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I guess it depends on how you look at it. I first started programming 20 years ago as a kid playing around with GW-BASIC and then moving on to Pascal. It was all playing around and teaching myself based on stuff I found on various BBS'. I was intrigued right away and programming just became a passion since I could write my own programs and make the computer do what I wanted it to do. Professionally though, I've been programming for about 15 years - though I feel that I've only really become a good programmer in the last 5 or so years.
For the virtues of locking everything down, I would switch from free v not to mac v windows. These are the two dominant operating systems, dislike it as I think we do. Apple locks down everything. Apple hardware, on the iphone Apple Software, Apple plugins and addons, everything, to the greatest extent possible, is controlled by Apple. This yields benefits. Driver installs giving you problems? Not with Apple. Screen display no working properly? Not with Apple. They control everything, and they make it all perfect. Windows makes a "something for everyone and everything" strategy. It gives you more options, but it also gives you more headaches. I don't think it is possible to increase options endlessly without costs.
I am a CS graduate and also a Biologist and there so much nonsense in this article that I cannot believe it was published.

"Even nature’s best animal distance runners — such as horses and dogs — will run similar distances only if forced to do so"

Those sentences are meaningless as arguments, we humans run for fun because we CAN spend calories as much as we like OR because we do it for food or we die like African long-range hunters, ask those guys to run 50km for fun. They do it because otherwise they will die hungry, we can be as heat efficient as we like, give us a small brain and we are DEAD.

Today we have an impossible large amount of food and medicine available thanks to human civilization. A horse run for his life when needed and that's it, there is no point in spending calories if everything is OK he will need to work a lot to get them back inside.

How can a person conclude that we are the best long-range runners in the nature with such a comparison ? What about scale ? I bet you that an Ant can run in a day more that any human can bare.

A professional runner does only one single thing with it's energy RUN, he doesn't need to hunt, or run for his life, get injured and heal for himself without medicine aid and they can have the chance to sleep 8 or more hours at night.
Try being a gazelle and doing that, you will last 5 seconds in nature, same thing for African long-range hunters they can sleep for 8 hours and rest... try sleeping 15 minute periods and eating and drinking only what you find on the run for all your life and chase a gazelle, good luck with that.

We are good at it, but the best in the planet ? I very much doubt it... most of the animals have evolved millions of years to endure nature in it's full power ( some got lucky and didn't had a very strong evolution force behind them like Lemurs in Madagascar) they are probably better than we are in every single thing besides thinking.
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I remember my dad having a Zenith MinisPort with a 2" floppy drive. Even as a kid I remember thinking "Ok these are just ridiculously small."

The OP is also the author of the article, so I'm not surprised he went and fixed it. But I'm a little miffed he didn't even give me a thank you.
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I learned multi-threaded programming on OS/2 (coming from VMS) and it was a pleasant experience.
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This article goes out of its way to use semantics to say some things that are kind of stupid. Google isn't going to "abandon android". AT MOST they'll start wrapping android into a brand called "play". And honest, I'll be surprised if they even do that.
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I would think producing 50 gb+ flash for games would be prohibitively expensive compared to optical discs. Especially as they can continue to add layers to Blu-ray to add more storage space. As long as the disc read speeds are faster than the PS3's (2x) I think it's still an advantage.

On a different note I wish the PS3 would adopt the 360's way of installing the entire game to the hard drive. I can't think that either Sony or Microsoft will stick an SSD in their next generation console but having a 500 gb hard drive shouldn't be too costly.
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Looks like a very-likely spelling mistake, someone probably just forgot to type the 6.
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I'm twenty, I've been programming since I was 13.
Wine for games is still a massive crapshoot.
Firstly you will get compatibility problems with many DRM systems which is a killer if you plan or running your legally licensed games without cracking them.

Assuming you can then get the game to work , expect graphical glitches a plenty , occasional/not so occasional crashes , slower performance and issue with the audio and visuals being out of sync.

There are a bunch of older games (GTA3 etc) that work fine in wine, and some indie games that have been built for it to begin with but I couldn't recommend it to anyone as a gaming experience that is close to that available in Windows 7.
I really liked OS/2. I could run several varieties of DOS under it and early Windows - very flexible when I needed to develop using several operating systems.

The real reason OS/2 was not widely adopted? Maybe this: the first time OS/2 was booted after an install, the bootup time took a very, very long time. I was once in a computer store and some guy was practically screaming at the sales people. He had bought OS/2, installed it, and the next time he used it hit the one time only long bootup time. He was ranting how he immediately took it off and reinstalled Windows. There must have been at least 10 other customers who heard this.

I wonder how often this scenario happened.
This is true too but during our surveys and interviews, we observed this far less than the other case which is to stay away from the social networks.
While I am sure there are a number of reasons that lead to states success or failure, I am not sure we can determine them because we don't have much data. There are about 200 sovereign states so if you should use less than log_2(200) ~ 8 criteria if you want your theory to make sense.

You can try to use history to add some data, but on the other hand, many smallish states will have similar criteria (history, culture, geography,...) so that diminishes you data set.

In addition, while you could try to use this to make predictions, the time scale is so big that I don't think the whole endeavor is very useful.
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My first computer had OS/2 Warp 4 installed and I loved it. I remember checking out the first SuSE Linux release at that time and I was puzzled how primitive it looked compared to what I was used to from OS/2. A few years later, I switched from OS/2 to Linux and have been using it ever since.
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I'm not ready to conclude that the argument is empty, but I do think it's interesting that instead of presenting actual arguments, people seem to be getting defensive.

To me that suggests that whatever the real reason is, people aren't comfortable with it. We won't know until someone actually gives a reason though.
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I had the same thing happen to me last week. And similarly received no response as to why it got nuked.

We're a fickle bunch I guess.
Believe me, I tried (not with this particular investor, but another one). If you're a nobody, no investor wants to talk to you. YC, and other similar programs, move you from the "nobody" group to a "somebody" group; but then you need demo days to efficiently introduce entrepreneurs to investors, and vice versa.
It would be interesting to measure the number of complaints that were based on experimentation due to users' familiarity with Windows. Since the LiMux environment is probably more restrictive, is it possible some folks just gave up on some features, e.g. "How do I attach my Excel doc to an email?" because there is no Excel, for example. It's great that they are saving the tax-payer , though.
"[...] €2.08 million (£1.73 million) for optimisation and test management that ended up on the balance of the LiMux project [...]"

Does anyone know details of this? Any ideas on what type of "optimisation" was done?
First time programmed when I'm about 16 I think. First program is written in VB.
Only started 'real' programming 2 year ago.
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I may very well have enough experience for a steady coding job, as I have had an entry level coding job before. But, there were never a lot of coding jobs in my area, and even less so since the recession came in.
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Ralph, it is really difficult when you head back to job after running your startup and searching for job. The unfortunate part of running a startup or business is that you know everything and we somehow miss being best in one thing.

You can keep searching for job, but if you can run one more startup that would be great. However startup is all about energy...if you are feeling you are not in any position to run one more startup...then completely focus on searching job and don’t take any job…as it will again make your resume weak.

There is no need to start small and re-build everything. I know there is a gap in your career...but you did something in that period, right? Show it in resume and show one skill which you can do properly. Don't show everything which you can do...if you are good in coding, show that, in sales…show that. But show only one thing.

Re-revise your resume.

Finally; if you still have enthusiasm and energy from inside...run one more startup, if not...come back again. But take a job first now, without any second thought.
More doubts will drain more energy.

I would suggest you plan a new startup and execute it as early as possible...and at the same time look out for job. If you get a good job…that’s fine or else at least you are building something. But focus more on getting a job and show a proper skill in your resume.

If you are not good with the current technologies…see if you can be a business analyst or project co-coordinator position or something where you can show your functional side.
Learning a new technology will be a waste of time now and will drain your energy more.

See what is the one best thing you can do and shape your resume accordingly…don’t make your resume as per your experience 4 years back and what is running in market.
A good read is the book "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando DeSoto. It doesn't address failed states, but talks about why capitalism succeeds in some countries and not in others.
I agree. The FOSS office tools are simply not in the same class as Microsoft Office. Anyone who has worked extensively with Excel will acknowledge there really is no true competitor out there.

Frankly, I would go so far as to say that a Linux desktop OS is really only appropriate for enthusiasts or those with minimal needs (e.g. email). For just about anyone else, there is simply too much potential hassle involved in getting the basics to work (external displays, anyone?).
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How is having less information helpful, in this case?
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> I got fed up with Google collecting data on me to sell to advertisers

Sign up to any of their ad programs, become an advertiser yourself. Anyone can do this. Then try to "buy" this so called data they're collecting and selling. You can't, because there's no such thing. This myth of Google or Facebook selling your information to advertisers is really silly and very easy to debunk it yourself if you really want to. These are spread by either sensationalist tech bloggers who barely understand technology or by FUD'ers who make money off spreading this, such as DDG (who explicitly points this on their website).

> but it really doesn't matter as long as I have the perception that my private data is being sold off to the highest bidder and I choose to do something about it.

My argument is that you're a minority, which would make little difference if people like you could opt out (just like you already can opt out of social search).

And also that their model is not completely dependent on it. Google can still sell you ads if you're anonymous. Try google searching in incognito mode, you still see ads, Google can still profit off you. Their model won't magically disintegrate if an insignificant portion of their user base decides to opt out of cookies.
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Could you show how a DELL or HP is much cheaper?

I did a calculation in 2006, comparing a Lenovo T60p to a MacBook Pro, it was roughly the same. Things did not change since then to my knowledge.

http://codemonkeyism.com/the-recent-lenovo-vs-apple-discussi...
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Both good points. From what I've been reading, "pattern finding" databases instead of "hash finding" databases are starting to be the new thing that allows huge and useful data analysis, and you can find patterns among a collection of lies or even just otherwise random data that wouldn't be associated without the pattern matching.

Fundamentally, it only takes one matching join on your citizen-data against any other collected assortment of data to implicate you. Human stupidity will continue being the weakest link. But there's still a lot that can be done to guard against it.

Even if the government manages to figure out that user@example is an Al-Qaeda member, and they know I sent them an email, they have no idea what I sent without resorting to, depending on how secure I was, torture, bargaining, private key compromises of the receiver, further insecure communications from the receiver's end, or hard drive sniffing for the original message from my computer. Increased carefulness can guarantee the message only exists within the minds of the sender/receiver, but with the advent of the "forgetting pill" even that vulnerability can be accounted for when plotting world domination. Of course as you note, human stupidity can undo it, but that's no reason to give up adding more layers of security.
Personally I find that techies are the hardest to rip away from Office, as they can see all the little bugs, etc. Non-technical people seem to - somehow - overlook these.

I've introduced a number of people now to OpenOffice and they've much preferred it as it has given them back a somewhat familiar interface, after the widely-despised change to ribbon (a UI I actually prefer but it was a shock to many).
While the Republicans gripe about "high taxes", it doesn't explain the success of the Nordic countries with their high taxes _and_ high standard of living.
Wow ... another "installed software is a dinosaur" article. Given that this nonsense has been bandied about since the late 80s (you know, last MILLENNIUM) you'd think by now people would stop saying it, at least until there's an HONESTLY suitably alternative.

SaaS is only barely there right now. Google Docs is still quite a few generations away from being truly competitive against desktop word processors. The same can be said of most applications of that nature.
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Seems like sonar used by bats. Or a submarine. It would be interesting to see somebody hook up a MatterPort camera to a small remote control car and drive it through a cave or a pyramid.
Here is one example built for html5 but extremely configurable
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We stumbled upon either a 2" or 2.5" floppy early in my college career. None of us had ever heard of such a beast - it was a bit like alien tech landing in our laps. We figured it was "the future" and that smaller floppies would see mass-adoption, as some sort of CD-killer.

Then our professor destroyed our dream world and said they'd died off in the 80s. (And then wisely predicted flash-like memory would kill off all of them.)
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I developed a pace calculator for runners ( http://pacecalculator.elsasslabs.com/ ). Mostly for my own needs, but hopefully someone else will find it useful !
ATI/AMD has released GPU programming manuals and open-source drivers, so presumably the information is out there.
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This mirrors my experience. I was really surprised with my parents reaction to Ubuntu. They found Unity easier to understand than Windows. It has opened up a whole new world to them. Before they barely touched the PC, now they email relatives on a regular basis and have switched over the using government and banking services online. As an added bonus I now rarely get calls for unpaid tech support.
Probably would have been 3rd generation, had my father's father not died in the second world war. He was a physicist, which was pretty unique for a Welshman of very modest background at the time.

War - what a catastrophic waste of young minds and bodies.

On a positive note, my son, at 15 months, has already earned himself the nickname "Little Schemer"...
User identification with the short comments usually found on HN might be difficult. The challenge still stands if I'm not mistaken: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199592
I use Windows too. But I found it interesting that someone on Hacker News considers installing an OS as "messing with the computer".
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Isn't this article doing the exact fear mongering it's accusing technology of doing? And ironically, via technology.
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I love Linux myself, and I have no doubt that they've saved money, but the following makes me a little concerned about how they are going about Service Management:

"Ude said it was impossible to be exact about the amount of complaints the help desk gets about LiMux, noting that most problems are a combination of several causes. The software is not always the problem, since often there are problems reaching a server, or Internet connections might be malfunctioning."

My concern here is that they aren't logging incidents via some sort of appropriate iTSM framework (MOF, ITILv3, etc.) Even the most basic Incident Management setups would allow them to perform basic analysis of the incident data to work out where there issues are coming from.

I'm afraid I just don't buy the argument that it's impossible to know for certain where the city's problems are coming from :(
I agree with this to a certain extent but it doesn't help that the Australian governments only interest is digging crap from the ground. There are no incentives for tech companies to stay in Australia and the government seems to have no interest in providing them.
Now you have this situation where the cost of living is also reaching insane levels so as a start up it is a bad place to be in my option (I am from Melbourne) .
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This question is not very precise.

I started writing programs when I was 14, on a commodore pet that I found in my school.

Professionally?
I wrote a little software during my master thesis time. This is kind of professional, but it was not the main objective.
I did the same during my phd time (physics).
It was not before 1 year after my phd, that I earned my money with software. Nowadays, my primary work is developing software, although I am a scientist.

So the answer would be:

30+ years, when I count my first programs

20+ years when I count from my first professional programs

10+ years when I count from working professionally and full time on software

I voted 10+, but I suggest, you restart the poll with a more precise question. (scientists can be a nuisance, aren't they?)
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