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The habit of Windows apps to have entirely custom UIs is relatively unknown on Macs

Except for all the apps that do. Like iTunes (ships with OS X) and the Mac App Store app (ships with OS X). And Quicktime (ships with OS X).

Even some popular non-Apple apps like Twitter.
You have to click on the blurry DB Info image.

I know, intuitive, right? You know it's a "a user-friendly interface" because they say so [1].

[1] http://alberteinstein.info/manuscripts.html
I did read the post... when you linked it an hour prior to this comment. In any case, this is the first time I have ever seen Mozilla seem to understand this issue. Back when it first arose, they were championing user rights, while at the same time producing a markedly worse user experience, and they did not acknowledge this problem. What's worse, it was pointed out time and time again that Mozilla, in their rush to throw their weight behind "open" technologies, continued to support Flash (a distinctly closed technology) and, in fact, were forcing people to use Flash as a workaround for Mozilla's lack of support for open standards.
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This made me think of it a little differently. You know, I've never regretted not telling the whole my ideas but I could think of many examples where I would regret it, if I had. In fact, it seems very odd anyone would regret not telling everyone, including all of your potential big name competitors, your ideas. You'd have to be really wrapped in that meme :)
> This is spoken like someone that doesn't know computer science at all.

Hint: read his other blog posts. My personal favorite: http://max-michaels.blogspot.com/2011/10/best-javascript-deb...
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I'm going to drastically oversimplify, but there are two types of interviewees, and two types of interviewers, but only one of the four matches leads to a deadly clash as expressed by many other users here in their disdain for the question.

Interviewees: There are people who Need a Job Now and interviewing all over and will likely say yes to almost any opportunity, and there are people who are casually looking around seeing what else is out there, they are in no hurry and they can easily afford to say no. The first type needs money to live, they view themselves as a wage slave; the second type could just as well go start a startup but instead choose to rent out their brain for someone else's use (and they view themselves as this way, renting a service).

Interviewers: The first type, they do a competence test and they do a culture/personality test. This can be accomplished in an informal luncheon or the like. The second type, they pull questions like these, trying to extract as much information from the candidate's personal life as possible--perhaps even asking for a Facebook password--or they put the candidate through coding hoops that don't really test talent but memorization and retention of Java-school-undergrad-level material that's just a single Google away. (Though personally I wouldn't mind being asked to implement the binary search correctly in a statically-sized-int language, especially since even in Java the official version was wrong for quite some time due to integer overflow. But this is just a piece of trivia I enjoy, I don't know if I would ask it unless the job required a good familiarity with architecture and language detail...)

The job-hunters will fit fine with either interviewer. They'll talk at length about their own mothers if they think it will help them get the job offer. The casual brain-renting candidates only match with the casual interviewer, however, and will happily walk away from the nosy interviewers. It's nice to see that principle at work in this community, even if there are some that oppose; we need more people in general, not just hackers, willing to say no to jobs even at the start of the interview stage when they sense something they don't like on principle.
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I question this premise... this picture still gives me chills:
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Also, the UI in Firefox for changing the address bar search engine is awful -- about:config, click through the warning, then find and edit keyword.URL (which is in a different format to everything else)
> The original Droid came out in Nov '09 and had a 265ppi screen

I've got a much bigger issue with this quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors

Those are 22" desktop LCD screens with a resolution of 3840×2400. The T220 came out in 2001. At an original price of $18k they certainly cost an arm, a leg and half your firstborn. But there you are.
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Thanks.

I posted a few words on it a while ago -- http://joshuaspodek.com/people-join-good-projects-leave -- that says the professor I heard it from, Michael Feiner, plus links to more about him.
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true , but it's only recently that there has been so much good development software available for free.

When I was first looking at computers a computer cost $1000 and a copy of MS C++ was something like $300
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Well, actually, that's the whole point of the people side of an interview: to understand the human on the other side of the table

It's not exactly exploiting. It's ensuring goal alignment and team alignment.

It's better for everyone if misaligned people don't work together.
>Will it replace a PC for every usage ? Are you kidding me: Development, 3D Effect, Advanced Audio Processing, Advanced Photo processing...

No. But for a large proportion of the PC Market this doesn't apply. They only ever used their PC for email, youtube, email etc. So for what is probably a majority of PC users (ie. Not you, me or most HN readers) this is 'Tablet vs Computer'.

To call the argument 'dumb' is dumb. Make your point without attempting to dismiss the argument in such a cheap manner.
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Try gitx, this has served me well for the past 6 months. Used to use solely command line for years, but I can't go past the visibility and ease of use that gitx provides. I use the history view and add/commit workflow in gitx. Anything more fancy like interactive rebases and merges I drop back to command line. Works a treat.

This fork is a good one: http://gitx.laullon.com/
I think there should be more explanation as to what this process will actually do to your Google account.
A large number of people rely on Google for quite a number of critical services, and removing part of their account could have any number of unknown side effects.
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Because if it will make one site invest better in market after I gladly used its content for free, why not?

I couldn't care less.

Now, let's talk about sites that uses it, and other user inputs, for security...
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There are a lot of users between "your mom" and HN readers, many of them probably use things like pivot tables.
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How exactly do you define "traditional unices"?

Based on what you've posted,you'd have a hard time calling anything that. And I'm including AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, etc.

What you want is a UNIX or UNIX-like OS that comes pre-installed with GNU-based development tools. This is a choice in configuration, not a definition of what UNIX is or isn't.
> Picture the case of not needing a range of 300 miles.
> For most of us, 60 miles might be enough. If that
> battery pack is small enough gas stations could morph
> into battery pack swap stations.

Or your car has a 60km range battery built in and for longer trips you stick an extra capacity battery in the boot and plug it in. It's a lot easier than adding/removing a gas tank as needed.
GCC has options to change the size of int without even modifying the compiler

Great, I'm very happy for them. If I ever wake up and decide to change sizeof(int), I can.

Now what do you suppose is going to happen if the GCC committers wake up one day and decide to change sizeof(int) for everyone?

I have a feeling we'd all see an awful lot of what you would apparently call "buggy code" if that ever happens. I also suspect there will be a pretty quick exodus of formerly loyal GCC users if that ever happens. No one will be able to trust the judgement of the compiler authors, at that point.

Seriously. I feel like the only sane guy in the asylum here.
I'd argue that there is one last barrier to these slate based computers (smartphones, tablets) and that is to take these screens and make them sunlight readable (reflective), color, same retina resolution, and same refresh rate.

once the screen no longer requires a backlight, and can be readable any place a book can, computers will truly be ubiquitous. as for creation tools on these machines they are beginning to arrive now, and they will become more and more mature as time goes on. hopefully a less controlled ecosystem will win out but that much I dont know I can predict.
The problem with those characters is that they require you to hold shift to type them on a standard keyboard. Also, they make you reach in a way that / doesn't (now I'm showing my pro-/ bias).
Oh god, that's funny now I look at it. Hahah.
I've been working on systems for storing and retrieving arbitrary text "chunks" of information (with metadata) for some time now; see http://www.InfoML.org/ for the main idea, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/infocardorgnizr/ for a working Java program for idea capture (not connected to a browser, but I've been thinking in that direction for a while). I've got software using a notecard-and-desktop metaphor working, though nowhere near ready for outside users.

I know this is somewhat distant from what you're proposing, but I thought you might find it of interest. Please feel free to get in touch.
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And if lightscribe can produce usable graphene for super capacitors an industrial machine that does the same thing faster and better shouldn't cost too much, and I can't see any reason why the low-tech approach can't scale up easily.
To all the people who are sad - it will be OK.

Workstations killed mainframes, because you didn't need that stupid command line. You could point and click. But real software engineers would install UNIX tools, or SSH (or telnet) into a server, and take advantage of the pretty display for richer reports.

PCs killed workstations, because they were cheaper, and their OS was more user friendly. Unfortunately, "user friendly" meant "dumbed down". You could take advantage of innovations in IDEs, word processors, email programs, and web browser; but it was harder to instal UNIX tools. You could still SSH into a server (which would be a workstation, if you were on a tight budget) and get UNIX stuff done. You could also configure X, and do workstation stuff.

Now, tablets are killing PCs, because they are cheaper, more portable, and more "user friendly" (dumbed down). There's probably no way to install UNIX tools. But you can get a virtual server for peanuts (or set up a home PC), hook up a USB keyboard, and an SSH "app", and everything is fine. The display is a bit small, but many tablets these days can power a HD display (look at the Raspberry Pi, which uses mobile phone components). Apple may or may not include the right port, but Android tablets can. And you can take advantage of innovations in touch interfaces.
>Already feeling a sense of dread having been through this game 10s of times before with other languages.

What? I'm a student still learning new languages and it took me no time to look up and quickly grok duck typing. If that prevents you from learning a language...

Seriously... it's an hour to skim and read through. Hour or two to put together a decent non-trivial server demonstrating channels. I really don't know what your big long rant is about. It's not hard to find reasons Go was designed the way it was, find what it's goal is and read enough intro docs to get up and coding with it easily.
To me, all of this seems like typical geek behaviour: something is making them uncomfortable, and so they attack it on “rational” grounds. Most likely, they aren’t even aware of the gut reaction fueling their logic.

The truth hurts.

It's not clear who she asked to have the original bot shut off, but if a manager or anyone else who was ostensibly responsible for the work environment was aware of (and repeatedly denied) this request, I wonder if there are deeper organizational issues that can't be solved with a python script.
Despite the fact that you're writing on a website written by one of the two people whose opinions you're quoting, I really don't think extrapolating the future based on two opinions is going to fly here.
the idea of the general purpose mechanical vehicle died a long time ago, the idea of the all purpose computing device should also. while these ARE general purpose machines as far as their internals go, even with pcs and laptops different tools are required to perform different tasks.

Artists use wacom pads and cintiqs to "create" audio experts use mixing boards and MIDI instruments, 3d artists use even more specialized tools (this is my proffession so I happen to know more about it than the others) a lot of what is happening with tablet computers is that the keyboard/mouse combination, once a first class input device used by coders and office employees is becoming a peripheral just like all the others I have been talking about.
Except, better books on a given subject could easily come along at a later date. Time of publication doesn't seem like a good basis for grouping.
A capacitor could internally short, releasing all of its energy at once

Fortunately there's no such thing as a capacitor without some parasitic resistance and inductance. I don't think it will ever be practical to build a capacitor that could behave like a gasoline bomb at room temperature. If it happens, it'll be trivial for the manufacturer to limit the peak current.
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Great, just great. It always bugs me, when I hear some kind of gender-"jokes". And it does not matter, if there are any females around.

I strongly believe, that we have to accept our differences, but that this should never change the freedom/options a person has.

And that, for me, includes genderist jokes. We have come so far, that gender just should not matter, when it comes to jobs, to knowledge, to skill.
If I'm a homebuilder and in my crew I have 5 average-ability builders and one exceptional tile guy, I can't be expected to let the tile guy run the show. I might treat him differently -- give him plans and let him run with them, let him be responsible for meeting his own deadlines and so forth, but in no circumstance can I let that tile guy have total free reign over a home project... and in all honesty, he probably doesn't want it.

I'm not sure the analogy works, but this was my struggle moving from startups to enterprise environments. Personal contribution matters, but there can be no heroes, because the totality of the business is immense. This thinking requires a bit of abstraction on the business side and coming to terms with the fact that you're a member of a team (and there are many other teams all with different relative importance). A cog in the machine? Perhaps, but a startup is just a tiny machine, and when you scale, as is the nature of a successful startup, you do so by adding cogs and thus increasing the size of your machine.

I firmly believe that process doesn't really keep things "on track" as much as it forces the business the choose between competing priorities, and it forces communication. It doesn't matter if it's Agile, XP, whatever -- you need three things for process to work: 1) defined owners with the authority to set priorities, 2) defined intervals when those priorities can't be changed, and 3) agreement between the involved parties that they'll stick to the process.
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I don't think Microsoft is playing favorites with OnLive; rather, they are trying to save their hardware "partners" from certain doom since they do not have any such offerings. This would indirectly impact Microsoft itself since OEM licensing makes Microsoft a lot of money.
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You might be right there. But the problem with startup culture is, that there often is not that kind of hierarchy, as one is used in bigger organisations.

Nut at least the founders should have reacted. As it is their responsibility, that every one of the team feels at home in the culture they create.
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In other words, managing by metrics is problematic and there's no substitute for using your brain. It's interesting to juxtapose this with the thread from the other day about The Well Intentioned Commisar:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3688198

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It comes down to product.

If your product is in high demand and you have incredible mind share (as the mentioned brands do), revenue will follow. With more revenue you can afford to ramp up your customer service.

This article seems to claim that revenue is directly correlated to payroll costs. So spending more on payroll will somehow magically increase revenue? Then everyone would be doing it. There is a delicate balance.

Lastly, Circuit City failed because they couldn't innovate as fast as other competitors, namely Best Buy, not because they tried, as a last ditch effort, to save money by hiring temp workers.
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Maybe something like: "Now I see if I was right."
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