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This is such a great reply. Thank you, majika.

> What's changed?

Nothing much on the Linux side; Windows has just become better. Windows XP as I remember it was utter shit. Windows 7 is actually pleasant to use. I also got myself a MacBook in 2008, wrote many Cocoa applications, and found that the Mac was a better work machine than my Linux machine. So if someone can't afford a Mac, I tell them to use Windows 7. Otherwise it's time to hit the Apple store :)

> People get comfy in their distributions. When Shuttleworth dictates "design" decisions with the reasoning of "just because," and as a result many people no longer find their distribution of choice comfortable, can you really blame them for being pissed off?

Totally agreed. So can we say that not only does the Linux world lack leadership, the little leadership it does have makes terrible decisions? :p

> Fragmentation is inevitable in free software. People build what they want - you can't stop them, and you don't have to use what they make. The solution is not to provide the "one distribution to bind them all" and somehow dictate that everyone should use it, but to get the different ecosystems and environments following standards. They're doing that pretty well.

Once again you make a very good point. But I'm looking at this issue from a consumer's standpoint. The consumer wants to deal with one entity; he doesn't like fragmentation. In any case, these mostly identical distributions serve no purpose. Most of them have no reason to exist. Personally, when I want to use Linux -- and I do use Linux on servers because that is where it shines -- I default to Debian and pretend that nothing else exists. I'm not good at dealing with choice, and I believe the man on the street is almost as bad as I am.

> It seems you wish for the same universality for Ubuntu as exists for Windows and Mac OS X.

I do. I honestly do. Universality is a good thing. I know a properly written GTK+ app will run identically on every Linux machine out there, but there are still some very tiny incompatibilities, especially w.r.t. packaging and distribution. As an indie developer, I don't want to deal with that stuff. I just want to create a DMG/MSI, ship it and expect it to work for the next 5 years without issues. The universality of Windows and the Mac gurantees that.

Oh, one more thing: Windows and OS X let even bad developers bang out working applications. All their assumptions about their OS, their hardcoded paths, their assumptions about certain libraries existing at certain versions, all their bad code ... it all just works. Small point, but I think it's an important one. All of us were ignorant once :)

I know I'm going to sound like a crazy person here, but I just feel there is something very wrong with fragmentation. I don't know; it's just something I feel. I guess I probably am a crazy person ...

> Linus is (a) busy, and (b) has no clue about usability. He runs Xfce, for heavens' sake :)

Hey, Xfce is pretty damn good :)
Funny how gamification has made everyone forget what "game theory" really means (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory).
Maybe this explains why I was always so confused in school!
Actually they are not answerable to anyone.
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Agreed 100% with Rachel's comment above. Also, what makes you think Groupon would even accept you? Top tier deal sites (LivingSocial, Groupon) expect established or reputable businesses. You're too new and unproven to make the cut. You also sound naive in general.

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It seems to me like a really fantastic idea, but for some reason it has never happened. I've seen a few 'startup'/webapp projects that attempt this kind of idea, but none of them ever seem to gain enough traction. My theory is that it's some combination of funding cycles and the personalities of scientists.
(note: I don't mean to be rude, but this comment has barely been up for 1 minute and I'm already being down-voted. Surely no one can read something this long this fast and down-vote even faster. I've tried to write a reasoned critique of the phenomena before me. It's not a political comment, but a logical one.)

Any constitution is a fine balance of power, a body like this which concentrates power outside of the constitution without carefully thought out checks and balances can be used to deliver the coup de grace to democracy. After all who guards the guards?

This will be extremely unpopular over here, but the citizens of any nation are responsible for corruption. Their leaders aren't alien beings who have descended from planet Z to rule upon their country. They were and are chosen from amongst them, and in a representative democracy it is they who choose them. You might argue that the vote itself is an ineffective tool, and you will be right, but it does offer us the opportunity to ruthlessly edit people from power. At the end it is the culture of a country that shapes a leader to a great deal. They are simply mirrors of society, but we seem to run away from that fact.

The same goes for bureaucrats and any other malaise that plagues society. They are from amongst us, and although the blame may be greater on some shoulders, it is borne by all of us.

The inherent assumption is that the people in this organization will be somehow pure, sans biases, and without malice. It makes me doubt this because human nature being human nature, sooner or later someone creative is going to come along and will convince people to side with him/her and play this unbalanced system to achieve control. It's not a matter of if, but when.

Of course, I might be wrong and this bill might be a carefully calculated with the calculus of power to be perfectly neutral, but I somehow doubt that given the sheer PR and the herd mentality that seems to surround this. For example the man portrayed as a Gandhian whipped drunks in his home town in the name of "social progress", how is that behavior Gandhian? (I'm not questioning if the behavior is right or wrong, I'm simply asking how can someone who whips people be called the modern Gandhi?)

I think that something rather interesting is going on over here, and that the true nature of this bill and the organization it will create will be apparent as time passes on.

I honestly hope that it's genuine, and it won't lead to a calculated attempt to gain power, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Does this mean that Samsumg is moving away from Android?
I would recommend reviewing the other JVM languages - Clojure, Groovy, and Scala are the ones I can think of - before doing interop.

I think you'd be pleasantly surprised.
That is some mighty small font and large margins. I wish people would make their text a bit easier on the eyes.
"Software is draining talent needed in other areas of science and engineering" is begging the question. No matter what pretty lies we tell ourselves about needing those other engineering projects, if they can't afford to bid for the talent, we haven't bothered to allocate the resources that would enable them to succeed. I would never advise those students to take the penalties for diverging so far from what society actually wants from them, whatever I think of social mobile gamification of cat pictures.
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>Also, when I run into a hitch during development, Google takes my operating system into account. Googling answers to development questions provides me much more relevant results on Ubuntu than it ever did on the Mac.

This isn't said enough. Type a coding question into google and 9 out of 10 hits seem to be good tutorials involving the linux terminal.
Sorry downvoted you by mistake. I also wonder which of their handsets run Nada?
mvn clean install

What's so difficult?
I'm still waiting for my TP to be shipped. Can you update to the latest 3.0.2 and overclock to 1.5Ghz or 1.7Ghz and re-run the benchmark? That seems to be the norm from what I read in forums these days. Would like to know how TP perform in that setting.
I am a circuit designer and SEM cross-sections are quite commonly used by transistor device designers during design and debug. They also appear in papers about transistor device design. A relevant conference is International Electron Devices Meeting and the related journal paper is IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. Unfortunately, most of those papers are behind the IEEE paywall.

Chipworks is a company that reverse engineers chips for analysis by competitors. Their websites has lots of cool SEM cross-sections: http://www.google.com/search?cx=w&q=chipworks+SEM&tb...

Even though I design circuits using these devices, I still find the SEMs mindblowing.
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Is the 50-50 revenue share for all revenue or only for Android?
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Do you have any automation test? How's the testing and build infrastructure in both Android and iPhone/iPad?

Would love to be able to automate the build/test/deploy using some sort of continuous integration or something.
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I find such voyeurism deeply distasteful, and personally, I really don't think it belongs on HN.

Car-crash "journalism" at its absolute worst. Please consider deleting it.

With invasions of privacy like this I seriously hope I never, ever become famous.
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I believe the blog post isn't really about a temporary solution, it's about what happens when Jobs can't (or won't) fulfill the role of product scrapper:

"But it’s about fulfilling Jobs’ dreams, not forging new ones. He [Cook] can continue to run the company while Jobs is away because he’s continuing to ensure the execution of designs that Jobs has already approved. But Apple can’t run indefinitely on old plans. The only reason it works for Cook to be in charge while Steve is away is because Steve is still around, doing ruthless critiques of yet-to-be-invented products from his sickbed."
This person doesn't know wtf he's talking about.
good point, my startup is first to market, and do we still need validation ;)
Ask HN: Is there a way to make Google web search work like it used to?
Hi HN community.

I, the same, as pretty much everyone, used to very much enjoy Google's way of doing web search. With that I mean the old way of only listing results that contained all the words one had searched for. This started changing a couple of years ago, and has made my work as a Sysadmin harder when searching for error messages (you can sometimes get around this by using quotes or adding plus signs before each word, but not always).

For an example of this sad, sad behaviour I challenge you to do a web search for "linux notebook basketball", visit the first result and find the word 'notebook' anywhere in the page.

So: do you know of a way to make Google default to the older and in my opinion saner behaviour? Alternatively: is there a better option available for the times when you really do know what you want to search for?

Thank you for your time.
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I'm sure somewhere RMS is saying "I told you so."
This is a duplicate submission. I can't find the other one so I suspect it was flagged. Someone posted in it a link indicating this is a faked pic anyway.

Edit: However, I did find (via google) the link that was submitted indicating it was faked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=...
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Since Standing Committee is not autonomous and since there's a strong political opportunism in giving support to this ombudsman bill, it'll most likely be passed without much difficulty.
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So as long as it remains totally independent (most likely) it'll be lethal against corruption.

But what if someone tries to corrupt them? What makes them immune from corruption?
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The first result I got was this:

http://linuxonnotebooks.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/basketball-...

That has all three words quite prominently placed.

You can always try DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/
To solve difficult problems like this, we really need to game problems to get more people involved. To get a man on the moon, for example, it took almost a decade, billions of dollars, and 300,000 Americans working on it. The problem he wants to solve is even more difficult.
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It's a thread about how Apple works. All kinds of opinions and punditry will come out. Debating the flaws in those ideas is a good way for those new to running tech businesses to learn. Seeing all the downvotes for having a controversial opinion is a bit sad really.
The previous submission got deleted, I think by the submitter rather than flagged dead.

I hope this submitter shows the same taste.
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Glad to see Nancy is getting some publicity. I just found out about it yesterday on Scott Hanselman's blog. http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=290

There seems to be a growing movement with OWIN, Knack, Nancy and other like projects. The .NET community is tired of sitting by as the OSS community is leaving them in the dust with cool tools and frameworks like Rack, Sinatra, Gems, Bundler, Django, Pylon and Node.js that are simpler and faster to develop with. They're tired of waiting for a new version of Visual Studio just to use a new tech. They're tired of waiting for MS to "bless" new technology. Nancy and other ALT.NET projects are trying to free and grow the C# community independent of MS and the enterprise developers making boring CRUD apps.

.NET needs something like this. C# has transformed into a wonderful and enjoyable language in 4.0, but the rest of the .NET Framework is still stuck in over-engineered enterprise-heavy wannabe Java C# 1.0 land. ASP.NET MVC is a good beginning, but this style of thinking really needs to be more pervasive in the rest of the framework.
Bada is more for lower end smart feature phones. As the lowest of the low end market gets more capability, you need an OS that's lighter than Android but better than the Java ME junk from 5 years ago. Thus, Bada. It's an OS for smarter dumb phones.
Coming from C++ originally, I actually like header files for code organization, but that is mainly on smaller projects. Once you get to anything substantial I feel like they make life very difficult. Sometimes I feel like you end up literally coding around them just to allow for a circular reference between 2 classes. Its not the end of the world or anything of course but I can see why the world at large has moved away from them. I remember the first time I tried C# and saw the single .cs file per class and module/assembly level includes (via references) rather than header-level includes, it was like a revelation, and life felt so much simpler after!
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I don't think you can change the default, but you can use + to force the word to be present in the result pages: +linux +notebook +basketball
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"The Sun one is just a bit faster and more polished."

And that is why it is the preferred one! For enterprise stuff you have to have the "more polished" one.
How R competes with other data mining environments:

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2011/08/poll-languages-for-data-min...
Are you sure they're not asking for the phone number of the party responsible for the account as a means of locating your account?
You must be careful, however, because not every Java
platform is free. Sun continues distributing an executable
Java platform which is nonfree, and other companies do so
too.

The free environment for Java is called IcedTea; the
source code Sun freed is included in that. So that is the
one you should use. Many GNU/Linux distributions come with
IcedTea, but some include nonfree Java platforms.

To reliably ensure your Java programs run fine in a free
environment, you need to develop them using IcedTea.
Theoretically the Java platforms should be compatible, but
they are not compatible 100 percent.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
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So you advocate genetically modified human beings to be created without the corruption gene to run an anti-corruption institution?

Get off the high horses. It's all run by the people after all - you just hope to create a good balance of power and try to put better, educated people in places of power. There is no magic wand to suddenly rid of all malaise for you while you sit still and criticize. That's what the bill is trying to do.
This is 2.0 and Bada's been around a couple years already. For now, it's more low end than Android, but Samsung's reach is huge these days and I'm sure they privately see it as a nice contingency plan and bargaining chip to balance against Android, as the technologies and business relationships evolve.

I doubt Google will try to take things more vertical with Motorola, but it's one possible scenario where Samsung will be pleased to have a headstart should they need to put another OS on their leading devices.
Depends on what you are doing of course. But having an impedance mismatch between the language and the problem domain can make simple problems extraordinarily complex.
There are checks and balances. The Lokpal will be supervised by the cabinet secretary and the election commission. Also, any case against a curropt Lokpal chairperson can be bought in court - and can be removed if found guilty. Its only independent of the government - who its supposed to keep a check on.

The Lokpal bill was initially introduced in the Indian parliament in 1968. 43 years ago. Many attempts were made to make it into a law - always unsuccessfully. Until Anna Hazare whipped the people into a frenzy, went on a fast and essentially blackmailed the parliament. That is why he is called a modern day Gandhi. He successfully used Gandhian techniques to achieve an impossible feat. Not because of some checkered instance from his past.

(Also, Gandhi recruited Indians to become soldiers during WW1 and fight for the British - going against his doctrine of non violence. No one is pure and nothing is black and white.)
Not true. They are answerable to the cabinet secretary and the election commission.
As pointed out in the slashdot comments for the same article, this article has not been peer reviewed, "(Submitted on 21 Aug 2011)", so any conclusiveness implied by the headline is false / misleading.
It would be much better if you were launched and had even a tiny seed of traction, but either way you should just put together a brief plan and contact the guy.
Totally agree. It seems like a media driven phenomenon. Incompetence is a bigger problem than corruption in India. The systemic problems that face the society need ambition, will and technology. This solution is too simplistic for me to be taken seriously.
They can be corrupt, but then according to the proposed law every citizen will have a right to go to Supreme Court against the LokPal. This will surely be a deterrent.
Bad example then, Google shows me this as the first result:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=933508

DuckDuckGo is nice but not for this. The same keywords yield a first result which includes 'notebook' and 'linux' but not 'basketball'.
We had a landline at first, mostly for emergency. That cost us about $13-15 a month with fees and taxes. And all we got from it was unwanted sales calls and debt collectors who were looking for someone who had that number before.

For people who don't have children (and even then…) and have a cell phone, I don't really see a good reason to still have a landline at this point.

I know that in France, for example, having a landline doesn't really cost you anything more than having the Internet, so most people have one. But $13 a month for nothing helps cutting that cord.
Clock speed was king then. I'm sure everyone remembers when they stalled out ramping up the clock speed around 3.4-3.6GHZ and then it's pretty much been "back to the drawing board" ever since.
Oh interesting, I thought it was our own creation. I wonder if Japan/SK had the same arguments about it as we are now before it became ubiquitous.
Ahh, OODA. That kept me on top in 2 vs 1 games of AOE2 against my colleagues for a long time. They started beating me when they got better and I just couldn't think fast enough anymore.

For anyone in any kind of competition I would highly recommend checking out the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
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Right, it's a double-edged sword. 'Premium' customers find coupons unseemly and wonder why a good business needs to offer coupons (I have this knee-jerk reaction myself, as I didn't grow up in the US perhaps). On the other hand, groupon offers a level of exposure that may be compelling. I think that the yoga studio owner has come to the right conclusion to her - grow her business organically based on quality.
Yes, I'm aware and that's the problem: I have to be aware of this sort of thing even for consumer software. Contrast Windows: I download, double click and it goes. No knowledge needed.
Whether you buy phone from them or not, you still have a phone number associated with your account (cell phone etc), just a way to look up your record.
I've written Bada apps (CTO at a startup that's done quite a few of them), but personally can't compare directly to Android/iOS as I've not worked with those.

The toolkit is generally rough and you'll have to re-invent the wheel many times. You'll thank yourself for using a cross platform tool for anything but the most basic apps. One of our best selling apps on the Bada platform was made using FlashLite, and for games we've been using the Marmalade SDK (formerly Airplay, http://www.madewithmarmalade.com/)
The Wave I and Wave II are their most prominent offerings. They're pretty good on the hardware front. Personally I'd buy them without a thought if they ran Android.