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Unity is going to be Ubuntu's killer app that will have people leaving Windows and Mac behind for a different desktop experience that can better blend itself with different modern devices.

Soon enough Ubuntu will be pluggable to our tablets and smarts or whatever hybrids will come forth in the next years.
That's terrible. MIA is the worst airport in the world. How is that supposed to help morale?

Oh, wait. I misread that.
Agreed.

The cynic in me says, however, that much of the organic/free range food in supermarkets isn't what I consider organic/free range. Thanks to the lobbying of Big Ag, labeling claims for food don't necessarily match our own definitions.

That said, I'm not suggesting we stop--we just need to become better educated.
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Shameless plug: exactly why I'm using html+css for laying out the new design of costpad.com. Example (in early alpha stage... just try browser window resizing please): http://costpad.com/ci/item/view/75
Except everyone who doubts the effectiveness or safety of psychedelics gets downvoted to hell. No debate, just downvotes.
Here's the article you are talking about: http://www.leslieforman.com/2011/09/advice-for-incoming-star...
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Release Notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes
I m still waiting for the microsoft linux distro.
MapGL doesn't seem to want to activate on my 2011 MacBook Air in Chrome beta (15) - it just says my computer doesn't meet system requirements.

I don't see the option in Safari (with WebGL enabled) or Firefox, either.
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Did you upload all attachments using the EXACT names they require?

Note to all: The YouNoodle "integration" is a bit buggy, I stored my draft answers in google docs for peace of mind.
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Having gone through financial trouble after quitting a job to do a start-up incl. living with parents etc. here's my advice:

1. You can have two paths in life as it currently stands; one doing C++ and one not doing C++.

The C++ route will probably pay well but won't make you happy, but the right kind of job doing C++ might be something you can bear. Also become more social and better at it; Michael Feather's book is your friend, start to hang out on stackoverflow etc. Perhaps go and work in one of the cooler places to work like media etc. so the feel of the place makes you feel differently. iPhone development?

The not doing C++ route, without any kind of education diplomas in this current financial climate will probably not pay well. If you're not someone who feels they need a lot of money then you're likely to be happier, but have fewer choices.

2. If you chose the latter of those then sorry to say this but like a lot of people under the age of say 60 you probably need some set your expectations lower (I'm 36 and have done and I'm happier). As it currently stands I'd say earning enough for a house, a cheap Japanese car and 1-2 holidays a year is reasonable. Mansions, Ferrari's and supermodels are not.

3. Now go and do research on jobs that you think would keep your interest on a day to day basis potentially for the rest of your working life. Those people who change careers later in life fall into two camps; lucky genius b!stards, and those who earn less than people who are 15-20 years their junior. You probably wouldn't be one of the lucky genius b!stards, so put some real effort into it; go onto forums etc. and ask people about how their jobs are etc.

4. I'm guessing you're from the US, so your education opportunities are somewhat limited by a lack of funds? If so, go abroad. There are plenty of good universities from around the world that will give you pretty much all of the education you would get in the states (some better, some worse) at far lower cost. Google is your friend.

Although what you're experiencing now is very distressing, it actually won't last forever, and at 20 you're far from being unemployable. When you're in your 40's and you do this its a different world for sure, so better to take the risk now, reboot and set yourself on the right path for the rest of your life.

So you could possibly do another crappy job for 6 months, save as much as you can and then go to university in a foreign country, and then graduate in whatever field you want and get a job in 3-4 years when there's no recession.

OR

You could look for the more bearable of the crappy C++ roles and go with those knowing that what this buys you is time to replan, refocus, recover, have fun again, not feel responsible, and know that its not forever because you're putting things in motion to be a better candidate for the next better role.

PS. Start working out too; preferably weights.
Did anyone else notice that the webbrowser in the tour works? You can enter new urls, click around - even form submission works.
You have two years, start banging out stuff, make some mistakes and have fun... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/08/quantity-always-tru...
That is officially called suse http://blogs.computerworld.com/17416/who_really_bought_novel...
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It annoys me that I cannot make the top panel (I have no idea what to call it) either go away or have windows be drawn over it.

The only way to get rid of it is when an application has an actual full-screen mode, but then half of the time it reverts back if I move the mouse to a different screen with synergy.

It does not make sense to make hard and fast UI decisions based upon some idealistic vision of how people will use things (such as not being able to move the top bar or whatever) that get in the way of how people actually want to do things.
I hope Unity will attract that kind of app designers to Linux, like the ones that use Macs. I've tried using Linux several times in the past, and one of the reasons I didn't like using it, is that the apps (programs) looked so ugly and rough compared even with the ones on XP. For me, at least, that's kind of a deal breaker.
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Here's how it was last round:

You need two for the entire team - can be zero, one or two per founder.

The recommendation can come from anywhere. I used a happy client for this.
Try opening the Dash (top icon on the left) and you can browse apps. That's a really cool demo!

Edit: You can also read and write (but not send) emails in Thunderbird, and emails you write show up in the "Sent" box.
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It's slightly deceptive; the browser is just an embedded frame that uses your browsers rendering engine. Hopefully nobody using IE tries to use this to check site compatibility.
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I am not an exercise physiologist, however, moving people from an inefficient noodling cadence of 60 rpm to a highly efficient 90 rpm may have played a role in shaping the results.

As any cyclist knows, over the long term, 90 rpm's is far more comfortable than 60 and it is my understanding that 180 strides per minute (i.e. 90 with each foot) is also optimum for distance running.
"In one study from 2008, rats forced to run wound up with significantly more new brain cells after eight weeks than those who ran when they chose, even though the latter animals ran faster. "

This earlier study's conclusion that the forced aspect was more important than pushing the exerciser outside of their comfort zone. It seems like they should experiment with 45rpm forced exercise to see if that has the same effect. Though, it may have been just the article making that logical jump.
Is it the "forced" part that yields results, or the simple fact that it was more exercise? The article said they were forced to go at a speed faster than what they were comfortable with, yet the rodent study had them forced to go slower than their natural pace, with better results. A follow up study forcing people to go slower than usual would be interesting.
Oh OK, yeah that makes sense - I was actually comparing village with medium-sized university city (in which I live now - but I guess that city size is relative, most Chinese would find my city (120k) a village I suppose).
No, but you can get inspiration indirectly.

SUC publishes the names of selected startups: http://www.startupchile.org/110-startups-selected-to-partici...

Upon selection SUC also asks (if you confirm to come) to give a summary description of your startup for publication on their site.

I'm not sure if this is published yet for the latest round.
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Heh, one cristmas I was given a 5' long, fairly light, coated in in varnish, stick made from some really durrable wood to replace a stick I used to play with that broke. It's still my faverate childhood toy and I have lent it to other kids to play with and they all really have a good time.
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Great work guys! Definitely worth check it! I definitely need it to help me focus with either Aikido or my own startup ;)
Or you have to just stay lean and execute well.
1) Open Firefox, browse to http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/
2) Open another Firefox. Isn't happy about browsing to http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/ :(

Looking forward to installing and checking out the improvements!
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I just checked and you are right, it is actually five weeks. Sorry about that. (I have my own business so the rules don't apply to me. Let's just say I have grounds for an epic lawsuit against myself :))
I have a copy of UHH, and it's a funny read. It even points out some pitfalls to watch out for, at least back in the day. That said, Ubuntu now works pretty darn well, and with "Netflix in a box" devices, we're almost Windows-free at home.

I wonder what Ken Pier thought of something like NOS on CDC-Cyber back in the 80s? Now that was a rough system. "Find the program" (... OK, done, ....) ... "Now, actually run it" (2 steps!); "Compile my program" "oops, 'rewind' the binary output target" (WTF?!?) "Now compile my program so that I see the current result". And so on...
Hey abarrera, using for your own startup is a great idea, and one that we have been using @ dittit for the last month. Have to eat your own dog food!
Report what?

If you mean the expense reimbursements, they will explain upon arrival. (They welcome you and help you get a RUT number, bank account and mobile phone contract.)

Don't worry about those practicalities now - they are taken care of.
Not stressing nor relaxing.
Camtasia might have produced something like that, but the last time I used it (years ago) it exported to Flash exclusively.
> I wouldn't be philosophically opposed to a pay-for-support system if it were done well, but it would be a tricky thing to get right. Normally when we consider it, we end up saying things like "Why don't we just try to make it so that people don't need that option?"

This is going on the wall here at the office. Thank you.
C, like thousands of other computer science students, was the first language I learnt.

I have always felt that a language is only as popular as the niche it serves. For C that niche started out as OS implementation and expanded into driver programming, UI programming, embedded systems programming, graphics programming, and many many more disciplines.

There was Fortran and PL/1 before C, what made C so popular? I will let dmr's friend Brian Kernighan answer it:

C is perhaps the best balance of expressiveness and efficiency that has ever been seen in programming languages. At the time it was developed, efficiency mattered a great deal: machines were slow and had small memories, so one had to get close to the efficiency of assembler. C did this for system programming tasks--writing compilers, operating systems and tools. It was so close to the machine that you could see what the code would be (and it wasn't hard to write a good compiler), but it still was safely above the instruction level and a good enough match to all machines that one didn't think about specific tricks for specific machines. Once C came along, there no longer was any reason for any normal programmer to use assembly language. It's still my favorite language; if I were marooned on a desert island with only one compiler, it would have to be for C.[1]

If I have to pick one reason for C's popularity, it would be pointers (both function and data) alongwith type casting. IMHO this was the combination that not only gave you full control of the underlying hardware (other languages had done that too) but most importantly it enabled other programming paradigms, (functional, object oriented etc.), while doing that.

Thanks for introducing us to the wonderful world of computer programming. RIP DMR.

1. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7035
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Sadly, it still does not work with 2 monitors.
i.e. attaching a projector for a presentation, all your windows get moved to the projector. can be quite a problem if you are in a meeting.
in addition external monitor can only be to the right, since the dash is fixed on the left.

If you want to drag something inside an application to the left side, the dash shows up and blocks the left side of the application. no way to move the dash.

Just two major bugs in terms of usability. ignored for a long time.
That's an interesting point of view- in the past, I have been annoyed with what I saw as Canonical's over-modification of everything.

However, seeing a nice desktop ui as their main product (as opposed to just another repackaging of Debian) makes that all make much more sense- you want to build your main product yourself.
Because businesses use them as a filtering mechanism.
I don't think Azure needs to run Java to succeed, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. And they've been pretty out-front with supporting Java for a while:

* Open source SDK for Java (and Eclipse): http://www.windowsazure4j.org/
* Gigaspace running their products on Azure: http://www.gigaspaces.com
* More info (admittedly from a UK-based Azure consultant): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/09/java_on_windows_azur...

To me, this sounds like a pragmatic continuation of their 'big data' plans on Azure -- gotta go after what the current user base is used to using -- and probably compliments their own Dryad project (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dryad/)
Awesome, remindes me of the days I was writing an assember and a memory debugger in Z80 for my CPC. CPC had this nice concept of BASIC extensions with a pipe, e.g. |monitor . I this made BASIC a nice language on a CPC, because you could easily extend it with machine code.
Last year I emailed 20 of my clients, requesting to chat about something off topic. I interviewed them, gaining insight to their jobs and processes. They talked my ear off. I learned a lot, especially about niche markets to serve them. I now had a handful of people to ask "will you please buy this?"

I could have tried to be a disrupter or social / iPhone something, but that would be time WASTED spinning my wheels and not building something ppl want and getting paid.

I can only recommend what has worked for me.
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No, but it doesn't cost me money to send an email. I'm in the UK. We tend to have to pay to call companies. Where a company has a "freephone" number that's only free from landlines (and possibly a small number of mobile tariffs) - anyone calling from a mobile will have to pay lots.

The combination of poor customer service, and not getting the problem resolved, and having to pay for it, is horrible.
I read it in Chrome , I liked the design.
You can also browse file and open pictures and videos. No terminal app though. :)
Really like that they've done that. A very slick html interface which I'm sure they spent a fair bit of time on. I doubt it was "automated" with any software. Every object is a html element, with "firefox" just opening an iframe for example.

Very nice - even if it's not really a representation of the OS, it shows off the UI very well IMO.
The online tour really makes me like Unity, but of course that is too brief an impression. Might have to give it a spin on a home machine.

I used to upgrade religiously every 6 months, from 7.10 to 10.04LTS. Been waiting for next LTS to upgrade work machines.
Just finished my upgrade, I must say it looks even more crisp than the previous version. I'm liking it so far.
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Cool! You were missed the last time! :)
on my android tablet the fancy tour confused me, i felt like i m on my desktop.. Good job, thanks ubuntu for one more version of new goodness.
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To rehash a tired argument:

Removing the menu from the window to a common location is still a big usability fail. Not because it's worse than having the functionality bound to the window itself (personally I believe it is, but I could get used to it) but because it's the only major Linux desktop that does this, and as such most of the apps anyone is going to run, are going to be built with that in mind. It's usually not such a big deal to overload the menus with Gnome and KDE, but with Unity it is.

And having it double as a title bar is just stupid. Screen real estate isn't at the premium they think it is.

I tried Unity with 11.04 and hated it. The bugs didn't bother me but the design did. I'll be sticking with KDE.
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The tour doesn't really fit on my 1366x768 screen (running Firefox 7). Not a good first impression.
Conversation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3104910
It's a great story.
Steve is a human being , yes humans do make mistakes , else who else will. Its the ones who change themselves are the ones to talk about, he is one of them. Steve was arrogant and cocky during the starting days of apple. Come on guys, he was still in his 20s and owns millions, all self made who wouldn't be ? After his return he was a completely different man. These days i see some posts talking about Steve's grey days , this story shows what kinda person he really was at the end. SO lets forget about his past grey days and lets try taking the good in him :)
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I visited the DC protests, and the main takeaway that I came home with was that most of the people there weren't really sure what they were protesting.

Chants ranged from as vague as 'Tax the rich' to 'Abolish Corporations' to 'Feed the poor'. What do YOU feel is the main purpose of the protest, and did you find that other protesters were in alignment with your ideals or was it as ambiguous as what I witnessed?
Steve, you rock! Don't do the Jerry Maguire and recant your memo to everyone. If Google's executives have risen so high in their own self-estimation that they can't smell the dogpoop sticking to their shoes, then you are better off riding your own wave that started here. Follow your heart and the original inspiration for this rant. I believe in Google, and hopefully you will get a raise instead of a pink slip. Google is a good company that a lot of people want to keep rallying behind. Sometimes it takes a lone wolf, the sound of a gunshot, to shock the cows out of the self-induced trance inspired by their own mooing. Everything you said was true, and those who CAN and WANT to know, KNOW it. Your rant rides to a vast body of water - let's see if the big horse drinks.
Hey @davidw.

We can hope that they might receive similar treatment as John Ousterhout's "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" did. JOs work (including TatTT) is often held up as excellent writing as well. The second ed. of that book was updated by a group of experts w/ JOs blessing, but w/o his participation if I understand correctly. Indeed @davidw was a contributor to that project ;) (thx. david.)
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Totally agree, i hope unity will shine, my adding more and more goodies. On my tablet i would really want to have a full linux, if that is at all possible.
Very clever idea. Couple of spelling mistakes in Ubuntu One, but pretty slick otherwise.
For anyone interested, section 9 of the Unix 8th Edition manual has documentation about the jerq: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/9/

Intro(9) is a good starting point: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/9/intro

It was thanks to dmr that a few years ago the 8th Edition manual and other valuable historical materials escaped the closed vaults of Bell Labs, without his help most of us would not have access to this treasures. This might pale in comparison with his many much greater accomplishments, but it shows how he was always ready to selflessly help until the end, in big and small ways, even when it involved breaking silly corporate rules.

See also the Blit paper: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/

[This is a repost of my comment in G+]
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Congratulations to this guy for earning so much.

The important questions for everyone else are:

How much money does the median author/designer on ThemeForest earn?

How much material does an author/designer need to upload in order to get that median income?
A lot of the criticisms of UNIX in the UHH come from LISPers with fond memories of the LISP Machine which (like HyperCard) had virtues orthogonal to the virtues of most programming environments today.

Much of the remaining criticism is of its command-line interface. The people who wrote the book were and are very much programmers and systems engineers, so the "UNIX is to 133t for too" argument is off-point. This isn't a bunch of people who think learning Microsoft Word is computer science complaining than reading man pages is too hard.

E.g. I don't know of _any_ UNIX user who hasn't been bitten by a typo with rm.

Anyway, UHH is a fun book to read, and it was nice to be reminded of Ritchie's anti-forward.

I love this line from Don Norman's actual forward:

"Unix survives only because everyone else has done so badly."
Pleased to see that it adjusts to browser window height, not just width.
I suspect that null-terminated byte strings are important in some non-trivial, non-obvious way.
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Maybe this isn't the best place to ask, but does anyone know if you can do the 'aero snap' with windows when running unity in 2d (non-accelerated) mode?
All good questions! I'd also like to add: what percentage of that $42,000 does he or she get to keep?

Er, here we go, the answer seems to be "it depends": http://themeforest.net/wiki/selling/getting-paid/payment-rat...
More properly: "while Lisp is powerful, the C abstract machine has largely shaped how computers actually work".
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>Most companies (small or large) don’t appreciate dissent.

I may be downvoted but I'm guessing that Google feels the same way. No one/company likes to be ripped even if there is something to learn.

I would hope that Google learns from Steve's comments and adjusts. Many companies fail because those at the top are too sensitive to criticism and are too arrogant to trust those that they've hired.
He made $47,000 in September beating the previous record of $42,000.
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