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This post makes one incorrect statement, I think:

"And that cuts to heart of why developers and anyone with an interest in the using the web of the future today has long since lost faith in Internet Explorer: The competition continues to deliver improvements at a pace that far outstrips Internet Explorer."

The competitor's products are better, but they were waaay better before IE8 even existed. After IE9, assumedly, they'll still be better, but by far less a distance. Google is really the only company in the world that can rival Microsoft's speed in development (when it sets its mind to it). Honestly, here's what I think happened: Microsoft missed the internet-apps thing. They sort of grew, and Microsoft didn't notice for a while. Then they exploded and Microsoft was caught off-guard with a browser the developers didn't like, and a business strategy that was out-dated. But being Microsoft, and they're not dumb guys, they started improving their browser and began to write some neat cloud software (Web Office, anyone?).

You'll notice this thinking in what they concentrate on: To Microsoft, web apps are where it's at, and javascript speed is important! It makes things run better. But if you look to web standards, you'll see Microsoft talk about "real world cases", or however they put it. They don't care about 100% compliance, they don't have time. They're playing catch-up, and are focusing on the areas that will make the most difference first. It's sort of like Startup 101. My belief is that they'll continue to improve the standards, but will devote, say, %20 of their efforts to it, until their javascript engine and css rendering layout engine is humming in tune with V8 and Sunspider.

Maybe afterwards they'll decide to go with full-standards compliance, one would have to look at the development cost vs. the predicted returns, but it wouldn't be a terrible idea, really, to woo developers over from other platforms: "Yeah, our performance is the same, and we're at 100%. You can develop for us and on us with no problems, assuming the competitors follow the standards like us".

But that's probably wishful thinking.
You'd be right.. that's exactly where I got the templates for my suggestions above :-) See http://www.copyblogger.com/cosmo-headlines/
About 9 minutes in, they demo opening excel files with Microsoft's Windows Live web application. "It turns out Microsoft launched a killer app for Chrome OS," the presenter says, "They've been working very, very hard to do this."

And the audience laughs...

You get the feeling this was Google's plan all along. Launch some rough online office apps, wait for Microsoft to take the bait, then spring the trap. "Oops, your flagship web product is now a checkbox on our feature list."
If you're coming from a web software background -- or even a desktop software background -- the App store will increase the length your development cycle by one or two orders of magnitude.

Only if you need to develop a native app. You can develop highly functional Web apps specifically for the iPhone that work through Safari. Hardly ideal, of course, in terms of not being in the catalog everyone's looking at.. but totally doable.

Apple even keeps a directory of them: http://www.apple.com/webapps/
It's all good. I was just wondering what the issue is since I assumed my initial joke would be the problem rather than this remark. A woman cracking jokes about male genitals in a 98% male forum has to be skating on some extremely thin ice. :-D Which is part of why I found it funny to see someone else make an extremely similar remark to mine. Presumably, they are male (at least the odds are good, given the forum). Since they got upvoted and I got downvoted, obviously there is some subtly that's lost on me.

Thank you.
After having spent some time looking around for a tiny emacsalike ("ersatzemacs") for making quick edits on remote systems, I settled on [zile](http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/).
It's at 86,000 views now
I was a TA for this class when it was first taught in January of this year. Back then it was an intense course that split it's time between Web Security and Web Programming.

The class has been split, and this is now just a Web Programming class. I helped design project 1 and project 7 (my screenshots are still being used :-)! Highly recommended for those who want a nice intro to modern web programming.
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I don't understand: does this link mean that we're looking at Linus's own branch of microemacs/uemacs? Is he patching the one he uses, and if so, are the changes going back into [Jasspa's MicroEmacs](http://www.jasspa.com/)?
I always figured they were different heights to protect them from getting squeezed together by our thighs.
It is believed that early Pacific Islanders were able to navigate long distances by reading the changes in the long swell as they sailed the Pacific; for instance, an island will have a "reflection" in the swell.

Longer but rambling explanation: http://www.passengerplanet.com/softwarm.html
700 kcals is on the extreme high end for an hour of cycling. You'd have to be fairly heavy already and pushing it as hard as you can go. A normal person putting in average effect is probably more like 250-300 kcal.
Creating a magazine is very similar to creating a web site in that you need to think ahead in organizing content logically before creating multiple layouts that comprise the whole document (itself a collection of smaller documents).

Within a magazine these multiple different layouts must be arranged such that the information can be readily digested while keeping the presentation dynamic. This principle of balancing the tensions between the dynamic and the uniform is the very heart of crafting publications.
You see it at work in very conservative publications as it is in very edgy publications.

Certain articles (typically featured articles) get a much stronger visual treatment than others in order to create a visual hierarchy of importance. That's where this "blogazine" (whatever the hell that means) approach to designing content becomes yet another tool and asset in your skillset.

Layout and content design are not ideological positions of one wav vs. another. A competent designer balances and plays with these tensions to present information appropriate to the audience with regard to the topic at hand.
>Well most windows machines do have access to a network controlled by someone else.

Too right, I inserted a subliminal "not" after the do.

Apologies!
This, in part, explains why it was a good thing for Google to release Chromium to the open source community now, rather than later.

Consider: Microsoft could potentially compete in this arena. They have MinWin now. They could, if they chose, build something roughly equivalent to Chrome OS. However, they have a problem. Even IE 9 is behind the competition. In its current incarnation, it is slower than the currently available versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, in everything except perhaps graphics rendering, a difference hardly noticeable. As TA notes, it is still playing catchup on standards. Microsoft boasts an Acid3 score of 32/100, and actually believes that Acid3 is to blame.

So - what happens when ChromeOS provides a viable alternative to those who are quite happy to live on the Web, use Microsoft Office Online or Google Docs, etc.? Whatever is keeping them in Windows?

As I see it, Microsoft has only one alternative: Buckle down and bring IE 9 into the HTML5/CSS3 fold. Pour their reputed brilliance into dramatically improving their Javascript engine. THEN, perhaps, with MinWin / IE9, they could go head-to-head with Chrome OS.

But you know what? Say they succeed, and successfully provide a viable alternative to ChromeOS. Google still wins. Why? Because every browser on the market is, finally, standards compliant, and a suitable canvas for all the Web App goodness that Google would like to market to everyone in the world.
It uses X11, gdk-2.0 and clutter-1.0 for drawing, and gtk-2.0 widgets. All from your Ubuntu system on which you would build an image.

So, it us just a layer on top of Ubuntu's "core" (glibc, X11, gtk, dpkg) with custom kernel, pam_google (!) desktop manager, window manager, installer and updater.

Good coders code, great - reuse. This seems like Google's favorite mantra.

update: http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;... - to those who understands =)
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Well, evolution doesn't have a "why" reasoning. It's not like there's a committee looking for the most efficient design. It may have been more complicated to evolve sperm to be more heat-resistant. Doing so may have even necessitated some bad effects (e.g., low mobility or less chance of fertilization). The dangling testicles may, through random chance, have evolved first, and once that happened, any changes in sperm's heat-resistance were pointless, so they weren't selected for.

With evolution, there's no "why", unless you count "it was evolutionarily beneficial, so it was selected for". But even that doesn't explain everything, like genetic drift.
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Right, and the Ardent "personal supercomputers" he was suggesting would have been just as much scrapmetal as that particular Cray.

BTW what in the world is a personal supercomputer? Does he mean a workstation?
I think it's worth pointing out that even Apple's own developers don't get the luxury of being able to push out bug fixes whenever they want. Point releases of the iPhone OS are often months apart, so good testing is not optional for them.
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Table 6, page 23:

"Reserves of Fossil Fuels Plus Technically Recoverable Undiscovered Oil and Natural Gas:"
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Russia: 293.7
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Saudi Arabia Estimated Undiscovered Oil and Gas: 231.3
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United States Undiscovered Oil and Gas: 351.5
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351.5 > 293.7 > 231.3

Regardless, I'm putting my life where my mouth is. I started my own oil and natural gas exploration and production company in Denver.

I've also spun off a second company, a mineral royalties company, that is focused on the acquisition and divestiture of North American mineral rights in producing open-pit mines.

And finally, I've started a third US natural resources company, SonicFrac, to develop a solid-state fracturing device for optimizing the production of US Shale gas wells.

I also invest every last penny that I take home back into US mineral rights, US oil and gas prospects, and US minining royalties.

I own stock in dozens of publicly traded oil, gas, mining, and resource development companies.

Natural resources are the first thing I think about when I wakeup in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night.

I'm 26.

Perhaps I'm irrationally optimistic about US resource wealth...

I don't believe that I am.

But, you _need_ to be irrationally passionate about what you do. Whatever it is.

If you're running a consumer internet company, and are not irrationally passionate about its future, I doubt you could persevere through the trials and tribulations of being an entrepreneur.

I am a US natural resources entrepreneur. And I am zealous about what I do. You should be, too.
Something is seriously amiss here:

"1,143 ratings 86,135 views"

the statistical discrepancy in this is just staggering; both in terms of increases in viewership and voting rates.
Wow, I didn't even have to complain! Thanks! I use (and am blown away by) lots of software, some on the web, some not, some free, some not.

The one that has blown me away continuously for the last decade are these two apps (they are part of a suite).

If I had said "photoshop and illustrator" it wouldn't have been controversial.

But being able to take a pile of word documents, build an entirely custom xml converter, entity extractor and semantic relation engine, in one tool (XEE), without writing a single line of code, then take that XML and analyze it in ways that would normally take at least a dozen disparate apps, but in one environment (Starlight), has been absolutely mindblowing. These two apps understand what XML is supposed to be about, use it as intended (for data interchange) and use it like nothing else I've ever seen.

Photoshop is "cool" and illustrator is "useful" but neither one has kept me up at night.
I don't have any clue. But it does make me think about how gender is determined by temperature of the eggs for some species (like crocs and gators and turtles). Sperm is what determines gender in humans. Connection? Maybe. Maybe not.
Annoying fluff, more than any legal advice. I prefer our own grellas:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=grellas
I agree. I've recently posted a comment about this in another App Store thread here on HN.

I think this is a good "oh yeah, this is why we do it" argument, but is probably more of a by-product of the review process and less of Apple's original incentive.

A lot of the technical decisions that are made are motivated by business and profit. Not to say that this is a negative thing - Apple is a corporation after all. There are plenty of things I've seen done that are dumb as hell at my employer (at a technical level) but are motivated by external reasons that seem implausible or illogical because the guy writing code is too far removed from the information and the decision.
If the sperm are to be activated by the higher temperature inside the female body then they would have to be cooler initially. They evolved to be triggered into action by the normal internal body temperature.
Thanks for noticing my link.
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Actually if you archive files in zip format, it use info-zip command utility internally.
It supports legacy obfuscation password only.

If you want AES encryption, select 7zip format with password.

Or another trick,
If you select 7zip format and give a option '-tzip -mem=AES256' into More archive option text field, you can make AES-256 encrypted zip file.
But archive file's extenstion still remains '.7z', so you need to rename it into '.zip'.

I consider adding encryption methods into my modified version.

Sincerely.
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Same thing here. We just got an update rejected for a line of code that calls an undocumented API within a function that was no where called in the program, dead code and they rejected the update that had an important bug fix that we emailed them about for an expedited review.

The expedited review request was accepted but in the end took 14 days to come back and got rejected for a piece of code that was never ran and has been there since day 1.

Talk about frustration, hell yeah.

But as everyone does, after getting over the anger and back to reality and business sense, what else CAN I do but only to resubmit since there lies a never seen before first of it kinds, an easy software distribution and payment system that many other platforms did not provide to small independent developers a year ago.

It's not about just supporting one SINGLE platform, that has never been the case. Just like making web apps run nicely in IE, Safari, Firefox, etc or even Windows, MacOS, Linux. As a developer, what matter is that I support the platform that has massive adoption/users. I will not drop iPhone and go Android, or any other platform. The only decision I will make is if there's enough users on the platform that I do care about to invest and develop for that platform. One day Android might be there and I see the possibility of developing for both Android and the iPhone.
btw, Android would win in long run. This process already begins with Motorola's Droid.

Apple very well monetized iPhone's wow!-factor, but now it is a mainstream thing.

Let's see what their tablet would be.
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Do you have any reasoning?

Full HTML5 support makes the Windows platform as a whole less important (Note: I did not say unimportant). When only the web matters you can run OS X or Chrome OS or Linux and get "the same web". Of course they'd love to stall that.
Already Chromium on Linux is decidedly more stable than Chrome on Windows
I down-voted you without realizing your were quoting Linus verbatim.
Shut up and sell something is more accurate for me.
As reliance on mobile devices and their capabilities increase, this could become less of an issue.

It is still a luxury for most people - "oh cool look at this app," but it still comes down to those that can afford an iPhone. I can imagine there are many family squabbles involving parents that bought their kid an iPhone that racked up an App Store bill the parents didn't originally intend.

iPhone is not a business phone overall - and therefore doesn't have "critical apps".
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I agree in principle, but I still have to figure out the logistics. Would it be enough to have that info on the badges? Do 3 words define you and will you spend your time walking around and reading people's micro-resume? Or does it need to be done online before the event?
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Beats me why we got down-modded.

It was an odd quote, and didn't fit in with the rest of the article (which I thought was very good, btw) Plus it set off all sorts of sophomoric jokes at least in my mind.

It didn't fit. It was appropriate to point it out -- even in a slightly humorous fashion. A smiley might have helped, but who knows? Like you said, it's all good.
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good theory ams6110, and well explained.

however, speaking as a guy who has went through the process for 8+ apps so far, that's not the pain point.

It's more about repeatedly encountering dumbass reasons for rejections, and dumbass long delays to get feedback on things that should take about 1 minute, not 2-4 weeks to get feedback on. It's about getting rejected for 1 thing, and then they don't bother to finish reviewing the app and discover the other 2 things that they know they would reject it on during the next submission, so you don't find those out until 2-4 weeks later, and so on, ad nauseum. It's about rejecting for inane reasons (that they can "fix", if they wanted to, and had a brain, by running a small piece of software on, shotgun-style) like 'this config value over here doesn't match this value over there, so please make those the same', or even worse, vague mysteriously-worded rejections, or rejections that contain explicit instructions for "fixing" the issue and then you follow them, resubmit and they reject again.

Dumbasses. I keep coming back to that word over and over again when dealing with their review process/people. We're talking about a company with supposedly billions of dollars in cash in the bank and until a few months ago or so reportedly had what 50 full-time reviewers on staff? (Do the math on what it would cost to even triple that staff and you'll see it's a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the profits that keep rolling in.)

Device? Love it.

OS? Love it.

Design sense? Love it.

App Store submission/review process? Dumbasses.
I am a photographer, and I've had inquiries for this. No one is willing to pay more than a few dollars, which doesn't even offset the time required or the depreciation of the equipment.
I think that says more about the way men relate to women in technology than it says about Sara herself.
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This is an interesting post.

And I agree that this could pose privacy concerns. What the article fails to show is how this is negative. Not that I disagree and that it is all positive, but the entire article smells of "they'll know when you are making coffee! watch out!"

Its speculative, and borderline fear-mongering. If anything, this data could be useful on which house hold appliances suck the most power and could create more innovation on the markets of individual appliances as consumers can see where their high energy bills are coming from.

I am curious and open to opinions on how this can be a negative thing. Now, if you start receiving more Starbucks advertisements in your mail or through selective digital cable advertisements I could see how this could be construed as sneaky, but consumers have already given up this right with Google, Amazon, Mint.com, etc.
You've shipped PyObjC-based apps for the Mac? We should talk. :)
XMPP is an open protocol. There are encryption extensions. Gtalk is used for routing, so it's route-around-able if you have concerns about snooping, still letting you communicate with grandma's gtalk account who doesn't have concerns about the FBI. This is much harder to do with software like Skype (especially considering the obfuscation that has gone into hiding the operation of the Skype code).

An you can't have pay for service like calls to 'real' phones because if the billing was done in the client you could simply remove it, forcing all the billing to be done at their servers - which makes it much more expensive.

You mean like how land lines and cell phones do their billing on the provider's servers and don't do the billing in the phone itself because you could simply remove it?
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Similar situation. I got my macbook on the left for skype, videoconferencing.

Then I got a Core II Duo 2.4 Ghz Dell running WS 2008 (fantastic OS I say) ... and with dual 24" and 19" monitors. I use synergy to mouse and keyboard across all.

The entire Dev and Prod environments are faraway linux boxen so technically I can do everything remotely.

Occasionally I take the laptop and stand by the window, where a platform serves as my "standing desk"