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TLDR: I'm pissed that a standard with significant new features that is less than a year old doesn't have enough mature implementations yet
> would anybody like to give a TL;DR synopsis?

It says: The TLDR lifestyle kills you.
> That they now allow you to pay to promote is secondary to the original origin of why the Newsfeed works like it works.

Sure they had to scale it back, but the conflict of interests is real. People don't necessarily want to see only posts from those who are willing to pay. It's not that I begrudge them the opportunity to make money, but I think this clearly weakens Facebook's usefulness to users.

It's one thing if Facebook is filtering to show me the posts with the most organic engagement in order to decrease noise in my feed. It's completely different if some of the pages I follow have very little chance of reaching me based solely on their inability or unwillingness to pay for access. OA hyperbole notwithstanding, I think Facebook are overreaching here.
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C++11 is indeed a new language, but C++0x was being defined in public (And well, it's not like Herb Sutter would lack inside info either) and it was decently well known what it would contain years in advance. So it's not like the compiler team only could start implementing it last year.

Popular vendors taking many years to implement new language standards is a huge problem. It means fragmentation and lack of progress for years to come.
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UK support for US drones in Pakistan may be war crime, court is told
For a free service is sure does come at a cost. I get people I don't know commenting on photos of my 1 year old because a friend posted it to their wall.
After college, I gave all my Facebook "friends" the grocery store test. If I would avoid them if I saw them in a grocery store before they saw me, I deleted them as a friend. Keeps my "top" and "most recent" stories pretty equal, tbh.

And if any brand is overwhelming the newsfeed, it becomes pretty easy to make the decision to unlike their page
As someone who would have liked an 11" MBAir but got the 13" because there isn't enough space in the 11" to hold batteries to run an x86 cpu as long as I'd like, this makes sense to me.

There's only one way to go thinner, smaller, or lighter on their laptops at this point, outside of some huge breakthrough in battery technology.

What doesn't make sense, though, is apps (built for x86)...
Though an app-store-only model (and requiring ARM builds for inclusion in the app store) is not entirely out of the question, iOS style. Back to the Mac, indeed.

I don't know if an x64->ARM translation layer for the transition is feasible, performance-wise, though - perhaps someone with more knowledge of the architecture can chime in here.
yawn

You have to be delusional to believe that Facebook will change the functionality of a major feature because of a few people who are complaining about it on Hacker News.
Why shouldn't the government keep tabs on a group whose professed ideology is the elimination of government?
> The year Apple became the biggest company in the world, successfully accused Samsung of plagiarism in court, and finally released the iPhone 5 — a beautifully fine-tuned device.

"Plagiarism"? Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, but this is horrible reporting. They successfully accused Samsung of many things, but none of them were even similar to plagiarism.
Such as?

Edit: Oops! Caught you before your edit. Thanks!
We know for a fact the tablet thing and the phone statement are both bullshit. They'd had prototypes in development for years and at the time of those quotes.
Thanks for this, extremely cool. I feel like I just relearned a lot of things I had forgotten/skipped out on in grade school.
So what? Annoying pages can get un-liked, and the problem will work itself out. But if someone is a "Fan" of the brand and wants to see all of their 15 posts in a day, it's frustrating they can't. The default in Facebook is always "Most Popular", and even when I change it to "Most Recent" (to see the long tail of my friends activities, since I don't trust Facebook), Facebook always sets it back.
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Wouldn't it be a $4 CPK?
> I don't know if an x64->ARM translation layer for the transition is feasible, performance-wise, though - perhaps someone with more knowledge of the architecture can chime in here.

It's completely feasible. The problem I see is that mapping 64-bit addresses into a 32-bit space is expensive. I can't think of anything in ARM that will make things more performant at the moment, but I'm sure there's some sort of way to pull it off. If OS X binaries are relocatable by default, that'd be an easy solution.
>the entire stock market is a ponzi scheme

It isn't "my logic", it's the definition of a Ponzi scheme: early investors were paid out by later investors, with the bottom falling out for the later investors. That hasn't happened, because the story is still unwinding. It might not ever happen. It will only be obvious in hindsight.

Besides, I own many stocks, and they return income to me.

>Buying a share does not give you the right to future profits in a company.
>it gives you ownership and control over a percentage of the corporation

For someone critical of "logic", those two statements contradict each other.

A company is expected to be profitable, and owning a stake in it entitles me to a share of those profits. What do you think Zynga is promising when they sell me a share of the company at IPO? Do you really think they are saying, "Here's part of this company. It might make money, or it might not, but perhaps someone will buy it from you for a higher price at a later date"?

Good luck with your portfolio if you base it on a different philosophy.

>Whether or not they bought a lemon is the fault of the public investor.

Well, I'm sure the SEC would disagree with you on that statement.

>It is _not_ a ponzi scheme, it is the exchange of assets.

One does not preclude the other. Ponzi's original fraud involved the exchange of assets. The scam is in what they tell me the asset is worth and what it is actually worth.
Neither did I say so: if the US tells them 'this does not comply for this & that' there they go: free counseling....

Yes I do not trust them. A.T.a.l.l.

Have you even taken a look at the crappy code they ship their routers with? Take your time

http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materi...
You are useless in Canada without Interac (debit, but not really from a US POV [1]). This is the number one choice of payment in Canada. Hell, I don't even carry cash anymore because Interac is near universal.

It's going to be difficult to gain traction for Square if they are offering businesses a solution that only provides half of what the competition does, even if it is cheaper.

Square has - unless they know something they aren't saying - massively misunderstood the reality of the marketplace in Canada. It is not the US with funny tax laws. In the realm of consumer banking/payment, we are light years ahead of the US in certain key ways.

1. In Canada, our bank/atm cards are our debit cards. The entire system is linked with a joint network called Interac. When you open a bank account you get a chip/PIN enabled card that allows you to make direct withdraws from ATMs, as well as instantly buy something from a terminal at a store. Credit Card providers are shut out of this system, and its 100% penetration with Canadian banks has made it the primary consumer choice for payments. Yes, security is a bit of an issue, hence the high rate of chip adoption in Canada. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac
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Does this article seem to you as if it's interested in something resembling fair and balanced journalism? It seems to be linkbait for apple fanboys.
That wasn't my argument, the statement you are attributing to me is obviously false since my banana doesn't run Photoshop and it's not a PC.

My statement is in response to the claim 'Surface is not a PC because it won't have Photoshop on it'; I do not think that is a compelling argument. My statement isn't trying to go all the way to say that WinRT is a Desktop replacement, it's merely that single argument shouldn't lead you to the conclusion that it isn't.

That WinRT itself won't have Photoshop on it is probably already false if the platform succeeds at all (there is already a reduced version of Adobe Photoshop for iPad, Adobe would make a less-reduced version for RT if the demand is there and the hardware supports it). Even assuming it is, lack of Adobe Photoshop doesn't automatically make something not a viable desktop replacement for 99.9% of people.

It looks like they are pushing Surface as something to be used with a keyboard (at least more so that iPad). That seems like a reasonable thing to call out in marketing as why this device might be able to replace the desktop for some users when an iPad fell short.

Any new version of anything is going to leave out some percentage of the users unless it is a strict superset of the old functionality. Apple Maps are totally useless to anyone who only used Google Maps for public transit. It's totally ridiculous to make the claim that Apple Maps isn't a viable replacement for Google Maps based solely on the fact that for a specific fairly small set of users it isn't a viable option; Apple Maps is still a viable replacement for the vast majority of users.
But now you are posting off-topic comments to that sensationalist post. This does harm to your credibility as a complaining customer, frankly, because now it seems you have an ulterior motive for complaining so loudly.

Personally, I downvoted the comment and suggest you delete it.
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I understand why people are frustrated, but you are failing to identify the root cause of their frustation: they were getting something of value (PR for businesses, sharing of personal information, etc.) from Facebook for free, and now they're complaining because Facebook wants to charge them for it.

Guess what: Facebook owns their site, their servers, and their PR mechanisms. It's up to them what things to charge for, how to control the distribution of information that you put on their servers, etc. If someone doesn't like it, they can pay to set up their own social network.

Edit: Oh, and "bait and switch" isn't really accurate. You aren't Facebook's customer. You're just a user. You agreed to let them change their services without your consent when you signed up for your account.
>'I despise it.' Hear that beleaugered holders of Facebook stock? That kind of talk would make my blood run cold. How many companies can you name that you actively despise?

Actually? Quite a few. I despise Comcast. I despise the big-4 cell phone companies (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint). I despise the oil companies (BP, Chevron, Texaco, et. al). Notice a pattern? Despite my (and presumably many others) despising these companies, they are all enormously profitable. I think Facebook has got to the state where they at least think they have a monopoly on their users' social graphs and are willing to raise access prices sky-high. I'm not surprised it happened. I'm surprised it took this long.
It looks like most of the comments are about how the 3D scrolling text does not work in this or that browser. Detecting support for CSS3 3D transforms is nontrivial (and perhaps impossible).

We deployed something similar on the homepage at http://art.sy. I wrote a post about our struggles detecting CSS3 3D transform support here: http://artsy.github.com/blog/2012/10/18/so-you-want-to-do-a-...

Our code https://github.com/zamiang/detect-css3-3d-transform
It's Not The Color of Your Parachute That Matters
> This "product" meme is inaccurate and misleading. You are the product in the same way that Lebron James is the NBA's product, the same way that a top partner at Goldman Sacs is the product, the same way that Justin Bieber is the product, and the same way that you yourself is the product every time you apply for a job interview or raise funds.

I think this comparison is valid, but realize that most people are not a Lebron James or a Justin Bieber and they have very little ability to influence a company directly. In fact, for record labels and the NBA, there have been numerous examples of smaller players getting a bad deal or being screwed over. Being a user or consumer of a service does not mean that the service provider is looking to treat you well.
You need to be in multiple regions to tolerate EC2 outages, not just multiple AZs. Even then, this is only good until AWS's first multi-region failure; this doesn't seem to be an impossible event given EC2's recent track record. Though I can well understand that designing for EC2 region failure is not worth the cost for most systems.
My guess it's using some tech similar to ZFS. Creating a 4GB log drive for writing, and the rest as a cache drive. Sounds like they abandoned the adaption of ZFS to make their own interpretation.
I didn't ask for a marketing pitch.

I just wanted to point out that your free product lacks a critical, basic feature. Many passenger-users don't seem to be aware that they are serving HTTP 502/503 error pages to their users during every deploy unless they pay $10 per server and month for your convenience.
Very fun/cool UI. It's surprisingly reminiscent of Metro, err, Windows 8 Style UI. You could wrap an iPhone in some clumsy metal/plastic Windows phone wrapper from a year ago and you'd have no idea what OS was powering this.
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Yep, and it is bad.
After the Application Process is over, I'd appreciate it if you'd collect your emails and add them the blog.

I'm not planning to apply, but I always enjoy reading quality posts.
April of 1803 was a big month for the US.

From Wikipedia:

> The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($233 million in 2011 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
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If one is determined to use the more exotic features of C++ this will happen, I've had code that the MS compiler coped with and GCC didn't, so it cuts both ways. If one is going to write cross platform code, you do this research up front then restrict yourself to commonly supported features, going template wild then moaning about it on a blog seems a little short sited to me.
Thieves "bug" debit card PIN pads in 63 Barnes & Noble stores
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Doesn't even have to be static to put nginx in front of it! As long as you can set proper cache headers from your script (in this case Drupal, and I imagine it does), you can cache even dynamic-ish sites quite well!
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Every time I read "military-grade" on one of their pages, my head twitches.
Since your whole product hinges on HTTPS, you might want to tweak a couple things:

1. Disable TLS compression. (it's currently on)

2. Disable CBC-based ciphersuites. (they're currently enabled, or higher priority than RC4)

3. Get more than one IP address to host your site, preferably distributed to a different part of the world. It seems you've got two separate amazon IPs, one for www.stormpath.com and one for stormpath.com; i'm not sure if those are anycast addresses but I doubt it. I really hope they're not in the US East/Virginia zone, since it goes down about once a year (which makes your 100% availability guarantee for enterprise customers impossible)

4. Your main cert has SANs for stormpath.com, www.stormpath.com, api.stormpath.com, ci.stormpath.com, repository.stormpath.com. I know that makes it easier to manage, but when one of these hosts gets compromised and its private key stolen, the whole kit and caboodle is compromised.

5. Implement DNSSEC and IPv6. Your public sector clients will get a kick out of it.
Unfortunately this isn't even getting close to the longest time for people to be imprisoned for contempt of court. The US record goes to Mr. Chadwick[1] at 14 years. I certainly do agree that these cases don't seem in line with a properly operating system of justice.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick
Salesforce.com Just Laid Off A Bunch Of Radian6 Employees
I find it hard to believe. It's not that it's a bad idea, it's just that Macs seem still too much of a ghetto, and Windows is still too successful, and I'd have imagined Boot Camp to be a reasonable draw. The fate of Windows 8 may change things, but for now, I bet far, far more people bought a Mac because it could run Windows software than didn't buy a PC because it couldn't run Mac software. And I bet that this number is significant enough to care about.

But, who knows? My sample set is fairly small. I'm sure Apple have a better idea than me about the truth of any these suppositions.
Apple apparently abandoned ZFS to adopt specific subsets of the technology. Someone else mentioned 4 GB of the SSD is for write cache (log device). Guessing the other XGB is the traditional cache device.

Should really improve daily usage performance. Makes sense their benchmarks only go to 4GB.
I wonder if the Federal Government is more afraid of the Cascadian movement than we know? Where is my tin foil hat?
The biggest surprise was how indifferent the Mini is.. $429 for the 32GB model versus $249 for the soon-to-be-announced 32GB Nexus 7, and with inferior hardware (much lower resolution screen, half the RAM, slower processor, etc). I hope for Apple's sake that this isn't a sign of things to come now that Cook is in charge.

I was never a fan of Jobs, but I have to hand it to him that he always upped the ante with new product releases. With the Mini, Apple bring an inferior product late to the party.
It will be backwards compatible. :-)
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> If Facebook does things that alienate users, then those products will walk off the shelf

Hasn't happened yet, from what I can see.
Another way of seeing it is that all the other major compilers (gcc, clang, icc) have good support but Microsoft's compiler, the one that best integrates with the Windows ecosystem, does not.
Users don't care about bug fixes
Rfc-ignorant database / DNSBL shutting down
Dont kill, move :)
:/ One of Britain/the UK might be more interesting.

Also, where's Alaska?
These services are great to help manage your time and attention. Of course, there is one big downside to these things: price. Using services like this aggressively is very expensive compared to doing laundry yourself, cooking more often, or using fixed cost transit (e.g. MTA or bike). Folks that can't afford to spend on those services tend to do it themselves or form close knit contacts that they can pool with to do some of these things (pooling laundry, sharing leftovers from cooked meals, etc.).
I don't understand how you can not understand. You are in part responsible for this terrible software. Which is horribly bloated and inefficient and runs like crap. So it is in your best interests to try to pretend anyone who has a terrible experience with it is "doing something unusual and different". The reality is we're talking about a setup that is about as simple as wordpress can be. The fact that "as simple as wordpress can be" is an insanely complex monstrosity doesn't let people who said "we can handle your complex wordpress installs no problem" off the hook.
What's the big deal?

$75 for a 17-30K user reach is $0.0044 per user or less.

I actually think that's a good deal if you're announcing a new product or important product update.
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All joking aside, because the government is created by the people to serve the people. It is not in the slightest sense the job of the government to sustain itself. That behaviour is the sole result of overpaid, power-hungry politicians who don't want to have to go find a real job.
tldr: Facebook suddenly decides to monetize further the folks who outsourced their consumer relations.

Can't really do anything here other than sigh and shake head.
"It is popular" does not in any way contradict my statement which was "it is a pile of shit". Internet explorer used to "power the internet" too. It was also a colossal pile of shit.
That's exactly what I was thinking. If you like a fan page you should expect to get stuff from it.
I don't get mails from facebook saying someone posts stuff, I only get notifications up on the little globe icon so I don't care when Princess Bride or Pulp Fiction sends out little pictures of whatever. It's not annoying at all. (Unlike farmville requests, which I swear I block these apps weekly but they always notify me anyway)
Well, not quite, because those features were "accepted" and public and well known and available in basically final form to implement for many years.

So it's not like the standard came out and everyone was like "whoa, new stuff we have to do". It came out piece by piece, and at some point was declared done.
Like HTML5, only more organized and it got finished :)

This is why, for example, GCC and clang have had mature implementations in them for years.

In fact, GCC/Clang/et al having implementations was pretty much a pre-req to finishing the standard because they were used to discover bugs and issues in the proposed standard.

(edit: I'm simplifying a bit, since GCC, et al have had to make bug fixes for draft vs final incompatibilities and bugs that were discovered, but they are still relatively mature)
Readable programs
Setting up and email or IM client to save your emails and IMs is pretty easy. Google Drive has a desktop client that syncs some documents in real-time (although it excludes documents made in Google Docs itself). You can use Picasa to sync photos from Instant Upload (which is inexplicably not integrated with Google Drive yet). I think that just leaves music... did I miss anything?