craftman

I guess the Apple engineers would have prepared the demo and analysed the copied ROM, before going to the court. Then, they would have found the routine (somewhere else, as you point it out) and easy to activate.

Dont know your site, but be sure I would never come back to it if you dont have a RSS feed (and leave it within 2 secs if there is any ad on it).

Yes, I think this is exactly what all of this is about.

That's the most common pattern indeed. Note they tried to find a vision by themselves without an "official" leader. They were unfortunatly unable to find one apparently.

However, I believe a kind of implicit vision has emerged which is simply to make sustainable such a place. Put another way, people who are attracked by this implicit vision (such as the author of the article) are still with them, and the others have probably left because this was not a vision they were inspired by.

I read it as the description of a first experiment. Note they still can improve and come back in the economic race. However, this is interesting to see some people have courage to try those things, whatever the risk of failure it represents.

Sorry, I dont know. I always bought my books since I am a student (spending lot of money into them btw). Unfortunatly, books that worth the money, and my time reading them are not so numerous.

Anyway, I guess internet is still a good place to find publicly available information not yet copyrighted by some doomed organisation.

Guys, the best way to react to this is to create our own content (music, films, books, theater, whatever...) then share and appreciate with friends. We dont need those companies to invent our life.

This is a great awesomeness.

It provides all access to rock solid erlang vm/otp/library with lisp nice syntax. If you look at the source code, you will see that it is quite small, meaning you can expect reliability. All this implemented by one of the Erlang creators with 30 years experience in designing and implementing great platforms.

I am just amazed by the potential.

Toyota has a known, controlled and improved process with has been copied (with various success) accross the whole industry. It was possible because Toyota process are conscious, observed and controlled.

Apple process are not conscious. They probably have a lot of talented and devoted persons each doing their best and at the end, it works (at least more often than competitors). However, this is mostly inconscious and hardly repeatable.

That's why there is this Jobs tale: everybody think that if a company has a Jobs clone, he would probably replicate the same spirit, attract same talents and produce same results. This kind of recipe can not be repeated with enough confidence to become an industry standard (such as lean, for instance).

OMG Just have seen Ledger comes also with an emacs mode! Sold.

I bought it. Very good material, perfect for beginners. Worth the money :-)

Bought it, and yes it worth the money and is a bit too basic. I think they are planning to do a sequel with more advanced topics, especially regarding ember data.

It is the sad truth of the current trademark/patent system.

I am currently creating my own product, and the very first thing I made was to create a new name, and claim the mark. It cost me some money, but not that much compared to the risk of being in trouble with trolls.

The sad things is that by doing this, I am probably feeding the complexity of the system myself.

Agree with you. Sounds nice to throw a quick prototype or small apps (btw http://scratchpad.io is awesome) for someone who dont know scalable/parallel technology such ar Erlang or Node.JS. If you are creating a startup and planning to charge customers, I suggest you invest in your backend.

Did not know this tool. Great stuff you created there!!

Fully agree with you. I use a private git repo on my own cloud server (west europe based).

Github make full sense for open source projects, with easy forking and pull requests. However, I dont see any advantage to take a private repo, even worst at the price they propose, and hosted in a complex legal context.

Looks like the "one OS fits all" concept has proved to be flawed.

Windows is great for corporate end-user workstation s (desktop, tablet...) but not for servers. Linux is great for servers, and highly skilled computer users (aka hackers/programmers) but not for corporate users. Mac OS is great for hipsters.

Games are somewhere in the middle of all this, including the consoles. Looks like there is no perfect solution and for sure, a good strategy could be to replicate what's have been working until now.

My mistake, he actually has left Google: http://beust.com/weblog/2010/05/13/leaving-google/

Beside the fact this guy is well know for his trolling ability, he is working for Google, which is the company supporting the angular team.

This is not about starting to learn computer programming, this is about starting to learn to get a "middle" job of programmer as proposed by persons who do not program themselves.

If you REALLY want to start learn computer programming look at Lisp or Smalltalk.

I am not sure. Working for an employer who is not able to select correct employee (beginning with recruiters) is probably a bad idea. That's a big issue of today corporate IT: clients/managers/recruiters dont understand the product they ask the teams to build, and as such, end up recruiting only on salary and dumb-cv criteria.

Agree that I would not love working with 40 years older COBOL programmers. However, I for sure would love to work with 40 years older lispers or smalltalkers.

I am wondering if in 40 years from now, youngsters would love (or not) to work with [ruby|java|js|nodejs] programmers.

Fully agree with this statement. Mainframe had 3270 (or vt) dumb terminals and cloud has tablets and smartphones, but this is mainly the same architecture, with more colors and animations.

It is interesting to see that the applications themselves move very slowy, despite addition of colors/animations. Corporate apps are still mainly forms and databases systems. The technologies change, but they still have same architecture than in 60s/70s. Nothing new since mainframe, lisp and smalltalk.

Excellent book to discover and learn Lisp, maybe the best one actually. It covers all aspect of Lisp and provides lot of examples code based on games. This is somehow more fun than the math example of SCIP (even if this is another great book I deeply appreciate too)

I suggest you to move to Erlang. This is the best platform to create great systems (including web, but not only) and allowing skilled professional programmers to express their full potential.

LOL, same here :-)

New enhanced version of Ember.js guides.