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Agreed -- Nagoya is also especially well-known for never sticking their neck out. "If Tokyo and Osaka are making gazillions of dollars on it, we MIGHT consider it" is the general position around here, but I think it's very indicative of most traditional Japanese businesses.

And like you say, that's why it's important to have some of those big names under your belt. It's one of the best parts of my sales pitch to Japanese companies where I can say "Oh yes, I've done work with Toyota on improving their processes."

(Also, when I was looking at Priuses, I told the salesguy that I made the app he was showing to me, but it didn't get me a discount on the car)
Well, I agree with you about Amazon. Your info on Gnome is a month or two inaccurate though. As for Unity, have you used it recently? It's a wildly different thing than it was a year and a half ago.
For me, the difference is only visible using Firefox. Chromium even renders the inefficient original version smoothly.
Actually you don't bang in the keyboard, you type 5 vowels and some consonants for each sound

Case in point, the Taoiseach (prime minister) is pronounced something like "Teshar" (with a kind of 'gutural' r at the end)
Not only are "those" jobs not coming back, in a decade or so they won't even exist. Already we have fused the LCD and digitizer glass and moved just about everything into an SOC. How long until the glass and SOC are also merged?

Manual assembly of the iPhones isn't coming to the US, nor is it staying in China.
I am currently using Ubuntu 12.10 with Cinnamon and it's much better than the Unity experience. You should give it a try, it feels refreshing.
I would prefer a reality/society where everything is public and transparent, however, we cannot do that yet. We would need much more evenly distributed social power and means of production. Maybe robots can enable that in a few decades?

See http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Wait, you mean it's easier to remove a package than knee-jerk leave distros? Sometimes I wonder if the /r/linux-types realize that they're no better than the kids in the Halo forums screaming that they and their friends are going to quit if someone doesn't fix their issue.
Thanks Eoin, appreciate it.
Why is Uber not headlining a political movement not to be regulated unnecessarily?

I think most consumers don't want this regulatory interference, and many would probably be willing to participate in a movement to protect Uber and the like. A consumer and voter movement would be far more effective than tangling with regulators and cartels.

I would certainly reconsider my vote for a politician playing this sort of protectionist game. "XYZ wants to take away your right to convenient transportation" may go a long way.
To be fair, Uber implements the same "surge pricing" here in Boston on many busy holidays. It's their usual method of responding to increased demand -- not necessarily hurricane-specific price gouging.
I think as you grow older you will realize the opposite, that in fact this is not the case.
As a human being, you will never stop to worry. If you have financial security you might stop worrying about the things you mentioned, but you will also have a lot of new things you worry about, its natural.

Also id argue, not having to worry about failing or taking risks will make you much less likely to succeed in such a scenario, from a statistical point of view.

While i agree that money is of very high importance in todays world, it still doesnt make you happy even if that sounds banal, its true.
It makes certain things in life alot easier, so everybody should strive for financial security but saying it is ultimately the most important thing in everybody's live is a very broad statement to make.
possibly trying to move in too many directions at once. xubuntu used a relatively stabler and better-shaken-out desktop, which meant one fewer moving piece to introduce incompatibilities.
"When it comes to other languages, it may be difficult to find talented developers" I disagree. Actually it is harder to find good C++ devs than to find good C# or Java devs in my region. There are lots of poor C++ devs out there, who learned only the language taught at the university (C / C++) and who really can't code.
Wow. The "vitamin or painkiller" analogy. That expression is at least 15 years old.

The first time I heard it, I misunderstood it because I inverted the implied meaning. "Painkillers" are what you use for the short term, because something went wrong. You want to limit your use of painkillers in order to avoid becoming addicted. While vitamins are something you need to live. If you don't have enough vitamins then you will get diseases like beri-beri and scurvy. Most people get enough through their diet, but for various reasons some people take daily supplements.
You can find python26 in EPEL [1] or follow this guide [2] to setup 2.7. This will install 2.6 or 2.7 in parallel, do not set these by default as it will break yum.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python26

[2] http://villaroad.com/2010/10/rolling-python-2-6-2-on-centos-...
I'm guessing he's actually referring to tax avoidance. Not sure how long it will last though as the UK is going be clamping down on this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20559791
I would say you have to consider the competition. (how competitive is the market you want to participate in). If you compete with very hardworking people ('everybody in the field works hard') then talent will be a differentiator. If you compete in a competition/market where for some reason hard work is not yet common then your hard work can be your differentiator. Choose your fights wisely.
What Chris is saying is that there are two different lenses. It's almost impossible to have a correlation between these two - your customers are looking for different things than your VC. I always split my product into 2 - the main one for customers and a second one for VCs (with a more vision, sometimes different business model). When I raised VC money I used a different product demo than the beta which was already in use by the customers.
technically it's not illegal, but completely immoral. Imagine if I channelled all my PAYE taxes through an offshore company, who would pay for our health system, infrastructure etc.
Nice write up. While I might disagree with you on certain points, without any proof on my part, I completely agree that one should take open courses almost exclusively only if s/he wants to learn something new for themselves. I get a huge kick from learning new stuff. If anything I started with class on algorithms in hopes to land a job at Google, well I never did, but it gave me taste for knowledge that is hard to satisfy. :)
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Whatsapp is a little gem on a company which no one talk about. It's hard to get inside information about the company on the internet, and maybe that's the geniuses of co-founders. They don;t talk so much about the company and instead focus on building a quality product.

On a comparative note, the product is actually not so good(maybe because of the sacle they are operating on). They have problems with their backend, few of the front end apps are not so good eg blackberry but increasing number of users is an achievement which is the scary part for facebook.
I am in Pakistan. This is a place where most people don't use credit cards on the internet, sms packages are dirt cheap like $1/month for unlimited texting, and we have no 3G internet(only EDGE) but still majority of the people use whatsapp. Almost everybody i know uses whatsapp and they have been using for more than a year. One you get hooked on whatsapp people are forced to pay.

Whatsapp has a lot of potential to challenge facebook to a certain extend. They introduced profile pictures a while back, and the 'last seen at' update is like a gold. Ramp up whatsapp with a few BBM like features, extensive photo sharing, and geo location features(anonymously chat with people near you) and they can be a worthwhile competitor.
Does it matter what is the most popular browser? For me the only thing that matters is <= IE8 loses market share. A modern browser is pretty much a modern browser today and for 99% of web browsing it doesn't matter which you use.

As a sign of changing times my Dad installed Chrome by himself! Blew my mind that he knew what Chrome is and actually managed to find and install it without help.

I still use Firefox. I am getting less keen on it. Tabs aren't sand boxed. I find their developer tools unintuitive and phpmyadmin keeps making the browser hang when I inspect a 200 column table...
This article seems to propose that encryption is the solution to everything. However, it should be relatively easy to discern an encrypted message from an unencrypted one. When everbody starts encrypting and this really poses a threat to intelligence agencies and governments it will simply be outlawed and payload that is deemed encrypted will not be routed.
Canonical (and Microsoft) seem to be pushing heavily for 'design by user testing' which equates pretty closely to 'design by committee'. Interestingly, both iOS and Android Holo are the very opposite of this - 'design by fiat' where one or two people are generally setting the tone for the entire OS design based on their own preferences.

IMHO, iOS and Android are both easier to use and nicer to look at than Windows 8 and Unity - seems like a very clear indicator to me that 'design by user testing' is a very bad approach.

Any way to actually research this? Some kind of simple test of putting 'design by committee' against 'design by fiat' and having a 3rd party group grade the two in a blind side-by-side test of different UI? Seems like research worth pursuing considering how much money MS and Canonical and throwing away on this - and destroying their businesses in the process.
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Give me credit, if through it you gain wealth and fame.

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Hey..does this "yea" mean "yes"? Just curious.
The way I read the analogy is this:

When you have a pain and there is a painkiller you do not ask many questions you just pay for it and get going. Not true with vitamins.
I hope Apple don't get it right, because I'm really not sure I can handle hearing: "wah wah Apple didn't actually /invent/ wireless charging, you know" attached to every mention of the iCharge (circa 2015).
Unity has finally caught up. Have you tried Unity in Ubuntu 12.10? I was a big Gnome 2 fan for years and couldn't stand unity until 12.10, Unity has become productive and more than usable for a programmer.
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I visit Saipan last spring (home to 90% of the population) and it was rather sad. All the factories were closed, tourism was petering out and there were shopping centers being recaptured by the jungle.

The Northern end of Island is spectacularly beautiful and Japanese tourists still would visit there. In the whole of the Micronesia area, Asian tourists outnumber Americans by something like 20 to 1 and the US seems increasingly irrelevant even on the Islands it owns. Interesting.
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I'm shocked and pleasantly surprised that js/canvas can putpixel fast enough for this. It must be around as fast as assembly on a 486!

Part of me can't decide if that's awesome or tragic.
13 year old Halo players eventually grow up to be 21 year old Ubuntu users. ;)

As for me, I'm a 30 year old Ubuntu user (on the server) who finished the Halo 4 campaign yesterday.
>Another thing is it was really easy to find people with common interests. For example if you listed a certain movie or book you liked, you could click on it in your profile and it would show you everyone else who also liked it (ordered by your friends first, then people in your network ordered by friends in common, then locked profiles of people outside your network).

I was surprised by the claim that it was more private in those days, for just that reason. It was much easier to search for complete strangers (within your university) based on quite specific criteria.
> Ubuntu has become far too dumbed down for me.

You know you can run Ubuntu without Unity, right?

I mean, does anyone on Earth know that?

I can't be the only one running a non-Unity desktop environment on Ubuntu. (Window Maker)
This is more of a show of expression that creating a usable site.

Again this reminds me of the Flash days, where people were doing things because they could rather than because they should. CSS text rotation is a great example of this.

Still I think sites like this are a great playground, and show what can be done.
I don't understand how doing user testing is necessarily "design by committee". Regardless of how you come up with your ideas you need to test them on actual users in order to benchmark what works and what doesn't.
I would argue that this is terrible code. It's not using the appropriate tools (webGL), it's badly structured, uncommented and unmaintainable (seriously, why on earth would anyone name their variables zd, _zd and __zd?). The Minecraft source code is also of notoriously poor quality. I honestly don't understand how you came to your conclusion.
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The point is if you run Ubuntu without Unity that it breaks a large amount of functionality. Wireless for instance becomes a complete pain. Lots of stuff like xorg config is now embedded in unity.
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I love Ubuntu 12.04. Remarkable well thought user experience.

6 months back, I switched completely to Ubuntu 12.04 and is my primary machine now. I'm blown away with their agile methodologies and love every small part of the web-integration + the Ubuntu software market.

Ubuntu Desktop is strongly emerging as perfect web platform with tight integration with web-services. Many Developers have started writing apps for ubuntu software market.

The concept of HUD to search inside webapps and navigate complex menu's is revolutionary! Worth mentioning, webapps are now exactly like native desktop apps, recently used the Gmail webapp, it opens as separate app and we can search inside that app. (They have an API to enable such HUD controls for any webapp). The Ubuntu Software center has tons of good apps and they also give Free 5GB cloud storage.

I'm blown away with all the features, and its worth being part of this big change.

One feature I wished to have - a seamless OS upgrade like iOS.
The Amazon thing set a bad precedent. One of the reasons people like Linux is because it doesn't come bundled with that sort of crap in the same way Windows PCs and Android phones often do.
It's not funny. But it's easy to explain.

Practicing violin since before birth is a thing that is just impossible to do for anyone here not to mention not many would really like to play violin. As such, it's hypothetical, abstract situation that can be discussed safely.

On the other hand, putting tremendous amount of work into preparation for Google interview is something everyone here could, but is not doing, and a good deal of people would really like to do (or, at least, they would like to work at Google). As such, it triggers defensive mechanisms, many of which we could see in the linked thread.

It's not funny at all.
These numbers are intentionally deceptive and sensationalized without more information – at the very least standard deviation, without which it's unclear whether "Firefox gained 0.45%" means "unchanged, so far as our sampling accuracy allows, please click our ads" or "whopping increase".
It's my experience that if you acquire the skills and talk to enough people about them, the opportunities will present themselves. It's not just big companies out there, there's a lot of smaller ones who can't compete with google in hiring PhDs. These are a good place to build credentials that you can carry you to the larger institutions, if that's where you want to be.
More so, in stark contrast to Flash, his site is accessible to screen readers, search engines and older browsers.
Sky blocks the first, not the second.

This is disgusting. It's time to switch ISPs and start helping whoever is fighting this.
This is actually quite fluid on iPhone 5. I asked a co-worker to try this on his Galaxy S3(quad-core, no lte) and it was really slow there. And in Chrome it was even slower than that on the S3.

Doesn't any web browser on Android use a JIT?
That sounds like a bunch of masturbatory cynicism to me. Are they wrong? If not, then exactly what type of language do you recommend they use to get their point across?
I'm chomping at the bit to change ISPs, but won't these also be affected?
oops, this was supposed to be in reply to the ask HN developer laptop thread
Whether Northern Ireland is a country depends on who you're talking to. And possibly the day you talk to them.
You know that a coursera-taught team won a (non-academic) machine-learning competition, right? Knock-on articles about it made the rounds here a few weeks back.
I found your comment more insightful than the article.
But pg's recent disclosure that so many yc start-ups have co-founder issues really got me wondering. I find it unimaginable that any team can work itself into such a good position and then blow it away over seemingly petty issues.

People going into YC with obvious dysfunctions aren't going to get a "yes". The remaining groups are those that:

a) are good at managing stress and disagreement - so don't show any

b) haven't yet had a major stresses that will cause problems - so don't show any

Since dealing well with stress and disagreement is a learned skill I would imagine that YC's focus on younger founders may make the (a) group fairly small.

Getting accepted into YC immediately puts companies into a stressful situation (moving, spending 24/7 on startup, the "this is our chance to make it" vibe, etc.) - so folk in (b) who haven't had to figure out how to deal with disagreement well are going to have problems.
IIRC these sites are blocked because of a court order, the ISP has no say and has to comply.

Looked at the prices for Andrews and Arnold £25 per month with a download cap of 25GB. I would use that up in under a week.
On a slightly related note. I would really like to see this fixed in Ubuntu for me to really enjoy it as a developer:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/220357/improve-eclipse-user-i...
London needs fewer start-ups, not more
the Taoiseach (prime minister) is pronounced something like "Teshar" (with a kind of 'gutural' r at the end)

Try tee-shock and you will be pretty close to the standard.
It's not like the US has a monopoly on bad quality. Renault, Fiat, and Peugeot have all been forced out of the US because their cars were terrible compared to an equally equipped Japanese car. Mercedes-Benz and BMW coasted on their cachet while everyone was in agreement they broke just as often as any other car, but with parts that cost 3x ($$) as much and could only be repaired at specific shops ($$$). Mercedes-Benz was particularly notorious for going a bit gadget crazy in the early 2000s. Random things, like the windows not working because the ECU was out of memory, would break and require an overnight shipment from Stutgart.

Also, there is no 30-day warranty in the US. It's a minimum of 1 year on parts and labor. 30 days is the legal amount of time you have to return a defective item to the store for a full refund (doesn't apply to EOL/clearance items which have been severely discounted to account for the loss of warranty).

Also, as I learned the hard way recently, this 2-year EU warranty isn't in effect everywhere and the process to get compensation usually gets you lots of runaround.
I have zero problem with wireless under gnome-shell, xfce or lxde (and if you can function without NetworkManager, console too) so my question is how you even got that idea.
> It's impossible to find what you're looking for with it

Huh? You press the windows key, and start typing in the name of what you want to look for. I find it far easier to find things with Unity than before.

> it hinders productivity more than any of the other offerings

I was planning on installing a tiling window manager when I first installed Ubuntu 12.04, as I really want the desktop environment to not get in my way. I stuck with Ubuntu because contrary to your experience,to me it's the most productive UI I've used in the last 20 years+.

> makes it impossible to find out what applications you have (since software store apps and normal apps are held separate)

"dpkg -l" like in any Debian based system. I find this a ridiculous complaint from someone who has gone back to Debian, though - any way you can find this info in Debian is available to you in Ubuntu.

> once Gnome fallback is disabled/no longer ships, will be shoved down users' throats more than WinRT or Launchpad are.

As long as Debian ships alternatives, going back is fairly easy. But as it stands, there are plenty other alternatives for Ubuntu too, shipped by the community.

Personally, 12.04 with Unity was what truly sold me on Ubuntu, and I suspect the same will be true for far more users than they lose over it.
Source: A friend IOS App collecting analytics data. Sure, I could make it up but that is the data he got back.
Why is init called twice? Once at the end of the js and then again in the html.
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I find that the interface design is fine (comparing like to like with metro, gnome shell) but you do need a fast machine, and laptop power draw is not too hot.
That sounds correct - but has it actually been proven that you should design around simple indicators from user testing?

The general usage patterns of iOS were never developed with user testing at the core. Same for Android Holo. These designs were created directly from a designers intuition and have since been improved slightly with user feedback and testing. If you read up on publicly available information about the process though, it is clear that user testing was not the central issue.

Meanwhile whenever you read anything regarding Windows 8 or Unity design, the use of user testing was always core to the design process - often toted as the most important part. Just read this article and the main theme of their design discussion is on user testing.

Basically, I think this area needs more research rather than an off the cuff "you need to test them on actual users in order to benchmark what works and what doesn't". Sounds correct, but has anybody actually tested that? Often your test users don't see the big picture and don't really know themselves what they want. They're just answering 'big blocks were easier to click on'. That doesn't mean you must use big blocks - you need to consider the interface and usage as a whole, not simple data points from testing and consider your design done...