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/usr/local/ is a place to put software that's not managed the same way. It keeps the systemwide package management from overwriting or otherwise disrupting software it doesn't know about.

Software in /s?bin/ /usr/s?bin/ /usr/lib/ etc. is not guaranteed to work on another machine. A binary could be for a different architecture, even if it was installed by the main package manager. You can't copy /usr/bin/ binaries from an arm platform to an x86 platform, for instance. You can't copy optimized crypto software using aes-ni instructions to pre-aes-ni systems; it'll crash. You can't even reliably copy binaries from a different machine with the same cpu model, if the machines are using different package sets that will result in library incompatibilities.
This merely tells you what is usually placed in the filesystem, not why.

I find the explanation provided on the busybox mailing list to be far more insightful: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
Oh wow hotline, that brings back some memories.

On a university network Napster was quite fast. I could routinely saturate my (for that time speedy) 10mbit connection, especially to other clients on Internet2.

One other point to your argument is social. The ability to see what friends are listening to and create sharable playlists is obviously something that Napster did not provide.
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I wonder what the US will spend to defeat him.....

I bet the CIA is working out funding ideas right now.....

This being said, I wish him the best of luck. It's quite possible such efforts might backfire if folks trace the money back far enough.
The fatal flaw of Spotify, Rdio, and even Last.fm is that finding good music is just too much work. Too much social and too many clicks.

I wish Pandora could buy one of these services and combine their discovery engine with the catalogues of the subscription services.

Until then, I think I'll just keep buying music.
The point is that the argument is totally specious. It's built upon the premise that only journalists are held to any standard of honesty or factual integrity. Can you cheat on your wife and say "well to be fair, I'm not a journalist!"?

The question isn't "is he a journalist or isn't he" it's "did he lie and intentionally mislead" and the answer is "yes;" his chosen profession has no bearing on this fact.

What really chaps my butt is that he could have told this whole narrative without lying. To wit: clearly present it as a work of fiction, based on fact, and thoroughly footnote the whole thing to real sources. Awareness raised, emotional connection with consumers made, integrity still intact. This is essentially what he did (the issues he cites are real), he just lied about it and said they were his personal experiences, presumably to sell more tickets and get some insta-gravitas.
I think I remember the 'no ammo' thing.

Less an institutional approach to security, more an example of institutional panic.

The NG is fine with passing out guns - they probably break them out one weekend a month and dust them off.[1] But passing out ammo - that's a serious step. Some officers freak the heck out when they think about troops having actual live bullets in their magazines.

In the 1980s era Marines, on barracks duty, I actually rolled out to a for-real no-kidding 'we're being shot at' incident with a rifle, a radio, a flashlight and no ammunition.

The reasons _why_ are complicated (and this isn't the place for a sea story) but it boils down to 'the troops weren't trusted with bullets - they might shoot someone'.

[1] I understand this has changed, for the better, since 9/11. Now they break them out and _clean_ them on drill weekend.
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Didn't they try this with HP web OS. That failed I wouldn't put money on this.
Lol... Listen "Knight in Shining Armour", this is a free market. For every successful startup or idea that takes off, there'll be hundreds and hundreds of copycats. It has always been that way and blogging about it won't change anything.

Yes, competition sucks when you are trying to do business but that is a part of what a free market is about.
Then don't pay for the premium device. No one is forcing you to.

If you want something hackable, and let's be honest, cheap - buy an android device.
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Dialing the phone and taking a picture work no differently than they currently do on iOS/Android - your app simply calls the device's native functions and then the OS takes over the operation. And once the operation is complete/cancelled, focus can return to your app if you set the proper callbacks.

Potential security concerns would be akin to the Chrome-extension snoop and inject issue where a random app or web-page could potentially try to read/write the data of other apps if the security model isn't setup right. But these are problems fixable in the short-term. On the plus side, as the phone owner, I might be able to redesign the OS dialer by changing some CSS and finally have a phone pad that goes 7-8-9/4-5-6/1-2-3 like a num-pad instead of 1-2-3/4-5-6/7-8-9.
That kind of stuff is eminently possible on Android, but obviously it's not particularly a high priority for Google to get it in the mainline!

We did some proof of concept work and had an implementation of some similiar ideas a while ago (bit outdated now): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/android/mock/
For me multiple desktop managers (KDE, gnome etc) is not a problem since Gnome 3 has become very competitive to Max OS X. The bigger problem is XOrg and it's constant tearing problem during video playback. People spend way too much time playing videos on their desktops to accept tearing. Wayland does not have this problem, and I therefore have great hopes in Wayland as a replacement for XOrg.
I'd personally like to see, how a hacker runs a government.
> because the facts are simply a biased sampling of reality

Um, no. your observation of the facts is biased. It's important that we accept that subjectivity lies within ourselves.
as much as I would love line numbers

I don't know if I understood you correctly, but you could add line numbers with before pseudo elements and use JavaScript to add numbers to its content. No need to mess with the markup, just CSS and JavaScript.
UNIX in general never transitioned well from single binary applications that could just be placed in /bin /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin as appropriate to multi-file applications that needed an array of libraries, resource files etc. That coupled with a file system layout that nobody could ever agree on made it a mess once UNIX moved outside the curated environments it was typically found in prior to Linux.

NextStep made a good stab at the problem with bundles (.app .service .framework etc) but once you moved outside of the abstraction layer you were right back into the mess. Most Linux distributions seem to want to emulate SunOS circa 1992 and any attempts to "improve" on the solution in drowned out by fundamentalism.

I actually though the author nailed it in the last paragraph of part 2 of his post. The free software movement needs to start looking forward and not try and emulate what worked 20 years ago. There is definitely potential for a brave organization that is willing to try and tackle the challenge.
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But we are keeping the "iOS is inferior", right? The OP is just saying pick your poison.
They already released the source:
http://developer.palm.com/blog/2012/03/sams-blog-a-community...
I can't agree more.

I love Pandora for the guidance.

WAH is available on Spotify, which is good (I used them before Spotify), but it's very niche indie discovery.

I can't select a Temptations song and expect to be then offered up a Clarence Carter or Tower of Power hit.

Only Pandora has those "skillz".
The ha.ckers.org test is not working for me :( so it appears that this particular hole is fixed.
Didn't Knuth work on TeX for like 10 years?

Not all of us have 10 years to work on everything. ;)
What makes package maintainers uniquely qualified to patch dependencies and upgrade them? Either we say Canonical or Red Hat hires the best possible people to watch over their package repositories or we say that a qualified application developer could do just as well. Either way we end up having to trust somebody.

Both package maintainers and developers have an interest make sure their programs don't introduce vulnerabilities into the system. Therefore if there's a serious problem with one of their dependencies vulnerability patching will happen either way.

The distribution maintainers should be in charge of maintaining a core set of low-level dependencies that are needed by many applications. Beyond that they should leave the dependency management to the application developers. Seriously. That would free up so many millions of man-hours of work for say, Canonical, that they could actually make the core system usable to the average user.
There's nothing in their fact checking about "exploiting the backs of the poorest".
Original article at:

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/10-amazing-lessons-albe...

I hate when people does this. That is, polluting the net. They truly suck.
The author mostly talk about maintaining packages. Some people say that it is the missing games and other desktop applications. However, we all know that Linux is best OS for development. It has best set of libraries, languages and utilities. Yet, why there not many cool Desktop applications?

I believe the answer is, Linux doesn't have an IDE for Desktop development. Look at windows, they have .net Platform and IDE, Look at Mac, they have Xcode and Android uses eclipse for IDE.

Most of the application developers want and IDE, which is what is lacking in Linux.
I hope someone makes an IDE for Linux desktop development.
For each special method, you should show what syntax magically invokes it. Something like this:

foo.__iter__() is invoked by for x in foo
a.__iadd__(b) is invoked by a += b
a.__rmult__(b) is invoked by b * a when b * a fails.
foo.__len__() is invoked by if foo when foo.__bool__ or foo.__nonzero__ is not defined.
foo.__repr__() is invoked by '%r' % foo, also by pprint.pprint(foo) and deprecated `foo`. It's also invoked by __str__ magic when foo.__str__ is not defined.
etc.
Putting the above info in a table would also be helpful.
"You can run on less expensive hardware, because you've got less technology going on under the covers. You don't have to pay the penalty of a big smart phone operating system if you're running directly on the web."

That's misleading. Sure, you might need fewer resources to pull something like a simple web page. But try using web apps that are the equivalent of native apps on Android or iOS, and you'll need a lot better hardware to run those just as well.
There's a big difference between the (apt) metaphor of a model you describe and this case.

To extend your model, you're conflating direct data collection/experimentation with literature assessment, and essentially saying that's acceptable. It's not.

A journalist interviewing an expert (academic, or other specialist) is analogous to the literature review in a research context: you do not have direct observation, but you are assuming that peer review and other mechanisms have ensured the literature is grounded in direct observation.

A journalist recounting first-hand experiences or recounting those of people he/she has interviewed is really doing direct data collection or experimentation: the reason you try to get multiple sources for a significant claim is precisely why scientists run experiments multiple times.

A journalist claiming second-hand experiences as first-hand is equivalent to claiming to have observational data when in actuality you are relaying the conclusion of another experiment.

Take this neuro-toxin example: it happened to N people, but by claiming to meet them personally, he's implying it happens more often but is covered up, which would mean the real prevalence is higher (when in reality, we have no evidence that they are).

Or take the suicide rates. By claiming concentration via personal experience, the claim is contrary to what we know through more rigorous data collection, which is that the rates firm-wide are lower than for the Chinese population in general.

Also, the problem of your metaphor is you presume that the model f(observed facts, gut instinct, emotion) yields more valid inference than the sum of multiple journalists' f(observed facts). This is crap. If f(gut instinct, emotion) skew systematically -- a more reasonable conclusion than the counterfactual -- then no, your approach is less valid.

Nassim Taleb had a nice bit about how he doesn't read the news; instead he reads textbooks or other long-production-cycle reports. This is because, he says, the frontier of knowledge doesn't change very often. So what you get in the news is a fundamentally biased sample of only the outliers (which sells papers) and never the consensus that is generally 99% of the body of knowledge.

TL;DR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFpOp8Ft0Q
There's just one problem with your post: you're thinking like a technologist, and not like an end-user.

End-users don't want to have to learn an entirely new UI (read, a different way of doing things; or, "Where's my Start button? Everything I know how to do is under that.") every couple of years. Not because they're (all) dumb, stupid, or lazy.

It's because end-users view a computer as a tool to do what they need/want to do--quickly and efficiently. Anything that distracts from that (like having to re-learn where everything is, and how to do the task they've
done the same way for several years) is a negative and annoyance.

Unfortunately, the technology community has forgotten that.
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I got pretty tired of watching people dying because they didn't know tornados were headed their way — that's about as terrible a tragedy as we can get given that we have the technology to prevent it. So I did what any developer would: wrote an app.

Tornado Alert is a community-driven tornado early warning system.
Alerts from news sources can take several minutes to appear, and if you lose power you may not have access to the news.
With Tornado Alert, any user can submit a tornado warning to other users within 10 miles that there is a tornado close to them.
Alerts are normally delivered in under 5 seconds — about 60 — 100 times faster than news organizations tend to report them.

The app is, and will remain completely free, and it only gets better as more people use it.
Currently Android-only. iPhone version is pending.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silverwraith.tornadowatch

http://silverwraith.com/blog/2012/03/tornado-alert-app/
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What a ridiculous idea. By the same token I would not blog to avoid to prevent being uninformed or short sighted.
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Before the tea party goes overboard here, consider in the long run what the implications of Amazon not collecting sales taxes might mean. As ecommerce becomes a greater and greater share of all commerce, states would all collect less sales tax. Which means either less services, or more sales tax on non-ecommerce businesses, or more income taxes. To cheer Amazon for avoiding its fair share is to be just as blind to consequences as the article accuses the legislators of being.
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Yeah, totally agree with you. Wouldnt be nice if Paulo added where he got it from?

"by PAULO COELHO on MARCH 16, 2012"
Even worse when the quotes are misattributed, eg the "insanity" quote is Rita Mae Brown, and she was paraphrasing Narcotics Anonymous.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."

[Rita Mae] Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A pdf scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the pdf), at the end of the fourth paragraph (which begins "We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal").

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown#Misattributed
Amazon had tools, but not every team used them.
I loved the tool Haakon wrote.
And there was actually a great third party open source tool back in 2009, whose name I forget, that was bizarre abandoned.

It's not like Pivotal sets a high bar.
It doesn't even have a notion of progress, and it has that ridiculous multi column layout so you can't easily use a screen to look at a task. And it runs on a random startup webserver that can be turned off at any moment.
I'm definitely naive about this stuff, but there are a few things that surprised me while watching this video.
I'm amazed by how much ammo they waste just shooting blindly.
Guys are just sticking their guns over the wall and pulling the trigger, not even seeing what they are shooting at.
Its no surprise that the guy is worried that he only has 300 left toward the end of the video.

I'm also surprised that they don't have a periscope to safely see over the wall.

I guess stuff like this, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/FutureTech/story?id=97778&#... is really just far out research.
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However, the barrier to entry against what they provide is pretty low. Yes, they have this fantastic database - but many people are wary of FB's data collection activities and are guarded with what information they share. My point being, there is low probability they are the last, final large popular social network. The effort necessary to visit, use and become active at other web destinations is simply too low.

I personally believe we'll see a flowering of special interest social networks - like github & HN is for us, but across the spectrum of human interests. Such targetted-interest destinations provide a social service FB or G+ is not going to provide. And they don't need to. These other social networks are probably already out there, growing their sub-culture communities right now. Look at Pinterest for example; they appeal to a specific subculture and have decent traction at the moment. FB is like pop radio - too generically bland.

Specific purpose social networks will eventually dominate, I believe, because only in such an environment is sophisticated dialogues about the subculture subject matter at hand possible. At the more generic social networks ones' deeper, technical exchanges get interrupted by "friends" interjecting meme humor or other info-noise to such exchanges. Who needs that when trying to be serious?
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Troll post. Flagged.
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How on earth is this upvoted to the front page? Flagged.
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Yeah, I won't learn something because somebody might think that I'm a jerk for knowing it. This is mostly due to an uninformed, judgmental, and very specific piece of the populace who won't let something go from several years ago.
I've been saying this same thing for years. Package managers are a nice concept in theory, but Linux on the desktop will never, ever succeed until upgrading (for example) Firefox doesn't result in an install of Unity. The entire concept of a milestone-based monolithic distro is so broken for desktop use that I can't believe a better alternative hasn't been developed yet.

Even as a Linux nerd I'm constantly faced with problems caused by this. I'm stuck on Ubuntu Natty, for example, because it has the last stable version of Compiz that worked for me on the flgrx ATI drivers. If I wanted the latest version of Unity (I don't, I think Unity is terrible, but this is just an example) that means I'd have to upgrade Compiz and everything else and get stuck with all the horrible bugs new Compiz versions have with my drivers. It would also mean upgrading to Gnome 3 which still has many usability regressions (unrelated to Gnome Shell) and in my opinion isn't fully baked yet. I don't want all that shit just to get the latest version of a single package!

(You could perhaps pull it off with some PPA mumbo-jumbo, but you'd have to understand what a PPA is, luck out in finding a PPA in the first place, and messing with them can more than likely bork something up. Not something for the average-Joe audience Ubuntu is targeting.)

Shared libraries made sense in the days of limited space and resources. They still make sense from a few security perspectives. But from a practical perspective, Windows did it right by allowing programs to ship their own libraries and by doing backwards-compatibility right.
Hey, if you like discovery try Audiogalaxy Mixes - we just launched it a week or so ago [1]. We think it's better than Pandora (much larger catalog, smarter algos, more input types) - tell me if it's not. It's free on the web (no ads) with a free trial on mobile, after which we charge a small fee to cover licensing costs. If you email viraj@audiogalaxy.com with your account I'll comp you a free month. I'd love to know what you think.

Here's a Mix I've made, for example: http://www.audiogalaxy.com/mix/87-Guitar%20Gods/?

[1]http://www.geekwire.com/2012/audiogalaxy-music-service-rebor...
Good point. It's not fair to associate Napster with slow download speeds. I would have loved to see how Napster evolved with broadband. Tragic they were shutdown.
Which is one reason why the 6 month model that the Linux community has adopted is so great. Every 6 months Unity or Gnome3 or KDE4 incorporate some improvements, but the differences are not major and are easy to learn or ignore. But over time these differences accumulate and become significant real improvements. We get to have our cake and eat it too.

And hopefully these environments have learned their lessons now and haven't incurred the large technical and design debt that necessitate large breaking changes. KDE is up to 4.8 now but nobody is talking about a massive rewrite for KDE5 -- it's just another incremental update. OS X appears to be moving towards this sort of model too, with fairly regular yearly updates. Windows is the only one bucking this trend with its major upcoming breaking change in "Metro". And they're getting pummelled for it.
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As time and money allows, could I suggest you get some servers in Mumbai?

India houses many hackers, and hackers are the first to try new things technologically