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I respect the truthfulness of the author. In fact most people using computer believes that there will be some point in future when technology will be better and all their misery will be gone then.

People go on checking windows 8 rumors and iPad rumors. And they buy the tablets and electronics gadgets immediately when they are available thinking that the product will save their life in a new way. After windows 8 gets released, people will start running for windows 9 news, as Apple fans are looking for the new iPhone and next new iPad.

Even though the author projects his past, the notion that he misses long hours of tweaking red hat is wonderful. Most of the people miss their childhood, not long hours in front of the computer. It needs more energy for a person to miss it.

I love his writing more than the time when hacker news front page flooded with the death news of Steve Jobs. People started weeping for the person who has already gone. He was in constant work to make something perfect in the future, which is never possible.

And people won't go to Steve before his death. They won't go to him, talk something and make him happy. They jump out of their bed and run to the funeral in a good dress, looking in the mirror in their way - only to see the person who has already died.
Exactly. It's frustrating. See http://rwilcox.tumblr.com/post/20094754364/its-hard-to-insta.... It's a "story in 20 parts" about what can go wrong with a Raila install on OS X.
"Living in southern ontario I actually dread the roads on that first heavy snow because, no joking around, I'm actually worried I'm going to kill someone and it won't be my fault."

Yeah, in Calgary people lose their shit when there's a light dusting of snow... it's ridiculous.
Good point re 'telecommuting criminals'.

I presume it is inherently and practically more difficult to investigate identity of someone renting servers in US vs Russia, Ukraine or China, in part because of language, legal system and political differences.
Yup, it seems to default to whichever option you currently have selected. You need to go here to change it: http://news.ycombinator.com/change-idea-status
Read the first comment in the page by Isaac Yonemoto it's better than the post.
This is probably asking too much but for those of us who are not familiar do you have a link for this?
valid point. i'm actually considering a WP phone recently.

i had to switch to android when nokia made me a sucker with the lousy E70 right before the N9, making me hate them so much to the point of never buying from them again.

now android just did the same with the lousy Nexus one. i simply can't see myself buying another android.

that leaves me with windows phone for now, mostly for the benefit of doubt they still have... IF we still care about phones in a while. big IF there. i strongly feel that phones as we use today will soon be the devices of the unwashed mases of late adopters
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I strongly agree. I've been averse to owning a tablet for a while; generally, I prefer to have a laptop: if I want to do work on it, I can. I've recently tried a different approach: use the laptop (/tablet, now) for all my entertainment needs, and my desktop for work (in order to encourage myself to do more/better work on my desktop).

So, to facilitate that, I grabbed a cheap HP TouchPad, and flashed the (admittedly still reasonably raw) CM9 ICS build onto it. ICS itself is pleasant: the notifications system is great, the multitasking is easily on par with WebOS, and the action bar is a good step forward. The screen wasn't so great, but I knew that going in; most of the "real" Android tablets have beautiful hardware.

The state of the apps, however, is shocking. Even Facebook and Twitter haven't bothered to build tablet apps. I believe Google is somewhat stuck between a rock and a hard place here, however, and it boils down to an argument I've often thought entirely facetious - fragmentation. While they introduced decent APIs in ICS for making apps that work well on both phones and tablets, the vast majority of phone hardware out there is still running Gingerbread or older. Meaning that developers can't use those new ICS APIs, because their apps will no longer run on most user's devices.

I don't know how Google can address that easily, but I'd wager it proves to be a significant impediment to those trying to target Android tablets: either they do the whole thing manually in Gingerbread, or fork their codebase into an ICS version, and a Gingerbread version. Neither is an overly pleasant solution.

(for the record, I ended up drooling over/buying an iPad 3. The apps are much better)
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Great design, poor execution.

Like most things Microsoft, Paper is too little way too late. Penultimate and Sketchbook Pro are superior, and have been around for a long while now. Paper brings absolutely nothing new to the table. Easily forgotten.
Actually that's my configuration of choice, being Spanish, I use a UK keyboard + AltGr and it's perfect. I find the UK layout more comfortable for programming, and still can type Spanish when needed.
I agree completely, but there's something very important that Apple has to to – not bundle a stylus. That's right: they should build Wacom technology into the tablet without including a pen or a place to hold it.

Why? For the same reason that Macs still come defaulted to "one button" mode – to restrain software developers. You see, application developers for Mac can count on a significant percent of their user base being completely without an alternate click, so they are forced to expose functionality as buttons instead of stuffing it all in the context menu.

If Apple bundled a stylus with the iPad tomorrow, thousands of developers would add support for it for "gee whiz" reasons. If the user has to purchase one separately, it won't be used gratuitously. Instead, only the professional apps (which actually benefit from a stylus) would use them.
OSS development has to be funded somewhere and to date it has been the benevolence of bigger organisations that have awarded grants or developer time. This gives the opportunity for a developer to offer to solve a problem and for the community to vote with their pockets. It empowers developers and the community to get behind a problem space and if people don't want it it won't happen.
Actually I agree with previous commenter. These steps are easy and only take like 10minutes and give great power handling versions and gemsets to projects.

If you are someone who doesn't know what it means you should learn. Isn't that what a programmer needs to do?
"A car with the intelligence of a palfrey---enough to not run into things"

The transition into a world with only self-driving cars brings up the issue of pedestrians and other drivers with malicious intent. Your car is going 120km/h and someone purposefully jumps in front of the car; what does the car do? Or maybe other drivers would try to snake their way through traffic like an emergency vehicle by attacking this accident avoidance system vulnerability. Do we record all these instances on camera and report them automatically to police?
I think this might be a case of doing something rather than hyperanalyzing every possible situation and doing nothing.

Might not be ideal, but at least he's doing something.
Personally, I like having a daily stand-up. So do my colleagues. First thing in the morning is a great time to sync up on things.

I have seen places that do them poorly, and I gather that's what you've experienced. But it's also possible to do them well.
If you include people who answered "yes" to the question of whether they had sex with someone who was "too intoxicated (on alcohol or drugs) to resist your sexual advances (e.g., removing their clothes)" the number skyrockets to 6.4%.

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i like hardware keyboards. the ONLY one you can buy today is from motorola locked to verizon... great device option i have.

when i first bought my dreadful nexus one, the only newly launched keyboard option i had was the backflip! a brick was faster. it was already announced to be relegated to 1.5 forever, and 1.6 was launched before it was out. or something like that. older keyboard availables, G1, too slow, no support. droid. slow, no memory, no GSM.
This is the kind of thing that makes me want to learn to draw.
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> A cellphone doesn't need updates,

Note that security holes have been found in the dumber phones such as specially crafted SMS messages that cause grief.

In the case of a highly connected device that has a web browser (eg a "smartphone") there are guaranteed to be many security holes. That is the biggest problem with Android non-updates. It is bad enough being behind on functionality updates, but being vulnerable is even worse.
I am extremely happy with mine. HTC Sense adds a lot to the experience and I am glad they were allowed to do this.

I do not get why people feel entitled to OS updates on their phones (apart from security fixes of course). If the OS right now is not good enough for you, then why buy a phone with it?

On the other hand, I chose an Android phone because then I was free to use ROMs, root, and control the phone as I like, eg block internet access, adblock, control permissions, install random apps from random websites (no piracy...).
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this delay also happens to unlocked, bought directly from google, developer phones.

but i agree with your points. just saying that there's probably a third issue as well.
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Seems like a pretty lame "hoax." My money's on the guy fell for the appeal of fame, quickly realized how it was going to impact his finance and backpedaled.
Is this really how Android app sandboxing works?
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Im all for opening doors to newbies, and I think udacity and coursera are leading the way in that regard.

But if people desire to become programmers is it really that bad to have them come in contact with a little bit of configuration and head scratching.
that's a blatant lie. stop spreading it.

to install anything useful to your phone you have to root it. e.g. try installing tethering or VPN apps when your operator image denies it.

also, all processes that involve rooting/flashing will involve one step that you remove the firmware locks from the device, allowing a thief to peek at your data at will even if the phone is password protected.

*downvoters, also contribute to the discussion saying how you enable tethering on, say, a thunderbolt bought from at&t. thank you.
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I think a lot of app crashes are due to the fact that app developers simply don't know what to expect. This is a direct result of shoddy documentation.

For example, the Android API has a tendency to return null from functions even when the documentation doesn't say it will (i.e. WifiManager.getScanResults and friends), or simply doesn't document return values at all (i.e. ConnectionManager.getActiveNetworkInfo). The Google guys aren't real stars when it comes to documenting what exceptions may be thrown either.

You can't blame app developers for not gracefully handling exceptions and return values that are not documented.
What exactly is lame?

Pointing to possible misuse of race/nationality angle?

I do not think so.

Re > it's their job as a citizen in a democracy to affect the change they want to see in people's attitude towards this country and it's people.

I believe that my job is to take care of my family and myself, because noone else, and no any government, will do this.
IOS does support paid upgrades
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my bet is that they locked themselves in because of some contract with corporation (trying to beat RIM at some time) or government.

And those contracts are still giving them money, otherwise they wouldn't think twice about breaking it. All apple actions can be directly translated to immediate profit goal.
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If you're sick of Android usage you should try Android development, that would really make your day. In any case, if you're looking for an open platform try a Symbian or MeeGo. The Nokia N9 is one of the best smartphones ever made and, if you can get it, you will have a real user experience. Also, if you're a mobile developer who is not into BDSM you will be happy to hear that you don't have to write your programs in Java, although if you really want to you probably can.

Symbian and MeeGo are also getting constant OS updates although Nokia's official direction has shifted away to Windows Phone, and will continue like that for several years.
As for Android, Google is treating it like an ugly retarded kid that they don't really want but are forced to take care of.
But in practice it's almost never that simple.

Install Xcode;
1) Install in App Store
2) Still not actually installed, start it, that finished the installation
3) You still don't have what you need, find where they've moved "install command line tools" to and install that
4)The compiler you have isn't the right one as Lion no longer has GCC as its default compiler and you want to use RVM
5) ......

Once you've done it a few times it's not that hard and you get used to knowing where to look for problems but the first few times it can easily be half a day lost just trying to get the environment working.
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Definitely agree. I really love Path's design and I use Instagram. But I do think those apps + a lot of tech blogs give people a narrow view of what most startups are actually doing - which is solving real problems that people have.
I would, if it didn't mean a.) having to wait ages to get a piece of paper, then the next one... b.) any ink rubbing off on fingers or elsewhere.
yeah... except a vast majority of users from the nexus one have one or more hardware problems that both google and HTC denies warranty.

- touchscreen ghosting
- touchscreen crazy-mode when hot
- worse than iphone4 3G reception
- battery cells life cut in half after 1st year

i was luck to have 2 and 4 on mine. bought from google using google checkout. they never returned emails or letters regarding this. people on forums that bought at stores had HTC take them in and return the same way.
according to wiki this botnet already had this feature, but this bug aperently exploits something else.
It took almost 12 months between the Gingerbread/2.3 release and my phone actually getting updated. It has a vanilla Google interface, manufactured by HTC and a small amount of crap/carrierware. They can't do the simple 2.2 to 2.3 upgrade in a reasonable amount of time where none of your reasons apply.

Put in perspective - it took about 12 minutes after finding out about a new iOS release and having it on my device, and 12 months for the Android device.
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I'm confused by your comment. Do you really think self driving cars cannot be monetized?
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and you will have to force close most apps all the time :(

but still, a step in the right direction.
I can't tell you how many times I've been told to "drive to the first window" only to sit there for a couple of minutes before realizing they meant the second window I encounter. It may seem stupid... But better safe than annoyed, I suppose.

I just hate the "drive up and we'll bring it to you" bit.
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These pens use ultrasound triangulation. I have tried the earlier paper versions of them and they are eerily accurate. I was just thinking someone should use a pen like this for the ipad and it seems that someone already has.
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This thing is really impressive, for being in a browser... but there’s nothing here that wasn’t in desktop apps circa 1990. It’s roughly comparable to porting Doom to WebGL.
Have you seen chart.io, not open source but it seems similar to what you're describing
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Many systems suffer from similar fate (think Emacs)

That happens so much in software there needs to be a word for it, a term of its own.

After a while, you get deep enough in the rabbit hole so that it seems your initial judgement of redundant complexity was wrong. Even though it's still true, you've adapted to it. You just can't see it from the viewpoint of someone new anymore. For this reason I tend to carefully write down my initial concerns with something.

More on-topic, I don't think what TeX needs is a complete, sudden break with the past. It would be better to deprecate old, flawed features, and later on disable them and provide and optional compatibility mode (which is a bigger download).
Another reason (4) is that quite a lot of people [majority] download audio/video content and install cracked software on their Windows! home PCs.

I agree that external environment provided much more fertile ground for criminal activities [incl tech] in former USSR.

The key words are "fashionable" and "Western media". We all can observe the influence of media on people's perceptions of events, countries, nationalities...
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I am indeed saying that you are acting like a nutjob. Well recognized. And nice work confirming that with a rambling 25-paragraph reply.
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A lot of programmers have hangups about money. Consider whether you do as well, and if so whether this is something you've purposefully chosen because you really like what it does for your life or whether it is just accidental. If it is accidental, you may want to consider stopping.

a) $25k is not a lot of money for very well-known programmers. There are fairly straightforward methods to get that much in a month (a salaried job), a week (contracting+), or a day (training event, $500 a head).

+ Stipulate that in addition to Rails he has at least one talent which makes money and this is not unreasonable at all.

b) There was no time at which OSS was not predominantly the work product of the global rich employed at corporations. This is observably true for Rails, since the list of contributors since DHH extracted it is both public and short. The Rails core team works on Rails like it is their job because...

c) ... Rails was designed to, and succeeds at, making companies great piles of money by increasing the efficiency at which they can churn out CRUD apps. Please note that is in no way a criticism. Apps running on Rails go from BCC (five figures a year) to Basecamp (eight figures a year and will probably hit nine eventually unless they already did).

d) OSS developers making money by it - I.e. The traditional accepted way to write it - does not make you personally worse off, because it increases software available to you. You may perceive that people will listen to you less because monied interests will drown out your voice. This is irrational: since the $100 you think is a lot of money only buys maybe 30 minutes of programmer time anyhow, the opinions that mattered in OSS were already those of companies which coul actually pay salaries, and someone freer with their last $100 than you are will only have epsilon more impact on "the community" than you when compared to IBM (a consulting company which staffed most Linux development) or Google (an advertising company which directly or indirectly pays the salaries of the majority of programmers working on either of the two big OSS browsers.) apache's Kickstarter was IBM realizing that they'd happily pay a billion dollars to have IIS not become the dominant server platform so they proceeded to do so.
The N9 is easily worse than every other phone I have used and every phone anyone I know has used. I feel very silly for paying for it. Can you introduce me to someone who shares your opinion of it and does not have one yet?
Realy you should not say "fire" when you mean "made redundant" the former if untrue is profesional slander.