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I can stand these pretty easily :)

The back button annoys me most in email apps - I think it's the stock Email app - when you scroll through all your unread email, and instead of doing an "up", it decides to go back through all the messages your just read. Meanwhile, it upsets me in other apps where, when I open a file from a file browser, and press back, it doesn't take me back to the file browser; it takes me "up" in the application that opened the file.

So this is the heart of the inconsistency. Sometimes I want up, and sometimes I want back. It's context and app dependent. I don't really see a way to do it right without letting apps fiddle with the stack.

Re icon size difference: I actually find this difference helpful in distinguishing one icon from another. On iOS, most icons are rounded squares, and are less visually distinctive. I had to go completely overboard with classification folders to make it easier for me to find stuff on my iPad.

A lot of the other points are QA polish. I don't disagree with many of them, but they don't really bother me either. On the multiplicity of messaging apps, I don't really see that as a problem either, since I don't use any of the Google ones apart from the SMS app when I'm forced to; I use WhatsApp instead (yes, insecurity, I know).
I never got the impression that most magicians cared that much for the actual trick. It's a performance art and some of there 'show the magic trick behind clear plastic' is just as interesting as the actual 'trick'. So, I don't know if this is really about protecting tricks as much as preventing bad imitations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_n3Zb3bW3g
"before even attempting to resolve it using the normal methods" - I know I left it wide-open for assumptions like this. I'll update the post with what has transpired since my conversation with him.
The feature is that it allows you take payments from anyone by having them enter their CC, and deposit the funds as directed by your Stripe acct. Clearly not in-app purchases. The functionality is similar to Square, without the swipe.
I up voted just to make him care about it. Is that an evil thing to do?
You're missing the point entirely.

You don't need to abandon a decade's worth of advances to ask that, for example, the Google IME team all get on the same page (Chinese, English, Korean and Japanese IMEs all work slightly differently and appear different) before implementing say... face unlock.

I'm a big fan of single-purpose tools, but if you tried to have EVERYTHING in your life a single purpose tool, you'd need a shopping trolly to carry it all around with you.
It's a tragedy, but that doesn't exempt you from analyzing it rationally.

The cartels chose their actions, and their line of business. Culpability ends there.

He chose his job. Risk-taking for an admirable cause is admirable. Was his an admirable cause?

The governments chose their War. Enforcement focus on society-threatening crimes is appropriate. Are these society-threatening crimes?

And you're blaming the kid on the street?
Agreed this makes no sense? If this is correct, does this not represent a [significant] financial incentive from Apple to not have an iOS only app?
It would seem like there could be legislation that says if you are not actively developing a product from a patent then you can't sue. I'm sure there's too much legal BS involving what "active" means, but it would seem like there must be some way to have a law that limits lawsuits to those people who are actually using their patent to create something.

Having the loser pay I think would also be a good step, however it probably would affect honest innovators when they're victims of patent infringement. Because it would be a huge risk to protect your patent. I know the argument against that is just get rid of patents, but I don't think that's realistically going to happen.

I can see why it's a tricky issue to legislate but it's so frustrating that seemingly nothing is being done.
PG had a modest proposal to deal with the problem - name and shame lawyers who work for trolls, create a blacklist and refuse to deal with those lawyers. Trolls don't care about their reputation, but lawyers do. If we as an industry come together on this one the trolls will have no one to do the dirty work for them.
Consumers are rational in the purchase of diamonds - their purchases are based on buying the diamond that shows the largest amount of wealth for the given stone.

Irrational would be paying more money for a smaller diamond.

Responding to social norms creating by a marketing campaign is many things - strange, definitely - but it's not irrational.
Why not limit your search geographically? Start in the Valley only, then expand. It seems like this is the natural way to rate-limit.
The book "Stumbling on Happiness" covers this issue. I cannot remember the exact principle involved (and I don't have the book handy) but your mind is very good at justifying the actions you take, which is why we regret not doing things more than we regret doing them.
It is not indisputable that 5-years old should dictate what an adult should do.
Right. How do we know that they're not selecting against traits that their clients might desire?
There's also an interesting parallel with standup comedy. At least here in the UK, the stealing of jokes by mainstream comedians from alternative performers is — while not accepted — viewed by the victims of the theft as just one of those things that happens, something to be ridiculed rather than something that can or should be fought.
I hope Apple are reading this, possibly some of their trillions of cash dollars would be spent on hiring people that have heard of paypal or square. If they are in a decision making position, they should be equipped with the necessary skills to perform their job. This is inexcusable of a company that is so wrapped up in its mystique and brand image.
Guess we'll have to wait til WP8, which has native screenshot support.

According to this Nokia wiki entry, there's a way to get (unofficial) screenshots to work in WP 7.5 if you have a device which is dev & interop unlocked - http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/How_to_take_sc...
Any company that lists that they own "some really amazing patents" in bold on their home page can't possibly be real.
You forgot Black Mesa in NM. ;-)
Magicians care deeply for the actual trick considering it often takes years to develop one trick.
> Sure, B sees things happen in the wrong order, but I will maintain that causality is not actually violated until an effect actually disturbs a cause.

You maintain incorrectly. All inertial frames are equally good in Special Relativity. If there is any inertial frame that observes events elsewhere in the universe where an effect precedes a cause, then causality has been violated.

Furthermore, whenever Special Relativity is violated like that, there is always a way to get the violation to turn up in your own frame of reference, unless you constrain things so severely that what you are proposing isn't going to be useful for much.
You are married, but you did not say if you are in an open relationship ;)
How I got his social, license, and credit card via Android
He's somehow associating it with this:

http://www.thegrandoldgame.com/Bob/Bayern/NaziEmblem01.jpg
In late 2008, I attended an "open-source CEO" dinner, at which I was coincidentally seated between the CEOs of SourceForge and CollabNet (principal developer and supporter of the Subversion VCS). I asked the CollabNet CEO what he thought about Git, and he was dismissive, indicating that Subversion had already won as the definitive open-source VCS. I then asked the SourceForge CEO if he knew about GitHub; he was vaguely familiar with them, but appeared utterly unconcerned that they might be a threat. I thought to myself, All the battles have been fought and lost, and these guys don't even know there's a war.
It's really very difficult to predict which technologies will work in 50 years. Try to imagine yourself in 1962 and try to predict what would happen in 2012.

I googled http://www.google.com/#q=1960+technology+predictions , there are a lot of results, some of them are very interesting. But it is difficult to choose the sites with good reliable information.

Or in other words: http://xkcd.com/678/
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I do this too. I kinda always thought it's just part of how you operate a dishwasher :) First time I opened it right after its cycle, a huge cloud escapes, so it figures that otherwise it would condense, no?

Another tip then, I don't just open it a few inches but all the way and pull out both racks. That way all the steam escapes within a few seconds and you can close up the dishwasher again. You do need a bit of ventilation but I just open my balcony door. And then, there's a few cups or glasses that have concave bottoms so they gather a bit of water. If you blow hard on them while everything is still hot, the drops will fly somewhere (it's just water), and those glasses will become fully dry thanks to the last bits of heat.

Another tip. If you wrap it up real good so no soap can get to it, you can easily cook a piece of salmon in your dishwasher. It's not a great way (cooks too hot, for too long), but it does work and that's awesome.

Another tip. If you got a compartment for a "shining agent", you can put a mix of white vinegar and ethanol in it. It works. Both of the substances easily evaporate in the heat so you won't get a vinegar smell or anything (unless you use balsamic--good luck with that). An expensive commercial shining agent might work even better, I never tried them.

Yet another tip. Maybe you have a built-in water-softener whose ion-exchanger needs recharging by pouring dishwasher salt into another compartment. The only difference between table salt and this stuff is that the granules are big so it dissolves slower. So, buy big granules table salt instead (the stuff used in table salt grinders), which is much cheaper.

Another other tip. You'll probably still do some cleaning by hand, when you need a specific utensil or something. If you use a plastic dishwasher brush, you can put that one in the dishwasher as well to clean it. I'm unsure why, but I find brushes to last a lot longer when I occasionally clean them in the dishwasher.

If you can trust your dishwasher to not leave weird residue on your stuff, you can also use this method to clean plastic hair-combs every once in a while.

A dishwasher really is a magical device. You can even put some lines of source code in the cutlery rack, and they'll come out with less bugs. True fact.
That visualization has an Edward Tufte feel about it. I wonder if he influenced the author at all. It's pretty cool.
Wouldn't it be normal to learn those things after the first time? I think you are exaggerating a bit.
Good recruiters start bidding wars or negotiate people to the top of what the market has for them, which is what this auction site is trying to do.

Bad recruiters go for churn: they try to fill positions regardless of fit or the candidate's long-term interests and capacity.
Beautiful story, thanks for sharing - a good reminder that you only regret the things you don't do.
> "I don't really see a way to do it right without letting apps fiddle with the stack."

Apps can (and often do) fiddle with the stack, at least as it applies to their own Activities. Of course, they do so inconsistently (even Google's own apps do so inconsistently).

In any case, Google clearly recognizes the issues with the back button and have been trying to fix it (see, eg: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html ), but their attempts to fix it have also been clumsy.

For example what they call the "up button" (both in the API and in their designer docs) visually looks like a back button. Trying to distinguish between "back" and "up" is great, but then making your "up" button look exactly what any sane person would expect a "back" button to look like is goofy. Not only is this confusing for users, but it is also confusing for developers, resulting in different apps handling the situation differently even though the app developers have tried to do what they think the right thing is.

So the solution is in many ways more confusing than the situation before they tried to fix it.
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That's a dangerous place to go. Next there will be a call to name and shame lawyers who defend accused corporate polluters. After that, lawyers who defend alleged child molesters. Then, alleged murderers. Lather, rinse, repeat until we end up with a hopelessly-politicized legal profession.

Plus, it's not clear why a patent lawyer might stay up at night worrying about his reputation with someone like myself who is almost violently opposed to patents. It's not as if I was thinking of hiring him to sue somebody.
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I think the idea is closer to shooting the liners into the chamber, but essentially yes. I saw a video at one point (don't have it handy) that one of the labs put together, illustrating a conceptual plant based on current work, in which fuel pellets were fired into the fusion chamber one after another.
I can't say I understand what point the OP is trying to make, but I don't think it's what you're implying.
wrt 1, The car control system and the smart property stuff would all be on a single chip. So, of course, replace enough parts and the car would be unlocked. But those parts might be expensive or complicated enough to replace be an effective lock.
As staunch libertarians, I would have thought that Penn and Teller would be against such strong IP protection.
It's highly unlikely that you were using pure MDMA.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/05/ecstasy-related-deat...

"Ecstasy is so consistently adulterated that when pure MDMA turns up on the street, it’s likely be to sold on the street under the name MDMA or sometimes “Molly.” Corporal Luc Chicoine, the national co-ordinator for the RCMP’s pharmaceutical and synthetic drug operations, has worked on the street in drug operations for 18 years and said he can’t remember ever seeing pure MDMA."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/19/deaths-spur-research...

"For a sense of just what might be in a given pill, Hudson points to Ecstasydata.org — a Sacramento-based website listing active ingredients and proportions in mailed-in samples — which has tested thousands of hits of “ecstasy” since 2001.

A growing majority contain no ecstasy at all. Since 2010, 61% of 533 samples tested had no MDMA, with 111 containing the drug, and another 96 some combination of MDMA and other chemicals. Of 27 Canadian samples studied since 2010, 14 active chemicals were discovered, including caffeine, methamphetamine, benzylpiperazine (BZP) and procaine."
It's not that the universe might "literally" prevent you from performing an action. It's just that our universe doesn't allow it in the first place. The coherence of the universe is a biproduct of its inherent order.

I guess what I mean, without sounding too pseudo-scientific, is I believe the way it works is that, if, say, you go back in time and kill your grandfather, then what is actually happening is you are killing the person you thought was your grandfather, but they were not, in fact, your grandfather to begin with.

In fact, all you would know going back is that your grandfather was murdered by someone. Let's say you believe it was you, and you have a change of heart. Decide it's not in you to kill someone, even to prove a scientific point. That doesn't mean he doesn't get killed. Nothing's changed. It's simply that someone else killed him.

The answer to the question of Schroedinger's cat isn't that the cat is dead or alive, it's that it is.
I know this is not the most important thing about this article, but I can't be the only one not wondering so I'll be the one asking the question: is this story true, or, is it yet another of these stories that people like to share on Facebook but actually did not happen and is "only" here to make you think?

Actually, while writing this comment, I realized that if this story is just invented, the impact it has on me is, for some unexplainable reason, way less important.
I understand stripe and square if you aren't part of the SV echo chamber, but PayPal? Where does Apple find these reviewers?
Seriously, are you kidding us?
One observation: The landlord gets to screw with their tenants at his whim, and you don't even have to expect minimum standards (such as basic intelligence) in your interaction with them. This is part and parcel of operating in a walled garden, and should be a conscious part of your decision making process when you work out if you want to work this way (or not).
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I never claimed I invented it ;-) It just seemed like the obvious way to prevent duplication when someone would rather update the same file again than search for a previously existing version.

In the end, when a dupe was uploaded for the second time, the uploader would be rewarded by not having to edit any metadata - as they would be redirected to the original asset page.

If someone ever uploads a second, valid, JPEG that collides in md5-space with a previously uploaded one, the sysadmins in the app group will receive an e-mail commemorating the fact someone defeated our deduper.
Wow, even just using a patented invention counts as infringement. I didn't expect that.
Hey, I for one am glad Apple is encouraging developers to build apps for Android. Maybe developers will actually start developing for Android first, considering this keeps happening, and worst case scenario, they remain with the Android app, if Apple completely rejects it. If they have just the iOS app, they might just give up for good.

The fact that Google has just made a Java 2 Object-C translator tool and that there are now more Android devices in the wild than iOS devices, should be a couple of nice incentives as well to build the Android app first.
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I agree completely.

Navigating back/around in apps is the single biggest thing that makes me feel like an idiot whenever I use an iOS device. I feel like the dedicated buttons kept me from ever feeling quite as dumb when I was first getting used to Android or, later, Windows Phone.

Otherwise stuff just feels like I'm used to one way and Apple does things a bit differently, which is fine, but I really don't get the lack of a back button. A lot of stuff seems to turn into two-step "tap to make the button bars show up, then tap the button" procedures instead of just hitting "back."

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that, after learning touch-screen interfaces on non-iOS devices, iOS doesn't feel any more naturally intuitive, like as if Android or WP7 was missing something. It just has different customs.
And just before you do it (die), do something that makes you happy for the last time - a good way to discover "what to do".
The bottom line is always to have a good instructor on board no? ;)
I really don't get what all my buttons are for. Well I know what they do, after reading the manual, just not why I'd want to use them, different varieties of partial dishwashing? I'm a single person household and I have no problem waiting 2-3 days until I have enough for the full program. So I only ever press the same two ("full program", "ON"). And it really should be just one: ON.
True, but doesn't losing mean having the patent declared invalid anyway? Which renders it worthless whether or not loser pays.
> The SHIELD Act sounds like it would make it effectively impossible for any small inventor who is not wealthy to sue a large infringer, because the risk of total ruin would be too high.

Worse. It would make it effectively impossible for anyone who isn't wealthy to sue anyone or any company that is. At a minimum, those pesky environmental laws would no longer be a concern.
Intel's new Clover Trail chip will support Android & Linux
Django is definitely cool, and yes, knowing Python will help you in as much as knowing HTML will help you learn web page design.

You might also check out less-overhead Python frameworks, such as Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/) or WebPy (http://webpy.org/).
How is this not a joke?
You appear to be battling the highly technical concept of "familiarity". Anyone using an Android device for longer than a day has none of these issues, and someone that has never used an iOS device would have the same issues. For example:

"Where are the apps? Is... Oh. Are these all of the apps or some of the apps? Where are all of the apps? Do I hit a button? Oh.. Oh, I swipe from side to side. Oh, but some of them are inside folders? What's going on when I go too far left?"

I could go on, but really, what's the point?
licensing binaries would be silly, considering the dearth of free image processing libraries available on every platform.

also, i really don't understand how they expect to compete with said libraries
One thing I find amusing about traffic fatality statistics is that it shows how distorted peoples' perceptions of threats are. Using 10-15 as the estimated number of traffic fatalities per 100,000 people, the number of traffic fatalities one would expect among an NYC/LA/Chicago-sized group of people is on the same order as the number of people murdered in those cities every year.

Moreover, unlike murder traffic accidents don't discriminate. If we look at just whites (who in Chicago account for 4% of murders but 31% of people), the number of people dying from murder is about 1/5 as many as one would expect in a similarly-sized population to die from car accidents.

Indeed, the people we care the most about protecting, our precious middle-class kids, are much more likely than average to die from a car accident, while they are far less likely than average to die from inner-city violence.

Statistics like these really call into question those who move to the suburbs because of perceived safety. I grew up in a suburb, and drove everywhere like suburban teenagers are wont to do, and with that in hindsight I'm raising my daughter in a city where she doesn't have to ever get behind the wheel.
I don't understand how it is possible that Stripe is not allowed to have this functionality but Square is. Certainly Square does not give 30% to Apple for every swipe.

The cross-platform bit is interesting though. This should send a clear message to developers that they should go with ANDROID FIRST.
No, it's just one way they could lose. The other side can be found to be non-infringing, or it could be found that a very very specific clause of the patent is invalid as opposed to the whole thing.
The key is making congressmen pay attention to this is to translate it into words they can understand. Money. All the techno babble about who own's what and morality and fairness is like telling a dog to eat vegetables.

When patent trolls sue organizations for infringing on their patents with no intention of innovating, it creates less GDP which means less revenues for the big corporations which pay the most taxes, less taxes means less happy bottom feeder voters, which means you don't get re elected. When they get that through their heads, legislation will happen to fix the "injustice".
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Are we hackers? There must be a way to do a firmware upgrade. Jailbreak your washer! ;-)
This is not exactly Jelly Bean's problem but it's one thing I can't stand. When you quickly scroll page and stop it using single tap, if that tap happens to fall onto tappable element (e.g. links), the element will be tapped. Both stock browser and Chrome has this behavior (which is extremely annoying).

Other thing is scroll bar, I can't understand why do all apps implements its own scrollbar. From my quick testing of stock apps in JB (CM10), Messages app has one, Email app has one and contact list has another one.