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I use all 3 100% interchangeably.

At the moment, I'm posting this on Windows 7 64-bit (my main software development machine), with a 64-Bit Debian for Linux development and a 32-Bit SliTaz for Linux testing running in VMware Workstation at all times and actively used (along with a XP image that I'll spin up once every couple of days for testing).

My MacBook Pro is on the other "side" of my body (my desk is an L), so by simply re-swiveling my chair, I'll be on OS X where I can do more coding, check my email, etc.

I think the OS wars are over. Web apps address the needs of many people (I actually don't use too many), but by and large, all three platforms have seen enough usage and statistics and have been around long enough that there's (GOOD) software to do X (whatever X is) on any of the 3.
i'm sorry. that tip is a good one, but not for the reasons you gave. it's only a good idea because saving more is almost always a good idea.

if someone is unlucky the money they set aside from this wouldn't be enough to cover the costs of repair / replacement. Warranties are similar to insurance, in that risk can be spread out over the pool of customers that bought the warranty. As long as its unlikely that a customer will have to use that warranty, a warranty can be offered for a price that's much less than the average cost of repair / replacement.

If you're the only one contributing into a warranty / insurance pool, risk isn't spread out at all. You might end up being fine, but its also possible that a lot of your stuff will break at once, and you won't have the money to replace everything. That might be unlikely, but you're still taking a personal risk.
what is the US definition of "degree"? Bachelors or Master? I'm a B.Sc. in CS, Master is on the way.
I run windows, but always run a Linux VM in which I do all of my dev work, and have an OS X laptop which would be a linux laptop, but Logic/Final Cut Pro keep it that way.

Right tool for the right job, IMO.
The number one reason for 'poor' memory is actually lack of concentration.

The reason you start forgeting the name of the person just introduced to you is that you are thinking of a 100% other things, like what to say, do I know him, what to do.

All the excercises in the article will help you 'pause' and really concentrate on what you want to remember.

Even the first tip: Once you hear a new name, immediatelly try to think of someone you know with the same name. Will improve your 'name memory' greatly. (Not because you know someone else, but because you took a second to concentrate on the name)
The day is coming when Chrome, Firefox, Safari will be the poll options.
I like debian and archlinux
http://www.laptopreviews.com/macbook-air-vs-thinkpad-x220-co...

i've been trying to weigh this up for a while Macbook Air vs Thinkpad x220, seems close.. this reviewer is pretty expansive and (just) gives it to the x220...

not sure tho, ppl here seem to LOVE MBA's.
I was running on linux for a couple of years. Then I got tired of my laptop battery being destroyed, the fan on my laptop being in overdrive at all times, and also having everything run slow even though I had paid for top hardware. So I switched back to Windows.

I WISH I could use linux as my primary, but I really can't justify all the flaws just for a bit more security.
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I use OS X on my personal laptop and Ubuntu on my computer at work... And Ubuntu for the servers I run.

So I upvoted both OS X and Ubuntu.
I played tons of tower defense games before and i loved smart ideas of game. Unlimited levels, zooming, simplicity, great concept!

I wished to move turrets when new enemy paths added.
BFA Acting. When I started to starve (graduation) I picked up software again.

I've got some ground to recover.
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Any particular reason you have a Windows host + linux VM instead of the other way around ? Personal experience has been Linux hosts + Windows VM performs better than the other way around.
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Chrome OS is a browser in a linux box ....
I've been using Windows pretty much since version 3.1 (though will some time on OS/2 as well) as my primary OS. I have, of course, used Linux, though mostly for servers and not a full-time primary OS. I also have a Chromebook running Chrome OS. Recently, I switched jobs and my team uses Macs so over the last few months my primary work OS is now Mac OS X, while I still use Windows at home.

One thing I have discovered in this transition is that I find the fanboism illogical and pretty much pointless. I've found that I can, for the most part, do about the same sorts of things in one OS as another, though the process is different. Yes, there are some applications available on one but not the other, but I have not found anything that forces me to believe that one OS is superior in all ways to another.

I can appreciate the differences and pros and cons to various operating systems, but I honestly get annoyed by people that attack or bash another OS with broad statements like "Well what do you expect from Microsoft?" or "Well I can do that on Mac why can't I do it on Windows?" Worse, it's never appropriate to associate an OS choice with a personal character flaw of an individual as often happens in flame wars. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux varieties are all tools and should just be seen as such.
Debian to work, OSX to procrastinate
I highly doubt this.

Not even tablets will run on top of browsers.

Developers will never give up a real operating system. You just can't develop on consumer devices like the iPad; these are designed for consumers, they come with many limitations to make the consumer's experience easy and smooth, but at the cost of hackability.
I use something like: "OS X is my host operating system. I develop on Linux."
Linux on three machines. I have an Android phone, but I rarely use it really.
This is why some of us point out that articles like this are "Not Hacker News". They inevitably lead to wildly off-topic, and unproductive discussions.
You said similar for $80. Does your busted pelican box look as innocuous as this thing does in an average corporate environment?

Have you done a lot of large scale corporate pen tests? I used to do a lot of pentest/wireless audits for IBM. Sure I could sit in the parking lot of Dr. Bobs Dermatology's practice and maintain a decent signal strength to his wireless network. But what are you going to do in downtown Manhattan when the client is on the 25th-35th floors of a building in the financial district? Does your pay as you go phone fit into your classy corporate looking pelican box? How does that pelican box look now that there is a second cord running out of it to charge the pay as you go phone?

Now do you see the usefulness of built in 3G?

PS: I just noticed that you have posted your description twice now. Is it $80 or $100?
Sony has always had terrible developer tools and developer support. Hopefully this might enable some of the tools available on PCs to become available on the Playstation.
Seems like a good match. The first 1/4 of Jobs autobiography read a bit like "Dude Wheres my Car"
I feel like computer science is like music - if you complete your PhD without getting recruited by industry, it shows that something is wrong.
"We’re the tortoises of the animal kingdom"

... That might be the deepest thing I've ever read.

Also, here's Attenborough narrating this article http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
Hi guys,
I would be happy if you can share some advice how would you approach marketing and promotion in this case.

Our ad budget is around 3-4K, and our indie game studio is a total newcomer, nobody really knows us. Plus, we don't have any experience with doing promo, nor we have any already built audience.

Thanks,
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Doesn't really answer your question, but it's an interesting fact that OS X is officially a 'UNIX proper' (see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification).
Ask HN: How should I present my skills section on my resume?
Hi HN, I am currently looking for a new job. I've already applied to a few, but I'm still tweaking my resume. I've run into a snag in how to present my skills. I am graduating with my Masters in May, and I have picked up a fairly broad array of skills via internships, jobs, class projects, and side projects. I have no idea how to present all this information on my resume. Currently, I am listing the following under my "Skills" section:

Object-oriented programming (C#, PHP, Python)
Front-end web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, YUI, Django, MVC design pattern)
Familiarity with C programming (including C syntax, pointers and memory management)
Windows application development (.NET Framework, WPF, MVVM design pattern)
Mac OS X application development (Objective-C and Cocoa)
SQL databases (MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite)
Version control (git, SVN, CVS)
Linux (Bash, Vim)

These are things in which I feel I have reasonable experience or practice in for a recent graduate. I'm also omitting things (such as Java and Lua) with which I have experience with, but still less than the above. Does anyone have any recommendations on how I can best present this information? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Some of us run Linux on our MacBooks.
Why many smart people are not social?
Me too. Just spent 8 weeks on a low carb diet and lost 17 pounds so far. Calories do not factor into it. Low carbs and low sugar intake lead to weight loss.
Who needs actual "enemies of the state" when you have Senators like Joe Liberman?
Ahem, I meant to write anarchism.
> Never had a problem.

Are you using this with Android?

I stopped bothering after my 2.3.x phone insisted on "syncing" in one direction only from Accounts --> Phone and reverting any updated numbers on my phone.
My main system runs Mac, since I need access to Photoshop. I love linux and I own a chromebook.
I use only slackware linux for everyday use. Since i use computer only for internet browsing, typing, and sometime data analysis, it just works.
> I am attending a very large state school (over 40,000 students) and I am struggling to connect with people.

Though the crowd might make you uncomfortable, you can take solace in the fact that you need not connect with all of them. Friends, or close friends, are mostly in single digit for most people.

> I also have severe depression and OCD which prevents me from getting things done.

Letting the mind wander isn't a bad thing, provided you get some stuff done as well. Plan for small tasks which you can get done. Are you familiar with lexers and parser? Implement an infix(a+b) to postfix(ab+) converter, where `a+b` can be an arbitrarily complex expression. Learning Python? Build a web app which takes a movie name as an input(use any web framework), searches twitter for mentions(use urlliib2 or equivalent), classifies tweets as negative/positivie(simple bayes classifier or use a library) and assigns a rating to the movie.

These are just examples. Getting things done makes you feel good and can help you counter the "disappointment" you mention.
At home : OSX / Arch in a VM (awesome window manager is very simple and nice). I want to go Arch all the time but photoshop / illustrator hold me back.

At work : Windows XP. Yes. Welcome to Japan.
It is clearly the best of both worlds.
It depends on where you are. Where I work, were I to get fired, I would get a minimum of 3 month's pay, and they would have to show very clear cause. Realistically, if the company wanted to get rid of me, they'd have to negotiate, and there's a good chance I would walk out with somewhere between 6 months and a year's salary.

If you run your own business, it can be hard to work up to that level of reserve.
That's the major stumbling block for me; slowly I'm moving towards Linux but I still need photoshop. I look forward to the day when design teams produce their work in something other than that monolithic software. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing tool, but there's no need for anything that complex in web design.
Exact situation but in reverse. (Windows but only because I refuse to use Mac OS and I need Photoshop.)

I tried GIMPing it under various Linux distros for a while but it's just not comparable.
Finishing a degree with majors in systems engineering and physics. I'm not a computer scientist, but I know math damn well and can program well enough that I can pick up any languages I need, so I feel competitive for CS jobs. Plus, through classes in OR, physics, etc. I have a background in applied programming. It's not the same as a computer science degree, but if you ask a CS major to reverse-engineer the Google Maps algorithm, there is a lot of nuanced mathematics, optimization, heuristics, etc. that exceed the core curriculum.
Gentoo here, since 2003.

At work, until a couple of months ago I was using Windows Server 2008. I'm looking for a new job, not entirely coincidentally.
"Developers will never give up a real operating system."

I always hesitate to use the word never. Things can change very rapidly. What developers need now may not be anything like what we need in 5 years.

But more importantly, what a "real operating system" is will probably change in the next 5 years.
Windows handles media much better than linux. I have a linux media server as well, and while I like it for somethings, getting Blu-Ray/DVD/MP3/CD/Netflix/etc. working in it is not one of those things. Windows just works in that sense. Also games, although this is more of a theoretical bonus as I rarely play anything.
I've always been a big nostalgic for the days when I ran OS/2. I even still have a developer install CD for OS/2 Warp laying around. I recall all the things that made OS/2 a superior OS at the time, like preemptive multitasking, and the object-oriented Workspace Shell.

I setup an OS/2 VM a year or two ago just to "relive the glory days", so to speak, and I realized that while OS/2 was one of the best OS's of it's time, we've come a long way since then. I'm not even sure that had OS/2 become widely successful that OS's today would be any better than they are right now.

We should certainly praise it's technology but, in the end, the computing world has moved on to bigger and better things.
Mostly using Linux for day to day work. Sometimes with vms for windows or other linux installs.
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I don't know, but I expect they do. This is too big business nowadays.

But, as I written, I did not check and don't want to spread rumors.
I appreciate that The Economist clearly states their thesis as the subtitle - i.e., it's not a hook - it's an outline for the article.
Happy Linux user since 1992. Sometimes I also use Windows in VM for customers.
i am living in Linux for work. home and now with Android without Microsoft/Mac OS X since 3 years ago
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A new way to discover web comics.

But also recently http://iphoneception.com
I doubt anybody on HN uses any of {solaris, HPUX, AIX, Xenix, ...}.
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I'm also a fine arts grad gone tech. I feel like a total outsider in this world but can't help being fascinated by it. I hope that those with an education that emphasises communication and aesthetics can bring something new to the tech world.
Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu laptop, iPad, 95.5% of our servers are Linux or BSD. In our office, we have one old windows xp box on P4 hardware to remote desktop into for various stuff that cant be done on Linux or is significant easier on WinXP....rare.
OSX is the only operating system that can run iTunes, Office, Photoshop/Fireworks, Ruby, Python, bash scripts, Apache, Mysql without virtualization or any weird and unfun hacks (yeah, cygwin, I'm looking at you!).
I'm kind of indifferent to OS X but the Mac laptop hardware is so nice, particularly the trackpad, that I'm likely to stay an Apple customer for the foreseeable future.
For more than a decade,Its Linux for me
For pure development (unless you're developing an iOS or OS X apps), Linux is definitely the top choice. For office work (Microsoft Office, Visio, Outlook, Lync, etc.) unfortunately Windows still bests (OmniGraffle and Office for Mac are decent, but still no match), for everything else - OS X is definitely the best choice.
Right, but whatever directions things go towards, do you really think that developers will use "browsers" as the operating system?

Look at photographers. Despite all the consumer level digital cameras that have flooded the market, professional photographers (and even hobbyists) still buy the more expensive (and more complicated) cameras that a consumer would probably never buy.
What do you think shallow means? What do you consider to be the opposite of shallow? Be concise if not for my sake, but for the sake of other people who may stumble upon this thread.

My questions are not an indication that I am predisposed to agree with your response whatever it may be, nor do I feel predisposed to respond.
Aren't the macbooks over-priced ? Personally I'd rather buy a laptop and a tablet (something like the transformer) rather than get something that costs twice as much or offers lower return on hardware for the same price.

Disclaimer: I am from a parallel programming background, so I am biased towards performance rather than form factor or battery life.
The two apps keeping me from running Linux full time are Ableton Live and Adobe Fireworks. Unfortunately it doesn't seem likely that the high-end proprietary content creation tools or anything comparable from the OSS world are likely to come to Linux any time soon.
I can't seem to find a way to reply to this comment without setting the flame-thrower to 10, which goes against the 'say it to your face' principle. I guess I can say that I find it very sad that a sentence like that causes any difficulty to a native speaker of English.
a degree in the US pretty much only means a bachelors unless there's an adjective in front of it. if you mean a masters degree, then you refer to it as a masters or a master's degree or a graduate degree. if you mean a ph.d you call it a phd or a doctorate or maybe a graduate degree, if there's no need to differentiate between masters and doctorates.

every now and then a degree will refer to a high school degree, but usually people say diploma or high school diploma, not degree.

in the US a bachelor's is at least 4 years of work (some degrees like architecture require 5) and from what my european friends (sample size <5) have told me, a US bachelors is about halfway between a european bacheolr's and master's degree. law degrees and medical degrees require a bachlor's degree before the school will admit you for your MD or JD (i've been told this isn't the cas in some parts of euroope).

master's degrees usually take about 2 years to complete. some require a thesis like a doctorate, but many just require taking classes. if you are combining a masters with a bachelors degree within the same program at the same school, then usually a masters only takes 1 year instead of two.
totally agree with this. The OS is becoming more and more irrelevant.
Linux : Pinguy
Since 1998, my primary private system is Mac OS. In 2000 I gave my last Windows Notebook to my brother (A 9000$ Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E6560 - he used it until a few months ago and I'll get it back soon).

At work, I used Linux exclusively until 5 years ago. Since then, my Notebook is Mac OS. But large processing jobs still go to our grid that consists of several 172 GB RAM linux machines. I am an astronomer and I process quite a bit of data.

I fought for Mac OS at work and since I don't have to use linux on my notebook any more, life is much easier. But Lion and Apples cloud integration bs makes me fear, linux has to come back someday.
Yep, what I was trying to say is that the poll is about what is your primary operative system and not about the OS family.

The classification is arbitrary, definitely. I'm not using "Linux" but Ubuntu, in the same way Chrome OS is a valid answer instead of just "Linux".
I'm curious, how difficult is it to set one up?

Do you encounter many issues performing your day to day work?

I've been eyeing it for a while and I had it running on my home server for a time but I didn't think it was quite ready to be my primary OS. I generally use Arch Linux at the moment, mainly because I like the configurability and frequent package updates.
Debian for server arch for desktop ?
berkeley does the same thing: eecs.berkeley.edu
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Same here, as a developer of a cross-platform library, this is the only configuration that works for us. By restricting virtualization of OSX, Apple has effectively forced most developers to use this configuration.