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Apple and the Cloud have never got along well, so I don't think this is a move from Apple to make your life miserable, rather I think it's just that their account system is well... shit, but there are ways to work around it.

I was in exactly the same boat a little over a year ago, so I will simply write this with the assumption that not much has changed. When I was moving to the states from Sweden I did some research into what to do with my iTunes account, and found a large number of discussions going on about the subject. The common suggestion was that once you change region, you should do a clean install on your iOS device or OSX and install it in the new region from scratch. If you change region and try to update things will get messy pretty fast, or so I was told.

He's right that you lose all records of installed apps, but if you try to buy them again in the new region, Apple does recognize that you already own the app and does not charge for it again. It's a shame that things on the internet are region-bound, it's one thing I hope will disappear in the not too distant future, but for now such is life (applies to music/movies as well).

Apart from the above annoyance though it has worked great so far, my account is the same as if I had created a US one from scratch. Also, i'm pretty sure I could update my US bought apps and rent movies on iTunes when I was in sweden 2 months ago, so not sure what the whole IP thing is.
Innovation is rewarded in the marketplace, but the market also unfortunately rewards fast followers who copy innovators.
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That would slow innovation to a standstill.. After you invent something, you couldn't use it for 5 years. Everyone would be even more secretive and it would favour big companies who could afford to 1) sit on ideas for 5 years 2) register as many patents as possible.
yeah. Its a great resource but a little over the top at times and the repeated questions wear you down.
The kicker here is that word "might". I'd willingly pay $39 for a book that will get me thousands of extra dollars; I wouldn't for one that will do so with probability 0.1%. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle; perhaps the book is worth every cent it costs and much more; but it's no good just to say "it might make you thousands" as if that settles the matter.
>>I'm 21 myself and by what I see around me in my friends and people close my age is that we've become too accustomed to seeing instead of doing

Speak for yourself.
This is such an astonishingly bad article that I really don't even know where to start.

I saw this exact same type of drivel with the Japanese in the 80s and the Asian "Tigers" in the 90s. "Oh no! The Asians are growing at 10% a year - we're screwed!". Give me a break - it's like comparing a toddler to an adult - "Oh no! Little Timmy is growing at 10% per year - all of us fully grown adults don't stand a chance in hell against that kind of growth!"

> “between 2000 and 2008, China graduated 1.14 million people in the STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, subjects; the United States graduated 496,000.”

> “by 2017, India will graduate 20 million people from high school — or five times as many as in the United States.”

Firstly - absolute numbers are pointless since both India and China are 3-4 times larger than America (~300 million to ~1+ billion each). Tell me per capita rates - then we're talking.

> We’re cutting back, while our children’s future competitors are plowing ahead.

What does that even mean?

India/China are third world nations - of course they are plowing ahead - they haven't even began to produce IP on the world stage yet. You're not comparing growth rates in ratio - you can't say a toddler is growing insanely fast - and then state that he is going to become a giant and "destroy us all".

> Enroll 40 million children in preschool, a 50 percent increase from today.

> More than double enrollment in higher education.

If I'm missing a leg - and I get a prosthetic - I do grow my ability to walk by 100% (as in I double it). But that doesn't mean anything - since everyone else already has two damn legs! My growth was just getting back to normal. China/India are like amputees who are slowly acquiring prosthetics. They are starting from an unfortunately low baseline and growing towards normal - they will not overtake us.

This is alarmist drivel written by the "won't you think about the children" crowd coupled with poor reasoning, improper understanding of the uncertainty present in future projections - 2030 for heaven's sake! - and a thorough misunderstanding of what growth really implies.

This faulty reasoning is also applied to "wunderkids", best exemplified by Peter Thiel's 20 under 20, and startup growth numbers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4104407
Every time I read another news article about Apple's crippling DRM systems, I am reminded of the words from their 1984 commercial...

"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology – where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
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Stop supporting a particular company. The Appletards are worse but you all need to quit it. Apple copied the LG Prada when they made the iPhone and good on them. They helped move mobile devices forward and I now have a huge choice of amazing portable entertainment devices.
This lawsuit is moronic.
"It's no different than Amazon's one-click."

Right. But Amazon was wise. They could have seized major portions of the software patent landscape early on, they thought about going down the path Apple is on and they decided against it. In contrast to Cook's statements here, Bezos basically said software patents are not our future and other companies should follow our lead.

If you truly understod the patent system you'd realise it's a lot less "cut and dry" than you perceive it to be. Patent law with all its wonderful intricacies that many spend careers learning can get you to an issued patent. But an issued patent can't guarantee you anything, except the right to sue alleged infringers. It gives you no "right to a monopoly" only a right to sue. It gives you no right to manufacture or sell anything. Someone else might sue you you, regardless of your patent. That's not the patent office's problem.

Your issued patent is only as good as it holds up in litigation. And patent litigation is more or less a crap shoot. With high stakes.

The only way to determine the "validity" of a patent claim is to litigate it. And Federal Circuit decisions are not exactly "consistent" so as to be "predictable", to say the least. The end result is patent litigation is extraordinarily expensive and is to be to be feared, even when the patent claims being asserted are garbage.

The issue is not with the patent system in general. The issue is with how Apple is using the system.

There is nothing inherently wrong with patents or intellectal property.

The problem is with companies like Apple who think it is all some kind of game.

Again, the problem is not IP. IP is just rules.

The problem is Apple, specifically the people who run the company. The problem is the actions they take.

When nerds on the web discuss IP, unfortunately it ends up being employed as the proverbial "straw man". Nerds ignore the actions of Apple and instead debate IP. But IP is not a person, real or imaginary. IP makes no decisions. IP is just a concept. The decisions and the evil being done here are by _people_. Patent law (or any law) does not mandate that anyone has to behave like an a-hole. That is a decision Apple makes, not the drafters of patent laws.

But Apple thinks that just because they can afford to dump millions into legal fees, month after month, year after year, it gives them the justification to make life miserable for everyone else (forcing them to spend the same amounts or be forced out of the game).

Apple behaves like an a-hole. And everyone has to mimic them.

IP is not going to disappear. It's only going to grow. The reforms will have to change how it can be used.
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Lots of non-tech users have no clue about the difference between an ipad and a galaxy tablet -- the only thing they know to differentiate is the price. Samsung makes their stores identical to Apple (they even have an equivalent genius bar -- they're called smart tutors in the samsung store), so when the average joe walks into a Samsung store, they think they're just buying a cheaper Apple product.
You never really own anything you buy from iTunes, Amazon Digital, Google Play etc. You're really just renting.
indochino is crap. Speaking from experience. I've ordered from them online and visited their traveling tailor as well. Crap fabric, crap fitting, crap tailoring.

Guys please get yourself fitted by a professional. Dudes in Canada might want to visit Harry Rosen.
I feel the opposite.

I wonder how anyone could wear suits before the advent of climate control to keep the inside of buildings cold even during the hottest summer day.
Oh that's wonderful, the entire UI. Not the hardware, can't go very fast, but you have the UI!

Something that's as sandboxed as a web page is not a proper program. If that's the only thing you can install without explicit apple approval then it's not good enough.
Since the past year, I have heard of several "acquihires" that didn't involve money at all.

The acquiring company shows power by claiming they acquired a startup while the other can claim they built a startup that got acquired.
Depends on where you live, this may be a nice solution: http://www.tailorstore.com I can't explain how great it feels to wear a shirt in the exact right size. Details depend on you: if you want french cuffs, pick french cuffs and they'll do it. They have a lot of options for customisation.
each ant is a router?
Valve doesn't hire children to play soccer, they hire adults to build games.
I've had no end of problems with them while traveling in SE Asia, including having my account locked several times. If I didn't have a few friends inside Apple put in a word for me I think it's very likely my account would still be locked, with absolutely no explanation as to why.

I've learned the hard way not to go anywhere near the iTunes store without a VPN back to the U.S.
Hey Gibbon -- I'm not sure what catamaran you were looking at, but the America's Cup boats are actually even LARGER than that ...

The AC45 (the boat being used in current cup events while the larger AC72's are being designed and built) uses a 21.5m (71ft) wing ... and the boats that will be used in the actual Cup (the AC72) are even larger beasts -- a wing 40m (131ft) tall [1].

The design of and technology going into these AC class boats is fascinating. It's been a lot of fun watching the AC45's race and the AC72's will be quite a sight out on the water once they begin pushing 'em to their limits.

[1] http://www.cupinfo.com/en/americas-cup-2013-boats-ac72-ac45....
And in the title tag the exclamation point is replaced with a question mark.
Algorithm? Design? OOP? Functional? what about tricks? best-practices? "Tell me more why you choose approach X over Y"? what about "write me unit-tests".

Sites you mentioned probably a bit of an upgrade from certification :)
Apple is all about streamlining and optimizing for the common case. Not providing options for the minority with different preferences. If your lifestyle doesn't match, then you're doing it wrong.
Woots! Learned something new.
Why I Love Recruiters
I will never understand why this guy has a column.
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Do you have any reference material or documentation for developing the javascript way? As a fairly new dev I would be interested in seeing that process as most of my "distribute outside of app store on ios" queries to the web say without jailbreaking, its impossible.
"turning off the turnstiles in building D". Building D traditionally has held the HR Department. I may be reading in too much but I think she's put a halt to the practice of firing a full-time employee and then hiring them back as a contractor or FTE again with a higher salary. As for the parking barriers, I'd just be guessing. It could be unlocking gates or it could be removing assigned spaces.
while I personally dislike Apple, I think the poster would have kept me more interested if he took a more neutral stance.

overt hostile rebuttals made this a "TLDR" for me
tl;dr: While not all recruiters are bad, I was better off just directly applying to companies and avoiding recruiters as much as possible.

A couple of months ago, I was interested in what the SF market had to offer, and I started responding to some of the emails coming my way.

Over the three month period, I've probably been approached by 3 retained recruiters and 10 contingent recruiters. All the retained recruiters (i.e. internal company recruiters) were thorough, thoughtful, and curated the opportunities to my career goals. Not only did they make sure that I was a qualified for the job, they made sure from the get go that I'm a good cultural fit and the position aligns with my personal goals.

Contingent recruiters, on the other hand, rarely asked what I wanted to do. Every single interview that they'd supposedly set up for would fall through, either because they didn't double check the position's needs or that they had communication problems with the hiring company. Additionally, the recruiters' coworkers would call me in the middle of the day several times a week to tell me about some new opportunities. I was still working at the time, and it was annoying to constantly step out of the office to hear nothing substantial. The whole process left me feeling like I was just a piece of meat.

In the end, I had a much better experience just getting a list of companies that were hiring from the recruiter and directly applying with the companies I was interested in myself. When the HR asks how I was referred, I'd usually mention the recruiter out of karma. If I were to do it again, I'd probably avoid the recruiters altogether and go directly for the companies I actually care about.
> Since the first day the iPhone has shipped, you've been able to download and install apps built with javascript from anywhere on the web.

Wow. I had no idea. I found a detailed HOWTO http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-native-iphone-ipad-app...
Google should send a lander up there for a street view.
> They’re comfortable. Compared to my other suits, the custom fitted one isn’t too tight or loose in the wrong areas so I don’t feel awkward and geeky in it.

I can't agree. They're always oppressively hot for me. All those layers! The tie always gets too tight. All this ritual just for appearances when I'm supposed to build for a living.

We've come a long ways since the days of east-coast IBM doing spot checks to make sure that men were wearing garter socks. I'm not doing anything that takes us back to some barbaric past where I get judged solely on looks.

If you want to be a suit, fine. Some people really do look great in them; I'm not one of them. Just don't push it on the rest of us.
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Haaha, too bad this probably didn't happen, and was just there to prove a point that some blogger who apparently has all-Samsung products wants us to believe.
Anecdotes are not data, etc, etc, but:

I'm writing this post after the FOURTH group of Starbucks patrons...

That's starting to suggest a trend.
Wait for their sales, some good pants for decently cheap!

edit: Also Dockers ... As a scrawny dude who always ends up with baggy pants even on the slim cuts, their alpha khakis fit me better than anything.
That’s dishonest. It’s a development prototype. Here’s a good overview and timeline:

http://www.nikcub.com/posts/crunchpad-proof-obviousness-in-i...
Just stop it. I mean - stop worrying about mathematics, this instant. If you want to develop software your hard work and passion will trump everything, be it natural talent, better memory or plain intelligence.
I've got what seems like a good solution. At the very top of my resume and on Linkedin I have a link titled 'Note to recruiters'. It is pretty trivial to tell if the recruiter actually read it (after all the majority are clueless/useless). I also add their domain to my email server blocklist. (After all if the recruiter is unable to recruit competent recruiters - its own industry - then why would I trust them for anything else?)

The content also helps ensure I am the right person for good recruiters - for example it points out I only want to work for small companies/startups and why.

Some of the things I put down are that I want the company names (so I can google them), I'm not sending a resume in Word format, phone calls won't happen until there are enough details, and including long details about industry concepts that can be googled (eg virtualization) is useless. http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html
I think it's bad if the average consumer cannot tell the difference between an Apple product and a Samsung product. Right now Samsung is trying hard to look like a cheaper apple product -- they have the same "white" apple stores with an equivalent genius bar (smart tutors), and they even reuse apple icons at their physical store wall paper (safari icons, etc). Their boxes and cables are identical to Apple's, they made their onscreen keyboard identical (same white/blue style -- even the shading is identical). Some of Samsung's products will even fit in 3rd party Apple addons that make use of the 30 pin dock.

I honestly don't think a new consumer will be able to easily differentiate between the 2 products. My mom calls everything an ipad even if it's not -- I don't think she would know that she's buying a galaxy tablet and not an ipad.

I don't think copying drives innovation. If cloning products drove innovation, we'd see a ton of China companies making innovative products, but most of them just clone some website in the US, slap on a few features, and that's it.

The China company that cloned Impactjs pixel-per-pixel did not provide anything additional other than providing the same service at half the price.

If Samsung wins here, it's basically setting a precedent for future companies to clone anything successful. We'll probably see a lot more Chinese companies cloning YC startups without worrying about lawsuits.
Why will they hate it? Please expand on your statement.
I do hope that I'm not alone in taking the opposite position as a default. I love recruiters, the sincere ones at least, and the insincere one's have never been a particular bother to dispose of. What remains, in my mind, is at least a little flattering.

I had a long comment I was making so I turned it into a post. I hope this sort of thing isn't improper on HN, but here is why I love recruiters (and a couple of exampels of the replies I give to them):

http://simonsarris.com/blog/626-why-i-love-recruiters

(or if you wanted to discuss) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434048
If you linked this to paperless receipt for alterations that would be ++.
I laughed at this. You are so right.

I am a recovering DAW user, i.e. knob twiddler.

Manipulating spacial environments (acoustics, not knobs) is, to me, the true "art" and the most interesting skill. It predates all this gear. And it seems to be something that some people have "mastered" without necessarily being experts in, say, the the science of acoustics at the same time. (Picture all the pseudo-scientific literature the "audiofile" industry churns out as part of their marketing. I confess in my younger days I totally fell for it. Sadly I know many older folks who still do.)

Ever read TapeOp?
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For whatever reason, there's nothing that gets Americans excited about doing better at something than framing it as beating the competition. So, if you want education to improve, the best way to do that is to say we need to do it better than country X. American education is, in my experience, pretty subpar, and it's good to try to improve it somehow. The article couldn't hold my attention long enough, though, for me to bother reading the exact how.

Rinse and repeat for military spending, exports, increasing energy production, decreasing energy consumption, etc.
This is valuable information. I'll keep a lot of this at the forefront of my mind as I proceed.
That doesn't mean that people can't complain about it. They could have easily supported multiple locations and credit cards and still streamline the process, and the only users who'd have to deal with it are the ones who need to use the feature.
I'm not saying that the outcome directly (or even indirectly) affects him materially. It clearly doesn't.

I'm saying that, as a patent holder and inventor, his perspective is going to be biased towards protecting the rights of innovators, beyond what would be sane from the perspective of the rest of society.

His profession puts him in the same boat as Apple.
this is the equivalent of pranking cold call operators.

there are a couple of takeaways here:

1. you are not that valuable in the market. you are getting shitty, IC recruiting emails

2. you are a petty, somewhat ineffective person
From the summary article, it looks like they have made a Fresnel lens, which can also be quite flat but works over a limited wavelength range of light.

In order to achieve broadband operation, the phase change vs wavelength of the metamaterial needs to approximate a large delay. If a large delay is not feasible to implement, this summary is overstating the importance of this result compared to prior technology.
You'd get neither when you could have both. A bit far fetched : "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
It is an interesting thing to wonder, what will the first person on Mars be thinking. I started reading everything I could about space after this. One of my favorite books described deriving the isp for the Saturn 5 engines and figuring out their total thrust. I memorize the cool way they put swirls in their arithmetic (it was and integral but I didn't know calculus existed yet) and the steps seemed so elegant. Once during my 5th grade class while doodling and daydreaming I recreated the entire derivation. My teacher (who was a math major it turned out) asked me what I had there and I explained it, as I had memorized it, each of the steps, each of the assumptions, the simplifying assumptions. That landed me in the principal's office. My Mom got called in and the school was trying to decide which Nobel prize I should be shooting for given my out sized intellect. My Mom or course blew it and pointed out it was just something I had read in a book :-) For a few minutes there I was the next Einstein!

That eventually lead me to a career in engineering, I was always drawn to being able to take problems no one had ever solved before and solving them. I changed me, and thousands if not millions of kids in my generation, in a way that I think SpaceX is changing people today.
Simple “reply (charging…)” would fix that. Javascript counter would be even better but let’s not hope for miracles :)
funny, i've never hated any of the Samsung products I've owned, including the ones they made before apple required that all phones become smudgescreens. I have hated using every iphone, ipod, ipad, and mac I've laid my hands on, having found the interfaces for all offensively restrictive.
Honestly, if you're really able to pull $300 an hour, you run out of things to do? Work more, donate the money to charity. You can easily save a life for $300.
jellybean solved those problems. latency was definitely one area where iOS was ahead. if you look at general features, you'll find iOS has been playing catchup for about a year.