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You're probably thinking of a RIM employee who told a story about how the engineers thought Apple was lying about the iPhone because the large screen was too power-hungry:

The iPhone "couldn't do what [Apple was] demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life," Shacknews poster Kentor heard from his former colleagues of the time. "Imagine their surprise [at RIM] when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it."

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.ap...
Medical conditions that preclude participation in everything should be recognized as a possibility going in. For example, I know a couple that was involved in a serious automobile accident. The husband walked away with minor injuries, but his wife was comatose for about a year. She couldn't uphold her marriage vows in any way during that year.

Part of the covenant to society is that you will weather difficulties and remain committed to your spouse. A lot of types of "quick fixes" can cloud that perspective.
But if all our institutions and capital were wiped out, it would be appropriate for our behaviors to revert. That just proves that humans are extremely adaptable to changes in environment.

Which state shows our "true nature"? I would argue the concept is meaningless. Our current state is just as natural as any other.

To argue otherwise, you need to make theological assertions about humans being supernatural. A city is no less natural than a beehive, which is no less natural than a mountain.
Haha I'd heard this anecdote before, so it's my own fault for missing it. :)

Thanks for the great article and indeed fun references!
> In any case, implementation of the CA Supreme Court's decision could not go ahead until the USSC had issued its decision

The actual decision that can now be implemented is a decision of the US District Court for the Northern District of California (a federal trial court that struck down Prop 8 as a violation of the federal Constitution), not the California Supreme Court (the state appellate court who upheld the Proposition as a valid Constitutional amendment and not an improperly-passed Constitutional revision under the State Constitution.)
These numbers are highly exaggerated. For example, the largest christian church has more than 1 billion members (member=baptized) and I don't think that currently there is any way of officially leaving the church after being baptized...
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dont give up, dont wish, build this for Microsoft for Windows Azure
I'm not sure for the purposes of this case, but San Diego has some strange policies for their sidewalks.

By CA law the property owner is usually responsible for the upkeep of the sidewalk on their property. However, if someone falls and breaks their face on a broken sidewalk the city is liable.
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So, on par or nearly on par specs on most counts (except, of course, 3G) but vastly superior specs on some counts? People criticised the first iPhone for its lack of 3G. That much is true.

But its horse power? That would have been an exoteric opinion at the time. Legend has it that Nokia was so astonished by the iPhone, they got their high speed cameras out to see whether the phone was really doing 60fps scrolling.

The first iPhone was a towering technical achievement (except for the lack of 3G). It was a phone that made all the right compromises at exactly the right time.

I think you would have been hard pressed to find anyone disputing that in 2007. Sure, people doubted whether it would really be useful without the ability to install third party apps, people doubted whether Edge would be enough, people bemoaned missing features – all good reasons to not want the original iPhone – but the technology was without a doubt great.

And all you are engaging in is revisionist history.

(I’m writing this doubting that iOS7 will be any of that. It’s a train-wreck on the iPad currently. Yeah, it’s just a preview but an OS is so complex, I don’t see how it’s possible to turn this mess into a coherent whole in the few months they have left. No matter how many hours they pour into it. I’m pessimistic.)
Its impossible to make everyone happy
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I want to learn more about what various colors mean. How do people use shadows on the web? How are color schemes decided. How do you go about picking a font. Information hierarchy. Layouts. I understand this could probably be material for a 4 yr course. But I am curious about the limited set of rules for the web.
The prosecution definitely appears abusive.
So the traffic won't have 'direct access' to Google's servers? That's reassuring :)
bskap is correct. It's developed by Microsoft as a free & open source extension to VS. You can use the VS "Shell" with PTVS to create a fully functional and free Python IDE. Support is via the forums on codeplex. The good part is that it's monitored directly by the devs on the team.
Food is not a problem by itself, but there are people addicted to eating (sometimes specific types of foods.)

Same with alcohol. Having a drink is perfectly healthy, but there are people who are addicted to the bottle.

"Addiction is an illness" -- and one can be addicted to things that are otherwise perfectly acceptable. This does not provide a basis for excluding pornography from the category of "things someone can be addicted to".
It's true. I believe that we should be ruled absolutely by an oligarchy of international banks controlled by HFT-coding porpoises. Ee! Ee! Clk! Ee! Down with humans!
I don't think the majority of the complaints with NSA surveillance is about publicly available information. The issue is with information that they assume is private such as emails, im conversation, call records etc...
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When you marry, you covenant to society that you will make yourself compatible with your spouse, even when it's difficult to do so, [...]

That's fine for you. Other people have different priorities in their lives. And elevating the sanctity these abstract entities known as "institutions" to the point where they feel miserable, trapped, and unfulfilled do not count particularly high among them.

If one is "sexually incompatible" with his/her spouse, they should talk about it, recognize the issues, make compromises, and move forward.

That's fine for you, if those are your priorities. But what's fine for you isn't necessarily fine for other people.

They should also recognize that while sex is meaningful and important, it can't be a deal-breaker for a marriage ...

Again, maybe not a deal-breaker for you. But for other people... I think you see what I'm getting at here.
Didn't he chalk the buildings, too? The bank is claiming damages, not the city.
Indeed I was. You found it a minute before me.
> Speaking from America, you sound like a pretentious stuffed shirt.

I bow to your superior argumentative technique. You, sir, are a gift to critical thinking and public debate.
I think you got down-voted because you were speaking in absolutes, rather than being even-handed. If you had said what you just said then—instead of blurting out a one-liner—you would have been more well-received.
A court case isn't where each side gets to throw everything they possibly can at the jury and the jury has to figure it all out.

Juries are exposed to carefully controlled subsets of all possible facts. What does this guy's mom do? What kind of cars do the people working at the bank drive? The answers to those questions are true facts but not relevant to the court.
... or when it interferes with other parts of your life. If you're constantly late to work because you can't shut off the porn when it's time to go, that's a definite sign of addiction.
The problem with Citizens United isn't the showing of the film, it's the disproportionate voice that it gives to those with money. If you believe that having more money should give you a larger voice in the political process, then all is well in your world. I do not happen to believe that.
Not titling it with a split infinitive would have got my vote </pedantry>
Some Kimsufi servers have quite a bit of disk for their price. You'd need to run a RAIS, though.
Who is better known amongst the (anglo) general public - Louis XIV, the Sun King, probably the most long-lived, powerful, and reformative monarch in Europe's history... Or Marie Antoinnette, famed utterer of a vapid phrase which she probably didn't even say?
Masters of Doom is an awesome read. If you are into gaming, graphics or the history of id Software... order it today.

Here are some excerpts from the book that I particularly enjoyed:

"On a cold winter day, Carmack laced up his shoes, slipped on his jacket, and headed out into the Madison snow. The town was blanketed in the stuff, cars caked in frost, trees dangling ice. Carmack endured the chill because he had no car; he'd sold the MGB long before. It was easy enough for him to shut out the weather, just like he could, when necessary, shut Tom and Romero's antics out of his mind. He was on a mission.

Carmack stepped into the local bank and requested a cashier's check for $11,000. The money was for a NeXT computer, the latest machine from Steve Jobs, cocreator of Apple. The NeXT, a stealth black cube, surpassed the promise of Jobs's earlier machines by incorporating NeXTSTEP, a powerful system tailor-made for custom software development. The market for PCs and games was exploding, and this was the perfect tool to create more dynamic titles for the increasingly viable gaming platform. It was the ultimate Christmas present for the ultimate in young graphics programmers, Carmack."

Of course, the book wouldn't be complete without Ferrari details and discussion:

"At a showroom, they admired a gleaming new Testarossa that listed at $90,000. Carmack was treating cars like he treated his games; he had already grown somewhat tired of his current engine. What he really wanted was one of these. [...] Carmack paid cash for a red one to match his 328.

[...]

But Carmack's Ferrari didn't stay in the lot for long. Within days he drove it over to Norwood Autocraft and started on the modifications - he wanted to get the car, which ran at four hundred horsepower, at least twice as strong. Bob Norwood, who had become Carmack's automotive mentor, had a master plan: to install a twin turbo system that would not just double but triple the car's horsepower. For added energy, they put in a computer-controlled device that would inject a burst of nitrous oxide."
If he's a first-time offender, your solution is a lot better idea than any jail time.
...where companies pay a lot ...

Hell, I kept getting spam regarding assorted awards my software "won" simply because I provided some sort of XML file indicating download details.
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I have been waiting for a post like this for a long time. There seems to be a distinct lack of "I use rubymotion and here are my thoughts" type posts that provide concrete details.

Really appreciate the article and I am interested to see where this leads for RubyMotion.
Cool, it worked. Thank you!
You can try out http://hackdesign.org/ or read Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty[1]. There are plenty of other sources out there, but these are a good start.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Bea...
Yes, you can build Call of Duty with canvas and JavaScript. No, you shouldn't. A claim that faster hardware is a solution is circular: to get native performance today, faster hardware is needed. At that point, native performance on that hardware becomes great and theoretically is doing more amazing things than it did on the old hardware. In other words HTML-based apps always play catch up, unless native can't use the hardware anymore, or the interpreted bottleneck is reduced.
Another cynicism that comes to mind - this won't only help staying ahead of competitors, but also perhaps persuading owners of older iphones to get a newer device, even though they were fully satisfied up to this point.
I think it would be better described as "principles" than "views".

People do not share his principles, or worse, they give lip service to the principles but compromise. This creates internal dissonance that is difficult to reconcile without admitting that your principles do not in fact include "freedom" of this sort.

We tend to get unhappy when we believe we value something only to be shown that we do not. We can be angry at ourselves (depressed, sad, etc.) or we can look outwards.

RMS is not a sympathetic figure, so if one were to look at a target of ridicule, he is just about perfect. Stinky pinko whining hippy couch-surfer with a thing for parrots.
tptacek I can always count on you to consistently promote anti-human rights, pro bank, pro totalitarian viewpoints here, and you will consistently lie and misrepresent reality to do so. You truly have no shame and you are a sociopath.

And you're a misinformed fool. Quoting other sensationalist and equally inaccurate sources does not validate your point. The jury in a common law trial is a trier of fact, not of law. The proper place for defense counsel to make his first amendment argument is in the appeals court.

These procedural niceties, as much as you dislike them, are what underpin the rights of criminal defendants in the first place, by providing a mechanism for challenging the law itself.
Nice video! Very informative...thanks for sharing.
Court Upholds Man's $675,000 Fine for Music Piracy
I just bought a RubyMotion license and I really enjoyed creating my first iPhone App but I don't think I would have started if I knew about this issue.

I really hope that they get around to fixing this problem, it does make me a bit concerned that they are pushing big new features while such a serious issue seems to exists.
RT is not journalism - it's propaganda - http://www.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php?page=all...

Please do us all a favor and stop linking to it. If the story is real - a credible source will talk about it; find and link to it.
All of the new features are just 'feature libraries' on top of CoreAnimation, which was there since 1.0. You could of made a demo of all of this that ran (slower) on iOS 2.0 with just CoreAnimation and the accelerometer hardware API as a 3rd party developer. CoreAnimation is the impressive part.
Looks like an easy $20,000. :)
Thanks for watching! Any favorite parts?
What kind of emails are you going to send? If they're just transactional emails or a reasonable amount (I believe it's 10,000 per 24 hours when you're starting out with SES, not entirely sure though!) of mass marketing emails it's fine. Inexpensive, pretty easy to set up and deliverability is fine so far.
This doesn't seem easy for facebook, at least. I live in the USA and regularly read my European friends facebook pages, and they comment on mine. European facebook users can travel to the USA and access their facebook page while here. How could you implement this kind of separation?
JSC is also missing on Mandreel in Octane. Maybe the JSC shell lacks typed arrays?
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> You have to trust that a hot wheels toy car won't have a secret hidden camera transmitting back to the government

Dude, but did you hear about the recent surveillance leaks? ;-) What was revealed is almost exactly analogous to toy having the secret hidden camera. I am puzzled a bit - you say that you have to trust other people at some point, just after revelations that we can't trust them. ;)

But if you believe that the data collected about you will never by misused by anyone, then fine - but we shouldn't dismiss Stallman's concerns, especially when they turned out to be almost exactly true.
I'd argue that rivaling music, pandora's biggest product is their music recommendation system. It's second to none in my opinion. Google has clearly put together a good system too recently with their generated playlists, and last.fm has had similar recommendations. However, as far as a recommendation system that exposes you to new, different music you would have never selected on your own, Pandora makes good choices with surprising accuracy.

Part of that is their Music Genome Project where human beings listened to every song Pandora hosted and rated every aspect of it. I'm sure now they just have a ton of other useful data from listening habits. Regardless, I think the music could almost be seen as secondary.

If all Pandora wanted to do was have me pay $36 dollars for a weekly, automated newsletter telling me of new songs I might like and then collecting my feedback for future newsletters made for me, I'd likely pay for that. They could even alert me to new concerts in my area. Of course, the music streaming ties that all together in a really compelling way.

So, I think if anything you could say that about 50% to musicians and 50% to programmers and staff and overhead sounds about right. Hopefully they manage to eek out a profit to stick around.

They'll be greatly missed if all that's left one day is iHeartRadio and the same old industry pushing the same old method of selecting hits.

Pandora is undeniably a good way to listen to music, and all anyone wants is to ensure they have a fair way to compete.

No one likes seeing artists go hungry. But we all also recognize that if there's anyone being unfair to artists, it's the mega industry from the prior era.

The new industry involves artists owning their work and paying $50/year at TuneCore or similar companies to get their music distributed to companies such as Pandora. Or, they sign up to traditional album sellers like BandCamp or CDBaby. It's simply the most efficient way to do it now.

Absolutely we appreciate the music industry for almost a century of fantastic art and culture. But they either need to adapt or gracefully accept their new role, which is a purveyor of American classics and the niche hype machine for the few mega acts of pop music who actually get good terms on their contracts with major labels.
It is Hackathon Culture after all; Do something because you can, or just to see what is possible. Unfortunately, you guys are getting lots of negative pushback here. Sometimes, it's not what the Tech does, but how you leverage the Tech, and how you Package your Product. Is this a "just for fun" project, or do you guys plan on going all the way? If the intention here is to build/release a real product, I can see a few potential issues with this approach, some of which are already covered here. Perhaps if you used a different approach, and solved a different problem (Same Tech, Different Product) you might have more positive feedback. In fact, I can think of a great 'Pivot' possibility here using the Tech you've built to provide a different Type of Service that I can see customers happily using, and paying for. If this sounds interesting, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter, @shawnkreilly

Good Job on the Tech!!
Counters aren't a good use case for transactional memory because the contention is over very specific sets of memory.

Transactional memory is useful for using a coarse lock to access a wide set of data most of which is not accessed concurrently. You are having the hardware doing the work of lock elision/splitting for you.

This saves you from having the unnecessary mutual exclusion of a regular coarse lock. Or alternatively it saves you from the unnatural acts necessary to get lock splitting or eliminate shared state.

For write mostly counters where performance is an issue you want to have a thread local counters or striped counters.

See http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/jsr1... for an example of how that is done. This counter demonstrates lock splitting as well as an attempt at mechanical sympathy by trying to pick the right stripe based on CAS failures.
Not to mention that there is no way in hell that it legitimately cost BoA $6000 to clean up sidewalk chalk 13 times. That's absurd on the face of it. You can hose it off in, at maximum, an hour. I can easily hire a guy for $50 to hose off the sidewalk for an hour. $450 for that job is ridiculous.
Tim Berners-Lee's opinion on this matter is as valuable as yours or mine, that is to say indeed valuable, but not to be made the subject of a news report.
Just two examples, there is more wrong, beginning with the title.

>It creates a “memory barrier” CPU are usually free to >shuffle around the stream of instructions that flow through >them and it is done all the time as the CPU constantly >optimizes the instruction stream to keep all its resources >busy. A lock creates a barrier and the CPU is not allowed >to move stuff past this barrier. Branch prediction across >memory barriers is also something I don’t think is doable.

He's confusing instruction retiring with memory ordering. On modern fast CPUs they are only vaguely related.

>Cache coherency. The address line that stores the lock gets >invalidated and the content in that cache gets thrown out.

That's not how a modern CPU with MESI protocol operate.
As long as the cache line stays EXCLUSIVE to that core it does not get invalidated.
If Pandora's streams 'are the product' then why does Pandora have a 'Buy' button? It's not a tip jar: Pandora doesn't let you listen to a particular song on demand, or offline.
In California the sidewalk belongs to the property owner - as does the responsibility for maintaining it. If the sidewalk is in unsafe condition and I fall and hurt myself as a result, I sue the owner of the building erected there. This is one reason that homeowner's insurance is mandatory in California; your liability extends out to the edge of the road.
Still seeing that as "magically-guided" even after reading the article.
What stops them doing this with any other currency? The point here is that Bitcoin isn't really special.
This is incorrect. I haven't seen any complaint about FBI agents perusing public web sites, or deputy US Marshals poking around public portions of Facebook to try to track down a fugitive.

The flap over the last few weeks has been about government surveillance of information that was not intended to be public. Private email, private IMs, private Facebook messages, etc. Where Americans do have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
> How do you discuss something that you are not allowed to talk about?

For this, in a SCIF, after getting a security clearance and signing an SF 712 that you wouldn't disclose national security information to those who are not (cleared, approved by their Director/CO, and with a valid need-to-know).

> It is not merely that the NSA wants to keep its techniques secret; this is an attempt to keep the fact that the NSA is conducting surveillance secret.

Well if the NSA were to reveal what flags they look at when making a determination that data is definitely from an American, then it is that much easier for people to evade surveillance by passing their communications as those of an American. This would fall under the guise of "NSA techniques" and would probably be why both the NSA and Sen. Udall feel that they can't discuss that part further.
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This is an incredibly simple (and dangerous) hack, I'm happy to see it was neutralized so soon after being discovered.

Also good to see that the finder was amply rewarded for his effort.
More expensive. Want to sell your app? Better give Apple their 30% cut, in addition to the yearly fee in order to have an app of any sort.

Can you name an app that charges that isn't in the App Store? There's plenty of apps in the App Store that are "HTML apps" (built using PhoneGap, Titanium, etc)
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