I feel like such an oldie reading things like this :-) Watching the younger generations rediscover things that I have lived through is making me gravely aware of my own mortality today. I'm expecting somebody to point out an article on Kermit next, or be astonished that once upon a time some people used email from a VAX vt100 terminal to access the public ftp server on nic.funet.fi :D
And funnily enough, the reverse scenario played out at least once also. In 2009 in New Zealand a very controversial 1st prize of $15,000 was awarded to artist Dane Mitchell in the Waikato National Contemporary Art competition.
Dane did not even come over to NZ from his residence in Berlin, or send any artwork to the competition. He simply phoned in instructions to the janitor to wait until all the other exhibits had been prepared and their packing and scraps had been cleaned up, and then told the janitor to empty the contents of the rubbish bin and enter it as his sculpture :-)
These two are regularly confused due to their unfortunately similar spelling. SymPHony is the CMS, SymFony is the completely unrelated framework (capitalisations for emphasis only).
Never heard of a Kaossilator before; it looks like great fun, and more to the point it lends itself completely to being an iDevice app. Hope somebody ports it asap!
I came here to point out that the title must surely be misleading since cancer is not one but many different diseases and therefore any vaccine would only be targeting certain cancer types, however the article states that 'VaxHit' could be applied to 90 percent of all known cancers, which is huge! I sincerely hope there is some substance to this.
We had a lot of fun with this in University 20 years ago. Our computer lab had a handful of shiny new Sun Sparcstations. The freshmen would regularly end up hogging them (no timelimit) and we needed them for project work, so we'd just remote login to them and cat some pre-recorded messages out to /dev/audio. A very official-sounding "Please log out now, system going down for maintenance" usually worked wonders, although occasionally more serious messing with people's minds was done. Some of the 1st year students had literally no idea what a computer was capable of and would believe anything that came out of its speakers. :D
It's been ages since I read it, but I think that Jared Diamond's book 'Collapse' explains a bit about the island and the statues construction (his main focus is on the self-destructive cycles of behavior of the population however).
Also, I thought this was old news? I'm sure I have seen that photo quite a while ago.
It's disgusting, but not surprising. US has been desperately attempting to export it's draconian grip on copyright to the rest of the world at all costs for quite a while now.
I'm an Irishman who lives in New Zealand, but I'm currently visiting the inlaws in Italy. Just flew in to Venezia (Marco Polo) this morning, and have spent some time in Bassano del Grappa in the past. It's a fantastic place and a great Mecca for paragliders. A friend used to run a restaurant there called l'Antica Abbazia several years ago, and it was frequented by all the fliers. Ah, the memories are flooding back now! Hope you managed to catch some of those fantastic thermals while you were there.
Oh, and all this OT rambling just to say well done on your side project. As others have pointed out, it's not entirely unique but it's useful and a good start.
I had no idea Disney did things like this. This is great!
I'm already curious about Reposado (Software Update Server) and Munki (manage OSX software installs). I may have a use for these. Nice to see tools in there for topics other than animation.
I have a vague memory of a HNer announcing a project similar to (or perhaps it actually was) the referenced Padrucci app a while ago here. Anyone remember what it is I'm referring to and can they confirm if it's the same app?
I love the idea of this and it seems like a no-brainer purchase for any musician who reads sheet music.
Thanks for the information. I did a little googling also after posting my question and it seems that it would be foolish to look at using either of them for any sort of production code at the moment. I think the PNaCl approach looks more interesting though. One to watch perhaps, but more out of curiosity right now.
Thanks for the reply. If it's limited to what JS can do it certainly won't do what I need. Also just noticed I wrote "DirectX" instead of "ActiveX" in my previous post, oops.
Could you explain this a little more? I have no real knowledge of either and would be curious to hear your opinion as to which one may have a future and why.
Funnily enough, my friend's startup is doing a web-based POS system and they have adopted the tagline "POS... Finally it means Point Of Sale again" :-) And yes, you are right, there are several players out there now who are planning to be hugely disruptive in this area, because the incumbents have rested on their laurels too long.
Does anybody here have experience using this? It looks like it could potentially solve an issue for me bridging access to USB and TCP-accessible devices from a cross-platform browser-based app, while giving a relatively easy way to get the software installed on them. On the other hand, will this turn out to be the DirectX of the future (ugh). Would love to hear some personal anecdotes from someone who was tried it out.
I love the internet for little things like this. The author proposes a way to achieve the page turn-effect in the Square app, and the one of the actual Square devs sees it and responds directly to explain how it was _really_ done :-) The internet... connecting people for nearly 40 years.
I have personally found that even distro-specific scripts require some tweaking across various hosting providers due to the default configuration of VPSs being different in each case. It has generally not been worth the effort for me to write complete bootstrap scripts so generic that they will work on anybody's VPS, but it's usually trivially easy to adapt whatever I have written to the quirks of a new hosting environment if the need arises.
Actually, this came up recently here on HN, referring to a rather old article entitled "Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea". Discussion and link to original article here: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409090
Bottom line; use UDP for your tunnels and a proper VPN.
I agree with you in principle. It seems the majority of attempts at making an ipad theme take from the experience I have on my ipad rather than add to it. However, there are certain things that a site needs to do (differently) to function on an iOS device or indeed any touch-screen device. Primary among these is to remove any notion of or dependency on a hover-state from the UI since this is meaningless on a touch device. Many sites are unusable because of this. There are other minor niggles also such as styling 'pressed' button elements (which never return to their unpressed state)
If iOS 'themes' for sites focused on simple usability issues like that instead of trying to do the whole custom iOS 'experience' they would be far more usable.
The O.P. was asking for a little more details than builtwith.com seems to provide (how it is constructed rather than what face it presents to the public), however I had never heard of builtwith.com and quite liked it so thanks for the recommendation.
Ah yep, thanks for that; just Googled it in a hurry and pasted in the first link that came up. Can't agree enough on the Maatkit tools, and I'm also in the process of moving a production database from MySQL to Percona after hearing such good things about it. Xtrabackup for consistent backups of innodb/xtradb live systems + incremental (delta) backups are also very useful.
I lived in Germany a while ago. I was astonished when I first found out that you get 6 weeks paid holidays a year, and if you are sick during this time and manage to get a doctors cert to prove it you will get those holidays again. That time off is considered essential to your well being, and if you have been unable to benefit from it by being ill then you simply get to take them again when you can benefit from them. Also, the healthcare was excellent.
I have often seen this mantra repeated, but I can't believe that this is enough to dissuade every single hacker. With Macs approaching 10% of the market this has got to be worth somebodies time to have a go. And yet, I know a lot of folks with Macs and not a single one has ever had malware issues. Either nobody is getting hit, or they are getting hit with stuff so good and stealthy that they just don't know it :-) I'm certainly not arguing that Macs are invulnerable (far from it), I'm just genuinely curious why somebody somewhere isn't stepping in to fill the malware niche.
This is a follow up to the first article that he wrote regarding UDID tracking and privacy exposure, using OpenFeint to link UDIDs to real-world identities. It's a bit shocking to see how many apps are submitting these UDIDs to multiple domains, and also interesting to note that Flurry is up there with Apple and OpenFeint as one of the biggest aggregators of this data.
Perhaps I didn't phrase my comment as well as I should have. Indeed all his points apply and are excellent. As you pointed out, his focus is on testing the HTTP server for performance, rather than the actual apps running on them. The point I was trying to make is that all of the above, _plus_ additionally integration testing and app specific testing should really be done when preparing for the onslaught of a real-world deployment. Admittedly this is deliberately beyond the scope of his article.