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BeOS was a real time OS, all other client operating systems were not, and still aren't, real time. The responsiveness of BeOS and its multimedia capabilities were due to this design choice.

It felt better when you were using the GUI, and maybe this is all that matters to most users, but the implementation was significantly poorer compared to NeXTSTEP.

A real time OS has some advantages as a desktop OS, everything is instant and without lag, but the total throughput of the system is significantly lower. To make a stupid car analogy, a RTOS is a Ferrari while a conventional OS is a massive off-road vehicle. Personally I think a RTOS is the way to go for a desktop OS.
From the comments:

"I used to be able to tell whether a CRT monitor or TV was on or off being in a different room. I guess I could hear the 50Hz?"

I am able to do this as well and usually attribute that to the fact that I grew up in a household without a TV. I could enter a house and immediately tell whether someone watched TV in the basement. Now, the question I have that I never got around asking:

Is this due to most people just not being able to hear those frequencies or just the fact that this sound is so common that most people just don't notice it anymore?
Swiffy saved the day for us recently on a project where we needed an animation to support IE7+ as well as iPad. We were able to have our designer create a flash animation and upload to swiffy to test that the conversion worked. We then used the swf as a fallback for when canvas was not available.

The one HUGE drawback for me with swiffy is there was no standalone compiler that we could use and integrate into the site build. So we now have this manual step of converting the files on the (hopefully still functioning) swiffy website every time a change is required to the animation.
lvillani, yes, the nvidia form of this bug and its associated work around has improved the performance of Unity with my old desktop significantly. Lots of searching Ubuntuforums and the interweb had not turned this up, so thanks.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-m...
I do siding, soffit, fascia and eavestrough on mainly renovations.

I work most of my life 2/3 stories above the ground with no safety equipment, generally because fastening the anchors in a workable place is 10 times more dangerous than just not using the safety equipment (generally because you're supposed to have the fall protection in place because we're just barely above the requirement, but to get it into place we have to essentially go double the requirement height or more to place the anchor - so we're talking the difference between a fall that might break your arm or leg to a fall that might put you in the ICU).

The part of my job I like is figuring out the solution simply to get set up to do the job. Just recently I had to figure out how to get our staging poles up in a 3ft gap between houses to do a dormer. The only problem is it was about 26ft in the air and at best I'm supposed to have the bottom of my ladder out 9 feet and I can only manage 2 to be able to get past the eave. In the end I had to use 2 ladders simply to get onto my ladder as you have to keep your weight past the centre of balance otherwise your ladder will pull back and then bad shit generally ensues.

I have the utmost respect for the keyboard cowboys because my brother is a developer and I've seen how hard he works. Back in the day I used to develop, but I didn't have the interest to pursue it. I know the jobs are hard, and I've seen my brother come home and spend a few hours working on his own code after he's already done 8 hours of company code.

I, however, don't have respect for the developers that think their job is the only "real job" out there or that they're the only ones who work hard.

In my experience I see people across the board who are extremely hard workers from people doing minimum wage jobs in walmart to doctors. I've also seen lazy people across the board from walmart to hospitals. People are people, some are hard workers and some are lazy fucks. It would be nice to see the hard workers in jobs rewarded far more than the lazy, regardless of what job they're doing.
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In his defense he has been pretty consistent on the, we are being one sided on this, which HN can do, we have a strong technical co-founder/first employee bias, we see a lot of I got screwed on options stories and many of us have been thorough it. His viewpoint is that from a purely logic standpoint, the contract allows for this behavior, he has said that he is not weighing in on the morals of it, but that the contract allows for it and that the employee has earned some but not all of the agreed upon compensation. Given that it was agreed to in the future, that according to the contract (not morality) that the company can do so. The funny part is I tend to agree with the owner/founder point of view 80% of the time, but not on this one, I have stated that I am probably biased because I have been thorough my obligatory get screwed on an options dues.
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This mightn't be the appropriate place to ask this. But. Is there anything like Google Summer of Code for non-students? I had the chance to do it a few years ago in college, and now regret not doing it. You could say, just contribute to some OSS, but it's kind of intimidating/daunting without something like a 'mentor'.
I think it's generally assumed that many are hesitant to give out personal info, especially when considering other companies that have been reluctant to erase your data (ahem Facebook), I can see the need for some to emphasize that your data really will disappear when you want it to. I don't see anything sinister here.
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If you're thinking about using this, you might also consider Gordon (https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon) or Smokescreen (https://github.com/cesmoak/smokescreen). Gordon's simpler -- very easy to follow code. Whereas Smokescreen, like Swiffy, offers support for audio and AS2. I integrated Gordon into my HTML5 game yesterday to render a walk cycle SWF and the framerate didn't drop. I'm going to do the same thing with Smokescreen next.
While I can agree with the sentiment that Unity's not ready for prime-time (by a long shot), the last paragraph of the article identifies the silver lining:

If one distro makes a change you really dislike, there are plenty of others out there to try.

Changing OS is a pretty big deal but it's nowhere near as big a ballache as it used to be, and virtualisation and live CDs are brilliant ways to try before you buy, as it were.
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The headline only quotes half of the money quote. The half they don't quote puts the "thank god it didn't happen" in a pretty different light: "because I hated Apple’s management."

This is either sour grapes because the deal fell through or else the deal fell through because he let personal issues get in the way of business. I lean strongly towards the latter, given Gassée history and the unreasonable price tag he put on BeOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e#1980s:_A...
Erlang isn't good fit for every concurrent/parallel application, you may read more about it in my answer on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Under-what-conditions-needs-would-Erlan...

I disagree with Erlang "deployment hell".
The full OTP deployment process is too heavy for anything non Telecom or Embedded. But for regular Internet applications, you just creating self-containing tar.gz file with OTP release using "rebar generate".
Then you upgrade your cluster in round-robin manner.
There are some open-source tools to automate this process.
But it's easy to use any Fabric-style tool or just your own bash/ssh scripts.
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What's the process generally like though? Hang around the community bug testing for a few years first?
Every suffiently large Erlang applications include parts written in C.
In our case we do JSON parsing in C, we use ZeroMQ, etc.

When you need save memory and/or CPU when processing strings, you can use binaries, IO-lists and in some cases even atoms. The default string representation as linked-lists is good for 50% of applications, but you shouldn't use it when memory consumption or performance is matter.
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If it's supposedly a work-related phone call, yes.
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But, it's about the only thing an end user can realistically do.

Spend a few hundred dollars on hardware - install once - things run faster. Go about your business.

or

Learn to program in a variety of languages. Join multiple projects. Grab code, start hacking. Lobby to get your patches accepted. Deal with months of political infighting on various projects. Consider forking projects because patches aren't accepted. Deal with your contributions being removed or broken in future commits. Contend with slower hardware during the months (or years) it takes for this process to occur for all the major programs you run (and forget about the dozens of smaller programs you use daily).

Hrm... yeah, I can see why getting faster hardware is a tad silly. Not sure what the OP was thinking.

Given that it takes 2.1 seconds, can we assume that at least some of that time is physical loading from the drive, and has nothing to do with the actual program itself? Faster hardware does indeed work. And I'm saying this as someone with SSD lust, and can't quite justify the expense of a 256g or 512g SSD. :/
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At least you got it to start. I'm on Karmic and all I get is "cannot execute binary".

Website is pretty, but it would be prettier to show the min requirements.
My fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 has exactly two entries in that menu...

Unity
Unity 2d

You can install other desktop packages from the repositories of course.
Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.

My instinct wants to me to join the startup but I am a little hesitant to miss out on having Amazon on my resume and the opportunity to get to SV, since it has been echoed many times here that SV is the best place to be if you want to start on your own.

But your post has given me, if I can say so, courage to just go with the first option.
This is the website of the "Estimulador de marcha" were you can find all the information about the project. You can also find the inventor email address, if you want to be in contact with him.

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Good points. No wonder QNX feels so snappy on the playbook.

I sometimes don't understand people's hate for the playbook, it is a wonderful tablet. IMHO it is a much better tablet than kindle fire (which is inspired heavily by the playbook btw), with TAT integration and two extra cameras and an active bezel. I time and time again feel that Google should buy rim and integrate QNX and Android.
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Fine, but I was speaking to the offer from the OP. What if the OP doesn't find writing tests interesting? Someone else trying to pick it up later won't be so gung-ho to take up refactoring a pile of mess.

I'm not suggesting that the OP does write messy code, but that it could be if he doesn't think clean code is interesting.

I get the motivation behind the offer, I'm just not sure I'd take him up on it, even if I had a project. I do know people who have interesting projects and need help, and I'm not passing this on. I will be the one having to deal with the project when the OP doesn't find the work interesting any more, and I've no idea what shape it'll be in. I'd prefer to refer them to someone who will take on a project and see it past the interesting parts, commit to something longer term, and be prepared to deal with the uninteresting bits.
I guess it shouldn't be too hard to write a tool which automates that. You could probably even just use curl. I also trust that Google has enough interest in HTML5 adoption that they will make sure that this tool will continue to function.
Just come up with a useful patch.
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Your last paragraph really goes to the heart of the matter. In order to earn my respect, soldiers need to fight for a cause that I consider necessary for humanity as a whole and one that absolutely requires the use of force. Serving any nation's interests alone is not enough even if that country's constitution includes some noble goals.

In my view, many veterans are simply misguided, confused, dangerous instruments of populist politicians. Some are criminals, and some others are true heroes. Throwing them all into the same "veterans" bucket and honoring them all doesn't do justice to any of them.

I'm also skeptical that things learned in a life threatening situation within a militarized kind of structure are very useful in other situations. In fact, many countries are blighted by military thinking and many noble causes have been perverted by that kind of mindset.
Interesting parallel; the original NeXT computer (also created by Jobs and the iPhone's ancestor by way of NeXTSTEP->MacOSX->iOS) bundled a copy of Mathematica.
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Your comment seems to suggest that healthcare is an infinite resource. It isn't. There are a finite number of brilliant surgeons, a finite number of expensive MRI machines, a finite number of hospital beds, etc.

A market is just a means of determining distribution of a rivalrous resource. If it wasn't money, it would be something else (influence, political power, etc).

Having money, in general, is a proxy for the ability to create wealth. Thus, if you can't save everyone, and you have to use some mechanism for choosing who to save, then choosing to save the rich is a decent proxy for saving the people who create wealth. I happen to think that's a better system than some of the others ('who you know', 'how "good" your politics are')
Neat, but not amazing. It barely functions.
So, everyone and their mothers are creating web applications suitable for tablets.
Do you really believe there's no room for web applications that could be accessed from a good ol' desktop pc? How come is that?
Entirely Agree, look at pretty much any small business and you will be amazed at how many things are done by hand or in poor ways (really nasty spreadsheets used as databases spring to mind).

People are always talking about how technology could evolve to make things more efficient and do the laborious stuff often done by humans.

I don't think people realise how much mileage we could get out of good applications of the technology that we have right now.
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Do you have any recommendations for a current real-time OS to use? I'd like to try one out on a desktop...
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Hmm. Refers to Open Source live streaming software (LGPL). That Bittorrent Inc. solution breaks and is closed. How do they want to compete with mature PPLive code?
I think hard to change the visual look and feel is what he means.
There also are lasers like that.. fun times in physics class.
> Who wants to browse the web on their TV?

There's a lot of tv content , available on the web for free.

It's good for viewers(short term) , and it also helps pressure the studios. Long term (since this platform is controlled by google) , it helps the studios and google.
I am at this point in the Steve Jobs book. Apple was considering using Windows as well. Bill Gates was furious when Apple bought NeXT, he really wanted Apple to run windows.
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The TV is the one place where the web can compete with (non-game) apps easily. Look at Clicker.tv. It's as good as any TV app I've ever used.

That is the type of thing Google wanted the Revenue to usher in. They failed though. They naively thought ABC and NBC were going to create new sites for TV navigation and it never happened, because those channels don't want you watching web content on televisions, they want you watching (the much more profitable) television content.
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Before. A quick test by just zipping them up gave:

html: 209kb
swf: 205kb

Does anyone know whether 'on the wire' gzip would give similar benefits?
i used it on linux a couple of years ago to watch world cup (took a bit of fucking around)

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Coding, learning a language, playing an instrument, and learning about what's going on in the world, aren't mutually exclusive. They're synergistic. Learning to code teaches the fundamentals of logic. I learned (Microsoft) BASIC when I was about 7, on a TRS-80 Model 100 hand-me-down. I'd recommend it as a fantastic learning tool for any kid if you can find one; it runs on AA batteries, it's got a big keyboard, small screen with large pixels, relatively indestructable by today's standards; no games, no internet, and no bells or whistles...no programs, actually, except for a text editor and an address book...you have to make your own. And you can do quite a lot with it once you get the hang of shading pixels. Plus 16k of storage!

Also, it used to come with a manual that detailed how to use BASIC. That's how I learned it.

I'm not sure how you can go from saying you should talk to a kid like an intelligent human being to saying that a kid is not a small adult. Either you treat them like adults or they act like children.

And anyone who says teaching your child how to code is "silly" is a fool. IMO 7-year-olds should watch the nightly news (from a source outside the US that covers world events) and have detailed conversations with parents and teachers about what the stories mean.
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I remember seeing it at some google presentation.
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Windows CE, apparently... ;)

But there seem to be some other interesting examples, like QNX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_operating_sys...
What I find ironic is that the developers (and designers) that work on these OSes are most likely using a giant monitor or dual-monitoring, or both. However, they're still designing for a single 1024x768 monitor. WTF?

With Aero Snap in Win7 and multi-mon taskbar in Win8, MS seems to finally start supporting some of these features.

OSX is busted on the 27" iMac. I know because I own one. OSX needs Win7-style window docking so bad... I spend way too much time managing windows on the 27" iMac.
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Just wanted to throw in my "hip hip hooray" for SimpleCV. I've been messing around with it (at shaheeb.com) to work on the DARPA Shredder Challenge (shredderchallenge.com). The code is transparent, but it still wraps up a lot of OpenCV boilerplate just right.

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Anyone wanting to do experimentation of pre-computing logical expressions should take a look at Binary Decision Diagrams.

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> If anything the icons would make it more suitable

No, this is incorrect. I'm a heavy user of Gmail, and I still can't find the damn new refresh button. How many weeks should it take for me to get used to this so-called "improvement". I preferred it when it was text. I just don't see the new spiral icon thingie as "refresh".

Another way to look at it is if you make an improvement to something I don't care about, it's not an improvement. Especially, if it makes my job harder.

You need to actually measure what users do, not generalize from unsupported assertions.
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> since when is whitespace not delineation?

When it's so low-frequency (wide) that it doesn't trigger the edge-detectors in your retina.
Not at all. Wider != more delineation.

Analogy: it's easier to cross a lawn than to scale a wall.

Edge-like features create an intensity wall in the image signal, whereas plateaus of do not.

There's a clear biological / image processing basis for this.
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The real problem is that it's a lot easier to dismiss criticism than to sift through it to figure out what's valid and what's not.

Yeah, it's just "those people", because everything new is automatically better...