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> I think we have a responsibility to hold ourselves to higher standards than that of a wolf or cheetah.

We may or may not have that responsibility, but we certainly don't meet it. History shows that people are at least as vicious as any animal you can name. This is something one tends to forget between wars, or in a place untouched by war.

> Suffering is bad. The fact that it occurs in nature is irrelevant.

The fact that it occurs everywhere in nature is absolutely relevant. Consider the rules of civilized society -- for example, everyone has the right to the pursuit of happiness. Some pursue happiness by having a lot of children, more than the planet can support. The result is widespread disease, starvation and war (otherwise known as "retroactive abortion").

It seems the high standards we've set for ourselves can result in (is resulting in) an unimaginable disaster, one in which everyone exercises their innate freedom of expression.

But there is a solution -- education. The very thing governments fear the most.
I remember post-bubble-burst times when people were willing to learn huge yucky legacy workflow systems all by themselves just to get a crap job in a dreary cubicle-land. Perhaps this got some managers spoiled.
>Does anyone remember netbooks? How they used to have Linux? That was when Linux had a real chance.
>If you don't think Microsoft is directly responsible for this, you are an absolute idiot.

What about netbooks? Vista was too bloated to run on netbooks, so MS noticed they were selling well and sold XP for a low price to OEMs, and consumers preferred XP to Linux in droves and thus Linux on netbooks died. So MS is as directly responsible for this as is Starbucks for killing my local coffee shop or OS X is responsible for taking away many Linux users.

>Why would anyone invest a cent in a WM if you can't distribute Linux installed on a laptop?

Stop making up BS.

http://www.system76.com
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/dell-xps-13-ultrabook-with-ubun...

They're not paying MS anything. How is MS responsible for people not wanting Linux machines?

Who is the absolute idiot now?
You are no longer talking about relative importance; you've turned it into a much simpler (and very different) question: does a homogeneous (and good) moral compass make a team's success more likely, all other things being equal?
Maybe I jumped the gun, and the article was right.

If a human sized cat has about 1m more reach than a cat (higher CoG, longer "arms", etc) then they should be able to get to the top of a backboard (about 3m), by raising their CoG by about 2m.

I just immediately assume that anyone who says "if X was the size of a human" is wrong, because there's so many bad examples.
Well, it's not just the type of the variable but also how you're treating it - world's most concise cast...

Also, it means one doesn't have to dodge keywords in naming their variables. Doesn't count for a lot but is nice.
I have fond memories of discovering nice indie music with something called Indy, which was released in 2005 by Ian Clarke (of Freenet fame) <http://blog.locut.us/2005/04/17/indy/>; and featured a nice recommendation engine. Sadly, it seems to be dead now...
Linux dominates on the routers too, but people still spend most of their time using laptops and desktops.

Android/GNU/Linux? What? Locked bootloaders, closed source drivers? You're angering RMS.
To elaborate, because a surprising number of people need this spelled out very explicitly: a victim's suffering is a consequence of bullying. If you want to make consequentialist arguments, it's crazy to simply ignore major consequences just because they're intangible.
Here's one example from jquery file upload:
https://github.com/ncri/s3_uploader_example
A legit concern but why on earth cannot the original company keep the now trained employee with the cushier chair and a higher salary?
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It's too bad it's not the iPad being banned or people might actually care and we'd get some badly needed IP reform.
I think the article also didn't call it mourning, except perhaps in the headline. It explicitly mentions that the behavior helps survive threats.

Also, what is human mourning good for? Perhaps we interpret too much into our own behavior, too.
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> All the while, mind you, the devs using OSX would occasionally chime in with casual snark such as "oh, installing tomcat on OSX is really just a drag and drop..."

Dev using OS X here. I've been on OS X since 2003 and haven't looked back. I'm now doing iOS development.

Unless it's kidding between good friends, I have no need for such snark. (Though I find it useful as a symptom.)
That's the sad part—the products will be every bit as good but the public perception, until the products double the best of Jobs, will be yawn.
In both Firefox(ESR) and Chrome(v22) I am getting a message that I don't have the latest Flash installed. When I click on the message, adobe says I already have it. (no flash blockers enabled)
A few crucial differences,unlike the other projects you mentioned, Android development happens behind closed doors, no outside patches are ever accepted, and an OEM is specially picked for exclusive early access to a new release and the others and CM are left scrambling to update their devices if they fork too much. Not to mention, Google apps and the marketplace is neither free or Free.

Even Windows betas are distributed to all OEMs equally with no special treatment.
focus on what sets you apart, the practice engine. on your homepage although just under the nav you have text explaining this, people are generally more visual as I'm sure you know, try using something more visual to explain how this practice engine works maybe?

by way of an example, http://www.sublimetext.com/ has a set of features that really make it stand out as a text editor. they could be written out in text, but it's hard to understand what they are when described in words. instead the author has put some animated pictures showing the actual features in use. this presentation instantly shows how you would use those features and most people understand right away where the benefit is.

i'm not sure animated would work for yours, but perhaps a swapping image showing a particular artists progress over a few weeks/months.

just an idea, hope it helps. 1 other tiny thing that got to me, the top nav text isn't vertically centered in the space. it's a small gripe, but sometimes little details can make the difference, especially on a site for artists.

edit: another thing that comes to mind, you feature art on the homepage in a similar style to a portfolio. including what's new or popular. what if instead you featured the artist, and then change between pictures of their progress up to that point. you could highlight the learning aspect by showing progress of each artist you feature on the homepage, rather than just 1 piece of art by that artist.
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Personally I don't see these points as being that important when looking at casual home users. I've recently setup a couple of older laptops with Ubuntu for some family members who just want to use them for watching movies and browsing the web ... and for that, it excels.
The author is still a skeptic in the sense you described (first paragraph.) He just rejects the identification with the social group.
Yeah I vaguely remember that one with some hilarity. ;-) I posted a blog post about the topic recently actually ... "Why was .NET called .NET?" ... http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/05/why-was-net-called-net.htm...
Before upload yes. After uploaded, you have the URL.
Back in the 90s, I was a research assistant to a couple of doctors who were working on that kind expert system. The main difficulty is the lack of electronic patient records. Most things in medicine are still done on paper. The other problem is that an expert system that does patient diagnoses is regulated by the FDA as a medical device, and it's incredibly involved to prove that it works well enough to be safe. That's why you see these systems pop up in research settings all the time, but very rarely deployed in the real world.
Funny, I had an email from the s3 team asking if I was in need of redirection support yesterday. I said I'd rather have CORS and SSL. So, SSL support next week, Jeff? :)
I stopped reading here:

>Science has a high media profile and a powerful lobby group: in the midst of a global recession and sweeping government cuts, science funding has generally held up or even increased

Perhaps science funding has held up because science was fricking responsible for the economy booming for the last 500 fricking years? E.g. The Internet that he posted his blog on.

Maybe it just might help the economy come out of recession? Science works because it delivers and the funding is there because people know that.
So something that I think the courts have lost sight of is the purported reason for patents in the first place. They exist to encourage innovators to make their inventions public, so that knowledge will not be lost.

With something like 'pinch to zoom,' there is no WAY to benefit from that 'invention' without making it public. Consequently, how the hell is it patentable?
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Meanwhile... presidential candidates falsify just about everything else. Ironic double standard?
I used to be on Apple's side; now they're just bullies.

I don't think I'll buy anything from them ever again.
I love this. There's a particular song that I absolutely can't get enough of, but it isn't labeled correctly (says "Track 4 by New Artist"). I've "loved" it but do you have any suggestions for finding out what it is?
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Very true. Some large tech companies now still have pretty horrendous stocks. Microsoft has been flat for like a decade and it's still an industry leader which is counterintuative to people who don't know that much about the market.

I'm sure he meant that they could, in theory, utilize their brilliance towards kickstarting something business oriented to reverse the sentiment. For whatever reason though, Mark seems more interested in Frank Gehry's NASA hanger than actually making money. It's a big fucking revelation to him that people in finance actually care about financials. Who knew?

The whole situation really makes me think how much the current funding model as just a glorified legal ponzi scheme: More users, more funding, more users, more funding, IPO & profit.

I'd say most of the better business minds were the investors and the prudent ones have already sold. I'm convinced Eduardo Saverin is really the genius of the entire group. He sold shares right before the IPO, renounced his US citizenship, and moved to Singapore. He may have been screwed over by Facebook before but he gets the last laugh now that he sold his shares for double what their worth and got to avoid some taxes while doing it :)

In contrast, Mark choose to be more of a Sean Parker - a great creator of free products and, thus far, a fairly lousy businessperson. Companies like Spotify are amazing for users yet that doesn't stop them from losing millions each month in licensing. These companies dig themselves into holes from the very beginning and simply pray the financial problem fixes itself. My opinion and seemingly that of investors is that there is no indication that it will until the model itself is changed. Recent IPOs all tell the same story: that businesses not built with long term viable business models have trouble performing well on the market. Until "free" can work like Google enables it to in more companies, nobody is willing to bet on the hole not getting deeper without the likelihood of a larger round to keep these failing companies afloat.
More detailed info would be helpful. What infringement is Apple alleging in this case? For the S III, they have to rely more and more on bogus software patents since it is very different from an iPhone. Their fear is very visible.
I find the worst part about this whole war is that in the end it's purely about money and nothing else. So now, because some dickheads want more of it while they already have enough, people are denied access to what seems a pretty decent device.
There is a lot of natural pressure to keep wages down in most companies.

This is far, far worse in companies where software isn't their primary business. Programmer wages are going up much faster than other wages (even more if it is a developer who is in their first 5 or so years in the industry), and it can be hard to hand out the frequent and relatively higher raises necessary to keep good/improving developers from going elsewhere, while other people in the company see far less in terms of raises.

It all ends up being for naught when the company has to find a replacement (which costs money) and train them (which costs even more money), and usually ends up paying them close to what it would have cost to keep the old person around in the first place. But that's usually politically easier than handing out raises all the time.
Amazon will always be cheaper than a retail store, because it doesn't need to pay for

1) Store building rent (they ship directly from their warehouses)

2) Cashiers / sales salaries

3) Store security, cameras, loss prevention.

4) Store utilities and other - electricity, water, insurance, heating, cooling, inspections.

5) Liability (such as customers falling or pretending to fall)

6) Inventory tracking, moving things around shelves, optimizing, etc.
Borked: Unable to boot into the GUI, unable to downgrade properly or go back to the earlier version of Gnome. Tried doing stuff manually, ran into a bunch of dependency issues, gave up. So then I loaded up XFCE and after a while of using it, saw a mac, liked it, and moved. Also I guess I had moved on from the time I was more of a hobbyist and just wanted a dependable system. I had backed up all my config files just in case as well.

XFCE continues to be the only usable UI for laptops IMHO. XFCE actually rescued said R50e, and yes, I am amazed by the fact that it is usable. But given that I had been using Gnome for years and years, I personally was not comfortable with XFCE. The mac gives me what I want, a unixy system and a stable GUI without the hoop jumping tricks.
Weird rambling. From his style of argumentation ("other skeptics are sexist and Star Trek fans") he probably wasn't a very good skeptic anyway.
There's no joke about how to tell when a startup CEO is lying, there is however a joke about politicians.

Seriously though, president is probably the least important job in america. I bet America would be just fine without a president for the next 100 years. Why you elect presidents based on things like 'likability' and 'electability' is because it's a very unimportant job, that just about anyone can do.

Probably why America doesn't elect very many highly trained people to do the job. Community organizers, peanut farmers, coke addicts, philanderers, actors, etc.
So this is the same case being tried in front of Judge Koh?

I'm not sure what patents in particular they say are being infringed here, but it can't be the trade dress stuff -- Samsung's stuff have moved away from being obvious ripoffs of Apple's products and the Galaxy SIII looks no more like an iPhone than any other smartphone from any other manufacturer.

If it's the pinch-to-zoom and bounce-back patents (etc) then it shouldn't be hard for Samsung to issue an update to workaround those patents.

In fact, I mentioned in another comment[1] but I'm pretty sure Android (not sure about Samsung's modified version of Android) doesn't infringe on the pinch-to-zoom patent anyway, because Android allows scrolling with two fingers. Obviously, I'm no patent expert, though...

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441202
> Online forums, whatever their subject, can be forbidding places for the newcomer; over time, most of them tend to become dominated by small groups of snotty know-it-alls

Human interaction is woven out of several different materials. One of these is social dominance. It's even more fundamental to our psychology than sex.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/08/actors-see-status.html

Unfortunately, while it's widely recognized in much of the civilized world that letting our sexual impulses run unfiltered in the professional context is detrimental to a relaxed workplace where people feel free to interact openly, most people seem to deny the existence of our need to seek and test social dominance. This often leads to the pollution of communication and debate.

There is nothing wrong with sexuality in the workplace, so long as it's discrete and consensual. Likewise, there is nothing wrong with dominance behavior in forums, so long as it serves substantive debate. When dominance takes a back-seat to the love of knowledge, things are okay. When it's the other way around: considered harmful. (I suppose Galileo had some experience with this.)

> The truth is, I became a skeptic for aesthetic reasons, and the truth is, its aesthetics now repel me. I increasingly find the core skeptical output monotonous and repetitive: there are only so many times you can debunk the same old junk, and I've had it up to here with science fanboyism. And when skeptics talk about subjects outside their domain of expertise, I'm struck by how irrelevant their comments are, and how ugly, shrill and trivial.

I've noticed that techies often create mini "crapsack worlds" in forums and in games. (And I'm not referring to colorful backstories for a game, but in the actual social dynamics between players or commenters.) Much of it can be characterized as "immaturity." However, that label alone isn't so helpful. It's better to ask: what makes a society or a place wonderful? What best encourages a high signal to noise ratio?
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I almost never shut it down. Probably only once a month.

Waking from sleep is faster and I don't have to re-open my applications and documents. Shutting it down would save a small amount of power but that's rarely an issue (I'd shut it down if I was flying somewhere).

Are there some benefits to shutting it down I'm overlooking?
Like Northeastern's coop program as well. They build the 6-months to 1 year off into their degree. Not sure if any student's make 80K but they do make a decent amount for an intern

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/co-op/employers/index.html#salaries
Noted on the skunkworks thing. I do think in general though that managers do fairly well at leaving engineers alone at Google; the big company feel seems to come from engineering inertia a lot - inflexible coding standards, groupthink on which technologies to use, etc.

Mostly though I was hoping for a little clarification from the parent poster of why Apple should feel like a small company more than Google does - both would seem to be great places to work, but I wouldn't expect either to feel small.
Diet Coke is the sweet nectar of the Gods and has gotten me through many an afternoon.

I often wonder how much of the success that our industry has had can be attributed to caffeine.
Okay, fought this for 10-15 minutes and discovered that it was my security settings in Firefox and my c-t-p settings in Chrome that were breaking things. Please switch to HTML5 or make the flash element visible.

And now that I have it up . . . how do I say this politely? This is the music of my nightmares. What genre is this? I know I've been stuck in a hole listening to classic jazz and hip-hop recordings for 10+ years, but this just sounds like dissonance and apathy. Most of the tracks I've found are less than 3 minutes long, about as tonal as Shostakovich and a bit croony?

Though, now that I typed all that, a single, solitary hip-hop track popped up after 20+ songs, and it's rather nice. So confused.
It's too late. I don't think people angry at the patent suits pulling out is going to make any difference to Apple at this juncture. They know developers are disposable. Not to mention that a significant percentage of their fanbase is cheering them on.
You are taking away options from the creator, most notably the option to sell his stuff.

I am removing the option to sell rights, not stuff. In other words I am calling for the rights to be statutory and non-transferable.

Removing the option of rights being wholly transferred to another party is the removal of the option to remove all future options and therefore, in absolute terms, can actually have the practical effect of giving inventors more access to other options over the lifetime of their patent.

This desire to interfere in trade is very odd.

Given that patents are an issued right to interfere in trade, I see nothing odd in interfering in the right to trade a right to interfere in trade.

[edit] I completely agree that this creates a different set of messyness, but I think that patents by their very nature create messyness and that this set of messyness is smaller and more dealable with than the current insanity.

Also, I would have to say I am far from convinced of the general need for patents at all, although I would definitely concede that they have been useful in some specific instances.
A whole bunch of famous scientists and mathematicians arguing with each other
I wholeheartedly agree

The "skeptics" seem to have one objective: offend anyone who has any form of religion.

Or take the Lance Armstrong case, some "skeptics" were saying if you believe he doped you are "anti-science" because his exams never came back positive.

What a bunch of idiots. Modern tests detected evidence of blood manipulation.

So in a sense "skeptics" are just like the religious anti-scientific crowd, but saying "blah blah science" instead of
"blah blah religion". But guess what, they don't know enough about science to say that.
> I stopped reading here

Which the rest of your comment proves. Thanks for that.
Well, yeah, I don't think that my not purchasing Apple products is going to do anything to their bottom line. But it'll make me feel a little better about the things I buy.
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The author attacks skeptics' obsession with quantifiable knowledge at several points in the essay (e.g., the comp ling section), without providing an alternative.

We have a word for "sciences" that are unquantifiable -- "soft" sciences. They don't work very well.
The thing I particularly liked was how he picked his vendors based on their expertise. He admitted to knowing less about tuna than his tuna guy, less about rice than his rice guy, etc., and his relationships were long-term and mutually beneficial.