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If you're looking for better maximize/window management, check out the open source app ShiftIt. Works sort of like aero snap in windows 7, with a quick keystroke to fully maximize a window. I use it all the time.

I refreshed it for 10.7+/retina and compiled a build - check it out here: http://trisweb.github.com/ShiftIt/

100% agree about giving the default Mac configuration a chance. Often it's better thought out (or actually thought-out at all) and will work better if you learn the "mac way" to do things. Except the window maximizing—that's really an inexcusable shortcoming of the OS IMHO.
So maybe the analysts underperformed.
Or even what defines a mobile operating system. Curiosity is technically mobile and has an operating system...
Good points. I'm really doing it for the purpose of learning and growth (like you said). So far I've learned a lot, and it hasn't even been two full days since my "launch." Now I'm focusing on the ideas. So far, I have a couple. :)
I suppose you could always mail them a cheque, they might even cash it.

As I've said before, I don't see how this kind on monetisation would be practical for Ubuntu unless they took chunks of their software (such as Unity) and made them closed source.

If there was a sticker price attached to Ubuntu and an activation system (ala Windows) somebody would simply fork the code minus the activation and make a free clone.

Basically the same as Redhat/CentOS.

Their best way of monetising the desktop is probably to make their app store less crappy and get some paid apps in there.

If they can't get enough third parties involved , maybe they can get the ball rolling with their own proprietary paid apps.

Their main customer base right now is probably developers, so a good start might be a nice GUI DB admin tool and a good debugging proxy (ala Fiddler) and they could start monetising tomorrow.
I'm a little confused by the first point. How is Objective-C not a dynamic language? Is he talking about something other than dynamic dispatch? Is there some reason other than time that prevents an implementation of Python to mirror what was done with Objective-C?
I found a break and then working on what I only found interesting (playing around with weird languages, open sourcing things etc) was the trick, it got me really excited again about what will always be my life
I think iTunes was probably the bigger motivator for customers purchasing iPods. Before iTunes, there weren't a lot of places to legally purchase digital music, and ripping CDs was kind of cumbersome.
Sales were limited by supply at least in many places although some carriers at least had some stock in particular models.

The only real way to judge the sales success is when supply matches demand
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Perfect scrolling, your applications can't spy on you, iTunes integration, and you don't constantly need to play whack-an-app to preserve battery life.
In my opinion, it seems quite ridiculous to gloss over such a major failing, with so much optimistic hyperbole.

Why isn't there a press release apologising to the people who've updated 'more than 100 million devices' to iOS 6?

EDIT: It is a major failing.. To understand why, I suggest you search Google, and see just how vocal that '1%' (!) is. Remember, a lot of people don't live in the USA - and many of those who do are still experiencing problems.
That's not a fair comparison. Its only fair if pre-orders are uniform across countries. Adding a bunch of smaller countries with low volume would drag the number way down.

A much more meaningful comparison would be pre-orders in a single major market, e.g. the US.
Complex numbers are ill-defined and real numbers don't exist either.

http://thenewcalculus.weebly.com
This idea that what Ubuntu does is just some light packaging is pretty demeaning to their true value. Ubuntu really pushed the state of the art in terms of polish for Linux distributions. You can argue how much of the total product value that is but I don't think it's at all reasonable to say "Ubuntu isn't a product" and that it's just a "nice community layer with some high level project management".

I'm also curious about why you take as a given that money needs to be distributed to "Jack John Johnson"? There's certainly nothing in the licenses that forces it, and when Apple takes BSD software and sells it nobody thinks that's out of line. When RedHat charges for RHEL nobody complains either, even though most of the software is open source as well. What line is Ubuntu crossing here?
Nope. In theory you'd have exactly the same problem with any statically-linked binaries compiled on that machine and run on that server, regardless of what language they're written in. glibc has a minimum kernel version requirement and the glibc you're statically linking against just plain isn't compatible with the kernel on the machine you're running it on. Dynamically linking to a newer glibc and running against an older one doesn't generally work either, and IIRC may even result in apps that appear to start but crash unexpectedly when they try to access versions of library calls that aren't there, again regardless of language used.

Your problems with the non-statically-linked version, on the other hand, can probably be solved by copying the appropriate libraries to a directory on the server and pointing LD_LIBRARY_PATH at it... at least until you run into glibc problems.

Basically, what you're doing isn't supported and the fact that it worked for you with languages other than Haskell is mostly luck.
TL:DR - Stop, be ok with taking a break. Give yourself chance to discover what's left.

The thing to remember is that it's ok to have changes in interests. If our interests never changed we wouldn't make progress.

It sounds like you've got to a point where you are super comfortable with what you know.

Personally after I finished my CS degree I took a big break (2 years) from technology, building things and fixing things. Actually I felt like I hated all of it and that worried me a lot. I wanted to let all the learning settle & see what interest in the field I was left with - if at all.

After two years I made the decison to go into the applications support side of things as I realised I still loved the people part of it. Being the bridge between customers & developers, fixing things & I'm still doing that now. Even my interest in development has come back and I'm building things in my spare time again.

Also my partner & I have transitioned from taking photographs as a hobby, to professionally. I find that each time we get a photography job there's a little 2 month cycle where it goes from being great fun to just being 'done' with it. At that point we take fewer personal photos.

After a little time, the interest comes back we start photographing for fun again and then we get another job and it goes full circle.

I think you can only force creativity so long before it becomes work with obligations etc - that's when the interest fades.
Ask HN: Is lying to yourself the first step towards self-belief?
As someone who has looked into building something like this, a subscription makes a lot of sense. These GTFS feeds are (generally) a huge mess. Cleaning them up into a dataformat you can use is tons of work. And with all the cities changing their routes (or cutting service) every six months, it means continued work and support.

I'd happily pay a subscription for something that works well. But yes, it will be interesting to see how naive consumers react to this.
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Dunno, my memory of AltaVista that it (1) seemed amazing when it first showed up (it was, after all, the first), but one quickly realized that it (2) actually sorta sucked: almost every search involved trawling through enormous numbers of search-result pages full of barely relevant results.

Google was a huge, huge, improvement over AltaVista.

There's a good reason they won the search wars.
Apple Earpods should start with the brain
Do startups ever get freelance testers involved in their product?
Please discuss! :)
"petty, victimless status inflations people use don't deserve any real indignation"

... until you're passed up for promotion because, unbeknown to you, your colleague lied about his experience and qualifications. (this has actually happened to me).

In the end it won't be that bad for me, I'll have to quit a job I wasn't happy about anyways, but I'll have to start at the bottom of the ladder again, or start my own company.
As I recall Firefox used to make about $3 per user per year. (I'm using the past because the data I have is pretty old).

If we consider they have about 15 million users, that's about 45 million dollars. But maybe they have other sources of revenue.
Obvious point to raise: the reason people regularly delete their browser history is because they watch porn without turning on private browsing. How do you propose to deal with this?

You'd need to provide at least the ability to selectively delete portions of the history. But you can selectively delete portions of your browser history too, and people don't - because it would be too easy to miss something. Instead, they just nuke the whole thing. How is your tool different?
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How do they manage the "applications can't spy on you" part? (Not counting the WhatsApp debacle).

Also: iTunes???
That was his whole point, so does Eve.
And Civilization 5 ditched Python for Lua.

This seems like a good illustration of the problem.
What a bunch of nonsense. This beats the iPhone 4S, their previous top performer. Not a success! Some people will do anything to throw rocks.
All that democracy provides for (in this case) is that no one is above reproach or accountability. It doesn't mean that officials are sanctified and immaculate and won't work in opposition to jurisprudential values (ie, won't be corrupt). If officials couldn't be taken to account (in an functional civil court), then you can wonder about the state of the nation.

The fact that New Zealand is looking into this is proof that democracy is working there.
Tolkien's Ents used the whole history of an entity whenever they mentioned it. Human journalists usually don't.
The very first paragraph of your linked article reads: "Pre-order response to the iPhone 5 has been massive, outstripping expectations of analysts, who were bullish on Apple's latest smartphone to begin with, and apparently of Apple itself."

How do I reconcile that with your comment here?
Pretty sure Apple controls this to manage the numbers, and have an out if sales don't skyrocket as is/was believed to.
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New Zealand has certainly 'deviated' in the past:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand%27s_nuclear-free_zo...

Copyright stuff is small potatoes compared to the US Navy.

And yet... they didn't get invaded, did they?

Hand waving makes for poor, ill-informed debate.
Interesting. I like the list of classics at the end, though I'm not sure if it's outdated (then again, it's a list of _classics_).
Why not use Hipchat through XMPP?

Since we mostly use OSX, we configured Adium with an inline image plugin : http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=7926

We also use a group chat theme that replicate hipchat look and also support "system message" formatting : https://github.com/davidpaquet/hipchat-adium-message-style
(I forked it to add "Bitbucket" and "Trello" as system messages senders but the real work is from Seth Chisamore).

I'm pretty sure you could achieve somethign like this with Pidgin.
I don't think you remember that time period very well. The iTunes store wasn't launched until over a year AFTER the iPod!

The original iPod, chunky by today's standards was by far the smallest and easiest to use mp3 player that could carry more than a few hundred MB of data. At the time there wasn't any Windows support but I think 3rd party software became available if you had Firewire on your PC.

From Wikipedia: iPod

"The iPod line was announced by Apple on October 23, 2001, and released on November 10, 2001."

From Wikipedia: iTunes Store

"It opened on April 28, 2003, as the iTunes Music Store"
It's advertising on their site. Of course it doesn't need to be "qualified" just because some evangelistic wished every site talked up their favorite products instead.
Find a hobby. Something that is completely mindless, and won't use any of the centers of your brain that you use for programming. If you do love programming, you may just be burnt out; if you are like me, you spend long stretches coding for most waking hours. Eventually you'll run risk of burning out.

Me, I build plastic robot models. It's no brain power at all, just precise physical motions. It's mindless and enjoyable, and at the end of the day you have something to show for it.

There's a lot of posts here saying take a break, but you really have to make sure that you are truly taking a break, and not just substituting programming with something else that uses the same parts of your brain.

edit: Here's one of the first models I built. Unpainted just to see what it looks like. http://www.flickr.com/photos/37553996@N07/sets/7215762298535...
I know there's a lot of hype around the Raspberry Pi, but it's interesting that you would mention it as a key component of open systems when it's a perfect example of half-closed:

* The BCM2835, the microprocessor used on the board, is not available to be purchased by hobbyists

* The full data sheet for the BCM2835 is not available without signing an NDA with Broadcom (and presumably that only happens when you have a commercial application)

* A schematic is available, but not the PCB layout

* The GPU drivers are a binary blob

The Beagleboard and the Arduino are much better examples of open hardware.
LoseThos throw exceptions. Not that many error code return values are used. Faults crash the CPU and usually cannot be recovered from. Crashing the CPU is not a big deal. The advantage is code that is an order of magnitude smaller, cleaner and simpler. DOS could crash. It was plenty usable.

Good error reporting is good.

Since I do not spawn a new process for each command in a script, the task's heap is given a work-out, being used on multiple commands and used for the text on the command-line buffer. Traditionally on other systems, a command doesn't even have to free memory -- it can just abort and everything is freed. Not so with LoseThos. You CAN make a new task for things, but that's not normal. SettingsPush/SettingsPop has become the defacto standard for bracketing applications, but it does not reset the heap.
> You can't charge for something that the user can just >build themselves for free.

Um, sure you can. Ubuntu, RedHat, and Slackware are quite successful at this already. Pat Volkerding has been doing it for as long as linux has existed (Slackware). Yes, someone can distribute the binaries, but they can't use the {Ubuntu, RedHat,Slackware} name.
> is it not possible to just have a python interpreter running in your game engine and only running vanilla Python code?

Sure, but it means much bigger swaths of C/C++ code
and your game app is no longer a python program that
imports some extension modules for performance critical
tasks or third party lib bindings.
You're absolutely right; I was mistakenly thinking of codeswarm. (http://www.michaelogawa.com/code_swarm/)
Here's one of your recent comments: "I really hope something awful happens to Apple over the next few years. They deserve it"

It's hard for me to think you are interested in any sort of adult conversation here.
Given that New Zealand scoffed at allowing US nuclear powered vessels to harbor at their ports, it is unlikely that anything short of direct military intervention will sway the New Zealand attitude. Any politician who is seen appeasing the US would likely answer to the electorate in the next cycle.
The article is from 19th (Before iPhone was released) where analysts expecting sales to be 10Million during weekend and 6 Million worst case scenario.
I agree that the criticism of the iPhone 5 was overblown, but I don't think these figures are a tremendous validation of the iPhone 5, either. The simple fact is that the vast majority of people are on two year cellphone plans, and it's been two years since the iPhone 4 came out. They took the upgrade in front of them.

The iPhone 5 was good enough that people didn't want to switch to Android, but that isn't the strongest compliment out there. IMO, Apple is simply benefitting from no-one else doing anything very interesting. I'd like to think that the Windows Phone devices from Nokia and HTC will change that, but at this point it may be too late.
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Why not donate to the maintainers of Debian, Software in the Public Interest? http://www.debian.org/donations
They are the root of all those awesome dpkg's that we all know and love.
Android O&M is a disaster is not changing anytime soon. Quibble on features out of the box if you like, but in end-to-end support the iPhone is still the hands down winner.

See http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan...
If it were truly a major failing, you'd see a press release. I haven't seen a single problem with it over the southeastern US. I'd expect the only people who know it's broken are those who have an issue nearby their house, or geeks who read articles about people who do. The 99%? Oblivious and happy.
There is also a lot more experience in the mobile space of using Lua than Python. That means a lot more blog posts and documentation.
This is so true! And yet the government's food pyramid was until recently promoting processed carbohydrates as the main dietary staple. While you can't really pick a diet scientifically, they all seem to agree this is the one group of foods you want to avoid.

As a side note, the government's new pyramid is even worse ... they've realigned the bars so you have no clue what percentage of each group is desireable. And their own literature totally ignores the yellow bar (what is it?). Check out http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/downloads/resource/... for a laughably meaningless info-graphic.
1. Perfect scrolling? Not in my experience with the iPad 3 (woops, "The new iPad").

2. Have you seen the list of requested permissions when you install an Android app? Not that there haven't been privacy issues with iOS.

3. No iTunes integration sounds like an advantage to me.

4. I get the feeling most Apple fanbois have never actually used an Android device, because I have never had to close apps to save battery life. No one has encouraged the use of task managers on Android in years.

And I don't see how an OS where you can't choose your browser or get built-in reliable maps or public transit info can be called "advanced"
Whilst the article mentions how countries like China restrict access to communication networks we should be under no illusions that nearly all major communication networks are ultimately still under the control of central government wherever you live. For the pendulum to permanently swing in favour of "freedom and democracy" we need a genuinely open network. Without an open network open devices, operating systems, software, etc could easily be neutered, if albeit in a rather draconian fashion by hitting the "off" switch. This can seem unlikely in any "free" nation, however this was almost a reality last year during the London riots. As those in power openly lamented the use of Blackberry's BBM network by the rioters (and various other communication networks) it was clear that the government came very close to ordering the service shutdown and I have no doubt it would have been had things deteriorated any further. Perhaps the great next swing might be those attempting to create decentralized mesh networks? One can hope.
It's actually worse than the worst case scenario predicted by analysts:

http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-5-opening-weekend-sale...
Why on earth would they mention that? I hope you're not ever looking for work in the PR industry.
Good stuff, thanks for getting out some good sources.
I just thought it was an interesting claim.
And I think it does need to be qualified at least to some extent.
http://www.bbb.org/us/bbb-code-of-advertising/#Do
Another angle unfortunately without a solid solution.

If I told people to associate me with one word (a subject), pretty much anyone who knows me would say the same word. I've spent over 10 years learning about it but I've become jaded because just like any subject, you can study about it and you can do it. It's the doing it that has made me jaded and that has effected my will to study it as well.

My best theory is that I simply never defined it for what it is and has been: a goal. In effect, I summited and now I just feel like I'm at the top looking at the view. The solution, it seems, will inevitably be to search out another mountain to summit.
Any particular video(s)? All I found was 'Simple Made Easy' and some other Clojure / Datomic related videos. Am I missing anything?
Apple has had some pretty huge privacy scandals over the past 2 years.
I went to liberal arts school and I thought it was great. I took a lot of philosophy, psychology and lit classes that honed my analytical thinking. And a computer science course I took to satisfy a math requirement got me started learning to program (that and a digital art class that focused on Processing). I also found my classmates to be some of the most interesting and intellectually curious people I've ever met. But I know this varies school to school. I've also met plenty of people who were disappointed with their liberal arts experience. For what it's worth I went to Reed.
They could have done integration without changing or runining the maps. But that was not decision (either because Google cut them off or because Apple did not want to continue negotiating with Google). And you know why the integration makes matters even worse? Because as there is no similar features to intents on Android, when you click on a direction on iOS it will always open it on Apple Maps, even if it doesn't find anything or show you London in Oklahoma when you are in the UK.

Secondly, AFAIK, the old Maps app was also done by Apple themselves, using Google's technology. The lack of features is not Google's fault, but Apple's. The same happened with the YouTube app, that was really behind Android, until Apple decided it was no longer developing it and Google took over. Seeing how Google behaves, I'm pretty sure that if they had the chance to add turn-by-turn navigation to the iPhone they would have done so.
How do you propose quantifying this?
The problem is, how keenly will the various services let something like Firefox take their newsfeed? This is exactly what Twitter for example is trying to prohibit with their ToS. Just sharing is a lot more durable.
Python is interpreted, but Objective-C is compiled. That is, a Python program is executed through the Python interpreter, yet an Objective-C program runs natively.

Although he may indeed be confused about "dynamic," since dynamic dispatch has nothing to do with the above, and is supported by all OO languages.
I like Apple gear, but I don't feel like giving them anymore of my business.
I love my iPhone 5, and think it's the most solid piece of electronics I've ever owned. Almost hate to put the thing in a case. As good as it is, there's a point everyone is overlooking when talking about the 5... the earpods. I've tried over 20 sets of earbuds to fit my weird ears, and all of them cause pain after half an hour or more of wear. I've been able to listen 4 hours straight on these earpods with no ill effects, and they sound amazing. For me, this was a definite value-add, and if the phone wasn't already enough to justify it, the included earpods sell it for sure.
The market tends to agree with you AAPL is down ~1.2% as of 13:41 utc
And would it be possible to configure it to use my own "cloud"?