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"""You seem to be employing exactly the same line of thinking that is used by people to justify harassment of all sorts. It's fundamentally selfish and entitled. """

No, forbidding people to make jokes because some tiny minority might find it offensive is "fundamentally selfish and entitled". Forbidding people to make jokes because you feel offended by them, even more so.

And, btw, you failed to even define what that "line of thinking" is, you just accused me of "employing" it.

"""I see that you're going to deploy the "political correctness" strawman, though, so I don't think I'll make any headway here."""

What is this, your personal Godwin's law? Since when "political correctness", especially in a situation where it exactly applies, is a "strawman"?

It's true though, you won't make any headway here. Not with this kind of crap arguments.
If (stipulate) digital distribution on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and Rdio is going to account for the majority of all music sales in 5 years: exactly what is the "market barrier to entry" a middleman firm like ADA or a "major label" like Warner can rely on? Can you do me a favor, because you know more about this than me, and be as specific as you have time for?

I'm not bullish on the prospects for small music startups. I wouldn't start one. But that doesn't mean that the middleman roles in distribution and promotion aren't going to be taken by some new entrant.

Compare: Ticketmaster has what seems to be a mortal lock on the business of music performance. But concern promotion is a relationship driven business where firms compete to lock up exclusives with a few venues in each market. None of those venues are particularly interested in vertical integration. So Ticketmaster is likely to hold on to their market position until forced out of it by a huge company or government action.

Why, exactly, is Amazon or iTunes going to abet attempts by firms like Warner to lock up distribution? Amazon has already aggressively positioned themselves up against the major incumbents in publishing. Remember, all they have to do for music is to let more small labels interface with them; unlike the agency debates in publishing, they don't even have to fight the business model.

I just don't see it. However complex you think the music world is, so that we need firms like CD Baby to get artists listed on iTunes, I just don't see why 5 years from now a label like Kill Rock Stars is going to need the relationships it needs now to gets its products into the mainstream market.

It is going to get easier for companies like KRS, and harder and harder for firms like Warner. It just looks like it has to.
There are probably more great engineers in the world than great chefs.
Yes, I meant to mention that last bit about it not being good at explaining anyone's behavior. The hierarchy is like a generalization that can apply very generally to anyone or anything. It reminds me of explanations of instinctual behavior in animals.

In any case it's great fodder for newbies to entrepreneurship to feel warm and fuzzy by reading. We always need to organize and explain everything so it only makes sense that someone would write this even if it ends up being wrong.
Android is 'built on' Linux but it doesn't expose Linux to users in any remotely meaningful way (contrast, for example, with Maemo).

I agree with you that it's doubtful, but if Ubuntu doesn't do it then I just don't think it can be done - Fedora and Debian aren't even going to try and most other distros don't even have the resources to start.
Ask HN: What would you do differently if you could go back to college again?
If you could go back in time and say started college all over again. What would be a few things that you would do different from what you had done before? Do you repent you did not do something in particular?
Would you instead:

* take more classes related to your program?

* take more classes outside your program, say in art, design, literature etc. (assuming you had money/scholarship/or you could sneak into the class)

* make lot more contacts

* sleep less

* or you wish you had slept more?

Thanks HN!
You can't generate DTMF tones with throat singing. I do some throat singing, and a better name for it is overtone singing. You're not producing two different fundamental tones as DTMF would require, you're producing one fundamental tone and then emphasizing and suppressing various harmonics (overtones).
Personally I found it a bit snarky. By the same token I find that UI wars are the most vitriolic, after all they are the way you talk to the machine day in and day out. Screwing with that, screws with everything.

I have found Ubuntu's strategy interesting because it seemed clear that while KDE was following general guidelines around Microsoft OSes to be more accessible, and Gnome was following general guidelines around Apple OSes for similar reasons, Canonical sort of 'turned left' and drove off the road to a new place.

I remember distinctly when I left Sun and had to give up my Suntools interface for what became Windows98 at the time. And it was hokey and painful and it crashed a lot, except that over the weeks and months it crashed less and less, all without a software update :-). And I realized it was not so subtley training me not to use features that failed. Of course if you use something long enough you become reasonably facile with it. When I switched my desktop to Linux I was always more comfortable with KDE for that reason, the whole 'start' menu on the lower left, the control panel abstraction, the way things laid out on the screen.

When I went to Google I got a Macbook as my laptop choice, it was different, and I struggled at first, but once I became reasonably good at navigating around I found that I was also less annoyed with Gnome.

I think the Unity strategy at Canonical will pay them big dividends. Mostly because the Linux desktop market has been such a small part of the whole desktop market as to barely merit a full pixel width in a pie chart of desktop OSes. I believe that part of the reason for that is that the strategy of being 'kinda like' MacOS or Windows in the GUI has failed Linux badly when it comes to non-technical users. It failed them because there was neither the cohesion of implementation, nor the quality of testing, in either KDE or Gnome which would ever cause a non-technical user to think the GUI was 'better' than the one they left behind. Unity breaks that cycle because it doesn't work like the GUI you used to use. and so I think users cut it some slack, they realize they are in a 'new' place and learn how to do the things that they want to do in the way that this gui does them. And there isn't a mental comparison to their previous gui because it wasn't like this at all.

Assuming, and its a big assumption, that Canonical can execute on the Unity strategy well, it will continue to be the dominant Linux distro. Further it will increasingly leave behind every other distro, because while others may trade off market share amongst the technical users, where programmers slosh from one to the next, Unity will be gaining non-technical users who won't go anywhere else in the Linux space. Ever.
You're right. I think I meant more that it shouldn't be treated strictly as an abstraction but as a tool.

If you use it as a set it and forget it solution you're doing it wrong.
One thing Linux has is that it lets the user control and customize their system, and it lets an ecosystem develop where new system behavior can be created.

Not present on Android and certainly not on iOS.

But you probably don't value that if your concern is how to monetize content delivery.
>> So he effectively hedged out his dot-com-bubble risk, not his yahoo-is-relatively-speaking-a-turd risk.

True, although at that time those two were highly correlated.
Have you ever taken a job with a company as opposed to starting your own? You do so not because you trust the employer to watch out for your individual self-interest, but because they will pay you more than you think you can make for yourself.

The app store is pretty much the same thing. I think most developers go into it with their eyes open because they figure 30% is an order of magnitude less than the increased sales they expect to get. Is it short-sighted? Maybe, but what can one developer do given the choice of either making lots of money or not? If all the developers abstained sure they could put pressure on Apple, but that's statistically not going to happen, plus Apple has been at the mercy of developers before and now they are very careful to make sure their ecosystem is complete with or without you. They'll dangle a juicy carrot for you, but they do not need to care if you take it.
"current smartphones (iPhone 4S and the latest Android phones) should have more computing power than my laptop 5-7 years ago."

It depends on what you compare. Even if the CPU is fast, its speed is there to work less, not to be 100% all the time. See:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2782/2

"although the system may require 3 watts or so to "hurry up", the power consumption goes down near .25 watts when idle. By averaging these two numbers, one can quickly see how quick start can extend battery life"

There are Flash-based ads that push CPU use to 100% on 6 years old computers for all the time you're looking at the page with contains them.

Second, the video decoding on the phones is done not in the main CPU -- there's a hardware decoder. If Flash video content is not suitable for the hardware decoder, Flash code has no chance to be efficient. Again, 100% CPU use.
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Has open source lost its idealism?
cool :P
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One of Paul's imperatives is to make a few people very happy rather than a lot of people kind of happy. That in mind, I think this is a good move for Canonical to move to Unity in 11.10. If people want the user-friendliness of GNOME, they can go to other linux distributions. But Canonical is doing well with open source technology - they've actually moved linux to something beyond the more savvy users and hackers - it's accessible to anyone used to Windows, with a bit of tweaking. I don't think they should stick with what's safe just because it's ubiquitous. They can't directly compete with Apple and Microsoft, so experimenting with what Linux can be specialized in or how to make it unique are worth disappointing a few users, I think.

(EDIT): I forgot to mention, I also don't think changing UI will affect Canonical because of past history with it. Facebook has a mass of complaints every time ot changes, but it's still growing every day. The two examples don't entirely match up, but I think the same will apply to Canonical.
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So glad you enjoyed this, and "The Little Bank"! I just started the process of moving things out of the drawer and onto the site. There's a big backlog but I'm posting every week or two to avoid a "verse bomb" effect. However there's an RSS feed if you're interested.

Thanks again for the response. It's great to see that there are other hackers out there interested in poetry.
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.

As for the following:
> "As Steve Jobs put it: “Flash was designed for PCs using mice”

Well, HTML was also initially designed for PCs using mice, but it has managed to evolve to the new era of smartphones, so why couldn't Flash evolve to utilize the new touch interface?

> Flash was designed for desktop computers, computers with a fast CPU and a power-cable.

I have several games on my iPhone (Fieldrunners being the example that comes to mind) that are are so power hungry that they deplete my battery in no time. And yet these are acceptable by users, but a Flash game that depletes battery is not acceptable. Why is this the case?
All that being said; you can install gnome in ubuntu 11.10. You don't have to use unity.

If it were this easy, nobody would be complaining. But as far as I can tell, Gnome Classic (without HW accel) is broken by default on Ubuntu 11.10, with the default Gnome Panel being entirely messed up.

This wasn't the case in 11.04, which had a great fallback that I still use daily, and I think it's the reason the Unity complaints are getting louder: there's no longer a real alternative to it in 11.10. At least not from Canonical.
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Sounds like the forced search from Mint would be annoying.

The real problem I have with Unity is the lack of a Focus-Follows-Mouse setting. Possibly there is some hidden settings I could change, but that's a deal breaker. Even Windows7 has a registry setting for this I use.

I installed a different windows manager on 11.10 and login with the user default from the login screen, wasn't that big a deal. I load AfterStep, but it's kind of a cluster out of the box and I'm thinking of going to something else. Back in the day spending hours getting my window manager running exactly 'so' wasn't a big deal, but it's not so fun after a decade.
Drink more, code more, go to class less.
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I used to run a BBS in my teens (USR 2.400 -> USR 56k modems -> ISDN) and can still hear exactly where in the handshake a connection fails.

It's my only super power :(
Some of us radio hams still whistle up a repeater station instead of sending the (normally) 1750hz tone to activate it!
I haven't read all of the comments here, but I come from a pretty good neuroscience background and have some thoughts on why this looks like baloney. It's about the way the brain works. The brain itself is not a sensory organ. It processes signals from sensory organs. Information reaches the eye or the skin or the tongue as mechanical, chemical, and optical data but then get transduced into an electrical impulse. Even if there were light receptors in the brain, it's highly unlikely that they would be so specific that activating them would cause positive feelings. That's how information gets processed at the level of our senses, but not in our brains. Individual neurons do not hold individual memories. Nor do they seem to control specific emotions.

If shining light on the brain actually changed the levels of activity, it would have an impact on entire neural circuits, not just on this one process. At least, that's how I see it.
As the page you linked to says: '"HTML5" is the #1 job trend - the fastest growing keyword found in online job postings - ahead of "MongoDB" in second place and "iOS" in third place.'
> very narrow pressure range

On a logarithmic scale.
I think people are looking at these operating systems the wrong way. In the past, Ubuntu was the easy to set up but hacker-friendly linux. Nowadays, they are transitioning to being more for OEMs and other devices. Linux Mint is simply coming in to fill the gap that Ubuntu is leaving as it transitions to other markets.
Apps that need access to arbitrary files can ask for it when setting up their sandbox credentials. Apple has to approve that, of course, but that's the cost of "safety."

I'm with the majority here who fear this new feature...
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I would spend a lot more time deciding what classes to take, and take those I'd learn the most from. The experience of the preceding 14 or so years had made me passive, because (a) classes didn't vary much and (b) I had little choice about which to take. That changed completely in college but I didn't adapt quickly enough.

I used to pick classes based on nothing more than the descriptions in the course catalog. Which is crazy considering the extent to which the classes you take define your life for that whole semester. Only about 1/4 to 1/3 of the classes I took were worthwhile. I'm sure I could have picked better if I did some actual research about them.

I wouldn't have taken so many philosophy classes (http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html). What instead? More history. That's a good subject to learn from professors. More math. I would have learned Latin or Greek instead of Arabic.
Google is an engineering, product, and advertising company, yet their m&a finance analysts are compensated quite well...

There are a broad variety of roles within a company.
I could - and still can - make a pretty damn good estimation of a CRT monitor's refresh rate. I can distinguish between 60Hz, 80Hz and 100Hz with reasonable accuracy (in steps of about 20Hz). Also, anything below 80Hz gives me terrible headaches.
It's not a bad idea, but there are two major drawbacks:
1) it's not that profitable. Companies that have tried some variant of this include tunecore and rcrdlbl but both dropped the bits that weren't profitable.
2) imagine startups are like bands; the founders will always do a better job making noise than a hired PR agency. Labels introduce politics and want to see success line their pockets, not the artist's. They will always recommend charging for music, rather than giving it away to reach a larger audience.
Also, I believe a good portion of the cryptosystems around DES's time were intentionally crippled to meet export restrictions so that they were not classed as munitions. So it would not be so much to say that the cyphers were weak insomuch as they were defective by design.
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"And yet these are acceptable by users, but a Flash game that depletes battery is not acceptable. Why is this the case?"

If you ask ordinary "users" they'd want everything, including Flash on every device and in the browser too. Then they'd complain that "the internet" is to slow to even appear even if the page "just has a few ads." In Apple's case, Jobs, not "users", decided what he cared more for.
...and you get something entirely broken! Really, have you tried your own advice?
How about adding [2009] to the title? If I see a popular blog on HN I assume it's at least the current year. I probably wouldn't click through to an old Atwood post.
I really like your phrase "drove off the road to a new place".
I still can't understand why Canonical doesn't just put out a Gubuntu similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu etc. That way, they can keep pushing Unity forward while making it reasonably easy for uses who prefer Gnome to choose that option. I know it's possible to get gnome running (I did it on my netbook, which is running 11.10 - my desktop is still on 10.10), but the method feels unnecessarily hacky.
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I have to search for the app I want to use most of the time. There should just be a whole menu or list

Not sure if this is how your supposed to do it, but I just search for the program once from the dash home, then once it's open I right click on the icon and click keep in launcher.

The dock should be able to be moved different areas of the screen.

did you get the Compiz Config settings manager (sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager)? It has a bunch of settings for the dock (it's not fantastic but it helps).
This looks really cool. A GUI like Timeline.js's is exactly what developers and designers need. For what it's worth, I am working on a similar project called Rekapi - it's a keyframing API for JavaScript: https://github.com/jeremyckahn/rekapi
> I wonder if JVM bytecode would be a viable alternative intermediate language for compilation-to-javascript

That would be very cool! In fact I've been thinking about compiling JVM bytecode to JS using Emscripten. Either by compiling JVM bytecode to LLVM IR, or directly to Emscripten's IR (which is a close parallel to LLVM's).

If any JVM hackers want to work on that with me, that would be awesome (I can do all the LLVM/Emscripten parts).
Playing devils advocate, Why shouldn't things be symmetrical between the employee and employer when it comes to leaving?

If an employee can give 2 weeks notice to say they are quiting at any time for any reason, why shouldn't an employer be allowed to do the same.
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Agreed. Comes off as biased fanboy-ism. It's easy to knock web programming because of how low the barrier to entry is and how any idiot who knows msqli_connect and a few simple HTML tags usually starts calling themselves a programmer. But really it takes just as much knowledge and expertise to be a "web guy". Just understanding how the client browser interacts with the server, the server to each of its components (the server software, database software, etc.) and the myriad of languages that need to interact to form a useful web app can be just as complex as writing software and understanding compilers, interfaces, classes, objects, methods, etc.

I don't like how the argument devolves into "this stuff I do is complicated so I'm smarter and your stuff is simple so you're dumb". I'm a "web guy" and I had a programmer call me yesterday to help him with a simple Wordpress upgrade, SSL certificate, and an upgrade to phpMyAdmin.

Software can be easy or hard just like web apps. I think maybe the big difference is that web apps can get wider exposure more easily than desktop software as all you need is a browser to run it so they're just more visible. There are plenty of crappy desktop software apps and I make them all the time when I play with C++.
i would be a bit worried about accidental passwords getting into the syslog. i have typed passwords out of habit when they were not required or before a remote system responds only to have the password end up as a bash command. i then have to go into the .bash_history file and remove them.
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