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Assuming that "some writers write letters to their mothers" and "no one writes a letter to their mother expecting it will make them some money"[1], then it's not literally true, but we're splitting hairs. We're talking about hiring programmers based upon a portfolio of professional-quality work they've done in their spare time. How many writers would get a book contract based on a portfolio of their unpublished work?

[1] This requires more qualification. For instance, if one was a struggling writer who didn't make enough money from their writing but had a wealthy mother sending them money for their living expenses....
Having customers is a necessary, but not sufficient condition.
>Two off the top of my head: workspaces

Much older than Linux.

>app stores

You mean package managers. Similar in functionality (getting programs) but not the same thing. Both have nice things going for themselves though.
i used 3 generations of windows on my phone; and am sick of this coming again and again. yes microsoft has some leverage due to its desktop monopoly(and office) but it must see that it is impossible on mobile to get any traction despite billions spent on marketing, to nokia etc. msft should better focus on developing software on android and ios; they just can't do it.
I both use KDE and OS X. Some details are different but the ideas behind are mostly the same.
I have to agree. I found my self reading the source a lot while working with ember. That lead to discovering said hidden classes like ControllerMixin.
I don't understand how a question with an unsupported/uncited premise equivalent to "do you still beat your wife?" constitutes "an excellent question".
> Windows is nothing but mature. Billions of hours running, automated bug reporting, millions of developers, nth generation tools.

And yet it still BSODs on me too often to be actually usable.
I can't stand going to the beach myself, and if I were wealthy, would see myself continuing to work on things. I'd probably have more 'projects' though, things where there might not be any way of making money off it. And I sure as hell would be spending a lot more time riding my bicycle instead of getting fat sitting at a desk.

To each his own, but would someone really want to keep cleaning professionally even if they were wealthy? I could easily seeing less-than-profitable but creative hobbies being way more interesting for hypothetical cleaners who were wealthy and wanted to stay busy.

The reality though, is that unless the cleaning lady is good at hiring and managing other cleaners, she's never going to get the chance to cash out, or sell the company or any of the other avenues the 37 signals guys have.
That's what I told a guy I went to school with when he has shown me Snakes on his Nokia phone. Who'd ever want to play a game on a phone?

And then, around two years later, I asked him who'd ever want a color display on their phone when he was showing off his T68. Who'd ever need a color display on a phone...

I also remember laughing about the ridiculous camera add-on for that T68. I mean: who'd ever want a camera in their phone?

In this present case, being able to instantly upload to Dropbox or picture sharing sites certainly has some appeal, but I guess we'll have to see how this develops over time.

I certainly stopped asking "why on earth..." when talking about gadgets though :-)
But when such a heuristic is challenged it should be reformed into a proper argument.
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Numbering pages ahead of time sounds like a good way to avoid time-of-writing overhead.

I write down a LOT of my thoughts as I work - most of it I never refer back to again after that day. I like to use book darts (maybe two or three per notebook) to mark things I do refer back to more often. http://www.bookdarts.com/
The point I'm trying to make. Maybe it shouldn't be organised like that in the first place.
> Apple's work looks pretty

To you. Not to everyone.

> Look at the UIs of Linux... they didn't design one, they just copied windows.

Yes, because ratpoison looks just like Windows 95. Just like.
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Glad too see the peanut gallery keeping it light

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demaney 69 points 28 minutes ago

For proof, did he send you a picture of him holding a dated index card? Or did the Secret Service land a helicopter on your house?

yishan 183 points 25 minutes ago

He faxed a copy of his birth certificate.
The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is predict disappointment? Really?

Why bother?

If you're wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is).

If you're right, well, that'd be disappointing, right?

Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.
Yes. Because Knowing Your Tools gets you to "zomg click fraud" a helluva lot faster than "wtf? analyze. wtf? write my own analyze! wtf? oh, write logging!!"
Just his responses. Clicking "context" gives you the previous message: http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama
>I think his cocky attitude has a lot to do with the constant feedback loop in the town he lives in.

Pot, meet kettle.
Apple builds fancy gadgets and gathers a fan-boy population, and eventually starts selling more. This really doesn't say anything about Linux desktop.

This whole thing about backward compatibility and the discussion that surrounds it is just vague. Here's a practical "true story" for you: I'm using GNU/Linux for more than 10 years now, and it is still alive.

Never had any vague binary compatibility problems either, because I'm not strangely expecting to use an ancient binary version of Gimp on my current system. That's because FOSS is source oriented, not binary.
I'm not suddenly trying to use a 15 years old graphics card whose driver is longer in the kernel either, because I don't use a 15 years old graphics card.
First of all, congrats on never giving up. I like the idea of PriceFlurry, but right now there are too many clicks. Here are a few suggestions:
1. Instead of an empty location, populate the location with a default city, and/or get the location using IP or geo location in the background.
2. Put a few small icons for heavily used categories such as entertainment, food, travel and an icon for "more" which will open a current box when clicked.
3. I think you can put the input boxes just beside the description on the upper pane. Easier for users to read and start interacting sooner.
I mean, meeting someone for lunch doesn't need to be searchable. Mailing lists are searchable at later times. Google search integrates gmail results now.

The mailing list software is a good point-does google sell Google Groups software?
The AMA mods often arrange high profile AMAs amongst themselves -- or with the reddit community staff involved -- so it's likely they were aware before hand. I can't check the sidebar because reddit isn't responding, but they normally have the "upcoming" AMAs in the sidebar and lots of are listed days/weeks in advance.
I'd say it was the lack of a standardized install convention for "guest" (non-nix) software.

What to do about it? Couple golang's preference for large statically-linked binaries with a one-folder, one-executable install convention and Linux may become more inviting for non-nix apps.

For example, imagine "/outside/myapp/myapp" is a large, unix-unfriendly, statically-compiled binary placed in it's folder by a OS-provided install utility. "Myapp" was probably developed for Mac or Windows and by design does not give a damn about /etc, /lib, /var, etc. These app should just be allowed to crap their configuration files into the home directory into which it has been placed ("/outside/myapp"). If one no longer needs the app, the folder is deleted along with everything else the app created while it was being used. Tidy. Behind the scenes such an app would be compiled to call the standard Linux APIs, yet it would probably avoid any dynamic dependencies. Disk space is cheap. Just bundle it all together and throw it somewhere where it can run in peace.

Amiga's icon files are another approach. Rather than a large, monolithic registry tracking everything in the system, executables exist in tandem with an "icon" (.info) file. This file is generated by the OS and tracks the executable's location and other settings in the workbench (desktop). A modern reincarnation could potentially track anything. Instead of accumulating registry filth with every uninstall one can simply remove an executable and its associated .info file. Instead of adhering to the heir convention, the app plays nicely in its own folder with it's own registry. By using an ".info" file, portable non-nix installs could reside anywhere, and not in a prefabbed "/outside" folder.

The smartphone penchant for portable installation should come to nix, particularly with non-unix software. It should be encouraged, and that's coming from an OpenBSD user. Unix needs a playground for non-unix apps.
He literally has a button which kills people.
I love Linux, and as a developer, use it as my main os (ubuntu). It is so easy to develop on, and it's package management is superb. I don't use the desktop per se, that much, and am usually command-line driven.

I have a Mac, and use it for some things, at times. It's nice, for sure, but I love the openness of Linux, even though, of course, there can be many very painful hardware issues (video, sound, etc), all of which I have experienced at one time or another.

I am wondering - I hear Google is working on a "Android desktop". Would that perhaps maybe change things regarding the "Linux desktop" a bit?
Plus the dependencies. With app stores you (usually) get one program and that's it. It works. With package systems you have to install several dependencies for each, sometimes an absurd number (say, 100 packages to get Gnome). And then there's dependency problems (had my share in Debian at older times).
I used to be really into the whole free software thing, but have mellowed with age.

However, no way in hell anyone will get me to switch to Mac OS. I am simply too enamored with having an environment that I can hack on if it strikes my fancy, as well as an environment that I can customize how I want it. Despite all its flaws, it still does focus follows mouse pretty well, and not having that would drive me batty.

Also, Apple is an 800 pound gorilla that has always been about Being In Control. The Samsung lawsuit wasn't anything new:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...

I just don't want to be part of that kind of walled garden.
I think you might be overlooking the fact that aid does have a long term goal. It's not simply about feeding someone in the short term -- it's to help the impoverished fulfill their most basic needs so that they can go to school, get educated, get a job, and earn a living. If you haven't eaten in three days, you're not going to be in school, you're going to be on the street begging.
Let the conspiracy theories start. Did the Republicans DDOS the server to stop the President from connecting with Redditors, or did the Democrats do it so that the President wouldn't have to really answer any tough questions but just say he did? Or is it the work of Terrorists? Or Kevin Rose's final revenge?
Hardware? What hardware? Frankly, I havent bought nothing over last 10 years. I have laptop, you see...
What is the point when the pictures will be all weird. To get 21x zoom on that sized camera, you need a horribly small sensor. The sensor on this is a bigger than iPhone's, but they also crammed in 16mp. Now, that screwed them to limit the fstop value to f/2.8 widest open. Note that widest open will happen at the time when you're zoomed out completely. You will most likely end up using the f/5.5+ fstop value on this camera on most images.

Any image this can produce would be way worse than an iPhone. Usually, you are shooting at f/2.4 on an iPhone. Notice that blurring smooth creaminess you get on off focus areas on iPhone? You will never get it from this camera. Things will either be focussed, or bluntly blurred.

They don't care about image quality at all with those specs. This is a marketing gig.
Ask HN: How do you find out about interesting open-source projects to work on?
The problem is that a lot of people (myself included) are not very good at knowing when we're full.
If that is the case, what about the Jeff Han video which came out in 2006? Jeff Han was obviously working on it for at least a year before he gave that talk. Shouldn't that be obvious prior art? He talks about pinch and much more!
One of the main sticking point for serious mongodb infrastructure is the global lock -- yes, write operations cause the entire mongodb instance (every database, every read operation) to block. This is clearly one of the main issues surrounding high-concurrent mongodb development.

Thankfully with mongodb-2.2 there is now instead a database lock which mitigates the issue.

Personally I feel redis more closely resembles language primitives with simple key-value pairs, hashes, lists (ordered, repeating values allowed), sets (un-ordered, no repeating values), and sorted sets (more interesting).
I've been doing something similar, I eat 5 days a week and diet on two (less than 200 calories) in order to decrease body fat and it has been working out great, I can defiantly say that physically I'm more aesthetically pleasing and able to control my weight pretty well.
This isn't an infographic, this is GitHub's Popular Forked[0] page in non-text format.

[0] https://github.com/popular/forked
Admittedly, a single timezone for the world might be a bit far fetched. But there's nothing intuitive about 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a hour, then all of a sudden 24 hours in a day, and roughly 4.3 weeks in a month or somewhere between 28 and 31 days in a month. The only numbers in our calendar that are vaguely intuitive is 3 months in a season and 265 days in a year, and even those have problems.
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Running a book shop with your FU money is completely different from running a book shop to put food onnthr table.
You're just talking about a totally different thing. Some people might restrict their caloric intake with the intent of losing weight, but independent of that, some people think that caloric restriction is good for longevity.
Doing an AMA on Reddit does more for global health than mobilizing the 6th fleet
Maybe Mason did Fried a favor. That's usually how it works.
> It's silly to pretend that Mac is somehow perfect in these matters.

Straw man. Nobody said OS X was perfect.

> In my experience it's only been marginally better than Linux, if at all.

I used Linux on my desktop for several years and have now used Macs as well for several years. I won't say this is bullshit because I don't think you are lying about your experience, but I think you are extrapolating way too far.

> And with Linux you have some hope of finding a solution, whereas for OS X you're pretty much hosed.

Forums and mailing lists are "hope for a solution" while the genius bar is "pretty much hosed"? How on earth did you arrive at this conclusion? That just doesn't seem reasonable.
"reddit is under heavy load right now, sorry. Try again in a few minutes."

Oh dear..
Would it be a better question if it specifically mentioned that the killing of Osama bin Laden and the disposal of his body violated the Geneva Convention?
Still, I imagine the pressure of getting a down site back up is somewhat elevated by knowing that the head of state wants to use it.
He's free to answer 0/"I have never beaten my wife". It's an excellent question because Obama has been responsible for the deaths of many people, some of whom were almost certainly killed illegally.
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> ...I'm more inclined to have a higher quality of life...

> ...I don't think about food as anything but fuel. I no longer think of it as a way to be social, to pass the time, or to be happy...

The problem for me is that what you're describing is not a higher quality of life at all. On the contrary, it sounds very impoverished.
No SSD? That's strange at this point.
I know this'll be a controversial stance but IMHO.. needing to work 5 or 6 days a week to prove the business case, make the business stick, and to scale the business to a point where you have multiple employees and processes that allow you to only work 4 day weeks if you want.

Of course, some businesses can run on fewer hours from the start, but many require a lot of sweat and long hours to get the engine running.
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He won't be F5ing the page himself, nor will he be typing in answers, so I'm sure answers will just appear as and when his staff are able to post them.
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.

Software compiled in 1998 has no problem using the newest common dialogs if they used the standard API without installing their own hooks and customisation.
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Which is why no one will ever use it, because you can't justify a $200 price tag for a 100 page text books.

e.g. no college will ever endorse this book as a text, because they need to sell 60k in calc 101 text books each semester so they can get their cut.
What distro are you using that you are having to start pulseaudio manually? I swear I thought it was default everywhere.
> If we help boost agriculture productivity and work on our economy most people will be able to buy food.

"Most people" simply isn't good enough.

Free markets generally work great for items that are not necessities. Efficiency, variety, and innovation is incentivized. But you always end up with some people who can't afford the items. If they're not a necessity, that's perfectly fine. But food is a necessity, and always having some people who can't afford food is not acceptable.
Not really, but here's why it might seem like it: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/29/debunking-a-...
Just a year and a half ago Andrew Mason was actually considered one of the most charismatic CEOs in the business. GroupOn had MASSIVE momentum, and was actually known as the fastest growing company in history.

Fried was on GroupOn's board way before any of the investment scandals came up.
Supposedly, when you're full, you feel vaguely satisfied. When you actually feel full, you're actually overfull. When you feel stuffed, you're over-overfull.
Is Twitter successful? Last I knew they still had no real path to profitability. They've got a bunch of people using something, but as far as I understand, it's just a drain, and now they're trying to figure out how to actually bring in some profit. I don't call things like that "successful".
And although their will be occasional disagreements on the details of various legislative proposals [sic]

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

-[engineers everywhere]

Edited: for relevance ;)

Edit2: SIC WTF? - per comments below

Edit3: Downvotes? Wow. POTUS commenting on IP Law, Privacy, Internet Freedom. etc. PLS Read the context. It was included. Tks.

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[–]SharkGirl 812 points 32 minutes ago

We know how Republicans feel about protecting Internet Freedom. Is Internet Freedom an issue you'd push to add to the Democratic Party's 2012 platform?

[–]PresidentObama[S] 130 points 10 minutes ago

Internet freedom is something I know you all care passionately about; I do too. We will fight hard to make sure that the internet remains the open forum for everybody - from those who are expressing an idea to those to want to start a business. And although their will be occasional disagreements on the details of various legislative proposals, I won't stray from that principle - and it will be reflected in the platform.

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[–]davidjoho 104 points 29 minutes ago

And when you say "Internet Freedom" do you mean the Republican version ("Freedom for the access provider monopoly") or the version in which the Internet is free to anyone with an idea or an expression?
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. I don't know what Welch said, but as it was characterized by the grandparent, Welch's statement is stupid, for exactly the reasons kenko explained.
My bet is the goal of this research is to repair spinal cords. I'm sure much more will come from it but, I bet that is why it was undertaken. This is a perfect fit for spinal reconstruction.
It's just not possible without a massive level of moderator intervention.
Does anyone know more about how reddit does booking for their iama? They have a schedule and consistently book notable people. Do they have a staff dedicated to it?
I don't think Reddit crashing requires a conspiracy.
I didn't know anyone claimed longevity as a benefit of a low-calorie diet. I'd always heard "low-calorie" used to combat obesity. And less obesity == more longevity. But never "love longer on fewer calories." Whether this is scientific demonstrable is another matter entirely.

My personal theory is that avoiding gluttonous behavior will do you just fine. Stop when you're full. If you can do that, then you probably have the sensibilities to eat a well-rounded variety of foods. And you're done. That's it. Self-control & variety, Live Forever®
I made a different radical change in my diet: I doubled down on my love of food. Instead of getting jazzed by Taco Bell and Mountain Dew, now I savor for sautéed spinach and salmon. A major portion of my life now does resolve around food, including cooking, shopping and learning; that mindfulness and focus on quality allowed me to drop fifty-ish pounds in 4 months. (The cost difference of eating out and buying high-quality groceries is a wash, though.)

I say this not to vilify calorie-counting, just to illustrate that there are many valid approaches to health awareness. The most important things, I think, are to be mindful, to experiment, and to choose a lifestyle that is enjoyable and sustainable, rather than one of puritannical self-flagellation and inevitable binging.
Probably because reddit is dying under the load right now.
Genius bar solution: Wipe device.

Every time.
Windows is horrible to use, everything is poorly designed. Linux (Ubuntu in my case) and OSX just work sanely mostly, but OSX is a horrible dev environment, so I moved back to Linux.
And soda (and beer, wine, milk, every liquid with sugar in it) doesn't provide any feeling of fullness. Our species hasn't had to evolve around caloric liquids until about 3000 years ago.
Fulltext: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2012-mattison.pdf
>"is not a sexy problem."

This pretty much describes the root cause of nearly all the impediments to the adoption of FOSS in general and GNU/Linux in particular by the general public. It touches everything from backwards compatibility to documentation.
Yep, I have a bound notebook for each project I work on. It's great for seeing how and why you arrived at a certain point. A habit from keeping lab books at university.

I use a thin (0.5mm) mechanical pencil.
> I like where they're going with Unity

Fair enough, but why not wait to use it until they get there? Daily reliability problems seem like a lot to put up with just for some cool ideas.

Also, I'm not sure how your interviewing experience supports the conclusion "Linux is dead/dying". What it does seem to suggest is "Linux is unpopular", but that has never not been true (on the desktop).
Bad hardware/drivers are more likely to be the culprit...
love the term "we are reaching Peak Talent". It think we are already there