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This is a common pattern: (i) someone famous dies, (ii) someone else says something bad about that celebrity, (iii) everyone else is scandalized. Thou shalt not bash the dead.

Now, I don't think Stallman's lines were gratuitously offensive. He was merely clear and concise. He spent no word on niceness, but he spent no word on rudeness either. And by the way, he is factually correct: Jobs was "the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed [among other things] to sever fools from their freedom" (or, if not the pioneer, at least the most effective apologist).

Now should he have just shut up? Probably not. Every one now is praising Jobs, and that may trigger even more sales for the iPhone and the iPad. Praise Jobs, and soon you will praise Apple's most locked down products. At least a word of caution is needed.

Now I do understand that Stallman knows next to nothing about how not to trigger bad feelings. I do understand that he should work on that. But please, don't be offended by something that most probably wasn't intended to be offensive.
There are other people who already do the same, he's not doing all the work by himself. He doesn't want to become the leader either, unless I missed something - he just sees a growing issue and organisation which he cannot identify with anymore. What's wrong with saying that he'd like to see a forked organisation with a leader that does not offend people very often and doesn't use someone's death to push his own ideas?
Bandwidth.

Bandwidth usage would be nice. This is something that little-snitch doesn't already do and you can't see it in activity monitor as far as I know.

Any chance of right-clik "record traffic to file for X seconds"?
Zacks rant was mainly targeted at the horror of software development. In that respect iOS with Xcode and Objective-C are a step back.
"As for the argument that Apple has failed because the iPhone 4S, however nice an improvement overall, is not enough to entice iPhone 4 users to upgrade — so what? Normal people don’t buy brand-new $700 smartphones each and every year. In the U.S. they buy them on two-year contracts, and they don’t shop for new ones until their old contracts are over. So the iPhone that the 4S needs to present a compelling upgrade for is the 3GS, not the 4. And the iPhone 4S absolutely smokes the 3GS. It’s crazy better than the 3GS. 2009 3GS buyers who skipped the iPhone 4 — which I’m guessing are most of them — ought to be delighted by the iPhone 4S."

I normally disagree with Gruber on pretty much everything, but here, we both agree that it's insane to assume the next iPhone (4S or 5) was supposed to entice regular people to break their contracts just to get the latest and greatest. Seriously, who does that besides gadget snobs? For people waiting on the Nexus Prime, what phone are you currently using where you can just switch like that? Normal people buy phones on 18-24 month schedules, not 12. I still remember the outrage and sense of entitlement from original iPhone owners when the 3G came out. Surprisingly, AT&T conceded and allowed them to update after 18 months instead of 24.

You know what, I'm disappointed it wasn't a 5 with LTE and NFC as well, but I'm upgrading from the 3GS so the 4S is a great phone for me. When iPhone 4 owners' contracts expire, then they can get a 5 if they want.

Seriously, first world problems.
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I believe it would be a graph, but there's also a "hashmap cache" with O(1) access for the most used nodes of the graph indexed by keywords or key-actions :)
So, while this is interesting (using it right now to post this message).. I find it painfully slow, and inefficient. The network utilization seems much higher than typical RDP or VNC sessions. What exactly is the point? Or is it just another gotomeeting / webex / livemeeting clone to add to their collaborative suite they have been working at?
Yes, isn't our conception of data structures bound up fairly tightly with the available storage media and data buses? We have thought a lot about how to organize and retrieve data on tapes, and spinning disks, and random-access memories composed of discrete little bins, each storing a bit and addressed in rows and columns.

But we don't make extensive use of (say) analog computers, or computers with data buses having several million sub-channels. Hand us a machine employing such principles and it's back to square one. (Except for the lucky pure mathematician or two who got there first but whose work remains obscure right now, the way George Boole's work used to be obscure.)

And my stupid examples are just examples - I have no idea if the brain, or any bit of it, is best conceived of as an analog computer. Nobody knows what kind of computer the brain is like, except that it is almost entirely unlike the silicon-based digital computers that we build in the von Neumann tradition. And, presumably, when it comes time to discuss brain-based data structures they will turn out almost entirely unlike the structures in our digital-computer-data-structures textbooks.
G+, as Wave did, supports more vectors of communication than other tools, and this may be an achilles heel. Regular social media consumers, as much as we bitch about Facebook and Twitter and co, in truth find it convenient to be constrained to certain patterns; simply because the mental and temporal expense of making a communication pattern decision (along with the associated weighing of privacy risks etc) is greater than the perceived (low) value of each microblog entry / sharable communication.

Perhaps I'm just saying "not enough people care enough".
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And a graph is a relation, and a relation is a function, etc. Just because you can model everything with graphs doesn't make them special. You can model everything with lots of things.
Great work! I really like the nice clean interface.

It would be great if there would be an option to put it in the menu bar and hide it in the dock.
I don't know why he needs $1000 either. I bought a cheap older unlocked WP7 device for under $250 just by keeping an eye out for bargains.

Contact your local MS rep. I nearly every market, the MS evangelism people have devices for people to test on.
I think yes, and I wouldn't be surprised if they rushed this out a little too early because of high demand. Free webinars/conferencing will be disruptive.
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This man might have been a great programmer, but as an activist, he's a joke.

Activists raise consciouness of an issue, and he seems to be doing that quite fine - who else is fighting the same fight with the effectiveness he is? If he weren't around... where are the public figures making his argument and getting press inches?

Also, minor differences he's capable of - he's apparently given up on the hurd kernel due to the linux kernel being top dog, despite not fully approving of it.
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Well just because I've a ready framework with flash.
I agree. Hopfield networks, of which Hinton's Boltzmann machines are substantial elaborations, have many human-like properties:

-can fill-in details as a result of noisy or missing input
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> but as an activist, he's a joke.

By what yardstick? The Free Software movement is known by people in the software industry the world over. Stallman and the movement are hugely popular in the developing world... he's a pretty big deal in India, for example.

Thing is, he doesn't do the PR thing. The guy is honest with himself and with the world. I respect and admire that.

"Here's to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore
them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them
as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world - are the ones who DO!"
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How difficult would t be for the DoD to make an OS just for themselves with no public distribution or documentation? That seems like the permanent solution here.
Although Stallman didn't use a great deal of tact in his statement I agree with his concern overall.

That seems oddly similar to my tl;dr from the article: "Although I agree with his concern overall, Stallman didn't use a great deal of tact in his statement".
It's impossible to look at naming objectively, and now hindsight and habit make it doubly impossible - how could "Macintosh" have a different name than "Macintosh"? That's crazy talk!

But here's my hypothesis for why "Bicycle" is a terrible name, which it is: can you name another successful, novel consumer product that was introduced with the same name as a large existing general category of popular consumer products?

It seems both pretentious and confusing to call a project "Bicycle". "Did you take your bicycle to work today?" "Um, no, I drove." "But doesn't your bicycle work more efficiently?" "No, this new Rollerskate gets twice the battery life." "Third base!"

Of course, the excuse was that it was "only a code name". To which a good response is that lousy code names are like Lorem Ipsum text: They screw up your design by encouraging you to ignore things which are actually important, like the thematic unity of your work or the need to convey a specific actual meaning with the words you are typesetting.
There was something particularly touching about this. I think it was the words "Thank You", where you felt it wasn't coming from "The Colbert Report" Colbert, but the actual Stephen Colbert himself.
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Thank you. It's a tad unfortunate that you have had to spend/waste time to explain this , but, I think it was needed. Much appreciated.
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I think long term memory is more organized than a hash table. I base this on observation of my own brain during a bad LSD trip, where I seemed to be aware of how I was reaching decisions.

For example, if I looked at a door and wanted to remember what that door was for, I could "see" a vast 2 or 3 dimensional array of hundreds of doors that I had seen before, arranged so that similar doors were near each other, and then I was aware of some kind of focusing in on the region of door-space where doors similar to the target door resided, and then I was aware of some kind of comparison of each of the doors in that region serially with the door I was looking at to find a match, and then the data for the best match was made available to my normal consciousness.

During another part of that trip I was aware of audio processing. I'd hear someone talking and first hear it as unintelligible sound, then I'd be aware of the sounds being broken down into separate sound units, and then recognized as English words, and then the relationships between the words being recognized, and then I'd become aware of the meaning of what I'd heard.

I also had a time during that trip where I was watching visual processing. I'd be aware of how my mind was noticing things in the scene I was looking at, recognizing objects and remembering what they were, and combining that to build an understanding of the scene.

Now I have no way of knowing how much of this was just hallucinations shaped by my knowledge of computers, and how much really was the LSD actually letting me observe consciously mental processes that normally operate as black boxes to the conscious.

It's too bad research using LSD was greatly curtailed when the drug was banned. My suspicion is that what I perceived on that trip was a mix of reality and hallucinations driven by my computer knowledge. With enough experimentation, with people with different backgrounds observing and reporting, we could probably get some real insights into what is really going on in there.
I know what WAMP is good for, thank you very much.

I was referring to the fact that this is nothing new at all.
Hey, you seem to be as clueless about communication as he is.
I wouldn't care, if people would stop posting braindumps like this and RMS's here...
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The story about Breakout says so much more about Woz than about Jobs. It's a dark human desire to ponder people's vices, but without excusing Jobs one bit, I prefer to ignore Jobs outright and delight in Woz's existence. While I'm getting maudlin, I want to thank Paul Graham for bringing Woz to the first Startup School. It was an honor to see him and to hear him speak.

Back to Breakout. Satisfaction will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no satisfaction.
Stallman is autistic.
He has poor taste when it comes to social interaction.
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ltrpsRyTn-wC&pg=PA31&...

End of story?
Uh, why is it just a huge Flash app?
Woz seemed to take it really well. He said that he didn’t care about the money and would have done it for free. Steve was nice to him and Woz was having fun. Some might say that Steve took advantage of Woz (and that's probably true) but all in all they got along.
I think it's pretty telling that tablet computers have existed for ... what, 15 years? And that tablet computing didn't take off with consumers until iPad. I think that's a fine example of how Steve influenced a change in the world.

The Average Person has no concept of How Things Could Be Better. They just take what's available, get the job done, take their paycheck and live their lives. iPad seems to be the first time that Average Jane is saying things like "it'd be really nice if more of what I need to do could happen on my iPad." Maybe it's not to the point of consumers actually driving demand -- such as demanding text books in digital form -- but it's a start (and a welcome change from people just accepting the status quo.)

The reasons from iPad's success and other tablets' failures are irrelevant to my point. Would the rest of the industry have eventually figured out how to make tablets marketable to all of humanity? Perhaps eventually, but the world we live in today, the one where tablets (specifically iPads) are in demand now is the one in which we live.

"...probably would not exist if it wasn't for Steve Jobs." Exactly. And also if not for Steve Wozniak. And if not for Bill Gates. And a handful of other people in the industry that worked with and competed against each other early on in their careers.
Initially, it was slammed.
More character assassination. I have no particular fondness for RMS, but the amount of character assassination he receives is incredible. I think he's a crazy loon, but a harmless one.

In his own words, he said "Nobody deserves to have to die". He said these words on his own blog, and separated the ideas of Jobs (glad to see gone) from the man of Jobs (not glad to see gone), just like you yourself claim to about RMS. He didn't go out to another publication or stand on the FSF soapbox. He mentioned those words on his personal blog. This whole 'burnt reputation' has little to do with what he actually said, and more to do with people intentionally misreading it and being wilfully offended.

Also, philosophically speaking, it can be quite normal for the death of a human being to not be sad. (let alone any being, quit gilding the lily - most humans don't feel sad about meat animals, let alone fish in general or lower order animals)

If you've known anyone who has had to suffer a long, lingering, painful death, the actual occurence of their death can be an escape from sadness, a relief, even peaceful.
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I'm sure that if Larry Ellison died, it wouldn't only be RMS making this comment.
He posted it to Reddit, not HN.
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I'd like to imagine the brain is a lot like the 'world wide web' as a data structure, than a pure graph.

That it isn't just a question of pure storage and retrieval. There's quite a bit of varied experience on the same root(& their storage) happening multiple times and layers within.

Content that gets shared/liked more, gets replicated, re-iterated on, transformed, re-tagged.
As time progresses, you'll find more content similar to the parent, being generated -- re-experienced via dreams and the subconscious.

Eventually, when its necessary to dig out the piece of content using tags or searches, it'll end up finding the most 'linked-to' piece. Possibly one that was associated with a explosion of favorable chemicals.

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There's some evidence to suggest that the same experience, isn't stored as a single piece of memory. During the process of consolidation [when a long term memory gets etched], the 'experience' being transcribed goes through iterations. With variations being stored as well, some of them decaying almost instantly.

It's possible the brain applies 'instagram' like filters while etching these memories. (a process that happens over weeks)

It'll be interesting if in the future, we could modify/augment these 'filter' processes. Both at the storage and retrieval stages.

[http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8536cover.html]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engram_(neuropsychology)]
Or I could generate a MOV file using Processing.
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Why dont you define your meaning of 'free software' and give it a name?

I already have it is called free software. Look at the founding of any movement from Alan Kay and Object Oriented programming to Christ and Christianity, founding a movement allows you to push the world in a given direction. It doesn't make you king who gets to lord over every last thought of members of the movement.

Why do I care if the FSF is practical or ideological? Simple I believe in free software and think it could be so much more. However when FSF goes off on its ideological jaunts, it hurts free software. When ESR and RMS had their little spat that lead to the creation of OSI it hurt the movement. When the president of the FSF leaves little notes about how the world is better place because someone is dead it hurts the movement. I don't care what the FSF does so long as it quits trying to kill free software.
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Your response to objection number 1 misses the point.

The issue is what critical thinkers would recognize as an equivocation fallacy: It's one thing to classify certain software as 'free' according to a particular definition. It's another thing to attribute a moral judgment to something by using a certain term such as 'free'.

Objection number 1 is about Stallman's use of the word 'free' in the second sense. Your response is about the use of the word 'free' is the first sense. Therefore, you either misunderstood the critics, or you're deliberately erecting a straw man.

My guess is on the first interpretation: "Please, feel free to use any proprietary software you want." is the opposite of what the Free Software movement is all about: One should not use proprietary software! It's evil, according to Stallman.
Hmm, strange, seems to works pretty well. So far about 3000 upvotes and 2000 comments.
> All progress depends on unreasonable men.

This is a very bold generalization grounded on nothing. Once we had rational discussions here.
uhm so its some vnc inside the browser, using the browser at the other end too. Sounds a little bit like bloat to me :-(
I'm guessing it uses websockets then.
I am actually on a leave of absence from my prestigious East Coast University and I am debating never going back. Putting in the 9 months time to get the degree seems logical, but I am in a place where it is the US circa 1995, i.e. things are getting hot and I am in the ground floor. Nothing in life waits for you and 9 months out of the game could end it for me.
After reading iWoz, I both felt sorry and impressed by Woz at the same time. He's got a very interesting outlook on life.
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The press release on the MIT site is much easier on the eyes (actually read that one): http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/object-oriented-oracle-10...
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Actually, Stallman DOES have taste. He lacks a design aesthetic, but that is not synonymous with taste. Taste is about having an internally consistent means of making choices.

The reason people say Microsoft had no taste is that they never said no, they bolted any old thing onto the side of Windows, there never really has been a sense that Windows is this and this but not that.

Stallman has an extremel sharp sense of what free software is and isn't, I'd call that taste with a capital T. Now, if someone were to say it isn't GOOD taste, well, that's a worthwhile conversation to entertain.

Windows, on the other hand... No idea how it is today, but up to XT it absolutely lacked any sense of taste, it wasn't even bad taste, it simply was stuff higgledy piggledy, some things for experts who use the command line, some chrome for newbies, all next together, but never as powerful and flexible as Unix nor as easy as Macintosh, but not even designed for the middle of the road user.

In other words, no taste.
I think analysis tools like this are more an indictment of ceremony code that surrounds a big object-oriented design than a win in programmer productivity.

I really do like the idea of taking an existing OO codebase and being able to probe and interact with it(REPL anyone?). I did a stint doing bug support on two big OO software systems a few years ago and it was hard to wrap my head around a huge codebase quickly - the original devs who built the system were long gone and nobody actually knew much about huge pieces of the code. So anything that would have supplemented reading thousands of lines of code, I would have gambled on.

It is awesome that these guys did a user study, but I wouldn't bother using a test with 8 programmers "new to Eclipse" as anything but a sniff test to indicate that a bigger user study was warranted.

Lastly, the article itself sits in a weird space - hackers who read it are going to be underwhelmed. The lay reader (or programming newbie) is probably going to pick up a bunch of wrong ideas about object oriented development.
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I'd like to think that some hackers can stay ahead of other hackers, enough of the time to balance it out.
Weather forecasts are a more optimal way of knowing the future than looking at the sky. These incremental improvements might not mean much by themselves, but in aggregate, they've meant the human race has come very far.
PayPal did something similar to me earlier this year. They instituted a 21 day hold on incoming payments because they suddenly decided my business was prone to chargebacks. This is after 8 years of service with zero problems. Never a complaint or chargeback and 10's of thousands of dollars through my account.

I no longer have anything for sale (I open sourced my AIS Parser SDK late last year) so it didn't have a dramatic impact on my income. I decided to drop my PayPal and eBay accounts without argument -- if that's the way they want to play the game then I'll just take my business elsewhere.