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Why is the time wasted if you move on to Django? I'm sure the time won't be going to waste as you will become a better developer having been exposed to both.

The decision which to learn should be based on what your overall goals are. I am myself starting to learn python and will be moving towards learning Django. I don't see Django as the final solution to everything but its a solid start to being exposed to python and its web frameworks.

I have looked at Flask and Pyramid. Both seem quite good but at this moment I'm looking at learning a framework that will do a lot of heavy lifting for me. Django will do that better. Likely in about a year or more, I will be in a position to decide for myself based on my own experience whether getting into Flask or Pyramid would be a better idea for my projects.

Personally, I'd rather go to a restaurant and see the full buffet and sample the food that way (ie. Django) versus go in and pick niche items of the menu (ie. Flask).
That completely depends on how they were stored. If the FBI has his encrypted wallet file and DPR has the password to access those keys then the coins are effectively dead don't you think?
How does that make his ancestory relevant in this case to be quoted ?
Yep. I was pretty dumbfounded by how much less functional it was in Lion. I basically went from using Spaces constantly to probably not having used it in the past 2 years. I ended up completely replacing it with a bunch of keyboard and gesture shortcuts in BetterTouchTool.
closed source since 1975.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
You may be incorrectly assuming all A7 SoCs are identical. The Apple TV has an A5, but it's only single core, unlike it's dual core phone and tablet brethren. Maybe they just dropped the X moniker.
>Isn't the point of the FirePro line that they come with ECC?

I'm pretty sure they use regular ram, but even if were the case, I'd still prefer a single high end one.
Sure. Would love to meet you, throw me a mail at shubham.jain.1@gmail.com.
Google Glass in Healthcare
> The government ... kept making requirements changes

So, just like every client every developer ever had?
Weight clearly exists in a vacuum. Weight doesn't exist without gravity, because weight is mass times 9.8 m/s^2.

Signed, Physics pedant.
Most times when one person "loses" cash another person "finds" it, leaving the money supply unchanged. When a private key is lost all the coins in that wallet are lost effectively forever. If this happens with large accounts the potential for it to effect the overall economy cannot be ignored.
It also helps developers. It would be a reasonable position to take to only support the latest MacOS release and features. (People who don't want to upgrade their MacOS version for free are also less likely to want to try your software or upgrade to new versions of it.)
" I can't imagine the value proposition for a new iPad 2 is at all attractive at that price point.. "

Its interesting how most people here assume that the world at large makes same choices as themselves. Consider iPhone pricing: Apple has been selling previous years models for $100 less than the latest version, yet they sold millions of outdated iPhones even in the US.

Not everyone wants the latest gadget or cares about the greatest tech specs as long as they can extract the desired utility at the least possible price. There are laggards in the adoption curve who are more price sensitive than the early adopters.

I'm a victim of this fallacy myself. I used to wonder who on the earth is clicking on those ads displayed next to Google search, why don't everyone just install AdBlock on their browsers? Yet Google raked in billions of dollars as people clicked on those ads that I considered spam.
I agree. Even the biggest Apple fanboys should keep an open mind towards at least reading the reviews of other products. Only competition (even if you deem it inferior competition) can give rise to disruptive technology.
Would you kindly provide the un-minified version of your link? This isn't Twitter, and HN has its own method of shortening overlong links while also displaying the original link target.
> What has personally held me back is that Windows RT has nothing in particular for me because it can't run any x86 legacy apps, while surface Pro seems rather expensive.

I agree with that personally, but I would hope that Windows RT could grow a strong enough ecosystem that this wouldn't be a big deal.

> As with Google & Android, and MS with many previous versions of Windows, this platform is poor for musicians and not great for visual artists. I know creatives are a small market, but they're a very influential one. I don't like Apple or iOS much, but next time I buy a tablet with a view to making music, what other choice do I have?

I think focusing on creatives is key also. In particular, I would like to see some decent touch-friendly programming environment on a tablet; without which I'm still stuck using a laptop for relatively dumb reasons.
Frequent Locations enabled by default in iOS 7
Settings > Location Services > System Services > Frequent Locations
One IE annoyance that might apply here (if you even care about IE, and have lots of images on one page) is that only 31 style sheets can be applied at once.

http://blogs.telerik.com/aspnetmvcteam/posts/10-05-03/intern... (includes test page)
My startup friends and I here in Brisbane, Australia talk quite a bit about going to San Fran to "soak up the start-up vibe".

I often joke about having the nerve to set up camp in a coffee shop there and whip out my Surface Pro, fire up visual studio, and sling some C# and see how quickly I'll get hated on.

I do wonder, will that really happen? Honest question.
Microsoft was built around a BASIC interpreter coded by billg himself! But more to the point, Apple doesn't even really uphold open source values either, so regardless of whether they are right or not, it doesn't make sense to ding Microsoft and not Apple.
Yeah I imagine an fft solution is not the best due to non-mathmatical reasons. Kinda annoying as it was all worked out decades ago
No 4th amendment rights were lost. A warrant was issued, which is provided for in the 4th amendment and whose issue can be challenged in court. The 4th amendment is designed to protect you from warrantless seizures. It does not confer any right to frustrate the issuance of a warrant.

Challenged does not mean 'prevent'ed it can be argued later as a matter of law that the warrant should not have been issued, and that the evidence acquired as a result is inadmissible. Courts do not have to give defendants the benefit of the doubt in matters of evidence collection because a) procedures exist to challenge the admission of that evidence at trial and b) it's a sad but true fact that a lot of people do in fact attempt to destroy evidence; where they have both motive and capacity to do so, seizure is justifiable. Spoliation (the legal term for destruction of evidence) is a big problem in litigation.
Not sure, but if you had a Nokia tablet instead, you might have some cute girls come up to you and say "hey that's pretty!"
A business opportunity whichever way you slice it.
Software for in-house use might be fine.

Bureaucracy reduces efficiency.

The more organizationally significant the software the worse risk there is.

Processes and procedures are the ways institutions manage risk.

So the more significant the software is the less efficient the production of it is.
Depending on the USB input device, that's not necessarily true at all. You could very easily find crappy USB input devices with greater latency than your ping to the news.ycombinator.com server, unless you're in Antarctica or something. There's at least one John Carmack twitter rant about ping to Europe being better than latency from some USB input device.

If you're a single router hop away from something the latency can be imperceptible. Whatever trouble is involved here isn't down to network latency.
I completely agree. Apple doesn't offer the ability to pick and choose, so you can end up with hardware much in excess of your needs, both in capabilities and in price.

My point is simply that this is a rather different situation. People phrase it as "Apple charges a premium" when it's more like "Apple sells high-end products". It doesn't make much difference to you if you want a medium-range product instead, but it does mean that Apple isn't just ripping everybody off.
Haha okay, unless you're a high-school senior or college freshman who's just discovered open source, you can't be serious.
I'm almost afraid to reply to this. It's like the hunt for Communists in the US during the cold war - ah another MS sympathizer.

MS made a lot of mistakes - so did Apple. I was an Apple tech support - it really sucked not having multitasking and dealing with so many OS issues. Now I make a living off the MS stack.

I think MS sticking with RT is a bad move - go with full Windows support. I would still say a Nexus device is probably the best bang for the buck.

In the end it's just an opinion, but you don't need to jump down a company's throat because their not the ones in vogue at the moment.
Flags for what type of comments? Did the comment provide constructive feedback? Or did it simply state an opinion with no support to fuel the discussion?

It's -ethical- to flag comments that are false, off-topic, or do not contribute to the discussion; not ones of differing opinion.
Apple has taken measures to technologically limit your ability to do so. When I bought my most recent MacBook Pro it came with Lion. Because of network issues at work I could't use Lion (still can't), so I tried to put Snow Leopard in a VM (using the copy I had previously put on my now defunct MacBook Pro) but Apple and VMWare had put in technological blockers to prevent putting SL on a Lion VM or Lion on a SL VM. So, I repartitioned and copied my old MacBook over and am still living happily with SL.
StavrosK wanted a narrow definition of valid criticism.

Narrowly confining ourselves to a technical analysis of ignores that there are other dimensions to how people think about technology, and the perception that Google has created about its trustworthiness is one of them.

It's not as if we are going to explore that topic in a one-time thread and never say anything about it again. It is going to keep being discussed as related issues come up.
That would be incorrect. There are more Windows 8 users than ever version of OS X combined.

Sources:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/02/windows-8-jumps-pa...

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
I started my career working on VB apps, and ASP then ASP.NET websites, using a Windows dev box.

After learning several OSS stacks, I have nothing but contempt for Microsoft technologies. I wouldn't say I hate MS - they are what they are - but I am certainly conditioned to be very suspicious of their offerings. I would never take a job working on a MS stack again, ever.

I currently work for a large enterprise that uses a mix of MS and OSS, and I take every chance I get to swap out the MS tech with OSS. The devs love it and it makes me happy.
Since you work for MS Labs, I beg you to investigate the state machine possibilities of tools like Reaktor and Flowstone, which are geared towards signal processing but which are plenty versatile, and seem like they'd be ideal for touch deployment in principle. I can rant on about this at length in email if you're interested.
Plenty of third parties already filling that space - I don't think Apple sees the need to move in that direction.
Effort-wise, this is one of the best things I've seen on HN
I would be interested in being contacted as well. Please see my profile.
I'm a technologist, and eat up everything related to OS X, Android, iOS, and so on. At home, I don't even own a PC (we have 4 macbooks, two ipads). But this Nokia tablet seems exciting, if only for the industrial design, but they also seem to have taken a lot of care in the rest of the design also.

Theverge is quite nice: they actually write decent full length articles with a graphic design that is similar to but exceeds Ars. Engadget is still useful, but theverge is my favorite. And I was blown away recently by how well Polygon was done as a gaming site. Really beautiful, with great content.
Out of curiosity, what would you consider "revolutionary"?
That's true, there should be more a stronger anti-apple sentiment on this site because restricting the freedom of your users is against hacker ethics. I am only half-joking here, but I agree with the OP that flagging just because you don't like the company is unfair and, personally I just don't up-vote those submissions.
In case you are genuinely wondering, a lot of the hate towards Microsoft stems from their historical hostility towards open standards[0] and open source[1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Even if MS is your "enemy", it's obviously self-destructive to close your eyes to what they're doing.
Try searching this:

development usb "vid" -video

First hit is someone asking about VID/PID in a motherboard forum.
The Digital Bond blog, which covers the computer security subfield of SCADA assessments, is spinning this story pretty hard, which I think you'll see pretty quickly if you skim the actual court order.

What's happening here is that Cory Thuen, a former developer of a network security product called Sophia at a company called Batelle, was fired (he did not "leave") apparently after it was determined that he was making a personal copy of Sophia called Visdom that he planned on open sourcing. When Thuen went on to start his own company to release Visdom (Southfork), Batelle sued for copyright infringement.

Two things are happening at this point in the story, if I'm following it right. First, Batelle has prevailed in a preliminary injunction ordering Thuen to take down Visdom. It did so by making a showing that convinced the court it was likely to prevail in its suit, and that argument included admissions from Thuen that he had copied at least some of Sophia.

Next, Thuen is being ordered to comply with discovery in the suit. Hard drive images are standard ESI evidence in cases like these; it is not at all weird that a court would order an image of a hard drive. The idea that an adversary in a civil proceeding might get access to content like this isn't at all weird; it's a basic result of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

There are two wrinkles to this case:

First, the court ordered that Thuen be served with the demand for his computer without prior notice. According to the order, this is something that the court can do in extreme situations to prevent evidence from being spoiled. The reasoning the court used here is janky: Thuen claimed to be a "hacker", and the court hung its assessment that he might be likely to blitz his hard drive on that.

Second, the court order escrows the hard drive image with the court, allowing Batelle's forensic expert to image the drive but not examine that image; the court hasn't yet determined what access Batelle will have to the image, but is instead taking steps to ensure that the image is available should it be needed.

Once again: hard drive images are not an unusual product of civil discovery. You do not have a "4th amendment right" to avoid civil discovery.

The "hacker" thing is facially ridiculous. But contra Digital Bond's claim, "hacker" didn't enable the hard drive imaging to occur; that was going to occur during discovery no matter what. Instead, "hacker" changed the prior notification procedure used to obtain the image.
Why should the Nokia tablet deserve to be on the front page any more than the new Sony tablet or a new Acer tablet?
Does it have any new technology that makes it stand out (like the 41MP camera in the Nokia 1020)?
Does it introduce a new form factor that's unique (like the 0.71" 1lb iPad Air or the trashcan Mac Pro) ?
Is it priced uniquely or does it use a new OS or processor that other tablets don't?

Or is it just another 'me too' product? It is.
Just so you know there are a few guys out here (I'm one) that do like Microsoft and my Nokia Lumia is going great.
I started a little later than you, same endpoint.
Brief Introduction of the Dual Band Handheld GPS Jammer
Where is the startup culture in Brisbane? I dunno where to look.
Wait for it ... [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqkYnfAhgy0
> If you see a comment you think is ridiculous click "link" and you should be able to flag them.

This option isn't available to everyone - I, for one, don't have flagging privileges.

I'd assume that this is probably a karma threshold, but it appears I actually have slightly more karma than you do, so they must be using some other metric.
And much like the Communist thing, there are some good underlying reasons even if the end result is not necessarily good. For the Communists, it's because they were horrible oppressors. For Microsoft, it's because they nearly destroyed the industry back in the day, and to many of us it seems like they set back computing about a decade with their monopolistic tactics.

That doesn't mean that the Microsoft of today, much diminished in power and much increased in reasonable behavior, deserves our continued ire. But it's hard to shake the reaction to that kind of massive mistreatment.
Cory Booker's Silicon Valley money machine: Zuckerberg, Andreessen, Hoffman
The iPad Air isn't really a unique form factor; its just thin and light.
fixed, thanks:
https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/querie...
Check out TotalSpaces which fixes a lot of the 'problems' with spaces introduced in Mountain Lion. In ML at least (haven't tried v2 on Mavericks yet) you can completely disable the transition animations when changing spaces.

http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/
how about: business? you can add an adjective when it is large enough
A coding test in which they're writing code you could actually use in your business is a work sample test.

If it's more than a 10-minute job, you should be paying for them for the work.
Mongodb and CasperJS were broken for Mavericks comes with libc++ instead of libstdc++ by default. A little hack could fix these two.
Is there really enough here to persuade a current iPad owner to upgrade? Not for me. Apple's really going to have to push developers to crank out resource-intensive apps.
Well...they are pretty evil, which has been fairly well documented over the years. Suing companies for using Linux patents they refuse to disclose? Yep, that is evil.

Oh, and sticking a UI designed for touch-screen tablets on ordinary desktops and laptops is just stoopid. They have become a Blackberry-esque laughing stock as far as making terrible business decisions and missing opportunities.

How does your wife think Nokia would be doing if they had released Android phones instead?
I never made a 'childish ultimatum'. I simply said that if you believe Samsung is a more ethical company than Samsung, we have nothing to discuss, because it have no intention of debating that belief with you.

I am glad you were willing to own up to it.

I am also glad you admit that you do not respect the idea of contract law and think that Apple should be forced to give away their intellectual property.
How do hacking groups register domains remaining anonymous?
Why are so you against purchasing something through iTunes? No hate, just curious as to why you're so set on it.
Think of the Beginners
Show HN: Auto-refresh browser window on file modification
Just begging for some sort of poke.... Hmm how about:
Even if you got some negative comments it wouldn't be much as you would have to put it away when its battery died before long ;D

Seriously C# is nice and while I am a die hard unix guy I wouldn't be caught owning a MS laptop myself I am coding with C# server code at work at am enjoying the experience. I would honestly be curious what you could do doing in C#. MS is giving no direction on the future of C#, desktop is suppose to be JavaScript now? Server isn't about C#, but supports everything? XBox cross platform stuff is shutdown, silverlight dead.... So you hacking in it in a coffee shop would be a curiosity.
Mozilla has released their mobile operating system source code, B2G
Well Brisbane is pretty Java/MS stack heavy. I haven't found many lean startups or bigger companies that don't use a heavy off the shelf stack.
Singapore’s digital Robin Hood nullifies government’s effort to block Pirate Bay
The modern electronic gadget focus on "thinner" is similar in thought to the "longer, lower, wider" focus of cars from the late 40s and 50s. It gives marketers and salespeople something to talk about. Customers want to hear about "What's new" and not about a perfectly serviceable alternative that has been on the market for years.

For six years of my life I owned a Snap-on Tools franchise. Every week people would jump on the truck and ask "what's new?" and then purchase the same sockets that have been made for 90+ years. "Thinner" is just the latest talking point. If it wasn't "thinner" it would be something else. I would see my customers on a weekly schedule, and I was asked "what's new" 100 times a week. If a marketer wanted to give me the words to tell the people who asked that question, then I would gratefully accept as a salesperson, unless I could think of something that would work better.

If you would like a thin case, I am getting this rolling http://sascase.com Apologies for the blatant self promotion.
For me, it's kind of like sports. Why do you hate certain teams?

I'm a 90's linux user so my hate for MS is self explanatory and these days mostly irrational. Recently I found myself working with a group of Microsoft employees and it's tough to "hate" them, their company or the really nice products they flaunt around (Surface, Windows Phones, etc).

There are a lot things that continue to feed my dislike for the company though. It's silly things, like the way they continue to ignore the existence of industry standard protocols (ssh! there is BSD code! just copy it!!).

In day to day dealings with the company I sometimes still get a sense of arrogance and not-invented-here type scenarios that prevent a better solution from being perused.
My immediate point was that it's not as if Firefox is all of the sudden automatically updating itself on the hospital computers and people start dying because Java applets won't run. If that happened, I would blame the IT staff for allowing such a critical component to update itself without any sort of evaluation.
I hate Microsoft because I would say that they probably do not utilize you to your full extent or that they must shelve alot of your projects, Microsoft does not appear to be innovating and or utilizing R and D properly, the next thing is just half assing everything they have built. If they could build things like how they built visio my god that company would be in a good place in my mind. Another reason I hate Microsoft is that they are not unix based. I mean like unix solved like 90% of the the OS problems. Like for fucks sake adopt open standards. That is all.
Are you sure about this? If I go to HNSearch, look for Nokia stories, and sort by date, I can't find a comment saying that any of them aren't relevant to HN... which doesn't surprise me because there's no argument under which Nokia wouldn't be relevant to HN.

Can you link to one of these stories that got flagged off the site?
He was talking about driving the interface. The iPad has been designed from the ground up with capactive touch so that you can navigate an iPad with your fingers. Adding a pen digitiser changes nothing.
I discovered http://totalspaces.binaryage.com recently. I haven't tried it yet because I didn't want to buy it when Mavericks was so close, but it certainly looks like it brings back the original Spaces functionally. And now it's compatible with Mavericks, so I'm gonna be grabbing the trial when I get it installed. Hopefully it'll help you get your original productivity back. (and mine as well)

(and here's hoping that the download doesn't take TOO long. almost 2 days estimated right now :( )