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Some of us on that list haven't contributed in a really long time.

My contributions for example were pre rails 1.0 days so my part of that number isn't really meaningful to current popularity.
How do you know this is true: "Engineers who become photographers generally spend an outsized amount of time making their images sharp, have true color, be adequately lit, etc."

Not all engineers are robots. It doesn't take an artist to realize art has both technical and human/emotional components.
What do incubators like theMorpheus, TSC offer?
I don't check how long an article is before I start reading it, but if it goes on for too long without getting anywhere I'll stop.
You do not need a $2000 camera to take your 2 year old daughter's birthday party photos. PERIOD.

You do not need a Porsche to commute to work. You do not need a steak for dinner. You do not need air conditioning. You do not need toilet paper.

The 5D is a wonderful piece of technology. A person should feel no shame about owning one, nor for excitedly talking about it.
That's part of the solution, but labels aren't ubiquitous: https://github.com/rails/dynamic_form/network/members
One reason to learn the science behind correct technique is to allow creative use of 'wrong' technique - weird depth of field can look nice; HDR photos are an interesting concept (but for sure there are way too many!); tilt-shift is a neat gimmick; etc etc.

And these creative uses of wrong settings are, surely, hacking?
Sorry. I didn't expect this to be trending on HackerNews or I would of done another pass over it for grammar.

Edit: fixed https://github.com/zbowling/zbowling.github.com/commit/84ece...
Wow, this guy is so pretentious. Engineers are a creative bunch, and Peter Norvig's post seemed more like an overview of why your images turn out less optimal than they could be. How the composition and what you decide to shoot aren't even touched there and this guy thinks that's all we care about in photography.
I'll just leave these here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_photography

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/
Glad I read the comments before I posted but exactly this. I'm definitely not a Steve hater but this isn't gospel. These "quotes" you hear on a daily basis if you have ever been around a small business, startup, or worked with others.
XFCE is great. I switched to xubuntu and loving it. It might be lacking. but I find it far more enjoyable to use than Unity or gnome3. I tried to use both gnome3 and unity. and both had me very frustrated.
> I think the argument can be made that this is exactly why git is cool. Which repository is considered the "master" repository becomes a "social decision" instead of a technical one (by means of the admin rights). However, GitHub emphasizes the role of the "original" repository by mentioning it everywhere (as pointed out by the author).

That's TFA's whole point...
I feel compelled to point out (as is done here http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-everyon...) that it is possible that no such explanation exists. My understanding is that most people doing theoretical research in quantum computing don't need to have intuitive explanations for their results, since the calculations work themselves out. This is a depressing but honest observation.

I found quantum mechanics courses very frustrating for exactly this reason, especially in grad school, when the calculations became especially dense and the rationale impenetrable (I have since left physics). Occasionally there would be some little gem of insight into a particular phenomena where the result could be explained in a clear way, but the default approach was to just "do the calculation".

I can't explain exactly how a quantum computer works (because I don't understand it myself) but I will say that the reason the kind of analogy given above might make sense from a quantum mechanical perspective is that the state of the system and the operations that mutate the state have semantics different from classical computers. In particular, the state of the system is given by a bunch of complex numbers, which you can think of as a collection of arrows on the plane. The length and direction that these arrows are pointed in determines the probability for a bit having a particular sign. For example if an arrow is aligned more east-to west the measured classical bit will more likely be a 1, whereas if it is aligned north to south, the bit will tend to be a zero. The tricky part comes when one tries to consider how the state changes in time when subject to some operations. Fundamental particles like electrons or photons are "indistinguishable", which is to say that there are no properties intrinsic to a particular particle that allow one to distinguish it from another such particle of the same type. The result is that the arrows describing our bits (which we can think of as fundamental particles) become coupled, or entangled. Unlike classical operations on bits which one can construct by composing operations of single bits separately, quantum operations mutate the state of the whole system, which affects all the directions of our arrows (and thus the probability for realizing a measured classical state) simultaneously, so long as this entanglement can be maintained. The logic of how these arrows mutate is the complicated part, but this is how the quantum computer achieves its properties. [deleted a long and ultimately unhelpful explanation].

This is certainly not a layman's explanation, but this discussion of Deutsch's algorithm is quite nice http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3390/can-anybody-...
You've never had a problem with Linux Flash Player? I'm utterly astonished, I have nothing but problems with it. Although I have a feeling this may be partly down to the binary only nvidia drivers not playing nicely with it (I don't get this problem with any other software).

Yes, network manager is pretty bad especially if you want to configure multiple static IP addresses.
I happily just uninstall it and configure by hand for a server or static desktop. The problem is when you are using a laptop and want to hop between a number of different networks, setting up a wireless network from the command line is a major PIA and not something I'd want to do just to use my laptop in a coffee shop.

You can set update manager not to get new versions of Ubuntu but in that case you had better install an LTS release otherwise you'll possibly stop getting security updates after a year or so plus you will want to keep their browser reasonably upto date (although a 3rd party PPA may solve that).
"Would have". :)
Like hell I can't hack photography! Photography is one of my favorite things to hack! I will admit that I am not great at composing pictures but I find that good, hard work in the darkroom is essential to make even a well composed photo
"pop". I have hacked a pinhole camera out of a big flour container and some photo paper. This photo was exposed for probably 10 minutes - note that the focus is the same inches from the aperture as it is 30 feet away. [1] Getting even more technical, I did some high speed photography where the shutter is left open in a dark room and a high speed flash (just several to tens of microseconds in duration) is triggered to freeze the action. I used an AVR with a microphone to wait a programed delay after hearing the report of a pellet rifle before triggering the flash using a relay. [2] You can get some cool results with this fairly simple setup while having a lot of fun. [3] [4] So I repeat: am I not doing "real" photography if I take more interest in its technical aspects?

[1]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jevinskie/116161786/sizes/z/in/...

[2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jevinskie/112758047/in/photostr...

[3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jevinskie/115619170/sizes/z/in/...

[4]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jevinskie/112750343/in/photostr...
The real question is why anyone would willingly run a windows server for anything?
People understand that. People [generally, and I talk to a lot of them due to being a photographer and having lots of friends who want to get into photo] do not understand that you don't need a $2000 camera to take good photos.

The guys running around with $5000 worth of gear producing mediocre pictures make people that don't know what they're doing throw their hands in the air and say:

"Well if he can't do it with $5000 worth of gear that is NO WAY I'm going to do it with $300 worth!"

This is, of course, nonsense.
It already is, it is not conceivable that any country in the euro monetary union will attack militarily another one.
Actually I think that this crisis will show that countries will also be able to do big sacrifices to save other countries economically.
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> you can't have a currency union, without a fiscal union

This is just not true. Didn't we have Gold and Silver for a common currency for a very very long time? Didn't countries just default back then?

The problem is not the currency the problem is implicit (now explicit) agreemand that countries cant default in the eurozone. Greek could of have defaulted just as Island did. The only loosers would have been the people holding the debt. There would no Euro-Crisis just a crisis of the countries that do really have a fical crisis.
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I'm just going to say that I was trolling instead of admit that I made another mistake.
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You do not need a Porsche to commute to work. You do not need a steak for dinner. You do not need air conditioning. You do not need toilet paper.

And yet, I think there's something obnoxious about people who buy Porches to sit in urban traffic and show girls they can spend money, I'm also irritated by those who constantly eat at Nobu to validate their status, and as for AC, well I love AC, but I'm sure someone else finds it obnoxious.

It's a big world out there, and a lot of us get on each other's nerves. Welcome to the human condition.
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Rise of the Machines.
Not sure what Windows deal breakers would be? Unless you have a specific reason for wanting to use a Unix OS.

Sure you have more problems with virus/crapware etc but getting their long suffering nephew to come around every few months to re-install everything may well be less of an inconvenience than not being able to use their Windows only cross stitch software or train simulator etc.

Problem regards IE6 is that many of these apps will have been built when IE6 had ~90% market share so nobody bothered to build stuff for anything else (not saying they should have done this, but they did).

They may not have the budget or time to rewrite the app (or the contractor who originally wrote it may no longer be around or not want to touch it again). My point is that looking at badly rendered websites and having poor usability may still be better for them than losing use of this app.

Many peoples jobs will revolve around using 1 or 2 corporate apps and any web browsing functionality will be a far second priority.
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I was doing some pretty serious photography for a while, and I can't find a single thing I can find fault with that this guy says.

About the only thing I can say for most people is to push the ISO a little higher than he recommends. The D7000 I have has a very usable ISO1600, and even ISO3200 is usable depending on the subject and purpose.

The purpose of course really varies. I caught this shot shown in the NYT Bits Blog (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/roflthing-draws-the...) with a D200, which had much worse high ISO noise handling than even a D3100, but this shot was at ISO3200. Yet, it was good enough in lighting, purpose and composition to have the NYT use it.

The hardest things I've ever shot were live indie concert gigs in small clubs. The lighting is often terrible, quarters are cramped (at a well attended show at least) and there's often no side/back stage to shoot from. What's worse is if someone's running the lighting board, its likely that things are strobing and changing constantly. It becomes super hard to just have your camera on auto, because its often wrong then, and yet its hard to meter yourself if things change nonstop. Consequently, I end up shooting about 100-200 photos for a 1-2 hour set at minimum, but end up getting 5-6 pretty good shots out of it.

The long term solutions here are better glass (prices not moving down, and this is a market that could use some disruption), and also higher ISO sensors on cameras. I think I just saw Canon release some camera that in theory can shoot at a max of ISO 2 million+. After a while this technology trickles down to the consumer level. The iPhone 4S looks as good as many early DSLRs for shooting at night. Some of these 4/3 systems are also pretty amazing for quality/price.
I think that many people like me, that don't even know economy 101, are now wondering: what happens if euro disintegrates, practically speaking?
I read Norvig's intro as the equivalent of your 'first year'. You wouldn't have gotten to the third year without the first year, nor will the other parents in Norvig's kids dance class get to be conscious about violating the rules of technically correct photography if they don't first learn those basics.
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I have been a member of a very active french anti-fascist group called SCALP in the early 90s. I know too much about those neo-Nazis you talk about. They would be a good illustration of the second part of my comment regarding SOME people who don't care about the suffering they might be responsible of.

Most of these movements are built around a leader's father-like character and the removal of all responsibility from the shoulders of the small guys.

That's how you push a nation to slaughter its minorities. That's how all the small guys can manage their guilt.

All of the fascist skinheads and young royalists and whatnots I've fought against have had the exact same education as me. All of them knew about the holocaust, the armenian genocide and so on because - like me - they were exposed to the same books and classes and documentaries.

Watching hours of emaciated prisoners and dumped corpses is guaranteed to disturb anybody. Most people will react by rejecting the images and the causes: they will say this shit is horrible and, for the rest of their lives, will be able to connect the dots.

Some people, the sociopaths I was talking about, will react by thinking that all these horrors were deserved, that the perpretators were right, that the west betrayed them and so on. They won't be a lot but they will find each others. The coldest and the more charismatic among them will take the role of leader and you'll have a new group of neo-Nazis.

A shorter version of my argument would be "They are perfectly capable of connecting the dots. But what disgusts most of us is somehow seen by them as acceptable.". I don't think the resurgence of neo-Nazis invalidates my point.

Quite the contrary.
You need to be cognizant of the rules you are breaking, i think thats the real value behing learning those kinds of rules. You need to know the narrative thus far to know how to mess with it in an interesting way, and as you say, once you know, its obvious when someone else doesnt.
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Yeah, and one funny thing I'll point out is, a lot of the most talented photographers I've met could care less about learning about what a Bayer filter is, the differences between a CCD and a CMOS, or even how to use curves properly in photoshop. Hell, some can barely turn on a strobe pack by themselves.
You haven't made a strong case for why this is bad advice in spite of the overwhelming comments showing why this is good advice.

I suggest rereading the article again. If you still don't understand what the point is, try rereading again.
One of the things I think is keeping any desktop from being "the one" is the lack of true developer interoperability. You can program in gtk or qt (or many many others) but for a single distro your "best" programs span a number of different ways to do the same thing (and many flame wars).

This is the greatest thing about Linux, and its curse. In Windows you have the Windows API, in OSx you have Cocoa. Sure you can add more to the mix but most of it is the main API.

I enjoyed the direction gnome2 was going, slowly filling in the niches needed to create a complete system. Then it seems they scratched that and went with gnome3. I like a lot of things about gnome3, but I wish gnome2 would not be defunct.

The same goes for kde, slowly building a complete system of tools for most users.

Both gnome and kde are the reason people would choose gtk or qt for their development.

What Unity needs (and I am not sure if it is in the works) is a true Unity API. Build apps for Unity with Unity specifics. Of course this goes against the Linux way, but if one really wants "the year of Linux on the desktop" we have to stop being a moving target.
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How stupid.
You're assuming that by calling themselves an expert that they are an expert.
Does 'immediately' = 'within a few years'?
just add a note to the Readme pointing to the new fork that took over?
You are absolutely correct! Photography means different things to different people. It can range from something creative, something human and social, something technical and even to something related to another hobby (cave photography, bird photography, etc). Just enjoy doing it and enjoy other photography that excites you.
During the dotcom boom I worked at a small company that had already IPOed a year or two previously. In the parking lot, I saw a silver Ferrari, and being new to the Valley, I was completely amazed and intimidated.

But after a few months, I actually went to the car to look inside, and in front seat was a baby seat, and it was littered in garbage, McDonald's wrappers, magazine, etc. It looked like someone who really wanted an Accord (a very nice car, I had one for 10+ years), got too big for their britches, didn't understand his-or-her situation, and spent money on a Ferrari instead, and had to live with the consequences. It's the same for the person who buys a Porsche just to get stuck in 101 rush hour traffic every day, they didn't understand their situation.

This is exactly what it is when engineers buy Mark II's to take photos of birthday parties. Sure, people are allowed to do whatever they want, but they look like posers, and more often than not, they don't know what they're doing. Instead they think that throwing money at the problem and getting the best technology will result in the best output, and will vault their level of success instantly. Sure the Mark II will be more forgiving, as will the assortment of lens that you can get for it, but more often than not, they'll still take mundane photos that could have been taken with a point-and-shoot.
As a technically-inclined person, I picked up photography back in the early 2000s, and I went all the way in terms of trying to achieve something that others thought was great.

I eventually did start producing decent photos, but it took inordinately more work than getting the technical details right was. There is a technical aspect in photography, but it's weight compared to the remaining aspects is about the same as the weight of a fly compared to that of an elephant. The elephant being: figuring out what smart people will like, and what matters.

PS. some of my dance photos from back in the day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17652593@N00/168734800/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17652593@N00/169255410/
Can't you just middle click the icon in the dock? Middle click launches a new instance of the app instead of bringing the current instance to the foreground.
Technology definitely isn't the deciding factor in taking a good photo, but having that "bigger sweet spot" doesn't hurt.

And the market for high-end camera gear has expanded down from pros to prosumer, it hasn't been created for engineers with lots of free money; many pros use that kit too, just like pros use the most high tech tennis rackets with their large sweet spots.

Edit: grammar.
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On my work laptop I will typically have around three workspaces (everything about a given task/goal in one space), with around three Safari windows open in each, each with 1-6 tabs and a couple of Inspector sheets; some Finder windows thrown in here and there, a couple of Terminal windows per space (some with split screens or multiple splits open in vim), some Vico windows here and there. iChat, Skype, iTunes, Mail and Things follow me around when I move spaces -- they stay hidden most of the time. I will mostly move around with swipes between spaces, Cmd-Tab between three of the most recent apps, and Cmd-` between a given app's windows (or ^W^W from split to split in Vico). When a window is more than a couple of strokes away I'll tile all of the apps windows, or right-click it in the Dock to choose a window from a menu. When an app is more than a couple of keystrokes away I'll summon Spotlight and just move to it by name (or hold Cmd-Tab and trackpad over it).

Thanks to the SSD I don't ever have to wait, or stop to think what to do next.

I wouldn't call this ideal, but I will call the above _the_minimal_ viable windowing environment control scheme, for what I'm after.

How is it that you're so at peace with that glitchy simpleton? (Or am I over-doing it?)

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The push to Unity made me try alternate window managers. I've ended up sticking with Awesome, which is a pretty sweet tiling window manager. More minimalistic than it needs to be, but still, the core functionality is great. I have multiple workspaces with different tiling schemes for different tasks - one for general purpose, one for terminal hacking (spiralling terminal windows), one for bug fixing (side by side windows w/bug tracker & Emacs), and one for prolonged development (full screen Emacs with a little terminal for building)
I agree that more efforts should be put into making forks purpose and activity more visible and comparable.

For me the GitHub network graph is invaluable when it comes to assessing forks activity and their potential usefulness. Very often my first action after coming across a fork is to navigate to the parent repository, but the very second one is clicking on "show me the fork graph".

The network graph, while still having it's flaws, is a tremendous advantage over Bitbucket and provides some overview on where currently the development is happening and what people are working on.
> In what world is initiating a productive discussion about an important issue

A toy example is not an important issue. As for initiating productive discussions, I will let your comments speak for themselves

1. This is cargo cult programming at its worst

2. What drove you to unleash this horror on the programming masses, Moggi?

3. Why have you cursed us so?

4. It makes me sad that having monad sugar ....

5. .... stripped of all utility and sense.
It simply takes too long to learn with today's state of programming. Simplified natural language programming http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/16/programming-with-natural-... may be what they pick up.
Doesn't using bcrypt help with that, or do you mean something else?
I like #1. domain knowledge.

how many bad programmers i've seen sit down to vomit up code without having no idea which problem they were trying to solve.

but that happens on any area.