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Fair enough. I just don't think you really _own_ software in the sense that you can release it under a different license or call it your own work. Kind of like how you own the CD you buy from your local record store, but that doesn't mean you own the rights to the songs on it.
This could be Dunning Kruger effect at work ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect ).

From what I know, there isn't much (any?) major debunking of zen from people who've studied it closely, the way it's easy to find on Christianity.
clearly, 99.9% of what Jobs did was not marketing.
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Unix power user, huh?..

If you are unix power user - you should not care much about default desktop. You should customize it right away from the moment you installed _any_ distro to fit your needs.

Ubuntu do a great job of turning more people into nix environment. And it is good for you and for nix developers.
So he was an atheist. It would come as a shock to a number of Apple fanboys in the US.
Edit : so downvoters think a buddhist is not an atheist ? or that it would not shock anyone in the US ? or what ?
It's worth mentioning that clustering will also be built into Node.js 0.6.0 which is being released in the coming week according to the official blog.

Don't know if it's as extendable and pretty as TJ's cluster though.
I wear business casual almost all the time, and have done so for years. I feel most comfortable in a collared shirt and khakis, so that's what I wear almost all the time (including today, a Saturday when I haven't left my home office). I would look with equal disdain upon an office where I was expected to wear a T-shirt and shorts as I would upon an office where I was expected to wear a tie.
Unfortunately there is a registration requirement. I will check with JonCruz to see if freenode ever gave him admin status and if he'd be kind enough to remove that restriction (that is if it's on our end with the channel and not the server's).
It looks pretty lonely and soul crushingly transactional. A world where we know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Why don't we invent technologies that let us spend more time with friends and family and less time worrying about the production of goods and services?

Wouldn't it be much more fun for the mother and child to spend time together baking something, than sliding recipes around the world? They've created a vision of the future that allows a father to manage his daughters homework like an employee in a cube farm, simply to avoid interacting with her and spend more time with Excel. Congratulations, but it's far more important to destroy work than relationships.

The medium is the message and this medium says it's far more important to have some slick glass thing 'interacting' with people than to just spend time with them. This ideal takes us so far away from being present in the moment. I could care less about the productivity of the future, I care far more about the personalization of the future.
Conservatives expressing concerns are almost always a turn off.
Do a lot of developers use Ubuntu nowadays?

When Ubuntu first came along, I was a Linux user, and I tried Ubuntu on a few different occasions, but I never liked it mostly for the same reasons why people seem to be complaining. It just felt like eye candies tacked onto Debian. There are many other good distributions that are geared toward power users. Why are so many complaining?
Ubuntu fails to showcase many of the best aspects of Linux as a system. Linux (and other open-source OSes, obviously) is an environment in which users are able to exercise more freedom in their usage of their computers than virtually anywhere else. Instead of an environment in which "users" are at the mercy of "developers", the instruction manual is included. Anyone can change their computer's behavior to the extent of their choosing--and there's nobody to tell them not to. Ubuntu takes this and ignores it completely, trying instead to copy user interface features from other projects and environments to win users that like the idea of cheap software.

Not everyone is a kernel hacker, obviously... but Ubuntu should be proud that on Linux every user /can/ become one if they so desire. To emphasize the same read-only one-size-fits-all thinking that Apple has popularized is to disregard entirely the philosophy of the foundation on which Ubuntu exists.

The argument that Ubuntu is a pragmatic, get-things-done distribution is founded in fact; it certainly is. But that doesn't mean it has to make it worse for software development and make it difficult to actually alter your system in meaningful ways. I ran Ubuntu for over a year and every attempt to dig into the system's internals (init scripts, configuration tools, what apt actually /did/, etc.) resulted in frustration because of the great complexity and the lack of any help that the OS itself provided. Comparing distros like Arch Linux that guide their users into the system in order to make the changes they want, Ubuntu is about as read-only as I've ever seen in an open-source Linux-based system.

Even so, Arch isn't a distro for beginners by any stretch of imagination. And there I think Ubuntu has the ability to come out far ahead, if they embrace the fact that they are producing a system designed to be improved by the "end-users". A Linux distribution is not a product like a commercial software package. It's an environment that should foster both productivity and learning. To suggest that users should use a static system or merely accept their updates in 6-month-increments is like suggesting that a carpenter should never consider the manufacture of his tools. Sure, there may be a table to craft today, but improving at the craft of doing so is an important goal--and Ubuntu should help its users improve in their usage of their systems by helping them take small, friendly steps into improving the software they use in real ways.

Stop treating users like children and engage them as equals. Apple can't do that because they have to keep their users dependent. Ubuntu is missing out on its greatest source of potential.
> * In the cubes, there are no walls. The cube-dweller did not have headphones. Major, major "graaah"

Directional sound[1] tech is making leaps and bounds.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_from_ultrasound
As far as I can tell, SFLC is operating under the theory that if you write something that is not useful except when used in conjunction with X, and when executed is somehow combined with X, and your thing makes calls to functions in X, your thing must be a derivative work of X, and so you need copyright permission from X's copyright owner.

I don't see any way to reconcile that approach with the case law. For example, there have been attempts to use copyright to stop people from making unauthorized games for video game consoles. Note that a console game is not useful except when used with the console, when executed it is combined with the console code (the classic consoles, at least, generally did not have any memory protection or distinction between system code and user code), and the game makes calls into the console system software. The unauthorized game makers generally won these suits.

The question that needs to be asked when you write a theme or plugin is do you have to actually incorporate any copyrighted elements of WordPress into your source code? (Note: the case law supports the position that if a it is necessary to incorporate a copyrighted element in order to interface to something, then that is OK...the copyright monopoly is supposed to be a limited monopoly, and cannot be used to get a patent-like monopoly on something by controlling the interfaces).

So, for example, if someone were to reverse engineer WordPress themes and plugins, and write and publish a document on how to write theme, but were to not include copyrighted elements from WordPress (other than those necessary for interfacing), then you could sit down and use that documentation to write themes and plugins, and my contention is that you would not have created a derivative work, and you could go ahead and distribute it to users who could use it with their WordPress installations.
I think the author misses various ways that OS X has been developer friendly. Last I checked, Xcode is free, and OS X ships with Python, PHP, Ruby, and Apache.

Plus, as div said, developers live mostly in the terminal, so there isn't much that Canonical can do to cater to us. I'd rather have everything hidden from the end user but easily available to the power user via the command line.
From what I have heard/seen elephants treat their dead with respect. When coming back to an area where they lost one of their own they are known to caress and pick up bones and spend some time there. They seem to grasp the concept of death.

They may not have made an association between the event and their loss, but I am pretty sure they recognized the little one was no longer 'with them'. I personally feel (no facts here) they would not have left her alone if they thought she was alive.
The problem is that Unity doesn't have much in the way of deviation from the standard configuration. They're not just changing defaults, they're removing everything else.

This is a problem not for people who are already developers, because they will just install something else and move on, but for new users who won't have anything to discover.

The article said "In fact I think Linux has a tendency to encourage average computer users to become power users once they spend some time with it."

This may not be the best thing for everyone, but that's what the article was getting at.
Mercurial and Git shipped at about the same time. It's not fair to say Git inspired Mercurial.
Also, last time I checked, SourceForge has an application process involved in establishing a repository, while Github is just "register and create as many as you like"
I think freshmeat/freecode used to serve a niche that has now been filled by the open source community and the web itself. When announcements for new code releases used to happen on mailing lists and download links used to be tarballs, it was relevant to have a feed to notify you of new releases.

Now, new code releases happen at places like github, google code, and bitbucket, and the releases are almost immediately pushed upstream to package maintainers / repositories, blogs, twitter accounts, etc. Therefore, rather than a rebrand, I think what they really need to do is accept that their time is no longer here and go for a deadpool. Hard pill to swallow, perhaps, but probably the best medicine.
Without the clickthrough: http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/10/gnome3-vs-unity-on-ubu...
why is this even on the front page? Without context the presentation is pretty much useless.
If you are interested in app development with coffeescript just search github for titanium + coffeescript and you'll get lots of cool templates and examples.
It was originally written in OmniOutliner, then exported to HTML. I'll see about tweaking the CSS...
A generation of hackers may have started with BASIC on Apple IIs, but getting a C compiler on a modern Mac is a 4GB XCode download

The size of Xcode annoys me too, since I never use it. So I've been using this GCC install on my Mac: https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

Couple hundred megabytes. It's still a lot larger than Orca/C was on my Apple IIgs (1 or 2 3.5" floppies?), but then again, compilers come with a lot of libraries these days.
> Linux (and other open-source OSes, obviously) is an environment in which users are able to exercise more freedom in their usage of their computers than virtually anywhere else.

While this is true, it's simply not a feature the average user wants at all. They just want it to be simple, and work.

> To suggest that users should use a static system or merely accept their updates in 6-month-increments is like suggesting that a carpenter should never consider the manufacture of his tools.

Most users aren't carpenters, they have no interest in crafting their own tools, they just want a decent looking coffee table that doesn't require them to hand build it.

> Stop treating users like children and engage them as equals.

They aren't equals, have you met most users? You're arguing from a programmers perspective, not a typical computer users.
I agree that they should come up with a nice default user friendly setup but they MUST also allow the user to toggle on/off the bits of fluff they want or don't want and they shouldn't have to search Google to figure out how. Also, they have to do fancy animations right, if they're consistently choppy they are no longer a positive feature. My machine runs Windows 7 with all the fluff smoothly, they need to hit that point. Since you haven't used it, all I have to ask is if the Alt+Tab screen took a full second or more to show up would you be happy even when just using an editor and terminal? I've been using Unity for over a month to give it a fair shot but I'm currently installing Xubuntu and I probably won't try Unity again until I consistently see people saying 'Whoa, check it out, they got it right'.
building a UI for developers is impossible, because every developer wants something totally different. it's also pointless because every developer will customize their environment to make it work for them.

you can't please all the people all the time. at some point you have to make a decision that some use cases can't be supported, for the sake of progress. in those cases, i think dropping support for the people who need support the least is the only logical way to go.

personally, i use ubuntu (and unity too!) every day as my primary development machine (python programming and database admin), and when i come home i have it on my primary play machine too. it does what it needs to do if you are willing to adjust your workflow a little bit. and if you aren't willing to adjust your workflow at all, ever, then maybe preconfigured DEs are not for you.
If by "I don't mean that as a slight, I do think it's a little silly to get upset about Ubuntu's default WM and claim to 'understand UNIX'" you mean it's possible for a hacker to change back from Unity to another interface. I must concur... but dissent on the fact that doing so is easy for a regular geek. It's not. It may be easy to the people that do ""understand Unix"". But for myself, I found that it was easier saying it than doing it. Not impossible... true. However since I'm not a great "hacker" but a mere guy with some understanding of the terminal, it proved to be a real mess.
License seems a lot closer to the sense of what you were talking of originally. Don't know why I didn't think of that; maybe because it run with the person rather than the land.
And even then, many developers are locked into Windows Environments or Mac Environments (.NET and iPhone respectively).
Seen one company trying to enforce dress code. Not much has changed apart from people being angry at the person trying to introduce it. I guess people would have lower work performance if they were unhappy about something silly like that. That's also connected to spending money since not everyone might have enough non-tshirts to last a week...

On the other hand - I do like to wear "better" clothes. They definitely do work in places like banks, offices, etc. where you want to get something done efficiently. They will even get you a drink at the bar before a student in a hoodie sometimes. There's a stereotype of a professional and expensive look - play it right and you can get a slightly better treatment.

Additionally if you do feel that you make a better impression than people around you, your charisma will improve making the "better clothes" a kind of self fulfilling prophecy. This could work just as well for having the most geeky tshirt in an appropriate group.
Thank you for the tip! I didn't even know about the feature. It's a weird issue in CM7, I guess I need to update again :-)...
Well, as a developer I got over wanting to tune everything about 10 years ago. I want things to mostly just work, and Ubuntu does that for the most part.

I've yet to run into any situation where using Ubuntu has constrained me in any way vs. using another Linux distribution (and I've used a bunch of different ones over the years).
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Please stop giving libraries names that are exactly the same as the words used for the abstract concepts they implement. It confuses absolutely everybody, especially search engines and people just coming in to a new language.
> Ubuntu can easily ship with a default arsenal of programming tools. Last I checked the default install already includes Python.

As does OS X's, in addition to Perl, Ruby, PHP...
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Yes. It particularly shows an example of how bad incidents (e.g. bugs, serious offences) tend to be underreported or have their criticality misrepresented. I feel that whenever possible, these metrics should be used for strategic guidance, but the primary metrics for people in the field to follow should be positive ones—things that the team agrees will likely affect the negative metrics in a desirable manner: number of test cases, reviewed commit counts, emergency response times or serious lawbreakers caught in the act.

But many of the things that affect the final outcome may not be particularly measurable. Without expert knowledge of law enforcement I think that may be the problem with evaluating police officers' work. For example, conversations with citizens may prove to aid crime reduction and confidence in the police, but how do you quantify them in terms of nature and value?
That's the idea - make lightweight, easy development the soul of your operating system. Build the entire OS around immediately useful GUI customization and task automation, for example, to the point that everybody that uses it can do it and wants to. Kind of like If This Then That, but for the desktop.
> Underscore.js for Iterations: each implicitly blocks

???? Blocking refers to IO system calls. underscore is not an IO library. Does a 15 year programmer with C++ experience not know what an O_NONBLOCK system call is? Blocking or non blocking is about how you are performing IO with the external world. It has nothing to do with the world internal to your program: callbacks are merely correlated with nonblocking io, continuation passing style does not constitute nonblocking in an of itself. You do not have to use continuation passing style and lambdas for code that does not perform IO for it to be "nonblocking".
It seemed too bloated for me, so I switched to Arch Linux and dwm for my windowing. I hardly have to reach over to touch the mouse now and I feel like I control my own computer.
Could just use Google Chrome and test your changes with this file:

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets\Custom.css

Every time it is saved the changes are reflected on all open webpages instantly.
Does it bother you for rational or irrational reasons? It bothers me for irrational reasons - it feels like it's too much, but really, I'm using about 65 GB of a 500 GB disk. So I tell myself to ignore that feeling and just install Xcode because it's the most efficient means of getting developer tools on my Mac.
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...and let’s be honest, there’s an iPad market, not a tablet market.

Please, phrase, go away. You're not profound anymore.
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Did you mean Codecademy or CodeAcademy? They are very different things.
PHP is very, very hard to scale. Facebook goes through a lot of crap to make it work.

Django would be easier, and RoR is a bit harder.

All this fades away if you go with something like Microsoft Azure which just automagically handles everything for you.

I like python, so, I would go with Django.
First of all-- the technology was shown helping the bellhop in the microsoft video.

My friend works in a warehouse. It's not glamorous, and it's refrigerated, so it's maybe 40 F the whole time. A lot of the warehouse is automated, so he spends most of his time making sure that the equipment is doing what it needs to be doing. So, just one more anecdote about how technology is becoming a part of blue-collar work.
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You're assuming that showcasing the configurability of Linux was one of the purposes of Ubuntu. I don't think it was. Look at http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/why-use-ubuntu and http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features. They don't seem to stress the things that you care about. Perhaps you wanted Ubuntu to be something it is not.
Git is so much better that it isn't even funny.

To this day, I've yet to hear an argument for git's superiority that wasn't predicated on:

- The assumption that hiding your work in a local branch is somehow a general feature instead of being detrimental to communication and optimized for Linux's development model, or

- Based on a 2003-era understanding of SVN and its support for merge tracking, branch switching, etc.

I keep hearing a lot of enthusiasm but not much to back it up. Do you have a different take than the above?
Ubuntu used to be Debian that just worked. Now it's trying to be something more, but it seems to have lost the "just works" part. When I tried 11.10, I had problems with several of the desktop environments crashing or being very visibly broken. I had poor graphics performance. I had no suspend/resume. All of these things worked on the same computer a year ago.

I think Ubuntu may be trying to move too fast. Moving fast is great if you can pull it off, but it's not worth breaking the basic functions of the OS to get a more flashy UI. If Ubuntu does want to copy Apple, there's one major thing they need to learn: Apple releases features when they're done.
I don't have a proper cite, but I saw on a TV show where they highlighted interesting researchers who were studying cognition and perception a very interesting experiment. One of the most interesting was a researcher who took subjects and measured the Stroop effect.

In case some have not seen it, I'll describe the Stroop effect. The Stroop effect is the way the meaning of a printed word interferes with the perception of the attributes of the print. For instance, if you are shown words printed in colored ink, and asked to identify the color, you slow down significantly on words where the word is a color name.

For instance, if you see the word "lamp" printed in blue, you have no trouble quickly saying blue.

If you see the word "red" printed in blue, you want to say red, and there is a significant pause as you have to override that and say blue.

Anyway, in the segment I'm thinking of, the researcher took people and hypnotized them, and told them that when they woke up they ware going to do the test, but all the words would be in a foreign language they did not understand.

The subjects were woken up, and the test was done--in English. The subjects performed as fast on the color name words as they did on the other words, as if they could indeed no longer understand the meaning of the words.

Hypnosis is often dismissed as the subject just wanting to please the hypnotist. So they cluck like a chicken when someone rings a bell because they want to appear cooperative and make him happy. OK, that could be. But how your brain prioritizes work meaning vs. word color when you are trying to decide what color to say is not something that you can change to please the hypnotist. It's not voluntary. If you are able to do the color name words as fast as the other words, it means something really has been changed in how your brian is processing.
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