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Design is both how it looks and how it works. If you take the Desktop WIMP UI, and try to come up with a way to redesign it work with only touch instead of mouse and keyboard, you'd roughly be already halfway to the iOS homescreen in terms of design. Instead of clicking on a icon, you touch it and the app opens, swipe to see multiple homescreens since desktop space is limited on a phone, add in a dock at the bottom. Contrast that with Metro. So that screenshot is NOT irrelevant.
One of the main things that prevents me from doing the same is health insurance. Will I be paying $2000 per month instead of $200 that I'm paying now for a good coverage.

What are my options? Can anyone shine some lights on this issue?

(I know it's a US thing, as those in EU have free health plan and all that.)
StallmanFacts.com
WTF, soon, when computers have micro SD slots ready to roll that do not stick out (like my phone, smartpad or 9 inch netbooks) there will be no need for this.
$35 for a 25 cent item - only for suckers.
Freelancer marketplaces. You'll find a good one for every 50 crappy ones.
Copycatted a concept, added my own twist. Got lucky and got into a great niche without much competition. Grew from there.
Best choice: http://system76.com - Preinstalled Ubuntu, great tech support, guaranteed to be free of compatibility issues.

Second Best Choice: Ubuntu Certified Hardware. http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/ Tested and validated against current Ubuntu images.

Third Best Choice: Ubuntu Friendly (choose 4 stars or higher). Community tested. https://friendly.ubuntu.com/
I'm coming at it from a different perspective. I can't worry about what other programmers do. I need tools. I love JS but the tools for it could be better. I'm hoping C#->JS will be a great addition to the toolbox.
PHP Ninja Manual - PHP 5.4 documentation available in Chrome
That is already on my todo list for the next release.
I don't enjoy it either. The tampering of the scrollbar and having the text stuffed into some sort of frame ruins the experience. Those two problems make it difficult to read on G+ so I usually just avoid it.
Yawn, just link to the astrology column next time.
>So the above is my opinion based on years of painful experiences dealing with clunky Windows embedded devices

Windows Phone and Windows Mobile are different from Windows embedded devices. WM sucked while WP is much much better.

>Ultimately, the market will decide if customers will put up with a WIN CE device and right now, it's not looking good for Microsoft.

I guess Linux failing on the desktop means it is clunky and painful to use and thus is not looking good? Not to mention that OS X share of desktop is less than WP's share of the phone market.

Marketshare is not the whole picture.

And that's not even counting WebOS devices like the Pre and Touchpad, which totally failed even with the "Linux's superior network stack, memory management, multi-core CPU handling, etc" of the kernel it used.
It's very troubling, because the decoupling of resources from their representations is so core to HTTP.

A year ago, the maintainers defended Chrome's behavior as consistent with Firefox, and vaguely as consistent with the spec. Since then, more complaints have piled up and those original defenses have been deconstructed (Firefox no longer exhibits this spec-breaking behavior, multiple unmet sections of the spec have been cited). But for the last 9 months, the maintainers have not said a thing, despite doing various house-cleaning chores on the bug report itself.

One can't help but wonder if there's some ulterior motive for ignoring the community and keeping the WontFix status, though nothing obvious comes to mind... The impact this could have and the way they've handled this is reminiscent of how the downfall of a different browser began.
There certainly are other factors than a language's productivity. I don't dispute that at all, or I wouldn't be writing so much code in C++.

But I think language popularity has very little to do with productivity or any other rational factor. Languages mostly piggyback on platforms that emerge rapidly at some point in history.

C came with Unix. JavaScript and Java came with Web browsers. SQL came with relational databases. Objective-C became widely used (if not poplar) with the iPhone. PHP came preinstalled with shared web hosting. C# comes with Windows. VBA comes with Office, etc.

Developers mostly just choose platforms not languages. Whoever makes the platform decides on the language and it will be "popular" regardless of how atrocious it may be.

And by the way, PG is building something today and he's building it in a Lisp dialect (http://paulgraham.com/arc.html)
Flax seed , oil and cod liver oil, sorts out my dry eyes
that's the easy part
Off topic. App.Net says it is "a real-time social feed without the ads". This G+ page is quite on topic with some heavy participants, design looks good, and clear from ads. Why would I want to pay App.Net?
when you learn to drive a car.... you can drive almost all cars... the biggest difference is with the manual o automatic gears....
when you learn to use a computer you should be able to use many of them whithout having to learn anything.
It's not exactly people i met on Elance etc., but i met the through someone else. But they were on those marketplaces, so technically yes.

Managing is hard when you're not doing the work, and the quality of the final product will differ. Especially when you're subcontracting, the person you dole out work to will for obvious reasons be cheaper than you are. Hence their quality of work would usually be lower, unless you found someone better than you for much cheaper. But then in that case they will realize that soon enough and leave.

You can minimize it by making sure the tickets etc. are atomic and unambiguous enough. I use mockups, screenshots a lot(especially since i work with english-as-a-foreign-language people). Initially i put in a lot of time QAing stuff. But i was proving to be a bottleneck where i would interact with the client, then divy up work to the devs and then QA it back. I just didn't have the hours to do all that. So i've been making clients become more involved in the process. So allowing them to help out on testing, project-management side and trying to make my presence minimal. Also all communication is kept on tickets, and linked to exact git commits for it. So i can catch up and see where we are, even drop right down to the code to see what changed.

To be honest, it's still a work-in-progress. It's been taking more and more of my time to manage stuff than code productively. So sooner i'll have to think of getting some help on that end.
I recommend trying gccgo, the Go compiler for the GCC suite. (GCC 4.7.1 and later have Go built in.)

In my experience it is (at -O2) much faster than Go's own compiler. GCC, after all, has because a bunch of advanced optimizers with a long history of development behind them, and Go's own compiler does not.

My recolleciton is that Go's own compiler was intended as a "suboptimal but correct" reference compiler, but this may have changed.
You can use the full Eclipse or even Visual Studio on the new Windows 8 x86 tablets like the Surface Pro or lots of other upcoming offerings.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/samsung-series-slate-series...

Upside is CPU power and existing toolchain compatibility, downsides are battery life, cost, thickness, size(compared to 7" tablets) and weight compared to Android tablets.
Labor Day is for us, the entrepreneurs
Well, you should look for 'Screen Edges' in System Settings. There you can define the proper action for top-left corner (set it to Present Windows effect).
Also, you can remove the bottom panel and/or configure it to look like windows, mac or gnome shell.

But if you are a person who prefers to stick with defaults, well, KDE's defaults are very old and plain.
Based on the title, I first thought that you were opening your code for a day, or making a "hack fest for everybody who wants".

Anyways, you just gave me an idea to develop a Buffer app for WP7, I never saw one and might be interesting :)
A better model for Steve Yegge's observations on programmers
I made a reader macro (not technically supported by Clojure, but I don't care) for these situations that provides something I call the "scoping operator".

#>a 6
#>(let [b 7])
#>(while true)
...

Using this operator, the above code is then equivalent to the below code, which I find much easier to deal with for code that is strictly linear in execution semantics.

(let [a 6]
(let [b 7]
(while true
...)))

I don't use it for most functions, however, only those where I find myself otherwise ending up in nested expression hell. When I do, however, it works perfectly with other language features (example: doing a syntax quote on a #> works exactly as one would hope; it is conceptually just a fancy macro).

(...and where breaking up the logic into smaller functions would just obfuscate the process, as the steps fundamentally could only be called from a single place anyway, turning the nesting into an even-worse problem of broken apart logic.)
Any real hope of 2TB cards in the near future?
$2000 month is high (depends on your situation though). I've also done this, on Cobra, my payment is 1100 for a family of 4. If you have low deductibles, it would be higher.

You are probably also paying some part of your health insurance as it is (it will often come out of your paycheck pre-tax) You should check if that's going on.

In 2014, Health Insurance operations commence in each state due to the Patient Protection And Affordable Care act. So, if you resigned now, you could get Cobra for 18 months, and then switch to an individual plan.
Great pattern!

Are there any ruby gems that implement the same?
Am I the only one who remembered the RS-MMC cards? I'm not even sure if the macbook can read them (I don't own or will ever own one). But from what I remember it would fit and not be too long, maybe too short?.

Edit: Ok found out that RS-MMC are limited to 2Gb
Perhaps the photo is designed to distract from other better shopped photos at better hidden accidents in better hidden countries.
Just so you know, and easy mistake, but CSS-Tricks is the name of the website, not a reference to the language being used.
3 years ago, I made a prototype for LG of a social remote control. It allowed anyone in the room with a web browser (including smart phones) to send videos to the tv. It was great for group tv watching, since it gives everyone the ability to search simultaneously for a video, instead of instructing the one guy with the remote where to go.

Anyway, LG wasnt interested until I made a super gimmicky way of sending videos to the tv instead of using a button. You held your phone up to the tv, and it would transfer.

Concept Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETRwc7B_NNc

This limited it to apps instead of web browsers and was less reliable. But it was slightly cooler than pressing a button.

It distracted them from the whole point of my idea though. They just wanted a cool remote control they could sell with their tvs.
Python Development on Linux and Why You Should Too
Well If it was me I would go the uglier cheaper way as long as it does the job.
This is great advice. One other thing I did as well, once I started getting a few customers, I would hand out cards on completed jobs to customers that said "for each referral that gives me this card, I'll give you back 5% of the cost of the project we just completed." I had to give back a little money, but it helped to spread my network via word of mouth.
If you are willing to work for less than stellar rates, I have found work through oDesk and Rent-A-Coder (now vWorker). If you live in the US and have kids or want to be comfortable, its going to be really hard to make enough money on those sites. But if you are like me and are just trying to get by, you can find work that pays enough to live on on those sites. If you live in a place with a significantly lower cost of living, I would definitely take advantage of sites like that without hesitating.

What I do is I find the rare project post that contains an actual specification of some sort which doesn't seem completely ludicrous and is something that I can make a fair start on within 1-3 days of work. I build out a prototype hitting on a few of the major technical aspects of that spec. A significant portion of the time I win the bid after sending them a link to the prototype or a video of it in action.

Another place I found a client was on reddit. Someone posted a job as an ad at the top of the page. It didn't have a real spec but it did hint at some specific technical aspect of the project, so I built a quick prototype based on a related open source system. Then I told them that I wasn't interested in a regular job but rather wanted to work in a freelance capacity (because that is what I wanted).
Yeah, but it's so much more romantic to think of start-ups as literally comparable to being a foot soldier on the front lines.
Persona tries to support the notion of one address == one identity, so the only information you transmit to a site when logging in is "my email address is foo@example.com, and here's the proof."

To help people manage identities, the Persona UI does allow you to pre-load a bunch of your addresses, but the connections there are never revealed to outside parties. In the future, that information will be managed completely locally in your browser if it has native support for Persona.
This is very sanitised. 'labor day' comes from the international unionist struggle/demand for workers rights that stopped sweatshop conditions existing in all western countries, usually through 'illegal' strikes. You can also forget conflating it with Stalin and the cold war - that all came much later.
For statically typing Javascript, I strongly recommend Google's Closure toolset- it uses JS comments to statically type and validate your code, plus you can either run it compiled or uncompiled.

https://developers.google.com/closure/

There are no editors that give you the nice intellisense bells and whistles, but static typing is by far the most important for me.
You basically missed the entire point of it or why it's interesting.

Current Intel CPUs have a very small GPU built on to the die of the CPU. By buying the CPU, you're paying for an Intel GPU anyway.

At the same time, unlike CPU performance, GPU performance really does scale with die area; if you want more graphics performance, get a bigger chip with more ALUs/texture units/etc, and because graphics is so parallel everything will just go faster. However, larger chips mean larger amounts of leakage when the chip is powered but idle, which means that battery life can be significantly worse.

What Optimus does is allow the Intel GPU to be connected to the display hardware and be used most of the time (e.g., when you're looking at email or whatever) when high performance isn't called for. At that point, the NVIDIA GPU can be turned off completely, meaning no leakage and no battery life degradation. If you want high performance, the NVIDIA GPU is enabled on the fly, rendering is done on the NVIDIA GPU, and the final result is sent in some way to the Intel GPU, which can then use its actual display connections to put something on the LCD.

Prior to Optimus, there was generally a mux that would switch which GPU was outputting to the screen. This was messy because everything had to be done on one GPU or the other, it was noticeably heavyweight, occasionally required reboots, increased hardware complexity, etc.

The biggest issue with Optimus on Linux is that the infrastructure for the actual sharing of the rendered output didn't really exist until dmabuf appeared--you need two drivers to be able to safely share a piece of pinned system memory such that they can both DMA to/from that memory and be protected from any sort of bad behavior from each other. (I also think it's impossible to have two different drivers sharing the same X screen, which is why bumblebee works the way it does)
I still have yet to play Half-Life. Should I play Half-Life original or Source or This?
A Top Nike Designer Rebrands Game Of Thrones
Solution: Let these interface gimmicks be the stuff of tech conventions and demos, and never part of any mass-produced product.

But maybe some marketing folks, seeing the success of Apple, have reasoned that these gimmicks can sell products in the short-term, at least until consumers discover the problems with them.

At the end of this era of tapping and rubbing little screens with our fat, dirty fingers, we may be reminded why we had tactile interfaces to begin with. What ever happened to the PDA stylus?
For anyone asking the "what startup job will accelerate me towards starting one of my own" question - this is a really good one.
Latest Java sandbox is still vulnerable
And, when you finally succeed, some asshole will tell you that you didn't actually build your business. That your success isn't due to having worked hard (because there are tons of people that work hard) or because you are smart (because lots of people are smart). No, you had nothing to do with building a successful business despite your sacrifices, risk, uncertainty, sleepless nights, good and bad decisions, family sacrifices, etc., etc. You don't matter.
I'm in the same boat as the OP, and was able to find health insurance for about $500/month for a family of 4. The main catch is that it's a very high deductible, so we'd have to spend at least $5000 per year out of our own pocket (or HSA) for the insurance part to kick in. If I were to keep my old employer's coverage through COBRA, it would be closer to the $2000/month number. But if you're saving $1500 per month in premiums, and are reasonably healthy, having a high deductible "catastrophic" plan with some backup money in an HSA makes a lot of sense.
I don't want to start a flamewar here but "Neither are macs" sounds somewhat arrogant to me, serious and honest question am I the only one to think that?

Edit to comment about the depth limit: I can't comment any deeper. (Karma related?)
One thing that makes me think Android is something else is the lack FOSS apps to run on it. The distribution methods even seem a bit hostile to me. I wanted a code editor for my Nexus tablet, and the options in the Android Market were paid closed-source apps and free closed-source apps.

I don't mind using the occasional proprietary app but what I and many others love about the Linux desktop is that that there is a nice FOSS app in almost every category.
Escavando o Túnel Mais Largo do Mundo com a Maior Tuneladora de Sempre
I can't disagree with you there - while I did spend some time in the Chrome debugger to see if I could find some clues, at the end of the day I'm stingy with my time when it comes to pull requests, largely based on the # of open issues on the repo. Maybe I'm jaded but after losing a few hours to pull requests that never went answered and reading multiple different takes on github etiquette, I tend to play that safely.
Note only does the DOL page not mention the stiff competition faced with the May 1st date, it doesn't even mention what is uncontroversially regarded as the main impetus for the federal labor holiday, namely, as a gesture of appeasement in the wake of the brutal suppression of the Pullman strike just 6 days before the enabling act was signed by Grover Cleveland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike

In that sense, the totality of the censorship on the government's page around a simple matter of noncontroversial public history is simply astonishing. The irony is that it seems to exemplify the very ethos of left-wing totalitarianism that it's desperately trying to "protect" us from. Or as Winston Smith said it best himself,

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth" (Book One, Chapter VII).

BTW, here's a good recap of the actual political maneuverings around the time of the federal holiday was enacted:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
I don't see how these are significantly different than .PDBs which allow Windows developers to step through their source code when debugging compiled binaries.
Reading this discussion is hard for me without thinking, what would have happened if the whole Linux ecosystem was BSD-licensed?
Constantly fumbling with; forgetting or losing the PDA stylus – happened to the PDA stylus.
I'm a little confused. Are Linus (and Alan, Ingo and even Ted Ts'o) arguing that the GNOME team experiences breakages because they ignored the kernel team practices and used internal interfaces instead of the public ones?

Also why do they refer to GNOME as a "research" project?
As much as I might enjoy starting a fight, I'm sure we'd both just get downvoted until we can't read what we said anymore.

I wasn't trying to be snooty or anything with my remarks. I just meant that there is a market for a wide range of seemingly ridiculous stuff in this world.

In a land where people pay big bucks to have double eyelid surgery, inject toxins into their lips, and buy intentionally "distressed" furniture, a slightly better-fitting SD Card adapter doesn't seem so absurd.
I cant comment on LoneWolf's reply, but I agree with his point. It was not my intention

edit: so is there a reply depth limit?
That was in back country Alaska (note the past-perfect tense). Every man for himself and all that.
Just upgrade.

Why? Why should someone upgrade their ram just so the UI works smoothly? We've had smooth UI's for twenty years, even back when 32 MB of ram was the norm - so why should someone upgrade to 8 GB just for the UI? Hell, if I upgrade my ram (I have 8 already, but anway) I'll want it to be to benefit all the applications I like to run and I expect the UI and OS to use as little as possible and still perform smoothly.

My old eee pc was able to run windows xp just fine before I installed Arch with a tiling window manager on it and everything ran well, everything was fast, everything was smooth - for about three years - and then I installed Ubuntu and Unity brought it to a standstill despite not using any different applications than I always used. Even switching workspaces sometimes took 15 seconds or so. Yes, it only has 1 GB of ram, but like I said, I used the same applications that I always did without problems. I struggled with it for a few months and switched back to Arch and haven't had any problems since (though I now use a laptop which does have 8 gigs of ram and rather than using that ram to make unity run smoothly, I'm using it so I can run windows 7 and linux at the same time with VirtualBox).
OK, so they've changed BrowserID to Mozilla Persona. How reassuring, I don't recall being notified of such a change.
I look forward to the day that machines can practice art the way doctors do. One of the most underrated/underappreciated aspects of being in medicine is realizing it is a true amalgamation of art and science, relying heavily on both education, experience, wisdom, and instincts.
Saying "off-topic" doesn't give you a go-ahead to flak on off topic things.

This has nothing to do with App.net. I agree, it's one of the dumbest things I've heard of, but has nothing to do with this thread.
My largest criticism for projects like this is that I absolutely abhor running into compiler errors. When you don't fully trust the compiler, it suddenly becomes a suspect when code isn't working like you think it should.

Given decent source maps to allow debugging through the original code, I don't think solutions like this are terribly different than native Javascript. The primary difference though is that I trust the browser JS interpreters and VMs more than I trust many X->JS compilers.
I'm mildly interested in something like this, and almost funded it on kickstarter for 30 dollars. But I really wish it was cheaper and available now. It's not at the point in either regard where I'd impulse purchase it. For now I'm going to wait to see if something like it turns up on dealextreme for cheaper.

BTW, the idea was discussed in this thread a while ago: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1206894