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I'd argue that most simple UI animations are in fact presentational, not behavioral.

One of the nice things about defining animations declaratively in CSS instead of procedurally in Javascript is that browsers will have control over the implementation. Your browser could easily have a "no animations" mode, or selectively disable certain animation types. Browsers can implement animations much more efficiently if they don't have to call Javascript every frame, and they can also separate animation from whatever else the page is doing; animations could be slowed or stopped in background tabs or low-battery situations while the page's Javascript continues running.
also, what's high-end about an in-ram database? It's all cheap commodity parts; my cost for a full on 8 core box with 32GiB ram is well under $1500, and around two amps of (American 120v) power. This is decidedly low-end, until you get, you know, a few marketing guys and 3 vars in the mix and start paying double for hardware put together by people who don't believe that ESD is a problem.
There is no such thing as objectivity.

For such a thing to exist an entity with no desires, interests or stakes would have to make this objective judgment.

All we can do is perhaps identify the different subjective components in a argument.
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If you had the permission to install the package in the first place, you have the permission to update it.

In locked down environmentsthat case, the admins can supply the nice properly packaged MSI / dmg / rpm / dpkg version that Firefox provides to the users via their deployment tool.
Yes, Sun and Digital (DEC) got killed by the same thing - Clayton Christensen on Digital (not Sun):

Every disruption has three components to it: a technological enabler, a business model innovation and a new commercial ecosystem. In computing, the technological enabler of disruption in computing was the microprocessor. It so simplified the design of a computer that Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs could just slap one together in a garage. It transformed the industry’s fundamental technological problem—the design of a computer—from a problem that took hundreds of people several years to solve into one that was much simpler.

Then that simplifying technology had to be married with a business model that could take the technology into the market in a cost-effective and convenient way. Digital Equipment Corp. had microprocessor technology, but its business model could not profitably sell a computer for less than $50,000. The technology trapped in a high-cost business model had no impact on the world, and in fact, the world ultimately killed Digital. But IBM Corp., with the very same processors at its disposal, set up a different business model in Florida that could make money at a $2,000 price point and 20% gross margins—and changed the world. It’s a combination of the technology and business model that makes formerly complicated, expensive, inaccessible things affordable and accessible.

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I think it's pretty cool; way better than any of the mafia wars clones

I do agree with jcromartie that the UI needs to be updated with some harry potter look, but I think the core of the game is good - that's the main thing that counts
I'd also love to see a comment section and/or links to boardgamegeek so that I can quickly get the opinion of people who have played it.
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It is perhaps a semantic point, but I consider a && !a objectively false and a || !a objectively true -- but even there, you have to accept certain axioms of logic. And I consider initiating violence against a peaceful person objectively immoral -- but if you don't already accept that, I'm not sure how I could convince you.

Epistemology is interesting and complex.
If it began by forking something else, then it began as that something. Apple created the name, the QT abstraction layer, a bunch of patches, and some other work, which was great. To say they 'created' a fork of an existing project is somewhat dubious.
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Sometimes you just assume that people have kept their eyes open -- or at least have Google at their disposal.
Yuck.

Netscape and IE did something like this back in the day. Pretty sure there is a reason it failed.

Also, what's with the opening paragraph:

This document describes a new set of CSS properties and object specifications that together compose a powerful declarative means to describe complex arbitrary layout criteria that are both reusable and extensible. The new properties are Javascript expressions that are woven together in a constraint resolving system to perform a specified layout. Additionally, a set of global objects defined in the constraint resolution Javascript execution environment enable powerful operations to be expressed succinctly resulting in more readable and compact layout specifications.

I hope their code is more succinct than that ...
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of course, I tend to target the, ah, 'technically adept' - but I use IRC. Personally, I think it's pretty awesome.

I really like IRC because it's not 1:1 - sure, I'm in there, and so is nick and will, when we have a chance, but there are many customers (right now, north of 40) in the room, and often they help oneanother.

It's also great for one off quick questions
As far as I know, unless your iPhone is jailbroken, you will be unable to run applications without a digital signature from Apple. Thus, for the vast majority App Store is the only place to get their apps.

Maybe, someone who is an actual iPhone developer, can explain the process in more detail.
Seems like it would be nice to apply LLVM -O3 selectively, perhaps with some kind of pragma/directive in your code, and use the mono JIT as usual for the rest. Is this a possibility? I often know where my performance hotspots are, but switching languages and writing an external library in C is a drudgery. Would it be possible to get close to gcc/C performance for some restricted subset of C# when compiled with LLVM?
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Interesting idea. We're already using EC2 as one of our test platforms anyways. We'll look into it.
And taking my Quake 1 preview site with it?
We have an app that has been in the store for a few months. The app finds hiking and outdoor adventures near you, including displaying the wikipedia pages for parks. We've had to designate our app 17+, even though the only way to get to objectionable content is to load the wikipedia page for a park, and follow wikipedia links until you find something dirty.
And O-code looks like it also precedes them.
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Apple are charging you to watch WWDC videos. 
Charging isn't really going to help developer adoption.Seems very short sighted.
noprocast is great, only problem is I usually open about 40-60 tabs at the start of the day... can still easily waste 2-3 hours. Some self-control is badly needed.
From a developer point of view, you're able to compile your own applications for up to 100 devices (as long as you have the device unique identifier (UUID) for each of them). There's no easy way to do this for the public however.
It's important to note that the study didn't actually measure objective values such as competence, rather it measured perception (and student's perception, at that) of such traits.

I'm curious as to why the author was impressed that in three 30 second samples, a student's perception of traits correlated with students who had more time (albeit several months) to develop that perception. Did they think that the instructor would act noticeably different? Or, did they think that for some reason the several month experience would develop more than perception, and actual knowledge?

Now, for a more interesting study, I'd be interested in seeing how well the student's perception correlated to a professional psychological profile, analytical review, and other _objective_ measurements of the teacher.
Great research and could maybe be used to help destroy cancer cells without destroying normal cells during radiotheraphy etc. (although so long as the cancer cells don't suddenly get immune to radiation etc. as well).

On another note, is there any reason why they had to exlicitly state that the scientists were of Jewish descent? The only possibility that comes to mind for making this explicit is that this is the reason they got Israeli investment?
I have pretty much given up on iPhone development .. for now. Hopefully things will change, but when I compare the experience of gathering 10,000 users on Android in a single release after an hour, with waiting for Apples blessing for weeks and weeks, I'll take the former, thanks.

The nail on the head issue is this: Apple are making buck$ from all this. They don't care a damn. Android, well .. Google may have its nefarious plans for us all, data-wise, but at least I have a lot more control, as a developer, over what happens. And frankly, I think the feedback cycle with Android users has been a much more positive one than with the iPhone crowd.

I sure hope Apple loosen up a little, though I won't be counting on it. I'll just focus on Android as my primary platform for now. Its better for me, and better for my users: and thats what really matters.
> Who makes a purchase decision base on a product being called "pro"?

Actually, as he explained in the article, he made the decision based on specs, and weight.
You compile your apps against different profiles depending on what you want to. Generally for:

1) Debugging your own app (works only on your own phone)

2) Distribution : http://imgur.com/PFYnK.png

i) Ad-hoc, limited to 100 devices: http://imgur.com/HjwnN.png

ii) For the app store

So yeah, you can compile it for 100 friends if you have their iPhone/iPod UUID, but you can't make it freely available for everyone.
Well, for one, the news paper is from Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynetnews

And the scientist seems to be from Russia
http://people.forbes.com/profile/andrei-gudkov/20320

:)
This is awesome. It alleviates one of the greatest fears of nuclear strikes, aside from the destruction.

I know there have been several discussions floating around about dirty bombs and nukes that could be used in terrorist attacks, and it has seemed to me that what most people are afraid of is not the bomb itself, but the fallout. This could be a huge relief for those fears.
Sweet, animated d-20's.
Keeping radiation-damaged cells from undergoing apoptosis sounds like a great way to make sure you get cancer.

/scratches head, sure I'm missing something
It alleviates one of the greatest fears of nuclear strikes, aside from the destruction.

I, um, don't think you want to do that.
Out of interest, do you have a link or source for your last comment regarding the Bank of Amsterdam?
This probably means that you have a defective display. I have a 17" MacBook Pro that has this kind of defect, where I can see bad gradients, etc. However, three other Macs in our possession doesn't have this issue.
>I've heard about and seen experiences with other mobile platforms that are equally as bad, but it's really disappointing when Apple comes out with this phone that changes the smartphone market but then just keeps this backwards and nonsensical attitude towards developers.

One thing that I think we all have to take into account is the fact that the rules for Cell Network access are a lot different than what we're used to for general purpose computing networks. The fact remains that these networks are extremely, rigorously, monopolized and maintained by groups that are not going to give them up without a fight.

Its an underlooked fact that cell networks are considered a military asset. Every single cell tower, its location, and its operational condition are monitored by the Pentagon on a realtime basis. You do not get access to these towers without permission.

It should come as no surprise that stringent control is being applied to the terminals used to gain access to these networks. For sure, we have a consumer mentality about it - freedom of choice, freedom to buy, freedom not to use, etc.

But the raw hardware on the backend: it does not belong to you. You are being granted permission to access it by the military-industrial complex which controls the means and resources by which the asset is maintained, stringently.

This is bleeding through, all the way through, and Apple are doing a pretty good job of picking up the attitude. Seriously.
Men's Health did a feature a while back on a Western runner who attempted to play their games (a tag-like game) which consisted of running for a whole day and contrasted this with their lifestyle and diet which consisted of partying and corn mash. Apparently they have near immortality, low heart risk etc. http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?conitem=3b4b1ca01e9... A really interesting read.

And NYMag did a feature on shoe tech (comparing Masai, Nike Free, Vivo, Vibram) before the Ferris hype: http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/index1.html, much more in-depth than the Wired article.
a bit more balanced and less hyperbolic article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7341336.stm
Ask YC: Should I be afraid of being sued?
Dear HN, please help:

We sell a software product. Today we received an e-mail from a software retailer, selling our product, that they were contacted by a law firm, since the law firm's client owns the trademark for a name under which we sold the software. We didn't know such trademark existed. The profits we made on this were around $2,000.

Should we be afraid of being sued?

To clarify:

1) our company isn't in the U.S.
2) we renamed the software
3) profits were around $2K

Thank you all for your help!
But of course, with the current financial system it looks as though large financial companies have managed to create wealth out of nothing or horoscopes.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216358 is the last submission of this.

It's not spelled out in the guidelines, but if I see something is a dupe I'll usually resubmit it if it's a year or more old.
No, it was from memory. But fortunately Wikipedia cites its sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_Mania
The way this works is simple: The Browser becomes the OS. Where you had an abstraction protected by API's in a previous OS, you now just have an interface provided to you by the local client (browser). All of this can be abstracted easily enough, and will be .. its already happening on Android, where you can access GPS and Accelerometer from the browser ..

It depends, also, on the hardware integration. Hey, good thing there is a VM around to handle this issue.
This is such a refreshing point of view.

I can assure you, that this is Microsoft's problem: "In any event, hating competitors is a good way to lose objectivity and lose focus on customers."

I'm looking forward to Microsoft's web applications and hope they will fully kick ass. I never really paid much attention to Zoho, but after this post, I wish them nothing but the best of luck adapting. I'm confident that they will.
As far as AppStore is the shortest way from developer to paying customer and iPhone outsells any similar mobile platform (more than 20M iPhones sold vs. 1M of Android phones and <0.5M of Palm Pres) this will continue.
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Consider this stack machine code:

push const__3
push x
push y
push more
push null
dup
store x
dup
store y
store more
call invoke

What this does is loads the values of x, y, and more onto the runtime evaluation stack, and then nulls out the values of x, y, and more, and then proceeds with a call to const__3.invoke() [I've simplified the logic]. A Java decompilation doesn't have an exact translation for this, because it requires names for each of those logical stack locations that were pushed. A better translation would be something akin to this:

t1 = x;
t2 = y;
t3 = more;
x = null;
y = null;
more = null;
const__3.invoke(t1, t2, t3)

except that locations t1, t2 and t3 (in the current scope) are guaranteed to "go away" as soon as the invocation is dispatched.

This kind of thing matters most in debug scenarios, where the underlying JVM will likely keep variables alive on the stack as long as possible rather than restricting them to their live ranges, and thus artificially extending the lifetime of objects held in those variables. Though I guess it is possible that a JVM might not perform sufficiently aggressive liveness analysis and over-extend variable lifetime inappropriately.
Where is the trademark registered ? (ok, that seems to be answered, in the US, and you are not in the US)

Does the company that contacted your retailer have representation in the same jurisdiction as the retailer ?

Are they actively selling a product under that tradename ?

Is there possible confusion between your product and their product (trademarks are only for a very specific market segment) ?

If you go and use google to search for that tradename do they come up ?

(if you're in the same jurisdiction and the answer is 'yes' to most of the above then you may have an issue, if the reseller bought the product from you and resold it in a different jurisdiction than yours then the buck probably stops with the reseller).

Also, most of these are 'cease and desist', in other words, if you do not stop we'll sue you.

At $2k the damage is very much more limited than what it will cost the 'offended' party to sue.

If the answer to all of the above is 'no', then I'd say give them your lawyers address and see what happens next.

I'm not a laywer but I do hold several trademarks and have been involved in a trademark dispute in the past.

I wouldn't sweat it too much, getting letters from lawyers is part and parcel when you run a business. It's unfortunate but it is true.
What does all you said have to do with the App Store?
What if the profit is negative?
I respectfully disagree. a && !a is not objectively false, and neither is a && !a objectively true. You are correct within a set of accepted axioms, defined by Mr. Boole. You might be incorrect within another set of axioms.

That's exactly what this thread is about : when you do real maths you always start from definitions and axioms. It's not objective or subjective, it's well defined.

I do prefer to read opinions of people who state their axioms first, rather than people who pretend to be objective.

Initiating violence against a peaceful person is immoral in lots of cultures (including mine). Your culture is your set of axioms here.
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I don't know, but the link with Israel seems to be a very tenuous one, the 'investment' isn't detailed (it could be a very small portion of the total project) and the 'israeli scientists' appear to be only one lady on the whole team.

It reminds me of a quip by Albert Einstein: "If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare I am a Jew."

I'm sure that if 'a cure for cancer' is found (and I'm not going to hold my breath on that one, cancer seems to be 'systemic') that every country in the world will want their part (or more) of the credits.
Thanks Tom. I saw your website - looks like you're just the expert I need to talk to! I'll drop you a line. Cheers.
As this is a print-on-demand service, the storage costs are basically zero. Therefore, there shouldn't ever be a negative-profit game, as there will have been no stock.
When talking startups, especially with non-entrepreneurs, the perception of what the challenges are is often very black and white: markets with no competition - easy, markets with competition - impossible.

I guess this is why so many people hunt the "perfect idea", which means something that noone has ever done before.
Java was the reason for Oracle to take over Sun (OK, also the hardware). Since Oracles commitment to open source is, "yeah, sure, Oracle will run on Linux. ONE version of ONE distro, but, yeah, Linux", this is more likely than ever to trigger a community-fork of Java, backed by IBM.
Thanks a lot. Your first idea is very good, I hadn't thought of doing that.

I will also try gpart and foremost.

I thought backups as a business is probably already done well, so I thought recovery would be good. I suppose backups for individuals would still be a good idea. But I'd think there are still quite a few people who lose data the way I have and there just doesn't seem to be a good straightforward solution. None of the ones suggested here appeared on google.
In addition to being more nimble than the big players, Zoho also competes very aggressively on pricing. One way they can afford to do that is through their unique approach to hiring:

"We hire young professionals whom others disregard. We don’t look at colleges, degrees or grades. Not everyone in India comes from a socio-economic background to get the opportunity to go to a top ranking engineering school, but many are really smart regardless. We even go to poor high-schools, and hire those kids who are bright, but are not going to college due to pressure to start making money right away. They need to support their families. We train them, and in 9 months, they produce at the level of college grads. Their resumes are not as marketable, but I tell you, these kids can code just as well as the rest. Often, better."

(via http://www.sramanamitra.com/2008/01/22/silicon-valleys-unkno...)
Thanks, that looks good too. I hope it works!
If you have a job, career or business, you ARE in marketing. Products and "services" include your own self and skills.
courts != government.
It actually seems to have followed the same people. After fifteen years, it's the same target demography... fifteen years older.
Ask HN: Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it?
I'm writing a master's dissertation on startup incubator programs: Ycombinator and the rising tide of YC clones that are cropping up all over the world. (TechStars, Seedcamp, etc.)

My goal is to provide a guide/framework that other people/regions/cities can use when starting their own Ycombinator-like program. In a nutshell, I want to show how (or if!) Ycombinator's "secret sauce" can be translated into other schemes. (More information at my blog post here: http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/07/13/my-dissertation-ycombinator-its-spawn-how-to-do-it-right/ ) I plan on posting drafts and the final version of my dissertation for anyone to use (and criticize!) throughout the summer.

I think there are two interesting perspectives that have to meet in order for an incubator to be successful: what do the organizers/funders want as a result and what do the entrepreneurs want as a result?

What I'm hoping to get from the HN community is an answer to these questions:
* What are the reasons you would apply and accept funding from YCombinator?
* Are those reasons different for the other incubator-like programs and why?

If you'd like to discuss some of this privately, I can be contacted at jed [dot] christiansen [at] Gmail
I think just generally you have to be aware that it is not a concrete ArrayList (or whatever) that is being created. You have to be careful about which classes you are anonymously subclassing. If the superclass has an equals method, for instance, that follows the getClass().equals(compare.getClass()) approach as part of its logic you are screwed.
Tcl and Tk went through Sun too, and picked up a lot of improvements along the way, and then got spit out in favor of Java as the only GUI platform.