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> The problem, however, is that Qt has no foothold in mobile devices.

It's more or less an open secret that Nokia has a Linux/Qt-based S40 replacement powered by Qt in the works, from all the rumors floating around (keyword "Meltemi"). I'll not speculate on its success potential; Nokia has disappointed me in the past. As a Qt user, I do hope it will do well.

> There is a huge community of users that uses Qt to just write (and maintain) desktop applications.

Believe me, I know. I write and maintain some of them. I'm a KDE developer.

> Qt Quick sucks for that.

Depends. We're getting some rather good mileage out of QML in our desktop shell, actually, and for some _componments_ of regular applications it'll do very nicely in short order as well.

I agree that Quick isn't there yet in terms of being a full QWidget replacement, though. Right now there's somewhat of a gulf where some things that are hard with QWidget are wonderfully easy with QML, but once you leave QML's prime areas of competence and need to customize, it gets a lot harder than customizing QWidget tends to be.

The Ars article actually cites a really good example that I've hit upon myself, as one of the apps I maintain is a heavy user of QTextDocument technology. Because the QML Text items do not allow low-level access to the QTextDocument they're based on, if you want to do advanced QTextDocument stuff in QML, you need to go quite low-level and write your own QML items in C++. It's doable, but QTextBrowser & Co allow more direct access under the hood and don't invite that overhead.

However, QWidget is staying put in Qt 5, and QML is still relatively young. There's ample time for a transition to occur. Let's hope it'll work out well.

> For those users, the future of Qt seems bleak: it's not in the hands of a company that caters to that audience (Trolltech's primary source of income was Qt, Nokia's is cell phones) and development pace is glacial.

While I'm onboard with a healthy dose of skepticism and staying aware of possible trouble, my own outlook is really not that bleak. Under Nokia, Qt has become a pretty decent open source project with working contribution paths - something it never was under Trolltech. KDE has contributed tens of thousands of lines of code to Qt thanks to that, and we remain a heavy user of QWidget at the momemt. I'm not saying we wouldn't be even better off if Nokia were more interested in the desktop, but I feel we have a shot at making our own future.

(Of course, KDE is also looking at mobile; see our tablet user interface Plasma Active. It won't surprise you to learn that it's quite heavily based on QML.)
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If you were to encounter and debug these issues on your own, it could easily cost your firm hundreds – possibly even thousands – of dollars. At which point $45 (and the time to read the book) begins to look like a sound investment.
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That's a problem though, because fictional portrayals (in movies, books, tv, and games) is so much a part of the culture these days that it does to a very real degree influence and affect people's perceptions of what is normal.

The hollywood norms of friendships, careers, beauty (of course), romance, dating, and even the very concept of sex are often the models that most people start out with. It's impossible to measure the degree of damage and heartbreak caused by the stark difference between that and the real world. We have a little bit of insight into how the gap between hollywood ideals of appearance, attractiveness, and beauty affects girls and women, in some cases to life or death circumstances. People tend to keep their love lives much more private but we can know from anecdotes and from comparison with those other aspects like appearance that there is just as much a profound effect there.

It would be nice if we didn't live in a world where fictionalized portrayals were decoupled from people's understanding of relationship, beauty, and sexual norms but we do. Whether the origin of that problem is that's of prudishness in the industry, or the need to tell compelling stories, or any other reason is entirely orthogonal to the reality of the problems caused by the phenomenon.
Sigh. The Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory is just up the street from my house. I wish it wasn't a fruit stand.

Someday, when I can afford it, I want to buy it and turn it into a startup lab or something.
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From the perspective of an organization, technical books are cheap.

From the perspective of an autodidact, technical books are expensive.

From the perspective of a student buying "textbooks", technical books are expensive as hell.

Considering the existence of internet, google, stackoverflow and technical blogs, technical books are silly expensive, take too long to get to the point and are borderline useless.
> Joel used ASP.NET for FogBugz

To be pedantic, that's not true. As I understand it, FogBugz was originally written in VBScript (Classic ASP) and then ported to Wasabi, FogCreek's own compiler. Wasabi then spat out PHP and VBScript.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html

However, I still agree with your point and this probably makes it an even stronger argument.
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From doi:10.1038/nature10872: "From a technological perspective, energy dissipation per logic operation in present-day silicon-based digital circuits is about a factor of 1000 greater than the ultimate Landauer limit".
"Translated very easily" suggests they didn't create a domain-specific language for their problem, which to me seems to be missing the point of Lisp. The exotic features of Lisp and Python don't overlap much at all, so the intersection of the two isn't a particularly powerful language. They probably could have ported to any Blub just as readily.
I'm a 27 year old male, and more than half my friends are female. Why be friends with a bunch of girls I'm not trying to sleep with? For the same reason you're friends with anyone else. Variously, they're funny, interesting, loyal, give good advice, etc.

Indeed it seems foreign to me that you couldn't be friends with someone just because you find them attractive. If I were bisexual, would I have no friends at all? Could I only be friends with ugly people?
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With the rise in popularity of ebooks, "number of pages" hopefully will come to matter less, as you'll care more about "quality of content" than "does this paper book feel thick and hefty and worth the $40+ price".
Cross-platform mobile development isn't still mature enough, and for Nokia it would be a winning move to create a great tool that allowed developers to easily create apps for iOS, Android, and then whatever OS will run on Nokia phones.
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> what planet do you live on where this is considered non-high-achieving/non-ambitious?

I believe the fact that he doesn't see his cousin as ambitious confirms his self-diagnosed overblown ambition.
Why, maybe there are problems that do not require a domain-specific language! Doing something like reddit.com probably require a simple and readable codebase that can be extended and optimized easily. It is not likely that the domain is so complex that it needs macros and all the "clever" stuff.
Over at KDE, we're hosting the development of an Android port of Qt, dubbed Necessitas. There's also a port to iOS underway elsewhere.
Hah. You make a good point. And if your question wasn't hypothetical, my satirical answer would be that I live in New York City - a place with sometimes laughably high standards for achievement and ambition.

And I mostly agree with you. He is probably the envy of many. Achievement? Sure. But ambition? I thought for a while about how to best explain my whole sentiment on this idea, and my mind kept coming back to an excerpt from PG's "Cities and Ambition", where he lists common areas of ambition:

"So far the complete list of messages I've picked up from cities is: wealth, style, hipness, physical attractiveness, fame, political power, economic power, intelligence, social class, and quality of life."

It's those kinds of things that I realized my cousin didn't give two shits about. And I admit, there's more than a couple things on that list that I've realized are root desires driving my ambition. Frivolous? Definitely. And I guess that's the basis for my aforementioned wonderings.
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If this isn't an argument to hack hollywood I don't know what is?!

"When you can't improve on the silence don't open your mouth."

Seriously, This opinion made no sense to me, had no support for any of its historical claims, and sounds to me like the author has a thing for a female friend of his, and this is his way of trying to appear platonic and not seem creepy.
Not sure where most people stand on this, but if I buy a technical reference book, there is no way I want it to have only as a ebook format. If possible, I'd want to have both print and digital version. Unless you have multiple screens, it becomes very tedious to read the ebook and type your own code at the same time. Of course, an e-reader would help, but it's still nowhere as practical when you just want to "browse" in the contents of the book. Books are big, take space, are heavy to carry, but they have several functions that ebooks cannot replicate easily.
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I'm curious--what are you using as a weather source? I've been looking into them recently and haven't found a decent one that I liked.
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I dunno. I have written a couple tech book chapters in my life and tech edited a lot more books. I suspect it's not (always) the fluff much rather the fact that explaining stuff in a way that it deserves printing takes a helluva lot more than just throwing up a blogpost.
I don't understand this at all. I don't want to have sex with any of my male friends yet I still find compelling reasons for friendship with them. So why then can't things that are completely non-sexual attract me to women and be a foundations for a friendship with them too?

It almost sounds like we are nothing more than the sum of some animalistic urges we have little control over. I have not found this to be my experience, and sometimes wonder if it isn't a popular myth we like to use to excuse our behaviours sometimes.
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A very kind offer.

Being in the UK I've taken such offers in the past, but unless you mark every package as a gift and fill in the paperwork for it, HMRC will slap on an import tax and Royal Mail slap on a handling fee.

With that in mind, it's cheaper and less hassle to obtain the free book by paying for it.

I've gone and purchased the Kindle version.

Wouldn't have done so without your offer though, and that is appreciated as are all your comments on here.
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oh come on, enough with that pc bullcrap already.

can man and woman be friends? sure, if at least one side sees the other as sexually unattractive, undesirable. that could be plain ugliness, sexual orientation or status/wealth.

but man and woman, or gay pairings that find each other desirable? why should there be friendship if nature tells you to fuck each other?

real friendship can only exist if there is no sexual desire.

then there is the second form of friendship, the less talked about one: the SM one. one quite attractive female and her fat "best friend". always together, especially on a night out. the good looking one using the fat one as a boost to her ego and ugly backdrop for any male choosing between them. the fat one leeching off her friend's attention and snapping up the male leftovers.

the male equivalent is pretty much the setup for the tv series Entourage.
iota is much more general than just enumerations. http://golang.org/ref/spec#Iota

A neat example is using it to define constants for a bit field:

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I ran the numbers, and while you're way closer than I was, it still seems to me it's way more than 1000.

1 billion bits at 2.85 trillions of watt

-> 1 billion transistor CPU, uses 2.85 trillionths of a watt at 1 HZ

-> 1 billion transistor CPU, uses 2.85 thousandths of a watt at 1ghz

-> 1 billion transistor CPU, uses ~1/100 watt at 3.5ghz

So that puts us at a factor 10,000 away (billion transistor, 3.5ghz CPUs use ~100 watts at peak), assuming that all transistors are on. However, they're not nearly always on. Most are cache, most are logic that's not used, etc. Call it 5 orders of magnitude, or 100,000x.

The paper you're referencing seems to ignore leakage current etc, but I don't think for practical analysis of the field you'd want to do that, since obviously other factors are going to be improved as well.

Add in how inefficient our modern computation is, in terms of how many bits we're flipping around for the result we're computing, and I stand by my comment; theoretically optimum computation devices are going to make our current CPUs look like abacuses. Though we'll have to break out of our x86 and even CPU model to get there.
Thanks a lot. I've been looking forward to the book since hearing you speak in Boston at Xconomy. Can't wait to read it.
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Another article trying to generalize the concept of success... Not much worth reading there. The argument is those who apply the 80/20 rule are more successful entrepreneurs or doers in general. Perfectionism is an obstacle. As we say in french, "le mieux est l'ennemi du bien". Yeah, well, you can find thousands of counter-examples to that kind of principle. No one would ever have launched a rocket if they were not perfectionist at heart in the first place. You would not have thousands of products with almost no defects in your supermarket if there was no thorough QA system in place in every industry. Heck, you would probably be scared to fly a plane if the safety records were only 80/20 good enough.

Simple theories about life are elegant, but this one is simplistic at best. I think it really depends on your line of work.
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Yes, just friends. If I want a lover I will say to her.

"Close friendship between members of the same sex, are also suspect"

And this, my Hacker news friends, is what we call a dirty, unsatisfied and repressed mind.

This reminds me to catholic priests in my childhood, if it is taboo for you to have sex you can start obsessing about sex, thinking too much of sex, seeing it everywhere, even inventing it when there is none. The problem is not in the people, the problem is in you.

Here in Spain we hug our friends, and we kiss our other sex friends a lot. In Morocco two male friends will hold hands together. It is part of the culture.
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I don't know who the publisher was, but it doesn't sound like O'Reilly. When I worked for them (in the 2000s) our mantra was that the right size for a book is however long it has to be to say what has to be said. There's a minimum length of around 120-150 pages, below which it's hard to have a visible cover on the spine, but there's no inherent benefit to 600 page books versus 250. With ebooks, of course, there's no such thing as a minimum size: it's whatever there's a market for.
No, not at all:

source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
"...Roughly, the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software."

What would this do to most startups today?
Or programming.
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Yes, I did, but I didn't take the conclusion as 'nowadays it's perfectly possible for men and women to just be friends', I read it more as 'maybe it will be posible in the future'.
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I'm saddened by the dragon part because what fascinates me most about these covers is that, most of these amazing animals are really there some where. But now I have to wonder if the one on the cover really exists or product of some ones wild imagination... I hope they ditch this mythical stuff..
I Agree. More importantly, there seems to be a flawed assumption in this opinion piece that friendship has to be either sexual or platonic.

I would argue that every relationship with every human being has both emotional drivers (chemistry) and surface dynamics that don't necessarily reflect those deeper emotions and feelings at play, but rather serve a utility or provide some sort of mutually beneficial value.

In other words, why can't someone be friends with someone, get whatever value they hope to get out of the relationship (i.e. shared interests, working relationship, etc...)and also have deeper sexual drivers at play, which many times will not only never surface, but they would never admit to others and many times even to themselves.

I think someone tying feminism and equal rights into this discussion not only has no understanding of human nature and how and why we have seek out friendship and relationships, but may very well be the root of the discrimination and objectification that leads to sexual harrasement, etc...

Every decision we make meets an emotional need and is justified after the fact with logic and reasoning. Why would relationships under any context be any different.

Just to be clear, I am not saying you cant have a relationship without someone being sexually interested, I am just saying it really doesn't and shouldn't matter and really isn't relevant unless it is on the surface or comes to fruition.
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I have a question..

Why is the US government attempting to prop up the flaws of closed OS system by engaging in the wholesale revoking of the US constitution?

I do not think US Congress was ever implemented or thought to be the exact org to fix such a private and commercial transgression.

However, banning MS OS from internet would be just as wrong. Why not have US Congress give incentives for end users to choose secure desktop OSes?
> technical books are silly expensive, take too long to get to the point and are borderline useless.

Hey, don't tar the whole field with the sins of 99.9% of the elements. Some technical books (those by W. Richard Stevens, K&R, Knuth, and a few others) are wonderful resources.
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I guess I disagree here (but who doesn't with HTTP status codes...). I try to reserve 5XX codes for actual errors. In this case, no error occurred, the response is just delayed.
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i'm planning to keep the emulator adhering to only published specs by notch. the only exception is the extra BRK instruction which will stop execution in the emulator.

if malware becomes a problem, i'll address it then, but that's also part of the game...
I strongly recommend 'A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire' by Sai Gaddam and Ogi Ogas. It's big data applied to the study of human sexuality. Essential reading!
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