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2nd gen here.

My father was the "it guy" for a swiss engineering firm in sweden, lots of *nix and vms stuff.

had the vic 20, then c64, then amiga, then 386, 486 and onwards at home, I was probably 6-7 years old when I started playing. Like another poster higher up, had to learn binary pretty fast to make rasters and sprites etc. lots of fun over the years.

But, in reply to your question, yes, I am 2nd generation, something I actually liked to point out in interviews early in my career.
31 I have claimed 10+ but could argue for nearly 20+ as started with basic on a spectrum, however I had a hiatus in my teens before I got involved again properly
Oh dear, ticked the 20+ box then realised that its been 32 years (Sharp MZ-80K; Basic, Pascal, and a bit of assembler). Age'll do that to you.
> When does a dog do anything uncomfortable without coercion?

I think it means a dog won't run a long distance for a positive reason, only for a negative one. I.e. it won't run far to get food, but it will to avoid pain.

But a human will run far to get food which no other animal will do.
Not so sure about having to have a deep compelling cause, the first time Cliff Young fronted up for an endurance race I believe it was because he just wanted to have a go.

My father, now 77, has walked a 1000km track pretty much every year for the past decade now. He doesn't run but he does carry a pack and sets a pretty mean pace. His initial motivation was the death of my mother and the hole it left in his life, now it's just another of his regular activities.

Cliff Young:
http://www.elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young
BTC will be around but a fluid market for BTCUSD or BTCEUR -- ie. a plentiful amount of people interested in buying or selling bitcoin for other currencies -- won't necessarily be.
Nibbles and Gorillas was the first piece of code that I saw and was amazed how it worked. It taught me why we need to use functions and subs. And as a 13 year old it was fascinating to understand those concepts.

And most of the programming I learnt was from the snippets of code in the QBasic help files.
Wrote a word processor in C in the mornings before school on my parents' Mac (OS7) when I was 14.
Cool project, but how is this different than the jekyll powered static page generation that is already used by GitHub?
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"Most" is indeed key. For example, as far as "complex vocal patterns" go, there are birds which can learn to duplicate human speech and therefore have the vocal capacity of humans. Or, as far as bipedalism goes, you have the kangaroo -- and actually, if I count the animals that I've seen take a few steps on their hind legs, I'd have to also include dogs, a rabbit, a gerbil, and an elephant that was trying to get his mating on. Even our nakedness is shared by other species -- one of them is called the naked mole rat.
The hypothesis is that the 'stack' is much taller. Back when all you needed was QBasic to "learn to code", "learning to code" meant reproducing other software you used on a daily basis.

Software is generally much more polished now, and it requires much more time and work to get it so polished (assuming it's at all complex).

I'm not saying I agree with this. But the situation is definitely different from 10 years ago by quite a bit.
It would be better phrased as hidden estrus, which virtually no other animal has.

Can you imagine a world when you always knew if the women around you were menstruating? It would be tough to maintain equal rights in an environment like that - that change alone is a huge one for human culture - much larger than it appears at first.
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Thanks, yeah I just tried one of my old projects (a counter to display how much money one/multiple people are wasting) and it worked!
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Just marked 30+, sigh:

~1982 - Basic and TMS9900 Assembler on TI99/4A

~1985 - C, C++ and Pascal on Amiga 1000

Nowadays, mostly C++ and Python
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The MP3 format became popular because it offers a good balance between audio quality and file size, which allowed people to share them easily on P2P networks back when broadband internet was more a novelty than the norm. WAV files have been around forever without DRM.
The kind of freedom you mention is not a reason why they are superior in some absolute way.

It's a factor which, in the real world today, makes them better for some purposes and worse for others.

There are reasonable but unproven conjectures that this kind of freedom could become the most important factor over time, but the existence of conjectures doesn't demonstrate any inherent superiority.
Another change for you is the birthing process for humans is much harder than that of any other animal.

A human female is completely helpless for a much longer time during birth than any other animal - this requires a strong social structure to defend her.

Another change is the enormous amount of time it takes a human to mature. Again, this requires a complex social structure to provide for children for a long time.

Can you sense a pattern here?
If repeatedly breaking my Atari ST with broken attempts counts, we're talking well over 20 years. For more commercially-acceptable coding, we're talking closer to 15 years :)
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You could add an "ethernet surge protecter", I remember some of my old power strips had those, although maybe that was for phone.
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I cannot say that I fully understand every bit of this. Yet I feel that this paper is generally quite accessible for a non-astrobiologist like me (which I would think is the entire purpose of a "primer").

Thanks for posting this, it will serve as great reading material for a bunch of lunch breaks over the next days.
OS X has software by third parties that take design and UI seriously. That does not seem to generally be the case on Windows or especially Linux.

If OS X disappeared, I'd probably spend a huge amount of time tweaking an Arch Linux install and would use less GUI software.
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If you follow the email thread, you can see that the big math differences are based on libraries, not part of the compiler per se. Not to say they do not need improving.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-01/msg00215.html
Languages like matlab, R and Python (via numpy), let you do efficient computations as long as you can let them happen in the core, that is written in C and Fortran. This is very often possible, but in some cases you find that it is not, and then it will either be very slow or you need to write a C module for it. None of these languages is designed to make it easy to make a compiler/runtime that is from the ground up efficient. They are instead a rather inefficient interpreter with a really good library. This is where Julia differ. It is designed exactly to be efficient from the ground up.ground up.
Its easy to say Beats is purely a fashion phenomenon, but I think the headphones actually sound very good for the genres
I listen to, to my ears. It shouldnt be forgotten that these genres are the most listened to by the target demographic as well. I think What HiFi summed it up perfectly "Brilliant at what they do well; if you like that, you’ll love them".
At work: Linux

At home: OSX
Started with Commodore VIC-20 listings in magazines.
So... this is not a hacker news, but hipster news, right?
I mean, OSX majority? You must be joking...
I'm surprised that this is even a question -- when's the last time you knew a cat or dog owner who was like, "yeah it's that time of the month for her, she's bleeding all over the house." But yes, for those of us who didn't grow up on farms, most animals reabsorb their menses and do not bleed externally. It might be one reason why pastoral farmers[1] thought that women were "unclean", and I'd be interested to know whether goddess-worship comes from more agrarian than pastoral societies.

[1] The example I'm thinking of here is actually just the Torah. The Cain and Abel story clearly establishes that the authors are pastoral farmers who distrust those sneaky evil agriculturalists; and they also have an extensive code of cleanliness which includes a woman as unclean during menstruation.
I'm still looking for an AvantGo equivalent for my iPhone. I don't know why AvantGo never came out with an iPhone app. Sure it has 3G but there are advantages in having content local to a device, especially on a commute where data is spotty at best and load times are long.
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Seriously, this is the 11th time that you submit this site with the same account (see screenshot http://imgur.com/KZZyu , and I suspect a few others from other accounts as well). Can you please stop ?
You can use codesearch, which is based off Russ Cox's original Google code search which was taken down.

http://code.google.com/p/codesearch/
I don't think that's true. NOTEPAD.EXE and Firefox is all you need to start with HTML and JavaScript, for example. Microsoft gives away Visual Studio for free download, there are all the open source languages (ActiveState does great distros for Windows) etc etc.

It's a cultural shift. Kids these days are consumers, not producers.
I think we should remember the vast differences between reporting about scientific papers and the peer-reviewed papers themselves; I have a good feeling, based on previous experience, that most of the caveats raised here will be tackled by the paper, whose tone will probably be less decisive.
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You forgot 40+ and 50+ [I qualify for the first and almost for the second].
If parroting code listings from computer magazines counts. Good old times.
I wrote up an history of how I got involved in the IT industry, http://www.michielovertoom.com/cv/software-developer/, the 'Background' part.

It all started with programmable calculators...
TI 58c (programmable calculator), CBM 3032 Basic/Assembler, Apple ][ (Basic, UCSD Pascal/Modula, Lisp), DEC 10 (Pascal), VAX 11/750 (Pascal), VAX 11/780 (Pascal, ...), Symbolics 3600 (Lisp), SUN 3, SUN 4, Atari 1040ST, Mac SE/30 (MacScheme, MCL), ...
I'm giving up FreeBSD today.

I've built Departments and platforms on the old faithful
OS, I even blog about it - but my contracts demand skype or even Oracle and whilst you can sort of get those things working I no longer can afford the extra time to make it work

Ubuntu just managed to auto install X on a chipset I could not get working manually, and so I am going to Linux land for my workstations. The contracts will require Linux and windows servers so Freebsd will run my in office DNS for now

the network effects of things like dropbox skype and so on are having their effect. I have gone from feeling my OS choice is a secretweapon to a drain on time and effectiveness

it's not a good feeling for diversity

Anyone else?
I did a minor in CS, and was blocked from taking algorithms coursework due to budget cuts. I read Cormen's Intro to Algorithms last year, but coursera's algorithms course has been amazing for filling in gaps in my knowledge. I absolutely recommend it :)
One more thing: A terminal as a first class citizen. Definitely not on Windows, and while the OSX one is orders of magnitude better, I seem to recall it's still a bit lacking. What ruins OSX for me isn't the terminal, though, it's that X apps aren't first class.
> Recursion is slow in R because R is an interpreted language, and does not implement tail-call optimization.

Javascript is interpreted and doesn't have it either, yet it's 145x faster.
My main machine is Ubuntu host and I run virtualized Ubuntu dev instances. Frankly, nothing can beat it. Unity in 12.04 has been a god-send to me using Linux and I don't think I'll be going to anything else for quite some time. Seriously, if you haven't tried Ubuntu 12.04, you owe it to yourself.

BTW. I used Slackware for years but had to use OSX at a job for like 4 years. When I left that job I went and bought a MacBook Pro out of habit and I realized I just didn't feel natural using it, even after 4 years. That is when I put Ubuntu on the system and felt the "ahhhhhh" feeling. Nice to be comfortable again. Unity really is an awesome interface. First real innovative interface I've used in years.
6 years. That puts me in the 3-5 years category? Well I started at 13 with C++.
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Am I the only one hating especially the trackpad? I feel like it has much lower relative spatial resolution, i.e. if you set the maximum cursor speed you still have to make long motions, and the precision for some reason is far from pixel perfect.

And pixel-perfect pointing is something to be desired with those ubiquitious small controls in OSX.

In discussions like this, where serious hackers praise OSX over Windows, I feel like I have some strange disease that makes me prefer my old Toshiba U500 over new MacBook Pro sitting on my shelf. (Really want the MacBook Air but feel like I'd hate it too)
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hmmm ... I upvoted and all, but I'm starting to think this post is just karma bait.
You've misread his comment.

The comparison of his wife and best friend is the anecdote.

He then adds separately that he has empirical evidence--unshared with us--that each is competent in their respective fields.

He doesn't claim anything to be simultaneously an anecdote and empirical evidence.
Also birds for bipedalism. At the extreme we have ostriches and emus.

BTW: cockatoos also have strikingly manipulative feet, which they use in combination with their beak (though they can't use both feet simultaneously). And a surprisingly high brain/body ratio. Although they lack a prefrontal cortex, birds have separately developed a different structure, called the hyperpallium. There's no necessary barrier for birds evolving sapience independently from our line (any more than for aliens) - and there's no reason that the architecture of our brains must be better/more efficient.
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Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2 have been released for both PS3 and Xbox 360. Maybe the game developers are starting to get the upper hand when it comes to contractual exclusives?
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Yeah. I'm also starting by contributing to python-guide.org, and it feels great. He's a swell guy.
One thing that bugs me about putty is its cramped GUI, which isn't even resizeable. (The terminal screen is, but not the windows in which you configure the connection parameters).
I used to love the auto-scroll feature on my Palm eReader and find it baffling that none of the major eBook platforms on iOS (iBooks, Kindle, Stanza) support this feature.
My car engine is a Volkswagen and the entire vehicle consists of parts made by various other companies, but do you see anyone going around saying "I have a Brembo/Volkswagen" just because Volkswagen used some Brembo parts to build the car?

Look, GNU is super important and they have done amazing things for Free software. I heavily support them and the work they have done. However, I don't force people that use my Open Source software in their products to put the name of my organization at the front of their product name or label just because they use it to develop their product and neither do most other manufacturers of other products in the world.

Using Linux as a generic label to represent all the Linux based Distros out there is not unreasonable just as using "Volkswagen" isn't. There is no need to cram GNU down peoples throats and force them to write and/or say "GNU/Linux" anytime they refer generically to Linux. If you feel that way, at least be consistent with everything you own and start refering to it by both the components its built from as well as the product itself.
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I'm 40 and I don't know exactly if I started at 9, 10 or 11.
Actually, the 'average' (mean presumably) intake won't apply to you as an individual in any meaningful way. You'll have to try and monitor your daily diet, focusing on known high-sugar foods and most commonly consumed foods. This data is all over google, thanks for various consumer protection laws. Example:

60kg/365 = 164g per day
sugar in a coke: 39g
sugar in starbucks skinny latte: 13.2g / 17.5g / 22.9g (small->large)
heinz ketchup: 23.7g / 100g
etc.

(Looking at that list, I probably hit 100g or more per day, even though I stopped adding sugar to my tea and coffee.)
Accordion/collapsible elements implement a similar abstraction on the desktop.
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Third ?

I'm 40. My grandfather, when he was young, even if he did almost no programming, was a leader in the introduction of computing in press in US and later in France.
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It would be great of "deadmansswitch.net" would just handle encrypted data without ever having a look at it. However, as it is desinged now, it's not me who encrypts my stuff, but they. There is absolutely no chance I could ever trust such a service.

But assume they would hand encryption over to their users. Then, their service would become pretty pointless, as they would be nothing more than yet another data storage service.

Either way, I don't see any sense in that service, except as a very well-desinged satire on the current everything-as-a-webservice hype.
I've got a macbook air and a thinkpad. I use the air much of the time but quite often I just need to get my FreeBSD fix on in spectrwm. (Yes, you can run spectrwm on OS X but it's a pita and XQuartz makes it much more difficult). Most of what I do on the thinkpad is C hacking.

I tend to approach operating systems with a BSD mindset: use what works for you, and if you have a complaint - put up with some code.
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But they still need to find the information that there are such super simple options. Google "programming tutorial beginner" and the first thing is about C++. Ask in a forum and you will start a long discussion about which language to learn first. There is an incredible amount of information and tools that would allow to start very easy (and without having to pay anything for tools or books), but without somebody experienced it's difficult to sort that out.
I choose other because I use GNU/Linux
Reading those "failure factors" reminded me of much of the current Republican party.
My take on this is that if it's open source and lots of people are using it, malicious individuals will be scouring the source trying to find attack vectors which then, hopefully, would be more likely to become public than attack vectors in private software.
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Interesting that you say "crazy UI fantasy land". It wasn't until Ubuntu 11.10, and now 12.04 that I thought desktop Linux had a shot. Unity in 12.04 is quite awesome and makes me super productive. It gets out of your way and that is how I like it. Sure, I make some modifications (smaller icons, autohide the launcher, change icon set to Faenza), but that is about it.

And, since being back in Linux land, I have never, ever had to maintain a system config file or touch it at all. I do have my own zshrc and .vim stuff, but I would have that on a Mac as well. Overall I find Ubuntu to be more productive than OSX. And since I virtualize my dev instances, I want something lighter and Ubuntu is WAAAAAAY lighter on the same hardware than OSX.
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According to the article, humans developed these abilities for hunting. I'm pretty sure that having an empty stomach and starving children at home is a really good and inspiring reason.

And the difference between these early humans and animals might have been the much stronger social structure we have. As noted by other people in this thread, consider how pregnancies take 9 months, or the years it takes a newborn to reach maturity. So most probably, early humans that took care of their family better, were most apt to survive.
I have a feeling there is an influx of new people on HN who do a lot of posting and voting before figuring out the values of HN. I'm probably guilty of this myself.

I think maybe an 'introduction' or 'rules' tab for newbies might be good. Not sure if this has been suggested before...
"We’re the tortoises of the animal kingdom" such a beautiful and witty analogy, isn't it?
I honestly lost my faith in Sony respecting their customers when they removed a feature I paid for, from my hardware (PS3 Linux compatibility) then leaked all my personal data through poor (non-existent?) security.
To follow up with a bit more substance. Rather than sweat it out remembering something like this the hard way (and it would be hard using normal methods):

91852719521639092112

It's a piece of cake remembering this instead:

A beautiful naked blond jumps up and down.

The imagery is easy to conjure, and before I get hammered for sexism of any kind, imagine a beautiful naked blond of either gender. ;)

The key linking the two is this:

1 : t, d
2 : n
3 : m
4 : r
5 : l
6 : j, sh, soft g
7 : k, hard g, hard c
8 : f
9 : p, b
0 : s, z, soft c

A little bit of time and effort memorizing the key has allowed me to handle tables of numbers and dates of amazing sizes and lengths. Thanks to a book by Harry Lorayne I picked up by chance in my 9th grade. :)
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Started with TurboPascal on the 7th grade back in '95-'96 and some bad-ass turtle graphics! ;)
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