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While programming problems these days might not be so academic, or theoretical as they used to be, there are still plenty of things to solve. Why does this program do strange things, how can we glue these components together, how do I make this program do Y when it does X.
So he is suggesting Alan Turing’s homosexuality to be caused by strained relationships with parents… still seeing being gay as some kind of personality disorder, that could have been avoided by people taking better care of Turing?
See also: The death of Gareth Williams, a brilliant young mathematician and cryptographer who died in mysterious circumstances in 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
My god, you're right! There is a witch-hunt for men going on by the women invading our industry. Its high time for us to stand up to it.
Here's my attempt, without talking about apples or anything:

Essentially, the 'money supply' is determined by the central bank, since they are the issuers of money. You can read on your US dollars that they are issued by the federal reserve. An excellent measure of the money supply is NGDP, since this is the number of dollars traded every year (that sort of quantifies how many dollars are available to be captured by working, trade, etc.). Unfortunately, in 2008, the US Fed decided to adopt an ultra-tight monetary policy, resulting in a severe drop-off in NGDP relative to previous trend (the worst since the Great Depression, graphs here: http://marketmonetarist.com/2012/06/19/guest-post-measuring-...)

It does not look like it will ever recover to the previous trend, so the money supply is much smaller than people would have expected before 2008. In theory, the nominal value of money shouldn't matter in the long run. However, since people before 2008 signed contracts (read, 30-year mortgages) anticipating a much higher aggregate money supply, this has triggered a shortfall in demand ever since, which has left our economy in the tank.
I'd cut it right back to people merely being weird and antagonistic for no reason. It's easier to realize sometimes you're just the latest random target of a touchy, unstable human animal and drive away as if in a safari park.

We had a woman come up to us on vacation and say our 2 year old daughter was an "evil little thing" merely for chattering away while eating lunch. I said nothing and just grinned at her until she popped a vein and stormed off. There are plenty of antagonistic oddballs out there, just grin at 'em (or don't reply to their e-mails) until they go away or start being civil and rational.
Yeah, twice as strong but pushing four times the pixels, I think a lot of people get easily confused. What can you do but hope the hardware improves more I guess.
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I agree. The lack of RSS is inexcusable. RSS feeds can easily be implemented without the using know they're there.
It would have been great if apple introduced a regular macbook pro with an IPS screen. I have a hi-res 15.4" macbook pro and a 1080p Dell XPS 16. Both are non-IPS. I recently picked up a Lenovo 12.5 HD IPS screen which is lower DPI than either the mac or the dell. However after using the lenovo for a couple of days I'm blown away how shitty both the mac and the dell screens looked (dull, like someone had put a film on top). Given many applications are not ready for retina display, apple could have used their supply chain prowess to get an IPS display on their regular macbook pro line.
I hope you also enjoy the 25% unemployment in Spain...
The 'value' of the currency ultimately comes from people's opinion in it, and whether or not it is legal tender is just one influence on that opinion. You might be forced to accept payment in a currency but that doesn't mean you value the currency much. Eg the Zimbabwe dollar.
As a casual PC user, some of the stereotypes are not unfounded. In my experience I know of quite a few pro-Apple and anti-Apple extremists. Just looking at them quarrel makes me wonder what do they put in those products?
The URGE to get a new one is irrational. We dont see that on PC when a new graphic card comes out or something. The iPad replacement pace is massive and hysterical.
The circumstances are a bit different from SGI and HP; Microsoft couldn't care less if SGI or HP sank, Windows already had a near-stranglehold on the market and there was no shortage of companies willing to produce Windows boxes. Now, WP is seriously behind in the market and they desperately need a first-tier vendor dedicated to them (Huawei is relatively unknown, HTC is struggling, and Samsung's are an afterthought to the money-printing Android based SGS line), so Microsoft needs Nokia's clout as much as Nokia needs MS's cash. Even assuming treachery, Nokia's worst case here is more then likely getting bought vs. being left for dead like SGI.
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Don't forget "Requiring automatic dynamic memory management ("garbage collection") is several orders of magnitude less efficient than letting developers use stack and manual memory management"

This is kind of like saying "Writing in FORTRAN is several orders of magnitude less efficient than letting developers use assembly" yes, a smart enough engineer can write assembly that is, at worst, no slower than FORTRAN (proof by fact that FORTRAN compiles to assembly). But this doesn't mean that on real-world projects FORTRAN won't win.
There are several free OSM tile servers too, so you don't even need to host yourself. MapQuest's is probably the most generous: you can use it completely free, even in paid apps and webapps. They just request that you let them know in advance if you plan to distribute an app where you anticipate very high usage (currently defined as >4,000 tiles/second). http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/map
The US states, largely, have very little debt. Many of them have legally banned themselves from deficit spending.
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Wonder if you still have to pay $10K a year just to get SSL. This is one of the biggest reasons, ok, the only reason we've used Bing or OSM for many of our clients.
Considering the 10.3% unemployment rate in the EU right now, I doubt your fellow Europeans share the same viewpoint.

(http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....)
That guy is talking about stock value, not money itself.
Oh man, have I got a few EPROMS I'd love this guy to dump.

Yamaha A5000 Sampler: I'm looking at you.
I have no argument with the financial conclusions he draws - yes, Nokia has lost vast market share, profit and the value of the company has suffered as a result.

What I disagree with is his mindset: it is all Elop's fault, and there is a vast Microsoft conspiracy to destroy Nokia.

I don't agree with Elop's decision to go to Windows Phone. But I do agree with Elop's conclusion that the Nokia platform(s) were "burning" and that they should be abandoned.

I think he should have gone with Android, but I understand the reasons why he went with WinPhone.

Meanwhile, Tomi Ahonen still claims that Meego was the ultimate solution to all of Nokia's problems. Ahonen has never accepted that Meego was 2 years too late for it to be a viable player, and he's never accepted that Nokia isn't a big enough player to build a sustainable ecosystem around an operating system that was so late.
Yeah probably ;) except I find Universality Principle to be the hardest topic of that course.
I wonder if will affect Geocoding limits too?

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#...
Yes, they will need to be updated, for the most part. I am fairly sure that Sublime Text 2 was Retina-ready after a couple of days from Apple's announcement, though.
"if it will"
Sorry, but I would never use this, nor recommend it to anybody.

You make it sound like you left out features, because you wanted to keep it simple, but that really just comes off as you being lazy.

RSS could be implemented, without the user of your application knowing it's there.

Besides, on http://teh.oarsum.com/, the links don't work. They're going to /posts\article-name.html, not /posts/article-name.html as they should.

Another thing is you're talking about simplicity, yet you include Bootstrapper.

I realize that Bootstrapper is probably not included by default and is something you added in the template, but it just emphasizes the fact that you have mixed goals.

Besides, you don't really use anything from Bootstrapper other than the spans. On top of that, you haven't bothered to edit the LESS files to fit your needs, instead you just overwrite that with another CSS. That is not simplicity, that is just laziness.

And last, but definitely not least... Quirks Mode. Just no.
It's pretty incredible how this game gets so difficult so quickly.
As I use my MBP for Audio/Sessions and other media stuff, mostly, I absolutely need 17" screen, field-replaceable batteries, and an ExpressPort slot.

So I think the "Pro" bit is a bit of a stretch these days ..
I agree with you technically speaking, but another way of thinking about it is that cashflow is really what we think of when we think "quantity of money" (Adam Smith, a gold piece that sits in a chest is realy not part of the money supply, yaddayadda). Cashflow (aka NGDP) is actually way down: http://marketmonetarist.com/2012/06/19/guest-post-measuring-...

...it looks like this is the distinction you're making when you say Aggregate demand, I'm really just adding this comment to help other people better understand your comment.
> if Android was based on Qt/c++, not java, then Android would be the perfect platform!

No, it wouldn't. It's significantly easier for bad developers to make mistakes in C++ than in Java (one of Java's few advantages). Manual memory management alone would account for a significant increase in crashy apps. And while afaik, iOS has manual memory management, it also has Apple's App Store review process to at least ensure apps don't crash from a segfault every second launch, or similar issues.
He was also a classic example of a British eccentric inventor, at one point he fashioned his own mercury delay lines for digital storage.

I have no trouble at all with the notion that he (foolishly) had a small unventilated room with cyanide, mercury, bismuth, probably a small kiln furnace for metal casting, floor to ceiling racks of odds and ends and semi regular small explosions and benchtop melt downs.

It's a lifestyle that's accidentally killed more than one person and it could very well have claimed Turing.
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I think the point is that your success with Qt doesn't really have a lot of impact on the possibility of Nokia shipping a successful consumer-mobile phone that happens to have a UI written in Qt.
Why is it hysterical or irrational? The new model provides significant advantages to the consumer.

It costs about as much as a fancy new video card, and is much easier for users to replace than a video card. Plus, they can sell the old one, or hand it down to spous/kids/etc.
I was curious about that, too, because it's the same reason we use Bing instead of Google Maps. Their FAQ made it sound like it's free, but I didn't do any serious investigating yet.
It's set by supply and demand, not by logical inference. Low risk investments are more in demand, driving their price up and thus lessening their return. High risk investments are in less demand, so their price falls, making the return higher.
A certain ideal or principle of freedom is what interests you about Bitcoin. Author of grandparent might have different reasons for his interest in Bitcoin. So, the contradiction or double standard you see is not really there.
So, what you are saying is, that it doesn't exist? Why is no one building this? I understand, that there is less demand than for web search. But there still is a lot of demand from smart and skilled people, no?
I'm curious why the hostility. Isn't Google's positioning little more than a simple factor in your decision making process as to which mapping provider you wish to use? Indeed, I'm wondering why the HN crowd isn't _upset_ at the reduced pricing, because now it reduces the incentive to use (and contribute to, improve) OSM.
One thing that wasn't addressed in the article: Unlike the 80s or early 90s, online anonymous discourse is now a mainstream activity. The standards for discourse on practically everything -- politics, local news, technology, style, health, etc. -- tend toward rudeness, hyperbole and ad hominem attacks.

Another trend: Writers are no longer seen as a protected class. Magazines, newspapers and broadcasters and other professional gatekeepers (PR agencies, marketers, etc.) used to control the discussion. While they still guide and feed the discussions, readers know they make mistakes and have biases. To many, the media is suspected of being under the thrall of some perceived agenda (liberal media, Apple fanboy, shill for XYZ).
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Fair enough. It does present an interesting scenario where there's suddenly an increase in good Qt developers in the market.

Since RIM is doubling-down on Qt for BlackBerry 10, it allows them to recruit experienced developers to help them. Maybe they can leverage it to pull off something similar to Apple with NeXT.

Here are some job postings:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QAwzH5I...

http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/17584
The title might be clearer as "will use less resources." I expected to see, say, Flashblock, which would be an extension that helps use less memory.
Thanks a bunch! I read most by now. Very interesting. Especially the Quora thread, because you get almost a discussion of several professors.
The "glare handling" pictures makes me wonder why anybody would buy a portable device (=to sometimes be used outdoors) and be happy with those outrageous reflections. I mean, you can barely see the content!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...

With the new decice, Aplle again tries to makes those unusable mirrors the only display you can order. I'll pass.
This isn't really surprising when you think about human nature. We tend to create rivalries where none should exist. Country vs country, state vs state, college vs college, high school vs high school, team A vs team B, boys vs girls, company vs company, department vs department, ... well, I think you get my point. People are tribal and competitive. Tech fanboyism is just an extension of that.
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Not one person likes to be wrong about the choices we make. That's human nature. Some individuals have a need to defend these choices to death, even when faced with greater realities that negate anything they could possibly say about their choice. I remember one guy who would show-up at these professional meetings around the time the iPhone came out. He would make it a point to go around the room and tell everyone that his Blackberry was the only professional business phone out. I was using Blackberry myself at the time and had done so for ten years. Even I thought he was beyond weird. He simply didn't want to be wrong. Never bothered to engage with him in any way. It was pointless.

There's also a tribal or team-oriented element. This effect is often seen in fora such as, yes, HN. Group behavior is also a very natural human trait. Some find it hard to resist it. If you dare go against tribal dogma you become the subject of a brutal "coordinated" attack. Unless you have a thick skin these events can be emotionally draining.

It is often hard to be the one thinking outside the group. People have a natural aversion to change and will resist and attack anything that goes against the direction of group thought. Either join them or deal with the punches. Just remember that all nearly all great discoveries stemmed from questioning what the majority took to be the truth, sometimes at great personal risk. The message is that, just because everyone thinks a certain way, behaves a certain way, supports a certain product it doesn't mean they are right. It just means that they are doing what "everyone else" is doing.

It'd be interesting to see the range of hate-mail these tech columnists get.
Smart guy, yes, very smart indeed, but to describe him as "largely responsible" is a disservice to men like William Thomas Tutte, Tommy Flowers and a number of other contemporary collegues who contributed as much but with less fanfare.
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What hype? pip can uninstall packages. This is a very hard feature to live without for everyone. Binary eggs seem to have a devoted following but are not a universal need.
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iPhone 3GS will be 3 years old when iOS 6 is released.

iPhone 4 will be 2 years old. It will only lack Siri, FaceTime over cellular network and support for 'Made for iPhone' hearing aids.

I wouldn't call that 'most features'.
I think it's actually most fields that have that. Listen to people talk about places they've visited and you get some of the same things. It might be that just because this is online, in a tech forum, we see that kind of anger about tech.
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QNX is a true microkernel that allows true scalability, multitasking, and sandboxing. Honestly, just look at the PlayBook OS and BlackBerry 10, and you can see what's possible vs. Darwin.

Also, the fact that it's POSIX compliant helps immensely when porting existing code.

Moreover, RIM is doubling-down on Qt. It's unclear what this move by Nokia does, but I think you'll see a lot of Qt developers being hired by RIM. Whether they'll pick up the project and run with it is another story.
> It's tragic either way, of course.

True. But the point being it may have been criminal, or perhaps not even remotely related to his sexuality.
you're always advised to skip Apple's first generation products. Sure, If they're faulty, they'll change them for you; but it's still a hassle and you can bet 400 dollars the second iteration would be much more powerful and much cheaper (like Air). So if you're like me and your old computer still works reasonably well, skip this generation.
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First, it doesn't matter if Microsoft's "platform support" was contingent on giving up other options. There is one and only one circumstance under which a company like Nokia should be willing to give up their strategic flexibility like that. And that's if Microsoft were willing to acquire them (then-and-there not a few years later when they're cheaper).

Nokia's market cap was over $38B at the end of 2010. It was just under $32B at the end of Q1 2011 (after the "burning platforms" memo). It is under $9B today. As you note, not all of that is Windows Phone, but plenty of it is. Microsoft's $1B/year is peanuts. To put it another way, how much was avoiding the "Nokia rejects Windows Phone" headline worth to Microsoft? Plenty more than $1B/year, I bet.

Second, Nokia's feature phone business is one big reason to have an Android project going. Low-end Android phones are one of the big things eating feature phones. Until recently, Nokia had been spending plenty of effort (e.g. Meltemi) trying to create something to compete with Android at the low end. They shouldn't have been re-inventing the wheel. They should have picked up Android and leaned on some of their other strengths (e.g. manufacturing, distribution, etc.) to win low-end devices.

Third, I don't think Qt is a magic elixir. Establishing a Qt ecosystem easily might not have worked. But it was a way to transition off Symbian without immediately deprecating those devices (and we saw how immediate deprecation turned out). And it was a decent story to tell developers: "Build with Qt and you can make your app available on every mobile platform you care about (except maybe Blackberry)". Of course the devil is in the details and it wouldn't be that easy, but plenty of developers want a cross-platform mobile story. It could have been the hook that got an ecosystem off the ground, so it was at least worth trying. And if it didn't work, you'd have been offering devices from each of the alternative platforms you could consider. It would be a lot easier to pick if you could see how those devices were doing in the marketplace.

Fourth, the measure of success of including Android (and I'll emphasize again that I didn't say don't do Windows Phone, too) isn't whether they would have remained profitable while doing so. It is whether they would have had better options today and would they have lost less money along the way. I think the answer is obviously yes on both counts. If nothing else, being able to point to a more successful Android line and a less successful Windows Phone line would have driven up their eventual acquisition price.
In reality, if the platform looks like it could be successful, developers will suck it up and write software for it.

I'm sure many developers find Objective-C/Cocoa/Xcode to be a terrible development environment, but they do it anyway, because that's where the action is.

I don't think many people have the type of religious aversion to Windows or non-Apple platforms that Marco is alluding to.

(Also, are there really any high-profile iOS apps remaining that aren't already available on Android because the developer refuses to write software for Android? Instapaper and Flipboard were the biggest I could think of and it's not true for those 2 anymore)
How do you use rpm to provide isolation of dependencies and simple control of PYTHONPATH? This lack of awareness shows that you don't understand the purpose of virtualenv. Nobody is arguing about the utility of packages, but you really don't understand the Python world at all if you think that packaging systems cover the use case of virtualenv.
RIM has contracted KDAB to port Qt 4.8 and Qt 5 to the BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10. I think we'll see RIM react to this announcement by hiring more developers. We've already seen that happen, see the postings below.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QAwzH5I...

http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/17584
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I can't tell if your original comment was more than a rant. In some sense you own those bits, but not in a way that is useful to you. Starting with just the bits, it's going to be a lot of work to make iTunes skinnable, and you likely won't be able to distribute your changes legally.

It seems similar to ranting that Miles Davis has recorded all of these long boring solos on _your_ CDs. You could spend your time editing them out, you could demand an edited reissue from the publisher, you could just listen to something else, or you could learn to play trumpet and record something you'd rather listen to. The least useful option seems to be posting to HN.
> "mysterious circumstances"

"His decomposing naked remains were found in a red North Face bag, padlocked from the outside, in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom."

The mystery being how he managed to lock the bag from the inside.
OSM will eventually become the standard and Google has, somewhat, contributed to that.

Google may have messed up, initially, but the future of mapping solutions never belonged to anyone.
I think it's more likely that RIM will pick up the slack. Whether they actually buy it is a different story.
Its almost a syndrome, where many (not all) Microsoft shops can't envision using something in addition to what MS offers, even if the effect is positive for the developers, users, budget, timeline, etc.