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This is the very reason I haven't gotten one, or any tablet for that matter. I've had access to my roommate's iPad 2 since day one, but I've never found a good reason to use it.
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Searching through files in my project is one of the few reasons i keep terminal windows open next to N++. A quick `find . | grep "php$" | xargs grep "search_term" -isl"` or even `grep -Ilir "search term"` is never too far away, but it would be great if it were closer.

My other nitpicks with N++ are the lack of a "yes to all" on the change-detection dialog when you do a hg update, and the way gedit seems to do ctags so much nicer. Seems like low-hanging fruit, maybe i should try to get a patch in..

Still, hard to beat and easy to recommend. I use it every day (it bought me a car!).
Skip? Meh...For those who wish to segment their lives into producing devices (Mac/PC) and consuming devices (iPad/Kindle) then it is actually a perfect fit!

I do understand the sentiment that your friend is providing by pointing out that your probability to become another consumer rather than a producer with the device in tow is a valid point!
So just buy and iPad and throw out your TV... assuming you have a TV that is ... ;-)
Pre-processors start at -100 points -- the complexity of adding to the tool chain, the leaky abstractions, the extra difficulty in debugging, the fact you have to know two languages well to be effective, and so on. A pre-processor has to be really good and really clever to be worth the overhead.
Not worth paper it’s built on
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I would agree -- except for the fact that as a musician, I've benefited tremendously from the recording apps that have allowed me to produce multitrack songs, record scenery as background for my videos, and edit it all together in iMovie (a program that I don't have access to on a PC).

I will need to get rid of that netflix app, though. ;)
Looks like a good argument for the Snowflake method [0]. This method is basically to "develop" a novel, by starting with a single sentence and gradually expanding it into the novel. In contrast, the other method (pansing) is to start writing the first chapter immediately.

For either approach you find great writers using them. It seems to be a question of personality.

[0] http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/art/snowflake.php
Most YC users are consuming links here, not producing... so yeah. Also, consuming on the iPad is a completely legitimate way to stimulate yourself into producing.
a good description is found in "How To Become A Hacker" ~ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
You can have both an iPad for sit-back consumption and a computer for productive creation. As a consumption device, the iPad is tough to beat, for those who don't have to be producing output at every waking moment. Sometimes, you want to ingest information, and an iPad is a very effective way to do that.
Memorizing arbitrary words for a study is a terrible proxy for meaningful learning.
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I've read volumes 1-3 cover to cover (I even picked up a cheque along the way).

I wasn't reading for maximal knowledge retention (e.g. I would rarely do any of the exercises, though I would read them all and think about how I would solve them), but now I have a pretty good idea of what is in there and what isn't.
Evidently, because it means you won't need to rely on self-described intellectuals when you educate yourself.
Google for the following phrase to find the site: "Run unmodified Access applications, right inside a web browser."

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Underneath, git is actually based on a really simple tree-of-objects data structure. All those esoteric features are built on an elegant base; understand that base, and you can understand anything git does (though it may not be obvious at first).
Of course it's the evil Rush Limbaugh's fault.
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> My advice is to learn to use your favorite editor with a TAGS file, then go navigate through a large open source project, and extend it in some minor way. That's more profitable than enduring any book on "design".

If this were a book, it would probably go on the "Books Programmers Claim to Have Read" list.
I switched to Filezilla instead.
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You just described "a couple decent developers + ruby on rails + custom development".

The interesting bit is trying to create the next Excel or Access. The most recent (aborted) attempt was DabbleDB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabble_DB).
Great story! I actually went in the other direction but as a career changer it's always nice to hear about people uprooted themselves to do something that made them happier.
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Tablets to me are just an easier way to check status updates and feeds, ie things I'm trying to get away from. They even favor laying down while doing it!

I'm constantly confronted with similar questions: should I watch this game on TV or spend the next two hours learning or making something, even if it turns out ultimately to be a failure? I'm getting better everyday at choosing the later.
Does "Enhance the loading performance for the large file." mean it can edit files larger than your RAM now?

UltraEdit could do this. I always find it unfortunate Notepad++ can't.
Yeah, we will do it. But now project still at first stage.
It's only primarily a consumption device because there's not enough devs building production apps for tablets. Which is why I bought one in the first place. We're working on production tools that we'll use ourselves and which are designed for tablets.

Summary: Don't like it? Hack it better :)
What you say is more obviously true of a Kindle, but that doesn't mean that owning a Kindle makes you produce less overall. It just changes the way that you do consume when you choose to do so.
A large part of learning how to lucid dream is learning what clues there are that you might be dreaming, and making it a habit to check whether or not you're dreaming. I think the idea when it comes to avoiding the biases is learning to identify when and how you're making these biases. Go through the list of biases and think of specific examples from the past few days for as many of them as possible, and check if they've been affecting you. Keep repeating this so you learn what it feels like when those biases are affecting you and so you can avoid it in the future. Also make it a habit to check your reasoning before committing to decisions, to see if you can identify any biases soon after they've been committed and before they can do any damage. This is all speculation. Feel free to ignore any of this advice, especially since I haven't consciously followed it myself.

There are also books that supposedly help with effective decision making, such as Judgment in Managerial Decision Making. I haven't tried any, so I can't recommend any in particular. I'm sure there are recommendations out there.

http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Managerial-Decision-Making-Ba...
There's no need to do that when vocational colleges already exist. As others have stated here, there's a stigma against vocational colleges. Because they're not as prestigious as universities, people have the misconception that the education or training they receive at vocational colleges is somehow inferior, when in reality they serve different functions. You also have community college for when you want a more traditional college experience, but also want job training.
Well, your friend got that right but why didn't you get that before?

When I bought my Xoom tablet, I had in mind two things:

a. it would do a great remote control device for a headless and home-made music player (plugged to a decent sound-system),

b. I need to rest.

While a. was definitely the fun factor for me, b. was a way for me to stop bringing work home so easily. With a tablet, you can consume most of the stuff you would with a laptop but as you can't produce, you're not tempted to start working on cool-new-interesting-project-2315.

Mixed results so far as I still often bring my laptop home from work. Also, a. didn't go that far (because of b. ? [1]).

[1] Ah well, contradictions.
Well, that is Apple's end game for the iPad after all. The same goes for Amazon and its Kindle family of devices. Whether we like it or not, the iPad and other similar devices are media consumption devices by design. You really should have known that before you bought it.

Anyway, you do have the choice of either returning it or simply keeping it and making the most out of it. And that is by focusing on its strengths and basically everything that it does right.
It is far from consumption only. I do; Tons of email, all my note taking, use story boarding and notecard apps to outline projects, banking and investment, participating in online forums aka & reddit

Also, consumption is great. If you consume good things. Lately been watching pycon videos, reading hn, learning chef, aws research, and wiki tangents on sub atomic particles and german east Africa in wwi.

iPad fucking rocks. Everyone should have a tablet of some sort.
Incredibly grating story, I hope someone is made to apologize.
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Tangentially, I recently made a list of books I think every programmer would enjoy reading: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19794076450/a-few...

Aside, in every programming job I've been in, there's been other programmers keen to lend me Terry Pratchett books.
Do some iOS dev and this will no longer be a problem.
From what I've heard, it's the same in France and Germany as well.
If you're talking bandwidth cap attacks, then you could just keep cleaning out local storage and downloading more from /dev/random perpetually.
It makes sense that if you wanted to be in the business of changing the way databases worked fundamentally and ended up making a flash app to make Access databases accessible online that your heart might not be into the final product... that being said it is worth admitting to yourself that you would rather have accolades from fellow programmers rather than heaps of cash. Understanding this... helps.
I had interpreted your initial post as 2 hours one way for that bus trip, my apologies.

Other than that... I'm really at a loss, I don't know what I can say. Again, this isn't a problem with living carless or even living carless in Seattle, it's a problem with your special case with your specific social group. If your bubble induces you to make a 25 mile round trip to Kirkland with any regularity, yeah, you should probably find a way of getting there that doesn't involve bumming rides all the time. But everyone lives in a bubble, there's different kinds, sizes, and geographical dispersion levels of bubbles, and there's nothing wrong with living in a geographically concentrated one. Capitol Hill gets you to either U District or Lower Queen Anne with an easy 20 minutes transfer-less bus trip, it's 15 minutes to Belltown, and so on - it's really far from a teeny tiny bubble. (Not to claim Cap Hill as centre of the universe, I'm merely using it as an example I'm familiar with, not living in Seattle.) You don't need a car unless your social group dictates that you do.
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

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If you were a passenger on an aircraft carrying 10+ passengers involved in a fatal accident in the 1970s, you had about a 1 in 4 chance of surviving [1]. Note that this includes accidents during taxiing, initial climb, and final descent (about 70% of airplane fatalities).

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It also makes an awesome skype/facetime video phone.
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It's kinda messed up that you guys outted this guy. Suppose he didn't want his employer to know?
Funny. That's exactly what I cited in my blog post! :-)
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If I could go back in time, I wouldn't change a thing. It makes life more interesting to be able to read law.com and the Volokh Conspiracy and know what they're talking about, even if I don't practice anymore.
sure, it's http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/

The filtering's hard-coded, and very opinionated. :-)

the code's on github here:

https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper
I do a lot of consuming: I watch a few TV shows, read Hacker News, proggit, and read books.

Are you really advocating that we shouldn't consume anything at all?

To me, the reason I'm considering returning the iPad is that it's nothing more than a luxury computing device. Sure, it's kind of convenient in some ways (small and light), but in other ways, it's totally a drag (iOS is underwhelming, the lack of keyboard.) I like reading on it a lot, but then, the stuff I read on it is really just websites, and I don't feel like I need a dedicated device for that.
The part about knowledge applies for programming too. I have noticed myself being far more productive when I have sketched out the general approach I am going to take with a problem on a paper first before actually writing any code. Once you start coding, you get lost in the low-level intricacies and this sometimes makes you lose sight of the overall goal.
I wonder if he would've cared where you got that degree. If you would have enrolled in night school at your local community college to get a degree in accounting or IT or whatever is available, would that have been enough to satisfy the boss?
Ask HN: How to finish Learn Python The Hard Way and where to go from there?
I've been wanting to learn how to properly program since last year and based on the advice of a lot of great people here at HN and elsewhere, I got myself a copy of Learn Python The Hard Way. I think the advice at the beginning of the book that said take 2 hours to read/learn/perform exercises each day is solid. So I do that and really have no problems at all except that by the time I arrive at Exercise 20 or so, I tend to stop. Maybe it's just coincidence or bad luck, but after missing a few days I find that everything is lost to me and I have to start all over again.

I've restarted reading the book twice already and am about to restart for a third time. Can I get some advice on how I can actually finish this book and where I can go (what other resources I should look into, etc.) once I do?
I'd be tempted to add Numerical Recipes in C to the second list. I've often referred to it for various algorithmic problems thinking that it will be helpful and practical (examples in C!), but I'm usually disappointed. Most of it is targeted at very technical, math heavy problems. But hey, should my job require use of Toeplitz Matrices, NR is just an arm's length away!

This is NOT at all a knock on the book, since the title makes quite clear what it's about. But for whatever reason this one seems to end up on various "good to have on your shelf" lists when it probably isn't.
One reason why I like having (some) new widgets is that they change how I think about what is possible. You could not have figured out modern phones while plugging away with your old Nokia. Some devices help you see the future, and for me, my ideas are certainly affected by the technology I use.

Many apps are productive in nature - notes, reminders, stock trading etc. Kindle is very useful even if it's consumptive. Reading is consumptive, but also productive in the sense of 'doing something useful'. Besides, if you're away from your computer, aching to produce and you only have an iPad...write down what would help and make an app for that.
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If you're a mobile developer, do you use any tools that let you track usage of your app? Would you use a service that could easily let you run A/B tests on your users?
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Citation needed! Who wrote that sentence?
It sounds like he'd love to do this, but is unable to (he and his cofounder might be the only people on the planet with the requisite skillset).
---bluetooth keyboard > Pages, email, blogging.

---Garageband > music

---Camera > Photos, video, photo editing

---Painting apps > art, sketches, wireframing

---Internet > anything

Super turbo false.
I use my iPad heavily for consuming (books, movies, etc...) include watching videos for the Stanford classes I'm doing. I use my laptop to create. The two work harmoniously - I can consume (i.e. I have a copy of The C Programming language on the iPad) while creating to feed the cycle. Works well for me.
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So is a book.
It's interesting that the goal is to increase the amount of words written rather than their quality. I suppose which of those matter more depends on the type of work you are writing.
> That we have become a consumer culture concerns me greatly.

I'm really skeptical that this is actually true. The hardware to produce things has gotten cheaper (computers, video/sound equipment), the knowledge is more easily and readily disseminated (tutorials online, videos on youtube, forums for specialized interests), and it's become easier to share things (uploading to vimeo and then posting to reddit.) It seems to me like it's even easier to “produce” than ever before, and that more people are doing it.
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I found that this often applies to software developers. As someone who writes the code and understands the product internally, you lose the ability to relate to the end-user. You just don't see things the way end-user sees them. This is the reason having a non-technical co-founder on board is useful -- their mind is uncorrupted by the knowledge of internals.
My curse as well.
We have the iPad 1 and it is the most fought over device in the house.
Kids make the most use of it - games, Khan Academy, Plex client, music etc
Wife reads email, reads her fave sites, Skype etc
I occasionally game on it, but mostly checking twitter from bed or browsing motorcycle sites.
Never has there been a device in my household that so universally satisfies everyone's needs from a 5 year old girl to a 42 year old bloke.
I couldn't really give a toss if I can produce anything on it or not.
The problem isn't the iPad, the problem is probably you. There's nothing stopping you from "creating" with an iPad.
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At the risk of making all of HN think I work for Udacity, which I don't, I'm just going to go ahead and recommend Udacity's CS101 "Building a Search Engine" class. It truly is awesome. I signed up late for it and am working through it now. They'll be running the class again starting April 16th. I'm trying to beat the clock and get done in time to take the 200 level classes that start then.

Best of luck!
Well you should probably define what you mean by "producing". What do you expect to be able to produce? More code work? Art work? Photography? Blog posts and articles?

Without an iPad, I wouldn't understand touch interface design and UX. I probably wouldn't have read Steve Jobs biography, or Mark Cuban's ebook. But I did, and they inspired me to create. I successfully learned to program through Xcode and my iPad, because making something that you can touch right before your eyes is amazingly delightful and encouraging. Sometimes I read fantastic articles on Flipboard, or HN, and I get great ideas. Sometimes the first thing I do in the morning is check my app sales from the day before while in bed. I look at my sales graph and rankings. Regardless of whether the number is good or bad, my brain starts firing off on how I can do better, or why such and such is happening.

All these things inherently require me to consume, but lead to some form of productivity. Most HN'ers don't channel surf or watch TV for the sake of killing time. We're productivity freaks, so we only watch things we're really interested in, or things we think we can learn from. Consumption on the iPad seems to be exactly the same.
Well, I'd say building consumption apps is much easier than building an app for producing things, particularly when dealing with resource-constrained devices. It's really only a matter of time for developers to really figure out how to work with iOS and to make apps for 'making things'. Keep in mind that the iPad hasn't been around for all that long.
Open-letter: Did hackernews become hateboard?
Anytime I come to hackernews, reading about a new startup, a new programming language (e.g. go), or a new concept (e.g. dotsies) to name a few, all i see is negative comments. We got our fair shares of them for our startup too.

I came to this conclusion, let me know if it makes any sense.

When there is something new, haters comment on it almost immediately. Sometimes, if you look at the time of the entry, you know, it's almost impossible to form any kind of opinion in that little time that the hater hated the whole thing already.

Sad part is, (inserting my analysis) if anyone actually has a few good things to say, they pass,

1) because then they would also be attacked by the same folks who just hated the original content. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish kind of thing.

2) (scientific/logical/rational) quality of hating content is so low (sometimes downright ridiculous), it makes smart ones refuse to take part in such thread. You know this, when that weird dude comments on your facebook status, makes everyone else dissipate.

This situation makes hackernews a place where everything is mostly hated, not renowned or embraced. A few years back, hackernews was definitely not a hateboard - it was a great source of high-quality information.

These days I come here saying to myself "let's see how much sh*t this will receive on hackernews". It makes me sad, seeing one more platform that I respect, is taken away from me.

Do you agree? Or did I happen to see the bad ones? (http://d.pr/1wCv http://d.pr/j614) If yes, how do you think this can change ? Not asking for how we can fight against, "i know it all" guy, "every new thing is worse than what i know" dude; if what I'm saying is true, there are ways that system can fight to balance negatives and positives, maybe like stackoverflow does.

What do you think?
Agreed. I have little patience for people who fuss all day about tools and rarely use them. Wordpress is a slow, leaky, kludgy CMS, but it is growing share every second due to its awesome community where all the sexy node.js projects are limping along relative to WP.

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