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There isn't a reverse script yet, but you're right, making one would be fairly straightforward.

'--reverse' is something I'd like to see implemented, though, if nothing else because it'll assuage people's fears, and makes it feel less risky to experiment.
"Oracle is just a business."

True, and one that exists to maximise shareholder value. Alas, that aim may not contribute positively to the larger picture, hence various forms of regulation that exist in many countries.

This is an issue too large for this particular page.
Nicole. Thanks for replying. Indeed, I apologize for my comment. I do care a huge deal about the designers on Scoutzie and your comment came across (to me) as if you were accusing the designers of lacking talent. Although some may be better at details, some are better at UI ...etc, I do believe the folks on Scoutzie are overall great and deserve to be recognized for their work.

There is a huge gap between average and great, and whenever someone suggests that Scoutzie folks are just average, I won't hesitate to remind them otherwise.

Given your further feedback, I don't think you were aiming at the designers, so my apologies for incorrectly assessing your comment and snapping back. Sorry.
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My guess would be that it's simply not a color image.
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From wikipedia:

> Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase describing punishment which is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the condemned person

You don't really think that an HTML page inflicts any kind of suffering or pain on someone, do you? First, I don't even think this is 'punishment': it appears to be more focused on clarifying the issue to the public and ensuring Apple doesn't try to twist the story. Secondly, there's absolutely no way it's cruel. It may be unusual, though, and I'm curious about that too.
A $1500 laptop with Linux is hardly a game changer.
The argument could be used about a subscription to the Washington Post, or support of the State Department.
It does seem like that is happening more lately. I'm sure the original post inspired the present author as soon as they read it, but it does take a little while to put together a blog post, vs a reply on HN.

What I personally don't like so much is the blog posts that seem to be targeting HN. I'm not sure why it bothers me...I guess it just seems cloistered and almost incestuous.

I'm also not a fan of blog posts critiquing other blog posts. The blow-by-blow he-said/she-said format doesn't appeal to me at all. It seems to me the author in this case could have formulated his opinion into a post that didn't rely someone else's post at all.
> Well, I am coming from the netherlands ;)

Then like I said, with that standard, everywhere else is bicycle unfriendly. :(

An email is coming, but I think that one of the big things (and San Francisco has this badly) is that the US is has been so car focused for so long that it is not exactly something that easily changes. But, compared to what it used to be, I think it has changed and still is changing.

I don't think it is unique to USA. When I was in London in the late 90s, I was told "You want to ride a bike? You'll get killed!" Now there are bike lanes and bike share programs and all sorts of things, and while there are still places to avoid and even back in the day there were bike-able places, it's gotten much better.
Yeah, most of us would forget to single quote the JSON. It is definitely more verbose too - I agree with the command-line compatible simplification.
I don't know what you're talking about: Registration is telling a company you have their product.

Registration of a toaster is sending in a card. Registration of a phone is sometimes done by clicking the eula, sometimes by sending a post card.

Registration of software downloaded over the internet is almost always done by...telling the company you have their product over the internet. Windows still lets you print out something I believe.

I think you missed the definition of registration if you're surprised by the fact information is sent when you register.

That's like being surprised information is sent when you email something.
Is it really true that charities should be allocated first based on need? Maybe public funding, but these are voluntary donations by private individuals. A lot of charity is based on affinity to groups. You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater if you want to eliminate this. People give money to whomever they want, it may not be the most fair or do the most critical good in an absolute sense, but it might ameliorate some real suffering and disadvantage in the world.
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I'd guess the bad bit is the sexism and racism.

Would you be so positive if it was some program that excluded any applicant that wasn't a white male?
If an exploration vehicle were to go there and check it out, how difficult or impossible would it be for it to leave afterwards?
There should be zero targeting of ethnicity. Excluding people based on ethnicity is wrong, no matter what the ethnic group is. And what makes you so sure that black men would relate to black women better than they would men of other ethnic backgrounds?
Which is the bigger divider, gender or ethnicity?

The point I am making isn't that this isn't a good thing, because as I said in my original post, helping any disadvantaged group of people is a good thing. I'm simply pointing out the hypocrisy in doing it based on race. Why not make it CityGirlsCode? If the argument for BlackGirlsCode is so logical, why would it be wrong to have an organization called WhiteGirlsCode in the poor areas of Appalachia? It's wrong in both instances, its just that modern political correctness has taught you that it's ok to discriminate based on race as long as it isn't favoring whites.
I think his point is that the program is being racist (in the sense that it is preferring a race to another), which we are conditioned to think of as wrong. But, because it benefits a minority, it's okay.

It's also sexist.
It is UX with the inflection of Apple's Human Interface guidelines, which have always been a mix of technical guidance and branding/marketing guidance (as opposed to pure, wonky, research-based, specifically tailored ergonomics, which defines usability relative to specific tasks and audiences, some of which may be highly technical and appreciate complex tools).

Apple discovered that words like "usability" and "human" are very powerful ways of framing competing products as unusable garbage not fit for human consumption. And they worked very hard and were very successful at fitting these words to their brand. This cuts the legs off any competing marketing. If you were a competitor the best you could say to this was something like "we have more games" or "we are cheaper" or "we have higher clock speeds" or even "you have more choice." Meanwhile the audience glazed over and felt threatened. Apple told the same audience that actually they were better than those hobbyist losers wasting all their time because they had bigger issues to worry about, they were discerning and frankly they were cooler.

Marketing is a high art and Apple is sitting on top of huge mountains of money after fighting Total War for decades. Good for them.

When it comes to evaluating libraries and command line tools, invoking the words 'human' and 'usable' still indicates that the developers and users of the old one are losers focused on irrelevancies, with huge amounts of time to waste on tools that are just plain unusable for anybody and unfit for human consumption.

Anyhow, there is more to this UX than just what is nice to use.
I disagree, it's not semantics. It's nuance. Which is important. I think he is saying its about focus. I often take the financially non optimum choice because I know what truly needs my attention. It's essentially opportunity cost.

Is it worth a blog post? No answer to this question is meaningful as I'm sure is a matter of preference.

Also, so what? Unless its your favorite blog author and you thought he wasted time with this one as a content consumer you don't lose anything.
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There actually are groups like that for areas where men are historically underrepresented, such as the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (http://aamn.org/). As far as I know they don't get a lot of flak.

With white people in specific there is a bit of eyebrow-raising, because "white" is a bit broad, a historically dominant group (in the U.S.), and has some history of "white organizations" being intended mainly for exclusionary purposes. Despite being white myself, I would probably be skeptical of the intentions of someone who asked me to join an organization with "white" in the name. More specific organizations targeting subsets of white people are common, though. For example, there are scholarship programs for Americans of Greek ancestry. There are also a number of initiatives targeting "Rural Appalachians", which is not definitionally white, but is almost exclusively an identity held by white people.
Ha. got down voted for that response. I think it came out wrong. I mean to say that "we do {host on heroku} and we will {implement the ssl)". How bad is it, was meant as a "what are the implications?" question.

I am going to work on answering questions properly next time. Thanks!
> Most humans don't operate the command line or write scripts to begin with.

I'm not a huge fan of cURL, but most people who use cURL don't use the command line either. They use the cURL library and access that functionality through a high level language (PHP, C, C++, whatever).
I use Vidyard A/B testing for www.printchomp.com - pretty cool feature!
Agreed. This fits the definition of racism: "Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief."

Any targeting based on the color of skin is wrong. Two wrongs don't make a right. Charity should be called something that does that imply racial discrimination.
Right. I don't really see where they thought this was going to go. In my opinion, this is much better outcome than what should have been expected.
>> 1. First of all, it is mandatory in my country.
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>This is a bit of a circular argument, isn't it?

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I stated that fact to give more context and because I wanted to link the mandatory helmet to the fact that bikers not wearing one in my country are more likely to be bad bikers than those wearing it. Moreover, I wanted to also state (I should have make 2 different bullet points) that we (in my country) must wear helmets because it's the law (not only because I, in my personnal opinion, think it's better - I often answer to people who asks me why I wear a stupid helmet that "it's just the law").

Wearing a helmet is a pretty strong hint but it's not a proof.
I agree. I have installed 12.04 on an old i5 Toshiba u505 and a 13" MacBook Pro (wiped OS X since I have OS X on my Air, and an old backup MacBook).

I don't remember having any problems.
For what it's worth, the thesis of the 'switch' page that the post references is "You're running CentOS, and aren't paying anyone for support, why should you consider Oracle Linux?"

If you're looking for content on "Why run Oracle Linux rather than RHEL?", I think we have a zillion documents I can point you at (oracle.com/linux being a good starting point).
This is very good because it will make companies think twice before going to court.
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I can't wait to see just how much legalese and slanty writing they manage to include in the notice.

Unless the Judge gives them the text, or requires them to negotiate it with Samsung.
Incorrect, you can take drinks on the plane. I call them "Freedom Cokes" and "Freedom Water." As long as you buy them on the other side of the TSA, you can take Cokes on planes. Sure, the Cokes probably came from the same truck as your local gas station, but that doesn't matter.
>If Dell's Windows installs are any indication, that means it's going to be loaded with crapware or custom non-OSS drivers.

I don't know how long it's been since you've bought a Dell Win PC, but they aren't 'loaded' with crapware, not like it used to be. I just got an XPS 8300 from the Outlet, and all I had to do was remove McAffee and the Dell Support Suite. I went into Add/Remove Programs, uninstalled each, and shortly thereafter, it might as well have been a fresh install of Windows.
If you click through to the Danish news article, it is rather critical. The title says "Is the new super cycle-path really super?" and there is a video of riding through it. Turns out it is just normal cycle paths that have been there for years it seems. They just made a route and painted an orange line to mark it.

That said, Danish cycle paths are first class to begin with.
People don't die after only 2 days without food. The title is misleading and the article is full of speculation.
Yeah I was thinking about that too. Though if the limiting factor for switching speed is the impedance of the interconnects (I'm guessing it is), makes sense.
> Why didn't they just offer paid support for CentOS? Why not dedicate full time engineers and donate?

Ah! I think you nailed it. A key part of what makes open source work is corporations putting guys on projects, donating code, and being part of the ecosystem.

Oracle doesn't want to be a part of the ecosystem. They want to be the ecosystem. They don't contribute to projects. They either purchase them outright if they can or start their own.

Technically, that's still open source. It's just seriously anti-social open source.
Actually it sounds silly to me. Kind of like forcing a bully to stand up in class and say "Billy is not a poopy-face."

The only good thing coming out of this whole patent-a-geddon period is real attention to how broken the system is.
Author of the post/book in question here--hey Scott, to be fair I don't hang out much on HN unless someone points something out to me here :)

Seriously, though, I think is getting an increasing amount of word-of-mouth publicity. That's how I heard about it when I did--a panelist on the Ruby Rogues podcast mentioned a new book that the author had "Leanpubbed" and I did some sleuthing from there (and you know you're on the right track when your product name is used as a verb). So in that regard there may be more that we Leanpub authors can do to promote the platform and keep it going strong--it's been good for me and I'd love to see it be a rousing success, you know? Are there ways you can help us help you get the word out?
Pretty sure Mars looks red because of the atmosphere. The surface isn't actually red. Could be wrong.
How did it come to this? I mean, did it require lobbying to achieve this, or was it sunshine and rainbows all the way?

For my part, I think this is a good effort.
Where would one put such a thing on one's website?

The very top page for six months?

As an aside, if Apple were to pronounce such a claim on it's website, what would that do to ongoing battles in other jurisdictions?
You don't get it. By "not discriminating" you are essentially discriminating against everyone who isn't in the majority. People are not these ideal unxenophobic people. You say you grew up in a black neighborhood but I'm going to guess you are a white male yourself.

People group by like and are often exclusionary. Look at Gnome and Google's summer of code. They have started doing specifically female targeted ones because they females are there but aren't applying to the normal ones for a myrid of reasons plenty of which are mighty valid.

I'm sorry but targeted helping is needed and is a good thing. Stop over reacting because for the first time you almost nearly kind of feel the sting of discrimination. All is not even close to equal.
You sound convincing, but then I look at high resolution pictures [1] of the Moon and have my doubts. I don't think those are sinkholes.

That said, it does look like a sinkhole in this case.

1. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/238403mai...
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They couldn't stick to that position for long. NoSQL is web scale.
If some black girls want to code, what possible reason do you have to object? Let them. Leave them alone, if you aren't supportive. That's all you need to do.

The group isn't preventing white people from coding. If you want white people to code, you can make your own group. And it will fly really well anywhere in the South and many places in the West and you won't have to say anything about how it's only for white people, there are a hundred ways that can be signaled.

Again, if you want to help boys specifically - I actually think that's an important target for 'affirmative action' because boys are falling so far behind in academic achievement. Do it. Good for you.

And good for the people trying to help black girls
Interesting! But each article costs 30+. How could a poor startup afford?
>"a movie about Jimi Hendrix being made, starring Andre Benjamin"

If it's starring anyone other the Jimi Hendrix, it isn't about Jimi Hendrix, it's fiction.

I can't see how the estate is out of line. Furthermore, I personally think it's wonderful that his estate still controls the rights to his music rather than a large media conglomerate. "Revolution" as a sound track for a shoe commercial convinced me of that.
The guy who made the graph which is "spreading FUD about CentOS" responds in the comment section:

http://www.bashton.com/blog/2012/oracle-spreading-fud-about-...
Gosh, what a horrible comment! The simple fact is that curl and wget's interfaces are bad, and everyone who learns to use them spends that 10 minutes. And then, if you're like me, respends that 10 minutes when I need to do something fancy again. If a new tool were to save 5 minutes (which this one does), that's 5 minutes saved on every use, which is probably a total of a few hours for me personally, and spread over the population of future users, is a few lifetimes.

Rather than admit that even incremental usability improvements are not only useful, but continue to pay dividends long after the tool is produced, you lambast the author and the effort.

Not cool.

P.S. You should watch Bret Victor again, talking about how much easier it is to crush an idea than to support it and nurture it. http://vimeo.com/36579366
"We do want big companies behind the Linux ecosystem. There are already many out there (Red Hat, Canonical, among them) doing just that."

Canonical isn't that big on a scale of Red Hat, and is rounding error on a scale of Oracle. They punch well above their financial weight and good luck to them
One of the benefits mentioned is essentially having a record/backup of sms messages. I've always felt bad about loosing all my text messages when I get a new phone or run out of space.

With my past few phones I've used this app to save all my sms messages to my Gmail account: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles....
"Our mission with BlackGirlsCode is to “change the ratio” of women of color in technology and that begins with introducing computer programming and STEM subjects to girls of all colors at an early age. "

It's not only for black girls.
I suspect it's for all but white though so they still exclude based on color. And of course age and gender.

I really wish people would stop reinforcing racial discrimination of all sorts. Even the age discrimination is a bit offensive. I understand it may be easier to get funding when you can present a narrow group.
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Thanks but no thanks, and I could do as I please. Not that it is any of your business.

But lets see what we got on your list:
- whole banking crisis,
last I checked my savings bank account was secure. And although my livelihood may be intricately connected to Big Banks, I don't think all the banks in the world are going bust. Nor is the age old concepts of banking. A lot of things which is complex and serious here, but definitely nothing here which disgusts me

- massive depression and unemployment,
This is an era of massive changes, but there will always be human activity. No matter what cooked up and muddled GDP numbers say. Again no disgust.

- corrupt politicians,
the moochers are a result of their policies, and they enable the corrupt politicians. So this is along the same lines as the disgusting stench of moochers.

- ecological collapse, huge civil unrest across previously stable democracies and, loads of wars and, all sorts of crazy shit going down
more serious issues, and a lot of call for action. But disgust? Whom are we kidding.

Looks like you have a problem reading the import of the message. Maybe you sympathize with the blood sucking moochers, or maybe you are one of them. Whatever it is, the only thing more disgusting than the dole out leechers are people who knowingly give them unearned, undeserved virtual credibility.
I'm sorry you took such offence at me using "cruel and unusual" as a turn of phrase, rather than to mean it's dictionary definition. I'll admit I'll happily use it in conversation - but perhaps I should have been more careful online where things are taken somewhat more literally.

I do feel that forcing Apple to link to a competitor, and advertise for them, is a form of punishment though.
Yeah, #4 on this list: http://www.touropia.com/impact-craters-on-earth/
Hmm, that makes more sense. If it isn't already in the README or man page, it might be a worthy addition.

I suggest you add an option where you can start off with a bare request.

Is there a way to have it construct the query string when you are doing a GET request? Also is there a way to have it construct a query string when you have a JSON or form body? Might be something to add below the description of items, as something that doesn't fit into that list but is related. Perhaps -q page=2 -q rpp=20 would be a good way of saying it.
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Facebook is about mapping your social connections for advertising purposes. It's not about helping you have a more successful social life.
This: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262233
To me it seems that if every thing is going to be broken down demographically to this extent, there will have to be: Black Girls Code, Hispanic Girls Code, Native American Girls Code, and then additional groups for minority males. At that point it seems to get kind of ridiculous as every potential minority-gender combination will need its own group which just seems kind of inefficient to me. I could be horribly wrong though, but that's just how it seems as a white-male outsider.

To an extent, I think that black people, and black girls specifically, not going into CS is really a symptom of a bigger problem. I went to a high school with a lot of black guys and girls and, at least for my graduating class, it really didn't seem like many went to college. Although, Black Girls Code could help get people interested in going to college to further study CS or anything else really. Either way, it'll be really interesting to see how it goes.
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Several comments claim that targeting by race is inherently wrong. I disagree. Anyone want to back that claim up with logic?
What if under-representation is caused by collectivism? After all, the solution to slavery wasn't reversing or evening out the ethnicities of slave and master, it was getting rid of slavery altogether.
I think you are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YQBuuhh76A&feature=play...
According to WikiQuote it is "unsourced."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:John_Lennon

My brother in law gets a kick out of making stuff up and posting it to Facebook. So long as it is followed by "John Lennon," "Gandhi" or "The Dali Lama" it will get liked by multiple people.