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You have feelings. That's great! Welcome to humanity.

Do you have logic? Data? A Delphic oracle? Perspectives into a parallel universe where they hired a sales team? Something more substantial than feelings?
Wait what? Every scanner, printer, tablet, mouse, and even color correction device I've bought has worked on my Mac.
>That example isn't due to static linking, it's because they chose a particular style of dialog which is deprecated and cannot be updated without breaking backwards compatibility.

I'm not sure what this means though:

"it's because they chose a particular style of dialog which is deprecated and cannot be updated without breaking backwards compatibility."

So you mean something like the Windows API featured 2-3 different dialog styles and they set some option / flag in their code to use one that was subsequently not updated by MS?

Could be. But at least the dialog style could change, it seems in Windows API all drawing is hardcoded, so the dialog also comes with the old style buttons etc.

MS should have continue to offer the dialog styles they once had as options instead of deprecating them. But even failing that, they should at least made it so that their graphical elements (sub-widgets like buttons, text fields etc) are kept updated. That doesn't involve changing the API or binary compatibility will the calling program.

Also, seeing those dialogs in old shareware/commercial programs when run on modern Windows is one thing. But one also sees them in some very-rarely-updated MS applications that MS ships with Windows. At least you did, until Vista (haven't used Windows since).

Another infuriating thing from Windows dialogs of old --that still appear in apps: when the size of text-entries, icon fields etc is too small, but the dialog is not resizable.
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I’m questioning whether it’s productive to consider popularity when building components that will underly the long-term architecture of other people’s software. Overnight success can disappear as quickly as it arrives, and I, for one, have a lower time preference for these things. I’d rather be responsible for a tool that gains a lot of respect for being a robust, reliable and high-performance piece of kit over a long period of time, than one which had blazing popularity in the beginning but then proved to be the source of many a developer’s nightmare later.
This actually goes back to my original devil's advocate point: the screen caps don't show anything suggesting "phone only". One is called gogo mobile, the other gogo.

As I said, a laptop is arguably a mobile device. Further, there is nothing there that states it is for a mobile device, just that it is the mobile page. It doesn't say "for phone users only".

As for my analogous situation: My bank said I could only sign in through IE to access my web banking. Does this mean I committed fraud to access via a Firefox with changed agent string? I used that log in to transfer money to my debit card account and get some cash. Definitely a deceit with value. (Note, the account was in fact mine).
>You're conflating design with the marketing and support

No, I'm talking about knowing that users are faster and more efficient when the menu bar is at the top of the screen rather than attached to windows. Design makes people more efficient. Undesigned things, or poorly designed things don't care about these factors, or do them half assed.

> The idea of someone saying my setup is 'wrong' from a design perspective is laughable,

This is because you reject design. You claim it is marketing. You reject it as an engineering discipline. That's my point.

>Where's the novel signal processing algorithms to clean up capacitive touchscreen input?

Patented, and you guys claim that the patent is disproven by the existence of "touch screens" in the past that worked by pushing one layer in enough that two wires touched closing a circuit.

> should get you the rights to the entire concept

The only people claiming that the rights to an entire concept are involved are those who are trying to claim that these are bogus patents... which is either profoundly ignorant or completely dishonest.
The multiple "aha! I corrected the President's grammar. hahah" posts are sickening.
I think for at least a while the fab technology is going to require quite a few integration/finishing steps, which will still require specialised machinery which prevents them from being easily deployed in neighbourhood Fab4U scenarios.

I have a vague recollection that the biggest industrial use of 3D printing is in producing the moulds and dies which are then used to mass-produce.

In the longer term, we'll need either more accurate initial positive machining processes, or more integrated systems that include negative processes like CNC milling/EDM/waterjet for cleanup and hard-to-print forms like screw threads.
This reminds me, in Chris Hedges' book War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, there is a great section on why everyone always hates reality-based thinkers.

Essentially before and during when the war crimes (or whatever) are being committed, everyone hates the truth-tellers because they think they are wrong and they are challenging their worldview or whatever. And then afterwards, everyone hates the truth-tellers because they remind them that they were wrong. That's why you will never read an article about prominent Republicans coming forward and apologizing to Michael Moore or whatever.
You could make some of the same arguments about animals that die immediately after mating or giving birth (e.g. they could have more kids too). Clearly that doesn't save them.

You seem to be tightly focusing on a possible reading† of the second-to-last sentence of my comment. I'm not sure why. It doesn't matter if older people have zero evolutionary benefit or simply less evolutionary benefit — the point is that evolution does not necessarily optimize for longevity (certainly not to the point where we can't do better than simply looking at how our basic instincts).

† I actually anticipated a response like this, which is why I added "clear." The evolutionary benefit of a grandparent is a lot less clear-cut and immediate than the benefit of a parent. Clearly I still did not communicate that well enough.
I think people would rather pay than pirating anyway, I wish the film industry would finally come up with a distribution solution like itunes and quit wasting their efforts on crap like this.
Measured scientifically just means it's better for the majority of users; it doesn't necessarily mean it's better for me as a single individual.

Not that I'm arguing against the bar on top; in fact, I'll use the keyboard shortcuts anyway, so I don't particularly care.
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At some level, I would like to see how it goes when one of the anti-piracy groups accidentally codes their piracy-tracking bit-torrent client to join in the torrenting. If they're already involved in the torrenting of their own products... is it illegal anymore? I mean, they're seeding their own data, isn't that like giving permission? "Here's a file, download it!"

IANAL, I'm curious.
Compare Linux to OSX makes no sense to me. Linux has always been missing features when compared to alternatives; the GNU system was actually written to emulate the alternative.

But the GNU/Linux project had a very different objective. Fighting for freedom. If it is still freedom the driving force, then we should encourage the enthusiasts and get back to work on improve Linux, as it has been done for the past years. By doing so Linux already reached the excellence in some fields.

If you're just competing on features, you'll be missing some great benefits and enjoyment. And to be honest, in terms of features OSX isn't that good either as Windows is still used by the majority for one reason or another.
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I think you're missing the point.

> He's not in "our" industry. He runs a small business that makes good money, and it happens to use technology. Not the same thing.

I presume you're defining "our" industry as consumer focused Internet services that plan to IPO or get acquired? Not sure everyone would agree with you, I don't.

Your comment actually reiterates what he's talking about. The mentality of what a "startup" is and how you go about building it is (in his opinion) a bit toxic.

To tell you the truth, the longer I live in Silicon Valley the more I agree with his point of view.
You really have to wonder if the advent of Windows 8 and disgruntlement with it from Valve, Blizzard, etc. might have repercussions on this whole situation.
NO! Your free version is fine. Don't change the product, change the marketing.
It's unbelievably verbose and the documentation sucks hard. Also, working on remote machines is unreasonably annoying. It is decent at manipulating structured data though.
Not sure why they are completely different animals. Both protect property rights in creative work which can be easily copied/replicated (without attribution or compensation).

As for abolishing software patents -- would help if you can list the reasons people cite -- I can't offer a counterargument otherwise.
Yup, it's a real shame. Imagine if they made it 5 megapixels, with BSI and full well? You could still make 8x10 prints (if anyone still does that...), but you could also take photos of your friends in a dark bar with no flash at f4. It would be amazing. But no one is doing it, and I have no idea why. Even the SLRs are now up above 20 megapixels. Why? I'm really anxious to see if Apple has the balls to keep the next iPhone at 8, or if they bump it up to 13.
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Sounds like a good case for a Greasemonkey userscript. Maybe trap the up/down arrow keys rather than tab.
An interview shouldn't be a position of superiors grilling an inferior. If you find yourself in that kind of interview you're unlikely to be finding a great working environment.

From that I'd suggest an interview should be a meeting of equals - they want the right person, you want the right company, both sides have an interest in figuring this out. Companies have no hesitation cutting short a day long interview process if by mid-morning the feedback to HR is that this is going to be a no-hire. Nor should candidates feel bad about cutting short an interview if it's clear early it'll be a no-accept to any prospective offer.

Honesty helps all parties. Analogy by anecdote:

I have always felt that an interview is a fair dialogue. Back in 1997 (yes I am THAT old) I was interviewed for a tech support position near London, for a massive multinational which had a completely failing tech service desk catering to tens of thousands of desktops. At the end of the interview the interviewer - who'd be my prospective boss - asked the question "does that sound like something that appeals to you" after describing the job.

My answer was honest: "no not really, but I wish you all the best in the search."

"Why not?"

"Well, I might have interest in leading a team like that because it sounds like there's a real problem to be solved in servicing your internal customers, but it doesn't sound like it's a process I'd enjoy working in, as it is".

This being London in the late 90s where there was a massive IT shortage (a bit like Silicon Valley and engineers today) I got a call back from my agent (fancy name for recruiter) who asked what I'd done. Apparently they'd called him back and offered me the job of running the Service Desk and fixing the problems that made me not interested in working on it.

I ended up with a much higher paying job offer, my first management experience (eventually building the team to over 40 people from the 6 I started with) and they ended up with someone who finally solved their problems, turning first line fix around from 17% to 70% in about six months.

Interviews aren't there for you to say yessir nosir. They're a back and forth between equals trying to find the best for both parties. This guy is absolutely right to call it a day early, if he feels it's not the right fit.
i guess if you don't mind that osx used 5% active cpu just for flashing bubbly buttons that's alright.

i like osx, I think it does have a good ecosystem for GUI APPS. but at pretty much everything it fails. It's a performance nightmare and the filesystem makes me want to punch a kid in the face(yes sorry, I also don't think you should be doing opengl in javascript, but hey) everytime it kills the cpu.

Now, with all the mentioned above I do wish there was a better ecosystem for app development. I mean something like xcode 3 not 4. Yes we have QT, yes we have glade, but build an app with the interface designer and bindings, mvc concepts and it just helps a lot.

You can do most of it with Vala, granted, it's just shittier documented and not as "round", there are no standard concepts to follow, etc. And yes, I do like my linux customizability, but we have stuff like CERT best practices for secure C coding. Why can we not get something like that for linux gui programming.

ps. gnome3 can go right where it came from
In the olden days, one would walk into a music store, listen to tracks and buy an album for a very favourable price.

Ahh, no. In the olden days people made music together with what instruments they had on hand, music spread organically from person to person and town to town. And it was shared freely.

Sticking it on plastic disks and selling it like pizza pies is the historical anomaly. Spotify (and its kin) is a closer spiritual successor to the old days than album sales. That said, its different too. Technology changes things. Get with it.
Is it? It appears that his AMA was online for maybe 45 minutes. How long should we expect the President of the United States to stay on the site for? Presumably has has other things to do.
Look likes bullshit to me :)
We knew Reddit wouldn't be able to handle the government take down :)
That's the thing about samsung. They copied the bad stuff as well: weird connectors, itunes / kies.
Looks like they just used a standard low-end desktop panel.
Every high-profile AMA is a carefully crafted PR stunt.
This should be moved to /r/circlejerk.
There is also his campaign site "Redditors for Obama" https://barackobama.com/reddit

Not definite proof but if someone hacked the POTUS's Twitter Account and posted a fake IAMA to reddit it would probably have been shut down by now.
Tweetdeck had enough users before Twitter bought them that they could have started a competing service. And due to the loose nature of Twitter's social graph, it may have been just as useful to the users. I think that sent a scare through the company on the dangers of not being the touch point with the company.
You can configure beanstalk to scale your database out as well.
How much advance warning did Reddit have that Obama was doing an AMA?
Looks Barack Obama has proven that cloud infrastructure just isn't quite there yet, ha. I'm really curious as to what others have asked especially in relation to 911, Wall Street and the birth certificate fiasco.

This aside and I'm not starting an argument here, but this very AMA bringing down Reddit pretty badly goes to show that even EC2 isn't the answer to life's scaling problems nor are other cloud services like Heorku.
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Right, because the people who use linux don't understand what design is.

Look at the responses to my comments-- almost all of them defending linux make comments that show they don't understand what design is. They think it is how it looks.

>OSX is not easier to use either, it has many nonintuitive quirks but they stick to their design and improve it instead of overhauling it.

I suspect you simply haven't used OS X much. It was designed correctly and is intuitive. The reason you think its "unintuitive" is likely you've been trained to use a broken system that was not designed correctly and thus what feels "natural" to you-- which is actually learned behavior-- feels wrong on OS X.

Meanwhile, Apple has continued to improve their design, and in the rare case where they got something wrong, they fix it -- for instance, they reversed the direction of scrolling to make it more intuitive... move the finger up on the trackpad and the page moves up on the screen.

They don't need to overhaul it because they have been improving it for 3 decades....

They've done such a good job at it, that you think they havent' done anything!
I know modern CNC toolpath generators can be pretty complicated beasts, but I'm not sure to what extent they can use the sorts of constraints or tradeoffs you mention to optimise their flow.

The optimiser for a deposit-then-machine type workflow sounds even more interesting (and difficult). Is it worth printing those extra structures you're going to need to remove later? Maybe, if it means you can do some finicky machining operations in a different order later...
I don't see how. If you own the copyright, you can give it to whoever you like via whatever method you like, including bittorrent. That doesn't (absent a copyleft license) transfer a right to anyone else to do the same.
The point being that this is an editable document serving as a user interface. Which, if I remember correctly, some people once envisioned for the web (cf. Amaya[1]), but never really took hold.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_%28web_editor%29
There are smartphones, tablets, netbooks, watches, ski goggles running Android. It is interesting to consider Android as a "phone OS".

Sure, your camera doesn't need apps. Neither does your phone. But just because it's not necessary, doesn't mean that it won't provide lots of benefits. You can, for instance install Dropbox and use Camera Upload to automatically sync all your photos to all your devices the moment you shoot them.
You can't compare resolutions between screens that differ in sizes...especially when the viewing distance is different. I can't imagine that you would hold a 20" tablet up to your face as you would a 7" one.
Link to actual AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...

Reddit's ops team is going to have a fun day today. (Link's down as I post this.)
I couldn't have done a better job, but I probably would have done a diffewrent job.

How about ask God anything?

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You can't name innovative things amongst a crowd that rejects that innovation can happen. They'll tell you someone else did it earlier, even when they didn't.

For instance, cars were not an innovation according to hacker news, because Horses!
> It's that this is the correct way to do it.

Except when you have multiple monitors. How is it the correct way to do it to force me to mouse 4000 pixels to the left or right to get to the menu for an application that isn't on the same screen as the menu?

There's never just one correct way to do things. Your arrogance towards other implementations is overwhelming.
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This kind of content and the carefully cultivated outrage it fuels belongs on Reddit and Digg.
Yes, I'm in love with their sorting algorithm. That's why I was particularly interested in seeing what appears to be deviations in it. However, I'm probably just seeing things.
Or you could use the money that you would have spent on a VPN to pay for the content that you watch. (Exceptions may apply, etc.)
> To me, the interesting part of mathematics is the process of manipulating expressions, not the expressions themselves.

I think most mathematicians and physicists would disagree. I think such people wouldn't want distinguish between generating equations and studying them and their effects, especially with physical equations that must reflect reality to have any value.

For example, I can make elaborate predictions about a lot of physical reality with:

f = G M_1 M_2 / r^2 (gravitational force)

And if I want to study tidal forces, all I need to do is take the first derivative of the above:

f = 2 G M_1 M_2 / r^3 (tidal force)

I have just "manipulated" an equation, but with an awareness of the equation's physical consequences and effects, and I can now use the second equation to make predictions about ocean tides, the future position of the moon, and the temperature of the volcanoes on Io (which arise from the energy of tidal forces). So for me, the equation itself is immensely valuable for modeling reality -- it's more than a case of manipulating terms.

> For example, the number pi would be pretty boring if it weren't for the theorems related to it.

Pi, as it turns out, may serve as a source for random sequences of digits. So apart from its geometric meaning, Pi stays interesting.
Google are saying one thing and doing another. They may be right in some cases but that doesn't mean that they are playing straight.

When there was a recent review of patent law and software patents recently Google did not come out against software patents. In no way are they setting a good example in their current behaviour, the best you could say is that they are doing their best to bring the system into disrepute by their failure to stick to their FRAND commitments.
I can't even load the page, so...
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Considering "Chicken or the egg" paradox
Just talked about how can (G)CC be written in C and realized that this problem is very similar to "Chicken or the egg" one.

If I can understand and explain that compiler was first before the language itself, why not to try similar reasoning with chicken & egg?

Putting things straight, there had to be someone who was creating first eggs, but in different way than now chickens do. Eggs were capable of changing into chickens. At the beginning chickens were incomplete and could only do simple things. But at the end, after all the improvements, those chickens were able to produce eggs themselves.
That's 3 minutes per question, given the half hour he allotted. I don't think that's too disappointing. Did you really expect him to answer 12,000 questions?
It would be far better if that landing page were either a search page or listings-posting page. Most likely search (that's going to be most of your interest) with a link (or form) for posting.

I looked at it for 15 seconds (hey, I'm at my day job), couldn't figure it out, and left.

PadMapper and Craigslist both have a far better usability proposition.

Just sayin'.
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