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I really love this story. It's so incredibly hard to see the forest for the trees when you're that age.

I love PG's notion that some kids are playing the popularity game and others are playing an entirely different game, because they're being individuals and are learning or pursuing something they want, regardless of popularity.
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Not a bad start, but you can easily drop Apache2 for even better performance. You should use php-fpm (FastCGI Process Manager) instead mod_php. Installing is a breeze too.
I hate both the gimp and libre office, and would gladly pay for alternatives available on other platforms if I didn't have to use them, even though both are free.

At least with the majority of what I use, Linux software in a general way is still pretty far off from the competition.
What's interesting about this show is the pair forced into a Prisoner's Dilemma are given the chance to discuss the matter with each other, adding another layer to its complexity. In most examples I've seen personally, the two subjects are given their options in private and told to make a decision without having contact.
In Sri Lanka there is a pecking order. And bigger wins out.

High mass vehicles haven't got the ability to stop quickly - or get out the way like a pedestrian or cyclist so I understand that.

However I can't help but feel that we have our priorities skewed. I personally loathe motorised traffic (except for when I need it!)

I'd rather confine freight to nights. And keep traffic out of town centres. And let pedestrians and cyclists relax a little. I think we should all me mindful on the road, but it's pretty tedious being forever vigilant. Some pedestrians haven't fast reactions at all.

As a cyclist, I'm happy to use the sidewalk where the road I feel is too dangerous - but that wouldn't be at the expense of a pedestrian's right of way.

I live near the sea, and the nicest place to cycle is along the sea front away from traffic - it's glorious - but yet illegal. Yet if there were more routes like this, we might have more cyclists. In this case it's illegal as the board walk is there for pedestrians, but it's empty for a good amount of the year. I would still give a pedestrian right of way. So it's in part, attitude. Not thinking that I have right of way.

Having said that pedestrian zones are nice too.
"Would people even notice if their images were quietly 'de-duplicated'?"

If my wife's face does not appear next to the Eiffel Tower in the depulicated version I might be somewhat concerned.

Also photos are, at least in their highest form, an emotional response to light. One thousand good photographers shooting the Eiffel Tower at the same day and the same hour will probably generate 5,000 or more unique and interesting shots.
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Of course that's not a real prisoners dilemma, because the payouts are wrong. In the real prisoners dilemma Defect-Defect gives you a better payout than Cooperate-Defect. So when your opponent pre-commits to defect, you must defect.
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I've had an idea about remote backup for a long time. To pay ~50usd/month isn't that much of course, but very soon buying a large hard drive pays off.

The problem with a local hard drive is that it's local, and if your house burns down, the drive does too. But what if you had your friens drive at your house and your friend had your drive at hers?

You would rsync your computers storage to your friends drive, and she would rsync hers to your drive. It'd be seemless, and (presuming you both have all-day-internet access at home, of course) you'd be able to download backed up copies from your friends drive.

Perks would be

* Owning your data (=== controlling your data)

* Being able to seemlessly encrypt it(=== owning your data)

* Having lot's of space for cheap

* Having a good reason to call your buddy

But it would require you both to have a NAS or equal up all day. But I doubt it would save enough money that someone would spend time on it instead of buing space @ dropbox/google/etc.
Not on my machine. :-)

C:\>ps
'ps' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

The guy why suggested using the psutil is onto something -- definitely a 3rd-party dependency, but rolls all the platform specific messiness into a library. And much faster and less fragile than forking a new process.
This is complete bullshit. The original article is absolutely right: We work in an industry were more hours do not necessarily mean more results - and less hours do not always mean less results. Of course you can try to win by putting in more hours than everybody else, but this is a race to the bottom: There will always be somebody who will work even longer hours, even if it kills them in the long run. Or you could try to win by outsmarting others. For example, the 50% more time you have by working insane hours (like the OP suggests) was easily wasted because of politics and burocratic stuff in some companies I worked for as a freelancer.
I can walk into a phone shop and buy a contract-free, sim-free smartphone for £50. Sure, it's low end but it is a smartphone. It looks pretty upside-down to me.
or use autojump/j/z/ etc.
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Older, wiser me agrees with you.
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Because the odds are that the simulator with which someone will run around yelling about the bug they found (which will get them links on HN and other fun perks) will have had less than 1% of the time spent on creating it than the code that was actually sent into space, and on the balance, given the observation of a defect in the combined simulator+Apollo code the highest probability locus is the new, untested code that was probably rushed out for publicity's sake and had no lives ever depend on it.

You seem to have misinterpreted my post as me saying I would never believe it was a bug in the Apollo code, despite me making very sure to explicitly disclaim that.
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I'm sorry but this post strikes me as fantasy. Your social circle must be vastly different from mine.

>and with the recent news that will be the end of GIMP complaints

What news is this? Photoshop is still on a complete other plane of existence and that gap gets further every year, not closer. If you're playing with cat pictures then GIMP is probably ok, but if you're a professional who's livelihood depends on your photo editing software GIMP just doesn't cut it.

>or OpenOffice/LibreOffice incompatibility

Yep, your circle has nothing in common with mine. I haven't talked to anyone in years who took Open/Libre Office seriously.

>Gaming is really the last bastion of Windows.

Haha, no. Not at all. I think you're confused about where people actually stand. All windows users are not sitting in their desks in distress dreaming of the day that they can finally drop windows and switch to Linux. Many of them like it. Linux having clunky but functional copies of everything Windows has doesn't mean everyone is going to switch. It just means the small percentage of people who do want to switch are finally to the point where Mac OSX was years ago.

>I predict a surge in Linux popularity once Steam is ported, bypassing OSX.

Haha! Steam is going to do this? You know Steam is already on OSX right? Why would Linux finally having a capability that everyone else has had for years cause Linux to surpass Mac OSX?

I'm the only person I talk to on a regular basis who has linux at all and I would never consider using it as a primary desktop. I switched to Mac so I could get all the command line goodness, first/second class citizen status for the development tools I want to use and ease of administration. Linux is the most powerful of the main three OSes but it also requires the most administration if you're doing much with it.

And finally, you're making a bizarre assumption that all that's holding back "the year of the Linux desktop" is games. Do you actually know why Mac OSX finally started gaining market share? It was because Mac is the only place you can develop apps for the App store. What do I have to have linux for? Nothing.

>Really, there are many people who want to use Linux but hold out because of games.

Yes. Many as in hundreds, maybe thousands...
I would be really excited by this news 3 our so years ago.

But it's to late now. Valve missed their chance. Gaming is moving away from desktop. In fact, while gaming is increasing extremely fast overall, desktop is actually setting decrease on revenue. It's the worst time to invest in it.

It won't help valve, and it won't help us Linux gamers. Game studios won't suddenly go back to support dying desktop only because steam now has a Linux client. So the store will be empty.

This is also a move aiming towards the new steam box. But that's also a bad move. Console is the second worse gaming platform now, after desktop. It's days are also numbered. While I love Valve, gaming and Linux. These won't work well together anytime soon.

The good news for us Linux gamers is that browser and mobile are on an absurd.fast rise. While we still don't see many AAA titles on the browser, that's much closer to reality than AAA titles on steam for Linux. At the end of the day, w don't need steam for Linux. Gaming in general is moving in our direction. The quality of games in our browser and our phones (the future consoles) are close to make desktop irrelevant.

edit: here's some stats that both console and PC game markets are decreasing. From EA's sec filing:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/00011931251118...

I didn't really thought of putting it because I thought this was ubiquitous knowledge everyone would agree with. But maybe that's just because I'm in the industry and always looking for market numbers every month.

The industry is moving away from these formats and moving towards mobile. The remaining anecdotes are just a consequence of old incumbents having a hard time adapting. The next dominant gaming consoles will be running Android and iOS. Simply because of the huge size of the app stores and user base.
pretty sure "touch typing" was meant in the old sense where it contrasts with "hunt and peck"
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Do you have a new iPad (or iPhone 4S) with Dictation turned on? Try this one: Press and letter and then the microphone button quickly and repeat. Instead of interrupting your quick typing, it will register the press as a space instead.

Apple pays attention to the details.
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Ok, that's your choice. But that's not very useful for game developers. The open technology stays inferior to the closed one, and the closed technology stays extremely popular because it's easier to work with.
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A common complaint against Linux game development is that it lacks a standarized platform and different distributions have their quirks. While I don't like Steam and don't use it (DRM, no resale, obnoxious pop-ups...) this is going to give game devs/publishers something to target. In my opinion it will be more psychological than practical. Source engine games, one or unrelated two AAA show up - and suddenly minor devs are starting to think "Why not ? Me too !".

I don't delude myself, though: several dozen percent games still won't show up on Linux. But it beats having to rely on the 5% games that are multiplatform.
I think PST got the early jump last year, so fair's fair.
I like to add to any discussion of Prisoner's Dilemma a similar note, something like:

This is why contracts matter. It's clear that both parties would love to sign a contract saying "I'll scratch your back and you scratch my back," if the consequences of not obeying that contract were sufficiently severe, because they see that they can get a mutually better reward. The reason why criminals do better than game theory professors on the prisoner's dilemma game is not necessarily because they act irrationally, but because they're part of a social order which creates and enforces those sorts of cooperative systems, and which doesn't do business with folks who break them.
I can't think of much more that they would need to implement that their competitors are remotely close to having. They have multitasking, they have video, games, music, GPS, HTML5, maps, HD recording, forward facing cameras, Skype, etc.

It sounds like you're saying Android has something special that needs more hardware, which isn't true. The _base system_ needs faster hardware, because it's general purpose. An Xbox can run faster than Windows on the same hardware because it's designed for just one implementation.

In short, troll more.
I agree completely. In this case the force that has rendered them dysfunctional is called "being sidelined by senior management".
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Scott Adams is not the only one. I've noticed things exactly like this.

I suspect that the on-line retailers do make pricing as complicated as possible, so as to avoid direct price comparisons. Offering goods for sale with automatically-comparable prices leads to classes of goods becoming economic commodities, distinguishable by price alone. That's a bad situation for retailers, so they've responded by making prices non-comparable by complication.

Cell-phone plans seem to have ended up the the same way.
I completely agree with him, the best tutorials I've ever had for languages were ones that had me make something I might use.

My first experiences were in c++ and that had me making little games in the command line. I eventually took it upon myself to write an implementation of conway's game of life once I learnt about 2d-arrays and realised I could use two of them to make it.

Visual studio 2010 has a very nice set of tutorials that I found really great for learning c# with.
The first was just a program that had 3 buttons (open, clear and close) and a picture box. It just opened an image and displayed it.
It was a really nice tutorial that was fun, taught fast and inspired me to make the first program that I actually use on my desktop. It's a pretty basic slideshow program, but I've never found one that fitted what I wanted and the tutorial gave me all the tools I needed to create it with, nothing more.

That tutorial made me sit for a weekend and write that program.
The feeling of finally having a program that did what I wanted and the fact that I made it just added an extra level of joy.
It really showed to me why programming is enjoyable.

The quality of a tutorial for an absolute beginner can make or break their motivation to ever try again. It's far too important to not do well.
Yes, I'm still hoping some day someone will make a Linux Distro that uses OpenLDAP for configuration as much as possible instead of flat files scattered all over the system, all with different syntax.
Not only that, but you have to be a registered Paid developer to buy your ticket. And no transfers.

Should eliminate most scalping issues.
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As I understand it, sending you any data is considered "publishing" that data, even if it's your intellectual property and you're the only one who's looking at it.

(IANAL)
Wow The fight between Google and Facebook is definitively going to the next level!
I think it's safe to say that the LACK of perennial rumors and leaked parts means last year's fall release is now a tradition and not just a one-time-thing.
I was going to suggest a Jacksonville HN Meetup, but I looked on Meetup.com, and you appear to be right -- there's very little in your area. The nearest thing I saw was the Gainesville Web Meetup, but it only had 4 people attending and that's a hike for you.

You could always start a Jacksonville HN meetup, if only to find out how many others are in the area. Or you could start a poll on here and tweet the link to try to get it upvoted -- post the link back here if you do and I'll upvote it.

Another suggestion I was going to give you is to hit up a StartupWeekend - here's[1] one in Jacksonville, but I don't know how frequent they are in your area.

http://jacksonville.startupweekend.org/
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Wonder how long it will take the developer community to fully switch from computer-centric to human-centric thinking in their apps? And once they do, what comes next?
I know, just trying to make someone laugh (:
>Studios will have more incentive to make games portable from the get-go

What incentive? 1.5% of the desktop market? If the ~13% Mac market share isn't enough to get most of them to consider it, why would a group nearly 10 times smaller matter suddenly?
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Indeed. I considered editing my original post just after I wrote it to clear up that ambiguity, but I figured people would understand what I meant...
This doesn't work well, in my experience. Non-programmers don't want to program -- they want to get a computer to do something. As a teacher, it's your job to seduce them into programming as a way to get the computer to do what they want it to do.

I learned to program, not because I wanted to program in the abstract, but because my friend's dad showed him how to make a little car drive across the screen, and I wanted to do the same.

I spent hours typing programs in from books, not because I wanted to program, but because I wanted to get 3d shapes moving around.

When I taught programming classes, I'd often digress to talk about some interesting abstract concept -- and immediately lose 90% of the class. Start practical, and enrich from there, as the material becomes relevant.
This article lacks a discussion about floating-point vs real arithmetic. Naively implementing these functions is bound to produce nasty rounding problems.
> 'But the reality is talented people are able to sustain a high level of productivity at long hours.'

This, in my opinion, is the flaw in the argument. I don't think it's true for writing code, unless what you're writing is boilerplate which requires no mental effort.

> Some of the best engineers in the world work insane hours at Google, Apple and facebook and put out great products.

Google doesn't have fixed working hours: http://www.quora.com/Does-Google-have-fixed-working-hours

From what I've heard, you're expected to get things done but no one cares how you do it. Some people work crazy hours; that's fine for them. Some people probably work 10-4 and then a little bit in the evening. Matt Welsh seems to work 9-5: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/day-in-life-of-goog...
I was shocked in Toronto in the late 1980s when a young woman I was talking with stepped out in the middle of the street. Being accustomed mostly to Washington and Baltimore, I thought I was about to see an accident with at best grave injuries to her. The car stopped, and I started breathing again.

In Washington, DC, there is a lot of jaywalking, but in most neighborhoods the pedestrians are damn careful to be sure that they are have the space to cross.
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Success comes in many flavors. The author's version of personal success is way more angled towards professional and business success, where I may put more emphasis on an amazing relationship with my children as a bigger factor of personal success. You can be successful by many measures, and have a growing, profitable, healthy business, without 70-80 hours a week. Are you not successful because it doesn't hit 1B in revenues?

These kind of articles frustrate me, as someone who already has a tendency to work too much at the expense of all other aspects of my life. Everyone has tradeoffs to make. The business tradeoff that Treehouse makes means that people have a higher likelihood of personal success in ventures outside of work, at what Mr. Carson sees is a minimal impact to the likelihood of business/professional success.

Can a company of people working 70-80 hour weeks be more successful than Treehouse's model? Sure. But I'd argue they're just as likely to be less successful. More code doesn't always mean more success, whatever the measure may be.
Thanks to my in-depth research of criminology (I watched two seasons of Boardwalk Empire, and several seasons of The Wire) - I can relate that criminals will sometimes agree to have one person do the time, while the other pays a bonus to them/makes it up somehow.
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I have this and it's pretty awesome. I have to explain what git is to my professors every time I tell them I won't be using SVN though..
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To me, this is probably the first step to support Linux and Android, not at all a bad move.
It's okay, they'll eventually figure it out, when they're sitting on a pile of money but nothing else to show for those endless years of 70-80 hour work weeks. Maybe they'll be plenty happy with their pile of money - more power to them. Or maybe they'll be lonely and have wasted much of their life. That's a tough dice roll to take.
Er, how about we have different books for different audiences?

The Lua programming book isn't a tutorial, as far as I can tell. As an experienced programmer I appreciated its brevity and spare clarity -- it mirrors the language. Adding words would make it significantly less useful to me.
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I was thinking more in terms of investments related to the company's business (e.g.: Apple pre-paying billions of dollars to lock up massive amounts of flash storage or to fund new factories for suppliers) that often have a much higher ROI than any investment you or I might reasonably make in any investment available to us.

Large companies carrying trading/gambling departments not related to the rest of their business is, as you say, probably not a good thing.
I agree completely. It's pure ego: a "true hacker" is someone who is exactly like me.
Anyone have an idea why there's sourcecode for (apparently) a pinball machine in there?

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/PINBALL_G...

It's in the code repository for multiple Apollo's
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Music: many people seem to use Dropbox to sync iTunes libraries (granted, iTunes Match is probably eating into that) but I'd easily believe that there are many large, duplicate media files from the same stores or torrent sites.