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I would definitely agree with you there. The documentation, as well as the number of tutorials and ebooks, is one of the big reasons for the so called 'hype.' I tried looking at twisted, I know enough python to be able to throw together some simple scripts and work with tools written in it I'm no pro though, and felt totally lost.
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That limerick accent is fading fast:) Top it up by watching some Rubberbandits. Loved the interview.
The cop-out "no editorializing nudge nudge wink wink" is a bit disingenuous.

Even leaving that aside, the list is weird: you can easily argue that LGS folded because their publishers were incompetent (and therefore as an entity they "deserved" to survive), but Bullfrog were bought outright by EA--it's hard to argue that the creators of Dungeon Keeper 2 don't receive any money when in a legal sense the creators of DK2 are EA, as everyone who worked on it assigned their copyright to Bullfrog.

Perhaps "no editorial" just means "I'm a bit confused about what I mean"...it would have been nice to have something a bit more substantive (even if it's a position the author doesn't believe) so one could understand the point of the list.
Sorry, missed your comment, have now fixed :)

Will look at adding the feature as well.
When a user needs to pay or is paying for your product, in general, there is no grinfucking.
It comes down to how to define "freedom" for free software. RMS's is a very pragmatic (and in my opinion counterintuitive) definition: it just means that no one can conceal the source code. It's counterintuitive to me, because I would consider the maximum freedom being akin to public domain software: anyone would be able to do literally whatever they want with the software, including redistributing it without distributing the source code.
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I'm sure there are many other reasons, but also, at the time it rolled out (and/or when they integrated Postini), Gmail was sort of a miracle cure for spam. Just sign up, and spam-be-gone. A lot of people wanted such a "fire and forget" solution.
Does he have the same moral reservations for other devices in his life?

ie; what car does he use and own? All (modern) cars accept software updates which is his definition of a computer. Most modern televisions, dvd players, routers and even some microwaves/refrigerators can take firmware updates also.

Genuinely curious about the above - Not being a troll, just wondering how far the man really takes his beliefs. Does he stop at the most publicly noticeable devices ( laptop/cellphone ) or does he go all the way.
The business model isn't there. I have yet to see a large group of consumers willing to pay for secure email and the only other alternative, advertising, leads to the exact same problem that you face with GMail.
Yeah, that's also the impression I got (the "no throwing food or temper tantrums" for instance, or "sleep full nights from 2-3 months", some of my friends would like to live in that fantasy).

Other assertions do hold, at least in my experience, though:

> When French friends visited, by contrast, the grownups had coffee and the children played happily by themselves.

but I'd really find anything else weird.

> And there were no fixed mealtimes; the American kids just went to the refrigerator and took food whenever they wanted. To the French couple, it seemed like the American kids were in charge.

When I went to the US, I did notice this difference (no fixed mealtimes, at least during the day, and regular raiding of the fridge whenever) but I don't see how that makes it "seem like the American kids were in charge", it's just that there's no fixed mid-day meal time.
If nothing substitutes for experience, why is it any use to write or share this article?
Back when I was working there (warning: not the statements of my employer), the sentiment I heard most often was that if AMD specialized in, say, servers, Intel would just sell the servers at a loss and make it up on the other 10 businesses. And so therefore AMD had to have a product to compete with every single Intel product. As a result of hearing that so often, this article surprised me greatly. It's a major shift for AMD.

I wonder what has changed? Reading between the lines I think AMD may be prepared to do the same thing to Intel. Assuming that AMD can figure out how to do ARM well, perhaps it can sell all the x86 chips at a loss and make it up on ARM (since Intel only does x86). If ARM really is the future (warning: I have no idea what the hell I am talking about), perhaps AMD is thinking that the cash cow patent monopoly of x86 isn't worth fighting for anymore.
A common mistake back in the day:

/bin/false was set for the shell, BUT

feel free to use XDMCP.
I did! Thanks!
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I used to always set up and run my own mail servers. I no longer do so, not because I'm lazy, but because I have better things to do with my time than be a sys-admin, and worry about downtime, logs, security, and backups.

Sure, Google has your mail. So use multiple accounts and keep your really private communications somewhere else, or use S/MIME or PGP Mail.

But who the hell cares about them having data for an account that is mostly subscribed to public mailing lists?
Maybe I wasn't a self-respecting hacker when I first signed up for Gmail.

I prefer to not risk missing emails (from switching addresses to non-Gmail) me over the "hacker way".
You imply that Gmail's web interface has been matched... I have not yet seen that to be the case, any suggestions?
Even if distrowatch was considered to be an accurate measure of the popularity of specific distributions, it would still be impossible to tell anything from a single visit.

I visited distrowatch sometime last week and many of the top 25 distributions were going up in popularity.
Because being a hacker is about being curious and building stuff.

It is not about keeping some strange 60ies style counter culture/down with the man going.
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So, what's your point? That he shouldn't fight for free software because it's difficult? Imagine the world in the 80's, when there wasn't a free as in freedom OS; rms knows about compromise when there are no alternatives, he just doesn't want a non-free OS in a non-free computer when there are free alternatives. We usually call it coherence.
I use Rackspace Email, over IMAP on the desktop, IMAP on my phone, and webmail when on someone else's computer. It's never slow in any way. When I sign up for things, I hear the ding of the confirmation e-mail within 2-3 seconds of submitting the form -- fast as push mail.
> This is key, and I don't know of a single desktop email client that even comes close to providing a decent search feature.

I used to use Opera M2 built-in client and think it's even faster than Gmail web UI and very accurate.
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Well I should have clarified. I want an always on low power appliance with an easy web interface to host important data for people that are not capable or too lazy to set up a server.
Yeah, and if it's a free product, you can usually tell who is your target user by the feedback he/she is giving. The hardcore users who would love to use it will be writing an essay filled with recommendations on how to improve it, while the people who won't use it as much will just tell you it looks great.
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Manule, When Americans go to Lyon, they go to France, when they go to France they go to Europe.

You don't need to go to France to find well-behaved children, but this is what appeals to Americans the most: "Beautiful redhead child", France is great, etc. And these reaffirming notions are great in appeasing your audience and selling books.

Interesting article b/c Gary Marx, Professor Emeritus in Sociology at MIT, wrote (in 1961) :

http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/whitenegro.html

Be warned, you may be slightly offended.
A synopsis. On the cusps of the "revolution" in 1961 America, Marx states American mothers were increasingly trying to be "hip". Now, there is actually a magazine called "Hip Mama" sold at Whole Foods ( http://hipmama.com/ )

He mentions a story about a hippie, who were then called "beats", firing a caretaker because the caretaker's thoughts on raising children was too rigid, traditional and overbearing. I think this is where the temper-tantrum nation , me-first phenomenon began.

I have friends like the author of this article who want to empower their children, not tell them "no", etc. For them, it comes from an almost religious belief in freedom. Meaning , whenever making a decision focus on what is most free as opposed to what works.

I remember watching a segment about a high school science class in Oregon who threw imported crayfish into a local stream because they didn't believe in killing, and wanted the crayfish to be free. Well, the non-local crayfish started killing off the local crayfish.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june11/pledge_03-...
Collective problem solving over group voice communications is a universal skill. Our dev team got really good at it when we all started playing Counterstrike together. MMORPG raiding would be a good place to learn this as well.

If nothing else, they'd be guaranteed to learn proper etiquette by learning what not to do.
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I tried hard to find anything in this article that had anything to do with tech or startups. I really did.
This is Joshua (who posted the original email). I'm glad to see so much interest in source control scalability. If there are others who have ever contemplated investing a bit of time to improving git, it'd be great to coordinate and see what makes sense to do - even if it turns out that the right answer is just to make the tools that manage multiple repos so good that it feels as easy as a single repo.
> Linus Torvalds is the man who made everything possible.

Not to detract from the men, but he used the GNU C Compiler to compile its kernel, as well as the GNU bash shell, the GNU linker and so on...

Since its inception, the free software movement created a network of hackers and GPL programs that was well established by the time Torvalds started its kernel. Without that network, Linux and many other "groundwork" programs would not even been possible in the first place.
I'm surprised he even compromises on the CPU instead of using OpenSPARC or something
Agreed. Another compelling reason is data deletion -- accidental or malicious. While catastrophic loss due to hardware seems to have declined over the past few years, malicious deletion has gone up markedly.

I've pimped them out before, but this is why I set up backupify (handle more than just gmail, since your Google password is for all your Google accounts) and periodically export my data. I just wish they did more, like backup my Dropbox and Atlassian accounts.
They're both free, just with different goals. The GPL gives freedom to the user of the software, the BSD license gives freedom to the developer of the software.
It's definitely true that the author is painting an idealistic picture here, and that French kids do throw tantrums, etc.

However, having lived in the US and France extensively (I'm French and have been raised by French parents), I find that the author has the good points about general attitude.

"We're not at your service" is something that my parents would often say to me and my brothers as kids, and there was always a distinction between "grownups" and "kids" - when my parents had their friends over for dinner, we knew that they were not to be interrupted and just played with their friends' kids (and everyone was happy that way, actually- grownups got their time to enjoy, and since they were busy we were free to do things between kids that we wouldn't have tried to do had they been watching).

Parents tend give more independence to their kids as well- for example having no problems sending them off to summer camps for a few weeks so that they can have some vacation of their own.

However, I have also worked extensively with kids in France over the past 5+ yers, and find that parents are slowly adopting the "anglo-saxon" way- there are much more "helicopter" parents now than there used to be.
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The irony is that the US is one of the very few countries in the world that by constitution or legislation requires a separation of church and state.

In practice, at every level of its society, this could not be further from the truth.
Not that my sample size is that huge, but to counter this article, my girlfriend is an elementary school teacher, in the US, but in a VERY multicultural school. Apparently the one French kid in class is the biggest little snotty shit, and his parents are mad uptight.
Just to give you an idea of how popular Gmail is, about 67% of the 7000+ subscribers for Hacker Newsletter (http://www.hackernewsletter.com) use gmail and I'm sure a good bit more are Google app accounts.

To add to this, yahoo.com is second with 3%.
Apologies about that - should have mentioned something. I had signed up in the past and forgot the site wasn't public.
From the submission guidelines:

What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

:)
Probably. As a taxpayer, do you want to pay for a brand new phone network and conference call service, or would you prefer that the government just contract that out?
Meanwhile, breathing continues to top the list of addictions, with 100% of test subjects unable to desist for any appreciable amount of time in studies performed.
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Does he have the same moral reservations for other devices in his life?

Yes, as far as I know.

ie; what car does he use and own? All (modern) cars accept software updates which is his definition of a computer.

I am pretty sure he doesn't drive, but this is what he had to say on the topic:

So, what about cars? Free cars would mean you are free to modify them and redistribute copies. Well, as for the modification, you are free to do that-lots of people modify and customize their cars. But when it comes to redistributing copies, the fact is we don’t have the technology to do it. There is no automatic car copier. Cars, today, are like books before the Xerox machine-the only feasible way to make copies was with a special factory. Copying your car is so hard that it makes little practical difference whether you are allowed to do this. Perhaps someday, through nanotechnology perhaps, a car copier will be developed. Then a Free Car Movement will be necessary.

Source: http://www.resonancepub.com/rstallman.htm
Most technologies are made up components of older technologies or ideas, I am not saying that you cannot do something genuinely new. But I am also sure that if you talk to the guys who built pagerank they probably had some inspirations and stuff they took ideas from. It is all perspective.

I agree its the concepts that matter, it is just that whenever I hear this argument no one (who is making it) can actually point out exactly what those concepts are or even point to any reason why another event driven framework would be better (besides the obvious I already know the language gambit which applies to node equally, if not more). Many people cant even point out the obvious frameworks that do similar stuff, with maybe twisted being the exception.

I would be incredibly surprised if even a handful of dev shops have server side devs who only work in node. But I don't really see what that has to do with anything.

I get that this is mostly about the 'hype,' but if Node and the community are doing well, have good documentation and we are seeing the technology used to implement some cool stuff (trello for example) then how is the hype confusing? That is the thing that I don't get. Node is now a cross-platform environment that fits easily into PaaS and SaaS concepts, is gaining hosting options by the day (heroku, azure, etc) has a huge library of third party modules, and the majority of people using it seem to understand what it is and is not. It seems obvious to me that any new technology, or new implementation of a technology if that makes you feel better about the terminology, that has all those things going for will generate a certain amount of hype.
Emotional manipulation works quite well. This is how I was raised. I had such a strong love for my mom that I didn't want to do anything to hurt or upset her, so when she asked for something kindly I always listened and just did it.

My father on the other hand. Typical manipulative, dominating, threatening, intimidating, masculine, control freak. I love him but I'm still recovering from his "parenting style". My relationship with him is permanently damaged. Even now that he's older and his testosterone levels have gone down I still avoid him. A decade of being yelled and screamed at and threatened doesn't just go away. It's always there.

I've told him I love him lots of times, I just wish I could tell him how much of an Asshole he was.
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Thanks a whole lot for taking the time to check my apps out. That's about the only feedback I've ever gotten, and I'll see if I can incorporate your suggestions. I tend to throw the apps out into the store, send out a few emails and social-posts and then sit back and wait. I need to iterate to see if I can make significant SEO changes when the current descriptions aren't getting the job done. As an engineer, I realize I suck at marketing.... sigh...
And how many of those things would be around if they weren't generating revenue for someone?

He's a living, breathing demonstration of the limits of free software. A world where progress slows to a crawl because the only people who have the time to write code are hobbyists and people who can get paid to lecture about how everything should be free.

That's the main issue I have with his ideas, they are thoroughly disconnected from reality. Not in a "Everyone should be nice to each other all the time way," but a "I'm going to ride my dragon to work," way.

Free software is a nice sentiment, but impotent. Nothing that has happened in the past 10-15 years in computers happens without a profit motive. Without a profit motive you may get a spreadsheet program, but no one motivated enough to get it distributed.

Free may get you on the path, but it doesn't get you very far down the road.
This is an awesome program. I did it last year, and having it on my otherwise empty resume really helped in the internship hunt this year (I don't know if they used my GSoC evaluations or anything during the process, but I ended up landing a Google internship!).
Discussion from two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3541932
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> This article is link-bait

You should probably check out who Harald Welte is and what he does before making such accusations. I don't agree with him here, but "link bait" this is not.
..and let me guess, you don't mind the company doing the proprietary fork, sue/threaten the open source forking guys, use software patents as a weapon/threat against open source developers. and you don't mind getting someone else's work, and giving nothing back.

In short your freedom is an egoistic tactic where you take, use and even abuse but dont care. There are people like RMS who think otherwise; they want a world where everyone shares to everyone so that everyone benefits from all derivatives.
$9 per month for a blog?? are you serious? try at least to convince us with some decent themes screenshots, or something

btw signup page shot http://i.imgur.com/kJyus.png on ff10

and flashblock covers up some button on your blog http://i.imgur.com/xUaiz.png
My experience is the polar opposite. I have to rely on a native client to search because GMail search is so bad. It hasn't been that fast for a while -- waiting 30+s for a search is pretty routine nowadays. But worse, it's never really handled stemming well -- it has to be an exact word match, even for singular vs plural. And the number of false positives I get usually doesn't even make it worthwhile. I had resorted to deleting mail rather than archiving it, but that only helped marginally.

Having said that, I rely on too many marketplace apps now to make switching a reasonable alternative. So, I make do with native clients.
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There is really no alternative. Set something up with the same features and I'll gladly pay to use it.
Any sample blogs we can look at?
Why don't all people make their own food?

The same argument applies to almost any category of product, with varying ramifications unique to each.

If I made my own soda, I'd leave out high fructose corn syrup. Why do I let Coca Cola poison me? And so on and so forth.
I'm sorry. Maybe the iOS app was irrelevant to his/her point. But I think most web startups would want to create iOS clients too, and that's how GPL might be a limitation to them.

> I have to ask, do you actually work in the software industry?

No, I'm just a student/programmer. I mean I'm not working in an IT department in a big company, so you've got a point there that I might not be realistic.

> All you've done is name some projects that happen to use non-GPL licenses in whole or part. You don't think companies take their output and use them in their own products without contributing back?

I named some non-GPL projects that big companies are contributing to them. And I think I missed LLVM and Clang (and the amazing static analyzer) that Apple is contributing to.

Google, Apache, Apple Yahoo, ... (even IBM) are all contributing to non-GPL open source projects - not because they have to, but because it's good for their business and they will benefit from that, and as a direct result of that, we (the developers) benefit too. <----- MY MAIN POINT

What I'm saying is this: If Webkit was (pure) GPL, do you think Apple would even consider using it in the first place? No, they wouldn't, and they would roll out their own proprietary browser from scratch and the world would be a worse place. If Hadoop was not as liberally-licensed as it is now, do you think Yahoo would contribute to it? No.

I'm not offended - All I'm trying to say is that if you tighten up your software license, less people will use it, but they would have to contribute back. If you go with a BSD-style license, much more people will use and incorporate that project (for many reasons, including the fact that you can monetize your application much easier), and even if a small percentage of them contributes back, it's still good.

(I'm not a native English speaker, so I can't express what I want to say very well)
This place is turning into Digg little by little. I remember the first page of Digg over half a decade ago. Tech news, phones, and then it went to politics, funny stories, world news. And then it just descended from there.

We're all guilty of it. This is how it starts.
It's using IMAP IDLE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP_IDLE), which is push email.
Yes, for some reason french people have this reputation of being very snotty/arrogant by nature. Especially if they are from Paris.

This is total anecdotal evidence. but I am not sure how can one quantify snottiness.
I would pay and so would many others.