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The difference is (at least for now) that I actually get more useful apps on my iPhone. And if that changes, then in 3 years I'll get an Android. For now though, it seems that iOS remains more attractive for developers, and that's what keeps it more attractive for me as well.

I am worried about what will happen if a company that doesn't get the majority of its profits from hardware "wins," but on the other hand — the most recent turn of the real "mac vs PC" doesn't really seem that bad for Macs either.
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That's just the author's style and there's nothing wrong with it, except that you don't like it.
> My personal reasoning is that carriers are pushing low end Android phones as the standard handset you get when you walk in the door

Here's another way of looking at it: There is product competition, and Apple is losing.
Range voting at its worst turns into approval voting. RV is not an ordered list voting system, so Arrow's theorem, the Gibbard–Satterthwaite thorem, and Condorcet's paradox do not strictly apply.

For ranked ballot voting systems, there's a difference in what kinds of tactical voting are possible, and in how likely it is for tactical voting to improve your perception of the outcome (baysian regret comparison of honest vs tactical voting). Ranked voting systems are not all equivalently bad simply because they're each subject to some kinds of tactical voting.

I think Condorcet is promising (among all the ranked-ballot methods) because the Condorcet principle is easy to agree with. The choice of cycle-breaking method is where the fault lines appear, but new cycle-breaking methods could attract a consensus.
DetectSyntax
- DetectSyntax is a plugin for Sublime Text 2 that allows you to detect the syntax of files that might not otherwise be detected properly. https://github.com/phillipkoebbe/DetectSyntax

jQuery
- This is a Sublime Text bundle to help with jQuery functions. https://github.com/SublimeText/jQuery

Prefixr
- Runs CSS through Prefixr.com API http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/prefixr

SideBarEnhancements
- Enhancements to Sublime Text sidebar. Files and folders. https://github.com/titoBouzout/SideBarEnhancements

SublimeLinter
- Inline lint highlighting for the Sublime Text 2 editor https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter

Xdebug
- Xdebug Interface for Sublime Text 2 https://github.com/Kindari/SublimeXdebug
""Am I missing something about it? Is it just more familiarity with the older language that makes it more comfortable?""

Yes, I would say - you did miss something. C++ does come with the STL, and "saves you" from having to bring-your-own/be responsible for a package of well-tested basics, it is true.

But, then again, if you have been coding C long enough, probably there is a lot of code you've got in your suite that represents powers beyond the STL. I've got a small hashlib/assoc-array header or two which, fundamentally, has been all I've needed to write performant code on whatever subject my applications are addressing.

I agree that there should be a 'layer' by which programmers are protected from systems-level thinking, but then again I think in this day and age, it is a good thing to delete cruft, effective C management (i.e. you know your libs because you also wrote them, and so on..) allows for very nicely maintainable code. Even in this day and age of "point phone at t-shirt to install web 2.x.x" style deployment, I am glad to have good C chops. Still.
I guess this is pretty different from person to person, but this would be my ideal workplace:

- Small offices (1-2 people) with doors that close
- Long, streight desks (for pair programming), height-adjustable (standing desks)
- Many small "meeting" areas for ad-hoc meetings
- At least 2 large monitors per workstation
- Walls, cupboards, ... covered in whiteboard foil
- Lots of plants
Man secretly filmed female flatmates in shower, Dubai court told
4) Flora and other mate brands are slowly getting accepted as well. Less carbon.
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2010/0...

We've had a few issues with covert cameras in parts of Birmingham. The latest on the story above is that the removal and disposal of the cameras will cost a further £300k on top of the £3m to fit.

Returning to the original article; in the UK, this guy would be having a conversation with the police rather quickly, especially if he appears to be targeting individuals.
This is a fairly solid overview: http://works.bepress.com/aaron_edlin/74/

Basically what falls apart is that once the predation period is over, the predator can't block other firms from entering.
The article seems to gather a number of unrelated assumptions and keeps repeating them until they must be true.

For instance, a statement like "...the radical rewrite that is the GNOME 3 desktop seems to have pleased almost no one." is backed up with no data at all. And that's exactly the problem. Without data, who is anyone to claim that GNOME is gaining or losing users? Or market share, for that matter. Personally I love GNOME 3, but what I personally think doesn't matter one bit.

And while I respect Linux (sic) Torvalds as much as anyone, the fact that he is a kernel hacker means he is as far away from GNOME's desired target audience as anyone could be. His dislike of GNOME 3 could almost be seen as a positive sign.

I think the articles touches on many interesting things, such as:

- How and why did a number of distributions decide to go their own way? How does GNOME plan to respond? Maybe being the default for a smaller number of distros means less restrictions and less need for compromise, who knows.

- GNOME seems to focus on being great on touch devices, but how will they end up on those devices if they don't sell hardware?

- How can GNOME measure its success to know they're heading the right way? How do they define "success"? If it's the number of users, how can it gather usage data?

Those are the things I'd like to know more about. Not empty claims of users leaving in droves, or the suggestion that the only way GNOME will survive would be to return to its old ways (because back in the day, GNOME 2 dwarfed Windows and OS X, right?).

(I've read it a number of times now, and I am still completely in the dark as to how Apple ties in to all this. Surely Apple must be important, since it's mentioned in the title.)
Not "Apple" but "Apple's poisonous touch". It refers to the touch interface (made popular by Apple), not Apple as a company.

The title matches the article very well, burying whatever substance there might be in innuendo.
There is none — the title is misleading linkbait. The article only mentions Apple twice, and even then it doesn't explain what "Apple's poisonous touch" has to do with GNOME 3 being almost universally disliked — or as the title puts it, "killed" (which is also completely untrue).
Flamebait article with a lot of factual errors:

Article confuses GNOME 3 with GNOME Shell (Linux Mint and Ubuntu both use GNOME 3 the framework). Both the UI and the framework went through a huge transition, both arguably hurt the developers and the users.

Nokia's abandonement of GNOME has nothing to do with GNOME 3. SUSE was a KDE distro from the very start, years ago. Ubuntu not shipping with GNOME 3 the UI by default is less to do with GNOME Shell and more to do with Ubuntu pushing their own thing (valid strategy, but not a response to GNOME 3 mess). The only major distro to react to GNOME 3 disruption is Linux Mint - which had to do so because both Unity and Shell weren't there yet.

Back to Apple envy and "poisonous touch" - whoever paid attention to what's going on with GNOME development knows there was (is?) much more Web "envy" (or rather panic: "it's going to render the desktop obsolete!"). In fact, I'd say Apple in this case served as an example of an ecosystem that successfully pushed against the web and obsolesence of desktop (or rather "native") apps.
Nice trolling, shows how violent and ignorant of surveillance (both the CCTV kind and from whatever existing and new gadgets bring us) society is...

Do you ever wonder how many times your "private conversation" was listened in on or recorded by some stranger (with his mobile phone e.g.), accidentally or on purpose?

The point about celebrities having to endure these things every day is excellent too ...
For the record, "works for me" is the least useful way of addressing someone's concerns. Way back when I worked in QA, I absolutely hated the WORKSFORME status in Bugzilla.
Public Service Announcement about Image-/Graphicsmagick ;)

Imagemagick/Graphicsmagick have a batch image manipulation tool called mogrify. For example "mogrify -format jpeg -geometry 512 -quality 75 -path other/dir/ *.png". There usually is no need for any awkward loops that use convert once per image.

Posting this here since the linked site requires Javascript for comments.
I don't feel like you've addressed my questions yet, though. Unlike in the Microsoft scenario, I don't see any significant barriers keeping a user from switching to a competing product. There are other search engines, certainly ones that don't promote other Google services. Google makes it pretty easy to download your data and leave if you want to. So doesn't the continuing success of Google as a search engine suggest that users continue to like the results being returned?
Revealing the Hidden Biases Against Free Software
You've just discovered this? Honestly, Aristotle's ethics is all about habits: keeping and nurturing 'good' habits (virtues) and preventing 'bad' ones (vices)...

So... welcome to maturity.
> …but I'm sure that's mainly due to terrorism and security related reasons.

It's mainly due to terrorism and security excuses, not real reasons.
Why do you feel safer just because every surveillance camera is "passive"? If you walk along a street, you will still be "followed" by the surveillance system over multiple cameras.

Also, think about surveillance drones - they are coming: http://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-drone-surveillance-napolitano-156...
Likewise, unless you're actually in the labelled IT department or technical support etc then you're not really IT, right?
I'd be interested, could you share some papers/articles?
The fact that Android has more features than iOS doesn't really mean anything. There were existing smartphones that had more features than the iPhone at it's launch. It was the quality of the implementation of these features that made it stand out.

Now clearly Android is a far more capable OS than the smart phones OS's of 2007, but in some ways it still lags iOS. One that matters to me for example is the lack of a good low latency audio API. Audio production apps are very popular on iOS and some of them are ground breaking. This matters far more to me than NFC or wireless charging.

In addition, although Google plans to add (or maybe already has) a better audio API, there will be a huge lag before there are enough devices with the new API available, so most developers won't bother porting.

On the other hand, it's easy for Apple to add wireless charging or NFC since they're mostly hardware.

To address the original post, I don't think this is like Mac vs Windows. Apple is making a large share of the industry profits, and unless Android developers start suddenly making considerably more money than iOS developers it still has greater developer mindshare. Also, the premium Apple is charging for it's devices is less than it was for the Mac vs PCs duing the 80s/90s, and most of it is swallowed by the carriers.

I think it's clear Apple isn't going dominate the sales numbers, but I don't see any signs of iOS dwindling to near obscurity like MacOS did during the 90s.
The one that Apple holds two positions in for arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities?
> Linux Torvalds himself called GNOME 3 "an unholy
> mess", going on to add that he's never met anyone
> who likes it.

Stay classy, El Reg.
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I agree with you, having the ability to script everyday tasks is awesome, though however in the case of the ssh wrapper it might be a little overkill, given that you can achieve the same (and more) with a ssh_config file [1] [2]. I would particularly recommend the ControlMaster option.

[1] http://nerderati.com/2011/03/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-...
[2] http://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config
Ask HN: Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately
Hello Hacker News,

A fellow HN'er (who has to remain anon for a bit) is in serious trouble in India. She's been taken into police custody to be presented in front of a magistrate without representation. We URGENTLY need a lawyer on the ground in Delhi but it being Sunday there found that it is very hard to reach anybody there.

If you have contacts in Delhi or are in Delhi yourself please help us to find a competent criminal lawyer in the next few hours.

You can reach us through j@ww.com phone + 31 6 30 366 241

Jacques Mattheij (jacquesm) & Daniel Tenner (swombat).
The Birthday Paradox and its relevance to computer hashing.
How do downloaders pay?

What is the target market?
If LEO themselves record everything all the time, the cameraman will just pan or zoom away from police abuse, and if not, records will just disappear. They have no incentive to present an accurate picture and plenty of incentive not to do so, esprit de corps etc.
Buried in a very misleading article is a good point:

> (Apple) did not rewrite the OS X desktop that runs on Macs, nor did it try to re-imagine the desktop computing paradigm. Apple created something entirely new that was always designed with touch screens in mind.

I have never understood why traditional desktops must adopt to touch screen based GUIs. Why can't both be independently developed? Why is Microsoft and Canonical trying to unify seemingly unrelated user input paradigms?
I'm using OSX as things just work on it and the last thing I need is friction working with my OS - but every day I'm finding it harder to justify my relationship with Apple.

It's hard to believe with so many big players around that the choice is so limited right now.
Woz? Is that you?
They don't have to grow ecosystem, it's Samsung store would be just another site to upload your app beside Google's and Amazon's.
What Does it Mean to be Simple?
This is no joke. The case is driven by people who are influential with the police/judicial in Delhi. We need to get solid legal help on the ground before this person arrives in Delhi (in about 3 hours).

Please help.

Edit: some answers to common questions:

- It is not a good idea to discuss the details of the case right now. There is a police case, it is completely made up as an excuse to get hold of the person we're talking about (I've seen the case filing). The main charge is kidnapping, and she's the victim - but somehow she still gets arrested. India for the win.

- She's an Indian national.

- We need a professional, influential, trustworthy lawyer and are willing to pay (reasonable fees).
It's possible that you'd miss a theoretically possible "good company with a bad HR department" although one can argue that they wouldn't remain a good company for very long...
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I know this is sounds strange, but cubes can be nice from an operations standpoint. It gives you access to other cube mates fairly easily, which is essential in trying to keep stuff running.

While I would prefer a private or semi-private office, keep in mind there comes a point where you're growing and there's not enough offices. You either live with it for a while and you end up with new hires getting stuck in crazy places, or you have to move offices which is a pain.

Given the choice between sitting in an entranceway of 3 private offices (basically a larger room chopped into 3 private offices, with shared space in between), or in a cube, I'd pick the cube. That same business then decided that they needed cubes, so they destroyed 3 private offices, and stuck in cubes. Since the room wasn't designed for that, the cube arrangement was strange and not conducive to working together.

From experience, avoid whiteboard wallpaper. It gets trashy and it's hard to replace because it's glued to the wall. You also don't have a tray for your markers.

Height adjustable desks are amazing, having gone through an office upgrade that included the installation of them. My old fixed desk wasn't exactly the right height, so you have to make all sorts of other ergo adjustments.
I don't think it's the UK; they wouldn't be that open it. Minor details of random government bodies (or police departments) people able to demand data from ISPs without a court order are usually hidden away in some "think about the children" act.

There are various bodies (perhaps fewer now than maybe 5 years ago, though) that have the power just to demand data from an ISP without a court order.
If Nate Silver is right, then there is no reason to pay any further attention to the election (other than showing up and voting of course). That means fewer people watching or reading the news and their advertisements.
Head outside the major cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, etc.) and these kind of vehicles are exceptionally rare.
Or anything running XCFE or LXDE.
> Can someone comment on whether or not he is actually breaking any laws? Especially when simply recording on public streets?

IANAL but the main difference between surveillance video and his supposed demonstration here is that he is publishing them for public viewing.

I expect that would require a release form of some kind to be signed as as such is violating some laws.

The act of videoing itself is probably not against the law, but doing it without the express permission of the subjects with the view of publishing it later, is.
Full license, including the name, access to Play, all Google apps is between $10 and $20 per device. The license comes with a very good rate for every online search made from an Android phone or tablet.
Harish here.
I am calling some people up. In case I find something, will send you an email on the email ID posted on your profile.
Take care.
Of course there is, e.g. any government/public funded mobile app will have to be developed on Android first or only.
> If somebody else wires up a server in their closet and rents it out to me, that's a cloud. The cloud means not having to think about things like hard drives failing, and keeping hot spares of servers.

Pre-cloud that was called "hosting" :P
That makes it sound worse than it was: it wasn't a desktop is with e.g. floating windows. It did have trappings of windows 95 that didn't belong: start menu, task bar, systray

But, apps were full screen. The biggest impediment was internet explorer couldn't render standard webpages that the desktop version could. That and resistive touch sucked.
Usually, before we get a lawyer to agree to represent anyone, and in this case, a foreigner in India (EDIT: Indian national), the lawyer should be briefed on the skeleton of the case at least before he can take an informed decision, whether to take on the case.

You need to provide some cursory details of the case, before this gains some amount of traction at least.
I'm a fairly strong privacy advocate, but even I don't think this particular kind of legislation is being implemented with malicious intent.

It does serve a purpose, helping bring an awful lot of people to justice. By that I don't mean people committing mundane 'crimes' like copyright infringement, but serious criminals like murderers and rapists are often caught out, or at least have the case against them strengthened, by their online search histories, or the location of their cell phone when an incident took place, or SMS messages they sent to accomplices, so on and so forth.
Why Jony Ive Shouldn't Kill Off Apple's Skeuomorphic Interfaces
They're valid points.

I believe that Microsoft's business model benefited from the fact that it sold an OS which did not require manufacturer customization. It allowed hardware manufacturer's to focus on supply and demand and avoid the software development process, e.g. Dell could grow without acquiring software development expertise.

At the time, Microsoft was not trying to monetize the toolchain in the conventional manner Digital Research was pursuing.
> - How can GNOME measure its success to know they're heading the right way?

For the "right way" they actually do user testing / design / trying to simplify specific workflows for an average person. You'll hear about it sometimes on the mailing lists, but if they publish anything it's usually only the result. While the lack of opennes there is annoying, at least they're doing something.

> If it's the number of users, how can it gather usage data?

I hope that the downloads per version and per distribution that uses gnome3 gives some data. (although it's dirty data, affected by many other effects)

> - GNOME seems to focus on being great on touch devices, but how will they end up on those devices if they don't sell hardware?

Yeah... that's the question I'd really like to find the answer to. Maybe the idea is that normal desktops will just become touch devices in some time (HP Touchsmart / MS Surface style). But that's a gamble and I haven't seen that claim made officially yet.
Using a 64-bit hash space, it only takes a billion objects to have a 2.6% chance of a collision, two billion objects to have a 10% chance of a collision.
I am also working a few contacts but as far as I can remember right now none of them is based in Delhi.

edit: Two guys in Delhi are actively looking.
I have also reached out to a few people - in the human rights/criminal law space - in Delhi. Will update you as soon as I hear back.
Wooga (Zynga's biggest competitor) is also in the gaming industry.
I recently tried GNOME 3.4 for about a month. I liked it right away: it's pretty and it's practical. I stopped using it because it slowed down my (old, granted) computer horribly after a few days (memory leak?). Restarting the computer made it feel faster again, but I like keeping the machine on all the time (I usually only restart when there's a kernel update in my distro). I went back to LXDE and my machine feels so much faster: even freshly started, before a few days of slowdown, GNOME 3.4 is slower than LXDE, and I use mostly the same programs on both: chromium, evince, gvim, empathy, totem, etc.
Why make a `chan string` rather than a `chan bool`?

Also, "quiter" would be better spelled "quitter".

It's a good demonstration of how nice Go can be for that sort of thing. Now I just want to see a Rust example.
I also discovered that forming habits doesn't mean it takes 21 days or 30 days or whatever nice round number people like to trout. To me, by 21 days to 30 days, something I am trying to make a habit is well on its way to becoming a habit.

I managed to add a bunch of habits such as doing math at khanacademy, writing 500 words a day, measuring data points on my body such as blood sugar, weight, steps, sleeping time, pulse rate, and blood pressure.
> And don't give me the BS that Gnome cares about UX, they don't.

I don't know why I'm bothering to respond to such a ridiculous and unsubstantiable claim, but there's actual evidence in the form of work product that GNOME cares about UX. It can be found here https://live.gnome.org/Design/Contribute
Posted on Facebook, I urge the rest of you to do the same. I have a lot of international friends so hopefully I'll be able to help too.