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"Otherwise how could anyone who needed a connection use it? Sheesh."

When enough people use your wireless connection and you get slapped with an IP letter for your ISP, you will realize the error of your ways.

"The only reason to fear someone on your LAN is because you aren't secure. If you job involves deploying anything Internet facing you can't rely on a firewall to keep the bad people away."

Yet, you still take security precautions. A firewall was just a example of taking a security precaution.

"even though you now had twice the number of security devices as before."

Is this a joke?

"Than fake security, I mean."

I'm still not quite sure what this "real security" is as opposed to "fake security" that we have now..and I don't think you do either. You haven't brought up one point.
So you're saying Buddhism as you see it teaches you to screw other people over (cause them to become more attached to material things) in order to benefit yourself at their expense? It's not that Apple is about selling things that people might form attachments too - that's the business model, to make people become attached to them in order to continue to sell to them.

That doesn't mesh with the, admittedly very limited, reading/experience of Buddhism I've had.
This is produced by the Office division though - office workflows are kinda their thing.
I was reminded of this story by the first segment of http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/r...

via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172801

/.: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/sophomore-uses...
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I really don't agree with this sentiment at all. There are infinite Linux distros out there to play with that are more inline with power users. Ubuntu is for a completely different crowd so what would be the point of just merging into that nexus? The world doesn't need another power-user Linux distro. It needs a Linux distro that isn't painful to use for the regular people.
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Thanks for the reminder. Added to title.
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I think, the problems with the Ubuntu are :

1- They think users are plan stupid so they have to decide what's good for users.

2- They're just copying from Apple, don't think about why apple did like that. This will end up with a mess. When i use my friend's mac, i think "this thing can't be better" and then when i use ubuntu with unity all i can think is "What the fk they were thinking ?"
I don't know why people have downvoted you but ... Buddhism doesn't contradict there being a deity and some Buddhists worship figures as if they were gods and certainly consider some to have supernatural powers.

So it would seem based on the story here that you've not a strong starting point. Perhaps he was a deist/agnostic/atheist/apatheist I don't know or particularly care.

As to your second assertion, how is it relevant to peoples regard for the devices/software he was party to? How is that line of enquiry pertinent to HN?
Why encourage users to be developers at the EXPENSE of things that "just work"?

When I think of a Linux I should install just to get things done, I think of Ubuntu. The more it positions itself that way, the more it will get users. The GPL and free software culture should take care of the rest. It is the responsibility of developers to build an ecosystem for themselves, because they know how to do it.

Don't you guys see this is why Linux's marketshare has been so small for now? If you don't like Ubuntu, by the way, there are always other Linux distros. You're welcome to install Slackware. On my server, I run CentOS. Why can't there be ONE linux distro that regular people can use without reading a manual?
Wow there is a lot of misinformation here, especially about Zen.

If making beautiful things is encouraging attachment then I guess all of the Zen poets and painters weren't (and aren't) very Zen either. Nor are the architects, florists or writers.

And to say that he wasn't or couldn't be a Buddhist simply because he had imperfections and flaws? What?!

Also, look up Vimalakirti. You don't need to renounce the world and material possessions to be a 'good' Buddhist, whatever that is.
You just have to look at HP to see this. Leo Apothecker got paid a large sum of money to essentially run HP into the ground, and he didn't even have to backstab anyone. He wasn't in HP. Heck, they didn't even meet the guy before hiring him.
I've simply come to accept that Unity is not for 'us', in the way that ipad is not for 'us'. I install xubuntu instead.
> Google will give me

Yet google will not give you any code to their actual core services.

> Google FTW. I rest my case.

Yea, this is what this whole "discussion" has been about... go figure, you were right from the beginning until now!!! Congratulations, you haven't learned a thing. You are either mentally 14 years old or just a troll. GTFO.
> This is exactly what Zed was pointing out with his intentionally pessimized fibonacci generator.

You mean Ted Dziuba [1]?

[1]: http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
Funny, this reminds me of http://Zirtual.com/ founded by "maren" here on HN http://www.escapingthe9to5.com/delegation/do-what-you-love-m...
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The old tricks don't need to go away. Tricks should work across all distributions. Especially across Debian based distributions.
If people want a different linux experience to Ubuntu's offering, they're in luck, there are hundreds: http://distrowatch.com/

Ubuntu has specifically stated that they're aiming for the layperson, not the power user. If you cut your teeth on ubuntu and want more power in your linux box... try out another distro.
I suppose I'm the only one to have thought about fancy animations as positive feature. First line in my install logs for Linux or windows: rm animations
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I came to say that too. If anything, it keeps decreasing - the first app-capable iOS devices had no app store, and the barrier to entry for programming on either system keeps dropping (the SDKs and even the IDEs are free, for instance). The only claim I can see is the emergence of the OSX App Store - big shocker there, given the success on iOS - but that hasn't resulted in a lockdown of regular installs, and I doubt it will.

As to the XCode-is-required claim, that's been false for a very long time - their GCC is open source, and has been for years. It has only recently become easy though, I'll grant that.
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I have good luck with using Chrome's CSS editor, then right clicking and hitting "Save As". You can keep working without reloading, and periodically save your changes back.
Exactly. I think the statement "Linux users are power users," which is the premise underlying most of the OP, is too narrow-minded. The whole spirit of GNU/Linux is that anybody who wants to use it, can do so without restriction--power user, developer, third-world student, hacker, artist. That ethos is primary to any claim that Linux has to follow Unix philosophies or any particular UI guidelines. And it is exactly what has spawned and continues to nurture a healthy diversity of distros. Just because Ubuntu has gone in one direction means very little for Linux as a whole; some would argue that their direction is an important one, and time will tell. Certainly the work that Canonical does on usability and basics like driver support will be available for other distros to cherry pick as appropriate. The blunt answer to the OP is "if Canonical no longer serves your needs, just install one of the hundreds of other distros."
I agree with you. I have been an Ubuntu user since 6.06, and 11.10 was the buggiest release yet, by far.

I actually bought a Mac on Friday. I need a development environment that works. I don't like spending time yak-shaving when I could be solving real problems.
The tragic thing about this is it doesn't have to be that way. People would look at Intellectual Ventures in a really positive light if it was actually doing lots of research, and sold access to its patents and charge for consulting. This would be a really interesting way to do things, and would actually be outsourcing research and providing a convenient way for companies in different areas to share patents. However, they are instead buying up patents and using shell companies to sue companies that have been operating for years and show no evidence of willful infringement. Another strike against them is their patents, they seem to love method patents which are way too broad and taking advantage of an overly generous patent office.

The tragedy of the patent dilemma is that it could be solved by just reforming the patent office, and making some slight adjustments.
F12 can work the same way - check out guake. I both like and dislike it, but it works for friends of mine.
I agree that killing for sport and eating meat are both unnecessary, do harm healthwise on an individual and social scale, and produce much suffering in the world.
Apple's main weakness is Microsoft.
I guess its only a straw man who thinks difficult problems are good for their own sake. As dlo and pg have pointed out, difficulty is a good heuristic to guide decisions. If what you are doing seems easy but is paying good, then sooner or later a lot of people will jump in to do your job or it may be outsourced.
In response to 2), I use a friends mac and think "wtf were they thinking" quite often. Default browser can't fullscreen/kiosk mode? Resize from only one corner, not any border? Heavy reliance on keystrokes with low discoverability?

Apple makes a nice bit of kit, but please, can we stop with pretending they've got it perfect?
Unfortunately it also spins up your fans and eats up your battery. (Also I've built the GUI tool when I got tired of firing up stuff in Terminal each time I start working on a project.)
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> As anti-capitalist, I oppose all corporations

Yea, some anti-capitalist you are - cheering for Google any chance you get and buying a "huge hdtv"! You are just a troll.
The solution to this problem is not to make arrays covariant, but to correctly specify the type signature of MakeJuice:

MakeJuice :: Basket<`a> -> void where `a <: Fruit

That is, of course, only if MakeJuice does not modify the array. In general, I think that often the biggest mistake is variance annotation of types. Instead, functions should have (in)variance annotation on every parameter and on the return value. Then, a function that only reads from an array would be covariant in the type of array elements, a function that only writes would be contravariant, and a function that does both would be invariant. No need to artificially limit the usecases of arrays.
Just ignore him, he is nothing but a troll using buzz words he read somewhere...
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I think Mint Debian Edition may be what you want. It's providing me with what I used to get from Ubuntu.
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The show is more about telling stories than informing people overtly about topics. However, in doing so often listeners end up becoming engaged in the story, and thus very much aware of the underlying issues. People listening to this are bound to wonder why such a thing would be occurring in our society.
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I suspect a large part of the creepiness comes from the lack of any audible speech in the video.
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Surely the author should just pick a different distro? Why is this Canonical's problem? Isn't this sorta the whole point of Linux? If you don't like something there is seemingly infinite choice so you can always have what you want.
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Nothing says you cannot continue your education back in LA. Also, nothing says you cannot dive deeper into the world of startups in Austin, either. If I were you, I'd put some more thought into what you actually want to do. You sound interested in programming and startups, but I don't think it sounds like you know enough to actually know what you'd be getting yourself into if you just moved back to LA immediately. With how much programming you describe yourself as knowing, it would probably be difficult to find a job at a startup, too.

I guess it all just depends on your scenario and stuff, but from what you've described, I'd say stick it out with at least another semester, but make it a goal of yours to really think about what you want to do during that semester.
I couldn't agree more. Lots of people are panicking about Unity because it's not as configurable as Gnome use to be, but they forget that we're in a transition period. Unity is brand spanking new, and I'm sure it'll have more configuration options in the future.
To an extent some parts of the article can summarized as: Ok, I don't work on cool stuff like the guys at Google do, but you know what, all that doesn't matter, as I'll make way more money over my CRUD career than those guys will. And by the way, do you know who makes the most at that multinational advertising firm?...well the CRUD guys of course!
I agree wholeheartedly with his take on this halfassed push towards poorly designed minimalism masquerading as user friendliness but I disagree that ubuntu should be some kind of developers distribution, that's never what Ubuntu was supposed to be. It's entire purpose is to be a novice distribution.

Power users should not be using it, it's not built for them.
I wish C++11 added syntactic sugar for the smart pointer classes like scoped_ptr, shared_ptr, and unique_ptr. I would rather see new operators (like Microsoft C++/CLI's ^ and %) than even more templated code. Compare something like:

int^ foo(int% bar);

versus:

std::unique_ptr<int> foo(std::shared_ptr<int> bar);

Smart pointers have long been available in boost and are required for writing safe code, but they make code unreadable (even after typedefs).
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How would you renegotiate the social contract? Do you have a draft of a plan? If we keep our monetary/debit systems similar to what we have, do you feel there is a need to redistribute equity/money/capital? If so, how would we go about this?
Nice! However Pincus' presentation seems to be missing (atfer Matt Mullenweg's is just YC logo).
>>The Hacker News community has a bent towards "startup = happiness"

This is something that even I have observed, in some cases I have even seen when people take it like "only startup = happiness".
If you talk of "primary PCs" (OS X) it's as open as proprietary gets - more than say Windows - such as the kernel is open source.
I think your view of the 4GB download is going to depend on your Internet speed. At 1 MB/s or so, I've found it annoying to wait an hour for a download, but it's hardly the end of the world for an occasional thing. Could definitely be improved.
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I totally agree. Unity in particular feels like alpha quality software. I like the idea of a sleek, modern, composited desktop, but Unity isn't there yet.

Releasing early and often is good. Pushing that software on people who didn't choose it is not. I feel like there should have been a "Try Unity" button at the Ubuntu installer so people like me could just wait until it's ready.

Maybe I'll be happy with Unity in two years. But in that time I'll have to suffer stuttering, lag and the whims of armchair UI theorists who think Alt-Tab should jump workspaces by default.
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Exactly. The fibonacci generator (and subsequent async implementations) are one of the things I looked at when writing the article.
Is that true of osx lion? How do you recompile and load the kernel?
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and a lot of other aspects I'm sure, given the article is over 2 years old..
Why does this &^#@ get posted to HN? I could really care less about your liberal BS revolutions. I'm here for computing.
If you're interested in outrageous and/or senseless perversions of justice, go to http://reason.com and follow their Daily Brickbat. (You'll have to deal with the magazine authors being a bunch of Libertarians; naturally, you may or may not appreciate this.) A good number of incidents involve schools, of course.

Sample:
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What you describe as an engineer would probably be called a technician here in the US - somebody with a relatively specialized skill set whose responsibilities are mainly operation or maintenance of equipment or systems.
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Besides Unity, what does Ubuntu currently offer that Debian's testing or unstable releases don't? I'm also surprised that people are using Ubuntu on servers.
Agree completely.

When you compare the new code to the C++98 one, it looks like a great improvement. But isn't that because C++98 simply sucked even more? As you say, when you compare it to languages like Haskell, even the new C++11 leaves something to be desired.
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You hypothesize a world-spanning conspiracy where simple economics works just fine. People work because on average they value the fruits of their labor for the relevant time more than the other things they could be doing, through simple principles of declining marginal utility. If all you did was spend economically unproductive time with friends and family, trading a few of your abundant hours for some other gain would seem like a good trade. (Since it is.)

Where you go wrong is forgetting that "friends and family" time isn't a magical good; it's subject to declining utility, too. (In fact I think you'd find many people would pay some amount of money to not spend all their leisure time with their family, however you define it....)

If you, personally, aren't getting enough F&F time, stop ranting at the distant, half-mythical "1%" and fix it. You'll find they're not actually stopping you.
Relevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=172Wne1t_2Q

All in all this is an awesome idea, and its brilliant to see it actually getting implemented. It's not perfect, but few things are at first.
For a very simple start, people who have money are just sitting on it instead of investing it in companies that actually hire people. That means that money tends to go up the ladder and never comes back down. Maybe we can change the "social contract" to get rich people to hire working-class people again.
Being able to do damn near anything makes a computer sound more like electricity than a toaster or a blender.

People buy toasters not because there is a default one but because they've used one in the past and got used to the idea. We need to focus on getting the idea of possibility of RSS-like functionality across, not on a nitpick like lack of a "default" client.

It would be an interesting twist to see RSS explained as "Twitter for any website."
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The patent would have to be applied for before it is offered for sale.
In the middle comes the refrain "But instead, the computers are controlling us".

Does anyone here have a good understanding of that belief? I wonder whether it's universal, or correlates with being a non-programmer, or with growing up without computers, or with bad experiences due to poorly-designed user interfaces. I've haven't talked with enough people who share that feeling to figure it out.

Most times I see it stated as fact, but this article does attempt to justify it, though the explanations were unsatisfying. Perhaps the lawyer doesn't view bagging groceries as losing control and taking on extra work: it may be an improvement over passively waiting in line, which is its own kind of work. She could then say that the technology is letting her take control of checkout, instead of waiting for a cashier, which was the bottleneck that customers previously couldn't avoid no matter how much shadow work they were willing to do.
I mean it really depends on what you conceive Basket<Fruit> as meaning in Dart. Essentially, Dart treats it as Basket<T> :: T <: Fruit. If you see it this way, then the obvious question is, how do you write a type declaration for T :: T <: Basket<Fruit>? The answer is: who wants to do that in a optionally typed language?
What was the company from Office Hours doing Analytics as a Platform?

Even if the guy couldn't explain it on stage, it sounds awesome, definite pain point we see, and I'd love to sign up for it.
I really don't think you can equate tuning the JVM to writing/debugging C and C++ memory management. Tuning the JVM doesn't require wizardry. It requires some attention to detail and careful monitoring but most of what you need to know were shared in these slides. There are also a few whitepapers out there on the subject that are pretty readable. I hardly think changing a few command line arguments on the JVM, using jvisualvm to monitor or -verbosegc etc. are anywhere near as difficult as actually implementing your own memory management system.
It's perfect for a tiny dev server or toy machine. I was surprised, and tend to use Ubuntu on my non-critical servers.

Debian testing/unstable works just great; I keep meaning to move toward it instead. Though I really do feel that Ubuntu packages come better configured and ready to go. None of this has bit me in the ass yet.
I was with you 'til the Canadian part. ;)

No seriously though: we're all quite lucky to be here. The question is how we will react to this good fortune in our lives; after all, there is more to our happiness than merely material well-being.
I agree completely. I've had many of these same thoughts myself when using Ubuntu.
It's not different at all since Nokia is using C3's techology.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110419007396/en/C3-T...
Are there any other libraries that do this? Wouldn't this be fairly trivial to code up utilizing socket.io? Just curious as to what is unique about now.js
'In Time' itself could try being a little more original - the main premise probably comes from either a great late-80s short called 'The Price of Life' (http://vimeo.com/16265933) or a 1970s Lee Falk story, 'Time is Money'.
Unless you have some religious zeal to use OSS software there is no good reason to even consider Ubuntu over Windows or OSX.

Problem with making sweeping statements like this is that you now make it difficult to continue any sort of rational discussion.

(and so, I downvoted you for that last line even though you had some good points to make)
Sure. I'd use Scala if the situation allows. But these days I'm doing realtime DSP & OpenGL stuff and I'm very happy I don't have to do this in a language as low-level as C.
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Off topic, but you must be the first person I've ever encountered who also used ORCA/C.