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Linux warrants a distribution choice, I think. Not nearly every distro out there is worth my time. While under the hood, they are all pretty much identical, the way a given distribution sets itself apart is what makes or breaks the operating system. I've been an avid fan of Arch Linux for a few years now and I can't imagine wanting to switch to Debian or any other setup any time soon.
yet there are a lot of concepts they need to digest before they jump into the html/js world. it already means they need to learn two languages (html and js), interaction between them , etc... I'm not even mentioning things like - open notepad, save the file, make sure you get the extension right, fire up the browser, click open (why not in address bar? oh yeah, you can, but tell a kid the file:///<blah> business and see if they remember it after 3-4 days of not doing it) and see what happens. of course it's just a reload away next time.

not as easy as qbasic.exe, then typing in some code in, then hitting 'run' and seeing what happens.

speaking from experience here, i have 8 and 10 yo, and tried this with both of them. my friend tried with his 9 yo. they seem to get the idea of assignments, loops etc, but it just doesn't excite them. can't generalise on a test sample of 3, so just my 2p.
I like to consider the total cost of ownership when purchasing a piece of hardware, which is hard to quantify and sometimes a touchy and subjective topic but I have found Apple Computers/Laptops to substantially outlast anything from Dell or HP. I would lay down 2K for an Apple and never quibble (that much) but I would never do that for any other brand (I have just had lots of very bad and costly experiences with them....Dell in particular)
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You're confusing "product" with "revenue model".

Google's core product is advertising in the same way Microsoft's core product is selling CDs.
> Google's business model is so wrapped up in profiling and tracking that it will be difficult for them respond to Duck Duck Go if it gains any traction

I disagree, Google could implement Duck Duck Go's unique competitive advantage in less than a week of coding if they ever feel it's really needed. Without any serious risks to its business model. Which isn't wrapped around profiling and tracking in any way. That's just a complement to what they do. They still can sell untargeted ads, which is already most of what they do. Have you ever used Ad Sense and Ad Words at all? That can still work fine without tracking a niche % of the population. And even then, there's other means they can get that information.

DDG's target audience are mostly confused users who are not really sure how privacy works and are freaking out over the wrong problems. It is in no way getting "developer good will behind it", most developers understand it's not a problem and most non developers, by and large, won't care. DDG will be stuck with the small niche audience that they can convince to switch out of FUD. Without any other value proposition (hopefully they do find one) they'll never have a significant share. Which is still ok, search is huge and they can still make a lot of money out of their niche.
I think ReactOS is what are you waiting for. It suppose to offer you the freedom of any other free and open source OS while holding the benefits of Windows. But it also awaits contributions. Spread the word.
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If you want something installed on your VPS this is not exactly what you need at all.
Since LiMux 3, its Ubuntu.

https://www.desktopsummit.org/sites/www.desktopsummit.org/fi...

They are now on 10.04.
This is an intermediate question.

What is the actual symptom that euroclydon is concerned about?

Verifiability of stories users relate?

Trollish behavior?

Something else?

Anonymity/Pseudonymity is an important part of open discussions in highly interconnected communities where one may get blowback for saying something unpopular.
If you're giving it away for free, it's not a product.

The product is the advertising. It's the only significant thing they sell.
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Before I start, what follows is my personal opinion, based on my own experience. I'm not saying my way is right. I'm saying it's right for me.

Superior (i.e. free) will not make me use it (Linux, or anything else that's free).

Every January 1st I refresh all of my personal PCs and laptops. Every January 1st I kick off Windows installs on three of them while I give a Linux distribution a go on the fourth - a stock Sony Vaio P-Series.

Never, ever has the install run smoothly. And I have to admit that a single bump in the road is enough for me to delete the partition and put Windows back on. Because I need stuff to work. I'm productive when I program, not while I debug installations.

Software being free means absolutely zero to me.
OT question for you: I'm a developer that does a lot of web development, from Perl to RoR. When I end up starting more than 1 VM with 4 GB RAM, my computer literally dies with Mac OS X. Now this is all with VirtualBox, which I suspect isn't the best all around VM application.

For some reason I feel that it is the crappy memory management with OS X that is killing me.

Other than getting more RAM do you do anything special? What VM software and how much RAM you running.
AppleSoft BASIC/ProDOS: 1983-1990

MS-DOS/Windows: 1990-1997

Windows NT: 1997-2005

OS X: 2005-2012

Honorable mention goes to the Commodore 64, OS/2 Warp, various Linux distros, and VMWare.
> I mentioned my criteria

Not really.

> Return of hardware on the money investted.

That's not a criteria, it's not even fuzzy it's empty.

> To me people using macs are using them because one of the following:

Ah, so you were not actually asking a question and did not have any interest in answers. Noted.
Doesn't really explain anything. IQ correlates with nutrition and education level, both correlates with prosperity. So it's just circular reasoning.
This is different from menstruation, it occurs when the animal is ‘in heat’ during mid-cycle (at the time of ovulation) and the blood comes from the vaginal walls, not the uterus.
There's already an "about" field for that, you can put whatever you want in it, and people do use it for this exact purpose.
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i feel it's pretty easy to find out who people are
I've heard Intel's compiler makes optimisations that best favour the specifics of Intel CPUs. All other compilers are likely to make CPU-neutral optimisations. Do you think the results would be much different if run on an AMD chip?
It's not just the math libraries (although these are indeed much better - especially under Linux), its loop unrolling and vectorization using intrinsics are much better than other compilers in my experience.

However, no compiler I've found can get close to hand-crafted intrinsics in non-trivial cases.
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I started with an i486 hand-me-down from my grandfather, creating VB4 apps to steal my classmates' AOL passwords and do other generally obnoxious things that 12-year olds do.
I've been using C for longer than my current manager has been alive :-)
I just read some of the reviews on Amazon and ended up adding Tainter's book to my reading list. This increasing complexity sounds eerily similar to our current situation.
This is very tricky because while I understand not wanting to read things of low quality, the entire purpose of the voting system is to establish some kind of quality indicator (although it never works that way -- longer story)

As a starting point, I just spent a couple of minutes updating my profile. Might be a good idea for others to do the same.

As ryandvm points out, there is another extreme: voting things up or down based on the author and not the quality of the idea. If you ask me, this probably happens about 50x more than it should on HN. (And I speak as one of those folks who probably benefits from it.)

This is a case where either solution, more anonymity or less anonymity, has problems. I'd personally love to see both real names and posts/comments being anonymous for the first 15 minutes or so. That would allow a bit more meritocracy, but still hold people accountable for ugly and time-wasteful activities.

I agree that we are not in the optimum configuration. It'll be interesting to watch the brainstorming on this thread.

Sidebar: while we're talking HN fixes, another weakness is that because early votes on a story count more than later votes, stories that take longer to read are penalized over quick-reads. I seriously doubt people voting up those 12-page The Atlantic articles in the first 30 minutes or so have actually read them. Not unless they read a lot faster than I do.
At one time, book publishers lobbied to make it illegal to sell used books. That was a time in which governments were still able to reason their way to a balance between intellectual property owners' rights and the public interest.
"Moonwalking" is a good book, and I encourage you to get it, however, it won't train you on much more than how to remember that one thing. The book isn't about "how to train your memory", rather, it is about how one guy trained his. A subtle, but important distinction.

For something more instructional, I was recommended Higbee's, "Your Memory, How it Works and How to Improve It[1]".

I also noticed somebody else in this topic post a link to Memrise.com[2], which is a startup actually created by one the guy who actually taught the one bit of instruction in Moonwalking.

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Your-Memory-How-Works-Improve/dp/15692...

[2] - http://www.memrise.com/
I think the most important thing is that you should be able to cope with what ever operating system you might be in.

Understand where to get tools to do development with LAMP on windows, or how to cross-compile windows applications on Linux, et cetera.
On a parallel anecdote. Installing Ubuntu on my parents PC sure did reduce the amount of assistance they needed from me with crashes and malware. I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to spend some time helping non-tech friends with computer problems :)
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Windows, but I'm trying to make the switch to using Linux.

Primarily a .NET developer, the lure of Node and Ruby have been calling to me lately
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There are various ports of the GNU tool system and Microsoft has been making recent compilers available for download (and use, the free editions include redistribution rights).

Lots of other programming systems also enjoy at least decent Windows support.
If they left the profile empty, it was their choice. You can interpret that as if they simply don't want to be contacted. Doing what you suggested won't make HN any "better", it will only drive away the commenters that don't want to be reached out, or those who want to remain anonymous.

For other commenters here thinking that less anonymity will improve comment quality, a comment should stand on its own, and comment quality is completely unrelated to the anonymosity from the commenter, as well as his age, sex, job or domain-specific knowledge. I repeat, a comment should stand on its own, any kind of filtering based on someone's profile is flawed.
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Yeah, I do, for instance, but giving just a bit more encouragement to do so would be nice.
In a 2-body system this is true, but adding many more bodies to the system makes things very chaotic. An object passing by or colliding with the "proto-moon" could easily deflect it from its crash course. Whether that's probable given the evidence is a different question, but mathematically it absolutely is possible.

And that's even assuming that the "mass" is more or less solid - if it were ejected from a violent impact it's more likely that it would be more of a cloud of debris, in which case things get even more complex. So many "bodies" are involved that it becomes more of a fluid dynamics problem than an orbital mechanics one. The individual particles in the cloud interact with each other gravitationally, deflecting each other from their "return-to-sender" orbit. Parts of the cloud would fall to earth, parts would escape to space, and parts would stay in orbit to become a ring system or (as is hypothesized) one or more moons.

The theorized situation isn't so much like skipping a stone across the earth as totally vaporizing a big chunk of both the earth and the planet that hit it, and a fairly small part of the resulting cloud (about half according to some models) of debris managing to end up in orbit and eventually collapsing into a single body (the moon).
I fail to see what Duck Duck Go has to do with Android or Google's strategy in other parts of its business.

Also. Non tech people are less concerned with privacy than you might think. As long as websites like Facebook thrive, people evidently do not care about their personal data. I myself are very privacy conscious. Probably comes with using computers and internet day in and day out. So far Google hasn't let me down regarding privacy. Sure, they're data mining the hell out of the things I do with their products but so far they didn't use it for any shady business - quite unlike others.

BTW. I really don't get the fondness for Duck Duck Go around here. It uses Bing for search and adds a layer privacy. So what. There is a reason why people prefer Google over Bing. It's because Bing mostly sucks. Privacy features don't make Bing suck less.
That's an excellent term, and I am going to start using it.
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Here follows nostalgic reminiscence and some ranting.

I used to run OpenSUSE exclusively. That was fine when the world was young and my job didn't demand too much of my time. I didn't need any graphics support, WiFi or even ACPI.

10 years later, I don't have the patience and the time to sculpt a unique snowflake that will work with all the hardware in my laptop, and have it work in any reasonable network I might have to plug in to. Windows 7 works well enough. This is also a pity, since I've come to strongly dislike the post-Vista Windows UI - the new start menu, the new task bar, the new Windows Explorer windows. Everything was Just Fine with the Windows 2000 UI.

At work it's all Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a tiny bit of AIX (ewww). And I run NetBSD on Prgmr just for the heck of it.

I hate where we've gotten to. Opera is the only browser that still has a g*ddamned proper status bar.
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The quote from Vuc Gundotra in that article explains why they aren't worried. Android isn't about direct revenue for Google. Its purpose is to damage competitors who make money out of hardware or software by commoditizing the mobile platform.
60 minutes doesn't seem quite long enough. I'd look at perhaps 0.5 * mean ttl on the front page.
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Where do you propose to get the info from?

"...when I go to the users profile, it's blank."
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I think the answer is simple: Revenue isn't the most important thing right now. There are many things that make a successful company and revenue is only one of them. Google makes enough money to pay their employees well, to make investments and in generell more then enough to run its business, so making more money isn't a priority. Apple has loads of cash and don't even know what to do with it.

So instead they are pushing other goals, like increasing market share, binding the users more to their services and essentially cement their position in the mobile/web space.
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Fascinating story.
One of this book's main characters, Micah True aka Caballo Blanco, died last week on a remote Western wilderness run. Don't know if he had his boots on. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hZ-OB7jl7Y...
> There is no requirement for any number of coins to be in the system.

The math works out such that there are a precise number of bitcoins in the system, ~21M IIRC.

> The amounts are infinitely divisible.

8 decimal places.

Is that alot? Yes, but my point was that the current system is leaky. The rate of leakage may not be too bad now, but as the adoption rate goes up more careless nontechnical folks will get involved. Those people will fail to backup their wallets; that BTC will evaporate is an inevitable consequence of success.
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Arch Linux with Awesome Window Manager is my preferred setup. I appreciate that each screen has its own virtual desktops.
I use Reaper on Win7 as well. It is available on OSX though.

Mac is a better platform for audio but the difference is getting smaller.

It's true that they are a lot more freeware (vst) plugins on Windows. Great one like http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com for example.
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Holy cow, after reading some of the comments, i just realized that I too am a second generation programmer! My dad wrote some software to compute artillery trajectories while he was a cadet in the Navy. He later went on to establish some of the early IT schools for training navy personel.
My Palm IIIe has 2 mb RAM and 16 mhz CPU. But it was much less laggy than most modern android devices with dual core CPUs and gigabytes of RAM while doing same tasks.

I even used internet (through irda gprs phone) on it.

Unfortunately now its touchscreen is broken and I haven't managed to find another compatible touch panel on ebay or dx.
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That sounds like an interesting idea.

If implemented, it would also be possible to use patterns of voting to estimate (to some degree) how likely a user is to up/down-vote based on the author alone. Maybe dye a user's name purple for "groupie"?

Of course, stylometric analysis would still give away many of the users here well before the sixty minutes is up. A real solution (to burn through all usability in the name of meritocracy) would be text rewriting ala "A Scanner Darkly".
Why do people continually assume that kids don't have the intellectual capacity to solve problems? The hurdles are only as high as YOU think they are.

Kid wants to make a game, kid programs a game. What's so hard about that? The kid doesn't care about the "barrier to entry" any more than issues like platform, methodology, budget, competition, etc. None of those business decisions are part of their need to make the game.

I'd say the opposite - Kids can cut the crap and stay focused better than most PM's.
"Ubuntu took a nosedive into crazy UI fantasy land"
Is that really your reason why you ditched linux????
It is so easy to install a different UI. Nothing is so clean and consistent as window maker or any other of the extremely lightweight UIs linux allows to use.

Compared to that: whenever I start up Winodws (XP) in vmware to get my tax stuff done, I am horrified by all the messages that pop up (repeatedly), antivirus practically paralysing my computer for minutes (and longer), genuine advantage stuff etc. For my taste, windows still needs so much work invested in configuring these annoying things until the stuff is usable.

Is that 1500% improved with win 7?
Primarily I use Linux (ubuntu flavour), not for any specific reason other than it is what I am most comfortable using.

I sometimes I do despair at the fanatical and near religious arguments going on over a god-damned operating system as if it truly matters.

Pick your system, use it, enjoy it, get to know it. Just don't be a muppet about it.
Resolution, colors.
For counter arguments there's some fascinating stuff at http://limuxwatch.blogspot.co.uk/ although it hasn't been updated for a while, so maybe they've finally succeeded?
How about a function for sending a direct message to a user through the website? It could be enabled by default, but users could disable it if they don't want to be contacted.

That way, users by default can be contacted, without giving away any personal information.
You may want to wait a bit if you are happy with gnome 2, since there are still stability and perf issues (at least in 3.1) the really bog difference is that window switching has mostly become a modal thing, which honestly isn't as bad as you would think once you get used to it
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let's move on to something else
It seems short sighted to say that some arbitrary and subjective personal belief system about technology makes one system inherently "better" / "superior" to another.

It's true that the FSF and those who support them are more concerned with the long-term future of computing availability than about whether they can GSD in the next few days or weeks. I'm assuming that that's what you mean by "short sighted"? Well, that's a bit snarky.

I chose OS X above (though I'm moving more and more in the direction of Linux on the desktop again). I guess it just struck me as odd to use "short sighted" to describe the people who, for idealistic reasons, are willing to take a short-term hit to productivity to ensure long-term capability.
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What works for me is being very annoyed about something because I forgot it in a test. It's the best way to remember things so far - just do them wrong once when it counts.
Another good one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game)
Played it endless times and I can say it did not only improve my understanding of vectors.
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