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What irks me the most about the "post pc era" is its genesis. It is portrayed as a revolution that will fundamentally change computing.

However, by dubbing the tablet the "post-pc", its very definition still depends on the pc, being a definition ex negativo. Many of the arguments here are about whether the tablet can do everything a pc does.

The tablet does not revolutionise cultural artifacts or cultural goods, it merely allows for a consumption that is somewhat different from the consumption the pc offers. The consumed goods do not change, social media, media, art and science remain exactly the same, namely consumable goods.

The established dichotomy between the pc and the tablet is a fake one, used to artificially create demand that can then be met through new supplies.

The tablet does not change the mode of production, it is merely another facet of consumption, this time even more openly advertised as such by being advertised a "consumer device".

Calling it innovation is in my opinion a misrepresentation, because it basically reinvents the wheel once more, it undergoes the same syntheses and evolution as the pc did, just accelerated thanks to already available knowledge.

The tablet is a clever remix of technologies already available. It combines different modes of consumption previously divided, but it only changes the mode of reception, not production.

True innovation on the other hand has to change the modes of production first. The tablet cannot achieve anything other items cannot also do, and is thus not innovation or revolution, it is merely evolution, or even just another playing field added alongside others.

Film, recorded music, books and the radio changed the means of production, as did the pc. The walkman, the tablet and the tv may have changed the modes of reception, but nothing new can be created through them that wasn't already available beforehand and is merely refined, not substantially altered.

The "war" of tablets vs pc is just another sales pitch to make either more appealing to their individual audiences.

>> edit (for ease of understanding, an example)

As an example that is less abstract, take the "Hipster". Wearing clothing that is tattered might be "cool" to you and you wear it "ironically, as a statement". If you are poor however, you might have to wear tattered clothes because you lack the means to afford something else. Ironically or not, you are fundamentally still wearing tattered clothes. Irony does not influence the plane of action, but instead the plane of ideas, or in other words: ideology. It's the same in the debate of tablet vs pc: Whether you type a blog-post on your touchscreened tablet or with a keyboard on your pc doesn't change the underlying action, just the mode of action. Whether you prefer one over the other is ideology, the basic action remains unchanged.

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Whoever downvoted me, please say why. If I'm wrong, I'm very curious to know why (because I work on a macbook and I'd like my life to be easier).
Well it's not just codecademy for social media. The lessons aren't the main aspect of the platform, just a really cool free feature we offer.

Look at it this way: Facebook rolls out new product updates all the time. Where do you go if you are a non-tech savvy person to learn how to use these new features? If you're non-tech savvy you won't be reading mashable or hacker news.

The lessons are just a cool way to entice our free userbase into using the platform. The actual platform itself is meant to be considered an all-in-one tool that recommends new people to follow, offers insight and feedback on content the user is publishing, and also has an awesome free database of knowledge for reference.

Essentially the free tool is a dumbed down version of the Pro tool. This will make a lot more sense when we go live with our 2nd round of beta testing in April. We could use all of the feedback we can get, so signup for our beta and we'd be glad to take your input. We are finishing up iteration on our first beta test now and will be ready to go in mid April.

Thanks for the feedback!
Today, it comes without a compiler. Getting one, and finding out where it got installed, is non-trivial. I don't like that.
Most of these look like things that can be automated. It would be really cool to see someone make a Mac app from this that toggles a special powersave mode on/off.
Not sure, I guess that could of been the case? I need to look into it more. Thanks for the info!
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Obviously, laws are based on morals

I think that's an astute observation... probably not obvious to most people.

ideally laws are based on the union of a population's morals, not the intersection

Did you mean this the other way around? The union of my morals and those of Chick-fil-a would mean I can't work on Sunday. The intersection is probably more like, don't initiate force against others.
Other people have commented on highlighting the call to action, so I'll try to give some design feedback if you're up for it.

The monotone greyscale makes it difficult for me to get a sense of the page hierarchy. Instead of seeing 4 distinct horizontal stripes on the page I see a lot of floating objects on a grey background. For me that translates to a sense of busyness and I don't know where to look.

I think just a few tweaks with colors and contrast would go a long way. One option would be to darken the top nav and third row (the 50/50 split) while lightening the video stripe. You could probably also get rid of the tagline stripe and just go straight to the footer. The increase contrast would put the focus on the video strip and de-clutter the page. My two cents.

Also, why do I need to click the video twice (once to load popup, once to start it) for it to play?
I think it would be a tough to balance between providing useful information to users and not revealing too much to spammers.

It looks like from http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... they probably reveal the message fell into one of those five categories.
To take a common CS example: sorting. You can teach someone how to use a library sort function. That's teaching a trade. You can teach someone how to write a quick sort. That's still teaching a trade.

Alternatively, you can teach someone how to analyze the big-O runtime and space requirements of a variety of sort functions. You can teach them how to recognize best-case and pathological-case inputs and what that means for the runtime. You can teach them the difference between a conservative and non-conservative sort.

The student that learns how to write a sort function will know how to write a sort function. The student that learns how, when, and why to do detailed algorithm analysis will be able to write all kinds of algorithms, even ones that don't yet exist.

That's the difference between "learning" and "learning how to learn".
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Perhaps I should have said it this way: If you're telling a story that purports to be factually true, it needs to actually be factually true.

Fiction by definition doesn't purport to factually be true, so that's ok. Most philosophy doesn't, either. Most or all religious texts do, and so most or all religious texts fail my test.
I think Alt-Space will open the "icon menu" on your current display and let you select "Move" with the mouse.
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Oh look: a comment not critical of, but nevertheless about, colleges, is being downvoted on HN. Stop my beating heart.

The current "college is a waste of money/time" trend got boring rather quickly - at this point, it's just extraordinarily stupid. It's true, if your goal is to maximize money earned, you should probably not go to college. You should also never have children, or give to DWB, or learn to play an instrument.

Going through college focused on getting the Right Degree and the Right Grades is, of course, a waste of time: your time is better spent angling for promotions at McDon's. But exploiting the nearby presence of hundreds or thousands of extraordinarily intelligent people just in your field, for four years, is definitely a worthy experience, and not just for a tiny minority of people. If you're going into a field that presents novel challenges with as high frequency as programming does, it's an experience you'd do well to have.
In a word: Asshattery. More often but not always, brought on by shrinking resources -- whether real, or perceived/projected/created by management as part of a agenda regardless of financial state.
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> I feel like those things can be handled after the initial interview - when we establish that I'm a suitable candidate and they are actually worth working for.

Then, that really negates most of what you were saying with regards to who is being asked. With that being the case, what was the point?

> I think we're disagreeing about the context tough.

Judging by what you just said, I'd say that you're having a difficult time with the context, and should reread what was written without bias this time.
The only difference is they can't get stolen ;-)
A better question that I always ask, before any other questions in the interview: "Why do you want to work here?" Then I reject any answer that's not somewhat unique to our business. "You could do that anywhere, is there anything specific to this place?" Then I probe the final answer to make sure it's not BS.

Bad answers: I've heard you make a lot of money here, I want to work on software development, I like Java. Better: I have friends who've told me about it and it sounds like the kind of place I want to work. The best answer: I understand a lot about how your business works and it is a win-win for me to be here for the following reasons... despite the following minuses...

I was playing Resistance this weekend for the first time. Essentially Resistance is Mafia with rules, blue vs. red. One of the first things I did was ask people, "are you a spy?" Like a melodramatic detective. I think there is an instinct to try this first, and win the game on the basis of a twitching lip or "say no, nod yes" sort of reaction.

This may work on easily startled people. Same with slamming your hand on the table in a security clearance interview.

A smarter candidate will figure out you're playing games, which defeats the purpose. I think you also want to consider the reaction of the candidate after the interview. Suppose they answer honestly, then figure out what you did to them.

There's a big difference between trying to learn a prospective employee's motivations the old fashioned way and trying to trick it out of them. Especially when a highly motivated employee can be lowballed in a salary negotiation.
Thanks! I updated my tunables, but top of the overview is the laptop fan.

Update: it's also possible the GPU is the culprit: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786665
Yes, except for the whole "I refuse to program in ... because it's a terrible language" philosophy.
GCC has options to change the size of int without even modifying the compiler. The size of integer types isn't even fixed within one implementation, in other words.

If you write production C code that depends on anything other than the minimum sizes defined in limits.h, your code is buggy.
We've been setting up email infrastructure using sendgrid on a dedicated IP. The domain it's emailing to is a new domain as well. We've got that domain set up with google apps and use it to send email to people without issue.

We did a mailing to a few select people on our new mail server. For the 20 or so people using gmail that received the mailing, those who had never received an email from colin @ newdomain had the email go to spam. Those who had received a message from colin @ newdomain had the email (from a different user) in their inbox. Anecdotally, it seems gmail highly values a previous email from that domain, but only for that one recipient.

Email is tricky. We're sorting through the issues of sending from a new IP and new domain. We're learning that email sending is like a credit score. No score is as bad as a crappy one.
I didn't use his karma and profile to discredit his argument. I used his (perceived) exaggerated expectations of privacy -- which I garnered from both reading his comment and looking at his profile -- to discredit his argument.

You are free to agree with him that you should disable your HTTP referrer header but it breaks the Web and is probably a sign of paranoia on some level or another. It really is quite innocuous.
I think your example is mostly the difference between learning a lot and learning just a tiny bit.

It's also the difference between being curious and being a dimwit. Only a dimwit would learn a hundred library calls without ever finding anything out besides how to invoke a hundred functions. If a curious student spent an equal amount of man-hours learning about sorting algorithms as another curious guy learning about the design of the XYZ standard library, I bet the guy who learned a lot about the library would have learned many abstract and generally applicable things, too.

I get the sense that you are trying to draw a line between "things that are directly useful" and "things that are not really useful, but only provocative and interesting" but I think it's mostly a fake line. Having a deep understanding of sorting is both useful and interesting. Having a deep understanding of the different ways that libraries choose to expose functionality on collections is also useful and interesting. Almost everything to do with computers that I've found in my life is both useful and interesting if you think about it hard enough.
It doesn't work for me, what is supposed to happen?
Yes, clearly you have to relearn everything you know about computer programming now that a new version of PHP has arrived.
But you didn't graph the phrase "post pen-and-paper era" so I don't understand your point. The previous poster's point was that we don't claim that pen and paper are dead. Are there countless of uses of the world "paperless?" Sure. What is the connection? I tried to graph "can't find anymore paper because no one uses it" but it didn't yield any results.
An apple product changed everything? Again? Does this one even connect via USB for data transfer? What about HDMI?
Wow. I think one of the coolest things about this, is seeing a GitHub repo with some of the commits being from 12 years ago. Gives you an idea of how long PHP's been around as compared to a lot of the projects floating around GH.
It is also totally unusable on mobile: If you swipe to the side (a common action to check if the page is displayed at fit-width zoom level) , a different article loads, because someone at Google can't tell the difference between a blog and a book.
But surely, you don't expect to actually use trees and recursion in your actual projects? All you need to be a good programmer is to take the libraries someone else has developed, and like websites of yore, cut and paste what you need into your own projects. Right?
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Nope. I don't really see any evidence that we are creating less "word processed" documents than we did pre-iPad.
I think of them as pipes that are falling over. The backslash falls backward and the forward slash falls forward.
Tyson didn’t make that video. He didn’t pick the images. You don’t even know what he thinks about the Shuttle, do you? You don’t even know what he thinks about Ares and Orion, do you? You don’t even know what he thinks about SpaceX, do you?

Why do you insist on slandering him by calling him a shill? There isn’t even so much as a hint that what he says are not really his views and convictions. If you want to challenge those, fine, but don’t slander him along the way.

Also: Have you considered that what you want might just be impossible with the money and resources Nasa has at its disposal? Not just for Nasa, for any organization, real or imagined. You seem to want an awful lot of them.
> The human tendency toward cronyism is universal.

It is. However, it seems to be at the greatest magnitude in large structures. Whether those large structures are governments or corporations is irrelevant. Keeping things small is the best recipe for equity, not grand schemes of redistribution.
Question: Who pays SpaceX? Where is their revenue coming from?
There comes a point where having a few exceptional programmers is no longer enough to deliver a project, so more and more process starts getting wrapped around the software life-cycle to manage the larger team.

Striking a balance between enough process to keep everything on track and allow PMS to make predictions about the project timeline while not stifling your best programmers with a system they end up working against is not an easy task.
With everything Github has done to lower the barrier to contributing to an open source project, it's a shame that the legal climate around software (especially in patent-related areas) makes such things necessary.

I can definitely imagine cases where the time and effort required to get company approval to sign such an agreement would outweigh the benefits of submitting a change upstream; I've been in such a position myself.
He's a top 100 user and he has a blank profile. You don't have to dig too deep to figure out why I believe that's unusual. Take a glance at the leaderboard and see how many people spend huge chunks of their days on here but don't even mention a Twitter account or name. Which is fine. I don't want this to turn into some thing where people think I'm bashing the guy for his profile.
I don't think the point is that the market will shift all to tablets. It is more that, given an upbringing within a "consumer" household. The individuals there will have little opportunity to experience and gain familiarity with, something that can produce. You and I will continue to use PCs, our kids and our friends will likely be using tablets more and more.
This is true of Ubuntu as well. You have to run "apt-get install build-essential" in order to get a compiler. This might be easier than on a Mac, but regardless it's disingenuous to say that Mac is not a Unix because it doesn't come with a compiler.

(I use Ubuntu regularly and have never owned an Apple product.)
I looked over at my spam folder, found one of the emails that was filtered due to me marking a similar message spam, noticed that it was probably a mistake on my part and fixed it. Previously, there is just too much to pick through to find those cases so I never bothered looking in my spam folder. Small, but nice!
A techie is also a tradesman. I would say a techie has a lot more to learn from a business person, especially those who are freelancers. Being a techie may not be for everyone, but for those who are a good fit for it, the tech skills are easy to pick up. Business and people skills are much more difficult. In other words, anyone can pick up a trade, but not everyone can translate those skills into a business. In a world which seems to be more and more filling up with people going out on their own rather than making careers, these skills are very important.
You always have the option of not buying from anyone, if you feel that you cannot find a manufacturer that meets your ethical requirements. There are likely enough used, functional mobile phones in the world to meet basic communication needs for decades to come.
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Macs aren't configured from the start as a development system. And if you start from a UNIX or Linux distro that isn't either, you'll encounter into the same issues (or worse) with trying to run "./configure && make && make install"
But interestingly, the touch keyboard does suck very badly. It's only because of other factors that I accept the "touch keyboard." But in reality, it's very, very annoying, let's be honest. Pre-iPhone, I texted happily without even looking at the screen. Now, I can never figure out why I keep hitting certain letters that I didn't mean to. I feel like an elderly person typing. And you can google this stuff, it's a very common view. We haven't really innovated with a touch keyboard, we just deal with it. If I had a technology that could let me have a touch experience but give me a tactile keyboard when I need, it would be great. Although, I agree with you on the ultrabook thing, not sure about that.
I do the same thing... the time spent typing the extra characters is trivial, my annoyance when my editor doesn't behave exactly as I expect because I was on a differently configured server is huge by comparison.
I don't think it's a fake line at all. It's the same as: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll never be hungry."

Or, if you prefer: "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

It's the difference between tools and knowledge. If you teach knowledge, then a student can learn as much knowledge as you can cram into their brains in 4 years time. If you teach tools, then a student will be able to continue learning the rest of their life.
We all know what you meant, but it might interest you to know that the relationship is polynomial (of degree 2) not exponential.
But we were talking about real scenarios. :) Seriously though, there are practical, life reasons, why that would be unlikely to be the 90% case.
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I am surprised that this article made the front page.
(Pssst, that’s the point I’m trying to make. NASA seems to can, but maybe paying other people doesn’t count or something.)
Michael Dell should be satisfied
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Does anyone know ... when the video is going to be available?
And $1 billion to Nasa today means another billion next year, and the year after that...
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"Forward slash" is a goofy name anyway. There are:

- "slash": the character you use in English and when typing fractions; and

- "backslash": the Microsoft-slash: backwards, like everything else they do.

Another way to remember is that (at least on US keyboards) the slash is always in the same place (on the same key as the question mark). The backslash, being the oddity that it is, is in different places, depending on the keyboard vendor.
I've checked this out. It was pretty crazy to see how many domains get pinged when I visit a site.

Just remember, o consumer of things but blocker of ads yet payer of nothing, that when enough people are gyping site owners out of what little revenue you even can earn from advertising you will cease to get your freebies but the agencies will not stop gathering your information.
Here's a quick and dirty screencast http://screenr.com/QrB8
Basically, parts of the UI that would be hidden when the window is off-screen, get moved inwards.
I am not trying to prove you wrong or back you up, just merely adding depth to the conversation, dogma and human nature seem to be deeply intertwined and religion is but one manifestation of it. I do believe that it is only a manifestation though and the real issue is complex human nature. I think that if all religion where gone tomorrow, that the world would not be a better place. It may not be a worse place but it would not be better. You see religion is just a mirror of humanity it has produced great beauty and it has created horrendous atrocities, but that has little to do with the content of religion and everything to do with the fact that humans are involved.
Instead of 'git pull' I use a combination of 'git fetch' and
'git merge'. 'git fetch origin' followed by 'git merge origin/<branch_name>' (if there are any interesting changes)
keeps my current branch up to date with the changes I need.
Keeping the 'merge' a separate step helps me to decide when
I want to be in sync. the remote modifications.
I feel like both tools and knowledge coincide more often than not, most of all in programming; so everyone should just teach both tools and knowledge simultaneously and there is no dichotomy to worry about.