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The point of the benchmarks is to compare compilers on the Windows platform, so there is no reason to bench other operating systems.
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Posted on April 1, 2012

As a long time reader of HackerNews, (first time poster), I am truly worried for it’s future.

Lately I have been seeing a lot of posts, seemingly giving good advice on a whole range of topics, start-ups being foremost. However, at the end of each of these articles, while interesting and well written, I am left with the feeling “who the hell are they to tell people how to do <insert advice here>”. Posters are habitually giving advice, generally with no credentials or basis for what makes their advice relative. And it becomes hearsay and opinion rather than solid advice based on facts.

I am really partial to the ‘real’ stories about people’s successes and failures that give good background and relate facts and experiences. These are the articles that I learn from. Not the “Doing x and y for business success, by nobody in particular”. The difference is we have credentials and background on the poster. The other types of posts remind me a little of pop culture radio DJs who have a whole lot to say about nothing and they end up talking over the songs (or good posts in our case).

So pull your pants up HN. Write and vote for the real stuff. If you’re going to give advice or an opinion, back it up with facts and evidence.
These things already exist; the links are at the bottom of the page.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Ubuntu.

Depends on the type of dev, but anything short of iOS is probably easier on Ubuntu. And, just an FYI, I know people that do iOS on Ubuntu as well (virtualized OSX instance).
OK, but if you wanted to program a VIC-20, you were literally POKEing 6502 opcodes as hex numbers into memory addresses - the development tool VICMON cost extra, and even then you still had to know the mnemonics. And people of my generation still did it. And kids today have everything handed to them on a plate, they just aren't interested.
Couldn't post it on the blog, but here is my original comment:

Who are you, and why are there more ads than content in this post?

Do you really think only people with the 'right' credentials have interesting things to say? That's shortsighted IMO.
Looks good. I haven't heard of Speechhub but I look forward to your tutorial.

I recently added a blog to my static GitHub page using Jekyll (http://atomyard.com/blog/Blogging-with-Jekyll/). I found Jekyll to be very easy to use (and it's built right into GitHub) so I'd be interested to see how Speechhub compares.
I don't use crappy unportable tools, which means everything I care about also runs fine on Windows. I'm not writing Win32 apps right now, but when I was I certainly had no good reason to add work just to avoid Windows on my dev box. Win32 isn't a very tasteful API, but it at least has the virtue of being intended for what people want to do with it, unlike the World-Wide Web (which is being destroyed so that we can have an astonishingly ham-fisted and inefficient application platform instead).
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I also love my 15" MacBook Pro. I've had it for about 1.5 years now. I will never buy a different brand again.
The last one I bought (a 13" about 18 months ago) wasn't. Yes, you could buy a Windows laptop from Dell or HP or someone for half the price, but it would have less than half the battery life, it would be larger (albeit probably not heavier; Macbooks are the densest laptops I've found) and it would have a plastic shell instead of aluminium which feels worse when new and won't age well. It would also come laden with crapware, which isn't an issue for me since I've put Linux on it anyway, but it is a big deal for most people - the majority of machines I see running badly these days are doing it because of software, not hardware.

I guess if you're coming from the perspective of maximum CPU performance per $ being the key metric, then they probably aren't a great deal, but for most people that's not really the most important thing any more.
Each year we hear "Aw, didn't know tickets were on sale".

Most of our past Funconfers tend to hang out on HN, so I thought it might be worth letting them, and their friends know.

If you've not heard about Funconf, this pic is fairly representative:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10164/funconf-wtf.jpg
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Given the URL, error and speed of the crash, I'm guessing you're running WordPress on Apache+MySQL. There's no reason that stack can't handle HN-level traffic for a blog (especially at 3AM Pacific).

Activate a caching plugin WordPress to remove the database bottleneck.

Lower the MaxSpareServers/ServerLimit/MaxClients variables so that Apache can never start more processes than your system has RAM. Turn off KeepAlive or set the timeout very low so that those few processes you can handle running aren't tied up on people that have already loaded the post.

That should prevent the kind of crash that just happened.
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They're too easily ignored. Maybe they should be posted monthly, like "Who's Hiring" threads.
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Wow, I ticked 20+ years since I started with Pascal and QBasic when I was something between 11 and 12. Given how many years of coding most people in here have, I'm not even in the middle with my 20 years :)
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His credentials are clearly stated: a long time reader of HN disappointed by the recent influx.
It seems to me that if you can buy Fireworks + Illustrator + Photoshop, the difference of price between a Mac and a PC shouldn't be a problem.

Not working on graphics enough to buy those softwares, I'm happy on linux.
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I’m using KDE/Linux.
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Oh, there are so many things that need finishing (not to mentions starting). That starts today. I guess technically we launched this yesterday, as yesterday was demo day, but we built most of it in March.
"Not even tablets will run on top of browsers."

Have you seen Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' project?
I'm confused as to how being a parent is particularly relevant, but anyway...

This particular application is aimed at a narrow category of professionals, none of whom are likely to be using IE, or at least tied to using it. It would thus seem like a bit of a waste of effort to support it, given that it's more troublesome to support than WebKit and Gecko, and also given that Microsoft has promised that IE's standards support will improve, so it'll probably just work on IE10 anyway.
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> So bitcoin can't be devalued by "printing" fake "bills." That's a good prerequisite, but it's not a practical improvement for me over the current currencies.

Well, the value in bitcoin is that it can't be printed by anyone, even the goverments, uncontrollably - there will be only specific amount at max in circulation at specific time.

This might not be valuable to you, but it certainly will be for many else. Many people don't like the thing that goverments keep devaluing their fiat currencies.
started in 1985 with basic and asm. i think we are old;)
Why do we need physical media? I'd prefer to download them myself. I usually buy games in the Playstation store if they are available there. Yes, of course, this would mean that you probably can't sell your games after you're done with them, but that's not a big issue for me personally.
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I tried to set it up.. I actually did but it appears you need to know Haskell to do even the most basic of customization :( back to Gnome3 for me
I'm surprised they're on HN but I have a (geeky) friend who do most of his work on an Android tablet so that his "computer" is always on and ready. That makes a difference when you run more than one time in more than on place and you spend a lot of time with your customers too.
Thanks, that's great advice. you are spot on with what I am using. Now if only I could get onto my server...
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This is something I noticed as well, someone corrected a 1-char typo in one of his projects' documentation and he quickly merged and replied with "Thanks :)"
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I would rather read about advices given by these nobodies, than read about the latest industry farts, which are so common these days.

I'm sophisticated enough to look for the context in which these advices are given and to spot logical fallacies or "does not follow" arguments. I also checkout the credentials from time to time, depending on the topic being discussed. So basically I can think for myself.

Also, that blog has too many ads on it, which is another criteria by which I judge blog posts, as that's a really good indication of link-baits. I'm not against ads, but I like them to be tasteful.
I was a quant prop derivatives trader at an investment bank.

The correlation between MtGox/USD [1] and GLD daily returns over 12 April 2011 - 30 March 2012 is 0.02; a linear regression produces a 0.151 beta (GLD daily returns independent) with a coefficient of determination of 0.0004. GLD had a period return of 14% with an average daily return (standard deviation) of 1.4% (0.1 percentage points); MtGox/USD had 531% with 10.2% (1.3 percentage points). It thus seems like it could have a place in a portfolio above (in terms of risk) small cap and emerging market stocks (on your worst day in GLD you lost 5.5%; in MtGox/USD 35.8%. Also, GLD delivered 2.7 times the return per unit of risk). Methodology note: since MtGox trades every day and GLD only on trading days, I used closing prices for trading days.

Bitcoin takes the monetary system back essentially a hundred years. We know how to beat that system. In fact, we know how to nuke it for profit. Bitcoin is volatile, inherently deflationary and has no lender of last resort. Cornering and squeezing would work well - they use mass in a finite trading space. Modern predatory algos like bandsaw (testing markets by raising and suddenly dropping prices), sharktooth (electronically front-running orders), and band-burst (creating self-perpetuating volatile equilibria in a leverage-sensitive trading space, e.g. an inherently deflationary one), would rapidly wreak havoc. There is also a part of me that figures regulators will turn a blind eye to Bitcoin shenanigans.

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60ztgSzm1g10zm2g2...
Interesting, and useful to know!
My first real job in IT was at an IBM training centre, so OS/2 and the PS/2 share the same warm place for me as for OP. The original PS/2 was literally the size of a suitcase, and very, very heavy: but I could lift two at once if I was in a hurry to set up a room for teaching. Real computers.

At the same job, I was probably one of the first people to use Windows: Windows 286, that is, with PageMaker, which we used to make course materials. It was slow and clunky at the same time as awesomely cool. Windows 386 was even better. Then IBM launched OS/2, and we did our level best to like it, install and use it, but it never really felt that good. It needed too much RAM. It didn't support our legacy apps (not many of them, anyway) and the UI felt weird.

On the day Windows 3.0 was released internally, on the IBM network, I think just about everyone who used a PC downloaded the seven or so floppy disk images needed to install it, and we were passing them around like a crack pipe. Everyone wanted it, and this was apparently happening all over IBM UK. Although it's ultimate demise took a long time after that, we all knew it was basically over for OS/2 at that point. Which is a shame, because (looking back) it still seems cool and interesting and Windows soon became very boring indeed.
That's more of a toolkit problem. For most X apps, there's no way to figure out (for OSX) what part of the app is the Main Menu. And what functions to call when a drag/drop happens, there's no interface for it. Under X, every toolkit has it's own solutions. The only solution is to embed support for compiling to native Mac apps into the toolkit.
There were projects to pull that off for KDE and Gnome, but somehow nobody continued working on them. I had the KOffice running first class on my Mac in 2004, and also Inkscape and GIMP a couple of years ago, but these native interfaces were buggy, and somehow there wasn't enough leverage to really finish them. Sad.
I don't think you can get anything with an equal display at the same price point as a macbook pro.
That's great news, as they are sure to stabilize it, right?
I think the cluster of bricks around power outlets in bank offices is rarely examined nor questioned by anyone with any kind of background. And if the chap sent out to change the printer toner questions it, someone will just tell him someone from IT put it there a few weeks ago...

There have been cases of cleaners putting dongle keyloggers on bank PCs too http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/13/sumitomu_bank/

Miniaturization will only get better, of course.
We have tons of later models (E2s, Tungstens, plus older models) floating around the office, and we still support a fair number of Palms still in use in the field (we do data collection diaries for drug trials). Some of our clients really love these devices (as opposed to the smartphone product we currently offer).
Myself using Debian/Ubuntu as work OS since i started studying 11 years ago. Dualboot for gaming.

All my (IT) colleagues are using MacOSX.

My pro/contra list:

Contra:

- gaming
- want a proper desktop search engine/crawler
(that doesn't eat up my CPU every day when
indexing (and thus, creating far too much noise))

Pro:

- everything else, never looked back

edit:

When i think back so much has improved in regards to Linux, it's awesome. No more kernel compiles, no more X11 configuration editing, no driver hassles. I'm curious what the future brings :)
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Wait a minute, check his credentials, who the hell is he to tell you how to administer your server?
If the new games were made available at a cheaper price up front, I could live without the ability to trade in (at a price point of say €30 vs €50 currently). It might be viable as they aren't sharing a slice with the high street retailers.
Even if the article itself is arbitrary advice, i still think it makes for a good discussion point. If the author is spewing trash, constructively call them out on it. If the author has a good point or brings up an issue, talk about it.
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My dad taught me programming in 1964, on IBM equipment where you used patch cables to write code. I was 10 at the time. Been programming ever since. I'm teaching my kids now - they are both using Scratch, which makes them 3rd generation.
I thought it was already well-established that our species has long been king of long distance running.

To me, what's interesting now, is how fast can the human body actually go. Horse, dog and women sprinters all largely topped out in the 70s. Men's 100m is expected to drop a bit more.

Both women and men are expected to continue to break marathon records, but women seem to be doing it at a faster pace.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/08/how-fast-can-a-...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081128082831.ht...
Presumably the horse has a human on its back which is a fairly significant encumbrance. "Man vs Horse+Man" might be a better name in that case.
From what I've seen of HackerNews, this is already happening!
Add attempts at suing reverse engineers for posting decryption keys (mathematically derived, no less) to that list.
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The UK government has considerable computing power. Even small parts of UK government have surprising amounts of computing.

A well-funded hostile government, bringing a lot of computing online aimed at "attacking" BitCoin would be a valid concern. I accept it's a tiny risk.
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Pretty much the entire games industry runs (for historical and practical reasons) on Windows. I used a Linux desktop at home for ages but eventually the rebooting and impedance mismatch got too strong.
In the year 1986 I started with my new C64 when I was eight years old. Thanks a gazillion for the broken Datassette drive, effectively preventing me to load and play games so I had to start writing my own in order to be able to play.

Turns out, writing them was much more interesting than playing them ever was.
The whole point is to deliver a larger signal to noise ratio - posting these every month would lower this, IMO.
Well, the portability improvement from Assembly to C is mirrored in browser applications compared to native one in my view. The Browser today abstract a lot of things for you now including network communications, device interaction, file system interactions, graphics... the list goes on.

These aren't all GUI related things. I strongly believe you can now have a OS that is basically booting you into a browser and all OS interaction would go through WebAPI and still build most applications we use today.Obviously there will always be cases which you need to drop down a level.

Developers of ChromeOS or boot to gecko seem to agree somewhat.
I am not a professional programmer, but do it for fun and to avoid repetitive or boring work at home (backups, updates etc.). I got my first computer when I was about 6 or 7 (1985 IIRC), an Atari 800XL with tape recorder (about the size of a toaster). It was awesome when I found out how to get into the running interpreter, change a BASIC program and restart it! So my first 'coding' was to change the number of bullets or lives in the running game. Or insert silly texts printed to the screen; maybe it's good I didn't become a professional :D
I am a slow learner, slow thinker, bad at math - and I guess I couldn't earn a cent with it. But I still enjoy writing my little programs after all those years.
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Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history

This is the kind of thinking that got the US stuck in Iraq for a decade. "We'll change the country by killing this one guy".

If a nation's leader is a failure it's because the nation itself is a big pile of fail, not the other way around.
I use Windows, but the only work I do on it is in visual studio with C#.

For other programming work, I run linux in a VM. Can't work without the terminal!
I wish there was a Linux distribution with the FreeBSD userland, just to bring up on occasions like this.
Um... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_hunting
> I seem to recall it's still a bit lacking

Not in the least since Snow Leopard, as Terminal.app has been perfectly fine (with Terminal Colors SIMBL plugin, and MouseTerm if you really want) and even better in Lion. For utmost configurability you could lean towards iTerm2, which you can tweak to no end (and arguably more than most X terminals).

Platform-specific tools from pb{copy,paste} to tmutil are truly useful and improved at each new release. Tools like brew give you all the package management love you could want, and xorg support is as first class as it could get without OSX being X-based itself.

I guess that if you want to go further than what OSX currently support, then you're looking for getty VTs, tiling window managers or Compiz customizability. As such one should probably not try to shoehorn Linux into OSX and rather use Linux (or some *BSD) directly.
that race would only be fair if it was a manned horse vs a man with a horse on his back.
1980: BASIC, 1983: Z-80, 6502 asm, 1984: COBOL, mainframe "Assembler" language, Pascal, Forth, 1985: Fortran, 1987 : C ... then, C++ and a variety of other languages followed.

My computer progression: TRS-80 pocket computer, TRS-80 model I, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore +4, Amiga, Vic-20, and then the long list of Intel 80x86 machines and phone/tablet gadgets.
Oh. My bad - never noticed. Maybe they'd do better at the top. Or as a link when you hit 'post' or 'reply'... Or perhaps its just me that has missed them.
Does HTML count as programming in this case? I started when I was 11 and didn't do anything more complicated than some very basic JS until I was 14.
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