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For some reason I'm reminded of Colonel Carthcart in Catch-22[1], who continually raised the number of missions crew had to fly to complete a tour of duty.

It's almost like the Whitehouse put the site up to listen to and respond to the people that elected them, but has to raise the barriers so that it doesn't have to listen to and respond to the people that elected them. If that's not Catch-22 in the US government, then I'm not sure what is.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
Couldn't quite wrap my head around this - they've been going for 17 years. Did they even have the internet on computers back then?
Well, TheVerge (who is kinda the best tech-thingy now) did a live coverage http://live.theverge.com/facebook-see-what-were-building-eve... and two main stories yesterday (one hands on using it http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/15/3880004/facebook-graph-sea... and other arguing about how it competes with yelp, google and linkedin http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/15/3879520/facebook-tackles-g...

Techmeme is still flooded with articles http://www.techmeme.com/130115/p31#a130115p31
Thanks for the comment, I'm Chris (designer on Draft).

So there were a couple of reasons for doing this but the main one was scratching my own itch (so to speak). I was getting tired of emails back & forth with clients for feedback and although I had tried some alternatives, including some of the ones you mentioned, I never found one that fit my particular workflow.

I guess we'll see about the market size and if there is room for this or not :)
This works also for anything from guns to nuclear bombs.
Holy shit - If any one from google would like to give me a shot with some of these I would be more than receptive. Have been kicking ideas about ever since I first heard of these in 2011.
I've been looking for good chinese devs - any chance of forwarding me their details? Thanks!
Maybe Unity, even though it's a game engine it should be able to do everything a multimedia diskmag is supposed to do.
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I was in the university a couple of decades ago. I no longer have library access.
Thanks Michael, we put a lot of thought into how we could present the app to people so I'm glad you picked up on all of our little ideas :)
> Aaron died because he decided suicide was the best course of action.

People suffering from depression are not rational.

I don't mean that "I can't make sense of this decision therefore they aren't rational", but people having recovered from depression consider their own thought processes from the depression to be flat out wrong.
Ads and even more sever privacy violations are comming, not the future.
People with bluetooth sets in their ears looks funny to me, I guess people wit GG will look even more weird and scary.
Verizon outsources much of its programming to India anyway, this way they got more diversification. Dumbest place I ever interviewed at.
Thanks, always interesting to see how others are approaching this problem.
Fails to mention that Apple's share price has gone from US$702.10 on 19th Sept to US$485.92 today [1].

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL
As above, thanks for the comment. Always interesting to see how others are approaching this problem.
Just more (sub)domains. That's all

france.twitter.com/user
artists.twitter.com/user
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Why do you think the iPad sells so well?
No IPv6 in 2013. Sorry, not going to work. Also no mention of virtualization technology. Whilst is possible to oversell using any of them, OpenVZ makes it particularly easy. At this price I imagine OpenVZ is it here.
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El Reg has been doing that capitalization for the last few years. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be intentionally over-the-top sensationalism like most of their headlines, but they've kind of taken the mock tabloid thing a bit too far lately. It used to be solid tech news everywhere except Bootnotes, which was awesome in it's own right. Now I can't even find the new BOFH articles.

It sounds like I'm old at 21. Damn it.
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Nice site, with Draft we wanted to focus more on organising the feedback on our designs as well as the annotation of our designs.
> Actually this is false, as last in code is displayed on top

If it's a stack, then the last one _is_ displayed on top.
I think this article is very important because it differs from many others that supposes that the prosecution caused the suicide.

I, like many others, am pissed with the overreach of the prosecution and think that the legal system must change. Aaron never deserved 6 months on jail.

That said, it was obvious that Aaron would face the possibility to go to jail many times in his career after he choose to be an internet activist. If you choose this path, it is something you have to be prepared to deal with. A person with severe depression choosing a career like this is an obvious candidate for suicide.

Ortiz, Heymann and MIT are guilty for overreaching and made a bad decision with this prosecution. But they are not murderers. Aaron choose this path. He choose to risk his life to try to change something on the world. He was bold and he will always be remembered.
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Note that, in the case of the White House petitions, the higher threshold does not apply to already-existing petitions, only petitions created in the future. The White House is not trolling in the manner you suggest.
Am I missing something, or would a magazine not be simpler just to publish as HTML?
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In most instances this is probably true, but I've read of a sales tactic before where you make the customer fill out the order form. I'm guessing it would work better for physical widgets instead of services.
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I've had this same experience several times when doing cross platform app dev. Even though Android supposedly has a majority marketshare now, iOS downloads/users are usually at least 2:1, if not a more crushing 8:1 or 12:1.

It's unclear to me if it's just because Android users use their devices different (and get less apps), if it's because the app market doesn't lend itself to finding apps, etc...

The exact same cycle always repeats: 1) Release iOS first 2) Get lots of angry Android complaints 3) Release Android 4) Get a trickle of users. (I know you may be thinking, well you released to iOS first so your app probably isn't at good on Android, but we've tried it the other way around as well)
> Last I checked, there isn't 80 times as many iOS devices
> as there are Android

Indeed. But even in web usage iOS devices lead by large margin.
Why not make it a percentage of the (qualified to vote) population?
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There's only so much load any piece of software running on a given and finished set of resources can handle properly... Once limits are reached, things will misbehave.
What can a quorum of 50k people accomplish in Germany?
What differences between the Desire and S3 were causing you problems? Screen size/resolution? API versions?

I have developed and tested apps that run just fine on both of these devices. No different builds, not even different layouts. You're right, fragmentation is real, but it is not an unsolved problem in the Android world.
Hence new layout techniques in CSS3.
I came up with an idea. It's Google Glass app+tool which controlled with this app. When Google glasses will come out there will be more people with app idea. So, should I patent my idea?
What do you suggest then? Resigning ourselves to apathy would seem to play right into their hand. Obviously a lot more than a petition is necessary to effect change, but it seems a reasonable place to start.
If you're adding constants, you might as well load each byte of the result directly, when you need it. (I can't tell where the LSB is coming from in this code - perhaps it isn't a constant? - this example doesn't resemble any code I've ever had to write.)

Perhaps the code is intended to be modified at runtime, but then you'd then still want one of the operands loaded from memory, I think (otherwise why not just precalculate the results?), and I've generally found the (fairly substantial) fixed expense not to be worth it anyway.

Anyway, overall I think you're being a bit unfair to the x86 with this comparison.
A couple of ideas. Introduce bugs, so managers wearing Glass in the City pub will see maintenance instructions for cash registers. Make ambient sounds automatically switching on when your boss talks.
> Obviously a lot more than a petition is necessary to effect change, but it seems a reasonable place to start.

If you live in the United States you have a congressperson. Contacting them is a much more reasonable place to start.
"Today there are two new registrations with the site every second..." makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit. It's so contradictory to the very claim that data is awesome.

Here's a statistic....people do things, and they do them every few seconds. And this will blow your mind......as the population grows, more people will be doing more things. Sorry to blow your mind so early in the day.
The University of London offers full distance learning degree courses. They don't offer very much in the way of support but they are cheap and reputable. See: http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/
I only see one: "Legally recognize Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group" with approx 300k signatures. The next highest has 80k signatures. (I'm assuming that the "popular" petitions are ranked by number of signatures, which appears to be the case.)
Then how would they bundle all sort of crap-spyware to their "content"?
Although this is great information I primarily had 'less pure' languages' in mind when I asked.

Come to think of it, restricting mutable access to only the relevant objects as per function call using const seems to allow just this!

A function having only const input and output "should be" free of side effects (if no global mutables); while still being allowed to run all manner of unpure processes local to its own calling context.
It seems totally reasonable to manage growth in this way.
Do PDFs scale to mobile phone sizes? I've tried reading PDFs on my phone and it's possible, but not a pleasant experience.
Nominate Aaron Swartz for ALA James Madison award (closes 16 Jan)
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Take the long view. Organize and build a large, broad-based coalition of support and advocate strategically and creatively for the change you want to see. It's the only thing that ever works.
The purpose of the petitions is to provide input as to what issues concern people, not to provide a list of things to be the subjects of immediate executive orders. The kind of action we should expect from a successful petition is to put the issue on the agenda, which may lead to policy changes and legislative action.
And thanks to the firebombing the petition's author has visited upon the English language, a government reaction to the petition will probably involve an immediate investigation of Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend.
To finish off you hand-picked quotes "Producing for Android meant that we had to redo all that work because all our content was restricted to the iOS platform..." So it looks like they weren't being 'lazy' at all, rather it's about Android users, for whatever reason, being unwilling to download the magazine. Downloads in the region of 80:1 in iOS favour illustrate the issue precisely.
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It's too bad that the original article got flagged to death. Yes, the Register article deserves it, but several of the comments were worth reading. In particular, this one by patio11: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5065400

patio11 mentions that if you try and prohibit contractors from doing this sort of thing, that contractor may be deemed an "employee" rather than a "contractor".

So rather than a prohibition in the contract, make an assertive clause. Ask your lawyer to add a "Key Personnel" clause to the contract. Also ensure that you have the right to remove any specific individual.
Yikes. These generated forms are a semantic markup and accessibility nightmare. No legend or labels to be found. If you find yourself writing forms like this, please please seek out some resources[0] on how to approach them properly.

[0]http://www.gethifi.com/blog/html-forms-the-right-ways
Petitions are encouraged precisely because they're completely ineffective: a safety valve to allow people to believe they're effecting change when in fact nothing is changing.

If petitions actually worked, they'd be banned.
Dear friends,

I wanted to let you know about a new petition I created on We the People,
a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your
name to mine? If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by February 09, 2013,
the White House will review it and respond!

We the People allows anyone to create and sign petitions asking the Obama
Administration to take action on a range of issues. If a petition gets
enough support, the Obama Administration will issue an official response.

You can view and sign the petition here:

http://wh.gov/Pw20
Yes, but not for existing petitions:

"This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist.
But some of us are both ;)
Why over-engineer the cloud?
I was surprised to learn that the population of Germany is 80 million, the same "order of magnitude" as the United States.

(By contrast, the U.S. has 30X the land area of Germany.)
In my view there is depression and depression.
Some people have good reasons to be depressed and those can be very rational reasons.
No Firebug on the iPad. Had to figure it out the hard way.

Edit: most good *Box implementations let you click/tap on the grey overlay. It is a much larger target and that is what I try before looking for the X. This implementation does not have that feature.
Right. I can also write an app that reads the process memory of FF and steals your passwords.
Do they have some connections to some programmers they now who are of equal talent?
Which conveniently ignores the 80:1 download ratio. That's the damming figure.

Edit: re your second point. How frequently do you uses both platforms? Personally, I use both extensively everyday. TNW have a point.
Okay, but a petition is a public focal point that takes 30 seconds to contribute too. The cynical attitude "I'm not going to do this because it won't help" is probably a greater negative to one's personal effect on the cause than however much time it might waste.
Echoing one of the comments, as an Android user I never use the app store for magazines; only Google Currents. I'd probably pay for content I care about, if there was a mechanism for doing so, but I won't install anything else. Why should the content be a seperate app, anyway? If it's just for crapware purposes, then good riddance!
plus:
these kind of "tricks" (changing opacity to alter the stacking order) will not always be (mostly not) accepted at work, because the logic behind it is not immediately clear and its not portable.
I know somebody who did something similar for a while.

He had some decent family connections so was working as a freelancer on some quite big money contracts.

All of work was (unbeknownst to the clients) outsourced to India for $6 an hour whilst billing $60 an hour.

It actually worked well until the Indian guy figured he could cut out the middle man.
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my bad. I should have edited the title to un-cap the title. will not do that again.

edit: is there a way to edit the title?
I love how this is being downvoted not by people who are upset at the inaccuracy of what you posted but rather out of either ignorance of how our country's government is designed to work, or those who are angry for some reason and take it out on your poor, little downvote arrow. What you've said is 100% true and starting/signing a petition such is this is the very epitome of slactivism. As @nhebb here said recently, " Slacktivism is like leveling up in a video game. It gives you the sense of accomplishment, even though you haven't done jack shit in real life."
Anyone looking to connect these up with leap motion?
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This also somewhat applies in the UK. We have a (stupid) law called IR35 that attempts to determine the difference between an actual contractor, and a (disguised) employee. One of the tests (but not the only one) is "right of substitution" - i.e. can you swap someone else in that can do the role.
This isn't a security issue in Firefox.

To pull this off you need write access to Firefox's SQLite database.

If you have write access to Firefox's SQLite database you've already 'won', the system is already yours. You can do a lot more damage to the system than whitelisting a Firefox extension.

Sure you could argue that this is another place for malware to hide - but I don't that this is really a security flaw in Firefox.
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Author and OP here - I'm one of the co-founders with kerno

I had some insightful feedback on Part 1 from swombat about it being too 'us centric' and not clear about what's in it for the reader. He was right, and Part 2 is hopefully slightly better in that regard (they were written together and split for length); but we really do believe there's value in laying it all on the table.

To that end, I'm also happy to answer any other questions anybody has.
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Android is now globally around 4:1 or more to iOS but only about 40% of those Android users are running 4.x and I strongly suspect those are the users that actually download apps so in terms of userbase the two platforms are really pretty close to the same from the point of view of the app developer.
> I think ALL reports from ANY news source should be taken with a pinch of salt

I'd already said that: "However, like all stations, they have their bias."

> but if anything, you want to read about your nation from non national and possibly independent news outlets.

Which is why I follow RT ;)

> But how can you blame them for criticizing US foreign policy ?

I wasn't.

I was only advising people about a bias. Which is only fair given the likelihood of myself being one of the few in this thread who actively follows RT - so other readers on here may not be familiar with their editorial style (and let's not forget that the commenter before me did ask why RT may have ran this particular story).

Plus, to be fair, if you followed RT yourself, then I'm sure you'd agree that they are very one sided (almost to the degree of Fox News - albeit delivered less like a cabaret!). Where as many other stations and publications (eg BBC News) are a lot more balanced. I'm not trying to imply that the BBC doesn't have their own biases as well - but they are less polarised by it. So it's often worth noting which reporters are more reputable than others (another example: any health scare published in by the Daily Mail has to be treated with a huge amount of skepticism as they have a long history of adding dramatised editorials, skipping over vital facts and misquoting scientific research).
Walled gardens. sigh
There are dozens of websites doing this for free. Why should one use your service?
This is exactly the problem the web was invented to solve.

A lot of apps are just a desperate attempt to get brands in front of eye balls.
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Never read the guy, but this is a real:

Shotgun argumentation - the arguer offers such a large number of arguments for their position that the opponent can't possibly respond to all of them [1]

Gish has been characterized as using a rapid-fire approach during a debate, presenting arguments and changing topics very quickly [2]

Also, this might be relevant (?):

Proof by intimidation (or argumentum verbosium) is a jocular phrase used mainly in mathematics to refer to a style of presenting a purported mathematical proof by giving an argument loaded with jargon and appeal to obscure results, so that the audience is simply obliged to accept it, lest they have to admit their ignorance and lack of understanding. [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop#Debates

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_intimidation
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Dang - a whole week, 15 upvotes, but unable to get a reply. Shoot.
this is the first article that puts aarons decision into perspective. while there are certainly broken laws in the us prosecution system, I never bought that the prosecutors were responsible for this tragedy. the tech community is in uproar about the unfairness of the trial against aaron but more fundamental issues in our society have caused this tragedy: the stigma of depression and other mental illnesses and the high amount of stress to which we're exposed in the 21st century.
I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over:

- Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name

- Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have people's pop up indicate if its their birthday. Always be on top of the "Happy birthday!" game

- Have an alternate reality game with digital objects people can place/write on. Only Glass users can see the teddy bear in the corner, and only google glass users can see the giant graffiti wall where people sign their name.

- Identify desired objects and make them stick out, "Dammit, where are my keys again?!"

- Auto translate QR codes and overlay the translation

- Auto tweet images of your life on a schedule

- Many cameras pick up infrared, could overlay this (if the Glass camera does) to expose more of the light spectrum to Glass users
And I'd argue that that's a good thing. Being able to get an official comment and maybe some future consideration of the issue from the White House is one thing, but being able to substantially impact policy by getting a relatively small number of people (in Internet terms) to spend a minute signing an online petition doesn't seem like a high enough threshold. Requiring the kind of effort you're talking about doesn't guarantee positive change either, but I think it helps ensure people really want the change their advocating.

I'm sure some people like the idea of being able to successfully demand that individuals in government be fired through the petition system, but that seems like a Pandora's box if ever there was one.
that's complete and utter bullshit. you're missing the exact point the article was trying to make.
The CSS layout model (with float/clear, display:block|inline|table-cell, vertical align and so on) was based closely on how browsers already rendered layout. For example float, clear and align were attributes on image and table tags before the invention of CSS. CSS just allowed you to decouple these layout properties from the HTML elements.

So basically the CSS layout model were designed by Netscape before the CSS spec were developed.

Should the developers of CSS have discarded this model and instead proposed a different model would require the browser vendors to redesign their rendering engines? I think this would never have worked - remember this was at the height of the browser war, where Netscape and Microsoft routinely ignored W3C standard to pursue proprietary alternatives. We should probably be happy that we got something like CSS at all.
A more reasonable place to start appears to be making a lot of money and then using it to lobby relentlessly.