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Right, I have never believed that technology per se can be a competitive advantage. If a technically competent company (say Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) decides to replicate your technology, they can. But the key question here is "if" they decide to. Many companies are usually so consumed by their own problems, that they seldom care about copying your new startup's technology.

But in any case, as a startup you need to have differentiators apart from technology. It can be your maniacal customer support, your ability to persuade bloggers to write about you, your ninja like SEO skills or even your geographical/vertical focus in market.
Ive spilled - in separate instances - water, coffee, and baby formula into my MBP keyboard, and had no problems, except with the formula, which made the keys sticky.

So presumably I'm so lucky I ought to be winning the lottery at least once a week.
This is the same transition I'm about to have. Goodbye osx, welcome linux and thanks for yor feedback.
> OSX is certainly a better choice for the pointy-pointy-clicky-clicky masses than windows by far. OSX is not, nor will it ever likely be made for serious hackers or sysadmins that actually care how things work at a low level

This is an extremely short-sighted, elitist point of view. Stuff like DTrace are absolutely fantastic and quite low-level, and applications like Instruments are quite helpful.

> like to

> choose their own window manager

Hmm that's 'low level' for sure.

> manage memory

OS memory management is incredibly tough. J. Random Hacker certainly has a hard time following LKML discussions on the subject, let alone diving into the code. echo'ing stuff in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness does not count as hackerdom on the subject.

> write/apply kernel patches to support new hardware

Nothing prevents you from writing kexts.

> run enterprise-level systems with rebootless kernel upgrades

I doubt the majority of linux servers are running Ksplice or kexec'ing into the new kernel. Your typical Debian install needs a reboot for the new kernel to be picked up.

> have low level file-system control/choices

I think HFS+ has done its time and needs to be phased out, and I would have loved for ZFS to not be acquired by Oracle. Still you can control journaled-ness and case sensitivity of HFS+ drives, which is nice. You can come up with whatever partition scheme you want since /etc/fstab is respected. Also, you can certainly implement/port all the filesystems you want, either 'natively' or through Fuse.

> get and apply same-day security patches

This is an area where the open crowd kicks ass. Many vulnerabilities though are not in the kernel or the base OS but in third party software, which can possibly run nicely on OSX and benefit from openness.

> have custom kernel-level security extensions that compile into every binary on the system

I'm not sure what you mean by that but if you have kernel security compiled in a userland program to be effective, you've got a problem.

> It is also certainly not for the wider range of users and developers that want an operating system they can install on their existing hardware that for most common tasks "just works"

This is true but ironically, I recently built a hackintosh on a Dell XPS 8300 which required much fewer hacks than Ubuntu to simply work. (Debian did not stand a chance as it would have been running half of Sid). Arch Linux fares better but needed quite some work to achieve a fully working environment. Yet in the end OS X is still a better fit for the machine.

> and/or want to easily manage all the software on their system with a mostly unbiased package repository system where everything is free, and where most of it can be legally modified.

Homebrew fits the bill. Also note how most of the Unix userland and a good part of the kernel is actually open [0].

So I assure you hackers can have plenty of fun poking around and living daily inside OS X.

[0] 10.7.3 kernel, http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.24.23/
That's pretty awesome.

Oh and minecraft world is about the size of Neptune...
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> Smart people see the patterns and similarities in everything that unite, instead of the differences and exceptions that divide.

Smart people know that their brain recognizes patterns where there aren't any. They know that they should not fool themselves.

> Smart people I've met live in a mindset of possibility, not doubt or skepticism. One fuels creativity, and the other douses.

Then they are the opposite of what the article is describing. Smart people I know constantly question their own beliefs.
I used to use Ubuntu on a Macbook, and it was pretty easy to map two-finger-tap to right-click and three-finger-tap to middle-click. I guess if you're the kind of person that hates tap-to-click and prefers hardware buttons, that's not so useful, but I had no problems using it.
This is obviously missing nodeup:

* Got all the core team members talking about where nodejs is going
* Does live events with 150 people nerding out and drinking beer.

It's an obvious miss.
Presumably, there's whatever opportunity they make for themselves.

I'm an Australian. There's bugger all opportunities here, because there's no VC. There's no VC, because the domestic market is too small, and the nearest international trade partner worth speaking of is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Oh wait, there's also Japan, and now China and India, but they are kind of emerging, and there's cultural differences. (Note the sarcasm).

VC won't come to smaller markets until startups start proving that they can operate in a globalized environment, and they won't do that by sulking, hoping the government will give them all cushy subsidized finance jobs.
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Any advice on how to acheive this?

I have a slight edge-case, where I would like to install Debian Mint onto a 32GB flash drive, and boot from that. I have a Macbook Air and disk space is at a premium.

Googling around has been to no avail.

If it's possible (though absolutely not necessary) – my OSX and Debian files could be shared when booted into either – that would be great!
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2) I am not talking about my own scripts, I am talking about other peoples. I could obviously go through and debug them, and then check I haven't broken them on a couple of linuxes, and a mac without macports/homebrew but... I don't want to.

Which is why the alias solution is nice, as it will only impact the interactive shell, not the scripts.
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Interesting. I am using OS X 10.5.8 with only 2G memory and when programming with Python, PHP, gcc and Apache this is actually OK. Not brilliant, but not slow either. The machine tends to be on all day. I have noticed that Linux does seem to page more than it used to in recent years, this varies with the kernel. There is more Linux disk activity these days than in previous versions, regardless of what swappiness I tell it to use.

I use nano or vim as my editor mainly. The setup I use on Linux is much the same. I don't notice much of a difference in terms of performance between OS X or Linux for the text-based and command-line related stuff that I do. I could sit down and be happy in either OS X or Linux and it wouldn't matter to me which one I'm using. I also use mutt for my email and cmus for playing music in both environments so I am seldom out of the command line for anything.

Although I do find apt-get much more efficient and I can get packages faster and with less fuss with Linux.

I do also use brew on OS X.

As far as I'm concerned, for what I do, there isn't a lot of difference ... I hardly ever use XCode, though.
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I don't understand the negativity. Am I using the same VLC 1.x as everyone else? One that has two different windows, one for controls and one for video, with the one for controls always showing a playlist? If anything, the new design de-emphasizes the playlist and reduces complexity.

Looking forward to it. I used to use Perian, but Lion's Finder does not allow one to not show previews of files anymore. Navigating through a directory of videos with the arrow keys is like walking through a minefield now. Every tap will trigger the preview generation of some bizarre video plugin and before you get to the file you want to watch, something crashes. I keep Perian uninstalled to get rid of the previews now, and use VLC for everything.
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Totally agree with you on this. I think Flask is Django done right and I've been beating that drum for quite some time (see, for example, my comments on the settings file [1]).

The core devs claim that SQLAlchemy and Jinja weren't around at the time Django was developed, and that's fine. But in 2012, Jinja2 and SQLAlchemy are clearly better alternatives to Django's defaults. So why not incorporate them?

Django doesn't even have first class support for Jinja2 templates, let alone the python HAML variants.

What's ironic is that a few years ago Django was known for being loosely coupled when compared to Rails, which was considered monolithic ("my way or the highway"). Nowadays Rails is the flexible framework, allowing for different ORMs and templating systems, while Django is now the monolithic framework.

Don't get me wrong, I love stability. But when a great percentage of developers are using hacks to get around the default configuration system and to support excellent external libraries like Jinja2 and SQLALchemy, something is very wrong.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3556929
Still free here in England(UK). I suspect that it won't be the case for long though.
Some extreme Libertarians think governments have an extremely limited place - protecting personel and property rights, for example. Others are outright anarchists.

Though there's a number of different kinds of anarchists, who really don't agree with each other - the "Anarchism" page on wikipedia is both "part of a series on Libertarianism", and "part of a series on Libertarian Socialism".

So when I said "there's two types", I was lying a bit.
I agree there - the real issue is the spill.

However, there is no excuse not to design something with safety in mind.

If you look at the base, the edge rim of it is where it seeped in and sat in the curved section like a pool when oriented normally. There was at least 10ml of water which had been sucked off the table via that rim. The logical step is "isolate power". Any movement of the device resulted in the water spilling onto the logic board.

Pictures: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-U...

Now TBH I've personally done this with an acer timeline. I yanked the battery out in 5 seconds flat and hung it up to dry. It was fine the next day.
I must be missing something. Why waste 10 min running purge and repair disk permissions to retrieve memory when a restart is much faster???

I abandoned MacPorts for Homebrew. One feature I like is that I can build any package I want (that doesn't have a formula) with './configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/name/version-no' and then do a 'brew link name' to make all the symbolic links or 'brew unlink name' to remove them. Helps solve annoying problems.

My main grump with MacOSX (still on Snow Leopard) compared to Linux is issues with 64 bit Python and MacOSX seems to store files all over the disk. Basically, if you want to work differently from the Steve Jobs Way, it takes a LOT of work. Couldn't agree more about the superior hardware quality.
I would say I'm half-way with you Swizec. I often feel the same way about my code. The strange thing I find is how many big companies don't even attempt to make what many would consider simple technology because at the beginning it can always seem so daunting.

This I find keeps people building twitter/groupon/start-up-of-the-day clones, rather than getting started in more complicated projects where they may actually learn something and create something of value.
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Yes there are not that many jobs in the Geothemal Energy that you can transition to - which is about the only physics/engineering Based industry that Iceland has.
All I need from VLC is the option to automatically save where I left off in a video so when I relaunch it, I don't have to manually navigate to where I was last.
Great questions - but they are by no means simple.
I got a Linux portable this early autumn instead of a new Mac, mostly to get apt.

It is a Latitude, so it isn't that bad (~ cheap Thinkpad), but it can't really hold a candle to a real Mac. Sigh, I wish I'd made your choice and gone Mac again with Ubuntu/Debian (VM or not).
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You could always try to revive the Arch OS X project (it was 100% functionally working end-to-end) if you want, but it failed in favor of Homebrew for a reason: no one seems to want to assume the cost (both in time and money) of the binary side of things (hosting, building distributable packages, uploading, etc...).
This post is from 2006.

Here's a more recent article in the same "DIY Python Framework" spirit, which is longer but quite good: http://docs.webob.org/en/latest/do-it-yourself.html
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I think you are misreading me. You can be a serious hacker that uses OSX.

Allow me to add some contrast.

I have seen lots of fantastic things developed on OSX exclusively. They still typically deploy on Linux servers, but I digress. What you /can't/ do on OSX is seriously care about many of the items I listed. That _should_ read if you are "A" a serious hacker and "B" you also care about things like these, then Linux is the only sane choice. For someone that only deals in working in the confines of existing frameworks, scripting languages, etc, then sure OSX+xcode will let you get done what you need. If however your project needs require you to have control lower than the OSX binary systems can presently offer, you hit a closed source brick wall. If something breaks, your at the mercy of a third party to fix it.

It has some of the same problems in that respect as Windows.

When I get a piece of hardware that does not work, I can go to the kernel source, and patch it myself, and contribute it to the Linux kernel. In fact, I have. If something does not work how you expect on OSX however, file a bug report and hope for the best. Even if you have the skills to fix the problem, your hands are tied.
But not at such a scale that they can suport a lot of new profesional level jobs.
Just out of interest, does anyone know what linux distro has the best Macbook Pro support? Like the author has said, I've always admired the hardware but want to use linux, ideally a debian based one.
It's arguable whether that's really trade then - it's a bit more like a mugging.

Resources (either shortages or riches) do cause wars, but simple trade links are a great way to prevent wars.
concur - looking a little garbled, but not that bad 17.0.963.46 Linux.
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Nothing wrong with asking these questions, but my experience has been that most people do not know how to judge their situations to answer honestly, anyway. I've talked to a number of people in startup-phase over the last year, and always ask variations of these questions, and when one with a hard answer comes up, I typically get something like "you're a downer", "you're too negative", "you don't understand the market", etc. Or variations of "just do XYZ!", where XYZ, realistically, has been tried by dozens of parties before, resulting in them losing loads of money and leaving the market altogether.

Inevitably, we end up reading stories from people here every few months with a spin on "startups are hard. however hard you think it will be, multiply that by 10. etc". And they're right. Whether those people have succeeded or failed, they blog about how hard everything is. We see stories about "I thought XYZ would take me $t and $o weeks, but it was much longer/harder/difficult than I could have imagined".

One might conclude that anyone who actually had real numbers behind how much time and effort an idea would take to bring to market, no one would, and one might be right. But just asking the questions designed to get people to think about these sorts of things generally doesn't help people too much - at least in my experience. Might just be the people I talk to, but many of them seem to be more in love with the idea of "startup!" rather than actually building a business around providing value, especially if that business/value doesn't look/sound/feel exactly like the idea in their head from 6 months earlier (in "lean startup terminology", they're not open to "pivot", probably).
The Chicken and the Pig!! It may be about your start-up too
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Regarding hardware quality:

"...why there's no PC manufacturers that would
have the same overall quality of the hardware."

In my experience, business ThinkPads beat MacBooks by a mile for working (e.g. programming). I am surprised to see so many coders use MacBooks. Thinkpads have better ergonomics, are more robust and better performance/configurable hardware (e.g. RAM).
Back when I was on Windows (Went 100% linux about a 18 months ago), I had one favorite tool that I still miss to this day called TimeSnapper [1]. The underlying concept is pretty simple. It takes a screenshot every x seconds, allowing you to track and play back everything you do on your computer. It also allows you to filter the time spent on tasks according to app titles and browser URLs.

I used it to track my time on client work for a couple years. After a couple weeks of playing back my day and adjusting the filters, I found it to be fairly accurate in tracking what I was doing at any point in the day - including tracking how much time I slacked off or researched subjects and so-on. The passive nature of the tool along with the filters and timeline made it one of the most useful time tracking tools I've ever used.

I have no affiliation with the app or developer besides being a satisfied customer.

1: http://timesnapper.com/
Fortunately, it is.

Images are either child pornography or not. Lots of images are up for interpretation by the Dost test & other case law surrounding the issue, but at the end of the day, we're talking about a binary here. If someone is willing to risk hosting or viewing images that are up for interpretation, it's their own ass on the line -- but many people consistently underestimate exactly what child pornography is.

But my main issue here is that your speech normalizes child pornography. By trying to frame the issue as "gut-wrenching abuse images of young children" versus "grey area stuff", possession of the "grey area stuff" seems less bad. But that's wrong. Both categories of images represent the victimization of children, and both can land you in prison.
A full text link is here:

http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/65/8/897?ijkey...

I was told about this article overnight by a behavioral genetics researcher who heard about this paper from his colleague. The twin study methodology used here is a genetically sensitive design, which is still too rare in medical studies. Both local researchers are surprised by the result reported in the abstract (perhaps because both exercise regularly, as do most members of their department of psychology). The abstract says,

"Context In the population at large, regular exercise is associated with reduced anxious and depressive symptoms. Results of experimental studies in clinical populations suggest a causal effect of exercise on anxiety and depression, but it is unclear whether such a causal effect also drives the population association. We cannot exclude the major contribution of a third underlying factor influencing exercise behavior and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

. . . .

"Design Population-based longitudinal study (1991-2002) in a genetically informative sample of twin families.

. . . .

"Conclusion Regular exercise is associated with reduced anxious and depressive symptoms in the population at large, but the association is not because of causal effects of exercise."
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thx, i'll have a look
Seriously. Data types -- surely anyone who has used any SQL database knows their internal data types? Although, true, I have seen a few odd table schemas in my time. Mainly in SQL Server databases it has to be said.
Could also just say raise your hands high if you are enthusiastic and into it, like a rap concert. :)
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Well, the answers are definitely not simple but the questions are quite simple in my opinion.
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