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Sadly, RSS is like many other platforms without a default client. Well-engineered, extremely useful, but impossible to explain to non-technical people. Before you can use RSS, you have to know what it is, look for it on a website, and have a client downloaded or an account on a web service. For this to make sense you need a mental model of a server with information, a client requesting it, and a technical specification that teaches them to talk to each other.

Compare with Facebook or Twitter, where you click a link to the default client and can start using it right away.

Ultimately, you can google "Twitter" or "Facebook" and start using the platform right away. Google "RSS" and you get technical explanations, a Wikipedia page, and competing choices for feed readers.
I like the ripples feature, I'm sure a lot of people will find ways to mine this data
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You're entirely missing my point - for 99% of the population of this planet, producing software is going to forever remain beyond their reach. You can give them all the freedom to do so that you wish, they are still going to remain incapable of actually doing so.

Why? If you said that, for 99% of the population of this planet, literacy is forever out of reach, you'd be rightly laughed out of the room. The increasing importance and preeminence of software in every system we interact with means that programming is a new form of literacy and numeracy.

Not only can the 99% code, but, increasingly, they must. They must, in order to assert control over the software that increasingly controls them.
Have a look at https://www.dropbox.com/developers
Some do, though. Not in my case, but some other professors in my old department asked one of my fellow students to provide a letter. They presumably edited it, but they definitely wanted it as a starting point.

I agree it can be an odd thing if the professor does not request it, so it's probably best to only do it on request.
You used to be able to. There was an explicit account merge feature back when they unified college networks into a larger master network.
If the only harassment you know is digital I would suggest you don't know either what it is like.
Not that I do.
I don't see any real reason, apart from ire for the GPL, for Apple to insist on attaching its EULA to the app (as opposed to the use of the platform, say, which is GPL-compatible), for a free-software app where the author doesn't want to add a EULA, and where the source code is freely available. The purpose of the EULA for proprietary apps is to ban various kinds of reverse-engineering/piracy, which is a pointless thing to ban if the source and app are given away and the app author doesn't care about reverse engineering.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me for a software author to say: I give this app away for free, and you can redistribute it, but you can't attach an EULA to my app if you do. If you, for some reason, are so pigheaded that you insist on adding no-reverse-engineering conditions to my app, which has no actual effect because the damn thing is open-source anyway, I'd blame you for the pointless ideological policy.
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Apple goes out of their way to make it difficult for end users to install apps that are not approved by Apple.
It's not his contributions (or lack thereof, depending on your point of view) to computing that draws the ire. It's the really, really stupid things he says, as if the world were physically constructed of 1's and 0's...

Personally, I find his political views on free software to be interesting only because they illuminate a fascinating personality. Coming from anyone else, they'd be discarded as irrational drivel. But from Stallman, they become an insight into a peculiar and interesting man.
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Women get a whole other dimension of online harrasment that men don't.

For a gaming-centered sample, look at http://fatuglyorslutty.com/ .
As a user, i want to have the freedom to install whatever i want on my device, gpl, bsd or not. apple creates an eula to stop me from doing anything i want on my own device.
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Just about everyone and their mom hopped onto the cloud bandwagon there for good time, but with this steady onslaught of praise for bare-metal hosting, maybe this will reverse a little.

It seems like the only thing cloud really provides best is for:

1) Short lived instances or "now" instances.
2) and... what?

I'm trying to think of other situations where cloud beats bare metal, but I am coming up short.
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I think it's really, really hard to dig into somebody's else undocumented & dirty code.

And, I think, to start I need to add some feature, learning by the way of implementing it, about how project is organized, and thinking about how can I refactor its code, etc.
PG I actually thought about my article heading a lot and went back and fort between lifestyle "startups, businesses and entrepreneurs" for the right word to describe my post. At the end I decided on startups since the other two words are further off what I intended to convey. But I definitely can see your point and how it can become confusing.
At the moment, the top four comments in my view (foob, socratic, naner, & dlikhten) are all positive towards Stallman.

Edit: I think this is important to note because it means that allowing the topic to get fleshed out may surprise you. The more discussion, the more mature and informed opinions become. Attempting to suppress the topic altogether b/c you don't like some of the comments is the wrong way to go about it IMO.
wow, fascinating stuff. thanks for posting
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No, people just like to share negative news. If there was a downvote button it would be closer to negative by design, but still not. Negative or positive could only be determined by content submitted.imho
You are right. Casual threats of violence get me about as riled up as casual sexism so this was both a perfect storm and an overreaction on my part. I should have silently grumbled and ignored it.
Are you talking about hate speech or hate crimes?

Only one deserves punishment.
The recent High Scalability article outlining the Stackoverflow and Stackexchange network is worth a read.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/10/24/stackexchange-arc...

Joel makes some good points on why they stayed with physical hardware.
I just pirated a copy of OS X and installed it in a VM under my Linux/Windows dual boot (the VirtualBox VM file can be opened in either Linux or Windows). I don't know about laptops, but with a decent desktop (probably cost me ~$1000 to build it ~6 months ago with components from Newegg and Amazon, but $500 would be sufficient), you can virtualize OS X without any problems.
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Not sure if you've seen this series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY (despite looking/sounding boring at the start, stick with it; it's really captivating and interesting), but it is amazing just how much 'small' growth (even 2-3% p/a) can cause things to double in much less time than you'd imagine.

Or if you haven't got the time to watch the whole thing (is close to an hour all in all), this touches on a couple of the topics the video covers: http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/exponential-growth-tut... (naturally doubling every minute is on a much faster scale to the Human population!)
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Ok, I believe I now understand what you believe to be the problem: many people disagree with you on what should be the boundary of free speech. It's a little unkind to categorize disagreement as "the problem", but whatever.

If that's what mootothemax and airlocksoftware meant, then I'd suggest they are wrong. Most of the people reading this page do "get it", but disagree because they assign a higher value to free speech than mootothemax and airlocksoftware do.

This is good - we are all on the same page regarding the facts, we merely disagree on the underlying values.
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There is a downvote button, it's just visible after a certain karma threshold, which moves up at the same rate as "karma inflation".
Sorry you feel I was talking down to you. I wasn't. I'm neither in a position to nor is it something I actually do.

My suggestion was that outrage is not the correct response to affluence; admiration is. Driving a $100,000 car is not unreasonable.

I don't lack self confidence, I simply like to encourage people to hustle. I do this with my friends and family constantly. I'm not rich, but I will be some day because I have the attitude and the hustle.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. If I wanted to be condescending initially, I would have replied with a more 4chan-esque "cry more, poorfag" or something along those lines.
iPhone is def not in the green. 3G iphone cannot run iOS 5. However there are what... 5 total iphone models and how many android?
lets suppose there is an alien race present in the neighborhood of the Solar system that's technologically and mentally superior to human race. Applying our current human standards it would be natural if the aliens apply the "owning" paradigm toward humans - we'd make such a funny, easily trainable pets! They would control our population through neutering and mass euthanizing as to them it would sure look like we aren't able to manage it on our own. They would keep us "inside" as otherwise we can go outside and hurt ourselves (if we brought to other planets) or start a brawl or even war among ourselves if we left to our devices on Earth.

Lets suppose that after some time the aliens would notice that humans are also intelligent beings, with intelligence that would seem to the aliens as much inferior, yet still intelligence, and these rough sounds produced by humans is actually a meaningful, though as would seem to the aliens very primitive, communication. And if the aliens would try to imagine changing "owning" to "coexistence" model they would naturally ask each other the question "So in the coexistence model, how would things work? I'm genuinely curious how you see things functioning." Would you have anything to say to the aliens in response to such a question? :)

[Note: the obvious elephant in the room of the human/animals relationship - meat eating - will be addressed in a few decades by synthetic meat which by superceding natural meat in energetic efficiency and biological fitness for human body would make eating natural meat a stupid disgusting obsolete habit like smoking. Note to the note : i'm not a vegetarian and quit smoking 10+ years ago]
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Well without that then the quote would be vapid. It's clear that there is a tension there, but Franklin's position is that liberty is worth the risk.
> I'm trying to think of other situations where cloud beats bare metal, but I am coming up short.

smaller businesses where economies of scale don't kick in, and/or smaller businesses that want to hedge their bets on growth.
Now if only they could get their multiple account sign-in feature polished. I use one Google account for Youtube, one for Google groups, and then my Apps account for email and plus. Why can't I set my preferred account for each service?

The day I went to Google.com and noticed I was signed in was the first sign of trouble. Why do I have to have my account used everywhere I go? I don't want you to log me in for searching when I check my email.
If this trend picks up, there's a good business opportunity if someone comes up with a way to combine the best of the cloud with the best of dedicated hosting.
Virtualized OS X is allowed within limitations. 10.6 required the Server version to be (legally) virtualized, while 10.7 allows 2 extra copies to be virtualized. In both cases, the host needs to be OS X, on Apple hardware.
Even Dropbox, a cloud company, uses Amazon S3.
So don't use Apple hardware. Simple.
or the iOS app. I suspect updates will be rolling out in the next few days. This is life on the bleeding edge.
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Nintendo has always done that with their handheld game systems though, at least the successful ones. They iterate the thing to death and then come out with something new. The 3DS's problem is that it looks like simply another iteration of the original DS, not something new. Whether or not that's really true, that's definitely how it looks. Games don't look significantly better, they are lacking any "must have" 3DS titles (the holidays might change this, time will tell) and the 3D feature doesn't really add that much to the games (in my case, I get a headache after a few minutes with 3D enabled).
This reminds me of the stupidity of Spotify going to Facebook only. Don't lock yourself into ONLY using someone else's platform that only they control for authentication (facebook/twitter/etc). At least have an option for something like OAuth where you can host your own as well and no one group holds control.

I wonder when people will realize handing over the keys this way is a terrible idea. Support those platforms if you want, certainly. But don't make them the only way to interact with you.
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There's different versions of "the cloud". See my article here: http://swombat.com/2010/12/8/cloud-computing-services

In short, "cloud" services (aka Software as a Service in the cloud) are brilliantly useful. No one will seriously question the usefulness of Dropbox, for example.

Platform-as-a-Service is also obviously useful. Google App Engine is qualitatively different from running your own hardware.

Infrastructure as a Service is useful too, if you know how to use it, but in a more limited set of circumstances. The circumstances where it's useful include things like: having an event-based site (e.g. a site related to a sport event) which will need a lot of hardware for a short time and not much afterwards; an app where, due to your solid marketing channels, you expect fairly rapid and unpredictable growth of the usage and you will need to provision new servers quickly; an app where the load varies significantly throughout the day or the week (e.g. something that does batch processing of a lot of data on a regular basis, but is idle the rest of the time).
The cloud became the new hot thing and lots and lots of people, sites, enterprises jumped on board. Need to quickly deploy code without any understanding of how infrastructure works? Great, the cloud solves your problem! Who needs experienced infrastructure people anyway? Need to quickly respond to a spike in traffic? Great, the cloud solves your problem! Need guaranteed SLAs, reliable CPU, memory and disk performance? Yeah good luck with that. The price, at any sort of reasonable scale, of the cloud is almost always more expensive than doing it yourself (VMs). Cloud computing is completely bad but it's not the panacea that too many people make it out to be.
I think it depends what you mean by 'beats'. In term of performance bare metal will always win, and in a stable situation it can even work out economically.

Where the cloud comes in useful is when you're just starting out and have no idea what kind of demand you should be planning for. Are you going to get swamped? If so, no big deal- spin up a few more machines. If not, you're sitting pretty. Making those kinds of changes with a bare metal setup takes time.

All this said, I am surprised by the number of successful, profitable companies that still use the cloud. Once you know your numbers and have a reasonable outlook for the future you should at least investigate getting some hosting of your own.
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Fixing bugs isn't sexy, but it's a pretty good place to start to familiarize yourself with the open-source project. As you work through the source code tracking functions, you'll be able to see different parts of the project, and ultimately, places of improvement where none existed before (i.e. unimplemented features you can write).
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Firefox made an attempt at this problem with an RSS icon, but failed.
Like the blog says, CPU is fairly cheap on the cloud. Memory is fairly expensive and normally good disk IO cannot be purchased (Bytemark's BigV looks different in this regard). We have a service (http://www.mynaweb.com/) that has a bunch of mostly CPU bound services and a few IO bound ones. We also want the CPU bound services to be near to customers. It makes sense for us to acquire cheap cloud instances around the world for the CPU bound services and keep the IO bound stuff on dedicated hosts.
Having extra hardware to help speed it up doesn't stop it from being bank switching. That is its essential nature, it doesn't matter how heavy the lipstick is.
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TL;DR;

You should probably go outside, make friends, enjoy life.

I've been through the exact same steps, PHP > Python > Ruby. I'm glad you got here so young. But, these codes won't give you ideas or purpose or inspiration. They comes from REAL WORLD.

So, Go outside, Make Friends, Enjoy!
The iPad will dominate the tablet market like the iPod did to the mp3 player market.

"Cheap plentiful shit will eventually overtake high quality products"

You're right about this one.
> One last thing about getting dedicated hardware. It's cheaper a lot cheaper. We have machines that give us 2-4x performance that cost less than half as much as their cloud equivalents and we're not even co-locating.

I've been saying this for ages, and every time people would fall over backwards trying to defend/prove their cloud mistake...

"The cloud is cheaper, faster, and infinitely scalable."

Except none of those 3 is true for any real world use case, but a few.

The moment a popular site like Reddit switches to the cloud, is the moment it becomes barely usable during certain times of the day.
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...I don't really care to understand. What little i've read on feminism leads me to think that modern feminism is a passe joke. My guess is modern feminism doesn't connect well enough with the average woman who doesn't complain when the boss grabs her ass or passes her up for the unqualified white male in the boys' club. They need a new strategy and better marketing. Most of all they need solidarity. And maybe a less antagonistic approach to equality, like "human equality" instead of "women's equality." But everybody just defends their own kind I guess.
It seems like everyone backing Stallman's fundamentalist stance has this either/or attitude as it applies to the free software vs. proprietary issue (which is really a false dichotomy). They may pay lip service to the idea that both have their place but continue to back the RMS extremist position.

When I say the world doesn't work like that I don't know how I could clarify. The previous sentences explain it I think. The world works like this: people pay money for goods and services. Some nice people help others and give things away free but we all need money to survive. If OS X or MS Office were GPL someone would derive a work, give it away free and we wouldn't have those companies to make nice things like our iPhones and whatnot. The free software movement has given us a ton of great things and have done their share of innovation but it's the big guys who are making money that are improving on those ideas and creating products that everyone can enjoy, not just us power users, hackers, and other technophiles.

In the end, the general tech using public just wants to surf the web, do some work, make a phone call and generally just have a product work. The restrictions put on proprietary tech (like the apple walled garden and the upcoming Windows 8 secure boot) are a small price to pay in their eyes to just be able to turn on their devices and get something done.

Let's be honest here and admit that the FSF and all it's made, while truly awesome, just isn't ready for the average user. We need the evil software companies not only to make products that are useful for everyone but to actually continue copyrighting and patenting their works because really these restrictions are what fuel innovation. I don't like the premise of the FSF. I'm on board with open source, though. I value both and in the end, while its kind of dumb when you step back and look at the big picture, both sides need each other.
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I think the cloud is also good for getting an MVP out the door. The cloud makes sense for startup that has few employees and wants to focus on the product rather than managing bare metal. Of course if/when they become successful it makes sense to move onto their own infrastructure.

This how I always thought it went, so stories of growing companies moving off the cloud don't seem like a big deal - just a natural progression.
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Was this back when Apple was suing everyone over "look and feel"? The FSF was "boycotting" Apple, which as a pragmatic matter, only made it difficult to find tools for A/UX.
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about his death at most 30 hours after his last breath.

So what? The same could be said about Muammar Gaddafi.

> I know of another way of being a tactless jerk: criticizing a religion

Criticizing a religion is innately tactless? There are certainly tactless ways of criticizing a religion that would make you out to be a jerk, but I'd think there are certainly ways of criticizing a religion without being a jerk.

Steve Jobs was really in no way whatsoever an idol to me. He was a well-known public figure, which made his death news. If rms wrote an email to steve's wife about how her husband was a horrible person and that he was glad he was gone, that would be incredibly rude and tactless. Commenting on his blog about how a public figure's death affects him and his movement which he cares very deeply amount is, imo, not.
Yeah, men have absolutely never been accused of being fat, ugly, or accused of having a societally unacceptable number of sexual partners.

What exactly is wrong with the idea that we shouldn't harass anyone?

What is wrong with the idea that all people are created equal and that people don't need special privileges or protections based on gender/race/sexual orientation?