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Ahem.

I am somewhat disappointed that you have not presented one solid argument in favor of this new 'person to blame' field. The whole idea seems to hinge on the following quote:
"so why not throw in a small dose of public shaming for good measure?"

And the answer is simple. It doesn't do any good, and can only hurt the performance of you and your team. Let me put this as simple as possible: shaming DECREASES performance. The fact that you apparently think this is 'fun' does not change this.

I will now return you to your regularly scheduled debate.
In my experience, Linux is actually easier to maintain.

For example, when I was using OS X (several years ago, now), I could not figure out how to update Java. Apparently it involved using the "Software Center", but it didn't actually work, so I was stuck with the old version. So the project I was working on in Windows at the time just didn't work on OS X because it was using new APIs. Absurd! I've never had a problem like that on Linux.

More recently, I tried to install Git on OS X (without administrator access). It was a horrible pain, so now I only ever log on to the Linux servers at school.

Also, there is no way "drag install" is easier (after learning about it) than "yum install", or whatever your distro provides. I don't have to find anything to drag; if I want to install something, I can just type its name in an voila, I have it. What about programs not in the repository? Well, they're easy too, assuming the vendor packaged it up for you (but you have to assume the same on OS X). I needed to install a beta version of MongoDB recently; all I had to do was download the RPM, click on it and enter my password.

Now, I agree that Linux alone does not make you more productive. But a Linux configured to do exactly what you want? Now that's productive! On OS X, I can't have a full-screen program on one screen and a couple of programs on the other. On Linux (at least with KDE), that is just a couple of settings away. And, to me, that's extremely important: I want to maximize my Emacs space as much as possible on one monitor while having a browser and some other stuff open on my other screen. I've already gotten rid of the flanges, the tool bar and the menu bar of Emacs; it seems silly to have window borders and the annoying OS X top bar still there!

However, the point isn't that any one feature (like the full-screen windows) is important to everybody. Rather, the point is that you can set pretty much any feature that is important up. Sure it's more difficult to configure than OS X--but you can actually configure it! That is exactly what I was talking about when I said O(1): to get a computer that behaves exactly how I want it to behave is only possible on Linux and takes a constant amount of time.

Coincidentally, it isn't even strictly easier to set OS X up for some really basic things. For example, a bunch of people I know use Emacs and LaTeX for a bunch of different things. On Linux, I just type sudo yum install auctex and it gets everything for me. My friend on OS X? He spent hours trying to set everything up correctly, and I'm not sure it all worked in the end.

Also, for what it's worth, I've had the best luck with fonts on Linux. Not only do they look great, but the one I use for programming actually supports all the symbols I need. I want to be able to read and use Greek letters and all sorts of math symbols without worrying, and Deja Vu is the only set of typefaces I've found that let me do that. Deja Vu Sans Mono is also a great looking typeface for code--certainly my favorite of all the different ones I've tried on all of the platforms.
It's a nitpick, but X11 isn't a window manager; it's just a graphics layer - more like OS X's Quartz. If you run Gnome Shell with compositing enabled, your window manager is Mutter; if you run Gnome Shell in fallback mode, your window manager is Metacity. That is, unless you change it, and that is a reason I love Linux.
It requires numpy. Check out the linked article...
My dad's pride in what I do is what helps me keep going. I remember before he died being at a family reunion and him introducing me to family members that I've never met as follows:
"This is my son, he's gonna be big someday."
Any kind of Do Not Track mandate from the government would be a grotesque overreach.

Data collection and tracking is not infringing on anyone's rights and liberties by itself. If someone believes they have been hurt in a specific way they can go to court and make a case for damages - without any new legislation needed. This whole issue is just being used to score cheap political points by demonizing ad tech industry in the eyes of the ignorant public.

Free web services are supported by advertising. Perhaps the way to fight this ridiculous legislation would be by running site blackouts, just like in the SOPA fight. It is not that different really...

EDIT: Just because you are annoyed does not mean there needs to be a law about it. If you feel advertising annoys you just log off.
ahh that's a real shame. I guess the best you can hope for is a change of policy when xp is EOLed. Even if it's just an upgrade to ie8 that would make your life more bearable.
Well, yes... That's semi-reassuring! Now I don't know what you mean by higher volume accounts. I may well be one, but I don't know that yet. It's like saying that Github will always have a free account - yes, maybe so, but it doesn't do what I need, hence paying $100/mo (as a higher volume user!). Are you different?
Given their profitability, Apple is just doing both.
I've suggested for years now that someone could make a killing selling copywriting services to spammers. Poor spelling, bad fonts, random crap, etc - these are all the hallmarks of spam which makes it easy to classify as spam. Well-written, intelligent-sounding, professionally-produced spam would likely get past more filters, and be harder for people to dismiss out of hand, and likely get more sales.
Do you mean non-correlated in terms of ability, or do you mean correlated in how a large amount of people think it does?

These links post to mostly non-correlated examples.
I guess not every judge can be an Alsup.
That's not the axis on which they operate. Some freedoms need regulation to defend against other freedoms.
That statement resonates with me.

It makes you feel something inside. A belief that can't be matched.
Huh? "You won't learn it if you limit yourself to the PHP cage forever" That's true of ANY language; you seem to think that just because someone starts out with PHP they're permanently crippled and unable to grasp higher programming concepts. Hell, I'd rather someone start out with PHP than, say, Pascal.
Why not google "what camera should I buy" instead of "digital camera".
What if you combine this model with how Mozilla handles trademarks? Firefox is 100% open source, but if you distribute your own binaries, you can't use the name "Firefox" or the logo. That arrangement would seem to address your concerns.
> Hilariously, it’s still the best non-iPad tablet you can buy.

Really? Pretty low jab at Android, calling the Fire the #1 tablet that isn't an iPad.
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I see this point as being fairly pessimistic. It's not saying that Retina screens are completely fantastic (although they are), but that many of the other tech revolutions won't have the impact on the mainstream that we expect them to. High pixel density displays, on the other hand, will touch anyone who spends much time at all looking at screens, and will change how interfaces are made.

That said, 10 years is an eternity in this business.
This is particularly sad because the Galaxy Nexus is a brilliant phone running stock Android. I've found the stock Android ICS experience to be much better than what you can find with a version of Android modified by the vendor (at least for the other phones I've seen). I'm pretty sure it's one of the best options for Android phones, period.
Do these results look that much better?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what%20camera%20sh...
Except that isn't what is happening here. If you wanted a bicycle metaphor, apple has invented a wonderful carbon fibre bicycle that everybody wants. Then, despite the fact that bicycles have existed for a hundred years, they got patents on things like "using levers to shift" and "building a frame out of tube-like structures". And now, every time somebody starts to make a bicycle that is even remotely competitive, they get sued.

Do you really think that apple invented search-as-you-type? Did they invent the concept of using a date picker to set a meeting? Do they really deserve a patent on thin rectangular things? No, that is all bullshit and it is shameful that the courts are willing to be bullied (or bought) into playing along with this farce.
That's like telling an alcoholic they don't have to drink. There's a reason why I've _never_ even glanced at Reddit. And I also took the plunge and deleted my Facebook Account. I lost three months of my life to Tribal Wars. I keep my time on HN to a couple hours a day - and it is my principal news source (No Techcrunch/engadge/verge/gizmodo - unless they are linked) - but if a moderator came and said "Deleted, return never again!." - I would embrace it. Not saying that's true for anyone else. I am implying that someone who spent the better part of two years managing a sherlock fan site, only to have it go "poof!" - shouldn't feel bad whatsoever.
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The funny thing is that this reminded me instantly of the Twitter API cutdowns. It's the extreme case where really, at the end of the day, the site decides what goes where, a business version of "the government has a monopoly on the use of force."
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Please review my Start-Up VersionEye: https://www.versioneye.com/. I would like to know what you think about the idea. How do you like the landing page? Any ideas for improvements? Your feedback is appreciated.
Indeed. Source code is speech, and speech cannot infringe patents. (Not saying this is logical, that's just what the case law says.)

That's why you can build an mp3 player from source without paying the license fee, but Debian can't ship you a compiled mp3 player.
That's how I felt when my grandfather was still alive. He saw the world in me and it felt awesome to prove him right so often growing up.

After he passed, things changed and now it's almost the complete opposite fueling me now. I look at how close-minded, hateful, and worthless my parents are and bust my ass to prove to everyone that I'm not going to turn out like them.
Consider for a minute how much tech is in the iPhone that was not invented by Apple. They were standing on the shoulders of decades of telecommunications and computer science research, perfected an existing invention (there were touchscreen devices before) and patented the hell out of it. Should all other cellphone manufacturers suddenly be locked out of the industry? Shouldn't patents benefit society, instead of enabling one company to hold an entire industry hostage with dubious claims?
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I can't imagine anyone buying a Facebook phone. Pretty much everyone hates their tech. Even my parents. Why would anyone take a risk on a phone they were involved with?
I'm from a generation where BASIC was the go-to programming language since it was available on every single computer sold at the time.

Everyone I know who was a kid in the mid-80's and who is still programming today learned programming from this crappy language called BASIC.

When you start out learning to program all you need to learn is about variables, functions, basic constructs such as loops and if's etc. and maybe a bit about data types. PHP let people do exactly that and guess what, today people don't write command line apps anymore. Their context of learning to program is by making a website.

Most people who are serious about programming and learn to program with PHP are smart enough to learn other languages as well just like me and my friends did after we first learned BASIC.
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Assuming screens stick around. Perhaps it's a long-shot prediction, but what if Retina is the Blu-ray of flat panel displays? (Inarguably superior to most of its predecessors, yet fails to gain critical mass and is soon replaced by a whole new medium altogether.)
This was written in February. Nexus 7 I think everyone can concur is a better tablet as of today.
To clarify: it wasn't too bad to get in; the program itself was a huge bag of hurt.

Really, if you can make it work, I highly recommend using Bluetooth Low Energy instead.
Hey, someone remembers! (I did the Newton object store.)

I spent years of my life trying to get rid of treating direct user access to the filesystem as a foundational UI metaphor, at both Apple and Microsoft. As I liked to say, why is the UI based on a filesystem debugger? (If you can see /dev or C:\windows\system32, then yeah, you're running a debugger.)

Many people who aren't programmers don't seem to get deep hierarchy (deep meaning > 2 levels). Searching works, tags kind of work, but few people really know how to set up and use a folder hierarchy.

The reason it works to let the app deal with navigation is that the app knows how to do type-specific, contextual navigation. People like concrete things (whereas programmers like abstract things—a constant struggle). If you're trying to find a song, you want to have a UI that knows about songs: they come in albums, the same song may be on multiple albums, they have artists and composers, etc. Any attempt to represent that in a filesystem hierarchy can be nothing but a compromise.

This has nothing to do with defining standard formats for exchanging units of data. Just how you find them once you've stored them.
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Thanks for sharing this link. I'm also a entrepreneur and a software engineer, in a some what similar situation.

As I sit on my couch across from my 30 yr old wife (who is pregnant) and my 3 yr old son I opened this link with an eerie feeling. When Alexis started talking about his mother, first though in my mind was 'he is gonna say it is cancer'. Then when I saw the screen of it being a brain tumor, it felt surreal.

About a month ago, my wife had a grade IV glioblastoma removed, and is now undergoing 6 weeks of daily chemo and radiation, followed by scheduled delivery @ 34 weeks, followed by more radiation on her spine (her gleo has PNET like attributes). We are extremely lucky that she is/was a nurse at one of the best hospitals in the world (mayo clinic).

While my dreams of owning my own successful company have been put on hold to focus on my family, this story has helped me put aside some of my own internal guilt of still wanting to do that someday.

Thanks for sharing your story Alexis.
Um, what medium could that be? I don't see any competitors to the screen right around the corner
This is false. You're talking about the push system, which is an entirely different kettle of fish.
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If the problem is something inherent in the male constitution, then why don't we see this disparity across all majors?
I found out about what it did by sheer luck, because I scrolled down enough to see the description. Also, what's the graph on the front page? It doesn't change no matter what I do.
Oh, I think this hasn't gone quite far enough.
"Person to Blame" is verbose; I suggest "Blamee". To allow 3rd-party bug reports (gossip), please add "Blamer(s)"; separate multiple entries by commas. Also add a checkbox for anonymous bug reporting. Oh, and add a "Like" button and counter.

There - the descent into bugtabloid is complete.

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-- John Hodgman
Data collection is linked to advertising behavior in annoying ways. Yes, I bought brand X car Y years ago I don't want you to send me 2 mailings a week that 'now' is a great time to upgrade. I used Google to figure out how to spell something, no I don't need advertising related to cause Y. And sure, I bought a visiting niece a doll, no I don't have kids you don't need to change my Amazon recombination defaults.

So yes, the inability to control tracking information does directly annoy me.
Creating a Stackato fabric delivers a seamless hybrid cloud for the enterprise. Great job guys.
I have more experience with Nginx + Gunicorn, but I can tell you that it's pretty painless. "manage.py run_gunicorn" to get started, and you can assign it an arbitrary port and number of worker nodes depending on how many users you expect. Supervisor will obviously be needed to keep it up and running, but I've got dev instances that are fairly heavily trafficked I'm not running supervisor with, and I've yet to see Gunicorn crash, where I used to see Flup crash constantly.

In addition to what's already been mentioned, you'll definitely want to be using virtualenv for portability. Being able to maintain different libraries for different apps is essential, and virtualenv does a great job of keeping things isolated.
Still, even most horrible Android tablets from last year were way more usable than the Fire, in my opinion. And prior to February there were some pretty decent tablets too. (Transformer Prime, Galaxy Tab, etc)
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I think that 3D modeling is where this will shine. Imagine something like SketchUp with gestures. Manipulating 3D objects with a mouse is very tedious.
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Because they are the best at what they do?

Someone are just the best programmer in Windows/Visual Studio environment. And being "top-notch" should not be reserved to only those who use command line.
Will the links be nofollow, or follow links? If follow, I imagine you will get a lot of potential donators from people who aren't even interested in your software.
Yes, actually. Those results are information on how to select a camera. "Which camera should I buy?" is such a subjective question that it's impossible to usefully answer it without knowing more about the querying user's needs, desires, and budget.

As nice as the pipe dream of Siri as the Star Trek AI who can magically infer all the information needed to precisely answer an ambiguously-phrased question is, it's not going to happen any time soon.
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How would you write a program that utilizes 10,000 cores?
> Actually I think there are circumstances where PHP is the right choice, though it's mostly a matter of market considerations, certainly not technical strength.

I think technical strength is valued differently in this community than in the web development community at large. I've had a lot of commercial success with PHP and never found a serious problem caused by "a lack of technical strength".

Surely certain languages have created a vision of technical strength that is appealing to programmers who think mostly about programming as the challenge in itself, rather than a tool for the market challenge.

However to people that think mostly about solving market problems, such as entrepreneurs, PHP is known for many attributes that are high value and perhaps have little to do with what you might consider technical strength.
This is a sad news. One that feels me with disdain. The conceptual patent thing is such a farce.

Didn't google just reduce the price of this phone to $349. I am pretty sure it was not due to lack of demand. The phone is beautiful, feels different then previous versions of Android and looks different then Apple's iPhone. The judge involved here is the same judge who did the same thing to Galaxy Tab (which sucked anyway). But doing this to such a good phone which could have brought smartphone to life of millions of people is shameful. Its not the intellectual property , its a anti-competitive move.
Well, I mean, it's great to feel passionate about your users and all of that. But surely, there some of us that want to actually male money (and not modest kind that allows one to live a very simple life Costa Rica).
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I was more reminded of Nicholas Negroponte's 1995 book Being Digital in which he said (paraphrasing based on recollection) that HDTV was a mistake; that we we could do better things with digital television than simply increasing the resolution. Retina may be great, seen side-by-side with a normal display, but it's really just "more of the same."
> Are there more people willing to work in those locations?

In this case (and others I am aware of), yes.
If your goal is to work at Google maybe.

If your goal is to become independent and wealthy, perhaps not.
Thank you for your feedback. Was the search field not clear enough? The graph is the dependency graph for Ruby on Rails. It's standing below the the graph. You can click on the nodes. But if that wasn't clear to you, I have to change the landing page.
Again, a total long shot. But I was thinking both in terms of augmented-reality (Google Goggles) and bigger transparent glass-like displays (Samsung Smart Window).

But whatever it is, it would only catch on if Apple releases it.
I think the Fire might have been more usable for people in general, that is easier for normal people to setup and start consuming Amazon content. I don't have a strong opinion on this though as I think all Android tablets I've seen are crap (does not include Nexus 7 which I have not seen yet).
I'm extremely skeptical that there is any factual link between unpleasant/arrogant behavior and whether or not someone was interested in computers/technology/science at a young age.

When someone says that computer science/software engineering is not for them, then maybe it's because it's not for them and not because engineers are not welcoming enough.

To put it another way, let's say I enjoyed listening to the radio, and decided to go for a degree in music despite the fact that I've never picked up an instrument before. When I get to my first music class and find that it's full of people who have been playing since they were toddlers, should I expect that we'll meet on common ground? If I did, and then became upset about my inability to fit in - that would be my problem, not theirs.
Thought experiment: $100 subsidized, fun design, good accessories, amazing social photo experience, great keyboard, and comes with all the free messaging you can stand paired with a cheap data plan. Kin + Crackberry
I think it's unfortunate that taligent has been downvoted into the negatives, because he (or she) is correct.

How much is market leadership worth? How big of a check would Apple have to write RIM to restore their market advantage? How big of a check would Apple have to write Nokia to put them back where they were in the marketplace 4 years ago?

I'd argue that there is no check large enough to restore a lost market advantage. If Apple won their current market position through innovation, and Samsung is eroding it by taking advantage of that innovation counter to patent law, there's no reasonable amount Samsung could pay to set things to right.
How many Galaxy Nexus devices do ou think Samsung is likely to sell? It's older hardware.
At CMU, one of the first classes is, in fact, in SML.
That would help some of them, although it still cuts you out of potentially great feedback from your users (if you care about that.) Instead, users will file their bugs/raise their concerns/send their suggestions to Icestoat instead of your product.

You could, of course, watch that bugtracker (if they have one and if it is public), but it seems to me still to be counter to the ethos of releasing open-source software.