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Linux has far more games than "25" or "165".

Linux has far, far, far more developers than it has "game development studios", currently writing software for it. The Independent Gaming scene is ripe with great stuff that will run on Linux from day one - and it doesn't just need 'mainstream studios' to get the industry kicked off.

This is a ripe as any other boom market.

As an Open Pandora user, I'm amused at this whole fuss about whether "its acceptable" for mainstream companies to produce stuff for the Linux market. Of course its wonderful, there is no downside whatsoever to the rising star of Linux gaming, whether it comes from Steam or somewhere else (http://repo.openpandora.org/).

The only possible downside is that an expanding and flourishing Linux gaming market will reveal the fragility of Microsoft in this scene. You don't need Windows technology to game awesome; you only need Windows technology because you've been told you need it by higher powers. Technologically: no.

So why the apprehension, really? Is it really something you've got concern about, or is this some sort of groupthink/kneejerk thing going on?
A protocol fix that meant that the server serving the content needed to opt in to no-script through a new X-Frame-Options header would mean that legacy content like vk.com wouldn't send a X-Frame-Options header, and so wouldn't be able to be framed in a no-script iframe.
>> Because the alternative to funding Solyndras is clearly wars?
What I meant was that it is important to have perspective.

My problem is that Solyndra and Tesla are being held to a different standard altogether when it comes to Government spending. I am sick and tired of people complaining about these companies getting loan guarantees. Instead of looking at these loans in isolation they should look at the percentage of successful loans/guarantees made by the DoE. When you look at it from that perspective, money spent by DoE is the best bang for buck the Govt has got. We will never have a perfect scenario for Government spending. We should encourage innovation wherever it is happening be it a private company or a public entity as long as it fits in the overall strategy of moving the country forward. Upside to a successful Tesla cannot be valued in just dollars.
A bitcoin miner is much safer and requires much less time commitment.
I'm from Stuttgart, made my B.Sc. in 2011 and make about $5500 (~4220€) am month as a GUI-Dev. When I read the "IT-Payment" polls in the news I get the impression this isn't nearly as much as it could be. :D
>Wine requires knowledge of what you're doing and a fair amount of fiddling for most things - this raises the bar too high for general consumers, probably more in terms of effort than skill required.

I've been running games in WINE for years and years, and I can now say that as of today, with my WINE setup being maintained entirely by my distribution (Ubuntu), I don't even think about WINE when I use it. So I don't really think its as difficult as you infer; this is a huge generality, like saying "MS Word requires knowledge of what you're doing and a fair amount of fiddling for most things". Its true, but fascetious, because obviously, in spite of the massive investment required, users are able to produce documents ..

>There are only 141 applications in Wine's 'platinum' list, and a heap of those are multiple entries for variants or DLC of the one game. Things not on the 'platinum' list require further configuration.

This only means that the list is incomplete. It doesn't mean there are 'only 141 applications'. Those are just the ones that have made it to the list so far .. but it doesn't, in any way, reflect the current state of the art. Lists get stale.
The list is long. Online media -- sites like Hulu and others that stream full-resolution video, wouldn't be possible without high-speed, high-bandwidth access.

Distributed scientific computing, in which complex problems that require high bandwidth, but that are solved by a worldwide distribution of machines, like seti@home, folding@home and others, benefit from high speed/bandwidth.

YouTube and similar sites, sites that resemble social forums but that use video, all require high speed access.

The list goes on and on. The modern Internet wouldn't remotely have its present form without high speed/bandwidth.
That's the first thing I thought, too. I'd like to see both Go 1.1 and Go 1.0.3 for a comparison (on this benchmark). I'm hoping that before long we'll be able to count on Go being within a factor of 2 of plain C by most benchmarks.

And I'd like to see CPython 3.3 in addition to PyPy.

But it's quite interesting as is. Thanks.
I would say that you are wrong: its definitely ready for the general public, when that general public is using a modern, decent distribution, and not trying to fiddle so much. Less fiddling, more playing: thats the current state of the art with Wine.
Just so— and most sane Bitcoin users hold this position too. It's only a small number of vocal extremists that create unrealistic rants.
Steam is the worst gaming platform I have ever witnessed.
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I've got three good old fashioned book recommendations:

* Johanna Rothman's "Hiring Geeks that Fit" (https://leanpub.com/hiringgeeks) does what it says on the tin - her blog is a useful resource too http://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp/

* Andy Lester's "Land the Tech Job You Love" (http://petdance.com/book/) is written for job seeker - but is actually a good read for folk on the recruiting side too [bias warning: I was one of Andy's tech reviewers on this book]

* Lou Adler's "Hire With Your Head" which completely changed my approach to interviewing for the better and made it vastly more effective. His accomplishment based interviewing technique is very effective in my experience.
You can remove the painful Unity interface with great ease, once you have the machine in front of you. There is no requirement to use Unity as an interface shell by anyone other than Canonical. If you don't like it, switch to another interface when you log in; its that simple.

As for 'very little games', I have to say this: LOL! Linux has thousands and thousands of games, and this continues to grow day by day. Steam may not have everything (yet), but its only a matter of time before the floodgates open: on the other side of that "new thing called Steam on Liux" lays a massive horizon of gaming on Linux that is unrecognized, unseen, but will soon be utilized once the pipe is in place.

Linux has thousands of great games ready for the consumers; the veil of the 'mainstream groupthink' is just preventing a lot of smart people from seeing this fact, but I would wager that Steam and Alienware are indicators that in fact, some very smart people are entirely aware of the potential of whats to come once these lines of communication are open.

So this is nothing but positive. Even if you don't want to be an early-adopter for this line of communication, its the line of communication which has been deficient; not the lack of content. The content (Games for Linux) is well and truly out there, it is ripe for harvesting, and this is the beginning of that effort ..
For the past year or 2 I've been seeing more and more of them. However, I don't have any bookmarked, at least not yet. I found a pretty good time-waster[3] where I may end up with some. I found one here on HN[2] too....might be more. Also found a relevant question on a StackExchange[3] site.

1. http://domaintyper.com/top-websites/most-popular-websites-wi...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4920233

3. http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/18209/whats-with-sta...
Are they not insured?!
> RSI is an occupational hazard - what should I do?

It has occurred to you to visit a doctor, yes? Are you aware that people in forums like this are very reluctant to offer anything that might be interpreted as medical advice? Indeed, some forums actively discourage such replies -- even delete them.
I don't think it's aimed at software engineers
The answer: nothing. His is a straw man argument. I thought this was a gaming machine, not a device-driver-development machine (why else would you need the source code?)
Whats wrong with the existing drivers?
"one of the biggest mistakes “nontechnical” people make when communicating to great hackers about product is that we try and tell them the solutions before we ever tell them the problem"

This is spot on.

I spend a bunch of my time helping ux, business and dev folk play nice together. This is definitely one of the major problems and something I babble on about to tedious extremes.

It's usually not as simple as a lack of trust though. It's more often things like people not having good ways to communicate the problem (as opposed to possible solutions). Or organisations being set up in such a way that the technical folk aren't in-play at the point where problem discovery is happening. Or the non-technical folk being assessed on "solution providing" not "problem defining".... and so on.

Trust is sometimes an issue - but it's often not the major cause.

(There is also a class of tech folk in some organisations who aren't interested in that level of problem - who want to get "the spec" and focus on the implementation problems that interest them more.... but I don't think this is the kind of tech folk the OP is talking about).
The idea of a browser is far easier to understand than git from users perspective. Implementation is something user doesn't have to know about (for firefox or git).

What makes git so powerful is that it doesn't abstract things as much as other systems. To make git easier would mean making it less powerful. I rather use a tool that is complex than a tool that doesn't let me do what I want.
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Speaking of consumer electrics: around here universities have obsolete views of how students work, limited budget, and old buildings. This results in a shortage of wall plugs, and the smartest folks bring powerstrips, plug them into wall sockets, then into other power strips, and recursively until there's enough plugs for everyone's laptop. Cables turn seriously damn hot, and a burnt plastic smell crosses the room. Authority reaction: ban powerstrips because someone might trip on them.

Luckily energy management outpaced student equipment rate, and laptops now last a good part of the day without needing a plug.
Yeah, gameplay wise they're like manually solving a makefile's dependencies. Of course we know the whole point is not in the structure of the solution but in the written content of the story. It's in the way the game world starts living inside the player's head, where all of the action is. I remember thinking about some FOTA puzzle during a bus trip for several hours without even having the game available.
But I could work from anywhere Uk or Europe based
You could probably get a credit for that, maybe...
> keep looking ahead while ignoring the hand wavers

Could you expand on this a bit? It's the first time I read that phrase - it could be because English isn't my first language. What do you mean with 'hand wavers', people complimenting you on your work without making concrete offers / becoming customers?
You would presumably be doing more traditional long-term backup anyway of course; it is not like you would be saving money on that.
Sorry, but this is selection bias. You won't even see all the people who die of smoke inhalation without any burns.
It's remarkable that HN commenters will insist that there is no issue of sexism or racism even after the author has conceded it and apologised.
It would be nice to see a Nimrod benchmark.
Wish me good luck, I am creating my startup
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Also, http://paperkit.net/dottedpaper
I know the guys behind the original Makerbot, and if you think that they had no clue about CNC mills, lathes, grinders, cast makers and mould makers, industrial robots and so on: you're very, very definitely mistaken.

What is this generalization that "things that are not new are not good"? The point of the entire 3d-printer movement is that its no longer in the hands of industrial masters: its in the hands of the users.

In some ways, your argument is kind of like saying "you know, I wish those Linux guys would learn about operating systems .. didn't they know there were already VMS and DOS and bigger OS's and stuff out there, made by bigger and better people than them, sheesh.."
Spend some time here and get yourself enlightened: http://thingiverse.com

Its NOT just trinkets, but a lot of very, very useful stuff. What you're seeing is just the thin marketing veneer - a picture of Yoda makes a lot more sense to a newcomer than a picture of a planetary gear or some such thing ..
The patent system is ridiculous.
I think I was really after others experience of RSI

But thank you. It's going away
Being an elected official, and especially being a government employee, shouldn't mean having to choose between celibacy and starring in a porn movie with your other half.

Certain information (e.g. military) is better kept secret than published where adversaries can access it. Even in local government, officials need to respect the privacy of members of the public they deal with.
It's impossible to join such a project and start contributing right away. On the other hand, pretty much all those projects want contributors. But they don't search actively. Mainly you need to follow the bug tracking and mailinglists, then maybe pick a low hanging fruit.

There is no such thing as a shallow learning curve in contributing to less than trivial open source software...
I use pop a lot and its actually really easy and intuitive. Just my opinion.
Ask HN: What is your favourite startup quote?
Mine is: "I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about." - Jake Nickell
I've tried it with go tip and go 1.0.

T(go tip) / T(go 1.0.3) = 0.8

Thus one might expect go to take third place after clang and gcc. But keep in mind that e.g. java isn't the newest version either...
I've never smelled anything even when standing right outside of Izzy's, and I've been there a number of times.

Also, Izzy's front door is actually 349 feet from where I was standing outside of Wells Fargo. It's 4,385 feet from the intersection where I first noticed the smell. So it's probably not Izzy's.
It's a nifty form factor and a reasonable graphics card, I would consider getting one as a portable VR station for use with the Oculus Rift (whenever, uh, you know, Oculus release the linux SDK).
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Ask HN: What are some good laptops for Linux right now?
I got an Asus few months back, only too find out Nvidia Drivers support is very bad for the graphic chip I have. Bumblebee project used to work for sometime, but its currently not working. Its been a pain since then, I'm running Ubuntu in 2D mode for more than a 2 months, will re-install 13.04 once its out to test my luck.

If the attempt fails, then I may be looking for a new laptop. So, which laptops in market has good overall Linux support, especially graphics.
Anybody else get the feeling that we see an increasing amount of articles where the author writes about what he or she thinks bitcoin is?

It's like multiple, recursive generations of FUD.
>You make it sound like git is unsuitable for this, i disagree

It's not me, it's post author who makes it sound so. Actually
it's up to user to decide what is suitable for him and what is not.
You mean besides the fact that I bulk sold off on the previous $32 peak? :(
> [...] and produce a video of equal budget written and directed by women and people of color

Great. Then we'll get people from Contemporary Geriatric Studies complaining about ageism.
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

Yeah, it's pretty much the other way now.
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Give me a call whenever. I'm part of the StartHub accelerator and can introduce you to people here.

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I agree. People seem to imagine that all they do is put out fires with a hose. They are professionals who know how to manage potentially hazardous situations.
Why Fragmentation on Android won't lead to a decline of the operating system
Thinkpad T430 with intel chip and drivers (aka, RandR works fine), accept no substitute.

Use it with my Crossover 27Q (2560x1440) and Xmonad.
I think this is why I as an a graphic and web designer don't always enjoy working on the projects of clients. Whenever they ask for a redesign they want me to visualize and build the solution for them. They don't always ask me to look at the problem and then think of the solution.

When I work on my own personal projects I get to do both, which is why the work I do for myself is miles ahead of the work I do for clients.
Personally I've found that HP and Dell laptops have good support for Linux, almost all the PC's I have tested have run just fine without any major pains
I would suspect that LightSail was (certainly is now) way too capital intensive for YC.
This is really cool. It's amazing that even at big budget movie studios, the general workflow is the same as everywhere else: copypaste an as fast as possible solution from the internet...
I guess no matter where they work, people remain people, and budgets are tight.
And deterministic memory management, which is quite rare these days... :)

But to be honest, skimming through Rust samples, I find its syntax somewhat noisy. It feels ad-hoc. Is there any document about justification of its syntax elements?
I bought Front Page.

Hoppy 2004?

Get FreeDOS real mode and tasm.
Just people trying to attract your attention (by waving their arms above their head, figuratively)
It's hard to prejudge that, and things might change for future LightSails. More are getting into hardware these days.

We applied to YC at the time as a flier. The money would have helped a bit at that point, but also I felt it would be good to give YC the first look.
Most computers with an Intel GPU are fine. The ThinkPad series is very popular and thus well-supported — note that I am only talking about the “original” series, i.e. ThinkPad X and T, e.g. the X230 or T430.

Personally, I am running a ThinkPad X200 since 2008 with nearly no software problems.
No it doesn't. It gives the right to any users of your service to get a copy of the source code under the same license. Has nothing to do with "code be made available to the public".
All data is genuine, if hoster goes down - it goes down.
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Plura Processing pays affiliates up to $2.60 per full month of computing time provided(when they have customers).

I don't think it competes well with advertising.
These are awesome fun to participate in
> For those of you that went through Z80, 6502, 68000, x86 macro assemblers like myself, it is just me or does the AT&T syntax just suck?

My assembly programming background is heavily Intel syntax based, I've done some x86 programming in the 16 bit days and also some Z80 for my TI calculators. So I found the AT&T syntax difficult to read (and write) at first.

But recently I was working on an operating system project and I needed some assembly code. I initially used NASM, then tried GAS/GCC inline asm with .intel_syntax, but I finally settled on AT&T syntax. It was easier to have just one asm syntax in my program (for inline asm in C code and in separate asm files). And it was easier to integrate in my build and toolchain, and no need to install another assembler for my target arch, just gcc+binutils.

So, in the end it was less pain to use AT&T syntax when it comes to tooling. But here's the thing: in less than a week I didn't mind the syntax any more.

So yeah, you might (as I did) think that the AT&T syntax sucks, but sometimes it's easier to use that than to reconfigure tools to use Intel syntax. But just get over it and use the default syntax of your tools. It's not such a big deal.
make a DMCA request to take down the whole movie!
No, open source does not have to be free of charge, according to the OSI. The first clause clearly says:

"The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software"
Thanks, they same to have fixed it in the meantime.
I'm still more interested in the purpose behind the intelligence gathering, if that is the reason. It hasn't happened to me (yet), but I suspect that the reason is to either purchase what you've done, or replicate it if it's easy enough to do so or you're not willing to sell. Either way, I definitely wouldn't discuss metrics with someone competitive.

I believe this happened to Justin Kan when he visited Google with Kiko. They just wanted to know his numbers, and then they ended up building the product.
Agree! Thinkpad T-series for me have had good graphics support, good power management, and all the 'special' keys work as intended with major distros. They seem to recondition well and there are loads of 410 and 420 models on ebay.
The most interesting part is that they even bothered to take source code that is loosely related to security stuff and not just took any source code that came across their way.
say about what?

you have 6 years of experience, most of them in qa. I don't know if your a decent developer. So, maybe try management position.
Give us the Github link with some projects in grails/Django. And please, don't use java and css :) Is like kitchen sink
that's awesome. I love the OP's attitude : "How do I feel about this? Great :) If not me, at least my code made it to a 3 second clip in a Hollywood Movie :) ". It kind of makes me angry for him though that they didn't even bother to give him a credit or ask him if they could use it in anyway. The least anybody can do is give credit where credits due when using open source libs.
Look at project sputnik from Dell
Great work!

It reminds me of an X-files episode where Mulder and Scully find a first century ceramic cup that supposedly contains a "phonograph" recording of Jesus Christ's words during the last supper.