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That is exactly the same thing the poster says about Stallman

Yup. Stallman tried to separate the Job's death from the end of his influence on the computing world. It was short and to the point and not the most tactful, but that molehill is reaching mountain proportions. Way more has been written about it than seems reasonable.

If you read closely you can see what has really upset people isn't just lack of tact. Its that Stallman's ideals of computing paints Jobs' contributions as a net negative. See this line in the article: and insult millions of Apple users simultaneously. It doesn't insult me that someones ideals give them a different opinion of a piece of plastic sitting at my house. I'm a nerd, but my identity isn't that caught up in my devices.
Did you switch from Instapaper to Readability? If so, why? Did you want to support authors directly?
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I wouldn't be so sure about that.

http://gcn.com/articles/1998/07/13/software-glitches-leave-n...

And, have you seen all the computers necessary to carry out a drone operation? I guarantee you not all of them are running an RTOS. Probably not even all of them onboard the drone.
Is there any precedent in the US of a non-compete being anti-constitutional? As far as I know, most non-competes were determined anti constitutional, as you can't force someone to not get a job. The only time they'd still be viable, would be in the type of examples that OP gave.
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Indeed, the barrier to entry has been lowered by a staggering amount. Previously, terrorists had to pay many millions of dollars to General Atomics to rain down death from above.
Why not determine pricing before they launched into beta or at least provide guidance numbers? The problem with the 30 day warning in pricing is that the exact same thing that happened with gae pricing could happen here: someone builds a project with a certain price range in mind, pricing is announced and is far higher than expected for this use case, developer has 30 days to scramble to migrate their app and write angry blog posts.

Starting out as free is a mistake in my mind, because it doesn't properly set developer expectations from the start about what those price levels will be or even what metrics the price will be based upon. I would bet that no matter what they do, there will be some people who will be upset when pricing is finally announced.
Do we need another js/html framework?

Well, I've spent the last few days coding with Twitter's Bootstrap and the Dojo toolkit and both are a pain to use. Bootstrap is too controlling, only supports the latest browsers, and has a very non-intuitive grid system. Dojo takes the kitchen sink approach yet doesn't offer a lightweight grid system so you're forced to look for alternatives.

So yeah, we need another js/html framework, maybe this time it actually delivers on its promises. I'm intrigued by the focus on jQuery, HTML 5 and supporting mobile devices, but I'm not going to start using this framework as of yet.
>I guarantee UAV's are not running XP or Windows 2000. The government has heard of things called RTOS.

Of course. There is Windows NT for _that_ :

http://www.theragens.com/misc/MR%20-%20Windows%20NT%20Real-T...
funny is how they bitch about virtualbox and then their own dam site is down at the same time. A bit of the pot calling the kettle black?
Are you trying to make a compiler that targets multiple platforms?
Honestly, I switched because I liked the interface and the mobile web app more than I liked Instapaper's site and app. Readability's "readable view" is soooo much nicer than Instapaper's. Supporting authors is a nice bonus, though.
Don't want to sidetrack from the main conversation, but Nathan Myhrvold seems to have a very impressive past [1]. He studied QFT under Stephen Hawking at Cambridge.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold
That was actually surprisingly tactful for RMS. It barely came across as offensive.
How reliable are memristors, as compared to HDDs and SSDs?
Poe's Law: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257...
So it's a photo sharing site?
Wow, that's crazy. Do you have a link for that?
Oh, awesome! Definitely takes away one of my major worries about the new Kindle.
"Open source" isn't a legal term...
The level of performance needed in the GCS is even less than you might think, too -- for most of the UAVs, you don't have direct flight controls -- it's more like a naval ship, where you instruct it to go to certain altitude and fly a flight path you plot on a map. Some of them have more stick/rudder style controls, mainly for landings, which are often controlled by another operator physically at the launch/recovery site (and who might be a contractor vs. soldier/airman).
Doesn't every iPod or iPhone charger since they ditched firewire for USB work with the kindle if you swap the usb leads? I'd have thought Marco's house would be overflowing with such USB power adaptors. The cable even seems color-matched for this.
another fucking story about Steve Jobs... RIP in piece Ralph Steinman!
Don't link to slashdot, link to the original article: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/06/10/2011/51988/i...
If the drones are not running Windows, then why are they following virus removal instructions on Kaspersky's site?
I think this is the case he had for the Kindle 2, which does look pretty sweet, and that Kindle was a $300 product so a pricier case makes sense:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026IBJNQ/

And even now, the official lighted leather Kindle 3 case is $60.
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I did, yesterday. It didn't make the front page.
The big UI annoyance is that assumption in #2. Most of the time you did drill-down into this folder from its parent so "back" goes "up". But when you didn't (which could have been hours ago), you get a very jarring disorientation.

Comically, your scenarios #1 and #2 even clash with each other. If you do #1 then #2, the "back" operation goes deeper into the tree. If you navigate from C:\a\b to C:\a\b\c then to C:\a\b, the behavior of "back" is now different based on how you went from b\c to b, whether you did that by "back" or by clicking the address bar link!

The Backspace key always did "up" in older versions of Windows, but does "back" in Windows 7, which annoys me all the time. Alt-Uparrow does work consistently, but my muscle memory isn't there, and it's jarring that there's no symmetrical Alt-Downarrow operation.
not really sure how that would apply- the constitution exists to define the powers of the government, and a non-compete contract would be a civil matter between a company and an individual.
My own reading of Joyce is mediated through Paddy's Irish, Schubert (Winterreise), and Traviata (Bloom's solo). Music preferably from acoustic recordings.

Seriously, is there a distinction to be made between reading for facts/information (skim, scan, locate, focus) and reading as art (micro scale language and music in the voice, macro scale navigation of the plot)?

Does this distinction translate onto the Web? Is there a literary role for hypertext (pace Mark Bernstein)?
Not sure where you're trying to go with that last part, but I disagree that one can equivocate car bombing, Fred Phelps, and RMS.
"Steve Jobs did embody the lock down of computing"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Tkj8SIHMU at about 4:30 mark
It's just as easy to hit [ CTRL + ] as it is to hit backspace. If you are worried about your users' ability or knowledge, then you can simply include a link that says "adjust text size up / down" and let them click that to get the desired effect. Browsers allow users to customize the font for a reason. It's impossible to claim a default size that everyone is going to like.
Yep, same Mike Daisey.

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2007/04/night-to-remember.sht
>Sorry, but if Stallman hadn't done anything, we'd still have Linux, and all the other software we enjoy today.

Are you absolutely certain about that? Think about it: if for example Linus had released his kernel with a more permissive license, he might not have received as many contributions, and maybe Linux would never have become as great as it is now.
Wouldn't it be crazy/awesome if, after years of cost-cutting and right-sizing and "pivoting" and various CEO's gimmicks, the thing that saved HP was something that came out of their R&D department?
EE Times has a more detailed article with some interesting statistics:

"Read times are less than 10 nanoseconds and write/erase times are about 0.1-ns. HP is still accumulating endurance cycle data at 10^12 cycles and the retention times are measured in years"

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229171/HP-Hynix-to-...
My quote is from the Slashdot review of the announcement of the iPod (http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...). It's an example of where (usually) geeks fall into the trap of enumerating the raw engineering facts and think those raw engineering facts are what will decide the matter.

In truth, it's more than feature checklists. Marketing and social factors can play a large part in the success of a large product.
Right, but I also already see Pinterest moving out of that niche ... even I have an account now.
Indeed! He does have an impressive and admirable past.
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If what I'm doing is so sensitive that my employer makes me sign a non-compete, they have to agree to pay me for the duration.

Then it comes down to just how valuable they think your experience really is.

I encourage everyone to negotiate a time limit and compensation into any employment contract that includes a non-compete.
I'm a survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and I really hope Amir, and everyone else who's got to put up with it, will join the club.
Thanks. Please post results to HN, we'd love to see 'em!
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Why do you feel he does a terrible job? Does the Tea party do a terrible job? Does Dawkins do a terrible job? Did Marx, Nietzsche, Augustine, ... do terrible jobs? I don't doubt you can think of awesome people that others think are doing -- or did -- terrible jobs.

I'm glad someone says the things he says and I think it would be a loss if nobody said these things anymore. He's as much a visionary as Steve Jobs was, only his vision does not get carried out be a multi-billion dollar company, so he needs to keep spreading it with his mouth. He doesn't care about selling the vision, because that doesn't work in a world where many people believe Ayn Rand is someone with deep insight in how the world could and should be organised.
http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&i...

http://www.scmagazineus.com/militarys-ban-of-usb-thumb-drive...

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/11/military_thumbdrives_c...

http://www.dailytech.com/Pentagon+Lifts+Ban+on+Thumb+Drives+...

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/thumb-drive-attack-2008-co...

http://www.military-information-technology.com/mit-home/66-m...

http://fedtechmagazine.com/article.asp?item_id=352
>The military doesn't work like Apple: they don't design, oversee, or directly control the construction of the hardware they use.

they are just wined and dined by the contractor when they should be directly overseeing and controlling.

>And they shouldn't - the government is woefully inefficient at building products, that's what corporations are good at.

Starting at some architectural level, many DoD systems is a just one-off system, not a product.
That is an amazing piece of work - definitely something I'd buy in poster format.
man i wish college kids were given more training before diving into an internship from the what to expect standpoint. This could be a 20 minute class at their career centers in college: these are the X things you need to know (you are not expected to work 100 hours a week free, don't sign Non-Competes, do ask for letters of recommendation, etc).
> Steve was known for acting cruelly to people; apparently acted like a sociopath

Stallman is also a sociopath by your definition then; remember his comments in some mailing list when someone announced they had had a child. There are plenty of other examples. Richard Stallman is an asshole. A brilliant and useful asshole, but an asocial asshole incapable of basic empathy nonetheless.

I don't admire either of them (though I'd give more credit to Stallman for fighting the good and difficult fight all these years), but it seems to me that Stallman's supporters behave exactly the way they claim Jobs' supporters do - by eulogizing and finding excuses for the ugly sides of their heroes and claiming "the others" are a cult.

History is full of brilliant and useful assholes. both Jobs and Stallman should be given their rightful due and called on their failings. But neither of them should be casting aspersions about the other (not that Jobs can do that anymore). At some level they are fundamentally the same.
also needed: no users.
We wouldn't have had Linux without GNU (or something like it).
Personally, I'm certain it would have happened anyway. Even going further, if Linus hadn't done Linux, someone else would have hacked together a free open source Unix OS and got a following behind it.

History is littered with cases where a large number of people 'discover' or 'invent' something, and then one of them happens to be credited with it, and goes down in history as "the inventor". But it was bound to happen anyway.
I guess the first reason that springs to mind is that spec work is of poor quality. Most designers - I can't speak for artists, but I wouldn't be surprised if they shared a similar sentiment - look at products and think about how they could be improved. To see a company not only facilitating poor quality work, but for it to also be pleased with the result is rather... depressing, really.

Another is that encouraging people to work for free is rather questionable. Arguably it's preying on people who might be rather desperate for money when their time would be better invested in other things.

But most of all, is that the term 'designer' now includes people who produce that poor standard of work as well as, for example, the very talented people who work at Apple. It cheapens the term, and I think that's a lot of the reason you see new job titles appearing regularly from within the industry - a "user experience" designer didn't really exist 2 years ago and it basically means "generalist" or "designer".

A lot of clients evaluate design based on aesthetics, which is obviously only half of the solution. It can be very difficult to differentiate yourself from the 'designers' who churn out lots of ill thought through work, especially if you're new in the industry and you don't have lots of client experience to write about.
I’m not so much talking about content but about delivery and style.
Very good delivery. I like how he very tactfully conveyed, maybe not stories about the man or his accomplishments, but how it marks the end of those contributions-- there won't be any more one liner emails, new product announcements, etc. that the tech industry has become so accustomed to over the years. It's a new era now. I wonder how we'll come to define it.
I've been dry eyed the past two days, but this put me over the edge. Classy, Colbert. Classy...
One idea is maybe someone at the hiring company called the former company to follow up on a reference. Usually, I'd expect that to come later in the process, but maybe not.
How is this misguided?

> If the application tries to write to the memory in future, Windows will give it a private copy

It is textbook Copy-on-write. To me it seems no judgement is made about the programmer.

>If the memory is available, you'd do better to use it, no?

I don't understand... if I have 2 GB of RAM, I should always use all of it? The case being made in the article is to minimize memory consumption to increase battery life - something that will be crucial on tablets I assume.
Actually, you can also compare the features of multiple profiles: click on the icon below each star ratings on a given list and then click on "Compare" on the little box that appears at the bottom left of the screen. For instance, for the issue tracker software: http://www.romku.com/compare/144524/189564/152689/152158/144...

(Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Romku)
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They seem to be doing well enough that I'd be interested in investing if I got the numbers. Their software IS much more useful than the alternatives, and their customers have large budgets and a desire to deploy this kind of technology. It's possible they're not executing well, but knowing the people I know there, I think that is fairly unlikely.

Of course, if they were a public company, we'd know these numbers (at least, they'd tell us numbers, and if they lied, and got caught, someone might go to jail).
Why not? Wouldn't Linus have just hacked together the tools he needed like gcc etc?

Not having software isn't a show stopper. It just means you have a bit more work to do. So yeah maybe building gcc might have taken a few months, but it wouldn't have prevented anything, only delayed the inevitable.
You're only posting this because he railed on Jobs, I assume. Childish way to get back at him, imo.
>History is littered with cases where a large number of people 'discover' or 'invent' something, and then one of them happens to be credited with it, and goes down in history as "the inventor". But it was bound to happen anyway.

You could say the same of Einstein, or ... even Steve Jobs :)
Or read this essay by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
The candidate withdrew his application, citing his noncompete. I followed up with him to verify there wasn't a misunderstanding, and he forwarded an email with his employer saying there wasn't.
> Woz put up a serious fight to make the Apple II as powerful as possible.

A fight for user experience. Woz is the ultimate hacker advocate and he understood the II was a hacker's computer. Jobs was the ultimate common-person advocate. The Mac was the ultimate common-person computer.

And yes, the Jobs/Wozniak equilibrium is my favorite period for Apple. The II is still my favorite computer.
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It's a good thing that Non-Compete's aren't enforceable in certain states. California for one.
After being an intern for 5 years of studying I hoped to get some tips, how to become the slave master now that I have pocketed my Master's finally.
Richard Stallman and Steve Jobs is the same personality. Stallman's belief is around intellectual expression as free software and Jobs' was design for culture. In the pursuit of their ideals, both have demonstrated similar zeal and reputation for offending people. We overlook Steve Jobs' quirks because we cherish the beautiful products from Cupertino and we seek to absorb that into our own process. As a culture, very few actually care for emacs or gcc. In an alternate universe, Stallman's Lisp-ness would be worshipped and aesthetics would be relegated to vanity.
This doesn't help much unless they name the company. If companies that do this are named and shamed, it will tend to happen far less frequently.

Also worth bringing up that this kind of thing is illegal in California. If you're wondering why Silicon Valley sprang up here instead of somewhere else, California's extremely worker-friendly professional code is one reason why.
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shaped it into art. You gave a machine a soul. You set the bar high,
and it was a bar that most people left sitting on the ground.
Well if the keylogger is on an airgapped network it would be relatively hard for it to get data off of the network, so some might call it "benign".
One of the arguments made against repealing Jim Crow laws was the harm that would come to business owners in terms of infrastructure and other spending. There were many such businesses whose owners were not racist but who had invested in locations and buildings out of innocent compliance with the law and the demographic business climate it created. The judicial system makes accomodations for parenthood but it does not refuse to punish parents despite the fact that it is absolutely certain that such punishments will be detrimental to the child. By definition, disruptive social change is disruptive and punishment is punative. Surely that no collatoral innocents be harmed ever is too high a standard that favors both the status quo and protects bad actors?
Are you seriously asking why Stallman doesn't desire the death of his ideological opponents?
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Original here : http://foundry.mintdigital.com/post/11104229347/a-tribute-to...
48 hours after someone's death is not the appropriate time to start trying to draw distinctions between their death and their absence, and declare their influence "evil".

When that's your initial reaction, there's no way you're not going to come off like a giant ass.
the worst part about this mentality is that whatever process/documentation they come up to "solve" the problem will make life 10x more difficult for everybody and cost a lot of time and money.
Can you give a few reasons from your own experience? I found it much, much easier to get Windows XP sound and USB passthrough working in virtualbox than in kvm.
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Civil matters are still enforced by the government, and subject to legal scrutiny. You can't hire an assassin and then sue them for breach of contract if they fail to kill the target, for instance.
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Like-minded indeed.

I remember at about 6:05PM there seemed to be a few threads about it, but when my eyes caught the first title...instant grief.
Really choked up in those final few seconds. It felt sincere. Very classy.
I think it's a little different though. There's millions of programmers with all the skills needed to write gcc or linux etc. The only thing needed is time. But to be an Einstein or Jobs requires a bit more skill and there's far fewer people in the right circumstances to be an Einstein or Jobs.
it's more like a naval ship, where you instruct it to go to certain altitude and fly a flight path you plot on a map.

Woah, what Navy has ships like that? Bowser's navy?

But yah, I know what you're talking about.
I think RMS forgets what is important about freedom. As an iOS developer, the widespread adoption of iOS devices has allowed me to follow my own path, work on what I love, and have the chance to see my dreams become reality. If that isn't freedom, I don't know what is. Apple's success implies the market wants a controlled user experience. If that means I have to use 'jailed' software to buy my own freedom, it is a small price to pay.
...question programmer judgment in the aim of saving available memory.

These are Windows programmers we're talking about. The culture doesn't seem to encourage fastidiousness.

If the memory is available, you'd do better to use it, no?

Yes, but what if you run out later? Should you do the dedupe when some other process is blocked trying to allocate memory or should you do it earlier?