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I've been using a Linux as my desktop for around a decade. It's great for programming/programmers and sysadmin types. It runs the apps I need: perl, sh, apache, php, vim, and stuff from the various software repositories.

When I need to interact with data from coworkers at my non-techie organization, I use Windows. Why? Because the people there barely know how to use MS Office, much less something more complex. We use Linux on servers, but not desktops. Not yet at least.

When we need to deal with video, we send it out. We can do some in-house, but it's time consuming and kind of expensive. We use Sony Vegas on Windows (which is fine), but the real pros use Macs. So we have some Mac drives around.

The same goes for printing jobs. We do most of the in-house stuff in Office, and I've been pushing Publisher (which is a POS, but is available). For dealing with the outside world, though, I need to use Adobe Illustrator, because that's the standard. (At home I use Inkscape.) At the printers, they use Macs and PCs, but do most of the real work on Macs. The UI is just better.

The next platform is going to be the iPad. It's kind of a POS for non-managerial work, but some people just use email and don't really do computer-based work. They're already using phones, or just don't do the computer thing too much.

The Linux desktop is not going to displace Windows. Windows' edge is not the OS but the ISV (independent software vendor) environment. It's the most mature low-end ISV market. The Mac's was decimated with the demise of the old OS, and they're trying to rebuild it, but it's not doing well. The iTunes app store is potentially a challenger. The Android market is not a challenger. Linux's exists only for upper-end enterprise software.

Linux could displace Windows is by having a single dominant platform, and having an app store for it that is successful enough to fund a software ecosystem and pay the programmers. Then, people would choose Linux based on the apps.

At least that's the business model that worked for the Apple II / Visicalc, the IBM PC / Lotus 123 / dBaseII, the Mac / Aldus Pagemaker, Sun / SunOS and later Java, and Linux as a datacenter node.
Because they chopped the amount of cores in half and neutered the speed, it is not a top of the line CPU, even if it is called an i7.

That being said, in my opinion no other ultra-portable comes close to the Macbook Air. If I could justify having two laptops I would be ordering one right now instead of typing this.
You are not thinking of the harmful effects of copyright. The mechanism of copyright, by definition, is to restrict the flow of information. This is exactly what you do not want in an information economy.

First, because the cost of that restriction is effectively magnified. When information was in paper books, it was difficult to copy. Copyright restricted copies, but since people could not make copies it did not make much difference. But now information is digital the cost of copying is practically zero. That means the restrictions of copyright stops people realising a large benefit that would otherwise be available.

Second, the most vital ingredient in production of new information seems most likely not extra monetary incentive, but other information. And the fact that information is infinitely copyable amplifies its value. A single amount of money can pay for only one piece of information production. But a single amount of information can contribute, through copies, to an unlimited number of pieces of information production.

This is the funny thing. Copyright really only works with products that are substantially non-abstract, non-informational. When you have an economy that really is all informational, copyright does not actually make sense: its intrinsic contradiction just becomes too self-destructive.
Interesting, though 'moving groundwater' is a much better description than 'river'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14693637
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I loved that post -- it is exactly how I see my job. But the first point is actually to define & tell the story. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/what-a-ceo-does.html

I'll add that it helps to have personal experience in every role in the company before you become a CEO. I don't think it's necessarily a requirement, but it sure helps.
"ruthless tastemaker" either has to be the CEO or be someone with 100% unequivocal support of the CEO even in the face of unpopular decisions, which is such a rare situation that practically speaking, it kinda does have to be the CEO.
Yes. I do everything in Keynote. Then I'll pick up the colors I need and start coding the CSS part. And when I need some photo editing, I use GIMP.

Usually the mockups are better than the final product, because in Keynote
1. you can align everything so damn good
2. the font rendering looks awesome
R is a pretty terrible language for many reasons, and it always surprises me when it rises to the top on HN.

But in terms of code quality within R itself, I was surprised to find that a number of its .c files are actually machine-translated Fortran, so I'm guessing the author's statistics are not far off.

I discovered this when I decided to confirm my suspicions that my (the?) most frequently used function, t(), which computes the transpose of the matrix, was implemented about as naively as possible. If R developers were really concerned with speed, this is probably the first place to start optimizing.
What part of the linked article defends piracy?
These are the questions I always ask myself when we get acquisition offers:

Do I want to take over the world? If yes, is my company the right one to do so?

Not wanting to take over the world is perfectly fine; you just need to answer these questions with absolute honesty. The worst thing you could do is hang on to a company that has little or no future.

Hope this helps; good luck!
Is there a store in Europe with this cheap touchpads?
The motion gravity causes is explainable by the warping of 3D space that it causes. The real mystery to me is WHY matter warps space. It follows logically that if a lot of matter in 1 place warps space a lot, a little matter somewhere else warps space a little. So, at some very elemental level whats going on in an atom warps our universe.
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Would you hire someone like this?
I love Pencil for Firefox. It's seriously underrated: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pencil/
Programming is art. And artist usually don't get paid too well. Artists either have to be entrepreneurial or very good at their craft in order to get rich.

Like most arts, programming can be learnt by yourself without any teacher, but there are also schools, universities and books for it, if you want to know more about the background and history.
When your business outgrow "garage" level it's simply starts to generate MORE and INTERESTING questions than what you could work out yourself, so you just make the decision(give to others) and enjoy the feedback from the results..

It's not that you don't like to code, you just enjoy to be connected and entertained by more stuff.

Of course a great counter example is John Carmack - in there I think he is far more interested in the exact technical details than your average entrepreneur - btw he was never an entrepreneur, he is a "pure" engineer with obsession to optimize(and many other sides of course).
Have you seen this or not ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHcKlIsvAQ

It is not adding another layer, it is refactoring the system based on good evidence that this has worked before.

People talking about real cause and root cause are welcome to start a movement to solve that. When you are able to convince a few friends and gather a few followers, please let us know.
in order of preference:
1. pen + paper
2. html + css
3. omnigraffle
4. photoshop
Mockingbird - https://gomockingbird.com/

Maybe it's just because I love web apps done with Cappuccino.
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How about educating these corporations about changing business models to suit changed circumstances?

The economic -- i.e. overall -- effects of piracy are quite likely good for the public.
> people so consistently under-count the pain of commuting.

I find this amazing. Commute (unless done on bus, etc) is lost life. Every day, twice a day. Commute is almost top of my list, although it influences choice of job more than choice of home because the former varies more often and is less important than later. > 15min 1way commute is bad. 30min or more is non-starter. I factor in commute time as "time at work" to compare if one job pays more than other.
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"Don't Copy that Floppy" was an utter failure. Many people object to copyright as unethical according to their personal ethics. The behavior of the RIAA & MPAA has not helped them convince anyone, either.
Omnigraffle, Photoshop or paper. Although, seeing the templates created by Amir Khella (keynotopia.com) has made me want to try to use Fireworks a bit more for this.
If you believe in it still, it's great news. A story that may help... I had a very well-funded dot com in the 90's. A guy went around the valley pitching "this is a big idea because [our investors] invested in it." He got funding and his company, Esurance, recently sold for a billion dollars.
Monopoly pricing power. That's what's illegal about it
Second for whiteboards. If I must get it into electronic form either take a picture or inkscape.
I just returned to linux after a ~7 year hiatus and have found it to be a night and day experience. My xp install had gotten so bad that I was forced to escape and decided to try ubuntu on a whim. I'm so glad I did because the OS is really snappy and I'm able to do everything I was doing on xp and I'm not subject to random crashes. The reason I think ubuntu is ready for the masses is because the install process, which is the first obstacle to adoption, is mindblowingly fast and smooth compared to what it was like 7 years ago when I was using debian 2.x. Two major pain points that are now fixed (at least for me):

-The wubi installer lets you effortlessly install a dual boot win xp / ubuntu machine in about 45 minutes. Previously I would have to use QParted or Acronis to carve a new partition and then run a linux installer, which for me wasn't that bad, but would be unseemly for a newbie. With wubi, you set everything up inside of winxp and it reboots your computer, installs the distro, and you instantly have linux on a dual boot. Anyone, no matter how little computer knowledge, can give ubuntu a try because of this.

- Driver support is much better than it was. It used to be a major pain to get important hardware such as wireless and video adapters working. When I installed this time, everything worked out of the box. This is huge for newbs.

After my latest ubuntu install, I'm going to try to fully transition my personal computer to linux. I'm also comfortable recommending it to those less computer savvy than me.
You can download an rpm, so it should just be a matter of conversion. At least the last time I did this, you downloaded a shell script that when you agreed to the license extracted an rpm from itself.

So it should be a little more straightforward. Of course, when yoiu roll your own package, you don't get automatic security updates, so that's still a pain.
Her business aside, anyone who joins an organized religion because it's on sale is probably a moron.
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Does anyone have experience using:

1) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/icalendar/2.2
2) http://codespeak.net/icalendar/
or
similar libs to interact with ics files in Python?
Many people believe that the harm is vastly overstated. Comparison infringement to things that kill people don't help you, even if that wasn't the main point.

We had the Renaissance without copyright laws. There are other ways to help artists, putting an end to Hollywood accounting, for example.
You may not be in a minority. The question is whether having the majority of software engineers learning their profession in a vacuum is best for the profession or not.

Physicians have mentors. Attorneys have mentors. Doctoral students of all stripes have mentors. Why don't software engineers? The notion that software engineers are all supposed to be autodidacts is very odd, I think.
The good thing since then is that industry started focusing on power consuption. Maybe the "mobile revolution" wouldn't take place if they kept running for clock improvements at each and every project.
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Can you go into more detail? I've been toying with learning R for ad-hoc analysis but if there is a better alternative worth learning I'd love to hear about it.
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Hmm, first I find that I'm being silently censored.

Then you remove the ability for me to comment on the story I posted under a new account to talk about this (why not just kill it? because 12 people had upvoted it?).

WTF. I don't wish to deal with your juvenile drama anymore. I will not be participating on this site any further as a logged-in user.

This story too will probably be silently killed. Whatever.
Okay! I think you understood my point. I was proposing a problem which comes with an huge opportunity like you mentioned which is yet to be solved.

1)Imagine you can use your personal computer from your "Work computer". I am speaking about the exact same feeling but i don't have any kind-of UX mapped out.I do think we would need a total UI revolution for any kind of this thing to work.

2)I am aware of some of the challenges involved and I don't think Broadband will be an issue in the coming years even in thirdworld countries.
> Since the tax-deductible nature of mortgages also applies to your landlord

Not usually true. Investment properties are not subject to mortgage interest tax deductions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deductio...
Userspace can not echo a password too, its not exactly difficult. And do we really need the job control model as is? If you started from scratch would you design it anything like this at all? And signals, it is all the least successful parts of the unix design...
it could as well be that free software devs would have less motivation to improve the free stuff, since there is no competition.

(In general, I don't think it has a big impact in either direction)
The mechanism of copyright, by definition, is to restrict the flow of information. This is exactly what you do not want in an information economy.

Where do you propose that money changes hands in an information-based economy where information is freely copied?
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To be fair, infrastructure could be paid for entirely by use taxes and not by general taxation.

Water, electricity, and gas infrastructure can be paid for by taxes on those services, and people who don't want them can not purchase water, electricity, or gas from the "grid". Roads can be paid for with gas taxes, and that way are paid for proportionally by those who use them.

And to add to the GP's post, government can choose to seize your land at any time using eminent domain laws are are more and more abused every day. So, whether or not you agree with Libertarianism, I do think he has a point that there are a lot of similarities between buying and renting that a lot of people maybe don't realize.

I think that the choice of paying property tax and living on an island is a false dichotomy. We could theoretically live in a society without paying property tax, where the government can't seize your land.
If writing words by hand is too slow for your mind, you're not thinking hard enough. The speed of touch-typing approaches the speed of cognition, but deep analytical and creative thought is much slower than even the slowest forms of committing information to a medium (eg. engraving a stone tablet).
Re:alignment, a CSS grid system can help!
I like balsamiq specifically because it is rough. That eliminates a lot of the wasted time arguing about pixels.
I'll second this. I've been a paid user for years now.
Our main competitor started working on their product about at the same time as us. They raised about 4x as much as we did (basically a series A) and have 4x bigger team as well. They waited to launch. We launched earlier and with a far less polished product.

There's something different happening though, and it primarily has to do with execution. We do crazy shit to get traction, because we're scrappy as hell and aren't going down without a firefight. We're extremely lean and we all code, whereas their organization is far more bloated. The numbers belie the actual fairness of the fight. And moreover, we don't currently need a massive amount of money. Our burn rate is fairly low.

Here are a few things I've learned:

1. More bodies isn't better. More money isn't always better. Traction and happy customers should be your key metrics.

2. You can always raise money later at a great valuation using the argument "Hey, these guys raised money from X VCs and are blowing up."

3. You need to launch. Stop waiting.

4. In the big picture, everything here doesn't matter. Both us and our competitors are going up against a bunch of old-guard corporations who are the current incumbents. It doesn't matter if we have similar products if our overall market share is .001%-- the other 99% is the true competition.
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The flaw in your argument is the failure to consider the possibility that many works would not be available in the first place without copyright.

edit: what is up with all the idiotic downvotes in this thread? You are NOT supposed to downvote just because you disagree with an opinion.
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Books are books. Electronic texts, and anything else on an iPad is not a book.

At most it could be said tablets are changing how people consume textual information. But same can be said for everything from papyrus, woodblock print, Gutenberg press, computers, Internet, etc.

Hyberbolic titles to drive traffic to your shitty site suck.
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I agree on this point, but I think the overall argument -- that Apple will have a very hard time growing 30% a year in 2-3 years -- is pretty solid.
For those of us who are not aware of lokpal or what the bill contains to reduce corruption in India, can someone provide a brief summary?
Many people believe that the harm is vastly overstated.

I agree that, specifically, music and movie estimates are ridiculously overstated. However, we have no means of measuring the total, fundamental economic losses due to a culture which no longer values intangible things.

Assuming you're a software engineer, do you want to proceed into a world where people shell out thousands of dollars for an iPhone, but scoff at paying $1 for software you've worked hard on? Current (and presumably future) attitudes toward (intangible) IP are dangerous to the economy we're developing.

Comparison infringement to things that kill people don't help you, even if that wasn't the main point.

Okay, substitute something non-lethal. People send their kids to school even when the kids are sick. This is bad for everyone. Do we just accept it, or do we remind people to keep their kids at home when they're sick? If you want more analogies, I'm sure I can come up with them, but I would prefer to simply have the question answered with regards to giving up on IP enforcement.
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3. Really?
I had imagined that the power consumption would be negligible and given (2) the main benefit sounds as if it should be many orders of magnitude better in terms of access time and perhaps bandwidth as well (if that is a priority).

If low power is extremely critical that might explain it but why would it be for a prototype that, I guess, will only be used in labs anyway?

Or am I completely off base?

Ok, missed it at first (from the article): "Their Watson supercomputer, for example, which was victoriuous over human competitors on the American quiz show Jeopardy! (see [...]), currently requires a room full of power-hungry processors. Manohar hopes that low-power cognitive chips could do the job just as well."

Of course "low-power" is a bit vague (especially when comparing to a supercomputer).
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Hmm, first I find that I'm being silently censored.

Then you remove the ability for me to comment on the story I posted under a new account to talk about this. And it also appears that you hid that story from the rest of the community after it received 12 votes and 7 comments. And you made sure that all future posts from that account are also auto-hidden.

WTF. I don't wish to deal with this juvenile drama anymore. I will not be participating on this site any further as a logged-in user.

This story too will probably be silently killed soon (or maybe my IP itself has already been selected for auto-hide). Whatever.
The only reason why I have a landline (I'm 33) is because I have kids. In an emergency, the last thing you need to worry about is whether or not you can get a cell signal at home.

That being said, we just moved and my wife just reminded me that neither of us actually know what the new number is - we've lived here for almost a month. So, we still rely on our cell phones.
The failure of one program doesn't invalidate an entire concept. Just because the Space Shuttle wasn't cost effective doesn't mean we should give up on space exploration.

Regarding people's objection to copyright, I see that largely as a circular argument. We're heading into an information-based economy with a population that doesn't seem to value intellectual property. If they can't hold it in their hand, they don't see why it's worth anything. As a software engineer, this really worries me.
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You would pay not for copying but for creation. A software developer would be paid for solving new problems or customizing known solutions to them. Pretending to "sell" shrinkwrapped information is stupid nonsense.
> There are products - like google search - that can be successfully managed as a trade secret. Search is a server side functionality and it can be closely held so in that case and others like it, it works.

Google Search is product that falls into the "can't be pirated" category that I previously mentioned.
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the only reason this OS exists is so microsoft can drive samsung's search - Bada Bing!
People also forge the Quit India movement which was Gandhi's proposal of getting the British out by any means possible: including violence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement
I think you can simplify science to this: observe, theorize. Repeat these two steps over and over again, refining your theory (or improving your statistical bounds) based on observations.

Note that there is no "end" state. Theories get better, but they don't get perfect.
It's not my site. I found the article interesting.
Perhaps the value of information to people at large (rather than specific individuals or groups of individuals) is not increased by its scarcity.

I'd argue that if you can't copy and reuse information, it's even more worthless than a piece of garbage.

As a human being living on this planet, it really worries me that some people feel that their privilege to make a buck from some information is valued more than the ability for mankind to use that information to make progress.

You don't own information. It just happens to be passing through your head on its way to someone else's (if it's worth anything - if it stops at you, it's worthless).

Edit: for the record, I don't think you should be downvoted for your opinion, however much I might disagree with it, and I upvoted you.