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Übercool. Can't wait to no longer have to build views in code.

Seems like there is a good text editor being used in Atlas, hopefully this will make its way into Cappuccino soon!!
This can happen anywhere, with any hosting solution as long as you don't have physical access to you servers. AWS, Linode, Slicehost...they all can go down.
This is really, really significant. The fact that you can go above quota, and pay for the privilege, makes me far more likely to consider using this product. I might even get around to learning Python...
I love what these guys are doing - I'm just not sold on the whole Objective-J thing.
There are other good reasons to learn python, namely the thrilling, liberating ability to make useful programs quickly and without having to write and maintain a lot of pointless glue code (looking at you here, Java, C++ and co).

GAE was that which tipped me over to learn python and I am very glad now.
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The tutorial that the article points to is a good beginner's survey on meta-stuff that every project should at least consider before ignoring.

As far as ASDF goes, the downloads and dependencies don't give me any problems, it is the loading after install. I keep having to construct sym-links by hand!?
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I have to throw in a good word here for http://crossbrowsertesting.com/
But it doesn't "just work" - it breaks it the face of some firewalls and pops an exception if user has adblock. I actually had users complaining about the latter, this is not a theoretical problem (I fixed it with try/catch myself, but it should not have been a problem to start with and demonstrates brittleness of google analytics).

In other words it's a tradeoff between http/https transparency and odd errors on user's end. Pick your poison. :-)
What about this article makes you think Tierney is engaged in honest scientific skepticism? He's cherry-picking quotes and using them to call into question these scientist's objectivity without ever addressing the substance of the statements themselves. For instance, he never says why Chu was wrong to have talked about the possible threat of global warming to California agriculture, he just throws it out there and rhetorically rolls his eyes. The battle lines are already drawn, and this article is just another volley, easily as political as what it purports to be criticizing.

This article has the same feel as one advocating for intelligent design: argument by incredulity (a billion people dead from climate change, really complex organisms arising from evolution, each just so unfathomable they simply can't be true), a professed rejection of the extremists the author might get lumped in with (id isn't creationism, focusing on capture isn't the same as denying global warming), even though the end policy effect is basically the same as if the extremist's views were adopted (don't teach evolution as fact, don't take real action against global warming).

And really, saying that "Science advisers should stay clear instead of being part of the rabble", what does that even mean? If a scientist believes that the scientific question of global warming amounts to a serious threat, what, exactly, are they supposed to do to "stay clear", when that's precisely what the political question is, as well?
How does it compare with Amazon's offer? I had the feeling that Amazon offers more for less, not even talking independence-wise.
Fantastic. RAD tools for the web haven't ever been done properly.

This could be huge.

The funny thing is, it actually looks quicker and easier than IB - probably because Objective-J is interpreted and runs in the browser, and it has the controllers in Atlas.
Dude, no pitch-fork was up :) I guess I'm guilty at abusing your post just to illustrate the point I'd been trying to make earlier.

Didn't want to single you out, sorry if it came across this way.
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Some sites will expire the cookie after a period of inactivity, in which case this will stop working. But it can easily be refreshed by getting a new set of cookies, which as other people have pointed out is a process that can be automated.
Yikes! Alex, I'm still trying to figure out how to sum up long interviews in short videos. I'll keep at it.
We'll probably be designing our own. If we don't, it'll be Tumblr-based.
It's fascinating to watch the re-invention of the browser as a NeWS server (client in normal terminology) from nearly 20 years ago.

Postscript imaging model == HTML5 Canvas, Postscript == Javascript.

Hmm...
What if the company goes under?
I've noticed a lot of talk on here about APIs and this brought me to thinking "What happens if that company goes under?"

Many companies now-a-days aren't doing so well with the current economy and all, so what if you invested a large stake of your company into services that another company offered and that second company found itself in the red? How would you cope?

I would hope that these companies have thought of a plan, ahead of time, for a situation like this.

I was simply wondering what your plans are, or would be, should you find yourself, or your company, in the aforementioned situation?
Sam, I think whether you want to launch 20 or 50 or 20,050 features, ideally, you should launch with just 1.

The questions I have are: how practical is that? and how can you decide with 1 feature to launch first?

I tried asking Paul that in the interview, but it's a tough concept to teach in an impromptu interview like the one I did.

If anyone has any suggestions for people I can interview about this concept, I'd love the help.
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Computer audio is very straining on your computer because it taxes all of its resources. Even though this isn't really a large problem like it was at the time that the Pentium 400 was being recorded,
Yeah I'm not sure if this could work. The "work for free" element has been debated numerously on here.

But I do like how this idea addresses several critical flaws in the system right now. It takes care of ranking applicants by GPA, it takes care of weeding out the intelligent but unproductive crowd from the hard-working, gets-stuff-done crowd, and it shows students that there is a viable path to employment that is based on their current effort. This might eliminate problems like cheating, which I've written about publicly: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i24/24a03601.htm
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To be fair to Paul, I should say that the list of 5 isn't his top ideas. It's just 5 ideas that he told me in when we talked.
A summary of that would be great....

I know that Apple pushed WebObjects to the back burner when they acquired NeXT in the mid 90s but I'm not sure why it would be bad for them to buy 280 North today.
Does anyone know of any large projects using Objective-J / Cappuccino besides 280North?
I'm disappointed the author didn't realize that he doesn't need Cookie Monster to see Firefox cookies: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Show Cookies
I usually roll my own, I dont care for most of the features that come with... and its easier to add my own features (like this one: http://codeachrome.com/blog/post/2-add-ruby-code-to-blog-com...)

My problem is that the blog tends to be the afterthought for me, so building a site around the blog is not a features I want or need.
Alex, I'd love to hear how you did that for easytweets.com. Looks like you have a broad collection of features. How'd you decide which were core and needed to be put in before launching and which could wait?
> Can you point to other situations where an advanced infrastructure created by government led to an increase in entrepreneurial activity?

USPS. Interstate Highways. Airports. Seaports. SEC, FDIC, FAA, NTSB, etc. The Internet.

Quit thinking so small - swimming pools, hi-tech office parks, is this all you can muster?
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> The entire issue is deep in the political swamp, no
> matter how you slice it. Science advisers should stay
> clear instead of being part of the rabble.

On the contrary, the entire job of a science advisor is to present and interpret the available scientific evidence relevant to policy decisions.
Mike, I agree that virality can't be dismissed so quickly. Seems if you don't have that, the rest of your marketing has to work much harder.
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9 is a transient, since we only started charging last week. 10 is partially a result of 9, as we do consulting to fund ourselves.

This is a great list though. I can think of real-world examples from the last year that reinforced each of those things on the "have" list.
DMCA, of course. The reply was meant to be exaggerated, I hope telnet itself isn't illegal.
Can someone suggest a browser-independent way of handling login pages that require javascript ? Twill doesn't handle javascript.
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A far better analysis of the issue (with primary sources!!): http://www.discriminations.us/2009/02/politicizing_science_a...
Can this talk to Google Checkout?
In other words, by simply ignoring out of existence the non-white population of the US before 1965 (which is what white people loved to do back then), you can make it look like the country went through a rapid transformation and is rapidly being taken over, when in fact the minority population has always been there.
Yes, this is good.

On first glance it seems like they also fixed some of the blocking i/o issues that caused beachballs in Safari 3 and earlier - I wouldn't be surprised if they vastly improved this, since the whole history indexing thing probably is fairly intensive with disk.
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Maybe by him, but it looks as though most people are admitting to less than 8 a day so I'm thinking this is probably fairly accurate and he's more of a niche.
you've nailed it just perfect with that.

If you want to be successful, make something that YOU need, then find others with the same need and market it to them.

And failing that do something that gives you joy, quite often that leads down fruitful alleys as well.
that's the single best solution to the procrastination problem I've seen.

Another possibility is to rearrange things in such a way that the only think you can still do are the things you are trying to get away from.
Again, the comment above wasn't meant to be taken literally, but just because they both use sockets doesn't mean they're just as legal.

Imagine a web site which terms of service state you cannot use software to circumvent ads. Or where part of the security is done client-side (stupid, yes, but not impossible). Skipping the browser breaches at least the terms of service, and may be constructed as hacking. I think even Google discourages automated searching and prefers you use its api, which (at least some years ago) wasn't free for commercial use. I may be wrong in this particular case, but the important point is you may want to check the specific TOS before skipping the browser.
Fascinating... though I now feel like an old assembly programmer saying things like "In my day, we wrote Javascript by hand, and it only consumed suchandsuch memory and was blazing fast... now you with your newfangled GUI builders..."
1) I was replying to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493695 which used the phrase "Global Warming Denier 2.0"

2) It's interesting that the article has a certain feel to you. Feel free to continue commenting on the article. I wasn't.

3) Pick what you want: a science adviser that makes dramatic political statements (for which you may agree or disagree) or one who keeps his mouth shut and administers policy. Last administration we were told that "science was politicized" Fine. Then let's go with the keep-your-mouth-shut rule. But now it seems the rules are different. It's simple. Just pick one. I'm okay with either.
Hopefully, most companies would give you some time to transition off of their services or to at least export your data off of their servers.

What sucks is when they close unexpectedly, don't let you export your data, or even worse pretend they're "upgrading" while they really shut down - http://stikipad.com
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That's a good one. I think the author is mistaking 'visionary' for 'procrastinator'.

THe simple fact that Leonardo Da Vinci did not have access to the technology to realize his visions (and could not even begin to guess how far away that technology was) does not make him a procrastinator.

Have a look at the stuff that he came up with that had the technology readily available. It's a good thing they didn't have patents back then or Leonardos descendants would have owned the world.
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Better to just have personal projects that do the same thing while also demonstrating initiative.

People used to call this "being well-rounded."

People who wait to be assigned homework are not "go-getters."
Then how come startups don't flourish everywhere those services are offered? How come, for instance, Israel is the scene of a lot of startups? Or parts of India?
I wonder how this piece of crappy blog-post turned up appearing here ?
Oh hi. It's you!

I read all of your blog a while back, maybe a year ago, when there was a long sabbatical. Most of the posts were about how to do the biz thing while all over the place, geographically, as I recall.

I see you're back!

But no more globe trotting posts? I'd love some updates to that part of your life, since I'm having to deal with such a situation myself.
a guy called Michiel Kassies holds a european patent on a structure like that, this was obtained somewhere in '86 so in europe probably at or near expiry. I don't know how to find European patents online otherwise I'd look it up, filing date was probably late '85 or early '86.

The thing was wedge shaped for better aerodynamics but looked from the inside of a car like a normal side mirror. No clue anymore how the thing worked exactly except that it was lots and lots of thin sheets with all kinds of interesting properties.
What if you are local to the venue? Can you typically pick up your tickets at Will Call far enough in advance to sell them online?

Appreciate all the helpful info... :)
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Unless there's a clear way for something to shift hardware, Apple isn't really interested in it. WebObjects has languished, despite being killer in more than one respect. An update (and de-java-ing) of WO tools with something like Atlas integrated would be absolutely killer, but unless it helps them shift more Macs in big numbers, I don't see it going anywhere.
re: 1) You're saying I was wrong to think that your objection to his use of that phrase to describe Tierney meant that you thought the article was honest scientific skepticism?

re: 2) You used the phrase "Because that was the point". If not of the article, which you weren't commenting on, than the point of what, exactly?

re: 3) You specifically said "Science advisers should stay clear instead of being part of the rabble", that hardly sounds like you're okay with either. All I was saying is that the scientific question is the political question, you can't have a scientific opinion without simultaneously having a political one. What good is a science advisor who can't give their opinion because it happens to also be political?

And the question of science being politicized in the previous administration referred mostly, imo, to people with no science experience at all making decisions about what did and didn't get funded based on strictly political considerations. This doesn't seem comparable, really.
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It does not need to. The invisible hand works much better with greed.
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The process of landscaping - no matter how big or small the project - requires a certain degree of research and planning. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that this applies even more so when it comes to landscaping small yards.
Yeah Firefox's address bar is the best. One feature which few people seem to know is the "keyword" field in bookmarks -- you can type a phrase in there (eg "bugs" for your local bug database) and Firefox will read that in the address bar properly. It makes browsing to key sites amazingly quick if you're a keyboard-focused user.
It's because people have gotten so used to giving away their email credentials to sites when they sign up so that they can have all their contacts imported.

Google, Facebook, et al., could help improve security against this type of thing by creating a way for people to expose a contact list without giving away their password.
I have a hunch this is a prelude to seeing it as a pervasive UI element in iLife and possibly as core UI element within Snow Leopard.

It seems when different Apple teams introduce something, it trickles into other applications. Smart Playlists/Mailboxes, and brushed metal theme come to mind. It'd be fun to do a study to see how one application influenced others and possibly the OS.
I've never searched Google and thought the paid results might give me something than the real results either, but that doesn't stop those ads from making money.
Well knowing the author a bit - its about taking advantage of the proposed BGGA closure proposal and introducing FP features to java programmers.
My punt is that Apple is going to make a big enterprise play in the next 2-3 years. Time is ripe, and it can be done without a big investment in capital.

Wait until Steve Jobs publicly denounces enterprise IT as a business with no future. He'll be right, in more ways than one.
I loved reading their Legal page that showcases how dumb companies are. When will companies get a clue that if they make it inconvenient for customers, people are going to torrent it. (One of the reasons iTunes is widely used, its easy to pay a buck for a song instead of torrenting it)
You could give HtmlUnit a try.
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The problem with netbooks is that they occupy a market position sandwiched between smartphones and full-featured laptops. A netbook that is only sold with 3G service sounds very much like Apple's business model with the iPhone.
Let's hope that Steve Jobs is still going to be around in 2-3 years.

I'm no groupie but I'd hate to see him go.
The App Store has nothing to do with subscription pricing. Are there explosively successful consumer software subscription services? All the ones I can think of which get close to piercing the general consumer consciousness are also-rans (Napster, Rhapsody), or are hardware locked (Xbox Live Arcade, which is more paying for arbitrary online access to Microsoft than anything -- the actual game content is still priced outside of the subscription, and on competing services on the Wii and PS3 online connectivity itself is free). I can't think of any subscription based marketplace (either subscribe to browse the contents of this marketplace risk free, or a marketplace for various subscription services) that has ever really caught in digital space. I'd love to be told what I'm missing here though! I don't really pay attention to this stuff from anything other than an end-user standpoint so I'd be interested in some great service or network I didn't know about.
I didn't really say that you "don't need" virality, but that the best kind is a product that people love so much that they want to tell everyone about it (which is a kind of virality).

Obviously, the need for virality also differs based on what you are building. For social networks, having your friends there is a big part of what makes it a "good product". For a search engine, that's less important.

What bothers me is the focus on virality over actual value creation. The best examples are some of the "zombie" type facebook apps that are pretty much just pure virality.
What's interesting to me is that there are still hard limits for billing-enabled apps.

There's the respectable ones: You get the full use of a 100 megabit pipe, 72 CPUs, and a 500 req/s proxy; plus you can send millions of emails a day.

On the other hand, the limits on datastore and memcache access are out of proportion to the bandwidth and request limits, especially when compared to the free limits. With a paid app you're unlikely to be able to ever hit the Bandwidth / CPU / Request limits because you'll be starved for data, whereas with a free app the opposite is true.
Borland cbuilder meets the web, very impressive.
Netbooks are useless in my country. Coz, the price of these netbooks are almost the same as laptops.

but what us that 5gb RAM thing from Dell???
1) Yes. I just saw the comment and commented on it. That's it.

2) some scientists try to disguise their political agendas as scientific fact was responded to with frankly conflates political agendas with making your best guesses about the future. I was making the observation that conflating things, whether by a writer or a political appointee, is political. To argue about it is to have a political argument. To say the sky is falling may be science. To say we all have to buy steel helmets to be saved and that the other party is working to stop helmet production is politics.

3) I would like science advisers to stay clear, but I'm okay with either position. Honest. In fact, in a different thread on this same topic I made that point. Advisers should give their opinion to the president. The question on the table is whether or not they should also do so to the world at large -- especially if it means glossing over scientific issues for political purposes. I like science too much to see that happen, but I pragmatic enough to realize that it might have to work that way. Like I said, I just want consistency.

The thing is, aside from formal proofs science is already a highly political arena. Funding decisions, professorships, research awards, publication rights -- it's all intricately connected to politics. It'd be simpler if that kind of politics stayed out of national partisan politics. It managed to do so for 200 years. Scientists do not want to get into the business of becoming expert witnesses for politicians. It's a marriage made in hell.

As far as non-scientific people making scientific funding decisions -- welcome to a democracy. It's supposed to work like that. I was of the opinion that the old science advisers were saying things supporting "global warming deniers" that didn't fit with the current paradigm and then acting on those beliefs. If so, then again, that's politics. Pragmatically perhaps it's supposed to work that way.

My understanding was that what people wanted was for the preferred role of adviser to simply advise the president -- not to play politics. That by getting on TV and making sweeping statements he/she was dragging science through the mud. That's what I thought the discussion was about, and it made some sense to me. If I was mistaken, sorry. But that's what I've been hearing.
I do love how minimal it is. It seems to be running really well on Windows 7 too.
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That's an important distinction to make re: virality. There're two kinds: the sort that forces you to spread it to gain functionality, and the sort that spreads because people like talking about it. It's easy to force the one, but very, very difficult to fake the other.
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iWork, iCal server etc. Apple is in the middle of a large enterprise play. It's just not a big marketing push yet, they're likely waiting for the product to mature a bit.