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Miguels affection towards his iPhone is a bit unconsidered and superficial.

But anyway, a more interesting question could be: What does it take to bring an ex-linux user and now happy OSX user back to linux?

I used Windows for 3 years, then linux for 2 years. During that time I did a lot of installations (mostly ubuntu and debian) on a lot of different devices. During this time, while fighting with drivers, minor display problems, and spoiled windows users I lost my faith in linux as a desktop os and switched to OSX.

I can just speak for myself, but this few points would bring me back to linux in no time.

Presenting Distribution "Utopia"

1. No X11 based display stack, it is replaced with something conceptually simpler (like cocoa).

2. (Multiple) monitor recognition 100% accurate. (Probably connected to Pt. 1)

3. The audio setup is not much worse then the one of OSX.

4. Throwing Gnome and everything that is based on Glib out. It's 2012 there alternatives to faking oo with C. Qt isn't allowed either.

5. Throwing APT out. No more dependency management for a desktop OS please. Then kill Perl as requirement for running an os.

Ahhhhh, I feel better now :-).
This is the opposite of what Miguel demanded, he cares for backward compatibility.

When I think about it. "Utopia" would be similar to Android. No fear to throw old stuff out.

Android as a foundation for a new desktop linux?
This is specific to iOS. My app is on Mac store (desktop). I'm assuming from your answer that the app can't be available for public download when submitted to appstore for review.

Thanks.
well im not sure what the details are but isn't founders fund bringing her to trial for something ?
I really don't understand what you're saying. Are you denying how crucial the apps to the sales of the devices? do you think they could sell without the apps? in addition, do you think apple doesn't care about 500M$ in profits?

Also, are you saying that the twitter API and 3rd party apps have nothing to do with the success of twitter? I didn't say collapse, I said they would feel it strongly. Not sure what is your point, really.
In the example, the user doesn't have to make a horizontal adjustment at all - the cursor conveniently stops right on target.
I'm so sick of people like you who feel the need to defend GIMP. It's a fantastic piece of open source software that doesn't need your help and it shouldn't be compared to Photoshop.

Photoshop provides art and design professionals with a vast amount of resources and extremely customizable tools, some of which GIMP does not offer or provides with less opportunity for modification. I'm not about to sit here and type out how Photoshop is more powerful in the hands of someone who truly knows the program, but you seem to not use it for anything beyond the basic functionality that GIMP also provides.

"The difference between Gimp and Photoshop is that while Gimp gives you all the tools you need, it doesn't have an idiot mode, so it expects of you to know what you're doing." Talk about bullshit comments lacking substance.. I almost spit out my coffee. Smart Sharpening has been around since CS2.

GIMP is the best open source image manipulation software, a free alternative that provides most users with all the functionality they will need. However, it is NOT a Photoshop killer.
iPhoto is a single-window application - only one window is ever used. Such applications usually (and should) quit on closing the main window. Immediate examples I can think of are System Preferences, calculator, but there are many more examples

Anything that allows working with multiple documents should remain open even with no windows (or unless auto-killed).
> Redhat and Canonical are big companies that did bet the house on Linux.

No, RedHat bet the house on server Linux, never on desktop. Canonical did bet the house on desktop linux bit it's a tiny company that has yet to turn a profit (or a significant one).
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That's a very good idea but unfortunately it can only be used by UK clients.
All attempts at HN clones, fail to understand that what makes HN click is the community, and the same set of rules that make us angry sometimes are responsible for HN surviving these many years.
The toolbox window is also set to 'always on top'. It's not a huge deal, compared to the x11 version though. I just open another virtual desktop for it in Lion.
Why would any one attend something like this?
"The ride bike to BART then get off at Embarcadero" is what killed me. Here I thought I was a special East Bay flower.
I'm actually surprised that this is the case. I dont know if yum's slowness (as a by product of its implementation) is one of its shortcomings, but I always presumed that it was more sophisticated as a package manager. Especially, since it implements a SAT solver (libzypp) that is pretty nifty.

I have heard that it managed package dependencies (cyclic, broken packages, etc.) much better than aptitude.

I'm an Ubuntu user, so the above is pure speculation - but could someone answer whether the SAT solver causes the slowdown ?
I see two possible problems with a 100% plastic gun. The barrel not being strong enough to withstand the pressure & temperature is already mentioned elsewhere in the comments.

Another one is mass. A plastic gun will be very lightweight, so the only mass to absorb the recoil impact is your hand. This might hurt.
I agree that they should change this, but I don't find it offensive, because I know that the GIMP project has been around since it was acceptable to get a cup of coffee while your app loads. I'm just saying, that they've got a lot of legacy code. I'm just happy that it works, for now.
Not being snarky but I'm trying to understand the reasons developers attend events like this.
A 78% stock market rally, US unemployment dropping from 11% to 8.2% and record corporate profits are a failure? Or is there something else you don't like about Obama?
Where's the about page?
Doesn't that mean you can't garner opinions or ask slightly open questions though?
Windows is the most popular desktop OS. People can make money by writing apps for it, non?
Do you guys remember how unusable the previous version was? I mean, this feels like splitting hairs compared to that.
14 day free trial, then $19 for 1 project, $49 for 10 projects, and $149 to run tests twice as fast.

Feedback on anything, including pricing, very welcome.
Interesting, I saw something like this by looking at the https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/ project. Take a look at the closed pull requests. They have some bots listening for commands in comments and do stuff like unit testing and previewing. The result gets posted as comment from the responsible bot. Another one is checking master branch for changes and automatically builds and pushes at gh-pages. Seems to work very well, but don't know how they build/did it.
I can't comment on lenses for eyewear, but lenses for cameras is significantly more complex. High end camera lenses use a diverse range of glass through methods such as doping, are polished and have complex anti reflective coatings applied.

A modern lens may have a large very strong front element, with a series of smaller fragile elements behind it. Each lens may have a different anti-reflective coating applied.

You may be able to 3D print a lens, but at least for high end cameras this technology is going to have very little impact.
To the best of my knowledge, you can't handle refunds through the GoCardless API, you have to arrange a BACS transfer by other means. My experience working with e-commerce is that refunds happen so frequently that this presents a massive hurdle to using GoCardless.
I'd like to see what the difference in time spent 'grooming' is between the sexes, or alternatively what the breakdown is between basic things like showering, teeth-brushing and more advanced activities.
Interestingly there seems to be a recent trend of not being a slave to your email, twitter, FB, etc. I suppose people are starting to realize that urgent things don't necessarily come from these mediums and as much as we have come to rely on them, they provide us with more noise than useful data.

I've been trying to check email twice daily at scheduled times and respond to emails in "batch" instead of as they come in. It's definitely increased the number of "concentrated" hours I put into a task.
It's frankly embarrassing to have to ask this in public but if anyone would care to invite me, it looks like my kind of place.
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How are the crops doing in the US this summer, btw?
Don't be intimidated. The only way to learn is to do.

Just keep in mind that a library takes a surprising amount of time to make "good enough".

The most frequent sin in library design is to knock something up in a weekend, check that it sorta works for you, and then consider it done.
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Here's a post outlining how strace can be used to solve problems:

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/strace_the_sysadmin_s...

More from a sysadmin POV than a dev, but you'd probably still find it useful.
Emberjs in production:

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I'm a gimp user. My mum (who has a mac, but isnt a confident computer user) asked for 'photoshop' for christmas after seeing what I'd done fixing up family photos.

I knew if I just gave her Gimp (or Photoshop for that matter) she'd just get stuck - they aren't very user friendly. I had a look at all the image editors I could - Acorn, Seashore, Pixelmator, etc and came to the conclusion that Photoshop Elements beat them all for ease of use.

Specific things that help are the guided actions (in the panel on the right) that act like wizards for performing common actions, but also teach you how to do these things; and the selection & healing tools are miles better than those in the other tools. Take a look at the demo on the top left here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements/features.ht...

... it's talking about the smart brush, which I don't bother with, but what you're looking at is how well it manages to select within a picture.

I still prefer using Gimp, but for quick photo edits, I tend to use PE now. However, I tend to work with photos not eg icons as you do - not sure if PE is any use for that.
For perspective, it is interesting to observe whats happening in the low-end space for payments as well. There is a firm called eko - referred to as "India's Square" - payments done using simple SMS.
"And plenty of these plumbers and barbers and cafes probably do great work and treat their employees well. Do you really want to read articles about all of them? I don't. What makes a company newsworthy (unless it's as a case study) is its size, or potential size."

The real world is a better movie. Real people, real work, real life make for interesting stories. I would much rather read about healthy business, regardless of size, than sizeable business, regardless of health. Jason Fried was on target.
It will always be cheaper and easier to mass-produce firearms through traditional means than through 3D printing.

3D printing may be better for one-off specialty firearms, but mass quantities are going easier with simpler processes.
I don't think I prefer scalability and low-latency over a high-quality of people discussing things I care about. The focus should be on community, not handling a large number of users.
So much welcome to Europe! It's amazing it has taken so much years to have a decent solution for the continent.

Stripe next?
This also happens to me in GNOME (v 2.30.11, Debian 6.0.5).
I think LamerNews was more of just some fun antirez had with Redis.
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This is very, very debatable. Solid product ideas come from cross-pollination of existing ones. How do you get existing ideas in your thought stream if you do not getyour inputs right? (in this case, email/twitter/facebook)
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In which case 50 minutes a week becomes 10 minutes a day which doesn't strike me as unreasonable - a bit of prayer, bible reading, maybe a weekly group of some sort and you could see how they got to that number.

Plus I suspect this is one of the things people will over estimate (in the same way that they'll probably underestimate watching TV).
The FFT only needs to be invented and optimized once, though, then everyone else can just link in libfftw or kissfft.

All those software tradespeople can do the jobs that require connecting pieces together. A tradesperson can be taught enough to know which algorithms to apply in which situations.

Computer scientists become academics inventing new algorithms, and analyzing and perfecting the ad hoc algorithms created by software tradespeople.

Aside: I wish the English language would just decide that "man" and "men", when used as part of a compound word like "tradesman", is gender neutral.
> For example, pushes exist in the API, but don't really within git.

`git push`?
Seems pretty obvious. The screen goes to black before loading in full screen and Chrome also notifies the user.
I think separating reading from writing email is a good thing. Emails you have received typically represent other people's agendas - those you write (especially if written from scratch not just a reply) represent your own agenda.

I would like a client that allows me to read in a browsey (flipboard?) way - no replies or forwarding allowed.

Separately I want the client to semi-automatically create emails from my to-do list - I get to edit and send.

This way I am able to understand what other's want me to know but I remain productive by focussing on my own agenda.
Well they did say that Cassandra is better than all the others - especially when compared to HBase - on nearly all measurements (except for high write scenario latencies.)

This makes the decision of Facebook to go with HBase for their new messaging platform back in 2010 all the more strange. Though that was two years ago so things might have changed in Cassandra's favor since then.
Of course there are people working at TC who are not douchebags. Just like there are probably people working at Pool who are not douchebags. But these are not the founders the company nor those who are responsible for setting the standards and the course for the company.
I agree it's self righteous, but yeah, basically. Most businesses in the world focus on products, customers and profitability, not trendy lines of funding (and the non-tech "startup" scene has notably better rates of success - no googles, just honest businesses that do useful things for more money than they spend).

Regardless though, all businesses should think long and hard about hires, not just hire pointless people because they give the impression they know everyone in town.

The world is full of injustices, but I'd rather try my luck with those injustices than have to write consulting cheques to people who's bankable asset is how shamelessly they brag about who they party with.
I don't get it... The API is built on top of `git`!
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Great stuff. Since these are controversial opinions, I somewhat agree/disagree.

- Computer science should only be offered as a minor.
Good point, assuming that you don't consider theory an end in it self. I consider theory mind opening, even if it doesn't make money per se.

- It's a mistake to introduce new programmers to OOP before they understand the basics..
Fully agree.

- You shouldn't be allowed to write a library for use by other people until you have ten years of programming under your belt.
Another good point. Writing a good library (or designing an API) is one of the more challenging things you can do, because it requires a good understanding of the problem, simple design, and sensitivity to conventions (which only come from long experience).

- Superficially ugly code is irrelevant.
Somewhat true, but the main problem with ugly code is that nobody wants to touch it. So if its functionally correct, readability remains irrelevant until you need to make a change.

- Purely functional programming doesn't work
Agree, in the sense that there exists problems where a purely functional approach is not the best. I think you can run pretty far with purely functional though.

- A software engineering mindset can prevent you from making great things.
Strictly true, but it should be said that the opposite mindset will eventually destroy the things you made.
A profiler is for micro optimisations. A profiler won't let you go from bubble to quick sort for example.
it shouldn't be compared to Photoshop.

But it is compared to Photoshop.

However, it is NOT a Photoshop killer.

I don't think anybody here was talking about that. I also never argued against Photoshop having some advanced functionality that Gimp lacks or more resources available (it's a defacto standard after all). I don't like it when people are putting words in my mouth.
per... build? day? week? month? year? lifetime?
Leaving aside all the bruised egos of people that fell for her schtick, I'm well impressed with her photoshopping skills. She should be hired for that.
The article doesn't say that we should never check our email/twitter/Facebook. It is about structuring and scheduling your day right from the start.
Hey, first world problems!

In my head I try to keep it as "If it is an email, it can wait until tomorrow".

The author un-synced his email from the phone? Big deal. It is not that smartphones do not let you think (which is also true), but that they are just yet another consumer good made to keep you disconnected from reality.

As usual, it just depends how you use them. Think of it as a laptop, do you program on it or just surf facebook?

Smartphones could be the ultimate hacker device, if used properly.
Is stripe over dependent om email?
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Not sure what the down vote was for, it was a genuine question. The parents comment IS ambiguous and I would be interested in a clarification.

Sometimes it is difficult to pickup on sarcasm in the written word. This post is not being sarcastic. Neither was my one above.
"using Nvidia GPU"

Yup, still no xrandr support which makes any on-the-fly monitor config changes very difficult or impossible.

Sometimes, if you use twinview and nvidia-settings from the start and if the moon is aligned just right, you can dynamically configure monitors / video ports. Sometimes.
Yum is getting replaced in Fedora as well.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF
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I would like to see the biggest chunk "work" broken down into what most people are actually doing. Time spent on social media, checking email, phone etc.
Maybe, the article isn't really explicit. I read it as: When I'm at the computer, I will see new emails as they come in. If I'm not, then probably someone else (of our large group) will be at their computer, and see the email as it comes in.

Of course, the sane alternative is just to set up a roster for checking email (say split the day into 2,3 or 4 hour watches -- and just share them around in a way that makes sense. Then everyone would be free to concentrate on other stuff outside their "email watch".

Whether that makes sense or not would be highly dependent on the internal structure of the organization and the internal business processes, of course.

The next natural step is to manage such group emails with a bug tracker or equivalent, so that when someone takes responsibility for an email, it is obvious to everyone else that the email is being taken care of. This avoid two people doing the same work.

I suppose an imap shared folder could be used for this (move mail before you read/answer it) -- but I've never used imap shared folders, so I'm not sure if that would work (well).
How do you achieve this - ie. what kind of phone/software?
I've never seen anything labelled a "best practise" that has had anything to do with what I would call CS.
Personally I thought the demographic here was supposed to be 'hackers'. I kinda wish the other various demographics would get a room:

- Silicon valley gossip scenesters
- The "I read an Ayn Rand novel, would you like me to turn this into a debate about why Government Is Always Bad and Tax is Theft?" crowd
- The "I know what would improve my productivity! spending all morning reading mediocre blog posts about productivity!" crowd
- The business self-help book reading group.

Each to their own I guess :)
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Thats just bullshit. The Linux desktop maybe isn't broadly accepted or mainstream, but I dont see the Problem in that- after all Linux remains a system for power users, even if some Distros want to change that. And there really is no better desktop environment for those people than the Linux desktop. Windows is shit incarnated, so lets not even begin to talk about it. What remains? Mac OS. Sure, it has a more accessible GUI, but not a more efficient one.
I cant think of something more elegant than a tiling wm, be it awesome, wmii or xmonad. Everything based on moving a cursor just feels awkward in comparison to the simplicity of ~5-10 keyboard shortcuts. And tiling also means that I always have everything in front of me. Fumbling around to find some window is HORROR.

I think the Linux desktop simply has more options for experienced users. I simply see no way how I could be more productive with a GUI designed to cater to lusers.
You don't complete your education, just because you have a full time job. You should never stop learning new things (or revising your opinion/knowledge of things you were taught earlier).
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> The FFT only needs to be invented and optimized once, though, then everyone else can just link in libfftw or kissfft.

> All those software tradespeople can do the jobs that require connecting pieces together. A tradesperson can be taught enough to know which algorithms to apply in which situations.

Is that a circular argument? If we had enough people cranking out smart enough algorithms (like the automatic programming example upthread), would we need so many tradespeople?
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Forget what I say. It's just me. "5,000 companies sign up every week." But "keep all project discussions, emails, and stuff in one place" just doesn't draw me in. I don't have a problem with "keeping all project stuff in one place". 37Signals appears to be aimed at solving a "problem" I do not have.

I have looked at their website several times. It just never grabs me. And I'm not inclined to give them my email address to try out their amazing "solution".
The market wants people to die.

All we can do is help it decide how many.

Apparently.
Thanks for the comment. Before reading it, I admit to being lured into thinking the code in TFA was there to clean up after Backbone. Sneaky bit of writing...
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