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Wow. I'm getting quite of a down votes. I'm not opposed to Open Source software, actually I'm contributing to one of them. What I meant is that when the price tag is so small comparing to your earnings (since you are going to use the software for work), why would you make it a decision factor when picking an OS?
"Developing for ie in the old days was usually at the expense of other browsers because of stuff like active x"

Errr... no. Active X was a tiny part of the problem. IE's problem was to support basically any quality of markup thrown at it, when other browsers couldn't. Then developers rely on this, which pushes their sites into IE-only zones. As time passes it gets progressively more difficult to extract a site out of this tar-pit.

It amuses me that the arguments for not supporting IE echo the same arguments IE-only advocates were using as a reason not to support other browsers a decade ago.
"Nobody advocates running barefoot on asphalt."

Here's a Harvard professor who advocates running barefoot on asphalt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
My first attempt at programming was in 8th grade (mid 20's now) using VB. I remember writing a program that converted text to pig latin and I was so proud of it. Despite majoring in engineering, I only had to take some intro programming courses and used a bit of Matlab. Well, fast forward to about 8 months ago I came up with an idea for a web-app and decided that now was the perfect time to become good at programming. For about 2 months straight I spent at least 3 hours every day following tutorials and tried to create little algorithms in PHP (sort an array, find largest number in an array, count the instances of a character in a string, etc...). After ~200 hours I felt comfortable enough to start writing the web-app. I'm amazed how far I've come in the past ~8 months.

Not to hijack this post, but does anyone else remember their first "cool" program?
This is actually pretty cool technology. Check out this video: http://vimeo.com/39027193
I am glad someone is finally turning this into a product. I am wondering if it's also easy to do this on a smaller scale. Say I could scan just a chair, a car or a teapot.
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> If theories could be "proven" in the mathematical sense then they wouldn't be falsifiable

Ack! This is not what "falsifiable" means.

Falsifiability is the property that states, there exists some hypothetical evidence which would be accepted as conclusive disproof of the theory. For instance, newton's third law ("equal and opposite") can be falsified by the discovery of a method of applying force which avoids any opposite application.

Extrapolating some, we can see that for all falsifiable theories, there is an extensive class of evidence which doesn't quite prove the theory wrong, but does weigh against the theory. Non-falsifiable theories don't have this property - for any method of assigning a probability of correctness to a non-falsifiable theory, there is a positive number below which that probability cannot go.

The reason the giant-collision theory should not be said to be "proven" incorrect is that it has not been. Its probability of correctness is still non-zero (and significant). However, it's not true that scientific theories cannot be "proven" incorrect - classical mechanics has been, for instance.
I liked the example with the president's speech. It won't be long before politicians will adjust their speeches during the speech according to the reactions from viewers.
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You are not far off. South Korea are stuck in this monoculture tar pit: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monocultu...

Webkit is just another form of monoculture.
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I've been programming for about 7 years or so in a high school class. I was 15.
My first language was Turing (Pascal-like language). I remember struggling with recursion, but thankfully I had an awesome computer science teacher who taught me really well.
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They will certainly wear out faster without shoes, no matter what you're running on.

Evolution is somewhat limited in what it can do. It must build upon things that are already there, over very long periods of time through subtle genetic mutations. Just because evolution didn't grace us with air cushioned soles and decent bridge and ankle support doesn't mean it's no good for us. Evolution had a lot less to play with and did the best it could. Humans made it better.

I do find it odd that some people like to look back at the way humans did stuff in the past and somehow arrive at the conclusion that it's better for us. They invariably neglect to take into account the pitifully short lifespans our ancestors had. We also lived in caves, but I don't see many people eager to do that these days.

And then there's stuff like the Palaeolithic diet which is absolute nonsense that ranks up there with Hal-Al and Kosher butchering.

That became a rant... I had no idea it bothered me so much.
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I'm not entirely sure that BCC's new redesign is rendering correctly. From the computer image it looks like your blue top area should be further down. Then in Firefox the effect is even more extreme.

Chrome (latest, Win7): http://tinypic.com/r/2vdpfd1/5
Firefox (latest, Win7): http://tinypic.com/r/1zbs09/5

I like the design, but I feel as though BCC lost some of its "uniqueness." The design looks like a lot of other designs these days. Then again, your customers probably don't know or care, and it's just us who read about BCC.
Web access is pretty scary in that regard. Infinite novelty on tap can be a demotivator to create anything.
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Nearly 17 years and still going on...
Remember starting with a neat little FORTRAN Hack all the way back in college. The instructor nearly fell off his chair when saw the source code - one of my favorite moments.
> Personally, I'm still convinced that a calorie is a calorie.

turns out that idea violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/
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I clicked 10+ years because that's how long I've been programming continuously on a professional basis. However, I first programmed back in 1985 on a Compaq Deskpro Portable computer (640 KB of RAM! 40 MB hard disk! Only 30 lbs!). I started out with a custom AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and then moved into programming in GW-BASIC after a friend of my parents gave me a manual and encouraged me to poke around.

Later, I migrated to BASCOM and then QBbasic. Then I pretty much stopped programming completely after high school until I started again, more or less by accident, around 1999 when my boss asked if anyone knew how to make a web page. I thought, "How hard can it be?" and that became my gateway back into programming.

I started programming web applications in Classic ASP. I was somewhat astonished to see that the programming language was VBScript, which looked an awful lot like QBbasic with a few objects bolted on. Once Classic ASP was deprecated for .Net, I jumped over to Python as part of a more general move away from the Microsoft platform onto Linux.
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I wonder how his analysis stacks up next to Dymitri Orlov's 'Reinventing Collapse' - http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk
Find a style that suits you and a teacher you trust and work with them. Even though meditation is all on you, it helps to have a good teacher to advise you when things get difficult.
I don't think being free necessarily makes an OS better piece of software.
I've been having a lot of trouble with gh-pages lately, builds taking 6 hours or more, and I eventually had to switch to just using a cheap VPS for some projects as a result.

gh-pages is a great feature but it was never meant to have the load it has today. I'm sure they'll eventually get it scaled, but right now I wouldn't recommend using gh-pages for anything time-sensitive (like if you want to announce a project on HN before the weekend).
Pretty much the same. Started with QBasic though; then
'graduated' to VB (5.0?). My first 'cool' program I remember was in QB, it was kind of like a shell for DOS, that had the looks of Windows 95 with a start menu and all - rendered completely in text. We called it Access or something. Did it with 2 of my friends; as luck would have it - one guy is now the CTO of my present company and the other one is the CEO (who has no clue about programming anymore!).
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We would expect different proportions of the isotopes on the Earth and the Moon. This is because the Moon according to the models would have a greater proportion of its mass made up of the theorised collider "Theia" than Earth.

In this particular experiment they showed the isotopic proportions matched between here and the Moon.
One thing I've never understood about this model: according to orbital mechanics, you can't "boost" yourself into an orbit that doesn't include the point you're already in. So if the mass that became the moon started at the surface of the earth, its orbit would just smash it back into the earth again. You can see what I mean here: http://isthis4real.com/orbit.xml
Count me as interested. And be warned, i have less than an hour of experience with julia though. please post the repo link once you flesh out the basics.
Since Kindergarten. Seriously.
Windows, but all my programming work is on Linux servers and Linux VMs.
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Speechhub is much more simple then Jekyll. Actually, I last just few hours of two half-days on this project.

For sure Speechhub has lots of restrictions (no sintax highligh for codes, no comments but Disqus, no documentation ...), bu I intend to work on it ass soon as possible.
My dog also used to bleed, I figured most people don't complain because they spay their dogs
For a real old school MMO you should all try Jet Set Willy Online, it involves a small client download rather than being browser based but it faithfully captures the original feel of the game. http://jsw.ovine.net/
The theory was merely proven to be theoretically falsifiable, and not incorrect. They clearly state in the article that they couldn't find any proof of two parents, which for the moment points to the moon having only one parent. This contradicts the previous theory, but doesn't make it false.
I use Reaper by Cockos. I make rock music. I have previously used Cubase and Sonar.

Regarding ASIO vs. CoreAudio performance: http://www.dawbench.com/win7-v-osx-1.htm

There are a few freeware plug-ins I use that are Windows only. If I could afford to buy Altiverb 7 right now, which is OS X only, I'd probably switch to OS X (at least till Altiverb came out for Windows).
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It makes me happy to know that someone here likes Unity, because I think it is horrible. But then again, my preferred GUI for Linux is Ratpoison and some Xterms.
Requests has support for async request by using gevent: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#asy...

gevent has an wsgi module, but it is very low level. I am still looking for a clean/nice way of doing it in python.
Eat natural fats - butter, coconut oil, animal fat (lard) and natural food with high fat content - bacon, eggs... You won't have energy ups-downs and you will feel strong and satisfied (drop sugar and flour).
It would have a negligible impact on the makeup of the Earth as a whole, but should have a large impact on the composition of Earth's crust (and the mantle, to a lesser extent.) It seems to me that the Theia theory should also predict that Earth's crust and Moon's crust (which are the only parts we can get samples of!) have quite similar composition.
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Along the lines of 'never ever go off your medication'...pay attention to what you eat and how it affects you. It took me a long time to connect that some foods (like sugar) can trigger depressive states and even longer to undo the habits.
Also there is a lot of downtimes.

If you want a free, git supported web hosting, I highly recommend using Heroku free plan instead.
I turn 40 in 2012 and I started on my Commodore 64 with BASIC and 6502 assembly in 1982.

Been in IT professionally since I was 17 in 1990.
So what are some alternative theories that now look more likely in light of this evidence?
I never had a palm. I had an iPaq running windows mobile... worst device ever!!! The windows mobile experience was so flawed that I decided it was better to return to my Newton 2000. The newton never failed me, I used it regularly until about 2 years ago when I left it on the sofa and someone sat on it breaking the screen... still, it worked for enough time for me to dump its ROM...
I'm not sure about how it is different from Jekyll, but I was just looking for something extremly simple. Perhaps the answer about why I wrote a new engine instead of using Jekyll is because I'm not a Ruby user, and I didn´t want to install gem on my computer.
Really? Common most stuff you copy from somewhere (you can find tons on github for example). For the rest the only have to know that the list syntax is like the python one [1, 2, 3]. I don't no haskell either.
You can lose fat if you eat nothing but Doritos and a Coke 3 times a day.

Weight loss is far more straightforward to achieve than health and fitness.
Or maybe we feel like its reasonable because there is less chance that something we did in the past might be made illegal (and therefore prosecutable) in the future.

Here is where I tend to disagree with strict constructionists: the framers were particularly aware that future situations might call for adjustments to the Constitution. It was far more important to generally provide a set of principles that could be adopted by a society and then adjusted as their reality evolved.

There is no way that the Framers could have foreseen wall-penetrating radar systems or GPS-enabled cellphones. Our justice system had a hard enough time coming to grips with the telephone and what that meant for Fourth Amendment protections. Since the Right to Privacy isn't enumerated but rather implied by the other Rights, we are probably going to see more cases similar in context U.S. v. Jones where the technical capability to track someone exists that doesn't involve an actual trespass by law-enforcement.
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That's really cool! UNIX was an answer eight times, but Linux didn't come up at all.
I clicked 10+ years because I roughly started with 13-14 years (1995-6, yes technology arrives slowly to Africa) programming text adventures using BASIC on a Spectrum ZX2...
Neal specializes in this sort of thing. This blog post wasn't written to convince you that PCA (or ELA) work. If you've read his other posts on forensics, you'd see that he always starts with the common tests, then works through the most likely explanations, trying to see what you can rule out and where you should focus. A lot of the time, you can rule things out with common sense (the out-of-order numbers jumped out at me), though he always goes on to ferret out what manipulation was performed, because that's what the whole blog is about.

Anyhow, people have done lots of tests with lots of different tools to see what they report in different circumstances. So this isn't the first time that someone has used ELA or something. You will notice if you read past explanations that he always tries to find the exact manipulations done, rather than just running a tool and declaring something to have been Photoshopped.

I'm no expert, but I've read his blog for long enough to know that he knows an awful lot about the various quirks of many different image editing programs (Photoshop being by far the quirkiest). But if you still have questions, you can always email him. He was kind enough to reply with a lot of useful information when I asked him something a long time ago. Actually, I think he even blogged about it.
I guess you're not familiar with the Kiwi bird, then. I think they qualify as the longest birthing process, with their eggs weighing about 1/4 the weight of the entire bird, and where laying an egg incapacitates the female for months. Of course, as with many birds, kiwis have a strong social structure, mating for life, and with the male participating the birthing process through incubating.

It's almost as if some animals have strong and complex social structures, too. Humans are indeed like other animals.

Can you sense a pattern here?
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Windows (7, mostly). I also run Ubuntu on servers and in a Virtualbox for development.

I've been meaning to move over to a MacBook for a long time now, since I love the iPhone, love the look-and-feel of the MacBook Air, and because so many programmers are moving to them.

The problem is, I've been so reliant on Windows for so long, and have so many modifications and workflows that I set up, that I honestly think it would take me months of work to get to the same comfort level in OSX, assuming that I even could get all the features working there. Is it really worth it?
Vaguely compatible doesn't help if the site is deliberately locking out browsers that look like the current crop of Internet Explorer browsers.

Doesn't look like that they are User-Agent sniffing, so that means that maybe they are detecting features. That's kinda the right way of doing it - except for their failure to adhere to progressive enhancement best practices.

But feature detection isn't "No Internet Explorer support here" approach. So the story seems at odds with the actual behaviour of their site.

Now what happens when an Internet Explorer - either on the desktop or tablet, or phone, passes the feature detection in place on this site? You don't get the "Go Away!" message, but instead you get an insufficiently tested experience which exposes the lack of attention on quality - that's something that's going to turn away an audience geared to wanting to see quality.

If you are going to publicly stop supporting an entire browser range, make sure your developers don't leave obvious gaps in that non-support. Maybe here's one place where User-Agent sniffing actually complements the actual requirement.
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It's all endurance hunting; it's a question of how quickly the prey is exhausted, not how long the chase goes on. See the difference between spotted hyenas (endurance) and lions (ambush).
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/animals/mamm..., as well as plenty of other references.
I clicked Linux despite using Windows for more time because I only use Windows for non-relevant stuff (gaming mostly, also studying chess since good software only exists in this platform, sadly...). For research/programming/reverse engineering/security/important work I use Linux, specially Debian GNU/Linux or based distro (except Ubuntu), but I guess any open-source OS will do fine as well (FreeBSD and OpenSolaris did very well last time I tried them).
Have you tried PowerShell? It provides many more features, and has been a default install since Windows 7. Microsoft has been pushing it by making it possible to use PowerShell to configure a lot of the server products - and sometimes requiring the use of PowerShell for some configuration tasks.
+1 I believe knowing what interests a user has, or what experience, may help a lot to filter people who speak without knowing the facts (when talking about programming or startups, for example) or whose interests conflict with the subject, so the comment may be strongly biased.

Of course, throwaway accounts are still needed (for example, guy looking for job and his employer reads HN). But still, it would be a good way to filter "conflicted" answers. Even more, being able to flag them ("warning, this may be too subjective and not useful") would be great.
Maybe I'm the only one... But as a professional developer working on everything from device drivers, embedded systems, up to your average LAMP stack and other web frameworks the "Freedom" of the operating system is worth exactly bupkis to me, ziltch, zero, nada.

There are a whole host of reasons to use one OS over the other but this "Free as in Speech" is simply not a very good one. I'm far, FAR, more concerned about "Getting Shit Done" than I am about the free-ness of my OS. For some tasks the right tool for GSD is windows, for others it's osX, and for still others it's some Linux / *BSD (I'm a NetBSD fan myself).

It seems short sighted to say that some arbitrary and subjective personal belief system about technology makes one system inherently "better" / "superior" to another. I guess it's a matter of what sort of things you grade on, For my personal OS grading metric there is only one item, "Helps me Get Shit Done". Nothing else matters, I just want to be productive.
Unfortunately, the terminal on OSX is incredibly buggy. Keeps incorrextly coloring commands, randomly failing... Perhaps it's because of the outdated bash they use?
"terminal as a first class citizen"

Because it operates at the object level rather than the files and strings of nix shells, Windows Powershell is more or less "one ring to rule them all."
I really want to use linux as my primary OS. but I keep falling back to Windows XP/7 of late for pure usefully.

Linux desktop is boned, and not getting any better. KDE should be killed with fire and gnome is the moes tavern of WMs.
In what sense can a scientific theory be "proven" correct of incorrect in the same way that a purely mathematical statement can? Aren't they two completely different things - with the mathematical argument being binary (it's either true or false) and the scientific argument, as you say, involving degrees of confidence based upon supporting or contradictory evidence?

[Of course, a scientific theory could be disproven by being based on incorrect mathematical reasoning - but that's presumably not very interesting]
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"I feel like game producers are making the same argument for the second-hand game market as the MPAA makes for pirating movies:"

Actually, they're making the exact same argument. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which is the video gaming industry's equivalent of the MPAA, also sponsored PIPA and SOPA.

The gaming industry's involvement in that legislation managed to fly under the radar, for most part, while everyone was focused on "Hollywood." In reality, Big Gaming and Big Entertainment are strikingly similar industries, with strikingly similar politics.