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ESR needs to up his pageviews? That time of the year again? Same old "discussion" he tries to have since nsome 10 years. No new arguments, just warming up his sentiments again. RMS has ignored this for years and s should we :-)
I think this is even handier than the original submission. Upvoted.
I'm still converned over the fate of the x64 compilers.
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What kind of problems are you referring to that is easier to search for Ubuntu than LinuxMint? I've installed and deployed quite a few LinuxMint computers to folks with little to no computer experience. Throughout, I've never had any issues with not being able to quickly find answers for the few problems that I ran into.
Great article! I guess this all start with good hiring. If the people you are good, then this works great. If you skimp on this: you are in trouble.
And you don't have any problem with IE being packed with Bing search out of the box ?
Have you seen CodeIntel? https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel
I've been working exclusively on my own apps for most of the last year but I've recently acquired a few clients that have looked me up on their own based on their experience with my apps.

You can see the apps I've made so far here:
http://www.plastaq.com

So I can't really offer you specific advice on finding clients except for maybe to think of your own apps as pieces of a portfolio as much as sources of revenue on their own.

I'm currently living and working in Vietnam so at the moment I'm charging my clients a lot less than the $150+/hr a good iOS dev can get in S.F. or New York but my living expenses are a lot lower here and I hope to gradually increase my rates for new work as I build a roster of clients.

Working on my own apps is more fun, of course, but actually making money is a good thing too.
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I'm not sure it's such a slam dunk -- a brief scan of the virtual machine benchmark didn't seem to have a more heavily concurrent load. Plus the Opterons are substantially cheaper.

If I was building a server I'd probably look at the Intel parts, the cost/performance curve is justifiable. But my personal case right now is running lots of test VMs simultaneously on a workstation, the Opterons are more attractive.
Pebble was probably the first to bring eInk display to the watch. But as georgemcbay notes, they weren't the first to bring out a watch like this.
That's even worse! How are you meant to say that without sounding fake-excited? There's a radio station around here called "PULSE!" that I have the same issue with. It's not even an exciting radio station.
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Spent around 1 min. figuring out what this is, before I closed the page. Perhaps you should add more info in the About page.
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> Future proofing a box with a non-user replaceable battery

My battery lasts 6 to 7 hours and is more than two years old. I can't remember the last time I had to stay six hours straight without having a plug nearby long enough to pump up some serious juice (and remember, charging is non-linear, the first 80% come up in a blink). Swapping batteries is a niche, yet it's the standard in PC land. I'd rather have a couple more hours in a thinner enclosure than twice but at the cost of lugging around a bulkier design, along with the second battery. Plus recharging two batteries is a chore.
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(Most) Netbooks are fanless too.
Do you only have friends at work?
I don't think anyone is "entitled" because they're disappointed with a refresh. There are many genuine complaints about this update, some fundamental "pro" functions are years out of date. Why would a Mac Pro ever not have thunderbolt? Come on. Either Apple is slacking or they're tossing this product out the window.

Saying people should wait even longer than the two years they have sounds pretty apologetic.
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It may be confusing but hat's how it already works. No Siri or turn-by-turn for iphone 3GS or 4 etc.
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Shipping took about a month, but now that it's here it's as good as I expected.

It's not clear if as I expected is a good thing or not.

From http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000... I read:

X11 is not very stable and the Mali driver is being worked on. You can try running X11 with a frame buffer.

That's going to kill it for a lot of applications.
I know RMS of course, he's a hero; up there with Prometheus and such. Bur WTF is "Eric Raymond"?
As for Windows XP support, why would Microsoft
add in support for an OS they don't really support
any more?

Because Windows XP is stable, it works and a lot of companies and people are still using it.

If anything, Microsoft is to be blamed for not providing a compelling reason to upgrade. Windows Vista was awful, while Windows 7 is just a re-branded Vista with a little more polish applied. Which is why at home I still have Windows XP on my desktop.

It has been 11 years, well almost 12

Windows 7 was released at the end of 2009, while XP was released in Aug 2001. That's 8 years in which people had no real upgrade option. Can you really blame them if they are a little conservative?

the fact people want to support the outdated OS is like asking
Google to start supporting Internet Explorer 6 again

That's not a fair comparison, as downloading Firefox/Chrome is painless, is free, doesn't require a hardware upgrade, normal people can do it by themselves and they don't risk losing their data ... saying that upgrading Windows is painful would be an understatement.
He's comparing the stated delivery fee to Amazon's S3 costs for outgoing data, which he says costs $0.01 per 5 books.
It is not an App Store SEO trick. They only changed the name the app shows on the device. On the App Store it's still called Facebook Camera.

My guess is that Apple has asked them to change it as 'Camera' is what they call their camera app.
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I should probably have linked to Sandy Bridge EP vs Bulldozer, which is much more lopsided. The 6C holds its own nearly everywhere, with comparable price and much lower power usage, and there's always the option of bumping up to 8C when needed:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5553/the-xeon-e52600-dual-sand...

This latest generation was not favourable for AMD. 16 core Interlagos in many cases barely outperforms the old 12 core Magny Cours.
For clarity, are you saying friend test before releasing to the app store or before advertising?
They're LED backlit IPS panels.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation

the figures I quoted are just examples, but money creation trhu bank lending is real, and I just wonder if derivatives / banking crisis is enabling less or more of it outside the traditional measures.

It was a thought without much supportive thinking

But debt is an asset to everyone but the debtor.
Security flaw in MySQL, MariaDB allows access with any password ...
Oh shucks! Nice then, but could be nicer.
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Awesome, thanks for sharing. So you haven't tried using freelance websites or attempted to put yourself out there at all? I looked at your site and it doesn't even say you're available for client work :)
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The factory could be used to make other even more profitable widgets. The guy who writes hardware drivers for it could be writing drivers for some other next big thing. If you're offered the choice between a penny and a dollar, you choose the dollar, even if the penny is "all profit".
I'd dare say: longer!
I think you mean "Mac Pro".
(1) you are probably right.

(2) the Mach kernel was originally developed for BSD.

(3) true, they did make a shiny wimp variant.

(4) is that why stuff like rename is not there? The man page for rename is there, but rename isn't for some reason though. I had to rename lots of things and I had to write a script and everything.

(5) an apple is a fruit, not an animal.
I think part of the confusion is due to the fact that you try to cover too many bases: in the tour the first thing is statistics, which implies that it's aimed at content publishers/writers that want to track metrics across social media, but then you speak about finding great content, which implies that it's more like a Google Reader kind of thing (aimed at readers).

I think you should clarify if it's for producers, readers or both. And if it's for both, simplify. Pick one, or maybe have separate pitches (like BuySellAds.com has for advertisers and publishers). Readers are interested in ranking and finding great content (what HN does), writers are interested maybe in stats, spreading their content publishing equally over time and across multiple social platforms.

You probably want to stick with the readers pitch since there are specialized tools for writers that have already significant features which are doing all of the above. For the readers pitch, don't promote too much "statistics", no content consumer wants to deal with statistics, they just want ranking that magically works. If you still want to mention the word, the best you can do is a pitch which tells people they don't have to deal with it ("magic ranking based on insightful analytic statistics that work for you transparently in the background").
I'm ditching ePub. It's a crap format that has a bewildering number of options and it seems every viewer wants to implement some different subset of them.

From now on, it's PDF and HTML only.
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w3m, yes. But xxxterm is basically webkit with vi keybindings, so I don't think Chrome can be all that many years ahead.
Right. I wish we were in a world where you didn't have to remind me of that, and I didn't instantly want to forget about it.
Having capture some part of the articles are very useful, but that is not our target right now. There are lots of services which is doing that already. If our users would like to have that feature; I would definitely implement that.

We let users to tag articles. That's it.
"Very important","Read later" are examples.

Thanks for your kind words.
Works fine in Chromium 21.0.1136.0 (136796).
So what is he doing commenting on an article that talks about this specially priced offering of it?
Other than when compilers are simply not available, a rare occurrence these days (and I will argue "missing the point" if that's the only important property of the language), I am having a difficult time imagining a situation where C works but C++ would not.
Even though I agree with your sentiment, you're comparing a desktop/server with a laptop. One is built to be portable, and will have big tradeoffs because of this.
Nope. In fact I wasn't actually even looking for contract work, although I'm happy to have it.

I've looked a little at some of the sites like ODesk or Elance but all the job listings I saw there and the bids offered were a joke.
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No, it doesn't. Go find middle C. See how on the piano it's in the middle of the piano, and also in the middle of the grand staff? Now, find one of the many on the guitar. Not really in the "middle" are they? Even the left and right hand and the grand staff fit better. The location of submediant, inversions, arpeggios, distance in intervals, all map better on a piano than a guitar.
for what it's worth, based on the review I just linked I would never touch it. (key sentence: "The real problem, though, isn't that the keys aren't cushy enough, but that they're sticky, and sometimes fail to register key presses. Ultimately, we still managed to type the brunt of this review on the Series 9, albeit with copious taps to the Backspace key.") yeah, that's not a laptop I'll be using.
I can't speak for PG but I doubt that he will do an AMA on HN. This is for several reasons including the fact that YC has grown so big now and this is highlighted by the fact Paul doesn't really have time for his essays now apart from ones which are related to YC[1]. Likewise, I don't think Arc has been updated in a while aside from tweaks related to HN either.

If you want to ask him a question - then Askolo is probably the best place to do it & as you can see already there are already a lot of interesting/relevant questions on there already which have been answered.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
Is Apple kinder to developers than google? I always thought it was the other way around but maybe apple's process you before publishing the app is kinder than google's "shoot you in the back" attitude. At least with apple when you are in - chances are that you will stay in...
Reblogging to a place that might help find a good home for your VAX.
Horrible border around the image. And no mention of your inspiration? Come on man, you even use the same spelling type. We can't change the border? Seriously...that's ridiculous.
I'm a bit confused on the concept.
Yes:

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/opening-multiple-proje...
The "Request Invite" thing on the side overlaps the center: http://i.imgur.com/NcFvX.jpg

I'm on a smallish laptop screen, but it's a popular computer (13" Macbook Pro).
I second OpenElec, which is effectively a minimal OS which boots straight to XBMC. I threw it on my aspire revo and it ran beautifully while using under 300mb of HDD. It pulls media wirelessly from my server and I use the android XMBC Remote to control it.
I would warn that it probably worked so well for me because they have a build specifically for nvidia ion graphics based machines. Saying that though, they also have builds for Fusion HTPCs, Intel, XTreamer, Apple TV, and a generic build with or without proprietary graphics drivers.
No, I'm fully blocking and moderating comments. They are for serious students who need help, not drive-by netizens. In the past I had them open, but after the first two hits by HN or reddit I had to lock it down so that students wouldn't get thrashed.
It's been on Windows Phone for over a year and it's the best thing ever :) Not creepy at all, but rather highly practical.
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I am a very experienced C programmer, and I have full comments on any page. You find an error, drop a comment and I'll fix it immediately.

Chances are though, you're someone who read the K&R chapter, then went through nitpicking minor semantics about things like "NULL is 0" and then consider all the code broken in the book.

But, any errors you find, let me know and I'll fix them. Just don't call me an inexperienced C programmer.
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I think, that's a valid point. The reason we show social share to give you a sense how important the content is based on other user's perspective. But that is only a data. If a website does not put Facebook Like button, that does not mean the content is not important.

We're not for content publishers in that sense. We have the data to show, but I don't think that's our core business. ( A case to pivot right? )
Company name I think is weighted higher than title of the app. I remember for a while the top game in the free section was made by a company called "Top Free Angry Zombies" or something like that. That's when you know App Store discovery is broken.
Data is presented to support a point. The charts they showed today weren't fake or twisted stats, but real data, obviously selected from their point of view. The author accuses them of lying or "hiding the truth", and that's a looong stretch.

At no point they suggested that no one uses Windows anymore (everyone knows that would be ridiculous), maybe you're confused by the "adoption" term?. Adoption has nothing to do with market-share, it's about how quick users migrate or install updates. IE vs Chrome/Firefox offers similar stats, with Microsoft far behind - their large user base, fragmented installs, update methods etc. result in slow adoption.
Completely missing the point. Does not take account viewing distance, since that's arcminutes that matter, not DPI.
I guess its another Bookmarking site with options to filter the content what you want and ofcourse intUItive UI :)
Pics: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/15/3021177/lenovo-thinkpad-x1...

There's a few things of interest:

- chiclet, backlit, 6-row keyboard (same as X1)
- new, thinner connector breaking backwards compatibility
- 1600x900 IPS
- no ethernet, requires dock or USB dongle
- no HDMI
- 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0, 1x Mini DisplayPort, SD reader
- embedded 3G

Like Apple, they ditched ethernet and old power cords for slimmer designs.

I personally do not like the chiclet keyboards, but Lenovo has switched to them across the entire Thinkpad line.
IDEs are bad for you. It's much better to simply use a real programmer's editor that you can craft into being what you need. In fact, I can usually take vim plus cscope, exuberant ctags, and ack and demolish any code base you throw at me. Similar with emacs and other power editors.

IDEs are usually useful if you're stuck using them to build GUIs or use specialized build tools they require.
The zombie thing is very cultural and limited in time, it may not be funny after the fashion is gone.
That's intentional for right now. We're also using the same screen size
> the way they hold their value even after a couple of years is simply awesome.

Agreed -- I just sold my 2007 MBP and got enough back to buy a new iPad (retina version). That's more money than most brand new low-end Windows laptops go for (are there any non-low-end Windows laptops? I looked but couldn't find much from the major stores).

If you think about the original price that I paid (£1100) minus the sale price (£400), the total cost is really not that bad...
The password is combined with a random value on each attempt, the hash will change each time.
Makes me curious how you manage to remember all these commands.

Is there some sort of trick you use?
I'm perfectly happy with Scala. Perhaps you could elaborate. Kotlin is clearly based on Scala, even down to many syntax details.
That just sounds like a debate about status - which I appreciate is very important inside academia but far less so outside.
Facebook only shows the number of likes next to its content.

Google doesn't have any kind of "like" number displayed in its search results (except the ordering of the results in itself).

Either way, I wouldn't call any of it "statistics". If you have ranking metrics (social share, etc) which you can put together in a single number, you can display it, Facebook-like, next to the content, but use "ranking" rather than "statistics" in the pitch.
I don't know. I've never heard of them before and I didn't click on them because of this (though I did read all the oatmeal blog posts). Doesn't sound like there's a reason to click on them if they just copy other sites for which Oatmeal has a link to the originators.
Yes... in 2009.
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> 2. I want to ensure that the if the software is improved, then improvements are given back. If it's not happening, I prefer it not to be improved or used.

This is false. You are free to use and improve it, even if you don't want to give your improvements back.

But then you are just not allowed to distribute the software with your changes as closed source.

> It's like one person giving to charities with no preconditions and another giving only to charities that support his political views.

That is a crap analogy.

The people who don't want to open source their improvements to GPL'd code aren't charities, they are businesses who want to make money of other people's work. The GPL provides a kind of compensation to these people for their work. Which is the guarantee that all (distributed) improvements will be GPL'd as well.

That's one of the main reasons why I like the GPL. I know I will in some form be compensated for my labour (as opposed to BSD), in the sense that any improvements to it will come back to me.
ESR's quote of Santayana is not illuminating. He might have quoted Bernard Gert, who wrote that a fanatic is someone who violates a moral rule to follow a moral ideal. A religious fanatic violates a moral rule to follow a religious command. I am unaware that RMS is violating moral rules in the name of free software.
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Your argument does not follow and is an illogical extension. I simply prove that it has a while-loop that won't terminate and use permutations to prove that. The logic proof is valid because I found an instance of the input that would cause it to not terminate.

You can't then extend my argument to mean that all functions should not be called. All functions with unterminated while-loops shouldn't be called, but not all functions.
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I wasn't following WWDC closely, and I was wondering if they mentioned something about opening any maps related API's (specifically directions).

I was working on a project a while ago that used Google Directions API, and I did not like their premium model (since I wanted to distribute the app for free).

Now if Apple opens their own directions API I would like to pick up where I left off:)..
if (somecondition):
return
if (anothercondition):
return

Now, let's say for a second that I just realized I don't
want to return, I want to do some processing, then
return. This happens a few times a day for me. I just
multi-select both "if"s, hit enter, and add the code.

Not a great example, because this only leads to code duplication.
Started and recently published DrinkControl for Android http://drinkcontrolapp.com Taking into account that iOS version brings just about $50/month, no illusions about becoming profitable ever. Still was worth it for understanding Android as development platform and its ecosystem (biggest surprise so far - beeing in Samsung app store is more important than beeing in Google Play).
Its interesting that they broke down their earnings over the 3 months and how certain review sites don't affect sales.

However it took 2 of them 10 months to build it full time? I can understand if they didn't know how to code but it appears that can, I seriously don't get how it took them that long. Sure the app does look great but, this has to be a side project...
The Go runtime creates new threads to run goroutines when a thread is blocked making a syscall. The net package avoids having too many threads blocking on syscalls by using epoll/kqueue etc. for socket I/O.
I guess you are aware Sublime Text 2 has a Vim mode. As someone who's gone "far in Vim's world", how do you think this compares to regular Vim? I'm starting to learn Vim commands in ST2 but I don't know if "proper" Vim is required to get fully into Vim.
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