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People who live off the grid also live off the grid during a disaster such as Japan's tsunami. So there is the same trouble from lacking during a disaster as there is in this independence you connect to riches.

Is it possible to run python in a script like LUA runs in an iOS app? I think myself it may be possible, but I don't see any examples.

Wow, current.com really hates Mitt Romney.

Interesting article. I didn't realize how publishing companies like Megaupload made money, but thinking of them as "FileLockers" makes sense.

Funnily enough, updates can still be received if an app is removed from sale or even deleted by the developer.

Reminds me of LiteStep.

If you have no ideological preference then use OS X. It uses a real unix and XQuartz is very up to date. You can use Homebrew, but I had some major issues with in the past so YMMV. I personally use MacPorts as Fink is too out of date as I have a 500gb hd and I prefer the 3rd party software to have separate dependencies from the core Mac system software.

The best resource is building something you consider useful. Start small and make it a personal project. Don't even think about making money on it or else you will destroy the enjoyment of making it. It doesn't have be long term, in fact it is better if you don't plan on maintaining it but instead build it and evolve it with every iteration.

They should open-source the app. That would be the ultimate freedom.

Also, noone uses Java and only one company uses Perl. Interesting or misleading? You be the judge.

These kinds of articles need more attention on HN. Copyrights have consistently been proven to be detrimental both the artist and the consumer.

Good old fashioned social engineering? The attackers already knew where she was going to be from other location based apps or just investigating the address of the grandmother. Also, the attackers could have access to the daughter and she is just pretending not to know anything to help the grandmother file an insurance claim.

Facebook is a productivity killer, but it does POP email as well.

> Do the (thing above) and come back when you finish it.

Do you even know what advice(1) is? That's not advice as I understand it. That's an order. You're giving orders to a complete strange on a web forum. Think about the intelligence behind that for a second.

My comment on this site was referencing the comment by Paul Topping(2) on the TC link. His opinion, and one I agree with, is that Visual Languages become too cumbersome for anything but small projects, and my example is using Visual Programming for layout. The XIB's are XML in XCode.

1) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/advice

2) http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/27/hey-kids-get-off-my-lawn-th...

I think Instacast, and maybe Flattr as well, should boycott Apple and instead focus on the Android platforms starting with Google Play and Amazon's Appstore. Otherwise they are helping to perpetuate and even reward this kind of behavior.

Does anyone have the link for Instacast for Android?

No. ;)

Edit: I just got down voted for replying "No." to a comment on HN. Hah! That's this site in a nutshell for you.

> ... then restrict access of other smartphones to it's platforms and APIs (so that they become a crippled shell) while adding features that were exclusive to the FB phone.

Nothing subtle about that.

Sorry, but even Apple, who develops its own operating system, didn't develop it own system from scratch(1). The iOS platform is an adaption of this as well, meaning it is not a unique system.

One of the challenges of creating a startup is building a business which not only provides solutions/products to customers, but also works with other businesses. Attempting to cripple competitors platforms will quickly and easily be interpreted as monopolistic behavior(2).

1) Originally Mach 3 to Xnu and GNU and *BSD system utilities with only a proprietary layer on top, Quartz.

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

There are plenty of Visual Programming paradigms in development today. The XCode Interface Builder, and Visual Studio's stuff as well, handle the tricky layout and placements before it is converted to text for the compiler. But the rest of the development is done through purely textual coding as the visual paradigm becomes exponentially more difficult to manage as the project "grows". So what happens is a hybrid.

Same here, but with an even older computer: AMD 64 4000+ with compiz turned off and running LXDE on the desktop. No issues so far and I haven't had any crashes at all.

I thought that this was one of the worst written articles about Apple I have ever read. It was linked from Daring Fireball for some reason. Why should Apple do CMS? I don't understand where to even begin: IWork, iCloud, iWeb, mobile me, etc. must have never existed or just disappeared. Also, when did iTunes die? Did people just last night stop buying music, apps, ebooks, and movies from Apple? When did Apple's incredibly profitable ecommerce solution stop making sales? I should just stop here. If you haven't read the article, consider not wasting your time. It is not just without merit or basis, it doesn't even contain any interesting links, but I can't down vote links in HN, so sorry.

I develop iOS apps, and I don't stalk my users. I just assumed that was something everyone practiced, allowing a right to privacy.

Everyone is some kind of fundamentalist, but people keep their ideas to themselves to keep an even keel because inexperience in expression tends towards bad outcomes. I have no scientific evidence for this, but this is my amateur reasoning in observing the personal growth in others.

Yes. The IRS is in the money refunding business.

Here comes the leviathan. I don't know what effect this will eventually have on Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but I'm certain it will be good.

I noticed the problem with iTunes connect has been fixed. It is actually much, much better than it used to be.

I'd say that its not a constant fear to most people, it is more of a aggravation or annoyance. In my experience most people don't share too many personal details online even with their closest friend network.

I do have one question, why does the author use BOLD text in the article in such a haphazard manner?

To be fair to Avaaz.org, this isn't about "crazy Americans" this is about the opportunity connect to a populist narrative, "Save the Internet from the US". In this way non-profits, NPO's, build a donation base using carefully controlled press releases and volunteers world-wide to connect their entity, the NPO, to helping troubled communities.

Right now they are building a mailing list to capitalize on global anti-Americanism. Understandably, they may not use the mailing exclusively to solicit donations, and will most likely sell it to third-parties, "We may share some of your personal information with certain affiliated groups." It all depends on what they consider more important at the moment, the privacy of the volunteers (anyone who gave their email address/tel #), or the helping the greater good of their causes.

References:

http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/20-5050267/avaaz-foun...

http://www.whois.net/whois/avaaz.org

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/privacy/

Not really. The problem is that this is a press release without the traditional "experts say" part, which ruins the persuasiveness of the interpretation. So you got left behind.

How is Silicon Valley difference from the startup scene in, say, Austin or Boston?