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> They will get bored and invent alternate techniques and want to use 'new' tools to pretty much achieve the same thing.

Yup, and plenty of re-invented alternatives will be no better or worse than the tried and true. But occasionally the new tech will be significantly better; that's how tech evolves.

The main advantage I expect to get from experimenting with node.js and NoSQL is to be able to take the client-side code that's on the web page (eg instant form validation with javascript, and saving offline to html5 localStorage because the customer wants it to work where they don't have wifi), and re-use it on the server (would rather not have a second codebase in php or ruby-rails to do all the CRUD). With coffeescript I write less boilerplate. And I have to use the latest jQuery-esque plug-ins because the customer also wants touch-screen drag-n-drop functionality.

To be sure, there is plenty more interesting things I would rather be learning. But customers don't really care that I might find something else more interesting than their project.
Health insurance isn't like auto insurance and the plan pricing is only driven by age. So, for a few more months, insurance companies can decline coverage to certain people, but as of next year, there's nothing those crooks can do!
did you go to berkeley, by any chance?
I read both links but only 4 abstracts of the referenced articles (which on their face seemed legit but I did not have access to the full articles. His analysis of the last 37 years of American diets seemed accurate based on http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FoodConsumption/ compared to what Dr. Lustig cites for 6 years for children.)

If you disagree with one of his conclusions, please post your thoughts - but be specific. I'm open minded... if "He makes scientific statements that can generally be inferred from the cited sources, but which the sources don't actually prove"...I'm happy to agree with you but that seems like that would be simple to show but you don't link to anything or provide any arguments or even a sentence or two to back it up.(?)

I don't have a horse in this race, but I'm not going to discount someone just because they aren't a professor at UC-SF.
I'm being picky here, but the word "proven" doesn't really make sense in the context. A more accurate way of expressing the title would be "Evidence supports a different theory" or "Less support for this theory", as theories can never be proven.
I think you're being downvoted because your opinions are grossly misinformed. 40-50+% of the US population could be classified as introverts (1). This couldn't in any way be called "a small percentage".

Introversion is a personality trait, with advantages and disadvantages. To say that introverts "should think about getting some kind of therapy" simply for being introverts is simply irrational prejudice.

(1) http://www.capt.org/mbti-assessment/estimated-frequencies.ht...
I primarily use a web browser. To me an "operating system" is just that thing I need to use to access the internet and run my web browser.
I wasted about two hours of my day on this. It was fun, but I actually found it a bit too easy. Maybe I was just picking easy maps (Colorado is all pretty much just straight roards). Still, it was a good diversion.
Never used Ableton, but I've been dabbling in Reaper[0]. I can't make a full switch yet, but am hoping to be able to at some point in time. From the little I've seen it isn't missing anything major.

Final Cut Pro is another story, but I really don't use it very often anymore, and I'm well-versed enough in Adobe Premier that I could probably drop it.

I'm not holding my breath either, but I do dream of a world where most software is OS-independent. I guess we're closer now than we have been for a while.

EDIT: I just remembered that Reaper is Win/Mac. I hear it runs under Wine, but I'd be worried about latency there. Alas, we are captive to our tools.

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These sound like post-hoc justifications for introversion.

Introverts are introverts. Not all smart people are introverts, but the ones who are not social are introverts, and it's just their personality.
It could be Skritter.

Memrise is really an implementation of the Heisig et al approach to memorizing Chinese characters - imagine their components to be images/shapes of things which they mean, and use those mnemonic images to recall the characters' meanings. Which is, unsurprisingly, the original basis of most Chinese characters anyway, although they've undergone a lot of evolution in the intervening millennia.

Unfortunately I'm past the stage that I need to use mnemonics to remember characters, but it's certainly a useful tool for those starting out or at intermediate levels.
MacOS on the primary notebook and desktop, a little x86 box on Mint Linux with LXDE for a lightweight and complete Linux, Windows 7 on Parallels, on those occasions when I feel life's too smooth.
I tried out pcbsd, which I think is based off FreeBSD. The only issue I had was everything being built from source. Considering that userspace is pretty much the same for BSD and Linux, I am guessing there wont be many issues. Coming from an Arch Linux back certainly helps I think.

The drawbacks have to be the lack of certain binary driver blobs available in Linux. Some may call it a feature though.
There is an annual 22 mile race held in Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales called Man vs Horse. I was surprised when I first heard about it that there was even any chance a human could win but apparently they have 2 times in recent years. The horses I understand have a check up half way round (11 miles) to make sure they are still safe to race.
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The article fails to mention the audience this is good news for: PC gamers. If next generation consoles are x86 based, expect to see future games being more widely available on PC, and, better yet, expect the "best" versions of those games (in terms of graphics, features, etc.) to be the PC versions. The only catch is if the game developers hold back on PC releases due to fears of piracy, but on the whole this probably will still mean many more releases on PC.

That said, most flagship titles (Halo, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, etc.) will probably stick to a single console due to contractual obligations.
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It has not really changed in the last 40 years or so though. I would be surprised about a radical change in 5. I don't see replace the OS companies at YC yet either.
What an ad-hoc argument with a weak basis. Some people are just introverts, and many smart intelligent people are naturally deep thinkers who prefer solitude over noisy chatter at a pub. This can shed more light: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts....
What? The instruction set matters very little. Pretty much all games are written in C++ and last time I checked there are C++ compilers targeting pretty much any architecture in existence. The graphics API is more important than the instruction set.
Classic 1st April :)
There's a few glitches -- I don't have the latest Intel graphics drivers, and as a result the video doesn't work when I resume from S3, for example -- but aside from those, it's really quite straightforward. For a long time there were problems with flash, but with linux emulation enabled it "just works" under Chromium; it's been years since I had OpenOffice fail to open a Microsoft Office document. Java is a bit of a nuisance to build, but for licensing reasons, not technical reasons.

Obviously you need to be comfortable at a command line -- the most common "maintenance" you'll be doing is updating ports, and every couple of months you'll find that /usr/ports/UPDATING says "the foo port has [done something weird] and you need to run the following commands before/after updating" (often it's a matter of deleting a port because its contents got merged into something else) -- but if you've got Arch Linux experience I can't imagine that you'll find much difficulty using FreeBSD.
This site has a GIMP script for doing Error Level Analysis: http://sites.google.com/site/elsamuko/forensics/ela (After saving it to your ~/.gimp-2.6/scripts folder, the tool hides in the Image menu.)

I just tried it on a couple of my own images, the results are very interesting.
My biggest problem is this equates Agile to Scrum, pair programming, and open floor plans.

Agile is also dev practices: refactoring, TDD, unit testing, continuous build, etc. Agile = faster development and accelerated deliverability. Sure, cooperation and breaking down silos is part of it but introverts can unit test. (Learn more: http://j.mp/Hex2Uy)
Apart from the 1st April angle, lets take your point seriously:

Actually, toolchain for the PS3 with its Cell processors and unconventional memory / processing model was a major, major pain.

Elsewhere, EPIC Itanium failed for the lack of sufficiently smart compilers.
Looking at the direction Windows 8 is making or what HP tried with WebOS. Where the browser starts and the OS begins is starting to become very fuzzy.

Some people use to cling to assembly instead of using C. Now days it's rare to find someone who will use Assembly over C.
Use OSX, Debian Linux and Windows 7. OSX for work, debian for my testing server/some programming and windows 7 for everyday use but that is slowly changing as I use my mb pro more and more.

In the past I have had several windows laptops and none of them hold a torch to the mb pro. size, weight, hardware & battery life are all far supperior than anything I have ever experience on a windows based laptop. The price in my eyes is justified.
First Xbox was Pentium III PC with GeForce 3 Ti, all on single board in nice (that's debatable, but I liked it.) case, yet I don't think there were more ports than there are today.
Colin is the security officer for FreeBSD. I doubt he encountered many problems setting it up;)
The article clearly mentions that the xbox is still going to use PowerPC, and the playstation may mod the x86 processor.

And even if ps3 does leaves the processor as is, the OS they are going to use is not going to be windows. Perhaps a variant of Linux of some kind. This may mean more games on Linux (however highly unlikely), but definitely no new games for Windows PC.
> So should we all just "support the working features" of the lowest common denominator

As the parent and a a person with 16 years (yes that many years!) of experience managing and putting together well known corporate web sites and web apps, I'd say that yes you should.

The web is about being open to everyone regardless of the technical limitations.
The rumor that they are attempting to block the used game market through a sort of DRM scheme is disappointing. While I've only ever bought 1 or 2 used games in the past, the act itself is a huge "F* YOU" to consumers and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

No one likes to feel controller or compelled to act in a certain way, which is why pretty much all DRM schemes have been broken and why the MP3 became so incredibly popular.

I feel like game producers are making the same argument for the second-hand game market as the MPAA makes for pirating movies: Every used game sale is a lost new game sale and blocking used games is better than innovating or changing the pricing/sales structure.
Hi William! (guess who didn't look too closely at your username before :-)

Well, depending on the agency, there is a closed loop with the user - it's just a pre-product closed loop built around interviews and prototypes. But I generally agree that the agency model sucks quite badly for product development in startups (and a whole bunch of other things too come to that.)
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What's interesting is that 40% of the users were on Safari (Mac) and 65% users were on a Mac. This automatically precludes IE on this very large percentage of total users.
I am really surprised that people voted android/ios as your primary device. What type of work do you do?
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When I posted this there was only 3 options: OS X, Windows, Linux/Unix
I virtualize Linux under Windows too. My primary reason is gaming. I can use Linux without any hardware acceleration. My dev environment is entirely virtual and there are advantages to being able to throw it on a thumb drive and carry it around. Or I can be staying with a friend for a week and setup my ideal working environment on their computer in a few commands. Another advantage is it's much smaller than a Windows VM so I can store more Linux VM's/snapshots on my puny SSD.
I think you missed the point. The point is that if the processor is x86 based and the GPU is basically an off-the-shelf AMD GPU, porting the code from PS4 to PC will be a much easier process than it is today and make help game makers provide better feature parity between the console and PC version.
I've been running various flavours of GNU/Linux on my laptop for a couple of years now, with Arch being the most recent one. I find it perfectly adequate for an IDE-less, Vim-centric coding which takes a significant majority of my time spent in front of a keyboard.

I wonder what are experiences of members of the HN community who run Linux on their MacBooks, especially in case of a development-oriented environment. Could you share your opinions about such a setup? Is it worth the price of the machine?
April Fool's, perhaps?
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Assembly to C is not the same thing as Unix to Chrome.

Your argument would work if, say, people start writing operating systems in Python.

Another important thing to realize: there's a big difference between the OS and the GUI. The GUI might very well be implemented on top of "web" technologies, but that's not enough to say that the OS is the browser.
"The day is coming when Chrome, Firefox, Safari will be the poll options."

I am astonished. I wouldn't trust anything from Google any more. They aim at control over our private data. Absolutely unacceptable for everyone, but especially for developers, if you ask me.
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Yes, these sound like justifications for introversion because the society today thinks that everyone needs to be social.

I agree with you about the personality.
I would just like to add that there is a valid reason why Linux or the *BSDs are superior to Windows or OS X - they are Free. As in Speech. And I'm sad this doesn't even warrant a mention.
The power of introverts is a great talk. Thanks for sharing. I agree about the preference to the solitude part (one of the items in the blog post)
Depending on how you use it, OS X can feel a lot like Linux. If you're spending most of your time in Terminal and Emacs, usually ssh'ed into a server, then your technical answer will diverge pretty far from your "real" or metaphysical answer.
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I can't hope to answer this question. My home desktop is a Windows 7 box, my laptop is a Macbook Air running Lion, I own both a Xoom and an iPad and use both regularly and my work machine is a Linux box...there needs to be another option on this Poll...YES!
One basically looks for roundings caused by quantization and places in the image where the compression (again quantization) is either inconsistent or non-optimal.

A nice tutorial (and a lot of articles) can be found on the Dartmouth site of Hany Farid.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/downloads/tutorials/digita...

Personally, I have had very very mixed results with this method, and never managed to model it correctly. Interpreting results always was a very human job.
Can I somehow upvote you twice?
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Did we ever stop to think this is just one person's point of view that's completely influenced by his personality, and that you could be 100% the opposite, before passing summary judgments for and against the poor guy?

I've had mixed experiences in both sectors, and it doesn't make sense to generalize here.

I've worked in a small-ish department in a large company where we had lots of flexibility with the backing of a large corporate. I've worked in startups with zero creativity and the momentum of a third-world government org. I've also worked in a startup that was run by a maniacal CEO who was so out of touch with engineering that even after 6 years of development the company was unable to scale volumes or make good stuff.
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I gave Chrome OS a vote, just because I felt bad for it.
& this was downvoted because I don't necessarily agree or appreciate the topic?
I may know security, but there are a great many developers who know more arcane details about FreeBSD than I do.
"Graciously", when IE browsers are the odd ones out, the most non-standards-compliant ones? I'd kind of take it as a given, and it still wouldn't remove the strikes against older version of IE.

BTW, when you refer to code that isn't "browser-specific", do you mean compliant to web standards? Or to the minimum working set between all browsers? Aren't most of the IE hacks people use "browser-specific" to IE?
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Yeah it's an April Fool's thing. It not only changes on php.net, but on all PHP installations when rendering the phpinfo() page.
I could not leave Windows for photoshop and Excel. Now that the photoshop runs smoothly in VM and Calc is comparable, made a switch to ubuntu.
How much does the price tag matters when you are a developer or professional that gets paid $150/hour?
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Debian Stable since 2009, before then I used other Linux distros and Windows.

I'll admit I was quite a fan boy in my teens, but now I really just use Debian because it's what I'm used to, or most comfortable with.

I think GNU/Linux in general is a fantastic development environment.
I've read several years ago a study from MIT IIRC that actually correlated economic development with climate. Truth is that this is a complex matter with many important and simultaneous factors...
Arch Linux. Been a fulltime nixer for a few years now. No reason to use anything else. I'd miss the freedom too much.
Depends on what you expect, really. Setting up isn't much harder than, say, an Arch.

Hardware support is generally ok, though if you want 3D acceleration, Nvidia is about the only safe option (ATI is absent, Intel can be tricky or non-supported, depending).

Keeping 3rd party programs up to date can be a real pain, though. I haven't found a way to avoid long compilations, occasional breakage, and weird library issues. Compiling Firefox can be annoying.

(I run FreeBSD as my home server where basically all my data and important programs live, and a variety of other "throwaway" OSes in my day to day use)
>in true Steve form

So with DRM and other ridiculous restrictions? No thanks.
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This is something I'd expect from barfstupidforumsunlimited.org but not yc/hn. WHY!? WHY!!!?
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I use Win7 at work (servers are FreeBSD). I also had a personal WinXP laptop until 4 months ago when I switched to air and I'm now using OSX at home for fun and sometimes also for work.
You'll never eliminate flame wars or any of it's derivatives.
You simply can't for the sole reason that the people that participate in those or are offended enough to start those
silly subjective "debates", are probably suffering from lack of identity.

Therefore they lash out at anyone that dislikes or doesn't share the exact same preferences, it makes them feel personally responsible to "defend" their choices in life.

Flamer wars are inevitable, the internet was made for venting and complaining that people are complaining is a big waste of your valuable time.

Everybody gets one.
Free as in freedom. Not free pizza.

If you are getting $150 an hour, there are better things to do with the money than flaunt it in public.
What alternative would you suggest for high short term energy?
Holy editorialized title. There's absolutely no basis on which to equate Matrix-esque reality simulation technology with slavery. Sure, that's one possible use for it, but so is immortality.
You're thinking free as in beer. Free as in speech means open source. As a developer you gain more from that as you can tweak/maintain your own software if needs be.
I agree with you. That's certainly a 'pro' on the side of Linux. I stated that every OS has it's pros and cons, but my goal wasn't to list what those are.

To say unilaterally that it's better for all people at all times in all use cases is, at the very least, an overstatement. While being free is a top concern for you and many others, for some (perhaps many) usability might be their top concern and they may be willing to sacrifice freedom for usability, and that's a choice we should all be free to make.
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My way of thinking is that being free does not really to me, a lambda user, make it superior but otherwise just add pros and cons.

By using mostly Windows I trade the inconvenient and risks of non-free with other advantages. It is a informed choice.

RMS may hate me though :)
That was an inspiring story, now days, it's brain agility and endurance that wins the day and feeds the family.
Will next generation consoles still use optical disks, or will games be delivered by flash?
Additionally, current generation console hardware have a big-endian byte order, which can make dealing with importing of resources a pain at times.
Very interesting. So one could infer the workings of the universe on a deeper level than quantum mechanics by studying how much information needs to be stored with a certain statistical representation.

Can we un-editorialize the title though? This has nothing to do with enslaving anyone.
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Console makers are likely to continue subsidizing the hardware. So we'll just end up having cheaper playstations and xboxes.

I think very few people go out and buy a powerful graphics card. A console is simply a much more consumer friendly product that also happens to be a better bang for the buck in terms of hardware.
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In the last 5 years I have spent more on Free Software donations than I have in licensing crippleware.
The rumors that I've seen suggest that they will support optical disks with an emphasis on on-demand downloads.

A disk is a lot cheaper to stamp and print than flash or some type of ROM would be.
Wonder what this means for a Steam console, particularly if PC games get more love as a result of consoles being x86. I suppose it's good news in the end, with less time wasted on cross-platform shenanigans and more time spent on making games.
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