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> But honestly, what if I want this to happen?

Are you serious? You couldn't possibly be smarter than Apple! And, since you pay $299+ to effectively rent your device, because of the DMCA, you're out of luck.
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Well, I didn't downvote you, but I might hazard a guess: you went from a perfectly cogent argument directly to an outlandish and aggressive claim that you failed to substantiate: "the most visible web developers are stupid"

If you're going to make an inflammatory claim that like the least you can do is back yourself up with at least some anecdotes.
The funny thing about that is, you're still circumventing visual voice mail and all the other stuff they're complaining about by using the web interface, albeit in a much less convenient manner, which is obviously the point.
So someone with Jewish ancestry that is a practicing Catholic, and someone that is not of Jewish ancestry that converted to Judaism are both Jewish? That sort of makes it an ambiguous term, no? What if someone was born to two parents that are not of Jewish ancestry, but converted to Judaism? Is that person a Jew by birth? What if that person becomes a Buddhist later in life? Are they still a Jew?
What about grails? It seems to me that being on the JVM would make that a very attractive choice. I'm strongly considering the grails+groovy / Scala combo for my next project. I'm just waiting for Scala 2.8 to finalize since I need it for it's full annotation support.
And he can't put it into CDs because of liquidity risk.

PayPal's first business plan was to make money on the float. That didn't work, so they started charging (ever higher) fees. In the history of the world, I don't think anyone's ever made their money on the float.
It's submissions, not applications. I'd expect the majority of the apps whose submissions were rejected to be updated and resubmitted.
I am not at all sympathetic to your world view. You're advocating
that we make bad software on purpose. Not only that but you're advocating placing the burden of defects as an externality onto users.

This to me is unprofessional. We have the technology and skills
to build reliable software, without significant additional cost. To
do anything else should be criminal.

I'll use an analogy. You wouldn't date a fat, ugly, dull girl if you knew
with even the most trivial effort you could date an attractive girl
who's great at conversation and loves to discuss René Magritte and
Douglas Hofstadter, would you? No. So why accept the same in software?

EDIT: I should note that here in B.C., Canada Software Engineer is a certified title. You may not legally call yourself a software engineer unless you are licensed.

hhttp://www.apeg.bc.ca/
Posterous put a lot of energy into detecting & discarding fake emails. I remember this TechCrunch contest, challenging people to forge email headers to get onto Michael Arrington's Posterous:

http://techcrunch.posterous.com/lots-of-fake-post-attempts-o...

Seems like this matters a lot less in a review website than in a social network/blog type site, but could still be an issue. I wonder if/how this site dealt with it.
I don't get the BS from AT&T about bandwidth usage of VOIP and Video applications. You can download and stream media through all kinds of apps, even Apple's own Youtube app. There really is no difference between watching youtube for an hour or streaming video from some other source.
I'm sure the Afghan warlords would be happy to sell morphine or codeine if they could sell on the legitimate international opiate market. However, they're not allowed and this dramatically increases the price of medical opium.
Cool idea. But it would be more interesting if you could stream over lower bandwidth links like 3G.
"sussing out what something really is"

Wouldn't this be easier done by simply scraping "Category" links on the page? That's free human curated metadata right there.
It's been real. Also check out http://newmogul.com.
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It already is the user's choice. What you seem to want is for it to become Apple's responsibility to provide support for anything a user wants to do, which is another thing entirely.
"Based on Apple’s response, it seems my “devil’s advocate” hunch in my initial piece on this was pretty close to the mark: that it’s about Apple’s competitive relationship with Google. Put another way, Apple does not want to make it easy or seamless for iPhone users to use Google’s phone service."

I usually like Gruber's writing, but this statement makes a huge jump that really has no basis. Apple spends many paragraphs of its letter explaining that they denied the app because it alters the user experience. I believe what they explained is a more likely cause than some conspiracy by Apple to upset Google's dominance of the phone service.
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So, why do we use Newton's last name then?
It's been great reading your comments - definitely valuable contributions. Hope to see more in the future.
That's just damn cool. That's all I've got. :)
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As it turns out, I'm familiar with this page - i don't edit it, but took an interest in the guy for unrelated reasons earlier this year.

Although the page underwent minor vandalism which has since been reverted, has anyone looked at his autobiographical alternative? Hardly an improvement from any objective standpoint.
I'm not sure if you'd be willing to divulge this information, but just out of pure curiosity I'd be interested in knowing what types of files people are backing up. For instance, across the whole service, what are the top 10 file types that are backed up?
To keep from having to deal with their obnoxious BS.
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I must have missed a lot of your comments. I just went through all your threads. I must say they are tremendously useful. Thanks!

There was a time when HN first page would be more full of startup material (in which case you would have been able to educate us all lot more).

This is what necessitates tagging on HN - newmogul too could have been just one more section on HN filtered by economy and finance related threads. The community definitely has a huge overlap.
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Actually the article showed ALL the writers wrote in the morning (well the 9 of 10 that mentioned when they wrote). It also said that many of them could/would write at other times as well but they ALL started in the morning.
A startup I worked was started by HBS guys and hired professor from MIT as their first employee.
They pretty much interviewed and hired folks from the top 5 math and computer science schools only.

I looked up to these guys because of an inherent bias that, I never went to these schools and these guys must be gooood.
After working with lots of them for a few years, if there is one thing I can tell you its this.
HBS didn't teach the founders anything about startups or the business world.
Ivy league schools didn't teach much about how to deliver a product to the guys.

BTW, The worst hacker in the group was the professor :-)
here we go, just had to dig thru the googles

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/StickyLight/
How is that worse than having the same category for tall and short people? I see nothing magic about sex as a differentiator. It's not the sex organs that would cause the imbalance. It's sport-specific physical differences, like height and muscle mass, which happen to be partially linked to sex. But once you admit that some people should have their own category because of a genetic coin-flip, why would you limit this to women? (Sounds pretty sexist to me!) Wouldn't it be equally fair to have an olympic medal for, say, fastest 100m run by a man under 5'6"?

To answer your question, what I'd like to see is for people to realize how silly the current set of sports are -- virtually all slight variants of either "person moves an object downfield into a goal" or "person runs/jumps/lifts very fast for short distance" -- and a shift towards sports which are more equal to all people. Where are the sports that reward balance and rhythm and endurance more than speed and strength? Where are the sports for which sufficient training negates virtually any genetic luck?

For example, most of the best rock climbers and martial artists I know are not just short, but downright tiny. In races, women do better relative to men when distances are longer: I doubt I'll ever see a woman make up the 0.9 seconds to overtake the fastest man in the 100m, but I also doubt I'll ever see a man make up the 5 hours to overtake the fastest woman in the decaironman.

If you start with the set of sports for which men hold a huge relative advantage (like any professional team sport in the USA), no categorization will ever truly make up for it. The fix, then, is to change the sports. This isn't as radical as it might sound, e.g., (American) football started with a round ball which gradually got pointier as people decided they liked passing more. We get the sports we optimize for, and I don't know what we're optimizing for but it certainly isn't sexual equality. As long as we have sex categorization, that's basically impossible.
I'm curious why none of the sites publishing Apple's response have called out the obvious bullshit in their statement.

"alters the iPhone’s distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhone’s core mobile telephone functionality"

"The Google Voice application replaces Apple’s Visual Voicemail [snip]... disabling Apple’s Visual Voicemail. Similarly, SMS text messages are managed through the Google hub, replacing the iPhone’s text messaging feature"

Google Voice does NOT replace or disable anything on the iPhone, it simply offers users the choice of an alternative service. Choice is good.

For my money, the reason Apple are preventing apps that would challenge AT&T or potentially strain their network is to ensure the iPhone remains an attractive prospect for teleco's for when AT&T's current deal expires.
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When he helped to create and foster a community around his art, even creating forums (mailinglists) dedicated to his 'pieces', he accepted a responsibility to the people that joined/formed that community. To completely destroy that community overnight is reckless and narcissistic.

This is not to state that _why is a 'dick.' He might be in some sort of weird mental turmoil. But his actions, while maybe not meant to be 'asshole moves' can still be described as 'asshole moves.' Reality and intentions don't always line up.

Think of it this way. Some of his art -- namely HackityHack -- was designed to be not only art, but a learning tool. Some people maybe relying on that learning tool. While that learning tool is technically still in _why's possession -- giving him the right to pull the plug on it -- are you really going to say that ripping a learning tool away from people that are using it is a good thing?

Analogies -- even mine -- up to this point have not been the strong suit of this discussion, but I'll boldly use another one any ways. Let's say that _why owns a building. Why goes crazy and makes all sorts of artistic changes/improvements to the building. Now this building also has a meeting hall inside of it. _why uses this meeting hall to form several groups of people all of whom meet there to discuss various pieces of _why's art (and maybe how he should further improve the building or something... who knows). One day the people try to meet there only to find a wrecking crew tearing the building down. The construction workers say that _why sold the building to someone else who is tearing it down for condos.

Now in this analogy, _why has every right to do what he wants with the building. But _why has also formed an implicit promise with the people meeting there that this is their meeting place. He has assumed a responsibility -- albeit on a unspoken social level -- to at least announce to these people that the building will be no more.
what are the top 10 file types that are backed up?

I have no clue. If I could figure out what data people were storing, tarsnap wouldn't be a secure backup service, would it?

(For that matter, I don't even know how many files people have archived, or how large they were prior to being compressed.)
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We actually do that for generating tags, but those don't play into the recommendations that are generated.
I am not at all sympathetic to your world view. You're advocating that we make bad software on purpose. Not only that but you're advocating placing the burden of defects as an externality onto users.

He's saying that good software available today for $X beats flawless software available in 3 years for $5X, and I agree even if X=0. With the obvious exceptions for scenarios where people will die if it goes wrong.

This to me is unprofessional. We have the technology and skills to build reliable software, without significant additional cost.

And for some reason every organization in the world declines to use this magic bullet.
This is C, in the kernel. You can't "raise an exception."

The gotos are necessary because kernel work requires allocating resources. If an error is hit, the function needs to exit, but it also needs to release its resources correctly. But, these resources need to be freed upon normal completion as well. Hence, gotos.

You should probably read some of the code before saying it's bad. See, for example, the function that implements a memory map: http://miller.cs.wm.edu/lxr3.linux/http/source/mm/mmap.c?v=2...
Well, someone did make a comment under the other post that Apple answer didn't preclude the possibility that AT&T called up Apple and said, "Don't approve the Google Voice App."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=778807
Six weeks is not a long time to wait. I've had applications take 3+ months before they ever get a response. Google should stop acting so entitled and get in line like the rest of us.
> give people the false impression that GV is stealing the phone icon, which an app can't even do

I'm glad you pointed this out, because even as a technically-minded reader (albeit not one with an iPhone), I was led to believe exactly that.
> But his writing is overwhelmingly pro-Apple.

...

> I'd probably be as inclined to believe the source as I would Apple's public response.

In turn, I say this: You are given two statements: One is a written and formal statement from Apple to the FCC. It's on record. If information comes to light in the future that contradicts this statement all h*ll will break loose for the company.

The other is from Gruber claiming that some anonymous person claimed something to the contrary of Apple's statement.

Given the two, you are inclined to believe someone who Gruber claims claims something. Where do you think you fit on a continuum from pro-Apple to neutral to anti-Apple?
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Agreed. I don't recall signing something saying I can't open up my iPhone and install Linux on it.
Didn't know this one...

There are many Lisp-praising articles out there, and each one gives essentially the same reasons for Lisp being the perfect language. This one, however, despite being very large, seemed to be highly above the average to me. I think he was very convincing in pointing out precise shortcomings in the main languages he cited, something that is often only vaguely alluded to.
This reminds me of yesterday, when I accidental left a stray : in my /etc/sudoers file and exited my editor. Couldn't get root access! Thanked the developers who invented recovery mode so I could fix my dumb mistake.
But not really. The way that they describe it is misleading -- tending to lead the user to believe that Google's app was replacing parts of the UI.

This is how the 'user experience' has changed with Google Voice:

* People call your 'google voice' number rather than you cellphone's phone number

* Calls to your google voice number are forwarded to your cellphone

* Voicemails left at your Google Voice number are stored in your Google Voice account (rather than on your AT&T voicemail at your cellphone's number)

The problem with Apple complaining about the 'changed user experience' is that people signing up for Google Voice and getting the Google Voice app are making a conscious choice to modify their user experience in such a way. It's not like joe-sixpack stumbles blindly into GoogleVoice by accidentally downloading the app from the AppStore.
He could just be anti-corporation/anti-'the man'
uh no, I did not say anything of the sort. Go read any software license over the last 30 years. Almost all say they offer no warranty. If Apple has a bug in their core software, are they liable for support or loss of data? I'm sure they declare they do not: use at your own risk!!!

Bottom line is its my device, I can install whatever software I please and Apple restricting downloads from their own store, "pay our 30% rake", is bullshit. I hope the FCC tears them a new one.
Until ebooks are priced lower than a mass-market paperback, they're a non-starter for me.

The only possible exception, which, actually, would be my preference, is a subscription service. I can, after all, only read one book at any one given point in time. Ideally, author royalties would be based on this, too, to encourage more engaging writing.
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>So someone with Jewish ancestry that is a practicing Catholic, and someone that is not of Jewish ancestry that converted to Judaism are both Jewish?

If your mother is Jewish, then the Jewish establishment would consider you Jewish. You are considered Jewish if you convert.

>That sort of makes it an ambiguous term, no?
Unlike other religions, Judaism is a religion and a cultural identity. Many Jews are secular, but still have strong cultural connections.

>What if someone was born to two parents that are not of Jewish ancestry, but converted to Judaism? Is that person a Jew by birth?

That person is not a Jew by birth, but that person is a Jew by conversion.

Historically, the only real test of "Jewness" that matters is this: if the Nazis were around, would they want to kill you?
There is outstanding ambiguity in DMCA and related laws which are used to great effect by companies like Apple. Is it illegal to hack your iPhone? I think not, but one reason I believe Apple has not sued over this yet is they get benefit from not having a clear ruling on the issue.
The FCC certainly used to be staffed by morons. At least tech morons (the board, I don't know about the employees). We at least have a solid chairman now, lets hope its a sign of the times.
Eh, you don't have to be sympathetic to my worldview. You almost certainly use software I've written anyway. ;-)

I'd strongly disagree that building reliable software can be done without significant additional cost. I spend perhaps 2/3 of my time writing tests, and then development time (on top of that) is probably doubled by code reviews. The benefit of this is that I have enough confidence in my (and others') code that I can freely improve it without worrying too much about breaking things. The downside is that I've spent 6x as long to implement a feature as I otherwise would've. That's a cost. I pay it because a.) I have to and b.) the business importance of the code I write really does justify it.

I would not pay that cost if I were hacking up a startup with zero users and iterating until I had a useful product. And I don't pay the cost when I'm prototyping new ideas within my employer - most of my work later this week has been straight hackety-hack with no tests, because I'm doing a demo for something new.

"You wouldn't date a fat, ugly, dull girl if you knew with even the most trivial effort you could date an attractive girl who's great at conversation and loves to discuss René Magritte and Douglas Hofstadter, would you?"

Haven't you heard of "Smart. Pretty. Nice. Pick two"? You generally can't have everything - not unless you happen to be a debonaire billionaire with Brad Pitt's body. (The fact that such a person doesn't exist might be further evidence that you can't have everything...) Most people date a girl who has the qualities that they care about, and they don't worry so much if she's not perfect in other ways.
maybe i'm an outlier, but i never have had an issue or problem using the autoconf toolset or installing anything that uses it.
Thanks. It's pretty interesting that it's done without a camera and framegrabber.
One fact gleaned (via s link): the world hour record for human-powered vehicle is 56.3 miles! Amazing. On a streamlined recumbent bike.
Or we could set up morphine processing facilities and sell the processed, medical grade, codine/morphine on the open market-- creating industry, jobs, economic devpt.. that whole schtick
Ah, the general case. I can go along with this, I lean that way by nature as well. That being said, I recognize a flaw in my argument: I'm presenting a false dichotomy. In a case like this it's also quite acceptable to disbelieve Apple and the "little birdie."
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I was going to say that. Further, the comparison between physical systems and software is mostly bogus. When software screws up it often tells you what's wrong. Little investigation is ever needed. If the epoxy on an airplane is too weak, it doesn't log heap dumps and stack traces.
The questions are good. The answers may be honest or not. Hard to say. It wasn't too long ago that Apple tried to cover up their problems with backdated stock options.
This just would not work. The reality of banking is that people want a relationship with their bank that they don't have to maintain - meaning they would only go to their bank or bank website when they absolutely have to. Not to go check out the latest blog post.

Invite only? With the much larger startup cost of a bank this is ridiculous.

What is really amazing is that this guy is actually ... "one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web"
I think either/both could be the answer. I see no reason why the first outweighs the second.
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I'd much rather have my disk space "wasted" and retain PPC support, even* on a laptop.

Still, I'm surprised that some kind of single-platform preening of the "universal" binaries was never an option from Apple.

* Perhaps, rather, I mean "especially," since 1440x900 would be a sad step backwards from the 1440x960 of my 15" PB G4. My 17" MBP just doesn't work as a laptop, having too large dimensions, being too heavy, and having a lid that too easily closes when my lap approaches vertical from the horizontal, the latter making for terrible typing posture if I'm reposed on the couch.
Is Apple developing a competitor to Google Voice? I'm thinking of it from the perspective of Apple looking ahead towards carrier in-exclusistivity and seeing some obvious benefit to owning the customer and making the carrier irrelevant. Apple's claim of duplicate functionality would make a lot more sense in this context.
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Me? Rails. You? Any mainstream framework. Whatever you want. It won't be a highly technical app so it doesn't really matter, and any mainstream framework will have the functionality you need. Be wary of anyone saying "[x framework], for sure." Whether a project like this succeeds or fails will have nothing to do with the framework you choose.