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Oh no, now you've done it :) I'm an iOS dev full-time, so this is a favorite topic...

- Multitasking architecture is broken for many use cases. The biggest one is any sort of messaging application - your app doesn't actually execute any code when a notification comes in, so when your user reacts to the notification and launches your app, your app has to go and re-fetch much of the same data that the notification already carried. This comes across to the user as being slow and finicky.

- Basic UI paradigms are behind what the community is pushing. This isn't a lag behind competing OSes, but rather lagging behind itself. Apple used to be the flag-bearer for the state of the art of iOS UX, but the community has largely taken over to both good and bad results. See: pull to refresh, launch screens, side menus, etc. Apple can, and should, reclaim its position as being at the leading edge of its own platform.

- Lack of a proper inter-app communications channel. Intents on Android is very powerful, something like this is totally lacking in iOS.

- Lack of customizability when it comes to core functions. I cannot associate all mailto: links in the browser to GMail for example. I must use Apple's Mail. Ditto for Maps.

There are a bunch of others, but today is a rather busy day :P
>A window manager should manage windows not sound

Here in the real world a desktop environment like Unity is a whoe lot more than just a window manager. It includes system management and configuration GUI components, including preferences panes and utilities to control audio functions. Unity is trying to provide a comprehensive user interface to the entire OS, or as much of it as possible.
There's also a Loch Ness monster too.
Haha yeah that's where we didn't want to end up so we tried to get into our own product as quickly as possible.
Why is it an unlikely scenario? Perhaps they just wanted a "reliable" leak after all the empty rumormongering.

Any way, this sort of email is very common in companies that involve hardware and software roadmaps, NDAs, etc. I don't think it's an insightful comment, and it's annoying when Ars Gawker-like promotes these comments for the sake of controversy.
> The people who pirated it and got serious about it eventually bought a copy, but the people who said "that's nice" and uninstalled it never would have paid for a copy anyway.

Except the entire industry claims that the number of people that would have bought it if they could not have pirated it is GREATER than the number of people that pirated it, used it as some kind of month or year long trial-ware, and eventually paid for it.

My own experience - the day a warez copy came out on Google's front page results for my software, was the day sales got cut in half, and stayed cut.

People pirate because it's easy to do, and fewer people will buy it if it's being given away for free by some site that generates its revenue from stealing other peoples work and showing you ads in the process.
In North America you can use an educational license of CS for any freelance work.
Sketch is also wonderful. The thing is, Fireworks has the Bitmap editing involved too which is really nice to have on hand in the same program.
Interapplication communication (i.e. intents). JIT-compiled javascript in hosted webviews. Bluetooth communication of many types, NFC of all types. WebGL support. That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more, and these may not matter to you, but there is a functionality gap.
FYI on killing PulseAudio:

* Turning off auto-respawn (from 2010, not sure if it's entirely accurate): http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7130/2

* Script I used to use to get Skype and PulseAudio to play nice in the early days of PA: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=790889
Well, with an operating budget of $27 billion they certainly have more resources than I have, even if they only allocate a half million dollars worth of resources (which would be about 2 people if we grossly divide by headcount, which I admit is not accurate). So I certainly wouldn't want to get on their bad side.

Also not all small businesses have resources setup to counter DOJ actions since they might not be anticipating having to until it actually happens.
Not true - I had my Dwolla account for less than that before I transferred a bunch of money to CampBX - note that unverified accounts on CBX have a maximum daily transfer limit of $1k

Also, if you're interested in grabbing a bitcoin or two, I'll do it for a fellow HN'er for no markup. E-mail me at hi.im.edward [at] gmail for more info.

Edit: Just realized there's no PM feature on the site - email me :)
I don't mean to threadjack. I'm curious what apps you've put out. I'm a sound neophyte, occasionally play with Audacity, but interested in doing more advanced stuff. I just wanted to point out that I'd love to see any technical blogs/howtos you may have put together, or any top notch stuff you may have come across.

Thanks!

/threadjack
Is there still debian testing, or are you calling 'wheezy' as testing? Just wondering

I thought the way it was supposed to work was, when testing gets re-tagged as stable, there's no 'testing' for a brief period (month?) until the next planned distro release is named.
This thing would be clutch in the Seattle weather right now!
Show HN: Facebook home interaction prototype using JavaScript
Not the tanker, unfortunately. That would have been fun to see go down.
Ahhh. Thanks. All info from the web server, such as the protocols returned in the NPN extension and the Server header were passing through an HTML Encode function. Except there was one case where, if the site didn't support SPDY, and SPDY check could not determine the type of web server, the Server header output was not getting HTML encoded.

Thanks for letting us know.

Billy Hoffman (founder and CTO @ zoompf)
The thing that replaced 35mm with a digital format is DCP. Basically its Jpeg2000 in disguise.

The problem with uncompressed formats at high resolution (like cinema 4k, and its smaller "UHD" cousin.) is that they eats bandwidth. Full res 4k images with basic RLE is 50megs. Thats 1.2 gigabyte a second. You're lucky to get that out of 10gig Ethernet.

Uncompressed anything is pretty much out of the reach of most consumers. iTunes, netflix, over the air, cable is all either MPEG2 or h.264
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"I find it hard to believe that anybody actually thought that Microsoft was going to build a console with a built-in PR disaster"

Gaming sites have been in a feedback loop of rumor and fanboi/gurlism ever since the new consoles were announced.

Granted, after the EA DRM debacles I can have some sympathy for the fears, but people have been taking rumor VERY seriously and it's made for poor entertainment and shoddy journalism.
Facebook a spies on you?
Well I never give away my phone number, but i do have Google Android phone. Today loging on to the facebook website, facebook suggested me to use my phone number for password recovery. How did they got it ?, are there laws against companies spying on normal people? This is something i would love to put to a court case.
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Isn't further developing the language of touch interfaces part of the same thing as getting rid of skeuomorphism?
Not likely Thomas, but still, would look kind of silly for someone who spoke at BlackHat for years about JavaScript and XSS like I did to release a free tool with a DOM-based XSS... :-)
After all the rage about Quartz Composer being a better prototyping tool for designers, I wanted to make this quick proof of concept to show similar things are also possible using less proprietary technologies that have more relevance on the web.
> we specifically focused on organizing male&female meetings

Okay, so it's intended. I'm sure this will be followed by an explanation.

> in order to collect feedback

Doesn't really explain the male/female pairings.

> and understand how to handle UX & UI in situations that would otherwise be prone for confusion!

Maybe I'm off my rocker today, but that doesn't really explain the start of the sentence. The only thing I'm getting here is that the pairings are intentional.
| I tried to change window managers

What you probably did was switch from a 'desktop environment' to (just) a window manager. A desktop environment includes many processes that are started on login and run in the background (e.g. dbus, pulse-audio, ssh-agent, gpg-agent, gnome-power-manager, etc).
Yeah as joelhooks said, if these people are using their educational versions to produce products for sale, they are committing fraud. EDIT: Seems to depend which educational version they have installed ... some are ok for commercial use, some are not.
Assuming this is even a real email which is already a substantial assumption, and assuming the text of it is accurate, I don't think this is as much of a denial of the general idea as the article suggests.

As quoted in the article, the email says: "Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet. There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game."

There's more than enough weasel-room in there (and even some supporting evidence via usage of the phrases "tolerant" and "current connection status") for a system that doesn't require always-on but does require periodically-on, which is something that has been seen on some PC games. So you don't need to be online 100% of the time, if your connection drops for an hour, fine, but if you haven't talked to the mothership in 3 days or whatever now you're locked out.

Anyway, at this point anything said is just speculation and rumor and there's not much to discuss until they make official announcements.
Can you explain the difference? There's a lot of sub-specialty naming in the field and very little in the way of standardization. I'd see those as basically interchangeable. I see a pretty big difference in UX vs. GD/VD — Boxes & Arrows vs. gradients and brand elements, but I'd love to how you divide them.
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If you look at your own links, you'll see that these are monocrystalline panels, which are a lot more expensive than the much cheaper polycrystalline panels, which the research targets.
This is quite radical in my mind and very greedy on Adobe's part. How is abandoning the pay once per version of software a benefit to anyone other than Adobe?

I get weary of software that I have to bind to an active account indefinitely.

There are use-cases that are no longer possible.

1) What if I wanted to get my 14 yo artistic niece Photoshop/Illustrator for her birthday? Now I would have to either pay $50 a month (for her), in the assumption she would get value out of it. At what point would I then transfer the subscription over to her should she want to become professional in it?

2) Let's say I bought After Effects with a retina mac and then in a year decide to sell it all on craigslist? Maybe I had a dream of becoming a movie director only to be put on hold because my father went into the hospital and I needed to be there for my mother?

3) A high school with older macs from 5 or 6 years ago has a small lab with Adobe Photoshop that was donated to them through an art grant. It's meant to be used to teach kids about photo retouching and color blending (things that have been in Photoshop for a decade if not more).

I never minded when Adobe adopted strict licensing DRM because it didn't remove use-cases. Maybe someone from Adobe can shed light on how switching to a subscription only model will benefit anyone other than them? Is that not taking a step backwards?
Why should I fork over $350? Because you're Dropbox? C'mon. Gimme some idea of why I should bother going...
My guess is that most people who hit a performance wall with canvas are using overly complex vector graphics and not caching bitmaps as often as they could. While things like OpenVG are on the horizon, vector drawing is still a CPU-bound activity most of the time, while bitmap blitting is all GPU. This is the case whether you're using canvas or a native graphics library.
The thing is, once I've clicked the CoffeeStrap/blog header once, and it takes me to the blog index page, I'm not going to click the identical CoffeeStrap/blog header again because I expect it will just take me back to the page I'm already on.
oh snap.
The power in this is that JavaScript is extensively portable and very consistent across platforms. There are no issues with cross platform support that plagues C++ and to an extent, Java's JVM. There's no possibility of platform lock-in, which happens for .NET applications.

I don't like how this article is written at all. It leaves a bias afterlook that Mozilla's goal here is to create a toy. JavaScript is the fastest interpreted language and plans are out to make it even speedier. There's a reason why "the future" is emphasized.

Perhaps I am biased as a Node.js programmer, but I do believe this is a good thing. JavaScript is seriously pretty sweet. I do like the design of the language. There are features that outblow many other languages.
I think that visual designers are more about building design languages; graphic designers are worker bees.

I might be wrong though - I already was once!

That said, I didn't change the article because the distinction is not as well-known, and I liked the headline ;)
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004? Loved it, was my go-to image editor for a VERY long time.
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Odd analogy to tie-in to your event registration page. Sinking ships?
one could probably reasonably argue that an agency of that type is most likely going to have a larger focus on content as they aren't really "selling" anything, so much as selling their ideas, etc...
+1 for online learning option...
I use my phone in a different way to purchase products. I was recently on a camping trip and we were playing a game of "Cards Against Humanity," I thought it was fun and wanted to buy a set. I fired up Amazon's app and scanned the barcode. Confirmed the purchase and then in a 3-5 days I had the game. It took less than 20 seconds even with limited internet connectivity.

In this case, I got to test out the product, liked it and bought one for myself. I don't know if I would do the same with swiping left and right to get a product that I would ultimately purchase without trying it out first, unless there were some solid reviews backing up the product.

There are apps like Fancy, but they are image heavy and slow to load. I really don't think it's the right strategy in getting people to buy a product.
I was wondering why Elon tweeted, "Anyone interested in doing ultra hardcore vehicle engineering at Tesla, please apply!" but now it makes sense.

On a similar note, isn't it odd that this position is just being filled?

Elon's Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Amazon works great on mobile. Sounds like shopping on mobile is broken for you.
Please. vim is an editor. Whether vim is a language, which has an implementation known as vim which is an editor, is irrelevant. I referred to the implementation. And it was clear I was referring to the editor.

You might wanna correct Wikipedia and tons of other sources that all refer to vim the editor. Cuz they are all wrong, per your definition.
Of course it is, which is why the "rumor" is utterly stupid.

EA and whatever other publishers have forced certain games through their servers for online-only already. The rumor is fact for existing generations of console systems. Don't buy those games if this displeases you.

If you want to avoid console gaming because this exists, stay away from Steam because the same games are purchasable from Valve's service with the same always-on DRM. The Steambox or whichever isn't going to refuse the publishers their sweet, sweet DRM.
That makes sense if you just consider computational power, but what about bandwidth? The reason we make these fancy video encoders in the first place is to make the data to send much smaller, and while we all have plenty of power on desktops, laptops and mobile is catching up quick, bandwidth still mostly sucks, at least here in the US.
That dialog only worked AFTER I edited the XML.
I grew to like Fireworks but can see how it could be effectively rolled into PS or Illustrator in some kind of FW compat mode if they wanted to. Which is to say they won't do that, and they'll otherwise likely screw the maximum number of users implicitly. That is unfortunate, but sadly seems like par for the course these days.
Looks interesting. Thanks.
The future of Star Wars games belongs to EA
Wheezy was testing until this past Saturday, at which point Wheezy became stable and Jessie was cut as testing.
For watching movies or listening to music, the Linux audio system is fine, but ALSA and PulseAudio introduce unacceptable latency for game devs. For example the WINE developers are having major issues with PulseAudio's latency[1]

There are actually 2 low level audio stacks that apps can use in Linux, OSS and ALSA.
Only OSS offers great sound and low latency,[2] but the kernel developers have refused to add the free GPL'd OSSv4 updates into the kernel, so we are all stuck with OSSv3 legacy and ALSA's latency and poor design decisions. Using the PA layer only makes the latency situation worse and added another layer for things to go wrong.

[1]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyO...

[2]http://insanecoding.blogspot.hk/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-li...
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I don't know about now, but running Linux on a ThinkPad X41 a couple of years ago with suspend-to-RAM. After a fresh boot a sleep-wake will work twice before the auto switching between speakers and headphones quits. Hibernating and waking will fix it only for one sleep-wake cycle. A full reboot would fix it so that it would work for two more sleep-wake cycles.

I was fully willing to get my hands dirty with a little help (couldn't make heads or tails of the ALSA code), but Ubuntu just decided to shelf it into the 'leave it alone until everyone goes away' bucket on LaunchPad.
I agree, but the 6 year cycle would have hit perfectly last holiday season and, with the WiiU lacking, would have satiated a large section of console gamers that are waiting for more powerful hardware.

And the extra year isn't getting them much on the hardware front. If anything, the extra time is being spent on the service and social platform which, although necessary and important, may mean the difference between a big head start and an even race.
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I think the quote is saying that Apple's work on developing touch interfaces is potentially hampered by trying to get rid of skeuomorphism, which keeps skeuomorphism on their minds. The company that might really change touch interfaces will be one that isn't even worried about skeuomorphism problems and legacy interfaces.

I'm not saying this is actually true, just how I think the quote is meant to be interpreted.
You have to be joking me. "A distro that is designed for the WM you want to use"?

What does that even mean? That I have to have a special twm distro? Or an fvwm2 distribution? tvtwm was always my favorite window manager, but I seem to recall it needed some patches to really be perfect. Do I have to find somebody to build me my own distribution that has those patches?

A Window Manager manages windows, like the name suggests; it doesn't manage networking or sound. And if it does, then the whole system has failed to produce decent engineering boundaries and we should revert a few releases to when things had the correct levels of abstraction.
I recall a math teacher I had in grade 9 - she was normally a phys. ed. teacher, who had been voluntold to teach math when the usual math teacher had a nervous breakdown and took a year off. She freely admitted that she had studied phys. ed. because she "loved to teach", and wanted her students to have a better time than she did, but she had struggled in English and Math, so she went for one of the easier specialties. Not exactly a shining role model there. All the other students loved her, of course, but I thought it would be better if she were a babysitter, not a teacher.
Not really. Must come up with something!
I had this opened in a tab and initially forgot what it was.. I thought it was some sort of artificial intelligence or ASCII movie, because it seems 1001 griefers are copy/pasting trash into it right now :-)

Perhaps try a different URL of http://yugentext.com/hn or whatever if you want to see it without it going at 30 fps..
My channel has had stuff from CNBC, CNN, ABC, you name it - for 2 years.

They do what?
Sometime if you're not a hacker or you're one but want to focus on your startup, then taking a less "serious" job can do the trick also.
I've met we've guys that even worked night shifts in security and coded all day long. Others did even customer support from home. Got the bills paid while they build their project.
Getting a $4K a month client is something that's can take considerable amount of time to achieve.
The discussion there shows the viewpoints of the participants and the suggestions going forward in dealing with PR, and they are for the most part naive.

Here is an actual example how PR has been dealt with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/....

The protagonists are "TimidGuy", a person affiliated with Maharishi University of Management engaging in advocacy for Transcendental Meditation, and "Will Beback", the fellow who attempted to put a lid on the PR. The outcome: a siteban for Will Beback and no consequences for TimidGuy.

A weak performance.
There are adapters and such to use the XBox controller with the PS3 as well as look-alikes.