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That can often only help if you read the documentation before you want to anything with the program in question. For problems for which you (a) already have a solution and (b) do not know that the program has a better solution for, why would you read the man page?
I agree. Obviously, people have the right to depict Mohammed however they wish. Whether they necessarily should is another matter. Offensiveness for its own sake is the province of the Manhattan "high art" world, but (being outside of that world) I don't buy into it as a good thing.

I thought South Park was harmless and funny in its 200th and 201st episodes, because the poignancy-to-offensiveness ratio was high (they were pretty inoffensive in their treatment of Islam).

What's odd and somewhat inconsistent here is that Islam doesn't forbid only the depiction of Mohammed, but of any of God's creations (defined as the animals including humans). This aversion to depiction isn't rare in human cultures; Renaissance-era Christians considered theatre morally impure and actors were refused Catholic burials at one time.

Yet, as far as I know, few Muslims are offended when non-Muslims create cartoons in general, even though strict Muslims aren't allowed to do so. Yet when Mohammed is involved, it's considered to be on a different level.
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AdMob is still not owned by Google for now.
OP mentions it briefly, it's not clear how much detail was brought out about this. Most people are concentrating on making a "good impression" and won't say something like... I am working on X which I expend to spend 20 hours a week on, what do you think about that?

If it's as implied and they flat lied in the interview then change policy? Step 1 is ignore them, you're not doing anything illegal. Step 2 is find a new job immediately.
Blowhard blogging versus professional writing
The issue being that not all manpages are created equal. Some only document 2% of the program's functionality, others drone on and on about insignificant features, others are just unclear in their wording. It makes it so that people only consult the manpages when they need to.

That said, reading the manpages for something that you use all the time like ssh is a good idea. (Though if you use zsh, I'll take a bit to go through all of the documentation)
That's probably because the blog linked to is mostly just a cut-and-paste from the linked Time article (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458-1,00....). This blog post only quotes a part of page 2 of a five-page article, all of which is worth reading.
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I don't see how this can be true. iPhone far outsells Android, no?
If you are interested in this subject, you might find the following pertinent:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/doc/html/lambda.html

and as someone posted here before:

http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

There's also an interview with a "brief" summary from Scott Meyers at http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2010-04/episode-159-c0x-scot... that mentions lambda functions.
No one's claiming it to be a perfect sample of all traffic on the web, but that doesn't make it worthless. And I really don't think Google is juking the stats.
Strange article.

Totally unsolicited feedback:
It's kind of hard to convey teachable points when the bulk of the article is opinion related to a story about another person but none of the details are shared. I understand wanting to keep it vague to avoid a dustup with the people involved, but it just felt a bit devoid of specifics. If you're going to use an anecdote, either give us the details or just make fictional and do some character development.
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It's a shame I've gotten downvoted here, and you got upvoted as much. I guess hackers like the idea of hacking food too.

Here's the deal, though:

You could conceivably add the right chemicals to a pile of offal cooked in a skin of some kind and it'd taste like a gourmet sausage. You might have in fact eaten such a thing. It's also common to add flavorings such as "grandma's special recipe" or that from a dude in a coat from Kentucky. All these things make us think that something tastes good, which as also commented in this thread translates in your brain to mean: "hey, this is good for you, have more!".

But the reality is, what you're eating is almost certainly mechanically reclaimed meat (where carcasses with so little meat it's almost pointless to continue cutting are put through a machine which crushes, juices, minces and turns out a slushy type 'meat' goo). and MRM is the place where salmonella and other friends live. It's also not really meat: there's plenty of cartilage (aka 'gristle') and such that is cut so small, you actually ingest it. It doesn't cook properly, and it's not really good for you to eat- you just pass it. But if it's carrying salmonella or e-coli... I hope you didn't have something important to do for the next couple weeks.

Also, the nutrition recovery from such a meal is incredibly limited. You feel bright and happy for a short period (the msg et al) and then you have a come down, a craving, and want some more- for that high again. So in fact, what you're eating is a bunch of mind-altering chemicals ontop of a bed of processed waste.

Food shouldn't be like that.

Food should melt in your mouth and be an explosion of flavor and something you genuinely feel excited about. It should be, you have a meal, which provides you with some instant energy, and also some which is "slow-burning". Brown grains (rice, some wheats, etc) are great for this. You will feel full and energised for longer periods.

Cheap base foods are cheap because they are often subsidized (e.g.: corn) or because their most common consumer is the cattle, pigs, chickens etc that you want to eat. This has given a false sense of price - people expect all food to be as cheap. So supermarkets etc will look to find ways to make everything else like it. So you'll see battery farmed chickens, who are so close together they often aren't able to stand up; You'll find chickens who are injected with water to make extra weight. (yeah, that chicken you just bought? probably a pound of it is water. You just paid chicken price for water).

Good food is good because it provides great nutrition, is often respectful of the environment and is sustainable.

Everything else is just yet another sign of man's dominance over everything else.

(BTW, no, i'm not an enviro-hippy, it's just that i refuse to eat crap if i can help it- why put yourself through that kind of thing when there's so much better choice out there?)
They do but nobody wants to memorize everything off some man page. There are thousands and generally, man pages are considered references where you dig up one thing at a time.

Then there are man pages that are actually being studied with great care, such as bash. And even bash man page is notorious for containing an endless amount of information. You can read it several times and still you will bump into a blog post or HN comment that reveals some previously missed (but documented) bash feature.

Telnet conveniently prints "Escape character is ^]" and that's why everybody knows it. I must admit it probably never occurred to me that ssh must have some sort of escaping method as well.

Well, thanks to HN for that link anyway :)
The title (both here and there) is somewhat inaccurate. The cartoonist didn't "launch a day", she made a cartoon of a poster from a fictional organization.

This difference matters. The intention was not to actively motivate people to draw something offensive, but to get people to laugh at a situation that is, from many perspectives, preposterous and therefore funny.

Or, in the style of The Onion: "Area humorist attempts to be funny. Some people don't laugh."
Sales are not the same as usage. Also see this: http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10005344/android-unit-sa...
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Contrast with someone drawing one cartoon and actually being killed, you know, his blood splashed across the ground.

One nutcase's actions should result in offending millions more who express their hurt in their own homes quietly. If a guy killed another for using the n-word, I would not be rooting for a LETS HAVE AN N-WORD DAY and offend millions others who have little to do with that one nutcase. Perhaps you and I are sensitive to different things.

So you're saying that we shouldn't do things if people threaten us?

If a few guys threaten you, do you offend millions others just so you can get back at the few idiots?
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I think it could be argued that for certain classes of good, efficient markets can be a net detriment to all involved. In the case of agriculture, the inefficiency created by government interference and planning helps flatten fluctuations in staple production, meaning that fewer people move into non-potable cash crops and the market as a whole is better served because people don't starve.
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> your mind is stuck in functional-land

Most probably. But there's a reason for that: I don't like mutable state[1]. And I'm not sure you can try to avoid mutable state and still do OO.

[1]: http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/articles/assignment
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This is how Max writes. A short intro followed by a personal anecdote. Which segues into the point(s) he is making and then finished with a conclusion to the anecdote.

I personally quite like it :)
I'm probably nit-picking here, but TouchOSC doesn't generate sound by itself. It is just a controller application that you use to send OSC messages to either a synthesizer or a "real" computer that actually generates the sound.

A question for the iPad musicians: Surely there are pro-audio iPad applications that generate sound, but does the sound have to go through the consumer-grade audio output or can you send it to the DAW via the USB add-on?
The problem with saying organic has no benefit is that i can always say, "DDX", and refute your argument.
Yeah, I figured no one here would like my point of view on this one.
The SSHD - at least OpenSSH's - also kills mute sessions when it notices they have been completely silent for a while.
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A number of problems with that analogy:

1. You can legitimately argue against the KKK as being a dangerous organization with a violent past. Although I'm glad that we have strong free-speech rights in this country that guarantee even their right to assemble, there's a world of difference between a KKK rally and some cartoons, even racist ones.

2. I'm not so sure that "everyone dress up as a Klan member day" would be so unreasonable, if some other group of crazies showed up and started killing people, crazies so crazy that they made the Klan seem sympathetic by comparison. It's hard to envision anyone that much crazier than the Klan, but that's because it's a bad analogy.

I wouldn't normally be in favor of racist cartoons, but if it's between racist cartoonists and nutbags who would actually kill someone over a cartoon, I'm with the cartoonists. Making race jokes is dumb but murdering people is orders of magnitude worse.

"Engag[ing] in speech you despise in order to back the principle that it should be protected" seems like a fairly decent strategy to me, insofar as it demonstrates the fruitlessness of trying to achieve censorship through terror and drives the murderers into more and more indefensible, outrageous positions. It's a dangerous tactic, but quite possibly an effective one. Mockery is a powerful isolating tool.
I think it makes a great title and a fantastic link bait. Nothing wrong with that and a great strategy.
I suggest reading the blog post but here is a direct link to the app as well. Really cool!

http://trst.me/
I probably would support an "everybody use the n-word day", purely as a stance against acting out of fear.

That's cool, we just have a simple disagreement there. I wouldn't want to offend millions in the process of getting back at a fringe group.

Also, don't quote me on this but I think the very first cartoon that triggered all of this was done by a guy specifically to rub it in and cause hurt--and not as an innocent comedic act. I don't think you would start a LETS USE N-WORD DAY if you knew the guy getting the threats was purposely using the n-word to provoke a reaction. Would you?
Well you could :) but I would have no idea what you meant (a quick google didn't turn anything up).

I assume your talking about some sort of chemical? Which is why I made a point of mentioning the idea of ethical farming.

It's not that Organic farming has no benefit - but there isn't much extra benefit compared to properly farmed non-organic food (my extended family runs an organic farm so this is based on experience/observation).

The major problem with Organic food is it is uneconomical due to more labour intensive methods, higher product failure rates, too small scale etc.

As I mentioned; there is sure to be a compromise somewhere in the middle that has economical but safe farming :)
First off, I think if you're not getting it, then that's OK and you shouldn't worry too much. I made a similar few attempts to love Linux, but while I could get along OK, I never came to feel at home there.

A lot of it is, I think, personal preference. Part of what I like about OSX is just the general logic by which everything hangs together-- but I wouldn't try to convince somebody who likes the way Windows is set up that they're "wrong."

That said, here are a number of specific things I like about OSX.

As a developer, I really like the integration between the command line and the GUI. Examples: (1) Command "open <thing>" equivalent to double-clicking <thing>. (2) Commands pbcopy and pbpaste move information to and from system-wide pasteboard. (3) Drag-and-drop an icon onto the Terminal window fills in its path. (4) Standard copy and paste keyboard commands work in Terminal.

As a person who just has to use a lot of software, I like a number of other things. The wide standardization of key bindings across apps means very short learning curve to get competent, and no mental remapping when jumping between apps.

Furthermore, I'm required to run MS Office for work, and I like the fact that it's no more painful than on a PC.

I guess overall, I would say that OSX gives me the feeling of control that Linux promises, without the feeling of needing to become an expert in everything that Linux often imposed on me.
The gap in usability between Android devices and the iPhone is pretty small. With Sense from HTC, it's even smaller. I've been lucky enough to get to test-drive the HTC Incredible and it's most certainly on par with anything the iPhone currently offers. Google is pushing Android in the right direction at a really fast clip.

I absolutely think Android will dominate in terms of market-share in the next two years (unless Apple starts loosening control over the iPhone). I think that issues like how applications are distributed and those particulars over multi-tasking (Android still has an entire class of Apps that won't run on iPhone OS 4.0) are going to continue to play a big role in the competitive environment for years to come. I just don't see Apple coming off of it's hard line position on these things.

In the end I think Android wins because it simply opens the door for more innovation from a much larger group of smart people. It enables broader categories of application development. At the same time the shotgun strategy phone development is a proven one. Just look at Series 60 or even windows PC's for a roadmap.
I never put that together until just now.
yeah such is life. it happens.
And I have never met a regular employee who honestly worked more than 50/hrs a week

The statistics include all the dirty, dangerous and manual jobs. The ones that are done predominantly by men and that campaigners forget about when they demand equality.
Sure. I was commenting more to the between-the-lines idea that he'd make a comparison between a tablet touch screen and a miniature laptop. It's a bit of an apples-and-oranges comparison.

He also complains about sd/usb/keyboard/password as if they are unsolvable failings of apple. I think he seems to miss the point of Apple's approach to life- the 80/20 rule. Not to mention that _everything_ he complained about is solved already.

In other words: Winer has a widely read website in which he has used it as a pulpit to rant about the iPad without doing any research. In other places, he calls himself a journalist- and I feel offended that he'd do that and show such shoddy examples of the trade. :(
Hijab may be be a requirement, but hijab doesn't necessarily = head scarves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab
Intentionally offending anyone tastes bad to me, but a free society deliberately makes room for bad taste.

Freedom of speech isn't for tasteful, inoffensive, popular speech as that doesn't need any protection. Freedom of speech is there for the unpopular, offensive, tasteless, vile, and controversial because sometimes what needs to be said may be interpreted or portrayed as any of those things.
That certainly makes one of us. I find these trollish posts annoying. I wish he'd cut 60% of the article and just make solid points, after the 15th extremely unlikely personal anecdote I figure they're all spun out of whole cloth.
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Ask Apple, but probably because the iPhone doesn't have a user exposed file system.
I'm not so sure about actively trying to offend a group of people so flagrantly. I wonder how Ms Norris would react to "Everyone draw a bitch getting slapped" Day or "Everyone illustrate a sexist joke" Day.

I'm not Muslim and am not offended by depictions of Mohammed. I have no problem with political commentary through mediums like cartoons, but this "Everybody Draw" day seems childish and rude. It offends some people, have some respect.
Is it just me or has HN gotten really cynical today?
That is a fair point. I am not brave or sure enough to post my rebuttal, so I accept your argument that, in the case of solitary nutcases, or a few idiots, it is not right to offend the majority.
I think calling it trollish is disingenuous. Certainly the post and title are written to attract an audience; but it has value and is a fun read. Better than some of the crap that gets posted ;)
Be careful if you're a couple sessions deep.

The proper way to kill a session if you're connecting from one server to another is ~~. (two tildes). Otherwise you'll kill your first session and lose access to the other session you connected to from it.

Also, as others have mentioned, <ENTER> first just to make sure you're on a new line.
Is it just me or has HN gotten really cynical today?

That murder story was just awful. Who would want to read that at the start of their day?
From the article:

"I hear Asus is coming out with an Android netbook-style tablet in June. Sign me up. I bet it's a nice computer. Android of course is just as immature as the iPad."

If Android is just as immature as the iPad, then why does he "bet it's a nice computer"?
Which "people", exactly? "Muslims"?
There's a whole bunch of other characters you can call prefixed with the Tilde (~) as well. My favorite is often ~^Z (That's tilde+Control-Z), which puts the SSH session in the background and drops you back to the host machine. You can hit ~? for a list. One other very, very useful one is ~#, which lists all forwarded connections - if you've setup X11 Forwarding or any port forwarding it lists the details for you.

Of course - if you're multihopping this all works as well. You'll need to add a ~ for each machine in the loop though.

E.g. if I hop from workstation -> server1 -> server 2... ~^Z drops me to workstation shell. ~~^Z drops me to server 1 shell.
Heh-

I was thinking about math and wrote DDX.

What i meant to write was DDT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

caused some quite awful effects.
Unfortunately this isn't used enough. It is not used by Firefox and Thunderbird. Instead they provide .tar.bz2 files.

I was pleasantly surprised by skype and chrome, who actually provide rpms and debs. Nice!

Open Office gave me a tarball with a myriad of debs. Not the nicest kind of packaging.

Unfortunately the distributions performs their own packaging of a lot of these applications which may give some people the idea that they should use the version packaged by the distribution. The distributions should really stop doing this and refer people to the official packages instead. Otherwise users will be stuck on old versions.

I also don't know how well this kind of delivery mechanism works with automatic updates. Do the external packages get updated in the same way as the packages delivered by the distribution or does anything like Sparkle exist for Linux?
I hear what you are saying, but we can reduce the differences between build systems while still using different targets.

I do a lot of work with OpenEmbedded, every distro image you create is for a different hardware platform, using different libraries, different tools, etc. But it is a unified build system. So I can say use this version of glibc and spit out the files in that folder, and with very minor tweaks I can use a completely different version of glibc and a different file structure for another image. If we had a unified dependency/build system across distros, we could have completely different contents while having relatively straightforward customization because if you knew one system, you'd know them all.
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Writing a thesis proposal is considered to be quite a serious part of any thesis writing. Here you need to invent something absolutely new and besides to add more to already existing knowledge. It may be very complex without using some outside sources for help.
Or use !hn query in duckduckgo.com (uses searchyc.com)
I'll have to agree with this. These always read like they are totally made up but he doesn't want to put effort into making it a good story, so he tries to pass it off as a real story without the details. Sort of like thedailywtf but without being as over-the-top phony. This one was barely readable.
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Nobody's suggesting that Muslims have a right not to be offended. The point is just that deliberately offending a large group of people is usually a dick move.
I stand corrected. Founders at Work, p. 41:

<quote>
The very first thought in my mind was, "I think I signed a document that everything I design belongs to Hewlett-Packard." Even just on my own time, I thought that they deserved it first. And I wanted Hewlett-Packard to build this.
</quote>

Good call.