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With respect to people harping on market share, that's just what people do:

"Look at MS Windows' marketshare! Apple/FreeBSD/Desktop Linux is dead!"

"BSD is dead. Netcraft confirms it."

"Android will never have the marketshare of the iPhone. The AppStore has 100,000 apps! It will always be dominant!"

"Android will never have the marketshare of the iPhone. Apple has X% of the market!"

... etc ...

People are now using to tout Android, but look to the past to see the same(-ish) arguments for why Apple will always dominate Android.
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For many years when I bought a console game I was able to sell that game when I'd finished with it. Japanese[1] companies were especially unhappy with the second-hand market, and took vigorous efforts to stop it. US companies are also keen to prevent this re-sale of games.

Now many games are unable to be sold on.

When I buy a DVD there is a clear benefit to me in being able to play that DVD in my player, no matter where I buy it. Yet DVDs are region locked. VHS tapes had Macrovision anti-copy signals; DVDs had region protections and CSS; BluRay has region protections and several layers of DRM; restrictions continue to get tighter, not more relaxed.

Laws are also getting stricter. The 1996 WIPO treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty) led to the introduction of the DMCA and similar laws in other regions. (Circumventing technical protections is illegal under the DMCA but it's also illegal throughout Europe, with various difference in each country).

I agree with "unlikely", but I'm not so sure about very unlikely.

[1] Japanese companies have been doing this longest, since SNES times. I think, but I could be wrong, that they managed to make second hand sales of games illegal. Maybe they just wanted to do that?
It's exactly what I missed.

Thanks!
It's certainly biased, the question is whether or not it's a well-founded argument that leads to a worthwhile discussion. I think it fits that bill.
"Gupta was not talking about the stock market for the entire article"

Except when he refers to the drop in their stock price - the entire basis for the "Apple naysayers narrative". Unless you think the opinions of a few business writers knocked off 30% of their valuation instead. Like some sort of epic reverse pump & dump? Hardly.

"Business is about profits."

Gee that's deep. It's also deeply misleading. Current profit earnings and forecasts are what drives the stock price movement. The only way you or I can profit from Apple are by purchasing shares where those predictions are priced in. If their profit forecast halves regardless of their relative performance vs competitors, I'm going to suffer as a shareholder.

"Gruber is talking about Gupta's article which says Apple is failing in mobile."

And like I said, Gruber misses the point.

"The stock market is basically sensationalism in monetary form."

Ah, so you don't like what the sharemarket is doing, so you dismiss it as "sensationalist". Don't kid yourself, you're not kidding anyone else.

And I'm not sure what the last two points have to do with anything, so I won't comment on them.
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I'm not interested in making money from such a venture, I'm interested in a service I can use. If I have to write it myself though, I will. I'll be shopping for alternatives this weekend, and starting a github project if I find nothing that suits.

There's got to be some people around here doing their own that would roughly align with what I'm after. And I'm happy to pay for such a thing.

Should be a very interesting couple of months for sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_to_be_legally_bound
You don't differentiate anything for consumer rights.

If you advertise and charge a monthly fee for a service, you don't need to support it forever.

If you advertise and charge a one-time fee for "premium gold star membership" on your site, then you need to support it for the lifetime of your site, not forever.

But if you advertise and charge for a product or content, saying "Buy it now!!! Own this beautiful widget for only $9.99!" then you have the following options:

a) Hand over the product, take the cash and be happy;
b) Instead of handing over the product, promise to show the product on demand, and keep your promise eternally;
c) Sell a promise to show the product on demand, but don't actually do it - that's called fraud and should be prosecuted.

But noone is asking jmanga.com for eternal support - they can quit, but they have to deliver the paid-for goods if they want to stop providing on-demand access.
What an incredible post, reading throughout I felt like not only could each paragraph be about me but it struck so accurately with me I felt like I could have written those words.

I am an extreme procrastinator but I will take away what I can from tfa and this thread to help that. It has forced me to accept that such procrastination isn't acceptable if I want to be a success.
I shared that link because I believe some hackers will have the knowledge to explain the difference betweens those three examples.

Moreover, I believe it will be helpful for others to know the difference and which is best.
Interesting. I didn't know that detail but it explains a lot. Hopefully it won't be too long until you address this!
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You might argue later that the clear intention was to not form a legally binding contract; that you were merely accepting the general terms, for the specifics to be agreed on later, and still had the option to refuse to go ahead at that point.

On the other hand, you might argue later that you did intend it to be legally binding.

Both arguments would be valid and your intent and what a reasonable man would assume would have to be decided on later by a court.

pg's article reads to me as if the intention is for it to not be legally binding, when he says "The actual transaction comes later, when documents are signed and money changes hands."

The existence of this article might change the view of the courts.

So to avoid doubt later, you should make it absolutely clear what you intend. You can form a contract with a handshake if you intend to, as it has been pointed out. But only if you intended it. So why not save yourself some future legal expenses by making it clear what you both intend?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_to_be_legally_bound
Okay, so DocuSign seems to be quite close. For my idea you'd have to imagine DocuSign with:

- an OAuth(-like) API for other sites, e.g. Reddit, to sign micro-data on your behalf.

- the ability to retract signatures after time X and notify subscribers of that data of it.

- [optionally] a fraud detection algorithm to give advance warning of possible malicious usage (app compromised or your app password.)

- the ability to request confirmation of a signature before time X for cases where retraction after that moment is unaccaptable.

That would make it possible for webapps to have every interaction with it be provably performed by the user, turning it into a legally valid audit trail.
I think he's missing the point. This isn't a commercial fail for Apple, its a public relations fail.

Two years ago, I knew maybe 2 people who didn't want an iphone. I now, personally, know perhaps 4 people who want one.

You think that isn't a fall from grace in the public opinion?

It is. It's a colossal blunder for Apple, and "once stood the undisputed leader of the smartphone arena, but ceded its crown to Samsung in 2012." seems a fair (harsh, yes, but under the circumstances, I think pretty fair) comment.

I'm not arguing with the points in the article; they seem quite reasonable (unusually so, for Gruber), but there's more to this story than 'how commercially successful is Apple'.
You need access to the HTTP server to hit that URL, which means it won't work over LAN unless you enabled remote management. Don't enable remote management on your router :)
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> So is getting updates from people and projects you care about really such a niche thing?

My guess is that it is. Anecdotally, I would guess that only my programmer or tech industry friends and me seriously care about getting updates from projects, or from people they don't know socially IRL. I would guess that my non-programmer friends want social updates from people, which social networks do provide, and they are somewhat interested in what the rest of the world is talking about, but just as a form of entertainment, so there's no need to group all the updates together because it's just as fun to check each individual site every now and then.

I guess there is a crowd of political news buffs too, people who would want comprehensive coverage of various takes on various recent events, but I don't know any personally (who aren't also programmers). If you don't care about multiple points of view then reading one or two newspapers or magazines is sufficient and there's no need for a feed reader.

There's also journalists and PR people whose job involves keeping up with zillions of updates.

And podcasting.

So, my guess is, yes, it's just a niche: programmers, a small subset of news buffs, media professionals, and podcasting.

Looking at the bright side, it doesn't matter to me if most websites drop RSS as long as the ones most relevant to my niche continue to use it; so if RSS becomes forgotten about by most people but is still used by websites that target programmers and by news websites, that's enough for me.
A service like this needs booth.

Writing processes in a programming language AND a possibility to reuse them for different stuff.

IFTTT is a nice idea, but I can't do stuff like:

1. check rss feed for new stuff
2. generate links to the real data from the links in the rss. (most RSS feeds just suck, because they don't have the full articles and sometimes they link to crazy pages where the article is split in 10 sub-pages)
3. get all the pages you want the data from
4. parse the relevant stuff out of the pages
5. save the stuff to a place where it won't get deleted again from third party

Most of the time the real stuff isn't easily crawleable without writing a pice of software just for the source.

But you're right, there should be a possibility to get such apps to work without any code.

If I wrote a crawler for images from a DA-artist, I didn't want to rewrite it for every other one...
I agree with your analysis and even if I didn't it seems to me that the news article at most made an exaggeration.

It's ridiculous that Gruber would complain about an exaggeration because the only thing he's ever been able to do is exaggerate and rationalise.
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I just ordered this router knowing about this backdoor. I'm planning to install OpenWrt as soon as it arrives, which I recommend to anyone, as it was pointed in other comments.
But the author has children....Children are like totally dependent on the parents..It is a totally different story if he just has a partner/wife.
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The tech world IS CRAZY!

Imagine you're a VP over at Microsoft right now watching everyone rave about Samsung's profit figures and their utter dominance and you just want to scream "hello?! we also made $21 billion in profit last year, except we did it on 1/3 of Samsung's revenue! does anyone care?!" No, no one cares. Microsoft has already been relegated to the dust bin of history even though it's still alive and kicking, still one of the most profitable companies in all of human civilization, etc. Sure, they've ceded much of the initiative in tech to other movers, but they're very much far from dead and far from irrelevant.

Stepping into the world of tech punditry is a bit like stepping into a Target department store, except instead of seeing advertising and merchandise for holidays 2 seasons away you see companies declared winners, losers, or dead years ahead of their time.

What really annoys me is that people are talking about dumb stuff, horse race stuff. It's like sitting at the lunch table and overhearing how Johnny dumped Erika and is now dating Michelle or some such other riveting high-school gossip.

What's that quote? Small minds discuss people (companies). Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.

Can we talk more about the ideas relevant to this massive second revolution in personal computing going on under our noses and less about which multi-billion dollar mega-corp is the most popular kid in school at the moment?
As far as I understood OP clearly states that he likes to work (...although he recently had a bad experience that might have been the straw that broke the camels back...)

BTW, -this isn't to uncommon. Many who suffer from procrastination love their work.
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iOS users still are 80% of those actively web browsing from their mobiles

Please stop repeating false information with no source, it makes the rest of your post very difficult to believe.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201202-20130...
I've never been able to stomach telling the truth to myself about my procrastination, let alone letting anyone else in on the anguish.

Is there anyone out there that would like to try an experiment of daily correspondence on the topic? Tell me what you achieved today, what you plan to achieve tomorrow, what your upcoming deadlines are etc. I'll do the same in return. Send me an email - <<myhnusername>>@163.com
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Whoa that was fast, thanks Victor :)
"If you bought a fake watch in Bangkok, you don't."

I'm in your team wrt the practical implications of plant patents being overblown, but this example is not correct. Your watch will be confiscated by customs if they find it, and if you do it several times or are carrying a number of them sufficiently large to make it plausible that you're going to resell them (e.g., a number like '5'), you might be looking at administrative penalties and/or criminal prosecution.
Why are they are they tricking us into giving away personal information?
I won't read this, because I feel like I've been reading the same exact article every day for the past year.

It's not a question of fanboyism. I completely agree with everything he's saying. I just don't understand why he needs to address that Android vs Apple day after day.

Am I missing something here? Does what blog X says about Apple or what magazine Y says about Samsung have any impact on the world whatsoever? John Gruber seems like a smart guy and I'm continuously baffled by his decision to devote so much time and effort to such a trivial matter.
Your reasoning that Apple has fallen from grace is a personal observation that most people you know don't want one?
(2008). This matters, a lot.
I think he is romanticizing too much. From what I remember reading, women get impregnated inside the body so that males can not be sure who ended up being the father. This evolved because of a battle of the sexes. It is common in the animal world for the new male to kill the offspring of the old male, and not knowing who is the father is a strategy to prevent.

So there is no reason to assume that traditional societies just didn't care and loved all children equally. It's just that they might not have another choice. And also this is probably why virginity is so important in many cultures, because it promises to guarantee the man to become the real father.

I just read Jared Diamond's latest book and I think he wrote that most wars (in New Guinea) between tribes are about women or pigs - so they do care about possessions (not implying women should be treated as possessions, just making a counterpoint to the article). There also seems to be the concept of marriage in many traditional societies, also kids being promised for marriage for later when they are old enough, and stuff like that.

What is probably true is that we are not build for monogamy: both sexes would prefer to "not put all their eggs into one basket" (women want to have kids from multiple fathers, men want to have kids from multiple mothers). On the other hand Nassim Taleb mentioned in "Black Swan" that by assigning one man to one woman and vice versa, the church might have done a lot for peace - before that system, there would have been more men without any mates at all, resulting in jealousy and fighting.
More specifically, http://www.dd-wrt.com/ is fantastic, based on the OpenWRT kernel. I use it on all my routers now. I've been using it on my routers since 2006.

I was having major issues after two years, only last week, with an old Buffalo Wireless-N router. I switched over to DD-WRT last week and all was cured, and I'm getting better wireless performance.
Given that the design-to-market cycle for a new iPhone is likely to be about 2 years, it seems Steve would have to fire himself.

To believe that without Steve Apple can't compete with Samsung, is to claim that the Apple management team are less capable than the management at Samsung.

On the evidence of the misogynist clown show of a launch event for the S4, you know what? I think Apple will do just fine.
Thanks. That rules out the Old Reader for me. I think they should make it optional: only ask for this permission if I try to use the social functionality.
That's the problem with reading HN on an iPad - I don't have root, I can't hack /etc at all. Damn you curated computing! Viva Libre!
A Memex is also featured several times in The Laundry Files by Charles Stross. I can highly recommend reading this series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_Laundry_Files
Chromium for Android is a joke. It doesn't even have tabs and has nothing in common with Chrome. I wonder what they need to hide.

Google is clearly not an open source company.
There are still those of us who don't support total surveillance and will not stand for it. Were probably more traditional Unix people and not so embroiled in technology. Everyone else has been got if you ask me through media, social pressure or plain old apathy.

However it's worse than just web sites. I've worked for a nefarious company who feeds of data like theirs. I came to my senses when asked to do things which destroyed my ethics and quit to make amends.

At risk of promoting a fanatic, stallman was right for many years. Once a fanatic, then a told you so, then a visionary. I genuinely was brainwashed to think the guy was nuts until I saw it all with my own eyes.

Some things you can do:

* sign out of Facebook forever. There is no point in deleting your profile. Real friends meet you in real life.

* close your google account. It just follows you like a leaky passport.

* get a dumbphone and turn it off all day unless you need it for emergencies.

* read books instead of use e-readers.

* host your own mail and web services at home. Use SSL (with own CA), SSH and encrypt your email if sensitive.

* ask yourself is your employer really doing ethical work. No? Find somewhere else. This is the hardest bit - it took me 10 years to find somewhere ethical.

* use cash, particularly when shopping in large chains or on public transport systems.

* use Firefox only, with adblock and ghostery.

There are probably more.
Nobody has ever convinced me humans are intelligent. Every specific example of human intelligence put forward, it eventually ends up that machines do it better.

How is one to scientifically validate against something that can't even be defined?
There is some work on something related to RDBMS indipendence
at MetaModel: http://metamodel.eobjects.org .
You may be interested in it, as I am.
In fact, I have ideas to go beyond MetaModel, and let software
redundance in in the software layer that deals with the Database. My ideas are at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rdbmssr/
and I'm starting to thinking about native C++ solutions for Oracle and MS SQL Server as a starting point.
I'm open to discussion: fede [dot] strati [at] gmail [dot] com.
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They are aware of the concept but are too apathetic to act on it before it happens.
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Am I missing something here?

He does it for page views. News at 11.
I'm really surprised that so many people trust Google so implicitly that they'd relinquish their choice of not using a site when it appears in Google search results - in favor of letting Google deciding whose business practices deserve their being listed at all.

Especially when it comes down to a site allowing fair use of their content.

From what I can gather, Google can and does penalize sites that show copyrighted content even when the site has very legitimate fair use claims. DMCA notices are never served and never appear on chillingeffects.org. The sites aren't even delisted, as described in Google's "Transparency Report"[1], but rather moved to lower and lower positions in the search results. Google will never acknowledge that the site is being penalized, and it seems that completely removing the "offending" content won't resolve it. (Source: personal experience.)

[1] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...
What's he wrong about?
I really want to know what's going on here. I can't see any sane explanation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_t...

Heh--according to the article, there are 3 transmissible cancers, and you named 2 of them. ... Wow, I find this kind of astonishing.

The tumor cells are themselves the infectious agents, and the tumors that form are not genetically related to the host dog. Although the genome of CTVT is derived from a canid (probably a dog, wolf or coyote), it is now essentially living as a unicellular, asexually reproducing (but sexually transmitted) pathogen. Sequence analysis of the genome suggests it diverged from canids over 6,000 years ago; possibly much earlier. However, the most recent common ancestor of extant tumors is more recent: it probably originated 200 to 2,500 years ago.

Very interesting. Thank you for mentioning it.
I've heard from friends, that in India, that it is part of culture to live with your parents until you are married.
I think he's trying to caricature a certain sub-population.
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That looks like some kind of research thing, not something anyone is using. And as I say, there is no need to since you can use Existential types or GADTs to type the list on interface instead of representation. And that will give you heterogeneous containers of any kind where as this package you showed would only work for this one kind of package.
I think he means that the browser compatibility column should take advantage of color as well. Maybe more attractive/brighter colors could be representative of frameworks that are compatible with older browsers.
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I worked for a similar class of organisation in Europe. It was promoted by my university and we were cherry picked with the threat of no employment otherwise (the whole industry was screwed back then) even though the pay was shit.

Most people realised what nefarious bastards they were within a couple of weeks but once you've got cash coming in, its hard to shake them off and find another job as no one wants a government tainted employee. I had to sleep in my car for 3 months as a result of quitting.

They are also not the best in the field: they are the easiest to manipulate.