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the lack of email integration was the least of RIM tablet's problems...
It looks like a big mess of jumbled ambitions. Microsoft needs to learn to keep it simple and design things that will actually be useful.
Racism exists everywhere. In fact, prejudice of all kinds does. And probably always will.

I worked a company where the employees felt it was okay to make racist or sexist jokes with the person in the room, so long as the person didn't appear to mind. It made me terribly uncomfortable, but short of going to management, nothing I said or did mattered. (I didn't make an ass of myself, though. If the person isn't going to stand up for themselves, with me already standing, I'm not going to risk my job for them.)

Maybe those people didn't really mind. I know I don't mind when my ancestry is made fun of, so long as it's along typical stereotype lines. (Pointed attacks on my particular ancestors or family are another matter.)

I think we, as a species, have a long way to go in regards to dealing with each other. We have somehow never learned to treat each other with basic respect.
There's been significant progress in that direction. Package signing[1] is the major new feature in pacman 4[2].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_signing

[2] http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS
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I have an iPad and I have never used mail.app. I use Browser+gmail, so I agree with you statement.

Tablet without email is reasonable IMO.
It's not that the Courier wouldn't have email, but that its reason for existence was not going to be hooking in to Exchange and Outlook.
This has happened twice in the last 25 years to my BBC B+128KB. The funny thing is that it just keeps on working. It's a really tough machine!
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I was thinking more of the web stuff that people do, so may be overstating my case. There are cases where you really need to make things safe - NASA's Apollo rockets and medical equipment to name a few. Also, when I talk about suing engineers I meant suing a big company such as Microsoft for the glaring security problems in earlier versions of Windows. Some Windows machines would be hacked within minutes of connecting them to the internet - in my mind that's simply negligence on the part of the developers - them being liable for creating an insecure product would force them to develop a properly secure solution - in other words to actually engineer it properly.

Where you have a hardware-centric approach, I'd assume that the whole system, software included has been pretty well tested and engineered to a great deal.

But banking software and I postulate most software that hacker news contributors write is probably going to be inherently flaky in some respect. The main fault for this is that writing software is so quick and easy compared to creating something physical that will last.

It's due to the push to get something to market and the "easy" nature of software development that leaves true engineering discipline by the wayside.

Yes, you can be in a situation (especially when people's lives depend on it directly such as medical equipment) when you are properly engineering a solution, but I still stand by my premise that most software development is not software engineering - you're just making sandcastles.
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Yes, they just added it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_signing

Its been a bit of a headache for me, but that's mostly because I can't just blindly `pacman -Syu` through the update.
I meant the Google Reader app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...
For those looking for a more nuanced understanding of this than the eternal American fight about whether "X is/is not racist", go take some of the tests at Harvard's Project Implicit:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

When I took them, I was pretty confident that I was, as a well-meaning nerd, beyond any sort of racial bias. I was wrong.

Although I am deeply opposed to racism consciously, various bits of racial bias lurked in my wiring. It's sort of like how even a very smart person can have plenty of dumb ideas or dumb reactions, especially on topics they haven't paid attention to. Since I took those tests, I've been much more aware of those biases, which a) lets me minimize the effects, b) helps me undermine them over time, and c) has made me much better able to see the subtle effects of racial bias generally.
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The problem I have with Patrick's essay ("you are not a programmer") is that it addresses a situation that hardly any developer ever finds himself in.

I think he was attempting to stress that the fact that developers don't find themselves in that situation is a little tragic. His essay suggests that in the right industries with somewhat more optimistic marketing the programmer's skillset is almost akin to magic. You take more responsibility for understanding how computers can solve problems, but by doing that become something irreplaceable.

The "reality" is context-limited, as are Patrick's suggestions. If you're willing to market more, though, Patrick's reality is pretty compelling.
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This would make a nice blog post...
The reference:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-1...
I would agree that it is to some people the previous/current revolution, but I don't think the idea of starting with your API first has become mainstream and that is the point.

When people start by building their API's instead of starting with a web app, then the revolution will have arrived. Also, the tooling hasn't matured around building web service frameworks the way it has around MVC frameworks the last decade.
Sure you can. The other service will both let you add a comment and track what has been sent over. Of course, that's only if the service has been programmed for it. G+ already is.

G+ handles that on Google's side, and the other service would have to handle that on its side.

Why would Google store stats for you about some competing service, when that service can do it just as well?
Since I kicked caffeine (about 3 years ago), my resting heart rate has gone down, my hands are rock steady, I sleep better, and I know longer get crippling headaches when I forget my caffeine fix.

How much caffeine did the people mentioned in this study regularly consume? When I was addicted to caffeine, the stimulant effects were no longer helpful, because I was resistent to it.
davidw, If you think your last comment was in the spirit of respectful debate then you should go back and re-read it a few times. If you don't want to respect my opinion, that is not my problem.

Racism is irrelevant. Racists are irrelevant. Society doesn't take them seriously. Racists would have zero power over anyone if nobody took their actions or words seriously. Someone doesn't want to give you a job because they are racist? Their loss. Move on. Would you really want to work for someone like that anyway?
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I see your submission has also been flagged - 8 points in under 2 hours and languishing down in the 70s, perhaps now lower.

There's something fundamentally broken about flagging.
It just extracts the list of your likes.
I don't know about anyone else, but using CouchDB feels like I am writing nothing but stored procedures to return the simplest of searches in CouchDB land.

Where as MongoDB has a simple search syntax that I can create on the fly if needed in my code.
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It will keep on working with a dead filter capacitor but you might get some weird things happening or interference because that capacitor is there to filter out transients on the mains line.
My point was that nothing inherent to JS forces sharing of a single global object across everything you do. The embedding (Node in this case) fully controls the granularity of such sharing.
packaging is the easy part, how do they maintain all the dependencies among packages? will that be scalable? otherwise it will be a mess quickly.
I believe it is interesting and relevant but I'd be more sympathetic to the author if he hadn't disabled the ability to go back to HN after I read it. WTF?
a simple credit card invoicing system which lets you use your stripe token to collect payment from others, without being a developer

I created https://widgetpay.me/ with the same concept in mind.
How do you figure? The same basic hardware is remanifesting as the Kindle Fire, so that's not where RIM screwed up.

When I talked to non-tech types about the Playbook, one of the common themes was "it's a Blackberry without email? That's stupid."

I mean, to the average consumer Blackberry is largely synonymous with email and BBM. What made the move particularly bizaro is that RIM tried to sell this anti-feature as a corporate security thing... for a device whose primary appeal was to end consumers.

Either way, it was a stupid waste of the Blackberry brand.
I should add that this is the only negative experience I've ever had with Linode (in a year of use). Their technical services have been outstanding.
The animation is a bit stuttery and I am having trouble seeing the value of not-really-seeing-tweets, still very novel to see all of this.
And as anyone who runs their own business can tell you, that requires your complete attention. You can't just start a business and check out once things are going well, or they stop going well surprisingly fast.

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Allan McRae (pacman developer) done some good writing about the signing package of Pacman on his blog, in three parts.

- http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-1-makep...

- http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-2-pacma...

- http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacma...
The Space Shuttle had a design like this, with a separate backup flight control system that used independent hardware and software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Flight_systems

I wonder though -- in this case, the backup software was never used. In my experience, redundant systems tend to fail more often the less frequently they're used... I wonder how they maintained testing the backup flight system to ensure that it the transition would operate correctly.
The comment about blocking the event loop is all about hogging the CPU with the hash computation, stuff that's not light. See the "node.js is cancer" article for more details. fs.readFile(), although non-blocking, is worse since it actually buffers the data. Some files may be larger than the system memory. Kinda impossible in this case to buffer all the bytes. Even without multiple calls to update(), node is still dog slow.
What does his being white have to do with anything? I smell racismz
I do not believe your comment was worthy of respect, frankly.

If you'd started with your comment above saying that "racism is irrelevant", perhaps I'd have called it a bit naive, but taken no offense. To make the connection between people incensed by discrimination to those who perpetrate it is very, very offensive.

Racism is very much relevant as long as people have power over other people (which is part and parcel of all complex societies), be it political or economic. You can't disregard someone not selling you a house or giving you a job or letting you marry who you wish, or burning a cross on your lawn.

Are things better these days? Certainly! Is racism a non-issue? I don't think so. Are people like Brad Feld, who get angry about discrimination "backwards"? Hell no!
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That sucks, I've never actually canceled my account with them, but I have deleted my nodes and got refunded the remaining money with no problems. Maybe it's a bug on their end? Did you delete the node before canceling your account?

Sucks big time, but I have never had, nor heard of too much problems with Linode. They're a pretty solid company.
AFAIK, The next version of pacman will support package signing. I suppose signed packages should begin to appear in the repositories as soon as pacman 4.0 is out.
So his opinion should be dismissed 'cuz he's white? It's a topic where white people aren't allowed to talk about, except if we wish to talk in politically correct platitudes?

I agree with you that racism is still a real problem and that k33n's comment seems somewhat out of touch. However, what you say is tantamount to "shut up because you're white", and that's not cool either.

You actually went to the trouble of looking up his race in order to make your point. Think about that for a second. You looked up his race in order make a judgement about what he wrote. Didn't your irony detectors go off at that point?
I would like to note that I have, in the past, done the same. However, in my case, I did receive a confirmation email. I think you discovered a bug in their system. It's unfortunate that they decided to penalize you for it.
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Interesting tech display but useless interface.
Typically the form-factor seems to dominate discussions of the Courier, but the really interesting thing is that it was intended to be a content creation device. Contrast that with the iPad which excels at providing consumption. We could have had two radically different tablet categories, each excellently tailored to one specific intent. Microsoft really could have had a hand in shaping the landscape where now they're catching up.
"Pretty please take away people's freedom and here's a huge bucket of cash set up as an anonymous corporate shell donor. If you don't support us we'll give this huge bucket of cash to your opponent. kthxbye."

Ok, more precisely: "pretty please take away people's freedom or else we might tell everybody that you're a poopy head."
Just a slight clarification after a quick web search since I was curious - the $5 fee seems to be a refund service fee and not a cancellation fee - so since you were billed for the month, they were charging you $5 to issue the refund, not to necessarily process the cancellation.
Did you read the article? The Courier was VERY MUCH alive. Over 130 employees working on it with custom hardware prototypes and many systems very far along. It was certainly... killed.
I just wish Google would start building universal apps for iOS. Their apps on iPhone aren't really all that great, and when you add that to the fact that they seem to be ignoring the iPad, it's just annoying.

The iPad is great for mail. A Gmail app built only for the iPhone form factor won't be at all useless, but it will be a disappointment.
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In the UK this advice is actually in the Highway Code (an official government document):
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/D... (Rule 91)

It's also reasonably well advertised on TV, radio and at service stations.
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Can you imagine what would happen if linode failed on deleting nodes? Nobody would trust them with their business. I suspect that the cancellation process is much more untested.
The racism that I've come in contact with (in corporate settings at least) is towards people from India. Not people born here and of Indian descent, but people from India with Indian culture. It would probably be better to call it "culturism" or bias against a culture instead of racism. When you go on a contract and you see 20 employees 50-80% of them being from India and 0% of them in management or even team lead positions, that's an indicator. It's an even bigger indicator when all of said employees have been there for 5-10 years or longer and are willing to manage. The absolute smoking gun is when current the managers bring zero to the table (completely incompetent). These positions in large companies are often obviously filled with friends with no merit, technical know how, or leadership ability. As a side note I'm black as well, and I feel I know these biases when I see them.
This confirms what I've suspected for a while. Microsoft is very afraid of disrupting its main business, which may actually lead to their downfall, if the process hasn't already started because of their slow reaction to the touchscreen devices market.

Contrast this with Apple or Google, who aren't afraid to build another OS that is more forward looking, and may even end up replacing their main one down the line (iOS in Apple's case, Chrome OS in Google's case).
Yeah, I realize as I kept reading that the conclusion I reached may be the same as Gates but for entirely different reasons. I would fear any tablet that launches without email because (for me and everyone I've ever met) Emailing is Use Case #1. It sounds like Gates feared the launch because it didn't align with current revenue.
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I don't know if I'd NOT trust them because of a node didn't delete for me. I'd just email support and let them know instead of the whole "zomg, my node didn't delete! I'm leaving this crappy host!"