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I find it's generally related to how much stock they own in the most successful tech company in the world.
My parents (mid 50's non-techies) run Ubuntu and love it. I installed it at first, but they've been able to do the rest. Including installing the updates, new printers, Chrome and similar things. I don't see how they can be that much of an exception to the average Joe. Just an anacdote...
When you write things down for GTD it shouldn't be done to help you make complex and preferredly rational decisions. It is done to help you remember, to relieve your mind from having to remember. Writing a task down is different from writing your reasoning for a decision down.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm referring to. I'm specifically referring to rolling-release distros, of which LMDE is one. It's based on Debian-testing.

Regular Mint is indeed a milestone-based distro built on Ubuntu. But LMDE is a rolling-release based on Debian-testing, with no relation to Ubuntu. That's specifically what I'm referring to.

There are certainly other stable rolling-releases out there, but I think everyone can agree that a distro like Arch is about a lightyear away from being Grandma-friendly (which Ubuntu more or less aims to be).
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Isn't this the very kind of thinking - thinking that houses are investments and surely the prices will go up - that caused the housing bubble?
Agreed. And even further, Jony's ability to deliver a keynote tastefully does not indicate to me that he shares Job's talent for vision and taste.
He's saying that half a million is too much for a merely 'nice' home.

But this is just a linguistic conceit on the part of home buyers.

There are mansions (homes that you can't afford), nice homes (homes that you can afford, and are in good condition/areas), and there are slums (homes you can afford, and in bad conditions/areas).

No one wants to live in a slum. No one can afford a mansion. So a 'nice' home is the only realistic choice.
Best translation I can think of: "ha ha only serious"

He is using it as the word that the Laughing Out Loud initialism became, which has slightly different usage and meaning. (e.g. in the common phrase "I did it for the lulz.")
Apparently none: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/86562/what-is-missing-in-...
If the shares don't change in value, that will be an approximately $67M tax bill (vs $28M if it were taxed at 15%). A good problem to have I suppose.
Your "system as a whole" is the linux TTY... so exactly not the system as a whole. Furthermore, Alan Cox stepping down 2 years ago does not mean the linux tty system is unmaintained. It is in fact.

The reasons ttys and ptys are in kernel space are numerous. As one example, it needs to be there because different line disciplines are necessary and relying on a userspace program to implement them will not do. Ever notice how su/sudo/passwd/etc don't echo your password? Yeah, that sort of important. Furthermore, ttys in modern systems are tied to job control rather deeply. Implementing correct signal sending, sessions with controlling terminals, forground/background processes, etc in userspace? Have fun.

I could write a book on this subject, but this is easier: "Write a fully functional pty in userspace. If you ever manage to get that far, then compare your work with traditional implementations and defend it."

PS: ptys are not "emulating" anything in any meaningful sense of the word.
You might not have had to, I did. Also, the gmane link was clearer - both in that this was just a Usenet post, and which group it was.
He's got another novel that deals with a unique world - Matter (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Matter_%28nov...) takes place on/in a shellworld.
You won't get far with a mediocre product, so you have to be able to do at least one of them very well. That said, a second project can be a break from the first one. Don't let doing both distract you from doing either one well enough to succeed.
I find the UX in Ubuntu much better than Windows and OSX ( haven't tried Ubuntu 11) mainly because of how fast and instantaneous everything is. Every time I try a Windows machine I am appalled at how unresponsive it is and how often programs freeze. OSX is better but I still find it has usability issues. I think if I'd become a regular user of OSX and learn the keyboard shortcuts I would be a satisfied customer. However, for a casual user like me (pretty much just for xcode), I find myself often annoyed at my mac. I curse at OSX, every time I use iTunes, every time I plug my iPod and the photo application locks up my mac for seconds even though I've never used this application, when windows pile up everywhere and there is no task bar to quickly switch between them, only slow multiple step processes with annoying animations.

I'm also surprised at how many OSX features are a poor implementation of old unix ide features. For example, I'm used to have multiple desktops on Linux. I've been using this since the mid 90s. Gnome has it, kde has it, I've used it on CDE the Sun interface. OSX has Spaces but it is horrible mainly because there isn't a taskbar icon that allows you to switch 'space' with one click. Worst even, the Spaces doc icon is a tease that looks like a proper desktop switcher but doesn't work that way.

In term of hardware support (and to a lesser degree software support), I admit Linux is behind. But this is a chicken and egg problem. If more people used Linux, hardware manufacturers would make sure their drivers worked with Linux. I have zero interest in doing manual configuration, so in the past ten years, buying a computer has consisted of bringing a Live Ubuntu disk to Bestbuy and poping it in to make sure everything on the computer works out of the box. By using this method I never have to fiddle with anything to get Ubuntu to work. It's very easy to do and my computers end up costing me half the price of macs by allowing me the choice of a smaller 1.5 hour battery (I'm almost always plugged in anyways) and lower quality display (so the contrast is not as good, big deal). My current laptop is a one year old (corei3, 4GB ram, 500GB HD) that cost me $600 (useless Windows licence included!) + $100 for a two year extended warranty and Linux makes it feel much faster than any other computer I use. Chrome on Ubuntu is a crazy fast web experience.

I've been hesitant to suggest Ubuntu to non technical users mainly because I don't want to be responsible for providing technical support but I do believe Ubuntu is probably ready for it. Maybe I should suggest it more given that they call me for problems with their win7 or osx anyways and I often find myself thinking: this wouldn't happen on Ubuntu.
The problem with Debian Testing is that once something breaks badly, you usually have to wait two weeks until it is fixed, because changes need to trickle down from Sid. In my experience, Sid is more useful as a desktop. But it's certainly not for the beginner.
ps this kind of work (ultra-cold neutrons + gravity) is just as interesting and important as the higgs particle work at the lhc. it's also cheaper and smarter. so it's depressing that what is reported in the popular press is so distorted (by scientists themselves, who need to drum up money and support for "big science") - we see a huge amount of coverage of the lhc and nothing on amazing work like this

Hmm... Stackoverflow/Hacker-News for pure science ?
If you're lucky enough to own a machine that works out of the box, with all of its components, while running Linux: all the power to you. I've owned many computers over the years, of all shapes, sizes, brands, and/or custom parts, and I've never had a single one "just work."
That's precisely my point. In the Linux world, your distro version is inextricably linked to the versions of every major and minor software package in a way that just doesn't happen in Windows.

If I stuck with Lucid, I'd still be using Firefox 3.6. (Yes you could add a PPA, but opening the terminal is beyond the technical skill of the average user.) Linux won't succeed on the desktop until the phrases "Upgrade Firefox" and "Potentially bork my entire system with unexpected regressions" don't go hand-in-hand.

FF will still auto-upgrade to 6 even on an XP machine.
Rationality will prevail eventually: We'll get back to 3x annual income for the simple reason that the fake appreciation due to easy loans is history.

The thing I fear though is the in-between period. Many folks will hold on thinking that the downturn is "temporary", so prices will stay elevated for a few extra years. As a consequence, you'll see doubling-up and tripling-up in housing that normally would have held only one family.
There is a version of Linux that's ready for primetime. It's called Android. The desktop OS ship has sailed.
Anything that helps managing the Twitter Streaming API?
There are many things to deal with while using the twitter streaming api - reconnections, limits, and biggest of all - merging new child streams into the parent.

Can anyone recommend anything that can manage all this? Language doesn't matter.

The best I could find is flamingo(https://github.com/hayesdavis/flamingo) for ruby, but it seems abandoned.
That is extremely debatable.
I'm not so sure about that.
People chance the sytax because that's an unfront difference between their language and others. Changing the semantics requires a leap for what can be perceive as little benefit (e.g. people will say "isn't this just C++ but with garbage collection?").
Pictures 1 and 2 are equivalent. See chapter 18 in Misner, Thorne, Wheeler. We can't distinguish a universe where space is bent by mass from one with flat space-time that has a massless spin-2 particle (a graviton). The flat space-time in the latter case would be unobservable in principle.
I've had it just work on a Fujitsu tablet, several Thinkpads, and a couple of HP laptops. And any desktop I've cared to try so far.
You are correct. If you look at the bottom of posters/flyers for government services (suicide help lines, schedule services for transit, that sort of thing), you'll often see underneath "phone: " a line "TTY: " with a slightly different phonenumber following.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Telecommunica...
To be honest, you'd be better off with making Mac apps. The competition is much lower in that market and it's a lot easier to get visibility for your app on the Mac App Store.

The dynamics of the iOS and Android store have changed a lot in the last 2 years and now the majority of high ranking apps are from companies that have built up a huge cross promotion network.
Looking at the real estate listings for my area, the most expensive home for sale is $1M; and it is a beautiful mansion. I couldn't imagine paying $1M for just a nice home.
Resistance is futile. (Come on, somebody had to say it.)
It would be interesting to see how this stacks up to Ejabbered with say 20k+ concurrent users.
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Pretty cool. It would be very nice if it had some default fonts in there to just play around with out-of-the-box.
Some thoughts:

1) In addition to technical skills, look for values and fit. Is this someone you want representing your firm? Is this someone you want to share 2000+ hours a year with for the next few years?

2) Do your best to have each hire bring something unique that nobody (especially you!) else is good at.

3) Look for trajectory in addition to location. For example: If there are two people of the same ability, and it took one person 7 years to get there, and the other 3, the junior person is learning faster. You don't want to hire people who have already peaked, as your organization and it's needs will grow.

4) No matter how busy you are, it's always ok to wait if you haven't found the right person. The cost of a bad hire is enormous, and it's a large market. It's ok missing three good hires if the process allows you to miss one bad hire.

5) For more tips, go to www.joelonsoftware.com and page down to the section listing his posts for recruiters. You don't have to follow 100% of what he says, but investing a few hours will help a lot.
I expected this to be about the wisdom of buying a house in the current US market. It is an interesting article even though it doesn't address that question. But for most people, financially speaking, buying a house at the moment would be a really bad idea. Yes, there's cheap credit, but there is also essentially no chance of significantly appreciating prices for at least the next five years, and a strong chance of prices dropping further as a result of further recession and uncertainty about the legal status of foreclosure procedures.
Fair enough; after thinking about it for a moment I realized that I probably mixed explicit reasoning with dumping information out of my head.

But still, does that mean that explicit cost-benefit analysis is bad? Or, when I'm confused about an issue I need to decide on, if I do a mind-dump of things related to that issue, does that lead to poor decisions? I'm asking, because so far I find it extremely helpful to do a mind dump, when I feel confused.
Someone has to be CEO and for the long term is Tim Cook really the best person
for the job ? Steve Job is an irreplaceable part of Apple's lore, but that does not
stop Jony Ive from making his own major mark. He already has a rich history
of designing great products. To understand Aarons point better you have to watch Steve Jobs interview, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOgOP_aqqtg . There he says the only problem with Microsoft is that they have no taste. Steve recognize some questions it's importance, he says having good taste is important for Apple. According to Steve having good taste is key to Apple's culture and success, Steve Jobs said it. A company can have great financial success without good taste, Steve Jobs said that about Microsoft. But as Aaron mentioned in the article that is not how Apple works. Tim Cook is great at operations, perhaps he should have stayed COO. The interesting move would be to appoint Jonathan Ive's as CEO. Of course to many that would seem unconventional and perhaps even risky. But that would be authentic Apple, that would be thinking different.
I'll scan that QR code from your poster right after I get done opening this unsolicited Excel spreadsheet you emailed to me.
Oh ok. I'm not a native English speaker, and I thought from the context that it was an abbreviation related to business / investing which I didn't know about. Thanks!
That's rather sanctimonious.

edit below:

ghoulish:
1. strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous: a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.
2. showing fascination with death, disease, maiming, etc.; morbid: ghoulish curiosity.
3. of, pertaining to, or like a ghoul or ghouls.

sanctimonious: Making a show of being morally superior to other people.

Steve is Apple. He created it, he saved it from death. There's only one logical reason why he would step down and people are mentioning that. It's too bad that your sensibilities are offended.
> It's based on Debian-testing, which is more unstable than Debian-unstable

Wrong. Testing is more stable than Unstable, which is more stable than Experimental. Furthermore, Ubuntu does extremely heavy modification to the Debian base, repackaging quite a number of it's core packages, and replacing a number of central parts at times (eg, the boot system).

If you're going to say that people don't know what they're talking about, please make sure you do.
I am irked by the author's response to a commenter. To paraphrase:

"Can't we just make an easy installer for Sun JDK?"
"No, we're just going to take this opportunity to make our own open source project better."

This sort of crap is why Linux is NOT ready for prime time.
This will be a nuisance, because e.g. Clojure just works better with the Sun Java packages. The Sun packages don't just have performance improvements, but the Clojure devs seem to be actively targeting them. Even if this might lead to improvements to the OpenJDK in the long term it is one hell of a nuisance to have to go around the operating system package management scheme for Java. The lesson is to actively mistrust Oracle and invest more time in solutions that are independent from that company.
Java-related Ubuntu/Debian packages (eclipse, openjdk, maven, ant, etc.) have always been notoriously bad and slow to update. Installing sun-java6-jdk sure made things easier but I guess I'll have to learn how to do it by hand now, just like I do with all the other Java-related software I use on Ubuntu every day.
Very nice site. Right after he resigned I actually stopped and thought about how he had changed my life directly or indirectly. Truly amazing.

We created a FB event "Dress Up Like Steve Jobs Day": https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130179840411684 to honor Steve Jobs on Friday, September 9th.
In a nutshell? Macs and iPhones and iPod Touches and iPads are expensive. Their owners have more disposable income, which is why they end up with a $650 iPad instead of a $250 netbook. It's also why they buy more apps.
My friend and I are starting as Android developers. Neither of us have previous experience on either platforms. He's got SAS experience and SQL, me I do more web design. So far it's going good, specially for him as he's learning fast. We choose Android as it's only $25 bucks to become a registered developer, plus he has a HP Laptop, no Mac (i have a mac) and he currently doesn't have a job. We do intend to try iOS development if we get Android development working.
Didn't take long for a Groupon sockpuppet to show up in the comments:

Rachel Baker said...

I think Groupon is a guaranteed and low effort marketing platform for businesses. Every new customer has a cost of acquisition. The smarter and more efficient your marketing efforts the lower that cost. Groupon can be the best thing in the world...

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I think both lines of code and number of files are terrible metrics to use to compare sizes of code base across three very different languages. I don't have any experience with Fortran, but as a seasoned R and C hacker, I don't think the two languages could be much more different.

Well written R code tends to be incredibly compact, because the functions available in base R are plentiful and the language is both heavily functional and vector-oriented. The amount of manual memory management and explicit looping required by C easily inflates the lines of code.

A better metric, perhaps, would be to count the number of functions written in each language. Of course, there are issues of style there, but I think that would lead to a more comparable estimate. I don't know of a tool that does that for C - anyone know of one - or should I go the parser route?
You can define yourself and, through the remaining empty space, end up defining them. If you define yourself as "The simple, no-frills, easy way to Foo," for example, then you're defining your opponents as one or more of: complex, extra frilly, less easy.
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Couldn't fit "(video)" in the 80 character limit.

Care to suggest a better title?

EDIT: Now too late to change the title.
Picture of Steve Jobs After Resignation
It should likely be noted that xterm connects to PTYs, not VTs. Otherwise correct.
And this comes from Groupon's hometown. Ouch!

My impression is that Groupon works better for brining in incremental revenue. A prior HN post on skydiving captured this very well. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2654788 What I mean by incremental is customers who would never use your business to begin with. It also helps if the business is high margin. These businesses tend to have high fixed costs too.

We recently used Groupon for a midweek booking of a fantastic bed and breakfast. Great for them - we'd have never heard of it, and the revenue was largely incremental, while the costs were fixed. Great for us - a B&B when we wanted. Also great for a bespoke suit. ($3000 - a little crazy. But $600 - not so bad)

Yoga seems much more variable cost. A big part of the cost is the teacher. Some back of the napkin (streetfighting?) math suggests a class of 15 people pays $8 per a hour class. Counting prep, set up, and tear down, it takes the teacher an hour and a half. So let's say they make 60. Then it's 60 to pay for the space, AC, etc. Very low margin business. Cutting the revenue by 75% doesn't make sense unless you're selling a lot of add-ons or expecting to convert for long term customers. Both are risky propositions at best.
They're not your competitor. They're in the same space but you haven't even begun to fight. In a year they might be your competitor.

Focus on your startup, keep an eye on theirs on sites like HN, Quora and any relevant blogs, but don't be afraid.

Them being funded or better funded is just something you're going to have to get used to, it doesn't mean anything at this point though - money doesn't buy traction, they have a great chance of failing and moving in a new direction or flat out dying.
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Yes, this is so true. Too often someone wants to learn a new technique and throws it in production code without fully understanding it. Others get stuck maintaining it, also without fully understanding the technique, and because a full refactor is usually too expensive to justify.

It's great for learning on your own time, but hurts so many others when doing it professionally.
I think it means Laugh out Loud in this context.
A custom hook.
"(...) traditional landline users (all six of you left)"

Is having a landline so old-fashioned in the US? It's not the first time that I see this kind of comment, but it's shocking to me, since for most ISPs in many countries you must have a landline if you want some kind of Internet service, whether it's xDSL or cable.
500 groupon customers is a lot to bear considering her calculations, but would it not make sense to offer, say, 50 groupon codes and write these off as marketing costs? Or is there a minimum limit to what groupon will work with you on.

Having said that, I have friends who won't do sushi or yoga without a groupon, which I find fascinating. When I asked would they not return somewhere that they enjoyed without a groupon they replied that there are sufficient groupons in their city to not have to do that. I must be old-school as I believe in supporting your local businesses and nurturing your community rather than saving a few dollars.
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I disagree with you. Making good free software improved GNU/Linux position (GCC, Linux kernel, Apache httpd, python and may other successful projects) instead just providing what vendor is shipping binary (drivers for graphic cards, Sun-Java...) All good free software projects would not exist if we ignore them and use proprietary software instead, and community could not have impact on features that are important.
> The only big one is Debian/Mint, but from what I hear that's still too unstable for even power users.

You're forgetting about Arch, which is absolutely amazing. Simple, yet powerful.
Sucks that you got caught by it but they probably successfully prevent a million spam posts a day with that mechanism.
I have cable internet (Time Warner), I don't have a landline.
Implicit in your argument is that Tim Cook doesn't have good taste. I suspect he does. After all, look at his choice of employment.
1280x1024 17" monitor. I'd prefer something larger, at least 1080p resolution. I've tried using multiple monitors before, though. Doesn't do much for me, but then I mainly used them for playing video games and chatting on IRC...