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Perversely, I grew to like the fact that Linux doesn't really have many games for it. I think we could say that I lost many hours of my life to MMOs and RPGs, though perhaps "lost" should be in scare quotes. It's kind of the same reason that I don't own consoles or a television -- I lost as large a chunk of my life to watching Star Trek as I lost to playing Morrowind, after all.

With hope, I am now mature enough to overcome temptation. So I wish all of my fellow Lingeeks: happy gaming.
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Aren't there two completely separate use cases?

1. Syncing files across different computers: think git for docs.

2. Backing up files: no versioning necessary

Price points for these should be different imo. I'd live with a backup that offers little redundancy cause there is a small chance that my backup and my laptop die at the same time. S3 & Dropbox are expensive in large part due to that redundancy.

I only use Dropbox for syncing a small set of docs and live with the free account just fine. I should probably use online backup at some point but I just don't feel like the S3 solution is appropriate for this. I dont need my photos or music stored in 3 different data centers across the globe, and I don't want it to sync to all my computers either.
It opens up the doors to the possibility of adding functionality to linux based set top boxes.
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Am I? Would the point somehow be served if you took a self-portrait and the response back was "haha ur so ugly"...?

(I should add that I know that Amazon offers a review process, but I am not sure how it integrates with the above camera, and I am thus assuming that the camera automatically has to accept a description as correct before printing it out. This might not be the case; and I don't know.)
Yup. People still do it constantly. Enforcement is extremely spotty, to say the least, stories by HN fellows nonwithstanding. I think it's a 10 EUR fine if you do get called up on it. It gets much more expensive when you do it on a bike.

I think relating this to the general notion of individual liberty is ridiculous but then again that's just what you'd expect a German to say, isn't it.
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And yet, DRM-free movie downloads elude us (other than standup comedy). I find this deeply ironic, since eBooks and MP3s can both be trivially shared via email, and video files cannot.
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That and the lack of Adobe software. For me at least anyway.
Not as powerful, but written in pure C: bti https://github.com/gregkh/bti

Does the job as a simple Twitter client.
Not all the Humble Bundle games. I can't run Super Meat Boy on my Intel GM45.
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Pretty much ANY online service that provides sync has decided not to use private keys. The same goes also with tasklist apps. They are either only web-based (and obviously readable at the server) or use the sync without encryption to provide web access. http://timegt.com is using private key for encrypting sync data but it came with the cost of not having any web access to your tasks!

The same with dropbox etc, private key encryption renders any server-side magic like web access very complex.
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So, when are the jokes about this being the year of linux on the desktop going to start?
Not being negative about the possibility, I do think that games are a large stumbling block to that endgame.
"I would use Linux only, but I like game X and Y." is incredibly common attitude among people who use dual boot. I'm not making this up, the phrase pops up very often on various forums, especially in context of linux ports for newly announced games.

You don't see many complaints about GIMP being inadequate (and with the recent news that will be the end of GIMP complaints), or OpenOffice/LibreOffice incompatibility. Yes, once in a while someone has issues with very tricky/advanced spreadsheet or text document, but with minimum goodwill on the part of the creator it can be worked around.

Gaming is really the last bastion of Windows. I predict a surge in Linux popularity once Steam is ported, bypassing OSX. And once that happens you are going to see pressure to use it in workplace. Game developers will be releasing Linux versions much more often, like in the old days of OpenGL. Really, there are many people who want to use Linux but hold out because of games.
I made this joke as soon as I saw the article: https://twitter.com/#!/Smotko/status/195057443674406912 :)
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UPDATE: I don't know why, but whenever I see other people in my situation, sharing their experience, it a great motivation boost!
Interesting, thanks. I am glad you two are better!
The money line: You want to know what's weird? Hiding who you are just to have the company of people you don't even like. That's weird.

I was an athlete in high school, so early on I hung out with the athletes. Those in that group were not particularly enjoyable company, but I was too young to know what enjoyable company was.

When I finally stopped hanging out with athletes and took my proper place among the band geeks and drama nerds, that's when high school started to suck less (it always sucked, but it sucked a whole lot less when I discovered the type of people I liked being around).

Everyone needs validation. Everyone needs needs social acceptance. Everyone needs human affection. We're hard wired to require these things. But this can only truly come through introspection. You must conclude that you are a deeply flawed individual, and that those flaws don't separate you from your peers, but are actually the common ground.

The reason why you don't have any friends is because there is a failure to realize these common flaws. One side will often point this out: "You're weird. You're odd. You're not normal". Such phrases are not meant to affect any emotion in the target, but rather to hide the flaws of the speaker.

It is the truly enlightened individual that can recognize the speaker is as deeply flawed as they, and counter with affection and affirmation: "You're dead on. I'm crazy weird. You're beautiful/smart/funny/athletic, and I'm happy to be weird enough to say so"

How much better would high school be for everyone involved if high schoolers could just avoid going on the offensive to hide their own flaws, stop thinking about what makes them better than those around them in the ceaseless measuring of cocks, and start measuring and encouraging the best qualities in their peers?

Can such a (high school)world exist? I pray that it can.
I sometimes think it would be better to just remove the sidewalk and enforce a low speed restriction on roads. Sidewalks in the UK must cost a fortune, and often the roads without are more attractive (I'm thinking country/village lanes as opposed to motorways) .
Did you read the article? It is being done by a human being, trough Amazon's Mechanical Turk service.
I find face-to-face communication is often highly inefficient. Responses are expected at reflex speed, in a fraction of a second, which means those responses necessarily consist of whatever came to mind first, regardless of whether it's correct or useful. Communicating by text, even instant message, means you have time to think about what you're saying. Sure, it may take a little longer per word, but being able to reply more thoughtfully often means better conclusions can be reached in a tiny fraction of the number of words. Big-O speedup beats constant factor slowdown for nontrivial problems.
Yes Germany is much more strict with jaywalking than the UK or Ireland. I don't think it's to do with Angloexceptionalism, but more to do with cultural reasons and different countries valuing certain laws.

For example the UK is much more strict than say Ireland with car tax. If you don't tax your car in the UK, you get an automatic fine in the post. In Ireland there are no automatic fines, it depends if a Guard (police officer) sees you. You can often get away with your tax being 1 month out of date if you sweet talk the office. Individual liberty as a concept has a stronger history in Ireland than in Britain (ha!) or different countries have different laws.

(Another example: I've heard drink driving is more common in USA than UK. Different countries, different attitudes to what laws to have and enforce)
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I think the multi-billion question is, what big thing comes after iPhone and iPad?

This is not a very urgent question at the moment, but one can clearly see that were Apple content to coast on profits from iPod and Macs alone they would still be a profitable company but a shadow of their current self.

My estimate is that it will take 2-3 years for competitors to really start eating into Apple share in phones and tablets. Also, the market will become more mature and people will not rush to upgrade Iphone 6 to Iphone 6s. Or Ipad to new Ipad. I mean once you go retina screen, how do you differentiate the Ipads? Quad core vs Octo core is not going to matter to regular buyer.

Currently Apple has great Operations(Cook) and great Design (Ives), the Vision is under the question mark.
"Exactly what humans do."

Isn't that because the real work is being done by a human?
I owe so much to IRC. I learn a huge amount of things everyday just having discussions on the various channels in freenode. The company firewall is no more an obstacle, thanks to http://webchat.freenode.net/ . I often have collegues coming with questions whose answer I ignore, and I redirect them to #python, #perl, #bash, #bzr, #git, #algorithms, #html5, #jquery, #go-nuts, ##C++-general, #debian ... I made a few of them fellow addicts! I came to think that the answer to wathever question I can have is just a

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There were problems of availability for a while after kernel.org got hacked, admins weren't very quick to restore services from a blank slate (I believe git access took four weeks). Some developers mirrored their stuff on github or repo.or.cz, but it wasn't systematic. Auto-mirroring by Google will make verification and disaster-recovery easier and faster.
I actually thought that Jaywalking was a joke - until I visited America. And it was incredibly frustrating for someone from the UK to cross the roads. I really loathed it.

In my mind the rule of the road is something like:

Pedestrians>Cyclists>Scooters>Motorbikes>Cars

I always give large mass vehicles and pedestrian carriers a wide berth.

Though a little common sense can go a long way! What's the problem crossing an empty road! Or even speeding on an empty road?

It's the nanny state gone mad!
This blog post+Youtube video+Amazon preview made me order the book. Good stuff.

For many years I've been working as a scientist to break the Prisoner's Dilemma problem. Case study is swarming-based downloading, where cooperation is needed for speed and anonymity. However, for over a decade scientists/developers seems have largely failed to do better then tit-for-tat (with unbounded scalability in number of users).

Book preview contains interesting text on paying taxes, parasite behavior and broad view of trust.
Schneier comments:

> The game is turned on its head

Is that really true? What has changed? Player B still can't trust that player A will give him 50% of the money outside of the game. Player could turn the tables by claiming he too will steal. Wouldn't that put them back to the original situation?
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yes it will - Steam is a juggernaut which will trigger purchase/usage decisions. Creators of libraries and frameworks will have to comply with the standards that Valve will come up with (and come up they will).

For example what audio framework will your distro use - Jack? OSS? Pulseaudio? They will have to use what Valve wants you to use, if you want to play their games.
Multimonitor support ? HDMI? use the toolkits that Valve will define. I would'nt be surprised if Valve influences the switch to Wayland or something.

And the big one ? packaging format.

What I'm really hoping for - Valve being able to arm twist ATI and nVidia for better drivers (which may happen anyway because of Ivy Bridge graphics and its great linux support[1] )

This is a Good Thing. Linux has been suffering from a severe framework fragmentation which leads to a very small addressable market. Unifying behind some frameworks will undoubtedly increase that market size.

[1] www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=17284
When I switched from using mostly windows to a lot of Linux, I celebrated the lack of distractions on Linux. Goodbye, productivity.
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Arg, it just disappeared ! Anyone made a copy ?
There are already a lot of linux compatible games on steam.
Let's hope they will be availabe on Steam for linux.
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You are assuming that social pressure either doesn't exist or is in favor of dishonesty. The first is not true, and the second is only true for limited peer groups.

Consider how your family would treat you if you reneged on a verbal commitment you made on TV. For the vast majority of people, this is a major negative factor. Now add in your coworkers, employers, friends...

Most people are honest most of the time, and especially so when there is a high likelihood of being caught cheating.
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Jaywalking is legal in Norway, and probably other Scandinavian countries.

And if you harm a pedestrian here, you are very likely screwed.
Just the idea that the installation of an "app development environment" starts with modifying my bashrc, and thus my entire shell, bothers me. This may not be a rational fear, but as a crufty old Unix guy, it a 'smell' to me.

Its just not clean - there are too many opportunities to have something end up in there that breaks something else. My .bashrc is not an /etc.

I know, I know .. there is no other way to have a fully super-duper shell environment with pretty colors and notifications and other .. GUI-like elements .. without tweaking my prompts and touching my vars and so on. But, hey .. couldn't the same concept be built up as a real application, after all, which spawns its own shell and leaves my system defaults alone ..
It depends on your intended audience. Although I appreciate the sentiment of learning programming languages by solving practical problems (rather than reading overly abstract descriptions) I don't expect there to be a major change in the way tutorials are made.

Back in the day when java was just being introduced, nearly every tutorial presented it in terms of how it compared to C++ (presence of garbage collection, use of references rather than pointers etc.). This is because languages don't live in isolation, they are part of a larger tradition. Java was created to address certain problems and short-comings of C++ and the target audience was therefore C++ programmers.

Most folks that I know who have become programmers made a concerted decision to accept the discomfort and pain of pushing through the challenge to picking up the nomenclature used by the programming community. I certainly appreciated tutorials that were geared for beginners when I started, but - in the end - simply immersed myself by reading so many different books and tutorials that the short-comings of one were overcome by the other. Terms that were left undefined in one were explained in another. There is certainly some responsibility for the person creating the tutorial to clearly define terms and consider the beginner. There is also the responsibility of the learner to accept their ignorance pursue answers outside of the presentation of an individual tutorial.
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I spent about an hour looking at noir (the clojure web framework) and here are some terribly shallow and scattered thoughts on the matter.

I learned scheme some 12 years ago and have always liked it, but somehow have never felt comfortable with either clisp, elisp, or even arc (sorry PG). Clojure, on the other hand, makes me pretty happy the way scheme did. It is a joy to use, except for the jre startup time.

To put things into context, the reason I learned scheme was to be able to learn computer science without any particular language getting in the way (yes, it was a SICP course). Scheme was as close to 'no language' as it gets. It is infinitely flexible in its simplicity. Imagine, in a language where the only native data structure is a linked list, adding object-orientation without metaprogramming trickery. It's madness! Well, it's unthinkable if you look at it from an algol-derived language background at least.

So where was I. Right, noir was pretty good. For the rubyists out there, it's very much like sinatra plus haml. As a side note, when explaining lisp, I like to use html as an example of how XML is essentially a bad lisp. Seeing lisp actually being used to generate html gives me the heeby-jeebies, though, and I don't know why. I'm sure it's fine though.

Enough of the niceties, here's where crankypants grandpa programmer comes out. You preface your question with the notion that you want to learn lisp to become better at your craft, which is great. However, when it finally comes out, your question reads, "is it worth switching away from the commercial viability of my current environment?" The answer is, of course, no, as Lisp is so rarely used in the wild that it doesn't make commercial sense. My problem is that you are conflating the value of a language with the value of learning that language.

At this point, learning lisp will likely make you a better developer. But to be honest, learning any other language, or even just another framework will make you a better developer. Think of it like vision. If you look at software development through the lens of RoR, you have only one perspective. Learning python gives you a slightly different second perspective, and thus you perceive depth. The farther away the viewpoint, the better your understanding of its depth. The viewpoint from lisp just happens to be very far away.

The key word here is learning. Even if you don't use it because of limited commercial adoption, the act of learning lisp improves your skill and understanding of your craft. If you have pride in your work, then that is always worth it.
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You're right. I just scanned the post with the eyes before making my comment. I thought this was done with an algorithm.. That's why I deleted it. False alarm. I will not say that is useless but is not a revolution. With this we will never get a real time answer.
Nope. http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html
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I agree with you about the music. I used to listen to music on my push bike - but I don't now - mainly because if I turn it up to the point I can actually hear it over the din of the cars, I'd damage my ears. I could always hear the traffic over the music. Probably more so than a driver with the stereo turned up.

Other cyclists weren't that happy to see me place headphones on. Though if you mute one sense, it can heighten another.

I see plenty of cyclists that don't observe the roads properly - even signalling and veering out without looking behind - at least I use my eyes.

I'm more concerned myself about drivers that I still see daily using their mobile phones at the wheel.

A cyclist has a higher reaction time than a driver traveling at speed - something that drivers forget. That's not to say you don't need to be alert.
It's not safer. The US has 15 deaths per 100,000 vehicles per year. Vietnam has over 1,200 deaths per 100,000 vehicles per year.

Even if you only look at road fatalities per capita, they still have 50% more than the US.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
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Anecdotal, but I am exactly one of these people - I dual boot, and the only reason I have Windows is for games. Then when you suggest this to others, the dual boot puts them off, and they don't want to be without games either.

Now there's a long way from 'Steam client for Linux' to 'Most AAA games available on Linux', but that is definitely the largest problem facing Linux adoption on the desktop.
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So which algorithm did you use to solve the Knapsack 0-1 problem? Via Dynamic Programming? Or using the Meet-in-the-Middle Algorithm? Or a greedy approximation algorithm?
You are. This isn't ment to be a completely realistic project ready to be shipped, it's a glimpse of the future, or maybe an art project. I think it's wonderful to see out-of-the-box stuff like this appearing on Hacker News.
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