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Dieter Rams made toasters and radios, and Apple extrapolated his design cues to things he never made, like laptops and trackpads.

That's a far cry from HP taking someone's design decisions for a all-in-one computer, doing no extrapolation, and using them to make a competing all-in-one computer.
Does anybody have a guide on how to migrate away from GoDaddy without downtime? And what would you recommend instead? We currently host a bunch of domains and use their DNS servers.
I think this is hard for engineers, software engineers probably particularly, to get, but there's a thing called a design language.

No question Apple has used Rahm's design language, they're unapologetic about it. In the past, Apple used Frog design to make a design language for Apple (you see this most notably on the Apple //c and products of that era.)

If Apple were mindlessly copying Braun products and selling turntables and radios that looked just like the Braun versions then we'd be saying that's very stupid and unoriginal.

But understanding the reason Rahms made certain choices and then applying that set of perspectives and perception of the utility of objects to another context, namely computers and accessories, is a very different thing.

Sure the calculator app on the iPhone is a clear homage to Rahms, but this is very different from the iPod which uses the same design language for a completely different product with different needs.

I think there might be a level of observation that engineers sometimes don't have, such that they think that "this just looks good" and "You're paying a lot for it being pretty" (which is funny about products that are actually cheaper, and have been for 1.5 decades.) This leads to being unable to tell the difference between samsung slavishly copying Apple's look, or HP drawing very heavily from Apple's look to an assumption that its the "only way this can be engineered."

The reason you think that it is inevitable that products would end up looking like the iPhone is because Apple makes them look inevitable-- eg: they are very well designed.

A very well designed item is perfect-- it is the perfect form for its functions.

But Apple's competitors are making different products, and if they were competent at design, they would end up looking very different-- are these not differentiated products in terms of function? Features? Obviously they are. But the reason they fail is they then try to slavishly make it look like the Apple product, which undermines the whole point of differentiation in the first place... and also forces the product into a design that was created for a different product.

Nothing is inevitable. Think of the history of mouses and how clunky they were in the 1980s-- and Apple's mice in the 1980s and 1990s had a great deal of human factors engineering and design in them-- they have always been well designed-- were each one of them the "ultimate" inevitable design? Obviously not.
Apple paid to have access to PARC ideas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Xerox_PAR...
What if AWS security was breached. Do you think they should email all Dropbox customers to inform them of the breach or leave that responsibility to Dropbox? (Dropbox is hosted on AWS) I think that analogy is more accurate because Conde Nast actually own the web properties you mentioned whereas BlueToad is an independent service provider.
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Unless you've found others with similarly structured names, I would imagine that the word "Helvetica" is trademarked and thus a possible dealbreaker on the name anyway.
Thanks! This article and the other Physics in JS article mention that we're using Euler only because it's the easiest for a student to understand. The article also mentions that the next post will be dedicated to exploring the different integration solvers.

My guess is that the original commenter just skimmed through the code without reading any of the prose ;)
Can we agree to stop using Anonymous as a collective noun? It's like saying "In other news, a site was vandalized by The Hackers."

All it means is that someone published something anonymously, with an intent to associate themselves with this larger collective. Maybe for those in the know, they can say that this particular hack was discussed in Anonymous' IRC chanels or something. Better to say "an Anonymous" or "a hacker claiming allegiance with Anonymous".

Of course, this is how the media is being hacked. Unlike the devil, Anonymous' greatest trick was convincing the world that it did exist.
"However, it's interesting that they've been essentially branded as seriously uncool before they've even launched."

The minute these were targeted for public release the fashion community's opinion was written in stone: uncool. An indeterminate but large part of the appeal of being in the high fashion world is the exclusivity. If they liked them it would be the kiss of death for seeing massive public uptake.
I'm all for anonymous activism, but come on. Do they even have a reason for this attack, or was it purely to be able to gloat in having taken down half the internet?
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Wouldn't it be funny if they forgot to renew their domain name and it got snatched? ;-)
That's nifty looking alright until you compare it to the current high end graphics hardware which has around 1500 of those cores (my gtx670 has 1300). Once more games really start using all those cores for things like physics and interactivity you will see that phones have nowhere close the ability of modern PC HW.

With that many cores you can do some things orders of magnitude faster. Take this Nbody sim my friend and I wrote for example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOUxTSjowY&feature=plcp

It computes an n^2 algorithm over 20,000 particles at 30fps, and that's with my old card which has 200 cores.

You just can't do that without massive parallelism.
"Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote."

I didn't downvote you.

But you might have gotten downvoted because you said "If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get." w/o giving links or further information. The things you are thinking might not be obvious to everyone.
No, Apple paid to visit the PARC, they did not buy or licence any patents
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The high-end fashion designer's job is to push the edge of clothing, to give clients something new and interesting. Honestly, I don't know that many women will buy that particular piece, but they looked pretty good with the outfit, and in general I thought her accessory choices were pretty good.

The glasses, on the other hand, looked out of place. I understood exactly where the author was coming from -- due to the technology, the glasses still look a bit odd.
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I really don't think that posts that consist of nothing but a single link, like this one, should be acceptable. You link to a web page and don't make any argument. This is disingenuous.

It lets you pretend like you've taken a position or refuted the person you're responding to, but since you haven't actually said anything you can't be debated with. You can't be pinned down on saying any position, which means you can't be refuted.

Now, if you made an argument, and then linked to a wikipedia page to support that argument, besides the fact that wikipedia is not authoritative and is edited by amateurs, often with an agenda, that would be much better. At least then you're introducing potential facts to support an argument.
Do that for any large website and you'll see the same thing.
My thoughts exactly. This isn't affecting just GoDaddy but a great number of other sites (including mine, unfortunately).
> Since law or no law, kids will send pictures of themselves, I don't see exactly who are we helping by branding them as criminals.

Doesn't this line of logic extend to any law that gets broken on a regular basis, which includes rape, murder.. basically all laws?

I've no idea if the law is effective at putting kids off taking pictures of themselves, but the fact that it isn't 100% effective doesn't mean it is 0%.
so no one is now allowed to make silver screens and keyboards, they only allowed white, beige and black!

the design have differences, minor of course, but ... its just a keyboard and screen
Because the analysis is of what it does to the burden placed on artists (or those, really or purportedly, operating on their behalf) in the existing system. If the cost of a mistake is a ruined life, that side of things gets radically more expensive.

All of my analysis here is predicated on "if we want to try to make the existing system work like it is supposed to," which I will be the first to agree is not our only option; even in that restricted scope, my conclusion was "it's tough to say..."
2 * 1 = 1 * 2

Mathematics aside, you would've hoped that they could come up with an improvement over the iMac, instead of a copy. Perhaps the port access on the side of the base counts?
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Is that agreement forever, or does it expire after x years? (or can you even say?)
So I hopped on over here (after I bought the book) to make this one comment, the price is too low!

Seriously, the amount of value I've already gotten out of this book today well exceeds the $5 buy-in.

I'm not saying to raise it straight to the "typical" $27 e-book level, but I wouldn't have thought twice paying $12 for this. In fact, at $5, you're doing yourself a disservice and signaling a lack of quality.
It almost seems that we're to a point where we just have to accept this as an industry. The frequency of outright copies seems to be increasing, and there's not much the Apples of the world can do about it. Seems like this is common place on the web too, where various design memes (the ribbon thing, etc. etc.) eventually spread to a large number of sites.
Given that Apple is still making boatloads of cash, it seems like this isn't reducing their incentive to innovate.

(Not that I'm endorsing what seems to be an outright copy)
agreed, this made it a frustrating to browse.

Great work though!
My position is consistent in this way: as a culture, we condemn child pornography. We go through some considerable theatre, arguably more or less effective, to quash it. The premise is, it causes harm to children to be involved in highly-charged emotional situations that are at the very least profoundly confusing to them, and at worst cause lasting damage. It has been deemed by legislation and executive order to be worth suppressing the trade, even if only to make it perfectly, publicly clear that it is considered abhorrent.

As for harmlessly filming a child remotely, I can think of no greater invasion of privacy. Children cannot conceivably be capable of being said to consent to such activity. The damage may actually be done years later when they inevitably discover the betrayal and indecency they were subjected to.
It seems like IP exists to empower corporations to monopolize segments of the market. Does anyone actually believe it's to empower consumers? Because that's the argument I typically hear.

Edit: I just want to know if we're all on the same page that IP exists to monopolize the market, not benefit the consumer in any way.
"Xerox did go to trial to protect the Star user interface. In 1989, after Apple sued Microsoft for copyright infringement of its Macintosh user interface in Windows, Xerox filed a similar lawsuit against Apple; however, it was thrown out because a three year statute of limitations had passed. (Apple eventually lost its lawsuit in 1994, losing all claims to the user interface)."

Apple didn't pay for any patents, it paid for a tour.
For those looking for a quick route around, you can find GoDaddy's IP address here: http://who.is/dns/godaddy.com/
Well, since their DNS servers are currently down, didn’t you already get downtime?
I use namecheap[1] for everything domain related and never had a problem. There's a no downtime migration guide here [3].

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[2] (Non-Affiliate) http://www.namecheap.com

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In the past few years C# updates and new .net libraries have had a sort of concurrency and parallelism focus.

The Task Parallel Library (TPL)[1] is basically like goroutines in Go. They're a concurrency construct, for executing code that gets multiplexed to threads via the thread pool by default. Absurdly useful and very easy to use. This contains stuff like Task, Parallel.ForEach, .ContinueWith() etc.

The TPL Dataflow[2] stuff added just recently is data pipelining. Completely thread-safe communication of data, with the ability to construct a complex data pipeline that your data gets pushed through. Similar to channels in Go.

Also added recently are the async and await keywords[3] in C# and VB.NET. These are compiler features that allow you to write asynchronous code exactly the same way as you would write synchronous code. Basically a replacement for the IAsyncResult + BeginFoo/EndFoo pattern, it allows you to write simple and readable asynchronous code. Not necessarily multi-threaded as it can be used with single-threaded code, but it allows the stuff that interacts with your multi-threaded code to not bend over backwards for it.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460717.aspx

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/gg585582.aspx

[3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx
You make a good point, and I was being resistant to it because I was actually trying to abstract the concept of Scientology away from its usual (negative) connotations because what Woz describes is a situation common to many forms of modern organized religion, even as Scientology has been particularly scrutinized on this point.

Religion aims to find truth and happiness; the OP title is simply stating, "This is Woz's take on religion". It can be interpreted as, "He does't like organized religion" or "Woz has his own religion of sorts, having found inner peace and happiness in his own unique way". That the evangelist here is a Scientologist (or that there is any evangelist at all) is mostly besides the point.

For more perspective, here is the other large passage in which Woz talks about religion:

> I had come to learn of Jesus, from my friend Randy Adair in college, that he always tried to find ways toward peace. Although I’m not a Christian per se, and don’t belong to any religion, what Jesus the historical figure stood for were things I stood for, and those stories Randy told me about him struck a chord with me emotionally. I didn’t believe in violence or hurting people. At De Anza, I thought deeply about the war. I considered myself to be athletic and brave. But would I shoot a bullet at another human being? I remember sitting alone at the white Formica table in my bedroom, coming to the conclusion that I could let someone shoot at me, but I couldn’t shoot back. I thought, What if I’m in Vietnam and I’m shooting at some guy? He’s just like me, that guy. He sits down just like I do. He plays cards and he eats pizza, or the equivalent of it, just like normal people I know. He has a family. Why would I want to hurt this person? He might have his reasons for being where he is in the world—and Vietnam had its reason—but none of these reasons ever touched me in California. From that standpoint, I could see how this war could be a pretty dangerous one for me. Because I was morally and truthfully a conscientious objector in every sense. But the military only counted you as one if you were in a church (which made you exempt from conflict duties), and I had no church. I had no religion. I just had my own logic. So I wasn’t a conscientious objector, I just objected to my personally having to kill or hurt anyone.

Wozniak, Steve (2007-10-17). iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon (pp. 73-74). Norton. Kindle Edition.
Org-mode for Emacs also does this (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Hyper...), and doesn't require any extra software (well, if you already have Emacs).

I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I do just love org-mode. Of course, I was already using Emacs for development, and org-mode just slips seamlessly right in. Everyone seems to suggest some other service where the data is stored in a proprietary format on someone else's server, but I do very much like keeping control of my own data.
The back button seems to be broken/disabled by this which is very annoying to break default browser behaviour.
DNS services cost money, either in staffing or recurring charges, so it really depends on your budget. Neustar is a nice DNS provider ($50+/mo).

Generally you'll want to set up your new DNS, turn down the refresh on your existing DNS domains, wait $old_refresh or so, then change your primary/secondaries listed at your registrar to point at your new DNS.
Apple preys on the ignorant. HP now preys on the ignorant of the ignorant who don't know the difference.
Please see my list of ways to reassign credit for everything Apple does to save time:

http://loewald.com/blog/?p=4423

After all, you don't want to just admit that Apple invented the rounded rectangle.
For me, this is exciting because it is the excuse I've been waiting for to move my desktop into my living room. I already have a laptop for my day to day. The only reason I really own a desktop anymore is for server type operations (which can be ran through SSH or VNC), media streaming, and gaming.

I will be buying a wireless Xbox 360 USB receiver and giving this a whirl.
Turns out it's Anonymous:

https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200
Or not... for example:

http://images.apple.com/imac/images/overview_allinone.png [0]

versus

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/09/hp-spe... [1]

Not limited by, but your key(board) comparison completely skips over reality.

[0] http://www.apple.com/imac/
[1] http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-spectre-one/
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Something was goofy in the blog post but we fixed it. Here's a few with images:

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False. Apple obtained a license from Xerox for the technology being developed at PARC by selling them pre-IPO Apple shares.

Further, by bringing this up, you are trying to say that Apple copied Xerox years ago, which is a form of trying to say "its ok to copy apple or steal their technology because apple did it in the past".

Which is silly because if it was wrong for Apple to do it, as you imply, it is also wrong for HP or Samsung to do it, as you are trying to justify.

Further, when you tell a falsehood like this-- one that you really, if you're at all informed on the issue, would know is a falsehood, you impeach your own integrity.
> I moved, so now I have to go through all my key accounts (banks, credit cards, student loans, etc.) to update my address. Why?

Well, try thinking a bit more deeply. Imagine a system where you only have to visit one site, log in, and change all your personal connections with a few keystrokes -- billing, bank accounts, credit cards, address, personal identity. Very convenient!

Now what happens if someone guesses (or steals) your login and password? They would have total control over your life -- they would in essence become you, but without your wish to live a long, peaceful life without being robbed of everything, even your name.

> Am I missing something?

Yes, you are -- you're missing the wisdom that comes with experience.

Did you know that the U.S. government has three branches? Many people know this, but far fewer know the reason why -- it's to make it more difficult for someone to concentrate too much power in their hands. This is actually the reason, crafted by the founding fathers, to protect against a system where the exercise of power becomes too easy.

It's the same here -- the fact that you have to visit a dozen sites and spend hours making petty editorial changes, protects you against identity thieves.
Nifty. I'd love to see your iOS concept. The pain of editing my text file on the iPhone causes me to glance, but rarely update on mobile.

Listary ($0.99) has a nice synced list implementation that works well if you don't mind dividing the lists into separate files, but it doesn't support due dates. I didn't consider separate files a realistic option for my purpose.
I didn't get angry because someone copied Apple but that someone would say that old people like my would need new glasses if they couldn't differentiate both machines. This arrogant and offensive at the same time. What makes you say something like that? Not everyone knows everything about technology. My Dad is 67 and I know he couldn't distinguish those machines but that is ok. He doesn't need to.

HN is not Digg or Youtube comments.
It's giving me (and likely many others) the push needed to finally migrate everyone I know away from their hosted DNS.
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Hi,

We're three guys from Sweden (Minecraft country) working on a build-anything-type-game called Blocksworld:

http://www.blocksworld.com

There's a beta sign-up for the iPad version, which we'd love for you to try out!

I may be biased, but I believe this is a completely unique iOS app that could give kids and "regular" people some of the satisfaction hackers get from building games, robots, and widgets.

However, I'm terrified of it being drowned in the noise in the App Store and worry about making Blocksworld sufficiently simple and appealing so that anyone can use it.

How do we package this product so that it gets noticed, people "get it", yet still keeps the depth that makes it unique? Any suggestions are appreciated!

Cheers from Sweden,
Martin Magni
It appears all that time/money spent putting into backups, replication, SANs, and redundancy goes down the toilet when your domain registrar goes down
These are instructions on how to move your domain, not migrate to different DNS servers. Moving away from GoDaddy in general might be a good idea, but if you're just looking to migrate to another DNS service like Route53, this isn't what your looking for.
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Their github page mentions angularJS https://github.com/yeoman/yeoman
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