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I think it's important to keep something straight here.

If you are going for the consumer market and some parts of the B2B market then yes mobile will keep advancing.

But you aren't going to do the design, programming, your taxes or any other labor intensive work or creation on your mobile.

So yes we probably underestimate it, but if we believe in that, then we are most probably also underestimating how much both desktop apps and web apps are going to matter many years ahead of us.
> So money, and lobbyists, are just proxies for large blocks of votes.

No, it's not.

I only have one vote, and a few bucks to donate.

Ritchey Rich Jr., over there, has only one vote, and $100 million to donate. He trumps me by many orders of magnitude. And his money is a proxy only for his own self-interest.

That is the real problem nowadays.
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Money for political campaigns should be a "single payer" system.
Probably the best reason to forsake the traditional resume is to keep incompetent "headhunter" agencies away. I annihilated my linkedin profile a couple years ago, and keep just a tar.gz of a HAML formatted resume on my site.
Does the same apply to a webcam on a laptop without an indicator light?
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At the same time, Cinnamon 1.2 was released(http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/cinnamon-12-released-with-des...) which is a Gnome Shell fork with Gnome 2 usability, by the makers of Linux Mint.
As others have said, a large part of the problem is that the legislative change is not made public, and debated; instead the change to the existing law can be made by ministerial order - so there's no definitive text to link to, at the moment.

This FAQ: http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/irelands-sopa-faq.html
written by someone who is a university law lecturer, and solicitor, is about as good as you are going to find.

This article: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/1219/1224...
in a national newspaper (which almost reads like it could have been written by a lobbyist) provides context on what is happening here.

Basically, IANAL, but my understanding is that EMI (the recording company) took a case against UPC (a big ISP here), demanding that UPC block websites linking to illegal content (e.g. pirate bay). EMI lost the case, as the judge decided that copyright law did not provide that remedy.

But the judge in the case interpreted EU law as requiring such a remedy (I believe this is a controversial interpretation), and so the government (or rather, relevant junior minister) is going to update the law accordingly.

And that update, which we probably will not see, until after it is signed, is what the current campaign is about.

Personally, I think its great to see this campaign, and terrible that law with such potentially wide consequences could be enacted without debate. (I should note, this is all only a laymans interpretation; I'm not familiar with any legal subtitles.)
You don't even really need any third-party code; the stock minibuffer is really similar to this. Welcome back to the 80s.
But pretty much anything anybody makes these days has a web presence.

I'm not sure that is true. My new years resolution of sorts was to build a web presence for things I build, because historically I have not put them out in the public eye at all, even though there probably are some interesting things in there.

Publishing isn't nearly is fun as building, so I can imagine a lot of developers are in a similar boat.
I'd suggest automatically detecting location and display local content on the frontpage. Also, I'd put some more focus on live events -- There is so much music out there that I won't bother to listen to, but if a band is playing at a local venue I'd be more keen to check it out.

Also, you spelled 'independent' wrong in your call to action at the top.
The emphasis on memory-safety suggests to me that they'll eventually be encouraging plugin authors to use it.
Did he really just try to draw a scientific conclusion from a sample size of one?

> Yes, the Energizer has a higher stored energy, but it also has that small jump in the current that may or may not be real.

Your whole conclusion may or may not be real. I believe you that more expensive batteries are better, but you would think Wired would be able to afford more than one each to test.
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You mean to view? Yes, it's all there though it is js generated from coffeescript. As for using it for personal projects go ahead, though I'd say the code is obfuscated by incompetence :)
I definitely hear you on the "choosing one to focus on". I'd like to be able to focus more on the dating aspect of it, if not just because then it shall appeal to a larger market...However with a name like "I Would Bang You" this can be difficult. I'll have to have a good long think about how to especially get this to happen.

I've got some plans for the future as to how I will make money with it, however the first step is just establishing a user base! I think there are probably ways to get laid that require much less effort :)
I don't think it's about giving up on standards in favor of native in an either-or kind of way.

If you're building an app nowadays, ideally you'd have a web, mobile web, iOS and Android version at launch. Because you want distribution and need to go where your users are.

Thing is, the web is very crowded so it's hard to get attention whereas relatively, it's still wide open when it comes to the native app galleries.
I doubt this will completely eliminate other forms of interaction. It would be a mistake to remove keyboard shortcuts or buttons for common actions such as changing pages. The point is to not get into a ribbon type situation where there are a ton of buttons cluttering the window.
Guys won't have a problem with the name, but women will.

Let's say 1 in 10 single women are looking to just get laid. They just got out of a long term relationship, they have a strong sex drive, whatever.

These women don't want to announce to the world that they're looking for a hookup. They want to go a bar, meet a guy they like, have some drinks, go back to his place, etc. The next morning they'll lie to themselves about how they drank too much and that their inhibitions were down.

Women are confusing creatures. Even if they desperately want to have sex they seldom come out and say as much. For that reason, I think the name of your site is only going to attract the skankiest of the skanks.
Correct me if I am wrong but I thought mobile apps aren't an alternative to the web?

Do they mean mobile apps vs. desktop Internet use? That would make more sense.
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It looks really good! It looks like something designed by a professional. Nice job!
Part of my long-term strategy is to make things, then tell other people about what I made.

This way I (1) get experience making, (2) get experience writing, and (3) market my competence.

I'm using Tumblr, but that's soley because I found their look and feel pleasing to the eye.
I want to build my own Matrioshka Brain out of Jupiter.

Post-scarcity is interesting from the point of view of the necessities of life being so close to free as to make no difference. But it's a long way to go before we truly will have more resources than we know what to do with. Our desires show a clear trend of scaling with our resources; we already have more wealth than any Mesopotamian farm peasant could ever dream of, and most of us could probably easily figure out what to do with another $100,000.
I think the best solution would be packaging Unity/HUD separate from LTS and requiring the user to install it, if they wanted to, like they could with any desktop environment.

Of course, if it was already installed on the system pre-update it would install and update Unity/HUD.

They could also make it an option on their already very option heavy (which is good) download page.
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Over a billion mobile only users will likely come online in emerging markets over the next ten years.

Many of those will be in India, where RIM is actually growing like crazy. I anticipate Windows on Nokia will be a serious player, and Android phones will drop to prices the masses can afford.

The race is not over and the "mobile web" may yet turn out to be the dominant platform.
I did the same thing, and another quick plug for sonic since there are likely people here who would find this useful: I'm using their basic dsl service (single-line) and even that comes with a free static ip address. No more messing around with dynamic dns providers just to get ssh access to my desktop at home.
I wonder if someday you could take a material like a rock (or something with the proper atoms) and convert that into something like a shirt. I mean, look how far technology went from 1900 to 2000. Imagine 200 more years.
I am working on my design skills by prototyping and wireframing with Photoshop. I'm not an artist or illustrator by any means, but I can design things fairly well from a high level.
While I think the idea of this article is true, I think it's a bit unfair to compare the number of mobile apps to the number of web sites. Yes, there may be 350 million websites, but how many of those actually offer a valuable service? I think that the number of worthwhile websites is easily less than 400k. Same with the phone app market: there may be 400k apps, but most are crap. Honestly, I think that the web and mobile probably hover pretty close to each other in terms of the number of useful applications.
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"Ultimately, design is what drives business rules and software requirements."

Completely disagree: Business Rules drive design, not the other way around. The article muddles together product development and design and calls it the same thing. Product development incorporates BOTH design and coding - you cannot separate the two and claim one half is more important then the other.

And has already been pointed out, there are far less developers out there then designers. Guess which commodity is worth more to the average company given this fact?
> That is illegal

It is technically illegal.
Webpass (http://www.webpass.net/), the other wireless ISP in the bay area, has been amazing. They only serve high-density residential buildings though, not individuals.
The analysis and the numbers seem to be very misleading. It counts only mobile usage which is a tiny fraction of desktop browsing. StatCounter pegs it at just ~7%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-2010...

What about adding a 3rd metric for how much time the consumers browse on their desktops and laptops? That's going to eclipse the time stated in the article.

The reason we're seeing such high app numbers in Flurry is that mobile devices are not as convenient to browse on compared to laptops and desktops, so apps like games take over the time spent on such devices.
Depending on how adept you already are at programming:

1] Learning Perl (6th Edition) is excellent for beginners.

2] Modern Perl (2nd Edition was just published; free ebook version should be out by next week) assumes a basic knowledge of both programming in general and of Perl in particular, but is well-written and very clear.

3] Programming Perl (the 4th Edition covering Perl 5.14 will be a huge update from 3rd Edition (published in 2000 for Perl 5.6!); should be published in February, according to O'Reilly) is the famous Camel book and the ultimate Perl reference.

The Perl Cookbook is a little outdated now, although it's not too bad and there is talk on the mailing lists of updating it. But it's not really aimed at learning Perl though.

As already mentioned, PerlMonks is also a great website to browse.
Are we to the point yet where internet should be considered a public utility? It certainly seems to be more of a necessity than a luxury these days.
You assume of course that there will never be a device powerful enough to match desktop.

Should I remind you that the chip in the that SIm card is in fact the same cpu chip that was used in Apple IIs?

In next ten years you will see design,programming, etc done on tablets
Both very good points. Printing a printer is quite a thought.
Are you guys hiring? This looks like a lot of fun to work on.
You know that thought that goes through your head when you're doing something incredibly stupid (like slicing bread with the knife pointed _toward_ your hand) - "This is a really bad idea" ?

After 3 trips to the emergency room in 2011, my goal for 2012 is to _immediately_ stop doing whatever it is, the instant this thought occurs to me. Try it... it's harder than you think.
Are you in an area with 4G coverage, just not into your building? When I was living in a house that was literally just outside the coverage area, I had success using a long USB cable to hang my modem up in a corner window, and broadcasting WiFi from there.
"Programmers who prefer to be given detailed requirements and push syntax into a terminal or prefer to isolate themselves from the broader product team will have decreasing value in the world of innovation and product development."

I don't agree with the title but I agree with this sentence. There is some software development that requires people with skills so advanced that they can really do whatever they like. But most programming is tying systems together and worrying about maintenance, error resilience and cost. While those things are certainly not easy, I think they are becoming more manageable by a broader set of people. You now can't really be a specialist (and disregard everything else and without being in the top factions of a percent of ability) in a field increasingly (successfully) filled by generalists.
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I'm not sure I follow, a race to the bottom for whom? Students , Universities or Employers?
I think the article is buying into the notion that the web can never be as rich an experience as the native application. I think that the last few years of explosive growth in terms of cloud services and web applications have made it pretty clear that web applications are a viable alternative. Why won't web applications work for mobile devices as well?

Is the argument simply that the app market is less crowded? Is a comparison of the number of websites on the internet(apples) to the number of android applications(oranges) that compelling?
The question, I think, is more relevant than you make it appear.

The only factor of production eliminated by the introduction of what is, essentially, automated labor is labor. A similarly important factor of production is not - raw materials.

Just because you have some way to produce something doesn't mean you can create the materials to do so. Regardless of whether or not you can produce something when you have the materials, you still need to purchase or otherwise obtain the materials to do so.

I think the more important question is, "How does Ferrari stay in business, when the only thing that they truly control is the code for producing a Ferrari?" What this essentially does is transform everything into an intellectual property issue, much as the Internet has done for digital media.
The country is called 'The Netherlands', not 'Holland'. 'Holland' is used to refer to two western provinces in The Netherlands (out of twelve).

On-topic: Florian Mueller did a more comprehensive write-up on the case: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/01/dutch-appeals-court-...
I think you are misunderstanding the point of Shawn's post. He is specifying that a 'programmer' is just a 'coder'. A 'developer' or 'maker' is a programmer that keeps the 'product' in scope by incorporating design as well as code. A programmer-only is being trumped by developers that always keep design and the customer in mind.
Your asking different questions.

1) Should speed be in the grade?

2) Should speed be considered when measuring a graduate?

3) Is a faster graduate better?

My answer would be no, yes, and it depends. I want grades to be on coursework, not character. I think speed can be inferred (from enrollment dates, additional minors/majors/projects/clubs/association/etc.). I don't think speed is everything (determination means a lot), but I don't ignore it either.
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That's assuming that money is still an adequate motivator in a (word I just learned) post-scarcity world. Governments might be responsible for providing the raw materials?
Transparency is good - but keep in mind, mass brainwashing practiced by the likes of News Corp. makes it useless, or at least reduces its efficiency greatly.
Hmm. I'm inclined to believe this is unfair to people who might be just as competent and productive as those whose work is "out in the open", but can't share or reveal anything for some valid reason.

This is common inside the Valley and outside it. Around here, a certain fruit-based computer company advises its employees not to reveal specifically to outsiders exactly what it is they work on. People who write code for big, technical but non-software firms (defense contractors etc) similarly have nothing to show (publicly) for their efforts.

It's nice to imagine that everyone works for some fun little startup that lets you blog and contribute to open source and has everything up on github, but the reality is that if you limit the search to those candidates, you will find the talent pool pretty insular. Some highly competent and very desirable people are locked away in big companies where they're not allowed to make a big fuss about what they're doing. For them, the traditional resumé is still very valuable.
I don't think I assume that at all. In fact CPU power have very little if anything to do with it.

We could do much smaller cellphones than we do. But we don't because there is a certain size where things start to break down.

I need the space when I work. Just like I need a desk of a certain size.

The need for big screens wont go away any time soon.
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I was going to make a joke about 'crashing' but it's actually a serious issue. What happens when people can freely build complex objects like cars where a 'bug' or unofficial 'patch' could potentially cause a risk to public safety? Is anyone culpable? How would the regulations work? Could they be enforceable?
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I've seen the opposite. Almost everyone I know uses the native facebook app versus going to m.facebook.com. Most people only use a few websites/apps on their phones, and I think it's just simpler to tap on the app icon rather than start up mobile safari and type m.facebook.com.
I'm kind of surprised the Skiena "The Algorithm Design Manual" didn't make it. http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/...
There's one caveat to this report that's important: the data is about two different sets of users. The web data is from comScore, and measures all US web users. It includes everyone from HN readers to the neighbor that checks email just once a month. The mobile data is only looking at US smartphone users (who own a phone that can run apps that Flurry can track), and excludes feature phone users or people with no mobile phone at all. Assuming high smartphone usage correlates to high web usage, web data looks comparatively low.
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This is fucking awesome. Wish I had that years ago.
Depends on the project I guess.

I can't really see how a designer is going to be much help developing distributed hash tables, compilers, scalable push messaging frameworks, drivers, network analyzers, packet routing systems, load balancers, linear solvers, file systems, natural language processors, machine learning systems, and a whole host of other software that makes the world tick.
(upvoted for good answer, thank you sir/madam)

I would agree that government through some mechanism is needed--thank you for clarifying your position in that regard.

Note, though, that some of your examples--Google's management, OS complexity, and so on--are actually very much contested in some circles. People accept that their OS of choice may be bloated, but few I believe want that.

There's an interesting question present, though, in the "running the affairs of 300 million people", right? To what degree does the government actually "run" those affairs, and ought the government do so?

As regards to the Chicago thing--that sucks, good luck. :(
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The "native" facebook app is just an html5 webapp believe it or not.
This. Just because labor is no longer a factor in production functions doesn't mean capital is not.

Specifically, raw material scarcity will actually have a larger impact on price and availability of items than it does at the moment, even though the majority of items will be generally more available as a result of less constraining factors.
Even at hot startups, a huge amount of work falls under dev ops, scaling, systems engineering, systems admin, data analysis, etc. Most of which has no public repo.
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How about Hacker News? I see someone just posted a list of file sharing sites on it, that's got to be illegal somehow?
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Lobbying is fine. PAYING politicians is not. "donations" are just bribes.
I think a large part of it is also form factor. My phone could have the power of 3 super computers, but i'd still choose my laptop over it. I prefer a larger screen, and a real keyboard.

For a mobile device to replace my desktop/laptop user interfaces + form factors are going to need some rapid advances.
I think that trying to draw a distinction between "programmer" and "developer" isn't really a great idea, because a lot of people (myself included) would consider the terms equivalent.

In that context, it makes the title seem a little "clickbait-y". "Programmers are less valuable, except that I'm talking about a specific subset of programmers" is less catchy though, I will grant you that.
Keep in mind the guy asking if you do a lot of streaming doesn't give two hoots about you cancelling or not. He was probably just trying to drum up a conversation.

The lowly Customer Service Reps for ISPs aren't malicious unless they're trying to jump the corporate ladder.
I'm watching Games Workshop with interest on this one. They make a large amount of their income on selling tiny, expensive plastic figurines and are notoriously litigious. They stand to lose out big time if people start fabbing their own models.
> what percentage of your correct submissions were from people who didn't even want the job?

Probably pretty low. But it's not designed to have a high conversion rate. It's really just to scare off pretenders and the under-qualified. I like to solve "Cover Letter Problems" for fun, but I've never bothered to apply to a company that had them. I don't think that means they're a failure.

The applicants themselves probably benefit the most as it gives them a window into the company's dev culture. Cutesy "gotcha!" problems that are abstract and removed too far from coding are generally a warning sign that it's a shop full of people who may be smart but are perhaps mediocre developers and/or the shop has non-technical management. On the flip side, problems that explore an applicants coding style and thought process tends to be an indicator the shop wants actual coders who can get shit done in an efficient manner, and that they care about things like Code quality, their tool chain, and care just enough about process to achieve repeatable results, but not so much as to become dogmatic.