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I really love Arch, but for me the reason it's segregated to a VM is:

- power management: Linux does not hold a candle to OSX (which is able to shutdown entire components like soundcard, webcam dynamically when not in use)

- Lion's external display+lid+sleep behavior: external screen+AC power makes lid-close sleep inoperant, so I can just plug both lid closed and my laptop wakes up to be a desktop (bluetooth input devices help a lot). Conversely unplugging either makes it go to sleep, back in laptop mode.
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Personally I don't live in TLV, not even close. What would you say about that? How's the Eritreans are related to how foreign innocent people are almost violently forced to reveal their most private assets (gmail accounts for example) in our air ports? Doesn't it make you a little bit uncomfortable? or would you rather sacrifice any aspect of other people's personal freedom (as long as its not your privacy that is being compromised .. ) for a false selfish notion of safety?
An upvote wasn't enough for me, wanted to just say that this was an awesome post.
repsilat and ceph_ are right, but I'll add that it's noteworthy that askscience is good. Askscience is a default subreddit, meaning that everyone who joins reddit sees it and is drawn into the conversation. Large subreddits with lots of newbies tend to be... problematic.
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It's anyone's guess how successful W8 will be in the long run. Windows market share on the PC is still nearly 90%. The big question is, how will it do in the tablet market?

If you look at the WP7 case, it's not promising. Even after nearly two years, WP7 doesn't even have 5% market share. Sales aren't sufficient to support most developers.

That said, it's an earlier phase in the development of the tablet market. It's quite possible that MS will fare better here. One reason WP7 didn't do so well is that all of the other hardware manufacturers (excluding Apple, obviously) had already jumped on the Android bandwagon and were doing well there. The same can't be said of the tablet space at this point.

Every non Apple hardware manufacturer wants to have a real horse in the tablet game. It could be argued that the Android tablets were an opportunity for manufacturers to get their game in order for W8 (this, and mobile experience, for those that develop phones). There will be a ton of marketing money behind W8 in the coming year, driven, in part, by all of the hardware partners that MS works with.

MS has a great development tool chain. They also have excellent UX research backing W8 and the experience is likely to be much better on W8 for the average tablet user.

My guess is that by the time W9 ships, MS will have significant market share and they will have sorted out most of the kinks with W8. It's early days right now and there are likely to be some bumps. This will be a bit like Vista vs. W7. The first version was pretty good for what it was and they nailed it in the second release. The difference is that this time, the "first version" is quite good, given the significant departure from the past.

If you've got Windows experience, I would say, go for it. In particular, if you've done any Silverlight or WPF, the learning curve is mostly behind you. If not, you've got several avenues to approach it: HTML/CSS/JS or C#/XAML, or even C++ with XAML or DirectX. There will be a learning curve, of course.

If you're looking for a new opportunity, to be honest, I can't think of anything else on the near horizon that compares. It could be, meh, but it could also be huge. Good luck.
I'm confused - tightly focused groups with high entry requirements may be able to get away with less moderation, but how would you create something more general-purpose, like HN?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053359 <- This has comments
I'm on here and living in Tallinn. Most foreign techies I know here in Estonia are on HN.
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It's a bit more complicated than that. Valve is hedging their bets against a Windows 8 win.

Microsoft is playing a longer game than most people can see. So is Valve.
Could it be that the same people that work at Google and post to Hacker News regularly still work at Google and post to Hacker News regularly?
Oracle lost face on this one. They now look like reactionaries who tried to sue progress and lost. This paragraph stands out "Is Oracle moving away from competitive product marketing to a more defensive Intellectual Property litigation strategy?"

Welcome to Deadendville, Oracle: population you & other patent trolls!
I don't think businesses are overwhelmingly or crushingly complex, because mortals successfully run them all the time. I run three, despite not being an untouchable ubermench, and by the standards of my fiancees' best friends my work style looks indistinguishable from being unemployed.

I do think, though, that even low-sophistication one-man-shop businesses are substantially more complex than "focus 100% on product and everything turns out cool."

Don't worry, I'm not saying this to drum up consulting business. All of my clients are waaaaay past the point where what I said here would be controversial. Many of them have CEOs who describe their own jobs as figuring out ways to protect the engineering team from the other 90%.
You can explain anything if you try hard enough, even the bible...
Despite the hacks (unnecessary since cross-domain xhr), the security benefits of same-origin remain.
"In a way, it wasn’t really a sense of accomplishment for us; the funding simply signified the beginning of additional hard work to be done and the responsibility we owed to our investors."

I like to think this is the attitude I'd have if I ever got funded. I see the same thing play out with grant funding in education. Sometimes big grants are seen as piles of cash; the educators I respect most always see big grants as the beginning of some hard but hopefully meaningful work.
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I saw this post from another post, and I was wondering if this was a bug.
Just did, and I'm mentioning that here so the OP won't get multiple correction votes. :)

Nevertheless, I don't really agree with fleitz. Haphazardly throwing cheese, sauce, and pepperoni together on dough never makes good pizza (in my not so unbiased opinion as a New Yorker). While good pizza recipes obviously require trial and error to get there, they need to be built on a foundation of deep understanding. See http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm to get a feel for how difficult it actually is to make good pizza. You can have a successful business without a great product if your location and marketing are good, but I would not be happy running a successful software business that didn't sell good software. So I'm focusing this post on the quality of the business's product, not on how much revenue it makes. While you don't have to be the smartest person in the room to build a great product, you would need to be a great founder and be very good at surrounding yourself with smart people and knowing how to make them operate at their smartest, knowing which suggestions to follow, etc. Average founders almost never luck out completely (and stay successful) and in the specific case of pizza, the New Yorker in me doesn't believe that's possible. :)

That being said, the original OP (I know that seems redundant) was talking about the person with the fewest specific skills, not the least intelligent. Most great founders probably have intelligence or skills, if not both.
Yesterday I've made a subscription to Hacker Monthly for the first time :)

The selected news (they're the most-voted articles found on hacker news) seem very interesting, but unluckily on my Cybook Odyssey there is a bad rendering of 80% of images.
One suggestion I'd make is organize your deadlines by what gives you the most tangible results - for example visual results (ie, your prototype shows visible milestones).

This will give you a kind of pat-on-the-back moment that motivates you to keep going to your end-goal.

This is harder with textbooks, so hopefully they have good exercises or are somehow tangible relevant.
It would be fantastic to see this judge presiding over a lot more patent issue cases.
I think the key difference here is differentiating between a "software engineer" and a "programmer." It's a very blurry line, but the idea should shed some new light on arguments of the form "I've never used college calculus to develop web-apps, therefore math is useless for a software engineer."

This isn't meant to disparage programmers; I am merely saying we should take note when we have our "programmer" hat on, vs. when we're wearing our software engineer fedora.
Email me at cheng.soon@hackermonthly.com. I'm sure there will be a way to fix this.
You're probably right about the silent but wise but unfortunately on HN you cannot be silent and have downvote privileges.

Edit: To be clear, it's not unfortunate that the silent probably won't be downvoting, it's the wise we're missing out on.
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I couldn't agree more. Same-origin is one of the most important components of browser security.

JSON-P doesn't mean that same-origin is a waste of time just because there's a work-around - it demonstrates that sites should be allowed to opt-out of same-origin protection if they have a reason to, leading to the development of CORS.

Without same-origin protection, I could run JavaScript on any website which silently used XMLHttpRequest to steal information from a web server running on your company's internal intranet. All I'd have to do then is trick you in to visiting my site.
Maybe coming from a web development background has left me paranoid, but this just screams scary to me.
That does make sense now. Thanks!
Bug.n is the closest thing I've ever found. However it still leaves much to be desired. http://www.autohotkey.net/~joten/
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I think Oracle got into this fight partly due to Ellison's friendship with SJ. It's surprising how many lawsuits can come out of one man's hatred for Android.
A few reasons why:

* Part time workers tend to go away. Leaving you having to find another person to fill that role. Hiring is expensive. Getting new employees up to speed is expensive.

* When a part time worker leaves, they take away their knowledge of the business. This is scary to some because folk worry about competitors. This is scary to all because it's knowledge that you need to build up again internally. Your staff are an asset.

* Startups need to build teams. It's much harder to build teams when some of the members aren't their for 50% or more of the time.

Flip it around.

Would you hire somebody half time if they told you that they were spending the rest of their time focusing on their own startup? Would you think that they'd be really focussed on your work? Would you think they'd be more or less likely to leave on short notice if their startup took off? Would you be a little bit nervous that they'd be taking stuff they'd learned from you and maybe using it to their own advantage and your expense?
Could you elaborate on what some of the bugs you ran into were? I came across it the other day and was eager to try it, but reticent to spend the $10 without a demo (currently in between jobs)
I know it sounds harsh, but at that price point, I can understand that. Money is finite, and choices must be made. That £3000 a month could possibly be spent elsewhere with greater benefits for the health of the society.

Reading http://www.nice.org.uk/newsroom/features/measuringeffectiven..., that is exactly what they try to do.
How? Thinkpads are Intel reference designs with a plastic black case, and Macbooks are Intel reference designs with an aluminium case.
Feedback has been awesome! Lots of people are putting in special places (where I've traveled with my wife, where I've lived in America, special places for my boyfriend and I) and are either making them as mementos or gifts.

Genuinely curious, what do you think jewelry-like shapes look like?
The more difficult the tools he knows (and in the case of Matlab, you actually need to know math to make real use of it), the less competition there is. For C/C++, at the very least he can look into Embedded Systems, where you do need to know C/C++.
The Linux kernel is capable of commanding individual devices to power off. Run powertop and it will show you what's using power and offer to turn it off. My experience with Thinkpads (from two or three years ago) is that running Windows gives you about 10 hours of battery life while doing essentially nothing, while running Linux gives you 8 hours. Both are so high that it doesn't really matter. My X220 has never run out of battery, and I fly a lot and don't really plug my laptop in at home, so 8 hours is apparently enough.

For your second point, just explicitly command your computer to do what you want. If you want it to go to sleep, type "acpitool -s". If you don't want it to go to sleep, don't type that.

If you like OS X, use it, but if you hate OS X and are only using it because of the two issues you list above, that's crazy :)
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Judge William Haskell Alsup, I salute you. I'm outside the US and have been steadily losing faith in it's legal system because of the rampant patent trolling and idiotic laws, but it is very refreshing to see someone take the time and effort to finely hone a decision like this. Very nicely done.
The nVidia/ATI drivers on Linux aren't nearly as good, either.

In what way?
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Don't MySQL slaves pull from the master, rather than the master pushing? In the Oracle way, the transactions are on the standby, just not applied yet. In the event of a catastropic failure of the primary, you're still covered.
If you go to the site via Google you don't get the paywall: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Google+to+start+charging+c...
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Lacking semicolons is an error, most validators error on it unless you tell them to ignore it.
As someone who has had some contact - both second- and first-hand - with the court system (albeit not the American one), this is extremely heartening.

Most people can't imagine how ass-backwards some judges' decisions can be. It's refreshing to see one that not only makes sense, but is also thoroughly researched and backed up by a good knowledge of the facts and intricacies of the subject at hand.

Unfortunately, it's likely this is due to the high profile of the case and the deep pockets of the litigants. Don't expect the judge in your case to be nearly as invested and well-versed.
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I tried quite a few taskmanagement approaches. Biggest problem i have is that more work is coming in than i can handle. The list gets longer and longer and finally i give it up. Maybe i need some automatic deletion :)
I was bit surprised that Oracle didn't call for mistrial because the Judge knew stuff.
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I wonder what is the judge Aslup's knowledge or programming languages etc?
Software is now 10% of your working life.

Y'know. I think some folk mis-read this as implying that 10% == unimportant. Which I'm sure is not @patio11's point.

It's still vitally important that you execute superbly on that 10%.

It's just that that other 90% needs to get done too.

You can partner up. You can hire folk. Doesn't matter who does it as long as it gets done..

I've got a superb freelance accountant and a superb non-developer full-time partner in my business which means I get to spend a lot more than 10% of my time coding. And I'm more service that software - so coding is what we sell to some extent. But looking at hours spent by everybody it's still around 20-30% coding, 60-80% everything else.

[Edit: Another thing. I bet some folk read 10%==coding==fun. 90%==not-coding==not-fun. Some of that 90% is dull as ditchwater. Sorting out PAYE and tax returns is not my idea of entertainment. Great chunks of it are fascinating though. Figuring out product/market fit. Talking to clients and users about their problems. Meeting new people. Seeing those metrics and figuring out "oh shit - that's where it's going wrong". And so on. All great stuff.]
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I use Arch + Xmonad at work and I simply love it as the OP does. Sometimes I need to work from home and I don't want to keep two laptops here, so I need to use my old 2008 unibody Macbook.

Working in OSX with Vim and console is painful after the Linux experience. Installing lots of utilities might help, but I chose to install Ubuntu with Xmonad and after couple of hours I had my favorite environment ready for productive work.

I know that the support for newer Apple technologies is not so good in Linux, so when this old laptop finally dies I need to buy a new one from some other manufacturer.
I was reading your description and had the vision of a randomly generated 3d fractal-like sculpture based on your current location.

Then again, why base it on your location? Generate a hash from the combined names of you and your partner and create a 3d sculpture from that.

I might be just rambling here but I certainly can see how 3d printing is creating new businesses.
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Your first two are basically "Part time workers tend to go away" then explaining why that's bad. I agree that high/fast worker turnover is a bad for a knowledge business like ours, but do they tend to go away faster than full-time workers? On what are you baseing that? I'm not sure I've seen that.

Also, OP didn't say that the job that turned him down was a start-up. Team building is important, but it can still happen with part-time workers. Especially if your an established IT business that can parcel out small bits of self-contained work to part-timers, it's not a insurmountable problem.

(OP: Good Q, I've also noticed this in the UK. No idea why tho.)
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It's horrible. You don't need API, just give to clients of your API credentials to your database and they will use DB directly. And it still will be horrible (because only good way to use application by another application is API, not direct access to data).
Also, stored procedures is a bad thing - business logic should be written in code, not in data and not in the database.
Even obvious and self-evident theorems are still useful. The first theorem of graph theory is almost trivial. (If you add up all the degrees of the nodes in a graph, you have 2 times the number of edges.)
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Philosophers generally do. It's mathematicians and the like who have actually run with it for very far. Though I did take an interesting advanced logic philosophy course once, learned a few three-valued logics.
It was asked almost year ago.
A little Googling tells me this has been around since at least January 2010. Anyone know if this caught on anywhere, or why not?
I will also add that with many of these "window managers" you get the terribly annoying behaviour of one window's shadow disturbing the content of its neighbours.

Just yesterday I found ShadowKiller[1] that removes window shadows for all OSX windows, making it feel even more like a true tiling window manager.

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So what if it is elitism?

Elitism is a great thing provided that the elites become elites not by reason of birth, but because they are the most skilled or knowledgeable.

You don't have an issue with elitism when it comes to doctors, do you?

No forum I know of has lasted long enough to a second generation of users.
If html content is loaded using ajax, you have to give the URL of the Ajax request html. See http://apify.heroku.com/resources/4fc2a234ae684d0001000008/e... for example.

It won't work for #! URLs. Twitter has a nice streaming API for search if that's what you're looking for.
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Along similar lines, I wondered whether making up votes have a steadily decreasing effect (say, first up vote is 5 points, then 2.5, then 1.25) and down votes have a steadily increasing effect (0.375, 0.75, 1.25...) would be wise.
That's all good and well, but I'm not sure I understand what it brings compared to std::vector with a good allocator.

In addition, it does not support concurrent growth.
I somewhat sympathise with people who are reluctant to hire part-timers. A lot of coders' time is lost to context switching, and working part time is likely to exacerbate that problem. Also there's a high chance that if you're doing something non-trivial you'll end up passing unfinished code between you and your colleagues, which may be painful and frustrating for both of you.

That said, the number of part-time opportunities in tech seems ridiculously low, and even considering those issues I can't see how it makes sense given that tech largely seems like a seller's market at the moment. For the time being I'm happy doing full time contract stints, but one day I'd quite like to cut down my hours, and it would be nice if I didn't have to exit the IT industry to do so.
I don't think it's so much about bootstrapping vs. funded as just being frugal.

Not all bootstrapped companies are low on money, some had plenty of their own to put in, or others have achieved profitability.

This is a way of running a company for sure, but I think it would be better put as "Frugal is a state of mind".
But it's only going to help men with aggressive prostate cancer that can't be cured with surgery because it's already metastasized.

But since my Dad died of exactly that seven years ago, and there seems to be at least some genetic component to folk who get aggressive prostrate cancer, it's cheered me up quite a bit.
> Also, stored procedures is a bad thing - business logic should be written in code, not in data and not in the database.

Why?

Your post generally makes a lot of criticisms, but fails to back up any of the points made.
Its actually OpenID and users can use more accounts than just a Google one.

Everyone should support OpenID and OAuth with a site specific sign up as a reluctant fall-back.
The footnote says these figures are from a sample of online consumers, so people without internet who watch TV haven't been counted.