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You're thinking of Script# (http://scriptsharp.com/) and it's used at the very least to develop the Office web apps as well as Exchange's Outlook Web Access.
I agree with the sentiment, admire respect the man for his contibutions to where technology is, but I really don't understand why Woz's opionion is solicited for every step that Apple of any time in the past 10 years has made. Even at the gestation of the company, his idea of how they should proceed was completely at odds with Jobs' (the latter actually wanted to turn a profit, among other things). I would call it safe to say modern Apple is all but devoid of Woz's influence
Apple’s new iPod nano looks ‘uncomfortably familiar’
How do I pay for something with NFC when I'm actually on the phone? And how do I pay for something if I don't have my phone. Or if my phone is out of charge. Genuine questions by the way.

If anything, it makes more sense to have NFC in a card. I'm not sure how convenient it is to have a method of payment that can run out of battery.
Mitigating the BEAST attack on TLS
1. How does the iphone 5's feature set make them file litigation in early 2010?

2. Android started to outsell Apple in 2010 not "in the past year"
You know it's a joke, right?

...it is a joke, isn't it? Oh god I hope so.
I doubt it, but I wish they did. I think the Chrome/Chromium model is perfect for a corporation wanting to use open source and give back, while in the same time keeping full control of their software.

I wish Android worked like Chrome and Chromium. There should've been a version (Chromium-like) that manufacturers could use and do anything they wanted with it, and a version (Chrome-like) that could only be modified by Google alone, and be the only version Google actually promotes. They're sort of doing it with the "Google experience" Nexus devices, but that seems more like an afterthought more than something that was thought up from the beginning and as main strategy.
Anyone can make a larger smartphone display. But if you go large for large’s sake, you end up with a phone that feels oversize, awkward, and hard to use. iPhone 7 features a 7-inch display designed the right way: it’s bigger, but it’s the same width as iPhone 4S, 5, 5S, 6, 6G and 6GS.
You cannot really compare Sinatra with Rails. Rails has scaffolding, DB migrations and all this ultra-highlevel stuff rendering debugging to pure guess-work. Reminds me of doing template-metaprogramming with C++. If it works it's great and the performance rocks, if not you are left alone with cryptic errors and nobody can help you.
No, I would like to think that a master mechanic's job might not be as simply as changing fluids, brake pads or diagnosing engine fault codes. Imagine doing engine repair or changing the clutch on your driveway without a lift? It would take many times as long for the mechanic to finish and he would rather just take 3 separate jobs in that same span of time.

Yes, the idea of the startup has its merit, but like the windshield repair service that was mentioned earlier, the services offered by the mechanics will probably only include the most basic of repairs.
Yawn. Yawn again...
I would love to subscribe to that, regardless of format, heck, i'd even subscribe to an old school mailing list :)
how can I learn more?
This trivially exposes browser history to any site on the Internet. That's probably a non-starter. (Edit: I see alex beat me to this, below. He's detailed the attack, too.)
How about adding another tool for Erdös Number?
6 month old flame bait dug up and reaired as more flame bait.
Early ARM 64-bit prototype servers could come by year end
It's fun, who cares if it's useful?
They really should have done this for Pi day. I may have missed it in the article, was there anything significant about their choosing yesterday for this event?
The Scientist’s 2013 surveys for the best life science workplaces.
If you look hard enough there are people stupid enough to believe anything.
This is a great move for founders as I wrote here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4517593
Designed by committee[tm]
> Yeah, some kind of trustworthy computing would be around a 4-5 on the scale. Maybe 6.

A great sign for this idea, is that it gets pooh-poohed and shouted down, particularly by people who don't even hear the entire thing and just pattern match the security part. The idea that DRM can be useful and beneficial to society as a whole is precisely "What You Can't Say" for large swathes of the tech community and even more mainstream society.
> someone has said exactly that about, and I'm really not
> kidding, every newly popular language over the last 20
> years.

That's probably true, and I grok your point, but pretty much everyone who's using Go in a production environment cites speed of development among the major, top-N reasons they're using the language. Past a certain threshold, there's something there that can't be hand-waved away.

> Programming languages can make the easy stuff easy.
> They can't fix our own stupidity.

One of the neat things about Go, in my opinion, is that it converts a lot of "hard stuff" to "easy stuff", especially in the domain of concurrency, simply by the nature of its idioms.
It's easy to find phones that will be extremely rugged and less than an inch thick with the addition of a case -- that would be almost any of them, really. What difference does it make that some of that inch is a case?

I have a leather book-style cover on my Nexus 7 and it's still well under an inch thick.
How about you call ahead next time you want to drop off your car to see if they are busy or not?
There's also the iPhone 10, the tallest iPhone yet!

http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPhone-10.jpe...

And iPhone 20:

http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-20.jpg

Thumb actions might be a little hard there.
"Microsoft could potentially add some new, interesting features to the JavaScript standard"....

Scary! Don't do it Microsoft—don't screw this up again. We spent ten years dealing with your "add some new, interesting features to the ??? standard," and we won't tolerate ten more. Standards are there for a reason. Do as you will, but don't break compatibility with the greater web.
ASK: IS this a good ARM M3 developer board ? 
this looks like the perfect developer board, plus comes with builtin debugger. what do you guys think ?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuy/galago-make-things-better
Or how about at least some idea of what doing whatever you'd be doing, does? For example:

"Type and double-click Type a word, any word. Then double click on it or type control-return (or command-return). For example type: git, bootstrap, mysql, mongo, rails, node, coffee, js, dom, jquery, svg, ruby code, file paths, url's, shell commands, etc."

I can type and double click on any word in this text box. It doesn't do anything, but I can poke at them all I want. Or, how about this:

"Wiki inspired Everything is editable text. Type commands anywhere. Edit the output. (Vs. typing commands at the bottom, and read-only output.) Intermix menus, headings, bullet points, wherever you want. Xiki == executable wiki."

Why would I want to do any of that? Edit the output of commands?
Hm, it seems like basically any actor you can think of off the top of your head has a Bacon number of 2 (or less). I guess that makes sense. Anyone have some interesting examples of 4+ bacon numbers??
You and I may use find these to be suitable replacements, but Acer clearly did not. And should not, as they are trying to sell phones to the general public.
The question should be less "will they suffer for lack of me?" and more "Is this something I feel comfortable participating in?"
Actually it does. The man is not claiming to be an expert on technology, however he did help co-create one of the most successful and profitable companies in history. You have an opinion, why shouldn't he?
That's a fair point, software projects have schedule problems all the time, even for Apple. But if anything it's an even more serious indictment of the executive decision making: the product didn't work out the way they hoped, and they shipped it anyway. Again, would that have happened in the days of the reality distortion field?
As you realize, your video needs a lot of work. You need to focus more on the product less on you or your company. We don't see any actual footage of the cable being plugged in, just some rather plain mockups of how it could work. You have a working prototype, show it! Better lighting, better editing and better sound also help give your product more credibility.

This is a good first draft, you just have to go through a couple more iterations.
J2ObjC: A Java to iOS Objective-C translator
Most Important Rule in VC Negotiations
Now try it on a more complex type. Then try and compose various operations. Then swap out the container type.
How an Architecture Website Got Featured in the iPhone 5 Launch Video
Microsoft zaps botnet found pre-installed with counterfeit Windows
(long rant but since you're asking ; )

No you're not the only one: I do the same since so many decades that I won't change anymore ; )

The '6' issue on split keyboard is a gigantic SNAFU. Contrarily to popular belief there's not "one true way" to touch-type the '6'. There are different "schools of touch-typing" and it has been so since the beginning of typewriters. And the world's fatest typer on staggered QWERTY keyboard is semi-breaking all the touch-typing rules anyway....

So pick your poison: either touch-type '6' with your right or left hand, nobody is 'right' for doing one or the other (no matter the amount of arguing). Staggered QWERTY keyboard make zero sense from an ergonomic point of view so who cares anyway ; )

Split-staggered keyboard like the Goldtouch aren't ergonomic: they're split, but non ergo (there are real split ergo keyboards out). Any keyboard which is not mostly symmetric cannot possibly be ergonomic.

Most split-but-non-ergo keyboards (IBM Model M15 --very goot but very expensive, Cherry MX 5000 -- very good but very expensive too) put the 6 on the left side. Some do put the '6' on the right side: like some Belkin split keyboard (sadly these Belkin keyboards are using a shitty keyswitch).

I've even seen some split keyboards solving the issue by putting two '6' keys on the keyboard: one on the left side, one on the right side (cannot find the name right now but I'm 100% positive they do exist). Sadly as far as I know there's not any split keyboard using a good keyswitch (say buckling spring switches or Cherry MX switches or Topre switches or ALPS switches) that offers the '6' on both side of the keyboard.
Cool! Sucks that it has to be so stringly typed, but I can't see another alternative.

One concern:

"Each pattern will be tried in order until a match is found."

As far as I know, ECMAScript doesn't specify any enumerations on objects that obey an order... browsers do syntactic order, but it's by no means a guarantee. (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/a/280861)
I agree. The Kevlar back on my Droid 4 feels like it's more shock resistant than a glass or aluminum back would be. I also like that it's water resistant.
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Web pages are getting more complicated.

The tone of the article made it seem that the author is resistant to this added complexity, and is blaming the tools that have been developed for managing it.
New cameras to watch cameras that watch you
It's not healthy for the organization as a whole if the only point of contact between "the business" and the developers is enshrined in the Product Owner. It is however very amenable to empire building and short-term cost savings, both of which are examples of a manager favouring their own interests over that of the organization. In short, Scrum is most useful for those for whom a dysfunctional organization is their goal. That the turkeys (devs) are voting for Christmas themselves is the icing on the cake.
"I'm Back, Bitches:" Steve Jobs Returns For iFhone 5 Launch
I guess I'm not really talking about a paradigm shift. I'm just talking about cool features. For instance, I would consider Siri a cool feature. Even though it isn't really anything new and on Ice Cream Sandwich you're basically getting the same functionality sans some nice cute NLP stuff. A parad would be if you could plug your iphone into a monitor and use a bluetooth keyboard and have a partially functioning desktop. I think this probably where we're heading. It would be nice if Apple or someone made a convincing product that did this. I think there is going to be a Ubuntu version that runs on android phones and basically does this if I remember correctly.
Visualizing these numbers is a good idea, but this is a terrible execution.

- The line segments go in different directions, making it unnecessarily difficult to visually determine relative lengths

- The packet send from CA to the Netherlands and back to CA is split over many lines, making it even more difficult

- The data is split across multiple maps, making it nearly impossible to get a good sense of, say, just how much longer the packet roundtrip takes than a memory reference.

- It's nearly impossible to see the line segment for main memory reference

- Having the lines overlaid on a map is more distracting than anything else
"do a barrel roll" and "tilt" weren't directly useful, but they were certainly fun.

However, consider the potential ways that Google may have coded this and potentially been useful: identifying names and finding relationships with certain parameters. What seems fun on the outside may be a bare bones tech demo of relationship finding.

Or you can be a stick in the mud instead of recognizing this as a fun internet game.
NetDNA's real-time network monitoring system
I've done it myself - it's the same as if I skip coffee for a couple days. I take piracetam at about 5 grams a day. It's recommended dosage is between 75 to 125 mg per kg. I take it three doses five hours apart, since that's the half-life of it.
The site isn't loading. Does anyone have a summary?
NFC, as it was originally envisioned, was supposed to allow for use even when the phone was without power just as the cards today are without power. In traditional RFID technology, from which NFC was derived, there was a powered transceiver (aka reader) and non-powered transponder (aka card). The promise of NFC was to be able to have a transceiver and transponder in one, where the power is derived from the inductive coupling of the antennae. You can see this by reviewing the ISO documents for ISO 14443 (RFID) and ISO 18092/ 21481 (NFC).
Yea well there is something not magical about it too which is normal users do not care what you write your apps in.

We already have 3 good options for OS, We have the cool iOS, the ios copy, android, and the alternative from microsoft.

What we have here is a glorified Android that you can write apps in js, yay, 100 bucks it will never take off.
Or XSLT if you want both Oracle and IIS at the same time
Yea, that's the problem. I was hoping that the iphone would be a clear winner in the SIII v iphone competition. That doesn't seem to be the case. SIII basically is a little better on all the technical details. And then you have the different OS's which is another story. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I guess I'm probably asking too much, but I was hoping to be a little more excited about the next iphone.
They could add rails for the arm, like for the guns in Taxi Driver, except you could slide the iPhone up and done your arm. That way you could still reach everything with your thumb.
This team page reminds me of geocities from the late 90s. https://www.scrollkit.com/s/iaJos01
You can also consider looking into ShepHertz App42 Cloud API (http://api.shephertz.com) which comes with vast range of technical and business services and are available in 9 target SDks including iOS/Android/J2ME/JAVA/C#/PHP/RUBY/WP7. ShepHertz provides complete Backened As A Service for your app and gives a better insight of your app data through management console.
90% of Tags were for just 10 languages.

50% of Tags were for just 3 languages.

The cumulative bottom 1% of Tags were for 31 different languages (including Haskell and Go).
A Damning Look at the Canadian Tech Sector
- iota
- http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#exceptions
- http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#generics
Ok, I'll amend my previous comment:

Servers should not have GUIs, and all server-side software should have a command line interface, or at the very least a web based one.

I spend a good portion of my day remoted into Linux servers and I perform some system administration. All of the other programs that I run there have either a console based interface or a web one.
Estimate puts iPhone 5 BOM at $167.50
Yeah, there really is no comparison when it comes to wireframing. In terms of creating client deliverables and complete documentation we export the wires to PNGs and place them in an InDesign template we have.

The template allows us to add an extra layer of notation and InDesigns file linking capabilities makes updates/changes a snap.

I had hoped that myBalsamiq would fix these issues but alas it did not. It works for collaborative, iterative team work but falls down flat for big 'Sprint 0' planning. Maybe one day it will get there but it needs to add some features to hit scratch that itch.

Now, whether or not that is in their big picture plan is up in the air. It did take them this long to get rid of the 'sketchiness'.
I've tried adrafinil, too, and it has a side effect for me that makes me almost completely dysfunctional: I get really, really cranky and angry. The first time I tried it I couldn't resist trading insults with my boss - at this point, I don't dare take it if I'm going to be around other human beings at all.
FYI: The "Apply" button isn't initially obvious.

It's the blue button on the top right inside the gray banner with 13px font that says "Now accepting applications for Batch 5".
I got that too and noticed the typo in their sample PHP code for the Host: header.

Even after correcting the typo for the new HTTP 1.1 request, I'm finding my postback verification is being hung up for a long time before I get a VERIFIED response, during which time Paypal sends me duplicate IPN notifications. I'm switching back to HTTP/1.0 requests for now since it worked just fine before and I don't have time to debug this right now.... thanks Paypal...
Yeah, I can't get any higher than two... granted, I'm not super up my with Hollywood, but I thought I could get more than that.....
They did invent Ajax (AFAIK). So it's not all bad.

And IIRC Canvas was in Safari before it became standard (it is now right?).

I don't think vendor specific extensions are necessarily a bad thing. The bigger issue with IE was just that it stagnated so long. If the IE6 to IE10 cycle, which happened over just a few years, would have happened when it should of, I don't think we'd have nearly as much to complain about when it came to browsers.

The Java situation was a bit different I guess, but honestly that may have a lot more to do with the state of non-MS platforms not really having an analogue to the J/Direct and RNI stuff? Wasn't really into Java at the time so I dunno if that's fair or not.
Geocities in HD, at least
Core parts of the Android experience not being open almost certainly makes Android less open.
You must have got really lucky about how the car ran over the iPod, because I have seen a couple iPod's get run over by cars and in all cases where the tire went directly over the body of the iPod the device was essentially compacted flat by about 25% with the screen fractured and crushed down into the body and the electronics and the backing of the iPod had indentations of the street pavement texture.

Needless to say they were history, but fun to take apart and see the mutilated insides.
I agree! I had the same problem too.
I don't know why everybody claims that the iPhone has the "perfect" screen size[1]. I have never had a problem with any android phone size... they are larger, but nobody ever considers they aren't just larger for larger's sake.

I appreciate the larger screen, not only for the extra space on the keyboard but because I like the extra display. My pockets aren't miniature. They can fit a slightly larger phone. Sitting down with any phone in my pocket is uncomfortable, so I always take my phone out of my pocket. Screen size for pocket size is not an issue.

My thumb is not tiny, and can reach across an extra inch. I don't know how far away the guy in the linked article holds his thumb, but I have always been able to reach across every android I have come across, without a problem. The -times I notice that I cannot reach across don't matter because most apps that are designed well don't put tiny buttons on the side of the screen.

I would enjoy a larger android with the iPhone retina resolution more than an iPhone with the retina resolution.

[1]http://www.iphonehacks.com/2011/10/iphone-4s-no-4-inch-scree...
Yes. Probably the only platform that will run HTML5 apps proper. Web developers should wholheartedly lap it up. But the issue is - consumer adoption.
It does, but it is often used ironically. So much so that it has started to be used incorrectly, or un-ironically.
France convicts first person under anti-piracy law (even though he didn't do it)
Salvador dali was the only way I could get over 2 (he's 3) in about 5 minutes of trying.

Oh yeah, and stephen hawking is 3.
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That's EXACTLY what I did as well. I had to double check to make sure this wasn't posted by me. lol
Brains, Sex, and Machine Learning - Google TechTalk [video]
An Amazon Co. tried to kill our startup. We got them to change their TOS instead
but I shouldn't get cocky, eh? :)
Let me suggest you a Jedi mind trick which just may work out for you:

Imagine a situation where you could fork() the curent universe and run two different copies of the world in parallel on two different CPUs. Now you can make a certain choice in one copy, and an opposite choice in another copy, and then let the events run their course and see which one was the better choice. Wouldn't that be nice? You could then see the unpredictable consequences of your choices, and there are always some of those. Sadly, we only have one CPU to run the world, and there is no place for context-switching. But! Turns out there is one situation where you can do just that - if the choice is suicide (yes/no), you can pretend that you have taken that choice and killed yourself; so now you know the outcome of that choice, and the CPU is free to run the other fork() of the world. Since you already know what's down the first path, might as well go look through the second one.
I completely disagree with your comment. Please mess with scrolling. Make it better, try new things. The idea here has a ton of merit, and while you're complaining about the experience, the poster says "Warning: I’m not really a programmer so the demo is just a hack to demonstrate how it could work...."

This is nothing but a quick hack demo to show his idea.

If people don't 'mess' with things, they're never going to improve. I think this is a great step to something that could be very functional and easy to understand.
Not sure exactly what this references, but Apple actually gives fairly specific information on all of their iDevices cameras—on the Apple product page it specifically states 5 lens elements and an aperture of 2.4 for the iPhone 5. And 4 lens element and an aperture of 2.8 for the iPhone 4.
I guess the mixins and nesting are nice, but who the hell wants to compile their CSS before it goes live. Good font end devs know how to organize their own stylesheets and reduce duplication. Some things don't need the engineering/CS treatment. Some times it's ok to have to declare #fff more than once...
The best smart "drug" you can take is Omega-3. 90% of the population is deficient in it. Its also the #1 supplement to control ADHD.
Giving $2b/yr in perpetuity is definitely not the mission of the Gates Foundation. They have set it up to run out of money within X years (10 IIRC) of Bill and Melinda's death.
Good Internal Documents Are Great Reading