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Why not automate it? And why not automate it for everyone else also?

How about writing a freeware system agent/daemon that would allow people to submit sites, and then everyone running that agent/daemon would automatically spider the site as one or more standard browser user-agents, so that the IPs would be different and couldn't be as easily blocked without blocking legitimate clicks. You could make it peer-to-peer and rate limiting so it wouldn't be blamed as a DoS attack client. OR allow it to do DoS non-rate limited attacks for some sites if enough clients feel that the site is nasty.

Do you think IBM is now second-guessing submitting to Oracle's wishes over Harmony?

If this is truly an Oracle-sponsored decision, I think Oracle is just sending the big F.U. sign to the open-source community in general.

I'm switching over to LibreOffice. Even if LO royally screws it up over the next few years, at least I won't feel dirty using it.

Without the /. commentary:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_L...

What about Opera?

Why do people keep talking about IE8? Is it true for IE9?

But, do fluorescent bulbs cause electromagnetic fields to fade? Probably true also, but how would you prove that?

Self-Balancing Unicycle Only Half as Dorky as Segway"

Wrong. It is at least 3x more dorky.

As someone who's created a number of open source projects, not many of which have even been the slightest bit successful (even though a few have), I can say that just throwing things out there is fine, but I always wonder how much more successful one of the projects would have been if I would have devoted all of that time to it.

Let's see how ok it is when something else comes along that everyone switches to using instead of Facebook. It is inevitable that it will happen.

I'd be the first to say, "Do something you believe in, not just something to make money." But, not factoring profit into the equation for a company like Facebook is like growing corn just to produce the ethanol to run the tractors to plant and harvest more corn. It's nuts.

Thinking out of the box, I say work in the U.S. Odds are it your living conditions will be better. That's not an uninformed slight against India, but I think unless you have money in India, it is fairly factual. You can work harder than U.S. citizens in the U.S. and as long as your U.S. English is fairly good, you should go far, if you can find jobs that support your visa or better yet can find someone to sponsor your green card. If you don't have the opportunity to come to the states though, I apologize.

This is the stupidest thing I think I've ever read. Kudos to the moron who wrote it. I hope you get the HN you deserve.

You aren't something unless you do it. First, define programming. I think I program, but I might not be programming if someone's sense of the word is 100% test complete.

I'm not sure on its own that a "more secure" app marketplace is filling any specific need.

I think rather you'd want to think about being the provider for various organizations that need secure marketplaces of their own.

For example, various countries/organizations may want a set of applications that meet specified criteria.

You could still have a single marketplace internally, but to each customer, it would seem that you have a customer-specific secure marketplaces.

But first, you need to have a customer to provide this service to. And find out your competitors. For example, I believe at least one U.S. military branch provides their own apps. Could you provide something they can't do on their own?

First off, why limit yourself to only publishing electronically? You'll have a much larger audience if you offer paperback.

A few other options:

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/books.aspx

http://publishing.booklocker.com/

http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/pubit_app/bn?t=pi_reg_home

Or for amazon, email digitalrights@amazon.com or one of the several how-tos. This might be outdated: http://patdoyle.com/internetbusiness/publish-an-ebook-in-ama...

Then drum up more sales in facebook, posting info and links in forums and mailing lists, etc.

Oh no. :( Ok, it was inevitable that big blue would sell out, but Google is going to win this fight.

It is hard to believe that someone that managed so many is focusing in his parting words on (1) telling people that got bad reviews that they aren't as good as they think they are, and (2) telling them to aim their sites lower (since not everyone can be president). That's not the kind of manager I'd want. There is nothing wrong with confidence and ambition; just redirect it towards taking risks to accomplish tasks that no one thought could be done.

Those people complaining, btw, probably have valid complaints, regardless of what they've output. Often people that have low output are a sign of poor hiring and/or management. Why didn't he focus on suggesting changes to remedy this?

In addition, he was ditching on the Litebulb mailing list, rather than suggesting an alternative. What if he were to suggest that MS had 20% time to work on Litebulb requests?

Impressive! At first that seems expensive. But, $10,000,000,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to the U.S. national debt, which is over 1300x the cost of that tunnel at $13,611,792,550,145.

Exciting to watch at first, but then I realized- I really don't want a tablet. It just doesn't seem natural at all. For something that big, I'd want a keyboard.

Some additional thoughts:

- Many devices don't support pinch to zoom in/out.

- You can't assume the resolution of the screen. Just aiming for the resolution of an iPhone isn't sufficient.

- iPads, iPhones/iTouch are going to be sometimes held in portrait vs. landscape. The user shouldn't have to turn the screen. Either should be ok.

- Kindle browser is black-and-white, and scrolling and zooming is exceptionally difficult. (Not that many are trying to use it, yet.)

Not to mention that sites need to be designed for accessibility...

There are so many things to consider, and farming out the work to someone that specializes in this sort of thing is really the only way to go. Every organization can't afford to have every type of device on-hand, nor the expertise to know what works and what doesn't.

Nice footnotes...

Seriously though, I think companies are wasting their time getting into tablets. I see it as small niche market longer-term. Something that big without a keyboard just isn't practical for anything other than games and movies, at least until people start using a stylus with it.

Doesn't sound like a good relationship to me.

I'd think you should get a good lawyer asap.

Odds are you do have documentation. Get all the emails, receipts, etc. you can find, the code (hopefully you have logs, etc. of work in source control, although I'm not sure if they'd know what to do with that in court or if would be admissible as evidence), and talk to people who could testify on your behalf.

The other option is to ditch it all, but it sounds like you are invested enough where you would rather make a lifetime enemy than give it all up.

Netflix streaming documentaries (and other movies) and classic game emulation.

Don't have money to buy the tech I would buy for the kids. Maybe one day. Right now we teach them how to save money, and teach them about the expense of technology.

These are valid complaints about Android, although the one about there being a URL address entry, google page, and google button is way over the top, even if it is a valid UX issue.

But...

http://www.himalia.net/blogs/leovernazza/archive/2007_03_01_...

Scroll down to see the nice pics of author with the Microsoft guys where he starts the post "Microsoft (through Wilson Pais) invited me to talk in the first Architect Forum of the year in Santiago de Chile."

I wonder if there is some MS bias here.

My guess is that this is overblown a little.

Rails apps make RESTful services fairly easy, even if it doesn't usually cover the entire spectrum of RESTful actions. Many Rails (CRUD) controllers are going to have 4 RESTful actions built into that one controller/service, so a single app might have one RESTful service for each model (assuming it is exposed).

SOAP has been overtaken for sure, but I think that first pie chart set should show the number of services, not just the percentage. My guess is that the number of SOAP services may have grown, but the number of RESTful services just grew much more quickly.

More info about the open-source/open-hardware project: http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~vttsc/OpenrTMS/

First off, I think that just stimulating this part of the brain doesn't invalidate the existence of a spiritual realm. In fact, to me it validates that these feelings are useful, otherwise why would our brains be capable of it?

I imagine the sense of existence outside of ourselves is important both evolutionarily and spiritually.

Unfortunately, I also imagine this new knowledge will be abused (i.e. may become this century's LSD).

'Also, stay away from clever domain names like del.icio.us.'

But, as the author states, the Libyan domain names are in vogue now: bit.ly, letter.ly, etc.

Link to the shorter version, if anyone is interested: http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-the-secrets-of-steve-j...

HN discussion of shorter version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790566

Full transcript: http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full...

Provided in: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1792349

Thanks for the link. I swear that I clicked on the right thread. I wonder if HN is moving so fast now that it is either easier to post to the wrong thread somehow, or it is actually posting to the wrong thread. Or maybe I'm just getting old!