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Oh I do agree that it's hard to get it right for the first time and that there has been an improvement for the iphone.... But while there has been a lot of improvement feature wise (which makes complete sense by the way, release the simplest thing that work and iterate from there is great in my book), I didn't see a lot of improvements on the application approval process after almost one year...

And as someone living in a tropical country, I'm concerned with their warranty policy. I have a friend in Singapore whose iphone was not repaired under the warranty because of supposed water damage to the phone which didn't happen save for the normal condensation you get when living in such a country and going from a building with aircon at 20 degrees to outside with 32 degrees and 80+ % humidity.
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I sit in front of my 24" monitor when working in the Flash IDE, Illustrator or PhotoShop; otherwise I prefer working directly on my laptop. I generally just keep an instance of MacVim, a terminal and a browser open; I find myself staying more focused this way -- albeit I miss having a source of reference open next to the editor at times.
Check out altered beast
http://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast/tree/master

Of course, you could always roll your own pretty easily with rails.
You're absolutely right, the original apps implementation totally blew up in their faces.

Through regular redesigns, they've slowly been clawing their way back to decency. The twitterification' that has banished apps from your wall page was a nice step, but the further emphasis on the news feed (which I don't use, but others seem to intensely) makes the quiz bullshit prominent.

From their actions, the people in charge at Facebook seem to know how much apps have shit all over them. I think they'll continue to recover from it.
Both issues are symptoms of an inadequate international system of governance. If the United Nations had any power it would have stepped in diplomatically to prevent the dumping and stepped in militarily to prevent the piracy.
Moral weight of risk can get heavy. A recent rubric I came up with to decide if a startup is right for you:
1. You like to build things
2. You like to get rewarded for what you build
3. You can tolerate a high risk of getting no reward
Wow much better than I expected and I've gotta say his page design is really striking and clear.
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The photo reminds me of a (likely HN, but I can't find it right now) article on why you shouldn't have pretty models look at the camera in product shots/websites. The viewer will look at the model instead of the website/product.
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No way - Apple gets a cut of all those app purchases.
They're probably ultra-cool, but unfortunately Firefox 3 cannot render that webpage on my dual-core machine running Ubuntu.
It's a stretch to say they used GPLed code.

They wrote a kernel module that is unavoidably tightly coupled to the Linux kernel, which means that it must be GPLv2 as a derived work. They appear to have intended to release it as GPLv2, it just took a while.

The GPL does not require them to release the code on the internet publicly, just to release it under the GPLv2 to people who have received the code in some form (binaries) when they ask for it. Someone asked for it, and they provided it. They were decent about it.

The only real 'violation' is that they didn't initially release the binary with GPLv2 license text. I forgive them.
It seems that EY is going to focus on jruby instead of rubinius.
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GAE is a pain in the ass regardless of the language. The only way it helps you scale (that can't be easily replicated) is the use of bigtable which has nothing to do with the language.
This is so true, and I'm really curious which of the dynamic options will take the lead on the jvm.
I really like the idea of sauteeing the rice in oil and spices beforehand. I'll have to try this.
What's up with the style of the Google search button in the second mockup?
I have a Blackberry 8830 on Verizon. I'm loathe to switch carriers or phones.

The customer service is pretty great. I have access to the GPS. I've been able to get media on and off the phone as necessary. It has unlimited network connectivity and tethering.

I'm not convinced they're any worse than any other carrier.
It's interesting to see highly skilled people with enough business-sense to launch a startup, gathered around here embracing poverty.

At the risk of going against the tide, I say there is nothing wrong with consulting on the side, perhaps customizing your product for a big-enough client and making some fuck-off money on the side. Let's think of it, many startups could actually benefit from brushing against a more established business at a B2B level, they might even find a better market, not to mention a better product idea, than their current social web-app that still lacks the necessary "network effect" to pay for itself.
I do prefer Jinja templates, and I plan to convert the Django-templated projects I have to them the next time I hack on them. I hate the parenthisis-avoiding dispatch mechanism that does a bunch of wasteful dynamic type-checks, all to make the syntax more obnoxiously clever. I hate the fact that it implements it's own shitty interpreter. It feels Ruby-ish in the most pejorative way.

But Markdown doesn't fit the 'newspaper' usage model in anywhere near the same way -- Django templates let the writer do all kinds of layout fuckery in an idiot-proof, dev-supported, maintainable, extensible, {%benificent_adjective%} way.
Beyond the cool factor, why would I want this if it can't do anything more than my iPhone?

If I can run a local dev environment, run a terminal and have a few other tools, it would be handy on short trips when I don't want to bring my MBP. If not, meh.
Where in the world did you get that from?
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Maybe it's been a while since I used BASIC, but the first code snippet looks pretty arcane. I think event triggers are not very simple.

I started programming in the procedural style, and "program as recipe" seems like the most accessible idea to me.

That said, I like new programming languages, and picking a sexy platfrom like the android to design it for is nice.
Though Mozilla gimps the easy customizability more and more with each release.

For instance, starting in Firefox 3, the location bar and search bar are a single integrated UI element, for no apparent reason.
Is there a single US carrier that sells a subsidized S60 phone that includes the SIP support at all?
Even though my blog is very low traffic, and that's probably part of why my approach is working, it has yet to receive a spambot comment after four years.

I'm guessing this is due to its... non-standard construction. It's pure XML plus an XSLT that transforms it into HTML on the client side.

A more sensible approach might be to use XSLT to transform just the FORM stuff on a "real" blog system, but I haven't tried that. If the bots are using real browsers when trawling the net and not just some regexps it'll provide no protection.

If you're curious it's over at http://eiman.tv/blog/
Minor spelling point:

"You may even be able to avoid having the the round occupy your thoughts, if you don't care whether it closes."
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I was interested in what pricing looked like these days for tablet PCs so I checked some sites. Apparently no one likes tablets and they don't sell. BestBuy doesn't stock any. NewEgg has about half a dozen beefy 5-6lbs underpowered convertibles. CDW was the one site I found with a pure tablet (Fujitsu) and it costs $2k and sports a similarly underpowered (1.4Ghz) CPU. The author of this article seems to want Apple to release a comparable product for 60% less. Not gonna happen. Not Apple's style.

If Apple releases any tablet device it will simply be a larger version of the iPod Touch.
You're walking the spammer line, edragonu.
No, it's the inevitable result of making it legal for congresspeople to accept bribes. (Oh sorry, not bribes; lobbying money.)
I would have agreed with you on "Rails sucks to deploy" two years ago, when I started working with it, but the ecosystem is much, much better now. I don't use Passenger in production (no real benefit to a single-app developer whose app already works with Mongrel) so I won't comment on it, but Capistrano is mature to the point where deployment to a VPS is very, very painless.

You should see how much fun the deploy procedure is at my day job (Big Freaking Java Enterprise App) compared to "cap _1.4.2_ deploy".

As it happens I am looking at a stack of evaluations for the talk I gave internally about GAE, which included redoing an internal app on it. "Deployment is a non-issue" was not my experience. It is documented in the traditional Rails manner: as comments on blog posts, most of them out of date. It includes a lot of steps which are transparently bandaids over broken, like "Freeze Rails then delete the ActiveRecord gem to save on files because GAE has a hard limit on how many you can put in a WAR." It... bugger, meeting, will complete this thought later.
Sort of. The GSM providers don't know/care if you use a random GSM phone on their network. Of course, if you rent their GSM phone, they are not going to let you use it on a different GSM network.

(People seem to want free phones, and then seem confused when the person that gave you the free phone doesn't want you to use it on the competitor's network. If you buy your own phone, you can use it wherever you want.)
Maybe I'm just a nerd, but my eyes went straight for the hardware.
I'm definitely "not an Apple fan", but I think these stories get a bit old. Apple has been all about control since... well, the days of the Mac. Remember the look and feel lawsuit? Steve quashing the clones? Pretty much par for the course - I'd rather read about people doing cool new stuff (and that includes Apple when they're doing that instead of trying to rule their turf with an iron fist).
If I had to guess, the explanation of the actual theory has been irretrievably butchered ("popularized", if we're being nice), which is why it doesn't make much sense as stated.

In general relativity, "time" plays several different roles, and you need to be more specific about which one you're talking about. You're usually talking about either proper time, which is the spacetime distance measured along a timelike curve (and also, up to a sign, the actual stopwatch reading you'd obtain by traveling that curve), or the coordinate time, the direction in spacetime that's the odd man out and has the "wrong" sign in the metric signature. This second definition (coordinate time) is wiggly, because there are infinitely many coordinate systems that you could pick to describe the same spacetime, each of which will use a different definition of coordinate time, and general relativity's main insight is that all of these coordinate systems are equally valid (actually, it says that the equations describing spacetime don't even change when you switch coordinate systems, perhaps one of the most profound discoveries in all of physics - if you add in the observation that curvature is caused by matter, you have almost enough in those two observations to construct the entire theory of general relativity from scratch).

Any physicist working in the field is intimately familiar with the subtleties here, and certainly knows that "clocks run slower" is a meaningless statement unless you're talking about speed relative to some other measure.

The gist of how time could run at a different speed is that if the time component of the spacetime metric was halved along your path, your stopwatch would tick off half as much time as you'd expect it to. But that's a very artificial scenario, because it presumes you have the original unaltered metric to compare to, which you don't. Locally everything would seem normal. Figuring out the global consequences of a decaying timelike component in a realistic metric is a decidedly nontrivial task, and from what I gather, that's what Senovilla is making a claim about, apparently involving string theory, as well.

Re: time starting to exist, the idea there is that if we follow a timelike geodesic (i.e. a spacetime path that matter can travel on) far enough back, we'll find that at some point the sign of "time" switches, and stopwatch readings would return negative numbers and other such nonsense. Time would "start" at the first point along that curve where a normal timelike component existed in the metric. So the more accurate statement would be that time in the spacetime metric started to exist at some point earlier along the backwards continuation of the line that we currently think of as time (though it measured no such thing before that point), which is a far more sensible thing.
To me the first screen shot looks a whole lot like IE7/IE8, which I don't really like.
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I haven't yet switched to multiple monitors. My laptop and I have been through so much coding together, it might just feel like cheating to start using my desktop.
There are only a few US government agencies that use polygraphs: the CIA, NSA, et. al.

If you got a false positive you'd be a nervous ninny, and a false negative would mean that you're at least somewhat competent. For them, it's a win/win.
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Cool video, going for the we'll throw a heap of acronyms out to wow the average internet user.
That is certainly a scenario but if your startup has stopped growing and you don't have plans for new features to change that then you are walking dead. Then, as you pointed out, you know you have entered a market too small.
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Ah right, I had thought you were talking about the issues caused by blocking them, not necessarily recognizing them.
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Single-use kitchen products are silly, not to mention space-inefficient.

I agree, which is why I called it out as one of the few instances where it is worthwhile. And speaking of pots and pans, Cuisinart makes a great set of pots and pans, covering everything you need, that sells for $149 from Amazon. That, and a good knife, and a few other bits and pieces, are most of what you need to have a nice cooking kitchen for dinner for a group of up to about four (and the two small ones are good for single and double meals).

To put things into perspective, I don't even own a microwave. But, I consider a rice cooker absolutely mandatory if you eat rice regularly. If you don't eat rice regularly, then obviously a rice cooker is not a useful expenditure or use of space. I consider it a good investment of both, because my most common meals are various kinds of Chinese, Indian, and Mediterranean foods that include rice as a base.

Even if it makes oatmeal and rice, that's basically just a bunch of starch. Might as well just eat Ramen.

I'm not a believer in the Atkins anti-carbs crusade, nor do I accept that all grains are created equal. Oatmeal and brown rice are both quite reasonable "slow" carbs, when combined with proteins and vegetables. Ramen is not a slow carb by any stretch of the imagination, and is actually "just a bunch of starch" (it also has way too much sodium, if prepared as directed).
I didn't believe you at first, but lo and behold, you're serving as Content-Type: text/xml, and there's actual client-side xslt!

What do you do for IE? :)
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While Help Vampires in software development skew male, that's easily attributable to the field's sausage-fest reality.

In the general population, I think that Help Vampires skew female to a large degree. Witness Yahoo Answers (and to a lesser degree Ask Metafilter, from which it was cloned). The vast majority of the askers are female.
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Friends from the security community tell me SYS-CON has been well known for a good while and nobody takes them seriously, but they make decent money from ads. They are essentially ad spammers.

As such, I assume the way to hurt them would be to follow their ad supply chain until you find someone who cares about copyright. The chain seems to end with the likes of Microsoft, Sun, etc. but I don't really understand how their ad network is setup.
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This organization seeks to help just these kind -- poor but brilliant students.

http://ffe.org/programs/eligibility-criteria.php
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I have to respectfully disagree with Doerr on one point: "You should be working on something even if no one paid you anything for it". This is laughable. It's been said before, but i'll say it again: it's easy to say things like "don't worry about money"... if you're already rich.
But they aren't idiot proof. That's exactly the problem. If you can't trust the template writer to understand {{ foo.bar }} vs {{ foo.bar() }} how could you trust them to not do something with HTML, CSS, JS, or Django-templates which breaks the page? Either you trust your designers because you hire smart, multi-talented people. Or you want something simple, predictable, and completely impotent... you know... like a rich text editor...
The problem is more that these days the patent publication is totally useless -- it doesn't describe anything useful for copying the 'invention', and is totally obvious to boot.

The government is granting a not-so 'limited monopoly' for what is essentially a trade secret. If software patents required full disclosure of source code and schematics, they wouldn't be nearly as shitty.
and http://pylonsbook.com/ (just got a dead tree of it yesterday, BTW)
The dog does not bring home money, but so do not, for example, overseas vacations or even going to the movies. Would it be irresponsible to spend money on movies or tourism because this money produces no income for the spender?

The dog does bring positive emotions, and the loss of a pet brings negative emotions. These emotions can easily be valued by a person (owner) way over the $4000.

P.S. I like cats.
But that's not remotely true across the board.

As the grandparent alluded to, Apple's H.264 encoder is the very worst one around. There are MPEG2 encoders that are competitive bitrate-wise!

Not everything Apple releases is gold. The AppStore is a perfect example -- a pile of total shit in every way, that only Apple could get away with because they are so ridiculously competent at everything else that touches it.
Which medical practices?
That's a pretty neat question. It's not "Why would anyone like a company," but "Why would anyone want to like a company".
An example of why one might want to like a company is for when he or she is buying stock. One doesn't have to like the company, but it can influence the decision of buying if one doesn't like the company. I'm not saying that I would never buy stock for a company I don't like, but the decision of spending my money comes much easier if I like the company. However, there are flaws with that argument seeing as my liking the company could potentially cause me to over-invest and lost my money because I thought I would buy stock for the company I liked.
There are pros to why someone would like a company; however, like in the example I showed above, there are equal cons.
But if you own the company. I see reason to want to like it =]
The App Store is not only not getting better, it's actively getting worse (see M17 ratings for anything with UGC).

I thought they were temps at first too, but apparently the AppStore reviewers are full Apple employees in Cupertino. My current theory is that they were the same cretins that review submitted music + video, and the management in the chain above them is a poisonous combo of MBA + hideously-stupid + overly-powerful. Maybe they were recruited from a MAFIAA member...
No, it's campaign contributions. Lobbyists are paid to ostensibly lobby. Of course, a part of lobbying is donating to various candidates and PACs.
I'd like a moratorium to stop Apple puns.

It's just sickeningly bad.
Having a kid makes life more regimented (good for startups), a bit less flexible if you're on a "managers schedule", and more expensive.

Risk tolerance is much lower with kids. That's probably the biggest reason more people don't start companies. In those cases, I'd recommend becoming ramen profitable in a side project to a real job, and then swapping them out.
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Yahoo is my default homepage and for a while there has been a link in the corner to view the new design. I didn't click on that till now, since then my default homepage is the new design. Looks about the same as before to me. If they get rid if the zooming cars, flying birds and other zany nonsense ads I will probably just live with... or not... maybe its time to try a different home page, any suggestions?
I will say this: they do things right. I added Dawdle as a site, and Dawdle search just did a site search on Dawdle for the search terms and kicked out Yahoo search results as good as Google's for each and every term I could think of. Now, if they could recognize that there's a search box and spit me out to Dawdle's SERP for my inputted search term, they'd get my homepage, no question.
Agreed.

As others have mentioned, it just increases costs.

The biggest failing of this essay is the soon to be anachronism of "$3000".

It you replace it with $X,000, the whole essay still makes sense, and will apply to a wife/kids/house.
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You mean apple's in-house legal council argued that it's a DMCA violation to jailbreak a phone. E.g., doing the exact job any decent lawyer would do for their client.

That's a little different from Steve Jobs saying "If you jailbreak your phone, I want you in federal prison."

I'm no apple fanboy or hater (I donate to the EFF, and write this from a macbook pro), but if we want a company to behave "right" (for our definition-of-the-week of "right"), we have to be fair to them first.
Everyone always muses over whether Apple would be worse than Microsoft if they controlled the platform. I suppose now you can see your answer.
Sir, did you reboot the computer?

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That didn't fix it? Ok, here's an RMA.

Not that different from other platform vendors...
Pointing to a piracy site on a site chock-full of entrepreneurs? Really? And you got upmodded. WTF.