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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.

A hefty download, perhaps, but free and once it's installed you have a good, modern, IDE with extensive documentation and perhaps the richest and most mature UI toolkit there is to play with. Getting something into the app store for sale may require crossing more speed bumps than necessary but if you want to learn systems or UI hacking it's far easier on a Mac now than it was on an Apple II.

Ubuntu may have taken this simplification strategy too far but catering primarily to the power user and developer is what earned Linux its minuscule market share in the first place.
I didn't make this. I have no idea who did. But I'm really, really curious to see how the White House will respond to this one if it gets more than 25,000 signatures.
If Budhhism claims that attachment to physical things is bad for people, and that it is bad to have a livelihood based on doing bad things to people, then having a livelihood based on encouraging physical attachments is contrary to being a good Budhhist.

Of course, I've heard Eastern thought shuns black and white logic, so maybe my argument is wrong because it is logical.
So if Buddhism does not assert that it is the One True Path, what's the Fourth Noble Truth?

In America, Buddhism tends to be portrayed in this sort of light: basically, that Buddhism makes no exclusivist truth claims. But for a Mahayana Buddhist to make the Bodhisattva Vow in the context of the Four Noble Truths necessarily entails teaching others about certain things which are True, to the exclusion of things which are false (belief in Jesus or Allah or Vishnu etc) Perhaps the missionary form of this is not quite equivalent to, say, Evangelical Protestantism, but it's there.

One concept within Mahayana Buddhism is that of Skillful Means, the idea that sometimes a teacher has to use or allow an expedient practice even if it's not the "highest" truth. So the Zen Buddhists say that all the Shin Buddhists are ok, because it's just skillful means for them to believe in the salvific power of Amida Buddha and next life they'll have a better chance at encountering the fullness of Zen. Or maybe their recitation of the nembutsu is just some sort of meditative practice that happens to produce desirable Buddhist qualities. Nevermind that this is totally revisionist to the Shin understanding.

Yes, you can be angry and discompassionate and attached to worldly things and "be Buddhist." But if you die that way you probably won't be reborn as a human. Maybe as a hungry ghost or a fighting demon. :)
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What's wrong with this at 69MB?

http://llvm.org/releases/2.9/clang+llvm-2.9-x86_64-apple-dar...
You have to reload the page then. Also, copy the changes from this file to your stylesheet.
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Everyone needs to keep in mind that the latest xcode is only about 1.5GB these days... they really did trim it down with 4.2
Zen first flowered in Japan during the Kamakura period because it appealed to samurai as a no-nonsense approach to dealing with that time period's problems (i.e. Mongol invasion)
Over the years, the mumbo-jumbo factor accrues, but there are always reformers who try to keep Zen practice relevant (e.g. Shunryu Suzuki).
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This is crazy. People need to use common sense.
To the list of articles to read before heading for grad school, I'd add Philip Greenspun's http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

I have a summary of it here: http://bfrsblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-every-prospective-...
Yep. Ubuntu's obviously aiming their main product at the mainstream these days, and developers aren't in that mainstream.

That said, Unity might deter the most enthusiastic newbies, the sort that go on to inhabit support forums and help others.
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I made an extension for chrome! Can anyone give me advice what else to do/comments about what you think?
That's simply not true. People pay thousands of dollars to attend Excel classes which show them all the little 99.99%-of-people-will-never-need-this-feature features, and they then use these features to be more productive in their work. If they were programmers, they wouldn't need those features, because they are simple enough to implement. But they're somewhere between programmers and users: they can't program, but they can learn a lot about how to use software. To make those users productive, you have to give them a lot of features.

Yes, the average person that visits YouTube and Facebook doesn't need a featureful desktop. But many people want to use their $2000 computer for more than that.
This is exactly what Zed was pointing out with his intentionally pessimized fibonacci generator.

Sure node can make waiting on disk or network asyncronous - but it's no silver bullet, a poorly though out node.js server might scale just as badly as any other poorly thought out server in any other language. You still need to understand what's going on and not code yourself into the low performance corners.
Related: brand proliferation, when one company creates many (somewhat different) products in one niche and invests heavily in advertising. (example: Cereals). This increases the barrier for entry for new players onto this market by effectively saturating the market with a wide variety of products. Economies of scale also help – e.g. if you're one big company it's easier to negotiate with retailers. Usually done by FMCG companies.
What are your specs like? I've used it on my netbook and a cheap 2006 Dell laptop (no animations) and a dual-core Atom board (animations) and everything had been smooth and quick. I wonder if the problem is driver support.
It's of note that the Dalai Lama said that homosexuality "is generally considered sexual misconduct" for Buddhists.

http://www.quietmountain.org/links/teachings/gayrites.htm

Something that complicates this discussion is that there are many varied forms of Buddhism, sometimes saying seemingly contradictory things. While it's important to be able to use the term "Buddhism" for the sake of conversation, we have to be careful of our scope in making claims.

To place this in perhaps more culturally familiar terms for Americans: the Hinayana (even this term is controversial) vs Mahayana branches are as different as Catholics and Protestants, with the Mahayana schools being basically as diverse as Protestantism.
Luke 11:23 - "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters."

Some religions are more exclusive than others. If you've been (or are) a Protestant Christian (depending on the denomination, of course), you may think of religions as exclusive belief systems. It's like political parties - you join one because it's right about everything, then sneer at the others which are just there to mislead the innocents. Then you join a faction in the party, because the rest of the party has fallen from the true path (though presumably not enough to damn them to hell).

"Religion" is an abstract word, not a concrete one. It can have different meanings. Some religions are exclusive belief systems (like many political parties); others are more like philosophies with a bit of mysticism thrown in. It's only their ability to retain adherents, and their attempts to explain the mystical that make us call them "religions".

I don't think I've ever met a self-identified ex-Catholic, or ex-Buddhist, just non-practicing ones; because they don't seem to think that their lack of faith and practice excludes them from their religion. As an ex-Protestant, I used to ask how they could still say they were part of a religion they obviously didn't practice or believe in. Then I realized that my definition of "religion" was different to theirs, because my religion stated that you had to believe to be part of the faith.
For the operating system, yeah, but what about hardware?
Having read only the stonehenge page and not the full slashdot article, I don't even have to be metaphorical when I ask what kind of pathetic, alarmist, lilly-livered school district would call the police over anything short of an actual threat against the school?

If it happened around here, whoever read the page would probably think some chunk of the student's blog where he was talking about his hunting or range trip got inserted into the page by accident. I am genuinely disgusted at the type of personality who would react to that text by calling authorities.
I think she's expressing her desire for it to be even more in depth. Not necessarily easier and clearer. Founder said it's coming though :)
90% of programming jobs are in creating Line of Business software: Most software is not sold in boxes, available on the Internet, or downloaded from the App Store. Most software is boring one-off applications in corporations, under-girding every imaginable facet of the global economy. It tracks expenses, it optimizes shipping costs, it assists the accounting department in preparing projections, it helps design new widgets, it prices insurance policies, it flags orders for manual review by the fraud department, etc etc. Software solves business problems. Software often solves business problems despite being soul-crushingly boring and of minimal technical complexity.

Wasn't this precisely the insight of the founders of Infosys in the late 80s? Together, the Indian outsourcing giants, Infosys, TCS and Wipro have amassed huge armies of "programmers" to meet these needs. I stay away from CRUD stuff, because 1. I don't expect to be very successful competing with armies. 2. I don't like being a part of a huge army.
> Haskell doesn't have any subtyping

Num looks like something that's been subtyped.
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I didn't pick that up, but it explains the Melktert recipe.
> yes it means a little less freedom, but it's for your own good.

The US only exists because we used to have people wiser than this. Sam Adams exemplified their response: "May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." I cannot believe our lives are more significant than theirs, which they willingly risked over what's really important.
What about something as simple as changing you screensaver? My few years working as a sysadmin in a maintenance department at a University (read low tech knowledge) tells me people who care if they couldn't change something as simple as that yet you can't do that in Ubuntu 11.10. Changing fonts is another thing that's pretty annoying in this release but not as big a miss as the screen saver to most people. I hit those two things in the first few minutes of using the new release.

They are removing so many simple things like that pretty much everyone expects to be there that it's becoming ridiculous. The fact that the option to change some config exists does not in anyway prevent someone from clicking on the firefox icon and going to Facebook. (and I really hate the attitude that most assume people just want to go to facebook. The fact is most people do a whole lot more with their machine than most simplists are assuming with no data to back it up.)

I'm all for sane defaults but don't remove every configuration knob.
Temperature is the average energy of the particles in a space. So if the proton isn't moving, it is at absolute 0 temperature even though it has some mass-energy left.
Yes, and it should be, but the answer, unfortunately, is that they typically have no idea who is a good programmer and who isn't, so they only end up hiring cheap programmers.

In other words - yes, they are clueless.
Steve Jobs, imperfect.

His core, perfection itself.

Old pond, droid jumps in.
Apparently, that part of the site is now "under maintenance". Real classy white house.
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> 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?

Because we've been propagandized into wealth/success race and sold out to consumerism. There's less money in spending time with F&F (also it sets bad precedent, that of enjoying life rather than paying for experiences. The 1% can't allow that.)
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I don't know whether you used "users like my mom" just as a manner of speech, but in my case that is literally true - my mom does use Ubuntu and I quite appreciate the simplification of Ubuntu's interface that's happened over time which has made it possible for my mom to use it.
> Given the growing lockdown of Apple’s systems

I see that kind of stuff said from time to time. But I don't quite understand. How is it growing?

And people talk about it (App Store) as if it's terribly evil of Apple but it's okay when it gets done on say a Xbox.
I used osx gcc installer for a bit, but had to go back to xcode when I needed things like opengl headers, which are not otherwise available. Frustrating, for sure.
I find myself saying this a lot and I mean no offense but HTML and CSS aren't code. If you can't build a binary search and sort then it doesn't count ;)
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Glad to see them trying to reinvigorate the site. Hopefully they will add some cool ideas to support the OSS community.
Hedge funds provide value in 1) providing liquidity and 2) more accurately setting prices.

People who engage in gambling, such as on horses, do so voluntarily. This means that they believe they are getting value for their money blown, even if you don't see the point in gambling yourself.

A lot of gamblers find gambling to be highly entertaining, even when losing. Personally, I find it dull.
Designing for non-power versus power users is a false dichotomy. If it were a true one, developers won't be swarming to macbook pros.
>>My cofounder, Ryan, has spent the past couple of years helping developers at Columbia learn how to apply their theoretical computer science skills to actually programming. He’s taught hundreds of Columbia students the basics (and beyond).

Take notes, Mr Khan.
It is paid for, but there is realistically no time to do it without some major changes to staffing.
As an aside, both PCF and ING have de facto chequing accounts (what exactly makes a chequing account chequing anyway?) with no fees.

No fee bank accounts are gradually going away in the U.S. to significant chagrin.
From what I understand, they do plan to put more configuration options eventually, but they're focusing right now on getting the defaults right.

P.S. I don't understand why the screen saver is important (or why it even exists, for that matter).
This is so true.

I went with my co-worker to talk with a client a few weeks ago. Even though we do the exact same thing, we introduced ourselves differently.

I said I was a programmer, and the response was "oh, that's nice"

He said he was an Engineer, and the response was "Oh, that's so impressive"

Also the fact that here in Japan the average salary for "Software Engineer" is almost twice that for "Programmer" and you can see why you would want to shy away from that nomenclature.
Ctl-Shift-T is the start of my session, regardless of UI
I would go about making Ubuntu into a development environment through the web. There are various points in the browsing experience when a visual HTML editor could be useful, then in the visual HTML editor, touching an element could drop you down into JavaScript to add events. In the same manner, more complex constructs could be progressively introduced to the user.

Furthermore, I personally use versions of Android on my tablets and Ubuntu on my desktops. I see no reason that Ubuntu should "make a dent in the tablet market" when Android is already doing fine for us.
http://docs.google.com/gview

Use their form or add "?url=..." e.g.
http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/tea...

Scribd is unlikely to be replaced here, as it's a YC startup http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1326047 It improved enormously a while back (a year or so ago?), but now it's gotten worse again. (e.g. for me it adds the UI twice, and it's terribly slow - it's utterly unusable. I immediately back out whenever a search brings me to it). It's a pity, because the problem it sets out to solve is still a real one (reading pdf's online).
Uh... Current deficits are future taxes.

This is a bit like going out to lunch with some friends, agreeing to split the check evenly, having one of them start ordering incredibly expensive bottles of champagne, protesting, and being told "don't worry, nobodies had to pay for their share of Bob's drinking". Sure, not yet. But the bill hasn't been presented yet...

Also, sure, stopping banks from selling risky bonds as AAA-rated securities would have helped. But no regulation announced to date in the US has stopped or will stop credit rating agencies from calling a risky MBS AAA-rated, or banks from selling a risky but AAA-rated MBS to a willing buyer. Indeed, no such regulation is even possible; it would fall afoul of the US constitution.

The author's glib dig about regulations that "fix" the problem is arguably the best bit in the article. Can you name any regulation promulgated since the crisis that might, even in theory, help? The biggest one so far has been Dodd-Frank, and it's a joke; many analysts think it made the problem worse.
Yes. I believe the Business on Software conference 2011 used one.
... And am, gosh, approximately ten years behind my peers career-wise. Oh, those expensive hobbies!

That is the hardest part to stomach. I've also wasted the better part of a decade, pursuing what seems to now be "pie in the sky". Guys who got GPAs way behind me, are now way ahead of me.
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A case might be made for a few ounces of fish oil being beneficial, but to call meat necessary is intentional blindness.

And eating it because you like it is about like shooting it because it'd look nice stuffed. Sport and vanity.
I personally don't hate Unity, I just wished I could do simple things like change my screensaver out of the box with Ubuntu 11.10 without having to add xscreensaver. I just thought that was basic functionality enough today to be included like it was one release ago. I'm eyeing Arch Linux right now and I'm getting ready to migrate.
>In short, a whole mess of industries are becoming hierarchical, cutthroat, and >hellish, to such a point that very little actual work is getting done, and what is >getting done is of low quality due to the enormity of political bullshit people have >to stomach in these industries.

This is why I support worker cooperatives. I'm a firm believer that we can be more productive and profitable working with rather than against each other.
Thanks, it is refreshing to read this. Now we could elaborate on how to make a system usable by mom and tweakable at will. A versioned conf/install log could help, for instance.
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I think the article makes a good point about the disappearance of service jobs. But then, I'm one of those "the jobs are disappearing, it's time we renegotiated the social contract" people.
It looks like this link works:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/actually-ta...
This link seems to be busted. Try these two links instead (there are two petitions for this currently active):

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/actually-...

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/take-petiti...
Hey! Woke up this morning to find LiveReload on HN home page. Ask me anything, I guess. :)
Try the "Bird's Eye" option when using Bing Maps.
Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and Occupy
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XBox is no one's primary PC, and is only used for diversions, not work and hobbies. Entertainment is more fungible than livelihood and passion.
I will have a prominent link to guard. The site is very much alpha and has been built overnight. My plan is to deprecate the old livereload gem and point people who want a free/command-line version to guard-livereload.
Technically, any fallacy is silly.

But no, I wasn't attempting to use a fallacy in support of killing elephants. I was flat-out pointing out that his stance on some killing is hypocritical.

I agree that shooting the elephant was a dick move. I'd just go so far as to extend that to chickens.
You are correct, but in your absence you may have missed what Canonical did with the 11.04 release to make a mess out of everything.
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Everyone who does web development benefits from this, starting with myself. Have your browser side-by-side with your editor, save your CSS, boom.
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He said there's a team of people sifting through that, and he instructs them to pass on only the stupidest and best (?) ideas.
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I didn't really learn anything about list-versus-scalar context from this article, but I did however learn that merlyn had been convicted of a felony.
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Sure, will let you know! (Some time early next year, I guess.) Meanwhile, as other point out, you can use guard-livereload on PC if you don't mind installing Ruby.
>It is no particular "sin" for Jobs to make a livelihood selling things people want //

The success is that people don't want things, you make them want them and then you sell them and then you make them feel that what you sold them wasn't quite as good as they thought. Then you can sell them the same idea that they're unfulfilled but will be completed by your latest product.

Manufacture of cutting edge gadgetry has long involved dealing in intoxicants and people; mostly manufacturing without care for harms to the environment and those living in the areas that are harmed. Dealing in people as near worthless entities to be dismissed as simply a cog in the machine that makes the machines that you sell to become a better capitalist.
Robert Scoble: what I learned at Startup School.
Windows poorly copied Apple's UX for years and never got close on quality. Ubuntu isn't showing greater success. Apple's UX is radical and thorough. If you can't get thorough right, it is better to be simple and functional than having 5% of everything be broken or distorted.
Cool concept and a great usage of WebWorkers. I can see this being useful to verify the integrity of files uploaded via an HTML form - get the SHA1 client-side and verify it against a SHA1 server-side.

Unfortunately this implementation is way too slow for large files. In Chrome 15 OSX running a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz an ~650MB file takes about 9.3 minutes to calculate the resultant SHA. Using openssl the hash generation takes ~8 seconds. (Bearing in mind that it's not fair to compare an interpreted script against a compiled program.)
On the other hand, there does not seem to be a way to contact a HN user unless you specify your email in your profile. Let's just hope “LR on Windows” will make it to HN home page some day too.
My biggest problem with Ubuntu is that it seems like you can treat it like Debian, but you can't. I don't know how many times I've updated files in /etc and had them rewritten by the Ubuntu specific GUIs without me knowing it.

I almost want Ubuntu to either abandon the traditional Debian subsystem or have a "Power User" configuration where you can tell it to use /etc files over the GUI config.
Sure they do, it's bundled with their C++ compiler. cl.exe will happily turn on C90 mode and compile files as C, not C++, if you supply the /TC option or your source files have the .c extension.