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HP says they're getting ready to spin off or sell their PC division. According to this article that would be mean the new company or the acquiring company would:
- Be the #1 PC manufacturer
- Be the #2 tablet manufacturer
- Have a 1 million installed base for WebOS
- Have taken 1 million customers away from their competitors who at least in the Android space seem to be struggling a bit

That's a pretty compelling story especially if this new entity can capitalize on it with more management and sales autonomy, focus, and agility. I'm not saying everything about this strategic change is pretty, but I'd wait before calling this a failure.
IOS vs. Android is almost the same story as Win 2000 vs. Linux 10 years ago, don't you see? Community of active developers, not mere consumers, is what matters. At least I believe it is Google's strategy. ^_^

And fragmentation issues will self-resolve, as it was in modern Linux world - only strongest will survive. And the winner is Ubuntu, like it or not. Community matters.
I didn't have much luck using Boomerang recently either.

The REC decompiler (http://www.backerstreet.com/rec/rec.htm) isn't horrible. For simple stuff, it'll give you reasonable looking C-ish code. For anything slightly more complex, it may produce wrong code. It's not so good at eliminating duplicate variables, but manually removing them isn't hard, they're easy to see.

I've recently been reversing a few stripped DLLs on Windows. REC worked well on the short functions but severely changed the logic of a few more complicated ones, especially doing bit shifts, concatenating bytes, and doing complex loops.

I've seen IDA. I'd love to use it but it's expensive and I don't reverse engineer enough to justify asking for the company to buy it. That, and I'd also have to learn how to use it effectively, which would add time and possibly stunt me learning the basics first. Since I'm most certainly doing my work for commercial purposes, the demo / educational versions of IDA aren't usable for me (license agreement says so).

EDIT: REC studio does not appear to be free (as in speech) software but it is free (as in beer) to use for most purposes and it runs on Windows / Linux / Mac.
The whole thing came from "someone responding to node.js fanboys who pretend Node.js is faster at everything". Turns out his response contained a small, but ultimately flawed benchmark, which in turn provoked the reaction of other Node.js people. Some of it happened on Google+ and various blogs.

However, your perspective as a console game developer is highly interesting to me - care to write a bit more about it?
You know, one of the two things from the lecture about education I had some 17 years ago which still stuck is this:

Pay more attention to girls. Men will behave they way women let them to.
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I don't normally up-vote amusing comments but I really could not resist for this one. The most amusing comment I have read on hacker news so far and the only to really make me smile today. Thank you!
Also note that there are intermediate levels: we used to send tech support & systems engineers out rather than the core developers. They were used to talking to customers, knew enough to answer most questions and when they didn't could generate ensure that the question going back was well formed and went to the right person.
Yeah, I know, but having to hit FN isn't as convenient. Thanks, though.
> Note though that many of the games on onlive are very aggressively discounted on steam at every steam sale - so I usually end up buying them from steam instead.

They're doing pretty well at matching Steam. For example, there was a Labor Day 75%-off sale on OnLive this weekend. Also in another promotion they were offering Batman Arkham Asylum for $0.99.
I find these articles boorish. When I was a little boy I distinctly recall every stranger I met telling me how handsome I was because it's a superficial complement that can be delivered without great insight. Aunt's used to tell me that I'd "break some ladies hearts" because they didn't know me, and had no idea if I was intelligent or not. How intelligent can a five year old be, anyway? I didn't see little Maya pick any boogers at dinner, she is destined to be a civil engineer, at least. Even with all the complements, I don't recall developing an eating disorder or wearing makeup at an early age.

Men only earn 43% of bachelor's degrees. Isn't the real issue that men are not valuing education as much as women? Smart women have a huge advantage at this point, especially in the tech industry. If they start a company, the press can't stop talking about it. Women are more comfortable dealing with women, and men are more interested in talking to women. If four people with equal intelligence and experience apply for a job, an attractive man, and attractive woman, an average man, and an average woman, the attractive woman is hired first and the average man last. Women are far more socially mobile than men, women are being better educated than men, and many people are still crusading against some perceived injustice.
I've observed this as well and I think I've recently glommed onto an idea that seems to explain it.

Most people operate in their day-to-day via procedures. They learn that to accomplish task X, they do A then B then C.

Creative ideas require a procedure-less thinking process (or at least one where the procedure is not all that important so long as X is accomplished).

Most of the time I've hit resistance to a creative idea is because it requires people to learn new procedures to implement the idea. "You mean to accomplish X I should do A then D then F? What's wrong with A, B then C?"

Even in the face of evidence that the new idea might be easier, or faster, or as a side-effect also accomplish task Y, people simply don't want to take the mental effort to learn the new process.

Creative thinking is just not highly valued among the vast majority of humanity and it's a very hard sell.
I'd peel those stickers off for you, for $49.
Great, another whiny article about the poor, maligned girls doomed to a future of breast enhancement and cellulite cream thanks to misogny.

The article is a troll, here to elicit an emotional response that will sell a book.

Enter the strawman: "In my book, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World, I reveal that 15 to 18 per cent of under-12 girls in the United States now wear mascara, eyeliner and lipstick regularly; eating disorders are up, and self-esteem is down; and 25 per cent of young American women would rather win America's Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize. Even bright, successful, university-educated women say they'd rather be hot than smart. A Miami mother recently died from cosmetic surgery, leaving behind two teenagers."

Would the hysterical premise of the article hold true if you substituted common male gripes or practices? What percentage of boys aspire to be basketball or baseball players instead of whatever profession is deemed acceptable? How many young men would rather be football heroes than academics? How many would rather win a NASCAR race than win the Nobel Prize? Did a Miami father die of a heart attack because he was playing basketball at 45 in 100 degree heat?

It's easy and convenient to beat up strawmen and find a sexist boogeyman behind every perceived problem. Just don't lose sight of the fact that when you do that, you are dumbing things down.
Keep up, not catch. That’s doable.
>After thinking about it for a while, my conclusion is that there are two main reasons that most programmers prefer CLIs to GUIs

He's missing the most obvious reason. Programmers love... wait for it... programmable interfaces. A GUI doesn't generally allow me to programmatically define its behavior or pipe the output to a different GUI of my choice.

Incidentally, Windows' command prompt sucked for a very long time due to its limited scriptability. (Today, the Windows PowerShell mostly solves the issue if you know what you are doing.)
Just out of curiosity, what would you advise these people who have ideas, but aren't technically proficient, to do? Is there a correct way to approach someone? Should they prepare something before talking to you to show they are serious (maybe a short write up, or a sketch)?
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Do you have proof of this? Or can refer to evidence?

You seem pretty confident in your claim. But, yet it goes against most of what that my freshman and sophomore anthropology professors taught me.
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When you operate in uncharted waters, independent thinking makes for a good compass. As someone who studied comp sci in undergrad, I felt I didn't develop these skills as much as folks in the humanities.
Good advice indeed. The process of analyzing ideas itself is implicitly difficult so, at the very least, it's nice to have an opportunity to hone that skill.
If you're generally better with GUIs than your CLI, either your CLI sucks, or you're doing it wrong.

GUI dialogs take longer to construct and display than command line stuff. When I hit "Ctrl-O", I wait a bit for the dialog to be presented and become ready for input. Then I start entering commands. Then I hit enter, or tab to the OK box and hit enter, or whatever. Then I wait for the GUI to do its cleanup. Then I wait for it to actually run the command, and then give me a really nice shiny GUI with the same data as the command line, except it takes a couple of second rather than happening basically instantly. You might spent fewer keystrokes in a well-designed GUI, but you're still going to spend more time waiting on things to happen.

GUIs don't have command histories. Most don't have macros or shell scripts. They frequently have sucky keymapping support. You end up having to press tab twelve times to commit a dialog without having to touch the mouse. I can't easily pipe GUI output to grep or gzip or whatever.

Most seasoned programmers prefer the CLI for shell-type operations because it's actually faster and more productive, and gets in your way less, not because we collectively have some disconnect from the reality of how we interface with our machines.
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Most people describe call what you're describing 'ambition.' Some people want to do more than other people and set loftier goals for themselves. However, I think it's a huge mistake to say that "in these cases actually achieving, eventually leads to a feeling of happiness." You're implying that ambition is the only road to happiness, when there is a preponderance of evidence to the contrary.

I think it's far more likely that highly ambitious people have a far more difficult time being as happy as other, "normal" people. If you spend a lot of mental energy focusing on the points where the world rubs you the wrong way you're not going to feel happy regardless of whether you try to fix those points.
I wish he would stop referring to it as "Internet Driving Licence", that implies some level of skill & a test is required to pass it, and that you can get punished with penaltiy points, and that you're licence could be revoked. Perhaps "internet identity card" / "internet passport" is a better term?
the social/behavioural problems of aspergers (autism spectrum disorder) are diagnosed in men at a 4x greater ratio than women.
Not deliberately cherry picking, simply picking a time before great royal families and extravagant emperors had an impact on fashions and culture. Don't get me wrong, I'm no expert on this (just a passing interest) so happy to be informed otherwise.

Side note: there's an interesting theory in Ann Sinnott's Breastfeeding Older Children about fertility / female symbols and their relation to patriarchy and our 'progress' from nomadic hunter gatherers. The theory goes that as we settled down into working the land / raising animals, where women were obviously needed more, they became less valued for child birth / child rearing and consequently these fertility symbols not only got slimmer, but started to be replaced by a greater quantity of male / phallic symbology.

Only vaguely related to the topic at hand but hugely interesting (to me, anyway!)
I like saying a variant of what the author says: “I probably won’t have time to build it, but I can help you learn how to implement it yourself.”

Sadly so far no one has taken up my offer. I can't help but feel that it's never I can't do it, but it's more like I can't be bothered with it.
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I think that assumes refrigeration.
Incorrect methodology, yes. But it's the right conclusion. Linux supports a lot more hardware than Windows 7 does. During the Windows XP -> Vista transition, Windows dropped support for a lot of hardware. Linux didn't do so, and therefore has support for a lot of obsolescent hardware, like the photosmart printer mentioned in the article.

So yes, Linux has a lot better support for hardware that very few people care about. If you add together the support that Windows XP + Windows 7 + Windows CE + Windows Mobile etc have, you might come close to the Linux support, but there's only one genre of Linux.

Even if you don't buy that argument, realize that Linux runs on tens of different platforms in millions of different configurations, ranging from $10 embedded devices to $100 phones to $100 million supercomputers, and supports the peripherals connected to these devices.
That's a little like saying there must be a thunder god, because nearly every culture has the same idea.

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It absolutely is not illegal for a US citizen to change his state of residence purely for tax reasons. It's only fraud if he does not actually intend to reside there, the motivation behind that intent is completely irrelevant.
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Who's to say that you are acting aggressively simply because of having more testosterone. Perhaps it's having more testosterone in relation to what you're used to?

Sure, testosterone is a factor, and it may have contributed to the trend of men to be more aggressive than women, however, women have demonstrated that they can be just as aggressive if not more aggressive with far less testosterone than men.

To say we should give up and let our biology dictate who we are despite having plenty of examples to the contrary is rather defeatist.
I've experienced this problem in focus testing.

"What do you think of this new idea?"

- "I don't like that, it's not something I'd want. I think it would be pointless."

<lets them try a demo>

- "Wow, this is amazing!"
He's missing scriptability, modularity and extensibility.

Also, most GUIs (that programmers care about) lag behind the CLI in features (i.e. command-line GDB vs graphical debuggers).
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I always get this tiring feeling when someone comes up to me to talk about an idea. Especially if it's one of these "fast talking" kind of people. Most of them involve some kind of "social X". Even more saddening is how the people that have these "ideas", have no clue how to market it, where profit comes from, and so forth.

I believe that the only time I've heard of a decent or good idea was from fellow programmers or designers, rather than "business men" or founders of small companies and claim they know it all. Then after they explain their idea, they expect you to invest 90% of your time on the product, promise you a certain ownership percentage (usually ~10%?), rather than paying a good salary up-front; so if it flops they didn't lose any of their time or had to invest any amount of cash. I believe something similar to this happened to some dude who then open-sourced the project. I forgot what project that was, it happened recently.

You can of course listen to anyone's idea, but as the article stated, the chance that it's not another dumb or over-done idea is usually very slim.
Mozilla launched browserID, but in reality its not much different from facebook, twitter, google, openid etc. Facebook and twitter give webmasters the promise of virality that's why they have been relatively successful.

Still, they are a nightmare. What if facebook decides to ban your domain? What if user's account gets hacked?

What if we changed the rules of the game a bit: Take your cookies and browser settings with you in a USB key. Websites know you by the session id stored in your browser-wallet. They don't even need to know your name or your password. You can use your friend's computer and fool around, without having to delete recent history and cache afterwards.

Or instead, store browser settings in the cloud, or in a secure P2P network. Login to the browser, not websites. Google sync does that partly, and it's convenient. No need to transfer bookmarks, settings and passwords when you get a new computer. Maybe that's where we are headed.
Is it just me, or is the entire article 100% hand-waving and ridiculous assumptions?
"a person who is known to be pretty intelligent"

That is just the thing. Your default assumption about an unknown person seems to be that he or she is not intelligent and doesn't have anything worthwhile to say. That might be rational, but I don't think it is very conductive for human exchange.

Another thing: why should I be interested in convincing you that I have something worthwhile to say? What is in it for me?
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It's an issue on UK keyboards.

UK keyboards on PCs have a dedicated key for #/~, " is shift-2 and @ is shift-'. £ (currency symbol) is shift-3.

On a Mac the " and @ are the wrong way round (shift-' and shift-2 respectively), and the key that should produce # instead generates \. The only way to get a # is option-3, which is not marked on the keys. The Mac "UK" layout is basically the US layout with £/# reversed.
exactly. it's a type system for which one has to invest some time.

and (for the first comment) no, i didn't waste my undergraduate time learning it. it's precious knowledge to me even though i don't use it today.
GUI's also fail to allow you to chain commands, like putting the output of a find command into the cp, or allow you to pipe output to other applications.
They've acknowledged the problem and said that they are working on fixing it. That's not enough? Nothing good can come from going into more detail than that - both in the PR sense of hoping that the story just dies quietly, but also in an engineering sense.

For example talking about the operational details on how exactly things are verified would just make gaming the system easier. They probably don't know the exact magnitude of the problem, it would take valuable engineering time to come up with even a rough approximation, and it should be obvious that it's better to not comment than to just guess. You probably couldn't give a coherent explanation of why the "not true" doesn't stick without going into very tedious details of the data pipeline and serving infrastructure.
My experience with Apple service has always been exactly mundane as it should be. I turn up and show them the device -- no receipts or other documentation -- and 2 minutes later, they tell me it'll be repaired by tomorrow under warranty.

I recently tried to get service for an Acer netbook power supply that just fell apart, and ended up being told that they couldn't be sure I hadn't broken it deliberately, I'd have to send everything (PSU and netbook) back to them, and then they'd decide whether I was going to be charged. Worlds apart.
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This is a flame war topic, but the "zork2" gameplay image made me laugh out loud.
In my humble opinion, GitHub should bend over backwards to get this to work for him. Project admins really need better control over who can create pull requests, and what they should look like.
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A good GUI made for programmers, like Wing IDE, will let you write your own scripts for it and extend it to do anything you want.

Also, I think that most of the work that people do, even programmers, is spent doing simple tasks. The median shell command is more like a `cd` rather than a triple-piped command. So use GUIs for the common tasks, and when you need something more complex, use the CLI.

The general point is that I'm pitting the very best GUIs against the very best CLIs.
Meh, who cares, TC was always yellow press to begin with. An added perceived conflict of interest doesn't change anything in my eyes, just adds to the drama of it all which is what the site thrives on in the first place. On a more practical note, whether the content of the site will be affected with Arrington leaving - that's to be determined by time only. My guess is it won't. On a personal note, I briefly met Arrington at one of TC conferences and he's an arrogant asshole, I would even say douchebag (he wasn't an asshole to me, that's just his demeanor), so if he doesn't get exactly what he wants that sounds fine to me.
I think what sexual organs you have is very likely influenced by biology alone. And looks, too - different hormones affect your skin, bone development and so on. It is of course possible for men to swallow the right hormones and also grow boobs (and also for women to swallow hormones and not grow boobs, I suppose). Some chose to do so, and I have nothing against it. I question if we should make it a standard that people should freely decide if they want to grow boobs or not (I mean they can decide freely now, they are just not usually encouraged to ponder the issue much). I am not saying it would be wrong, just that it isn't obvious to me that it would be a more desirable world to live in.

Behaviors are another matter, however, genders have different realities (like the 9 months pregnancy period mothers face for bearing children) which automatically leads to behavior differences. It would be weird if it would not lead to behavioral differences.