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I wouldn't call a service that's rejected apps seemingly on a reviewer's whim with no recourse or dispute process "not perfect"; I'd call that downright abysmal.

I've had one of my apps rejected because I used the an icon incorrectly (it was for submitting a request, but the icon was only supposed to be used for sending messages. huh?). A tiny change in IB and it was accepted a week later. Yet crap like this gets through no problem: http://ralovely.com/downloads/triplog1040.png And that's not even a bad case by a long shot.

Based on Apple's own numbers, about 1 in 20 app store submissions are being rejected. There's no way to know how many of those are legitimate rejections (I'm willing to bet a lot), but that's a pretty scary number of apps that should be let through that aren't.

The changes they need to make to drastically improve the experience for devs are really minor. I don't know why Apple's making them, other than a tradition of insane levels of secrecy in their corporate culture. That or they're just too embarrassed to let people see into their review structure. Either way, something is broken.
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MIPS should be included in the list...
I think it might be possible to use CNAME DNS record (athough needs testing) for that task or use modern registrars redirect domain / framed domain features.

update: Just tested, no, CNAMEs don't work for Unite.
Actually, it could equally be called 'Misguided'.
I tried userfly on a site I operate and it really wasn't much use because it was incapable of recording the advanced AJAX stuff the site does. It also sends requests back to the original server on playback which would have caused me some problems.
Is it too hard to fix opera.com/unite ?
In a nutshell, Opera Unite is a collaborative technology that uses a compact server inside the Opera desktop browser to share data and services.
So any computer behind the router has the ability to configure that router via uPnP? Don't know much about uPnP yet.
One thing I REALLY trust Opera with - is the security. I've been using browser for ages and never had I security breach through Opera.
Meanwhile I'll be praying this client gets supported and extended, otherwise I fear we're in for another eMule. . .

Although I have a lot more faith in the Opera community than preWeb2.0 p2p applications. . .I better stop though, it's only 5am and I'm already speaking in hyperbole.
Are pictures even in the same bucket as speech though? I don't see the similarity here.
I think implied was the fact that content serving from browser has been available through Gears (which a lot of people have installed), but it hasn't quite caught on. The difference (as I see it) is that Opera makes it REALLY easy (I can start playing with Opera right away, whereas Gears API looks scary at first sight).
The Opera Unite API might be the other salient feature what everyone here is missing. Their India-evangelist pointed me to it on twitter.
Opera is likely counting on 3rd party developers on making the cool/killer apps. Things like setting up a photo gallery of kids now doesn't require you to sign up for any 3rd party service anymore. This is the anti-cloud in the sense that you can own your data. (pending a security audit of their n-tier architecture)
Disclaimer: I'm not at my desk and haven't tried the new release yet. I may be way off base with respect to the API's capabilities.
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I think the main thing is that it just works. You push the button and you get your URL, no matter whether you're behind NAT, router or (probably even) firewall.
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Wow, this kind of struck me in a meta context because I just had an idea the other day for a site cataloging ideas for startups or various other things. Call it IdeaBin or something like that. People could claim interest or indicate that they've worked on an idea. Existing versions of those ideas can be linked to. Duplicates could be a place to bring authors with similar ideas together to collaborate.

But, of course, it's still just an idea :)
It doesn't have to be a large number of developers. They just need a killer application. The File Sharing service seems to work just fine. And it's ok for both Intranet (unlike existing sharing application on the web) and Internet usage.
Nope, no tourist visa. I am staying on one-year non-immigrant visa's (multiple entry, usually type O). This requires me to go back home (The Netherlands) at least once a year and get a new one.

Getting a work permit is a bit tricky since I am not employed by a Thai company (requirement). The only other option is to setup my own company here which right away brings loads of administrative headaches with it (been down that road and got out rather quick).
Harsh fluorescent lighting, open plan office, every desk looks the same. Who wouldn't want to work there?
...although it is on offer at the moment. Generally I'd be wary of comparing a dell to a macbook pro, given the formers' tendency towards plasticy tat. A high quality laptop like a T400 seems a more reasonable comparison.
Yeah, and it's pretty nice, because it always works without pain :)
I am more interested in the infrastructure they use to host facebook chat. So far, I just know that they use erlang as the backbone language for facebook chat. Maybe Ejabberd.
Yes, that's why it's sometimes called "freedom of expression" instead of "freedom of speech."
there's a meme in the USA that it's the "greatest country in the world"

There's the same meme in India, and perhaps in other countries too. It is a bit silly to think like that, especially when most people haven't really travelled to many countries. I used to think the same but once I started travelling my views changed. Definitely worth a try.
Are KKK members allowed to express their views on blacks, with the N-word?

(If you really didn't know -- Holocaust denial is standard fare in antisemitic groups.)
This doesn't change how hackers look at the web. There's a reason we use servers -- 24x7 availability with network redundancies, backup power, etc, etc. Most hackers I know can run servers off their local box by using either static IPs from their provider or a proxy service. But many don't because of the reasons above. And now that there are so many great (mostly free) turnkey hosting services like App Engine and Heroku, it's never been simpler to offload all the server issues to a cloud.

The main target audience for this would be users who can't use any of the cloud hosting and also don't need high availability. My folks live by a lake with satellite broadband -- bad latency, frequent dropouts due to weather, and a host of other issues, like simply not wanting to keep their computer on all day, every day. They couldn't use this service. Other users would likely confront at least one of the issues. I've just browsed the Opera material, but I don't see a database/datastore -- maybe submitted data is supposed to go to disk? (The blog example has submitted forms going to memory!)

So why is this a huge development?
I think it's technically impressive, but way too many barriers for widespread adoption, also it seems to lack a killer app...

share photos? yeah can already do that, chatroom? Mibbit obviously, share files, check... etc

Users can already do everything shown in the examples, so there isn't a clear compelling reason to use it yet.
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It would be interesting to know about such a capability of computers behind the router, because it would imply that the router is not an effective firewall - which I had assumed it is. Although to be fair, I suppose you can usually disable uPnP in the router (which should be the default imo).
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For some reason I do not want to deal with Google Ireland Inc, nor have it in euro, might have been tempted if it was in £ though since it says that the law applicable would be the English rather than American law.

What do you guys think about this change?
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That was interesting. Apparently there are nuances even when it comes to Holocaust deniers.
This is not about reliability. We are not talking about traditional servers and applications.

This is a huge development because when everyone can host applications for free in their own browser we will soon start seeing new paradigms in the way how we use the internet and how applications are served.

I am not smart enough to forecast HOW this will be done, but I have a gut feeling that this will lead us to something really game-changing.
Opera is likely counting on 3rd party developers on making the cool/killer apps. Things like setting up a photo gallery of kids now doesn't require you to sign up for any 3rd party service anymore.

Indeed, but I believe Opera could get more mileage out of Unite if it targeted office/corporate workers. Apps would be more profitable for developers, and non-technical people at work could definitely use easier and more versatile collaboration tools. There is potential there.
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It's probably more logistics though.

Banning nipples makes a clear and easy line. If they didn't have the line there, where would it be? Nudity? erect penises? Hardcore? Logistically they need a line on how they moderate pictures.

Text/groups on the other hand, is just text. Personally, I don't really find text offensive unless it's directed at me or my family, in a threatening way - eg "We're going to hunt axod down and skin him like a fish". If it's just idiots ranting on about how they hate some group of people, trying to ban or moderate that only draws attention to them.
We need more acronyms, I was hoping for an exciting story about how prisoner of war with access only to firefox was able to hack into a webserver and post the details of imprisonment, thus leading to his eventual rescue.
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What kinds of apps is this supposed to unleash? If the application is sufficiently complex to require programming or a database, which is true of just about any non-trivial app, then the user is savvy enough to host apps for free in several cloud hosting services with very easy deployment. If we're just talking about file or photo sharing, then there are other services like Dropbox that work well and don't require constant connectivity and compute power on the client side.

I'm typically a fan boy of new tech, but other than a nice proxy service, I don't see why this is revolutionary or game changing. Time will tell, but if there really is a market for something like this, it'll be served by a really cool and simple app development tool which autosyncs to a cloud. Building the app in a brain-dead way is the chokepoint for people coming up with personal apps, not the server infrastructure (at least now in 2009). Why bother with client-side computers for a web-facing personal presence?
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Living in Thailand doesn't mean you have to work in Thailand. That is the crucial difference...

I live here (Thailand) and do contract work at near western rates. That means I can live for months off the revenue from a single project.

To be fair though, the cost of living in Thailand is higher than the article makes out. Rent is quite high (if you want to live in a good location), and having western food all the time gets expensive. Expect to spend about 30k THB per month on ChefXP and FoodByPhone.

As for a variety of foods, Bangkok is hard to beat. Except for the lack of decent mexican food (Sunrise Taco should be burned down), we have pretty much anything you could want to eat... and it can be delivered to your door w/in 45minutes for less than you'd pay in the US.

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All you've pointed out is that the costs of production have fallen. Big deal! It doesn't matter if production prices fall 50 or 80 percent: if revenues are zero, then the musician is still screwed.

Whether or not production costs fall to zero, a musician still needs to eat food. The OP is complaining that in the presence of widespread filesharing the price inevitably falls to zero. This is not some kind of new technological reality that we must accept! It is a reality brought upon by the lack of respect for property rights! If Portobello Road market were not policed, and were known not to be policed, does anyone here seriously doubt that theft would become widespread? Sorry, but people have a tendency of being a bit cheeky if they know they can get away with it (though whats worse is when to the cheek, self-serving rightousness and finger-wagging [evil capitalist labels! evil evil labels!] is added).

People keep saying that the crux is that distribution is free in electronic form. That's true, but it's no more relevant that pointing out that the sun that allows an orange tree to grow is free --- it is far from being the only cost. Releasing an album is an expensive business -- it requires a concerted advertising and publicity campaign. These types of campaigns are not cheap. Widespread filesharing decimates potential profits because many of those that otherwise would have the album don't. So it doesn't matter if the filesharer personally "profits" -- he is still harming the artist, because some portion of his disposable income that should have gone to the artist (after all -- the consumer did listen to the music) didn't.
Just out of curiousity, does anyone here listen to old Bollywood songs while coding; the likes of Kishore Kumar and such? They are very melodious.
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I'm sure acquisition is much better for many, just not what I go for usually...don't get me wrong, I'm happy to get acquired as well ;). The reason I'm wildly guessing that other cities might show better profitability ratios is simply that they have less expectations from the start of acquisition.
It seems like there is a lot of BKK based people here. Anyone want to meet up for a beer?

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What's more, the formal spec doesn't contain important parts, like the connection handshake process. Without that knowledge you cannot make h264 video work.
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So could you create a p2p cache program or website? Where users share .mp3s .avis and other media files via their cache?
I'm just guessing here, but I'd say it is based on a similar scheme as skype - the browser opens an initial route to the opera server, which essentially stays open (think ajax) while the browser is running, and then the server can route the requests back to this link. Any NAT is taken care of in the initial connection, so as long as it isn't broken, any "incoming" request will in fact be a reply to the original open connection.
Well, they do show how to create a Blog (without any kind of database server setup and believe me - it's very simple!), although I need to find a way to save it between sessions (when you close Opera - entries are gone). They have sandboxed filesystem, so there's probably just a way to dump JSON to a file and reload on start.
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No, they can't register their own TLD. That's what domain names are for.

You can use your own domain since Unite listens on port 8840.
I think that file (not only mp3s) sharing is the ultimate goal of the internet. The current state when we have big servers to which clients connect is just a coincidence and is temporary. The future is fully distributed :)
I was also hoping it might have something to do with integrating Batman into Firefox. But that would also require the optional BAMM and !!! extensions. See http://media.photobucket.com/image/batman%20cartoon%20pow%20... for an example "in action."
MMS is useful for talking to old legacy phones :/ Nice to have, but hardly critical.
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Superficially, I can see why you draw this analogy. Open-source programmers make their code freely available, but companies can still profit by providing support. Everyone happy.

But we need to remember why this model works. Programming is a relatively highly paid job. A programmer who works for a decade or so can afford the opportunity cost of doing unpaid work. The average musician, on the other hand, works at a pub!

Second, look at who are the purchasers of software support. These are invariably companies with deep pockets. Had they not purchased the open-source solution (which is cheap on account of that good samaritan programmer's efforts!) they would have purchased the equivalent closed-source solution, at a greater cost. Compare this with merch in music: the customers here are just individual consumers. And the typical pattern here is you go to a gig, and the first chunk of your money goes to your ticket, next to drinks, and if you have money left over, then you might buy a t-shirt (I'm musician, and was told by a professional manager [she works for the company that manages Amy Winehouse] NOT to buy excessive amount of merch -- she said that it was the weakest link; the one thing the customers really could afford to do without).

I agree with your second point regarding the difficulty of making money doing original music. It really saddens me, but c'est la vie I guess: not everyone loves music, and live music at that, as much as me. Demand is what it is. But what really galls me is filesharing, because in that case, the price is artificially zero. It is zero because there is not property enforcement. And that, frankly, sucks.
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Yeah, for each Nielsen Designated Market Area. The US is divided into 210 of those.

Are we confused, or are "lionhearted" and "jellicle" liars?

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They conveniently ignore it since it doesn't fit in well with their agenda/propaganda? Either that or Mike isn't very good with numbers.

I like this comment though:

>> The data could also get interpreted that startups in
>> the valley have a lower revenue success rate and fewer
>> working business models and the only strategy remaining
>> is an acquisition before landing in the deadpool.

>> Since when is the primary goal of startup to get
>> acquired? I thought companies are about finding a
>> business model. Oh wait, that might just be my “out
>> of valley” thinking model…
I am a European, I don't know a single person who buys apps on anything else than the Apple App Store. I call that Dominant. Frankly the concept was quite unheard of before the App Store (i.e. other stores existed, but nobody cared). Nokia has a large range of phones, but until know they haven't shown they know how to run a platform. Although I am sure that will change.
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Didn't Windows Home Server do this a long time ago? They also had easy file sharing and gave you your own subdomain with a web interface to get at your content. Although Unite is a lot easier to configure/start and you don't need a dedicated device, I still don't think the core audience is the average user.

It's a little awkward if you need to leave your laptop on 24/7 for your friends to access...For the average user, an internet service is more than enough.
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Oh, to be clear I was talking about the phone. They are certainly way ahead in terms of their app store. However, I'd still bet that the number of people buying apps on Apple's store is tiny compared to the number of phone users, so there's a big 'negative space' to consider there.

Come to think of it though, in terms of buying things, the 'biggest' market is probably all those crappy ring tones and things of that ilk, although it's probably not of much interest to 'hacker news' types.
OK, if they do that, it would work - but then it all would depend on the Opera server. If I create my own applications, I don't want to depend on some Opera service being up and running.

At the very least there would have to be some open source application that I could install on my own server.
> i also think if more bands embraced torrents, it would help them get their music heard.

That's a theory that hasn't been borne out by the evidence, and doesn't even stand to reason if you think about it. Let's label the 10,000 or so bands in existince in the UK alone, and let's assume each of them released an album every two years, in torrent form. The average listener would need to listen to 5,000 releases every year to stay up to date, or more than 14 or so new albums every day!

Of course that's not practical. So what's the solution? How do you whittle the number down to something manageable. Well, you could listen to just a subsample, but then you could be missing then next Fleet Foxes! Or the next Mozart.

No, the solution is for someone who really, really, thinks that band 7,819 is the new Fleet Foxes, as opposed to band 6,412, to put his money where his mouth is and advertise and publicise the band. And that's exactly what major record labels do. And that's why they are no more obsolete than publishing companies are. In effect, we pay labels some fraction of the album price to save us from having to dredge through myspace to find something listenable.

Unfortunately, for that to work people need to pay for their music. And for that to occur, government needs to crack down on filesharing. IMHO
I think it's very useful for transferring big files (like movie files for a project or from the last trip) to friends. Instead of using megaupload or having them install a software (like DC++, connecting to hubs and so on) to download it. It's like having your own apache server but way much easier to use for normal people.
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