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> I don't see how it is related to the concept of distributions.

Distributions freeze the set of available app versions to a specific version of the base system. You cant get a new app without upgrading everything else too, including all other apps. I cant simply get a new Emacs on my Ubuntu, because to do that, Ubuntu also wants to remove my Gnome2 and replace it with Unity.

Windows decouples the base from the apps. When you want to update an app, you just do it, everything else remains untouched. If I want to get a new Emacs on XP, it wont force me to simultaneously upgrade to 7.

Windows would have the same problems if they bundled a new set of base libs and 20000 apps that only work with that specific set of libs every few months but they dont. They invest a great effort into making the base system slow and stable and support it for a decade or more, and it shows.
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I'm trying to use Trello to keep tasks and bugs for my current startup, but it didn't scale so well - its nice for few lists and cards but not many (I might just be using it wrong, I've nevr done Scrum/Kanban etc)
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Strongly agree. To me the majority of slides read like one big strawman, I didn't realise the myths were even myths. Or, in a couple of cases, what they attribute to performance concerns are things I'd attribute to good programming style for other reasons.
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RE: slow downloads thru Napster

Of course, high speed internet is much more prevalent now in 2012 than it was in '99. Downloading an album in '99 sometimes meant you were downloading from PC's with only a 56k modem for connectivity.
jquery has been around for a while and so has this post. but nonetheless a good reminder what a pain js would be without it.
I disagree with the "raw beginner" description. If you use something professionally, as in a day to day job, for 6 months, you're not going to be a beginner. It's a standard template library, not some crazy theory requiring a phd to apply. Unless you're trying to say that STL is so messed up you can't learn the basics of it in half a year?
As I said. That's a problem with the package management in most distributions. It has nothing to do with the fact that we have multiple distributions.

I.e. source-based distributions (e.g. gentoo) don't have this particular problem.
That URL redirects me to the homepage, here's the story itself: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/17/untethered-jailbreak-for-...

There's actually three different jailbreaks that were available on launch day. Really quite amazing. I believe i0n1c was first. chpwn/phoenixdev also released one, which appears to rely on having a developer account.
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Chaos? Really? I thought we were moving beyond this whole "Android is inferior" mindset finally.
I was always surprised that no one made something like "The Linux Binary Platform 2003" and then kept it up to date, maybe releasing another one later.

At the very least, developers used to Windows would understand the dynamics of it (which is probably a good idea if attracting commercial development is a goal).

I would say it is quite a bit less ambitious than something like the linux standard base.
It surprisingly does a good job of mimicking the editor theme: http://jsfiddle.net/9f5PQ/

Although it creates some blank CSS.
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Eh. First of all, you're not limited to the packages your distribution supplies. Lots and lots of software is distributed in Launchpad PPAs. Other stuff can be installed without the package manager, some games are statically compiled, etc.

And I don't see what's wrong with requiring users to have an up-to-date system. Security fixes alone make regular updates almost mandatory on all operating systems. Windows installs run for a decade, but they still get constant security upgrades, including ones that require restarts and big scary service packs.

System upgrades simply should be totally painless. The kernel gets updated constantly without users noticing, it should be the same for all upgrades. Maybe a rolling release would be a better solution, because it gets rid of the scary system upgrade user interaction, but they're more difficult to QA.

Maybe the repository administration model needs to be changed. Giving the devs more control/responsibility for their package in the repository might be a good idea. Many developers already set up PPAs to get there.
Great platform to be more engaged with March Madness games that you may not have a vested interest in. Plus, it's a lot of fun and you may win bragging rights.
What other platform would bounce you for having a separately purchasable pro version or preemptively require licensing proof for something that isn't a core aspect?
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Yes, I see the point being made in the original article. I tend to use LTS Ubuntu and conservative distributions (currently PUIAS) and so see a slower rate of change.

Another Hacker News thread is discussing the new release of Audacity.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714766

and it occured to me that I would like to try to compile a statically linked build of Audacity that could work on any version of GNU/Linux from Ubuntu 12.04 down to (say) CentOS 5.7. Just a big binary blob that I could copy and run.

How would I find out how to do this? I've compiled little things before (dwm window manager, qalculate)
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To be fair, this was the age of dial-up, not broadband.
Dint scale so well ? There can be so many other reasons for that and yes you maybe right in thinking so.

And besides Trello can be put to use for so many other things as well like managing your monthly expenses , a school using it for announcements and parents receiving notifications on their device, etc.
Price is higher because you pay 18-25% VAT to government in EU .
It's interesting that it's more than a decade since Napster, and the music industry hasn't gone bust yet. It's almost like P2P cannot destroy the main music industry.
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The library developer updates the library, and if the app doesn't need changes to work with the new library version, he doesn't have to do anything. You could even automate finding all copies of the library and updating them...and keep prior versions around if something breaks.

To avoid relying on app developers at all, put apps in sandboxes where it appears that the libraries are where they've always been.
I think he was referring to Geo-IP location (approximating your location based on your ip address). About 60-75% of the time it's accurate to the city - provided you're not using mobile broadband.

Of course there are a number of other ways to get higher resolution location without consent. An older but commonly known one is Samy's XSS exploit (http://www.samy.pl/mapxss/).
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From my perspective I don't have any trouble with Ubuntu using a combination of PPAs and Win/OSX like self contained apps. Things like Chrome and Mendeley come with auto-updating PPAs. Other apps that I really care about like Eclipse, Matlab or Firefox come in there own self contained packages.
Most of it is the VAT and other taxes. I believe Americans pay something similar to VAT after they've already purchased the product, but someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
Obligatory link to the standard (FHS), since it's buried in the comments under that blog post:
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Looks like with Enyo, the JavaScript app framework, and leveraging this new Boot2Gecko, smartphone hardware will become the focus rather the phone OS.
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> He basically wanted to upgrade just one (obscure) app, and the process triggered the automatic removal of Gnome2 and installation of Unity. Just _IMAGINE_ how nightmarish this must look for normal users. You simply dont remove somebodys installed desktop sneakily from under their feet. You simply dont. That feels like the total loss of control over your computer.

Hmm, that's not exactly what happened, according to the link: "I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 a week or so back in order to get a more recent version of SCons."

Your overall point is well taken, but I wonder how much it affects what I think of as "normal users", who don't care so much about upgrading to the bleeding edge of scons. Consider a hypothetical user of Hardy, so they've had it for four years: what are they actually missing if what they do is web surfing, email, and maybe document editing?
So /usr/local implies that the binaries were built for the local machine, and might not work elsewhere?
I don't see why... I've been able to do almost any color scheme from textmate or other editors. I have my favorite color scheme from textmate in VIM (Sunburst). Just make sure you're either using gvim or your terminal has 256 colors turned on.
The users on Macrumors can list on Classfy and then post their link on their forum posting. Think of it like a image hosting. Many forums have their own attachment feature however people prefer to use image hosts.
Also another reason why to post on Classfy is that their listing is visible to everyone on Classfy and Macrumors..
Mac rumors will get lots of traffic from this as the users will see that many of these Macbook related posts are from people from Macrumors forum.

Heatware is pretty good for feedback, if they facilitated transaction it would have been even better. We are not really trying facilitate feedback of every forum transaction only those that occur on Classfy. However we respect people's previous feedbacks and so You can add your heatware profile to your Classfy profile.

The problem is that launching any marketplace you are faced with the chicken and egg problem. To try and get passed this problem we have released this as more of an MVP. Maybe forum users wont embrace our site but another niche might. So we will pivot towards them. There are MANY niches that need their own marketplace but currently don't. Take a look at http://www.coalmineclassifieds.com/ there is also another one for Oil and Gas and agricultural. Innovation is not evenly spread out in many areas of tech the reason is developers innovate because they want to solve their own problems. How many Techies are familiar with enough with the coal industry in order to disrupt it with a marketplace only dedicated to coal. Which probably will be very lucrative
EMC also has a consulting division - so perhaps plans to integrate it there?
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I would think "leakedBin" would have been a better name, given its source of data. ;-)
I actually found the exact same thing :)
Really as it should be. If the software was any good it would make using it feel like nothing at all. The only attraction left is the screen/battery/camera/wifi quality.

I've been waiting to see something like this for a long time.
What is the significance of the "E-Mail Headers", such as http://www.leakedin.com/2012/03/17/potential-leak-of-data-e-... ?
They aren't making our jobs harder, we just want to make it up for all the people that have been constantly asking us about the iOS app.

The parallel sale does sounds good though, so thanks. :)
Related question: are all syntax highlighters awful to read for people who depend on accessibility tools, or is there actually a way to present code in a way that is accessible to these people?

Currenly, I just decorate the <pre> and <code> tags with CSS (as much as I would love line numbers).
> And I don't see what's wrong with requiring users to have an up-to-date system.

The problem are not the forced invisible security updates, the problem are forced user-visible upgrades.

When you want to upgrade one app, you maybe dont want to simultaneously upgrade another app or even the whole desktop. With the distribution model, theres no way to avoid this forced interdependence.
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Generally, or "local to the site".

In the mid-80's to 90's when disk space was at a premium, it was quite common to have one big file server that had the /usr/local, /opt, /home, etc. hierarchies on it, shared out over NFS to the other desktop machines on the network.

As most/all of the machines would be similar architectures, they could share the binaries. In cases where there was more than one architecture, there would frequently be multiple file servers, one per arch. Another remnant of this on modern systems: "/usr/share" usually contains data like machine-independent help files that could be mounted across architectures.

The result of this was that users could hotseat from machine to machine, and site-specific software would only need be installed once, which was a space/complexity win.
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You are broadly describing PPAs. Adding a package from a PPA is a three-line (easily scriptable) process: add-apt-repository <url|ppa-name>, apt-get update, apt-get install <package>. Obviously, that doesn't just work for PPAs, but for all apt repositories.

Launchpad does some central indexing ("other versions of this package") for PPAs, but I don't think it's accessible via command line. There is no indication how popular a PPA is, but PPAs are linked to admin user accounts which might help. Packages are signed and the key is auto-imported. Packages co-exist alongside packages from the repos, you can easily switch between different provided versions.

Installing a plain deb is much easier still, but you don't get upgrades (unless the repository is auto-added during install) or signing.
Great thinking all around!

- aggregating listings from across other sources / syndicated auctions is a cool idea. You probably still want a category focus. In the 90s, at one point the other dozen auction sites shared/exchanged their listings into one combined, shared set of listings, and eBay still killed them. But if you can choose a category, you can beat eBay.

- bit coin or other payment community, cool direction

- mixing in results from eBay is a great idea. Airbnb used craigslist listings to gain critical mass. Again, should work best within something narrow not broad

Good luck, you're going in the right direction
The Linux desktop is dead. Face it. Accept it.

How do I know this? Go to a developers' or tech conference, and what is the prevailing OS? 9/10 times these days, it's MacOS.

As much as Apple may be control freaks, they did desktop UNIX right and developers have flocked to them.

Meanwhile, the Linux desktop community is still having the same debates, the same difficulties it had back in the mid-90's. Dependency issues. Lack of compelling use case software; and that which does exist is versions behind current. Fragmentation.

The only areas in which the Linux desktop has moved forward is UI and user-oriented management, and Ubuntu deserves much of the credit for the latter.

Add to this the gradual movement away from the desktop paradigm to mobile. The desktop paradigm will still be around for several years (especially for creators--developers, media folks, etc), but the end-user is moving more and more towards smartphones and tablets for consumption. Extend those with external keyboards and monitors (think docks) for light
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Nope. The Linux desktop is dead.
I think the point is that from an end user experience Napster had advantages and features that haven't been replicated or bettered since.

Yes that's ignoring the legality of it, but ultimately we repeatedly see that users will ignore legal issues in favour of convenience.
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Great, but one project would be considered "number of successful".
But what's the problem with sources.list, as long as the user doesn't have to manage or even know that it exists?

Provide a .deb from your website, use the install script to add your repository to the sources.list. There, the user doesn't have to know or care about that file. And this is all possible - no, easy - to do right now.

This is how it must work:

I disagree, having to run apt-get is too cumbersome to a regular user. But a better way already exists in the form of apt-url. Click a link, have the package downloaded and installed automatically.

This can (will and does) co-exist happily alongside the centralized repositories. Someone just needs to implement it and push it through the glacial Debian processes.

But my point is that most of the infrastructure (support for multiple repositories, one-click installation of third-party packages) already exists. That's why I don't agree that this is the problem with Linux.

And while we're at it, there's no reason 'apt-get install github://foobar' can't be made work.

I don't see how - there's no standard on GH projects for installation; some projects are installed by simple make/make install, others with easy_install/gems/npm, etc.
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There are sales taxes, which vary wildly by jurisdiction: from 0% to I believe 10 or 12%. And you are correct, they are not ever presented in the listed price (which is a huge irritant). Due to a quirk of the Constitution, buying online usually falls under "interstate commerce" and is therefor excluded from sales tax.
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As a prototype this is cool, as a daily use phone, it kind of sucks. Scroll/swipe latency, anyone ?
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I disagree with this -- i was a very heavy Napster user in 99 and am a very heavy Spotify user (and, NB, they are a customer) today. Obviously it's a fun angle for a SXSW talk, but:

- The "depth of catalog" is actually incorrect -- Spotify has far far more songs than Napster did (you can see in that screenshot even, most logins/servers hit less than 1m songs totally available, and of course those are just total indexed, in reality almost 50% of downloads would not be available.) Yes, you could find niche stuff on Napster-- as a musician in 1999 I would make sure all my stuff was available, pre-release, demos, etc. But we have Soundcloud for that now, so...

- The discovery on Napster was non-existent. You could browse through a users' collection, the same way you can browse through playlists today. But the only entry into anything was a search box that only looked at ID3v1 data and filenames. There's been amazing leaps and bounds in discovery since then, and it's very clear by the #s that it's what people wanted -- a guided (radio, playlist) experience over a wild west single song retrieval thing.

- Napster was stupid bad at search. There obviously was no catalog resolution and the quality of the results was abysmal. I am pretty sure it was a substring match, for one, and then there was the bad metadata, fake songs, later on a huge spam / "SEO" problem.

- Not going to get into speed, because it wasn't Napster's fault, but even back then it was far easier to get music elsewhere other than Napster if possible. Ratio FTP sites, hotline, and of course bubblecruft startups building customer bases by selling new CDs for $4. It was very clear at the time even that the distributed nature of Napster was a liability, not a promise, as all the single-server solutions were far more convenient and reliable. But this was not their fault and of course their success inspired everything after it.
Repeating what I said on Reddit: The Regexp vs. indexOf test seems a little misleading. Generally, .indexOf will be faster, but they seem to have performed a very specific test that requires the indexOf method to do some string concatenation before actually searching, which IMO invalidates the usefulness of the test.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The test I'm talking about: http://jsperf.com/regexp-indexof-perf
Boy, the video's constant use of "the web" really annoyed me. I know that you have to cut down the jargon to make it presentable, and "HTML, CSS and JS" gets a bit confusing. What about "web technologies" or even just "a browser"?

Also: "You can run on less expensive hardware, because you've got less technology going on under the covers."

You can't really call a full HTML5 stack light-weight. Sure, you save some libraries, but that's mostly a space issue. I sincerely doubt that a JS-based "Angry Birds" would use fewer resources than a native app.

Having said that, I'm really looking forward to this. Hope there's a way to get it on older Android phones soon, my Nexus One is waiting for new life…
fosk, I knew the website just didnt have time to finish my comment, actually. But no, the pixels never expire.

What I learnt with his project is what it means when your project goes viral. To me noone in sound mind would pay a dollar for pixel, boy, I was wrong.

Now Alex Tew designed this one and its actually pretty cool as well: http://www.waterforward.org/
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It's 'the Web', i.e. a set of HTML pages with some CSS and JS, with access to a few newly developed APIs, like the one for dialing the phone, but running locally on the device, not remotely.
It's quite sad when you have to pay premium money for a device and still aren't able to do the things YOU want with it. For all the things Apple did for usability, this is one big letdown.
I've been using Linux for about 4 years now, and I've tried to find a document like this a few times and failed. This is probably the best reference on this topic I've seen yet.
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That would be awesome if it actually became a mainstream mobile OS.

Otoh, what about security here? Having JS from a web site dial the phone or taking pics? How will they make sure that lazy I-don't-read-popups-but-just-click-okay users will not get pwned?
We need to think and act on principle, with a long-range outlook: stop sending aid to countries that enslave and mass murder people.

Someday, people will look back the last 20 years of pragmatic policies on North Korea and be ashamed. By sending food and other aid to North Korea, we and others (China and America) have helped perpetuate this immoral regime. Without that aid and the implicit moral sanction it carries, North Korea would have collapsed long ago.