in order to delete a launch deamon. After downloading the app for the job, to my amusement, when i executed the app nothing happened.

I quickly fired up a terminal window so I could run the app. It ran. I could jailbreak the device, remove the service, and then the issue was gone.

So Apple is really blacklisting apps in Mountain Lion, not only to protect users. But to keep us from running things they don't like.

Lucky for us that we're hackers. ;)
Sending a vindaloo and lager into space using tweets
Samsung ordered to pay $1,049,343,540 in Apple patent lawsuit defeat
Something weird or hard to catch in those screenshots. Can't put the finger where though
> the worst that can happen is someone wastes their local physician's time 30 minutes at a time

I've also heard a theory that this isn't a bad thing: IIRC in Japan there's a culture of going to the GP for every tiny little thing, which means that they have a massive number of 5-minute visits - but potentially serious illnesses are spotted and cured before they become serious, which means that overall health costs are lower and results are better.