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Related: Don't sign an expensive OEM deal with Microsoft if they're going to lock you in to what could be a Windows Phone 7 type disaster.

A smart OEM would avoid certification, instead focusing on making a product that could run Linux, or Android, or whatever WebOS becomes, instead of getting locked to a sinking ship.

The reason people are drawn to Windows is because their x86 software from the 1990s still works. How many apps are going to work on ARM out of the box?
One alternative might be celebrating startups, and entrepreneurs, who publicly declare (pro- or retroactively) refusing acquisitions -from Google, or otherwise.

One of the non-obvious consequences of this monopoly is all the other ways by which you could've navigated the Internet, that has been bought, paid for, then rapidly shut down by Google.

Note there are many other ways you can acquire information that is relevant, and timely for you -social&topical communities, Q&A sites&channels, decision trees are but a few- it just happens that search got an early start on the R&D economies of scale.
How much if any direction where you given? How where the required standardized tests dealt with? How does unschooling fit in with collage / graduate school / scholarships? Also, why did you go with unschooling over the other options?

O, and thanks for taking the time to answer a few questions.
Google doesn't lock people into its search. People have a choice and they obviously choose Google.
@heyrhett, did you already win some customers? Anyone purchased your 500USD package?
"make Linux run" You mean: "not prevent Linux from running"

But hey, to address what seems to be your point... Lets have a reality check. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. So quick to forget...
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Sure. Governments like North Korea or China's is similar to the mafia.

But 1st world developed democracies are not.
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Just because Apple is more evil than Microsoft does not me we should give Microsoft a free pass. This is exactly the sort of detrimental behavior everybody except Apple/Microsoft would be better off without.
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> That's

That's what she said.
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Interesting enough. But the tenuous reality breaks for me when he retires to a farm. I've know people who did that. I grew up among them. It's not easy. Real farming is stunningly difficult. And even if they're just hobbyists, people used to the city go stir-crazy very quickly. It's a little knit-pick, but it strikes me.
Stop making things and start "inventing" them. Just look into your crystal ball and get patents for things that are just a bit bleeding edge today, but will soon be common. I suggest the following:

* Method and apparatus for purchasing goods and services using a virtualized high-definition three dimensional representation or abstraction of a retail store using free-form or pre-defined gesture control and voice recognition.

* Method and apparatus for purchasing manufactured goods made to order from pre-defined parameters configurable by way of hypertext document or through voice recognition.

* Method and apparatus for manufacturing realistic three dimensional replicas of pre-existing objects based on scanned or designed specifications offer through a small self-service kiosk-sized facility.
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cal was in my study group for theory of dist systems. he's pretty goddamn smart. funny you see the title from him.
Wikipedia lists it as being unstable. When it comes to file systems that's one thing I would not be gambling on.
There are hundreds of design decisions that go into any product. Designers can't give each and every one a configuration setting, and can't know before launch which decisions will be the wrong ones.

If the back button did it's job properly then the feature would just work; you wouldn't need to manually configure it to match your mental model.
And it was also close to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holt_%28educator%29
It's not the only, nor by a long stretch the best reason to be against "ending aging". Human culture fundamentally depends on death and the passage of time. Our myths, rituals, literature and sense of history depend on death. I may be an old romantic, but to me life without the sense of impermanence and transience would be an impoverished life indeed.
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>The ability to run x86 apps is irrelevant

It is very relevant. Can you tell why the EU requires Windows to display a browser selection box on first boot to Europeans, but is okay with iOS totally BANNING the use of non-Safari browser engines?

>Full-fledged Linux desktop distributions have been available for ARM desktops, laptops, nettops, etc. for a long time. Microsoft is entering this existing market with a product that anticompetitively excludes Linux from the market by preventing users from upgrading their OS (as has been traditionally available on Microsoft-targeted computing platforms) through the same kind of license agreements with OEMs that got them into trouble with Be.

Why is it not anti-competitive for Apple to ship their hardware with a completely locked bootloader? Can Microsoft claim they're being anti-competitively blocked for shipping an OS for the iPad? How is it legal for the Kindle Fire and Nook to ship with locked bootloaders?

>It is not the responsibility of users and OS vendors to preserve the flawed business model of their competitors. Microsoft's competitors shouldn't be forced out of the operating system market just because Microsoft wants to sell its own licenses below "cost" (whatever that means for something that has virtually no cost to duplicate).

Similarly, Microsoft should be allowed to sell the software they create on their own terms.

No cost to duplicate doesn't mean there was no cost to create it. Or do you propose that the first copy cost $5 billion and then the rest are freely reproduced and distributed?
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And she decided to concentrate on immortality instead of time travel? Guess she ain't so darn smart after all.
The word "senator" is usually a strong hint. Incumbent politicians tend not to be young.
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that's the first thing I noticed as well, it's based on the # of packages published by an author. Would be nice to be able to see a summary on their impact more than the # of packages. On another hand, I have met/worked with some of the people in the top #20 and I can say for sure they are major proponents(?) of Node.js.

Heck, someone could go and published a lot of useless packages and get on the list! (if that kind of vanity was your thing)

edit: michael jackson codes Node.js @ #310
You mean the ActionBarCompat example which is so minimal that only the simplest apps can use it? It's lacking almost every feature of the action bar.
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Meaning this is still much more open than the iPad.
Google is often set as the default search engine for IE in preinstalled OEM configurations (and frequently these days Chrome is the default browser). For antitrust reasons Microsoft can do nothing about this.
I can get behind your first suggestion. Social influence can be huge, and it doesn't require a legal club to beat a company down with.

Do you think it's necessarily a bad thing when smaller companies get bought by Google? What you don't mention in the case that all startups refuse a buyout is that the #1 search product improves at a much slower rate. Their technology may be interesting and useful, but in itself not enough to draw consumers, while if it were integrated into a larger product, it could bring that new technology to many more people much more quickly. Do we gain more by using technologies as individual products than we do by using them as parts of a larger, integrated whole? Probably sometimes we do. But always?

I can't say I'm familiar with all the things you mention in your last point. But if I knew about all of them, understood their purpose and what value they served, do you think I would use them all? I feel like I would probably just type a Google search, which could potentially search all of those for me. I know social, I know Q&A - it doesn't really seem to me that with just those services, I would have a set of tools as powerful as Google itself. I use them on occasion, but for specific things. Search engines are general purpose question answerers - it seems like this is why they're more popular. I think if all of those services were out first, and then Google came along, it'd still be the most powerful and grow to be huger, because in general, it's more useful.
Exactly, that's my point.
I didn't know what Malthusianism is, so thank you for educating me on that topic. I can definitely assure you that I wasn't referring solely to overpopulation as the only problem to curing ageing. I AM mildly (and perhaps, based on the links you included, naively) worried about overpopulation several decades down the line but I don't have the stats nor the expertise to passionately argue in defence of this view.

I was more referring to the problems associated with commercializing the "anti-aging" drug. Making such a drug in the corporate funded environment of our biotech industry would certainly result in an extreme imbalance of the availability of the drug. So in a world where the balance of food supply, resources, income and power of influence is already impossibly and unfairly askew, it is very likely that the existence of the anti-death drug would be the final nail in the coffin of many impoverished populations. What chance would a smart, young African (who is already faced with overcoming hunger, poverty and lack of health care) have in a world where Americans and Germans, for example, have a near unlimited supply of food, money, influence... and now time.
Having thought about (un|home|normal) schooling for my own kids, it seems like unschooling in particular depends very much on who the parents are. Is it underestimating people to say that most kids wouldn't engage in anything like what this girl did? Nor obviously would they have the opportunities to do primary research in biology with a family friend, but even aside from that, doesn't unschooling put a huge emphasis on the parents providing opportunities for the kid to express whatever natural curiosity he has? And this depends on the parents having the education and financial resources to do it.

Not being hostile at all, I'm genuinely interested -- trying to figure out myself what's the right thing to do for two little boys of my own.
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A couple of questions about Vundle.

What about plugins that are not in a git repo (but a hg repo)?

What if I don't want the lastest version of a plugin?
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Companies are supporting the legislation in hopes of helping their bottom line.

Although, I do not see any harm behind the idea of improving your balance sheet. However I feel very strongly that SOPA will do more harm than good. My main concern is - SOPA has potential to change the fundamental way we interact with the Internet. Many have pointed out that, the change will put constrain on how we build and use the internet. This might have a negative impact. If it happens it will impact the companies also. The long tail will be threatened if not vanished and that will impact the bottom line one day.
I despise it. One of my Gmail labels is set to sync content for 365 days. I nearly got RSI spinning that damn thing with my thumb until it hit 365.
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How do you define non-commercial? What if you're rich and have hundreds of other rich people at your birthday party? What if one of the people singing Happy Birthday at your party is a professional singer? What about singing Happy Birthday as customers in a crowded restaurant? What if a band wants to sing Happy Birthday to itself or to an audience member while on stage? What if the audience spontaneously sings Happy Birthday to someone (band, speaker, etc.) on stage? How about someone recording your friends singing Happy Birthday at your small, private party, then posting it on YouTube (or any of the other scenarios gets uploaded)?
Was SimpleGeo not profitable? Is there a particular part of the service that is more popular?
People had a choice regarding Windows in the 90s.
You'd think there'd be some "study" involved when authoring the bill, except I have my doubts that he wrote even a single line of it.
So my 2011 figures (for a site for English Speaking SF/Fantasy fans) are about GOOG: 95% / Bing: 3% / Yahoo 2%
a la bitcoin.

They have a big problem in their design where currently it works exactly as you described, and at "some unknown point in the future" when the database of all transactions EVER in the history of bitcoin gets too big for each person to have to have a copy of in order to add another transaction, they'll "figure out a way" to make it unnecessary.
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So pro-SOPA people aren't going to look a this and think "Gosh, maybe we're wrong". They're going to think "This happens all the time, and it's why we carry insurance."

That sounds exactly like the way of the dinosaurs: instead of solving a problem like a good engineer would by redesigning the system, they "solve" it by throwing more money at it. It's like deliberately forming a cancerous tumor around a pimple to conceal the pimple.
Absolutely the company owns the IP. Investors would be concerned if that wasn't the case. Your best case scenario would be for you to license the code from the company, but as an investor I would think twice if the founder(s) presented this as an option.
That's completely false. You, as a programmer who wants to fork Chrome, do not have the advertising power and reach that Google has. You do not have the Google.com home page. You do not have the ability to air ads during the Super Bowl. You do not have the Google brand. Instead, you have a pile of source code and a compiler.

Despite what people would like to think, technologies do not generally win because of their technical superiority (although Chrome is a damn good browser). They win for innumerable other reasons unrelated to things that engineers do.

The fact is, open source or not, Google has total control over Chrome. The fact that somebody with vastly inferior resources could fork it is not a credible threat to that control.
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I asked a similar question a few months ago and got mostly the same answers as you. Most people here seem content dealing with the lack of cool Gmail interface stuff and opt to host their own. Someone needs to build a slick gmaily interface that can be plopped on a web server to use your self-hosted email. Bonus points for adding an XMPP chat client so you can use GTalk and see when your contacts are online. If nothing else, web hosting providers would buy this from you to offer their customers.
Absolutely nothing. But reward for labour is a Western notion. So yes for us living in Canada, USA, Western Europe...etc there would be absolutely wrong with living forever and rewarding ourselves for all our marvellous work with exotic travels until we're bored and then we can just take the "death" pill at a time of our own choosing.

In your retirement travels to distant lands, however, it is very likely that you would encounter people who do not view life in those terms. You might discover that they work simply to survive, and perhaps have some kids for whom they try to make life just marginally better. And maybe in 50-60 generations, the ancestors of those hard-working people would be able to enjoy themselves a little more and spend their 60s travelling the world just to see what other places look like. With an anti-ageing drug in the hands of rich westerners, it is very unlikely that that day would come.
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Windows 8 ARM tablets won't have back, home or menu buttons either.
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I took a calculus course at a local community college, and my dad recommended a bunch of economics resources to me, but for programming (which was really the brunt of what I taught myself) I basically went it alone. I also spent considerable time volunteering with one of the presidential campaign's IT departments.

By the time I left high school I didn't (as far as I know) have any required testing. I took the SATs/ACTs/SAT IIs the same as any other student.

Wherever possible I applied using a college's home school form, and I wrote supplemental essays wherever possible explaining why I left my high school (especially important since I had awful grades at the time I left). I received an academic scholarship from the school I ultimately chose to attend, I assume because of my SAT/ACT scores.

I left my high school because I was extremely unhappy with it during my sophomore year. No option besides teaching myself things ever occurred to me.
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> is okay with iOS totally BANNING the use of non-Safari browser engines?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
I absolutely agree. I feel that without the proper parental support a student (do you still call a person who is unschooled a student?) would end up not getting very far. As a personal example I know that neither of my parents would have been able to discuss mathematics and biology with me in the same way this girl's parents did with her.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on tablets and Google doesn't have a monopoly on search, but people always throw them out as such.

Microsoft, however, has the monopolies (plural).

Btw, here are the numbers to prove that the iPad is not a monopoly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/25/ipad-tablet...

Wouldn't it be great if Windows only had a 65%-70% market share?
It is very relevant. Can you tell why the EU requires Windows to display a browser selection box on first boot to Europeans, but is okay with iOS totally BANNING the use of non-Safari browser engines?

I'm not European, so I'm not very well informed on their approach to antitrust issues, but my guess would be that either they just haven't gotten enough complaints about/gotten around to prosecuting Apple, or Apple's lack of a monopoly in their respective market gives them greater leeway.

I could imagine them saying, "It's not the processor that's relevant. It's whether something can be classified as a computer or an appliance." Would you say that a Linux- or BeOS- or OS/2-based PC should be treated differently from the same PC running Windows, just because it can't run "x86" [Windows] apps?

Why is it not anti-competitive for Apple to ship their hardware with a completely locked bootloader? Can Microsoft claim they're being anti-competitively blocked for shipping an OS for the iPad? How is it legal for the Kindle Fire and Nook to ship with locked bootloaders?

So far the phone/"giant phone" tablet and netbook/tablet PC/desktop markets have been treated differently. With traditional forms of computing, there is a greater expectation of flexibility of the system. Maybe that will change to the point where consumers expect to be able to install their own OS on a smartphone as well, and I for one hope it does.

Similarly, Microsoft should be allowed to sell the software they create on their own terms.

I agree, so long as those terms don't include explicit or de facto exclusions of their competitors from the market. What we're discussing now is exactly such an exclusion.

No cost to duplicate doesn't mean there was no cost to create it. Or do you propose that the first copy cost $5 billion and then the rest are freely reproduced and distributed?

I'm fully aware of the separate costs of creation versus distribution. I am a hardware/software startup founder myself. My point is that Microsoft needs to figure out how to make money without anticompetitively excluding others from the market. Their decision to sell anything below their actual costs is simply not my problem as a consumer, nor should it be any government's problem.
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TL;DR: I think there are social benefits to traditional schooling people these days often neglect.

I have a boy. He's almost 2. It pleases me greatly when I see that natural curiosity sparkle in his eyes. In fact, there's not much I wouldn't give up to ensure that spark never dies.

However, I also see the large small, the giggles and laughter that comes so naturally when he's interacting with people, young and old. I'm not sure I could live with myself if I somehow deterred his possible happiness in my quest to preserve his childlike curiosity.
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if you block out hn, where would i get my news about sopa?!
I'm sorry, but this is Amiga syndrome.

Beyond all else, you know why BeOS isn't loaded on systems today? Because it didn't run Windows software. You can assert that Microsoft certainly did not help it along with its OEM deals, but BeOS didn't do itself any favors along the way at any point.