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The conspiracy theorist in me suspects this was completely intentional.

As a marketer I could make the argument that it's more important that as many people as possible know the feature exists, rather than people seeing an accurate demo of it.

Baking in some viral component to the video helps this tremendously - I would not have watched the video (an ad!) if not to spot the gaffe pointed out by this article.

It's not even that detrimental anyway - I'd hypothesize that most savvy consumers know that things are brushed up in ads, like how the big mac you buy in mcdonalds never looks like the one on the TVC.

If the above is true, pretty smart on Nokia's part!
best comment in this entire thread. thanks.
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As another commentator replied, it's something that we have to deal with. I can't speak for sure, but I think what we're running in to here is too many elements on the page. I'm sure I'm glossing over the finer details, but I'd expect whatever bugfix is made will address that.
User doesn't know or care about whose fault it is. That makes it Grooveshark's problem to fix, since Apple won't anytime soon.
> So just as giving a vendor no time to fix a vulnerability is irresponsible, so is it even more irresponsible to give that vendor a blank rain check.

http://kevtownsend.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/java-vulnerabili...
Forgive me if this is a noob question, but does 4chan restrict embedding of images.4chan.org images from external urls? I was just playing around with the API and it seems all the images are rendered as the placeholder image that says "4chan.org".

If this is true, I don't know how to utilize this API to make something valuable since all I can do is get the url or text. Somebody please enlighten me. Thanks!
This is great. Can't wait to see the funding platform revealed.
This needs to be said more. As much as I like Obama, his administration's position on digital copyrights is truly shameful.
"Skeuomorphism helps people misunderstand the capabilities and limitations of digital products based on their understanding of a physical analog."

Right. Nothing sets hard limits in a user's mind then guiding them to use a piece of software through a terribly flawed metaphor. My father learned to use computers in the mid-90s when he was in his 60s and his chosen tool was MS-Excel as it most closely represented the ledger system he used to keep his books with (which is of course what spreadsheets were intended for in the first place).

His world turned upside-down when I showed him that he could also do his production planning (he ran a small manufacturer) with it. Instead of painstakingly drawing the production schedule grid for the next day by hand, moving jobs from one day to the next, assigning employees to tasks and machines, etc. Spending 6 out of his 12 hour work day on it. He could do the entire job in an hour in Excel, and it was more flexible and he could make mid-day changes and print the schedules out with just a few minutes of moving cells around.

It blew his mind. He had been thinking of Excel only as a digital ledge, but now he thought of it as a giant grid. Soon he was mocking up purchase orders sheets, tracking suppliers, handling expense reports, doing inventory management, past-job database (with prices and pointers to physical samples in an organized warehouse) and other sorts of probably inappropriate tasks that simply required a grid layout and some basic content to frame the use-case.

What was important was breaking him out of the metaphor and suddenly he found a kind of self-actualization that freed him of hours and hours of hand written paperwork. It transformed his business and allowed him to handle quite a bit more business than he could before. His digital records were so good that when he sold his company he figures that it added 20-30% to the asking price for the company. If Excel has been even more skeuomorphic of a book keeping ledger, with stitched binding and a traditional two or three column ledger, he may never have been able to break free of that metaphor and realize his other efficiencies.

http://chestofbooks.com/finance/banking/Money-And-Banking-Ho...
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At this point, I get the feeling that "skeuomorphism" is a broad sweeping category label created without enough cohesiveness within the category. Doing so urges discussions to assign properties to "skeuomorphism" (is bad, is good, is the way, etc.) without mention of the context in which a designer chose the approach in a particular case.

Such a category label not only results in quick evaluations of the kind "x is skeuomorphic and skeuomorphic is bad design, therefore x is bad design", it also urges analytical errors of the kind "design x isn't working, x is skeuomorphic, x is probably not working because it is skeuomorphic". Enthusiasts may also tend to use "no true Scotsman" kind of arguments to evaluate whether a design is really skeuomorphic.

What would serve us better is to catalog designs that are considered skeuomorphic, evaluate each based on whether it works for the user, and then evaluate whether the category label is worth the number of letters in the word or whether its definition needs to be narrowed in order to make it useful in design discussions.
I was referring to the music industry in general, who did fail to adapt to the rise of the internet and focused on trying to stop pirating rather than create new avenues of consumption that appealed to the new generation of listeners. I think we can both agree on this point. I'm not really interested in arguing about the piracy industry as it opens up too many emotionally backed arguments that naturally disregard logic in favor of subjective terms.
I did exactly the same thing, maybe servers are still updating. I'm in Mexico right now.
I could totally be wrong but my understanding was that the markup on most Apple products was ~15% (as you say) but the markup on Apple's accessories (headphones, itunes cards) was nearly double that.

Even in that case though, you're right that six fifty would be low-ish.
I'm not exactly sure why it assumes such primary use case though. There are many downsides to such a scenario: playlists are not searchable; their order is also fixed, which exacerbates the former problem when your playlists grow massive. From my understanding of the UI, the user's library is supposed to solve both issues, but it is not easily browsable on either iOS or Android (my unfortunate choices for consuming music). Perhaps, a workaround is to have "smart playlists" or optional tags for an album that you can come back to later.

It becomes a bit frustrating because basically the only way to listen to an album is to search for it. I'm mostly OK with that workaround, but the problem is that many albums have duplicates. I specifically select particular tracks I want in the library to make sure I can maintain consecutive playback of entire albums that do require it; a selection process which is rendered useless when re-doing the search from ground up on the go.
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You didn't answer the question. The question being asked is why - if y'all are capable of delivering an html5 grooveshark for mobile - the main grooveshark app (your flagship product) still exclusively uses flash.
oops.. wishful thinking!
The most likely explanation is that Apple doesn't want crappy third-party accessories to tarnish the reputation of its new dock adapter.
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In most cases the price is determined by what the market is willing to pay. Think of a consumer that goes out of their way to buy $29 Apple headphones. Clearly they have decided this specific model/part is valuable to them for whatever reason. I'd say in general it's not any different than other companies that have a trusted brand and good retail distribution. For example I had to order a replacement charger for an HP laptop a couple years ago and it was about $90. I bought it just because I've had bad luck with generics in the past and I was willing to pay more for the original.
While I think this is interesting, we can't even protect rights for humans. Thus I couldn't give a shit about rights for robots.

Wait until robots are used for crime. I can't wait until the day when someone uses robots to rob a bank and see how the moronic political system reacts.

We wonder why the future is portrayed as some cyberpunk dystopia; because technology advances at a far greater pace than the intelligence of our outdated, shitty political system.

Technology is supposed to enable us, but politics is designed to control us. They are diametrically opposed.

Also wait until some (non-government) agent uses robots to do real terrorist acts (like attack some government facility)

No, robot rights will be a joke for a long time. In fact we will have legal limits on the features civilian robots are allowed to have once these scenarios become reality.
Go for it. Tabbed browsing is like the sliced bread of the Internet. It's hard to imagine surfing the web before it, but it's become such an integral part of the browser that it suffers from "it's good enough" syndrome.

Hope you look into it further. Sounds like it could solve a problem most people might not realize they have.
Wow - I've seen a lot of demos in my day but that is just all kinds of awesome
1. These would be historical documents (i.e not refiled this year) which could be treated differently to 'working copies'.

2. These files would likely be distributed at some point. So it's not unreasonable that they would use one solution for both internal and external use cases.
Who's backpeddling? I'm certainly not. This isn't just about this website — it's about any website that is (or will be) asking you to hand over money or details. My analysis will stand, regardless of the actual situation here.

Gather round children! This is what a two-minute scam website looks like. No effort, discrepancies everywhere (specs), technical inconsistencies (domain whois). But look somebody in a forum said it's a real person, it must be real! No.

If you charge into a site like this and trust it, you're an idiot. Your idiocy is not dependent on this one being a scam. Put the card back in your wallet and wait until the product actually exists.

And the lolwut was in keeping with the style of the handle and the website. I thought that was rather obvious and certainly wouldn't have thought it needed a sidebar conversation... But here we are.
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I actually like the austere minimalism of JFN's page; it practically exudes sprezzatura, we might say.

Reminds me of some of his early papers, in that sense.
Hey man, we had our president elected by the Supreme Court.
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Here's the real video they released with an apology, apparently taken by strapping two phones on a bar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HSbhyaH0vw&feature=playe...

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/06/an-apology-is-due/
What you find ambiguous may not align with what others find ambiguous. You, as a nerd, know there are many options that "save" could entail. Does everyone else know that?

What if a user has no idea about "save options". To them "save" might just mean "save". That is, they want to be able to retrieve it later.

If I say to you "Jump!", you might ask "How high?" Others might just jump. Should we enlist some participants in a study and see what most people do? Let's ask people what "save" means. Then let's show them a button and ask them what it means.

Why does some software have an option to "show button text"?
Why would anyone want to see text on a button? Why would anyone want that?

I wish there was a way I could post to HN in a series of buttons, like hieroglyphics. It would be "way better" than using words. You could click on them and they would bounce up and down. Way better than reading.
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> I'm not really interested in arguing about the piracy industry as it opens up too many emotionally backed arguments that naturally disregard logic in favor of subjective terms.

Right, it's just that that's the industry Grooveshark is in, not the music industry. They're trying to muscle into the music industry with their userbase. But they'd never exist if they hadn't assumed users would share tracks illegally en masse from the start.
I'm not too excited over perspective of getting a murse to carry a phone. Taller iPhone still complies with a requirement for a phone to fit in the jeans pockets safely. And that seems to be a more thoughtful reasoning behind product design rather than "bigger = wider".

Funny enough it does seem as if Galaxy S3 is more popular with women here in Singapore. Might that be because they keep their gadgets in purses or I'm just wrong with my observation?
Obama released his long form birth certificate and the Hawaii Department of Health certified it.

What more could he possibly do ?
Besides the audio thing, the home screen app feature only works for single-page web apps. Any page change goes into Safari (which is reasonable I guess).
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Thanks!

I think getting that initial test group is a great way to build confidence to ship, if they are finding it useful and stable then it's good to go!
Is that true for the html5 app on iPhone? I can only see a list of songs, and add them to my queue.. No albums in sight. Tried with the aforementioned album, beatles - sgt peppers lonely hearts club band, "beatles" only..

Edit: looking at other comments it seems I may still be seeing the old version (still says beta at the top) here in Japan. Will try again later..
I think you have it backwards. Being cautious is not fear-mongering. Do I think anything FDA approved will kill me directly? No. But I think the testing protocol is flawed. As far as I know, long term effect safety studies are only done on animal models. And the benchmark is always illness or disease, not optimal health. Nobody can ask a rat how it feels. And then there's the issue of synergistic effects. The FDA only studies substances in isolation, but there might be adverse effects that only occur if a substance reacts with another substance or process.

So, in short, if I can choose between a product that is "natural" or a product that has mystery substance X in it, I'd choose the natural one, even if it means I have to pay a little more. I'd also prefer it that product B is labelled in a way that I can tell it contains mystery substance X, so that I can make that decision. Is that fear-mongering? I don't think so.

Oh, and regarding carrageenan: It's not evidence, but I have personal experience that it makes my skin flare up, both when I ingest it and when I use it topically (shampoo for example). I later found out that the same stuff is used to provoke inflammation in animal experiments [1]. Do I still eat it from time to time? Yes, Ben & Jerry's is too delicious. But I feel better when I eat Haagen Dasz "5", which has none of the funky stuff.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrageenan#Food_and_other_dome...
Other companies are just as bad or worse, so consumers have no choice. Apple gets good will because at least the product is good, even though you spend twice as much. Nothing is worse than buying something and being disappointed.

People would rather pay twice the price than suffer buyer's remorse. Love it or hate it, the apple products are still the best.
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Perhaps the best part of this post is the "Send me a free t-shirt" button at the bottom. Way to engage your readers beyond the usual "sign up to convert".

Unmarketing FTW!
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You can search the contents of public repos from the main search box (https://github.com/search has instructions on how), and the search bar on private repos is only intended as a workaround for the main search not working for them. I have no idea how it's taken them this long to figure out that the repo-specific search box is far more user-friendly and discoverable.
Thank you for quick response. When it comes to programming, I equate to fresh meat. So if you don't mind expanding on your thoughts:

"Don't bother writing native nowadays."

What does native mean?

"If you want to write it in what's best, use Unity, even though you're planning 2D."

Is this the Unity you speak of?
http://unity3d.com/unity/publishing/ios

"I've had OEMs approach me with bundling deals if I just redid art to 3D to show off their hardware, so you'll have the engine all ready to go."

What is an OEM? Could you provide a simple example of a bundle deal?

"If you can't afford Unity, use one of those native implementations of HTML5 Canvas so you can write in all JS & HTML5 and be ready for any platform if you succeed and need to port it everywhere."

What is a native implementations of HTML5 Canvas example? What are the benefits of writing in all JS & Html5?

Your busy and this is a lot to respond to and if you can't get to all of it I completely understand. A godzilla like hug in advance. Thanks again
Yes, I've implemented this kind of thing with http://player.fm and it's really a fundamental limitation of the HTML5 audio tag.

iOS is actually very cool in this department as it treats HTML5 audio as a native audio track, so it works with bluetooth controls, the play icon shows up in toolbar, works in the background, etc. Everything native audio does.

The reason next/prev doesn't work is because HTML5 audio has no concept of a playlist. It's just a dumb audio tag with exactly one source URL to play. So iOS really has no way to map what's going on in the browser into the usual concept of a playlist and it has no API to call to move to the next or previous track.

It's still well ahead of the other mobile OSs though, in the way it does at least treat HTML5 audio as standard audio, to the extent that's possible.
I'm the same age as you, Dan, and just started to realize a similar thing. Your post really struck home with me.

Right now I'm in the middle of a seven-month internship with IBM. Back at the start, I distinctly remember when Hacker News was full of articles discussing 42 Floors' open job offer to you, and I felt miserable - "I could be that awesome if only I managed myself better" - and determined to spend the entire seven months in a mad self-improvement frenzy.

At the start of the summer I made this big sheet of paper with little letters and numbers next to each day to be crossed off. There were different things I wanted to do each day - read a bit of this book, work a little on this project - and they were all meticulously planned out. Since the work was divided up into such small chunks, however, it was easy to just miss one because ultimately it didn't matter. I also resented that the paper was planning out my day so much. Once I'd missed one, it was easy to miss another, and pretty soon it all fell apart. I don't think it's a good idea at all to micromanage yourself this much.

Next, I tried making the goals slightly more long-term. I divided up what I wanted to do into months instead of days, making columns for each month between now and January and writing down what I wanted to accomplish in each month, all the books I wanted to read, etc. The problem again was expecting too much of myself and being too strict on myself. When I wrote down a reading list, suddenly reading the books didn't feel enjoyable anymore - it was something I was forcing myself to do and so something that I had to do. Even writing "Do a Rails project" made it less of an enjoyable experience because I felt like I was doing it because I had to instead of because I wanted to, even though I had only written it down in the first place because I wanted to do it.

I've grappled with the second goal set for the last two months, talking to my friends and discussing a lot of the same ideas that you wrote about in your blog. I think you and I both came to the same conclusion, which is that you just need to have some vague idea of where you want to go and go there in a way that you'll enjoy. When the inspiration hits, you'll be free and flexible enough to do something with it, instead of being imprisoned by goals. So right now, my goals are just "Learn more about algorithms and do cool projects", which I'm enjoying a lot more. In particular, I think that we as programmers have a bad habit of assuming that we're capable of a lot more than we actually are, an assumption that kind of handicaps us by making us think we can jump into things in an unrealistic way such that we feel frustrated when we're not as godlike as we imagined.

If this is utterly unreadable, thank Bill Clinton, haha.
In some cases the 3d party stuff might be better than what Apple sells. Apple is a lost cause.
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I hate to be the devil's advocate but I swear by Facebook's messenger app. It does exactly the same things: international, FREE-as-in-beer, really cross platform (can whatsapp do web?), push notifications on iPhone thereby effectively replacing SMS, etc. As long as the other person is on facebook of course!

It has come to the point that my wife and I barely use SMS anymore and are actually saving some play money on SMS thanks to that thing.

And that is bad news for carriers worldwide yes, but not that anyone really feels pity for them anyway.
Later that day (6 hours to be exact) call them and let them know that your refrences came back great, but that there was a meeting that day and they decided that they're no longer hiring for that position.

I know someone who was told mid-way through an interview, "I just talked with the CTO and he said we're not hiring until the end of the year."

His interviewer sheepishly apologized, and said on the way out, "maybe we'll get to see you in January" -- so who knows, maybe it wasn't total BS (or just dorky way of attempting to put a good spin on a piece of bad news for the candidate). But still, it boggles the mind that companies keep pulling stunts like this.
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>I'm not sure what you're talking about.

My comment is sarcastic and abstract. A literal interpretation will not suffice to understand my meaning.

If you want it literally: the language this is written in is irrelevant, because the performance differences between the various languages are negligible next to the performance differences that come about due to the precise design of the website.

A poorly engineered website in a "fast" language will still be slower than a well-engineered website in a "slow" language. The actual language is completely irrelevant next to the implementation details.

>Also performance has a massive effect on how and what language a site is written in.

Not really. Experienced engineers understand that language is basically irrelevant for a situation like this. Whether it is written in Python or something else is irrelevant information.

Additionally, newbies tend to focus on "language" and "language wars" and the comparison between languages not for any engineering or technical reason. Newbies do this because languages represent buzzwords around which various communities congregate. The Python vs. Ruby fight is as irrelevant as the Presbyterian vs. Baptist fight. It is the psychological appeal of "identity politics" that motivates people to engage in these meaningless debates about buzzwords.