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Design IS a broad term. There is architectural design, industrial design and user interface design for example. What you are describing is generally called visual design. Quite contrary to what you argued, many people, including Steve Jobs, have emphasized that design is much more than visual design.
One could make a compelling argument that Marc and Ben over at a16z have already been pioneering this industry on a large scale with their talent services division.

http://a16z.com/talent-services/
Wow! Any good collection of things you can do with open?
>To the best of my knowledge, (this isn't my field) nobody has ever made a visible-light metamaterial.

http://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/dl-mft010407.php?...

http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=42007

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/nanofishnet-co...
The fact that nobody has set foot on another world since my grand parents generation is pretty sobering no matter how cool things like the Mars Curiosity rover are.
I'd just woken up so I didn't qualify this as much as I should have, all though the tl;dr is just the three words above.

Newspapers are based around a mission of delivering facts (or at least the facts they want to share), and when that core rule is violated the inherent trust is broken. So when someone is misquoted, a story manufactured and so on then the journalists have failed, are fired and cast out of the community (mostly). Photography was one of the biggest changes to news reporting as it allowed facts to be visually disseminated as well, but because they're essentially a snapshot of the moment as it had happened modification of almost any kind was immediately held up as a no-no.

Some newspapers are getting a bit more progressive, but every 3-6 months in the photography community there's a discussion regarding whether the tools photographers use should be allowed in photojournalism, or whether in the central mission of delivering the truth photo modification, even in a trivially form, is counter as how can you say the changes haven't gone further.

For the more curious:
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/15/time-travel-and-ethical-...

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/08/should-photo-contests-re...

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2006/08/ethics.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/22/opinion/phones-instagram-a...
The MPAA/RIAA donate to politicians who make their views the foreign policy of the US.

These politicians include Lamar Smith and former-politicians like Chris Dodd but there are dozens more.
It seems to have been intended as a sarcasm; from Apple's point of view you shouldn't be doing crazy things like moving from one country to another.
We are a Microsoft ISV and have actually taken some of those concepts and morphed them to introduce something Metro-esque in a new product release that is about to RTM.

Got rave reviews @ Microsoft Tech Ed -- would love to show the people on HN about different UI/UX concepts in biz apps.
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I too am optimistic. All day I've seen people claiming America's moon landings for all humankind, and then blithely ignoring planned Indian, Japanese and Chinese lunar programmes. It would be a shame to think that people were only excited at the thought of white people going back to the moon.
I bought and read the book. It is a good overview of many aspects on freelancing work. Being a freelancer myself most of the stuff i knew, experienced it or read elsewhere, so nothing ground-breaking. However it's a good compilation of all the advice out there. Recommended
By increasing ISP liability they're trying to make the business of an ISP inherently risky and unprofitable unless they purchase content licenses.

So it's effectively a transfer of wealth from anyone who handles online content to the MPAA/RIAA.
+1 Informative. Thanks! :)
It sounds like a horrible thing, if half the pictures in your friend list are of dead people you knew and cared about.
It was meant to be something in between connectedhq.com and Plaxo.

The thing is that Plaxo is full of options and packages that one can't tell which option to go with.
About the EU rules:

- They only cover mobile phones

- The devices must be compatible with a micro-USB charger, but it's perfectly alright if you do this with an adapter piece. The charger that comes with the device must also be micro-USB compatible (apple chargers allow you to plug a different USB cord into them).

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/rtte/chargers/questio...
The only people who care that it isn't a picture of Neil Armstrong are:

- People who know it isn't a picture of Neil Armstrong and feel like they need to point that out.

- People who are bothered by the slight inaccuracy that it isn't a picture taken of him.

Either way, he took the picture. He took one of the most famous pictures.

If the caption to the picture reads "Buzz Aldrin as captured by Neil Armstrong", who cares? Have you ever seen a caption which says that it is Neil Armstrong? I haven't. People just assume it is because he is the best known since he was the first man on the moon.
>Well, that's another data point to suggest that we remain a culture of suicidal, negligent barbarians - quick to accept the suffering and death of billions, and happy to condemn our future selves to the same.

Actually it's a sign that we are NOT a culture of negligent barbarians.

It's a sign that we are mature individuals, with an understanding of the cycle of life, and not me!me!me! egoists that seek to prolong their lives forever, earth, resources and other generations be damned.

How you approach death is the ultimate test of a civilisation's sophistication.
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Because all creation is built upon the shoulders of giants. How can you innovate and compete if you have to pick through a ridiculous web of patents for fairly obvious stuff at risk of having your company destroyed and being sued into oblivion? What if someone had patented the wheel?
Or you have to expose for a long time.
A way to revisit old memories, or a place to be constantly reminded of how much you miss someone.
> because here in Chile, with no iTunes match, my US iTunes Match is working fine (but a great internet connection.)

From what I understand, you always had an US account in all the countries you were living. My wife had an US account when we moved to Australia, and it was not possible to access all the content purchased with that account. We confirmed the blocking had to do with the IP address by connecting temporarily through US-based proxies.

It was very difficult to change the US account to be Australia-based. Once this happened we had to re-purchase some apps, but in the end it worked.

My point being that yes: you do find issues when changing the region your Apple account is associated with.

It is not a problem exclusive to Apple. Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, Google, all of them fail in one way or another.
You can click the X to stop page load once the article has loaded up.

That's the X on the address bar that's a refresh circle icon as you read this.
I went and looked, but I can't see anything off about the background. Someone in the comments talks about flickering, but there's no flickering for me - everything looks fine.

So what are you seeing, what browser/OS are you using, and have you tried, you know, telling him?
The request is not wrong, the server is wrong. Your answer makes sense though...I had a similar issue with Wordpress mangling redirects because it can't handle absolute URI's after GET.

When you change your internet settings on Windows to use a proxy, this is the format to which browsers generate requests.

From RFC 2616 5.1.2 Request-URI http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html :

'To allow for transition to absoluteURIs in all requests in future versions of HTTP, all HTTP/1.1 servers MUST accept the absoluteURI form in requests, even though HTTP/1.1 clients will only generate them in requests to proxies.'

My proxy shouldn't have to alter the request, according to the standard.
No, they didn't have to. The CPU speeds, storage and screens existed years before the iPhone launched. The iPhone did have a capacitive touch screen, but that wasn't exactly new, bleeding edge technology.

Three years earlier in 2005, the N770 had a bigger higher DPI screen than the iPhone, HTC had phones with the same CPU speed.

But none of those devices had software specially made for finger touch with a capacitive screen. They didn't suck because the technology didn't exist, they sucked because other companies didn't see further ahead than the existing, navigation button / stylus driven interfaces that had existed for 10 years prior.

If you need further proof, just look at the time it has taken Nokia, RIM and others to respond to the iPhone. It took _years_. If technology was the limiting factor, you'd think they would be just as aware of technological developments as Apple was, and have similar devices to the iPhone lined up and ready to go by 2007?
>If the caption to the picture reads "Buzz Aldrin as captured by Neil Armstrong", who cares?

I _effin_ care. E.g. I want a picture of Neil Armstrong for my article. Not a picture that _he_ took of somebody else. Not a quick sketch he did of his cat. I want a picture of HIM, preferably on the moon.

That he "took the picture" is meaningless for the purposes of _showing_ the man in action. If I was writing about Knuth I wouldn't post a picture of McCarthy he took and caption it "John McCarthy as captured by D. Knuth".

As someone who used to do photo editing for a newspaper, I assure you that this is Photo Editing 101. Your arguments are loco.
It's mind boggling that for the author people are either alive or dead, no one's sick or incapacitated, and everyone have access to the Web. Utopian much?

(Dare I guess it was written by a white affluent young male?)
Bespin merged with "Ace" - the new project is at http://ace.ajax.org/ or https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace.

As an aside, I was sad to see Bespin go. It used canvas for rendering, while Ace uses the DOM. While the Ace team had good reasons for this, Bespin just looked so.. pretty..
This is why I don't buy Apple products in the first place... their ethics as a company are not exactly news. Don't be surprised at what happens when you give money to a tyrant.

Since I'm probably about to be downvoted out of existence by Apple fans, it was nice knowing you HN.
What background? Looks like a bog standard gray background with some noise thrown in for interest.
Considering which buttons your site needs, and where to place them, is arguably more "design" than the font of the text on them.
>It's mind boggling that for the author people are either alive or dead, no one's sick or incapacitated, and everyone have access to the Web. Utopian much?

It's mind moggling that you raise this point and call it "mind boggling".

What's "ming boggling" about it? People are either alive or dead, period. And for the purposes of the article, that's the only distinction that matters.

What if someone has the flu or is in hospital for 6 months, or even looses his leg or something? Does that affect his Facebook page, besides him neglecting it for a while maybe? And even if it did, what the duck does it have to do with the topic that interests the article, i.e the amassing of pages by dead users?
I really wouldn't worry. The worst developers are the ones who simply have no interest in software and/or computing. The "smarter" developers can sometimes be a royal pita to work with.

I worked at the University of Edinburgh for a while and I was definitely far from the smartest (it was full of physicists that had been to oxbridge), however I would still like to think I was thought of as a capable developer who got things done.

I would say that it is important to make sure you are good at the process of development - document and test your code, try to be methodical about things. If you can do this, you should be an asset to any software project.
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> They come with experience and a lot of practice.

Couldn't agree more. BTW, that's the reason why, contrary to popular belief, old programmers are often better than young programmers.
This has been done, but nobody seems to care about that HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434154

Maybe the title was badly chosen.
We're doing some crazy AI-powered music recommendation service based on user location, activity, mood and some other stuff.
All this energy complaining about Apple in the law courts is ridiculous. Of course Apple shouldn't own the market using the law courts. But it is a legitimate business practice to protect yourself in the courts because if they don't they tacitly approve of every other company 'copying them'.

Everyone does it, (google bought motorola for their patents). If you don't like it talk to the WTO, congress, parliament, UN and lobby to get it changed.

Every company, I am sure, would rather spend their time and efforts creating great things, no one more than Apple spends their time creating things of beauty. CEOs don't get in to CEO-ing so they can pay hoards of patent lawyers to sit in court all day.
Can you imagine walking up to a guy on the street and saying something like "Hey there. If you tell me the names and contact information for all of your friends, the conversations you've had with them, the type of products you like, your occupation and lots of other demographic information? I'll let you play this little game with bottle caps"

Yet to many technologists working on the internet this seems like a perfectly reasonable trade to ask people to make.

So are people aware of what they are doing and are making a fair trade? Or are we taking advantage of folks simply because the technology is new?

There is a moral component to modern software development. Many of us technology folks don't like to talk about it, but simply because we don't talk about it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
From http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#5903 here's an (analog, darkroom) reconstruction of the photo of Neil in Buzz's helmet. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.neil-mirror.jpg
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Just yesterday used a singleton in Objective-C due to a webservice that worked with a challenge-response system. Whenever I perform a request, I receive a code. The code is required in the next request to retrieve the data. The issue I was having, was sending lots of requests in different threads; this could cause a code retrieved in a previous request to become invalid, making an older request for data fail.

I figured that by creating a singleton class responsible for executing requests sequentially, this problem would be fixed (and it did). This singleton class internally uses a FIFO-queue to execute all requests sequentially. I think it was an appropriate solution, especially since this singleton class is used internally, not exposed through interfaces to other classes interacting with my 'framework'.
"... at least a billion people out there who still think this guy: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpg is Neil Armstrong ..."

Even a cursory look reveals the astronaut has a name tag with "E ALDRIN" on it. Neil's always in the reflection of Aldrins visor.
Find me a credible publication that will:

A) Use the mentioned picture as the centerpiece to their article.

B) State incorrectly that it is a picture of Neil Armstrong.

Neither is likely to happen. It is just a common misconception that it is a picture of Neil Armstrong since it is the most famous picture of the mission and because people know Neil Armstrong. People see the picture and assume it is Neil Armstrong. Credible publications won't use the picture.

The parent article makes out that there aren't many pictures of Neil Armstrong. They will most likely use the one mentioned taken by Buzz Aldrin or this one:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
Apple builds beautiful products on one hand, but on the other tries to stifle competition using patent laws instead of with their products.

The problem is with the system that allows patenting obvious solutions such as rounded corners or click-to-call and not with Apple itself. Heck, even my Game Gear from 20 years ago had rounded corners. Luckily for Apple, Sega didn't think about that patent then. Apple is just the symptom, patent laws need to be completely overhauled (or at least the system for examining existing patents and new patent requests).
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So it's ethical to copy and deceive but not to defend your own ideas?
wow. really stupid
I prefer this brief interview about the "hoax" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7KgdehBBsw&t=4m20s
My biggest surprise - many developers, even in senior positions, are self-taught and cannot properly implement even basic stuff like binary search, don't understand basic performance considerations around algorithm complexity. Their mindset is "we are using high-level languages; specific algorithms and performance considerations are properly addressed for us by the language designers, we are doing real stuff and not some theoretical CS BS".

This varies by the company, but many companies are full of self-important people like this.
Does a long period of evolution actually imply it is "probably close to optimal"? I don't know a huge amount about evolution, but my two lines of logic would be:

First, given the huge diversity of life on Earth, how can we argue that any species is "optimal".

Secondly, the same argument could be made of life 500 million years ago, that it had been evolving for so long that it must be optimal, no?
Yeah I got the numbers from a local newspaper article.

It was definitely the AC72 that we went to see.. it was launched in July and completely towered over all the over yachts and surrounding buildings.

The numbers, I guess, are from the AC45 that was launched months ago. Looks like the numbers weren't accurate, but that's the NZ Herald for you.
Why didn't Samsung use the game gear as prior art and undermine the patent?
Funny, now it's obvious that they could have been that evil to start with. I wonder what's changed.

Time passed. Like someone who first makes lewd remarks, doesn't encounter (enough) resistance, then tries for a grope.
Nowadays it's much more difficult to be surprised, at least if you're interested in more than just getting grades (which actually rules out plenty of my colleagues). There's so much information online, plus the opportunity to work on OSS projects, etc, that none of that really surprised me when I got my first job a few months ago. Reading TDWTF alone prepares you for the worst ;)
Even my 85 year old mother knows that there is Apple and then there are others. She doesn't know what the difference is, but she knows that there is one.
I think you should pick a technology you want to learn, get a book or two, and create actual solutions using those technology's.

http://www.safaribooksonline.com/
This site is awesome for computing information, its about $10 per month and you can read 5 books per month. Books in general give you a more comprehensive understanding of the subject.

Amazon top sellers lists for programming category's are also
worth looking at:

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http://goo.gl/ptZCN
I guess they're not into video games ;-) I'll send them a note for their appeal
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Obviously you live in US, get your information from mainstream media (instead of doing your own research on the Web) and belong to the upper middle class. That's in my humble experience the only type of guy, who would never meet anyone disagreeing with government propaganda.

In Latin America, East Europe, Arabic countries, Russia and Japan ~90% of the people I talked to believe 9/11 was an inside job.

As for the moon landings - I'm one of those conspiracy believers. I've looked at what NASA&Co has to say and it's far from convincing. Here's a good site IMHO proving Armstrong and the other 20 astronauts never left Earth orbit: http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/Apollo4.html .
Lazyness? Hypocrisy?

But does it really matter? If I had a grandma she wouldn't be using techcrunch, she'd be using facebook.
Don't worry, Facebook won't last that long.
"Conspiracy theorists don't need reasons to argue."

And people brainwashed by mainstream propaganda don't need reasons to repeat what they've heard on TV ;-)
I'm not claiming grandparent's number is correct, but it's at least plausible:

> A 2000 poll held by the Russian Public Opinion Fund found that 28% of those surveyed did not believe that American astronauts landed on the Moon, and this percentage is roughly equal in all social-demographic groups.[19] In 2009, a poll held by the United Kingdom's Engineering & Technology magazine found that 25% of those surveyed did not believe that men landed on the Moon.[20] Another poll gives that 25% of 18–25-year-olds surveyed were unsure that the landings happened.[21]

Note that a belief that "man never landed on moon" could be just out of ignorance, not necessarily a belief in a conspiracy. And considering that both the UK and Russia have relatively very high educational standards, it's not hard to believe the percentage is much higher elsewhere.

> Like s slight portion of those believing that 9/11 was a CIA/Israeli job,

"Slight portion"? Citation needed. :-)
Oh my, and this is based on "Ace", so we've come full circle.

I didn't realize Bespin was gone, that's a shame, but it looks like they're making a lot of progress. Being in the process of moving from a (dying) desktop to a laptop, I appreciate things like Chrome syncing where I don't have to spend a whole day configuring my browser any more. I am okay with moving more of my apps to the web, assuming offline mode is always an option. I look forward to more "cloud" products like this.
That seems intuitively wrong. $4 billion across all public companies? Apple makes more than 10 times that on its patented inventions yearly...
One more thing about the lawsuit: the battle startet long before it was taken to court, with all of Apple's ads suggesting that they invented stuff they did not really invent. And now a jury got to decide, that was of course also raised/brainwashed with Apple advertisements.
I doubled the price of my B2B product about a month ago, and the results have been fantastic.

Profit has doubled for new accounts, conversions have gone up a bit (I also redid a lot of the marketing site, so I'm sure that has a lot to do with the increased conversions), and no one has publicly complained about the new prices. Anyone who signed up before the change was grandfathered in and will never need to pay more.

Lessons learned: When you're building an app for businesses, we usually do a poor job at gauging the economic benefits that we provide to our customers. I ended up talking to a lot of customers, and afterward was able to segment them into groups of "how does Planscope affect the operation of their business and the revenue they collect?" The resulting plans and prices I have now are based on that segmentation, though I think the top two tiers should still be charged more.

I also have a book (it was discussed here on HN two days ago), and the first two points of this article about motivation and validation are spot on. While I work on wrapping up this book, I've been getting a handful of email receipts a day from PayPal from prepurchases. Building a new product in a complete vacuum sucks, putting together an announcement list is better, but having people send you actual cash trumps all.