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From the article: "Under the deal, the Porsche and Piëch families, Porsche's shareholders, would obtain 50 percent of the shares in the merged VW-Porsche company."

Interesting form of acquisition.

jarrodtayloron Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing

Not only is this on Palm, but I suspect they planned it. They knew Apple wouldn't allow this to happen. It forces Apple to generate their own bad press. Next step is for Palm to write a workaround and look like the hero. Except they should've been paying attention when RealNetworks tried this a few years ago. That strategy relies on turning Apple fans against Apple. And if you follow the tech industry at all you know how difficult that will be (hint: damn near impossible).

jarrodtayloron Working on It (TextMate)

yeah, but can you name many others?

Coda is doing well, and Espresso had a pretty big release recently.

jarrodtayloron Apple tried to murder FireWire--and failed. For now.

Apple didn't try to kill FireWire. They didn't see the need for it on their non-pro line. The new 13-inch model is a Pro now, so it gets FireWire.

jarrodtayloron Safari 4 tops 11 million downloads in 3 days (6 million from Windows users)

The tab thing is a hidden pref.

http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-force-safari-...

jarrodtayloron Ask HN: Best website to register your domain name?

Domain.com has always treated me well, and their interface is the least cluttered of all the ones I've used.

jarrodtayloron Study: Twitter's Close to Completely Useless (according to subway rag)

From the article: 'Ten percent of users create 90 percent of content, researchers find'.

Welcome to the internet, metro.us and Harvard researchers. Most sites have a lot more people reading than contributing.

Twitter is just a platform. Expectations aside, it's usefulness depends on how you use it. No single venue is going to give a good 'representative cross-section of [what] the public is thinking'. That's why we have the terms target audience and vocal minority.

jarrodtayloron Ask HN: Joomla or Rails?

A CMS will probably get something up faster, but writing your own code will definitely be better for later customization. Maintenance really depends on what you build. How much do you want to fine tune and customize?

jarrodtayloron Will the US adopt a national sales tax?

They need to be looking into a consumption tax to replace the income tax, not a value added tax. Once again, they're overcomplicating an already very complicated issue.

jarrodtayloron Porsche on the financial brink

Half that $40k would also buy an E46 M3, which would be a whole lot more fun that the Lexus or Mazda.

For the whole $40k you may be able to find an early Porsche 997 (like an '05) with little if any noticeable wear.

jarrodtayloron Dear News.YC: please review my Mac app, Evom

How about making the 'add to iTunes' step optional? Laptops and large video collections just don't mix.

jarrodtayloron [dead]

The hypocrisy comes from claiming the censorship is based on moral grounds when it clearly isn't. Dropping GTA but keeping Saints Row; not selling 21st Century Breakdown because of profanity but selling The Boondock Saints just two aisles over. They aren't doing it for moral reasons, they're doing it so they can claim the moral high ground when scandals hit.

Labeling something as censored means the buyer isn't being scammed. It's a rip-off because it's a bum deal. They aren't getting the real product. I doubt there are a lot of Nirvana fans happy with their Wal-Mart copy of In Utero having the song 'Waif Me' on it. Isn't that the reason you won't buy censored music?

You nailed it about their obligations. But that's the problem: they should have an obligation to their customers to sell them the best possible product. It could be one of the many reasons they aren't the top music retailer anymore.

And how is Green Day playing the bitch here? They aren't going after Wal-Mart. They aren't suing or filing complaints. They didn't even bring up the issue.

jarrodtayloron [dead]

I don't think he meant it as a legal obligation, just an obligation to its customers. Selling a censored album, even if it's labeled, isn't selling the real album. It's a rip-off. Considering the movies and video games they still sell, it's also hypocritical.

And you're right, Green Day made the right move by deciding not to have their album cut down. Seeing as it debuted at number 1, their fans seem to agree.

jarrodtayloron Collaborative web development

Do you want centralized or decentralized version control, do you plan on doing a lot of branching, and are offline commits important?

jarrodtayloron Collaborative web development

You're correct. But you should be able to test the code on your machine and make sure it's correct before committing it.

Your development machine should be able to run the same code as your server.

Making changes to the public site is a very bad practice. What if your code has errors in it?

Version control also keeps everyone up to date. Before making a change to the site you'll download the most up to date version from the repository, that way your local copy has everyones changes, with comments about what they've done.

jarrodtayloron Collaborative web development

I'd definitely use version control.

There's no reason you can't make quick updates with version control. You'll each have a copy of the whole site (maybe with test databases) on your dev machines, and should be able to make the update, test it on your dev machine, then commit the changes to the repository.