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| vitriolic attacks on KDE/Unity/Gnome

I can understand the attacks on Unity. It was swapped to the default environment in Ubuntu before it was ready for primetime, and it represents Ubuntu's increasing distance from the rest of the Open Source (or at least Linux) community (see Mir vs. Wayland).
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"As I approached the line to the restroom, I took a deep sigh, thinking that I might find some respite from the hundreds of cameras strapped to people’s heads at the conference.

Yet when it was finally my turn to approach the rows of white urinals, my world came screeching to a halt. There they were, a handful of people wearing Google Glass, now standing next to me at their own urinals, peering their head from side to side, blinking or winking, as they relieved themselves."
I can quickly see Glass becoming this generations, "Are they crazy or bluetooth?"
Well legally they'd be perfectly within their rights to tape you telling them off. And if you got violent they'd have all the evidence they'd need to press charges, conveniently backed up into the cloud.
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They're right. The UX sucks.

This is big problem in most open source software projects :\
This actually reminds me of my brief stint at Apple. I went out to the headquarters for a conference right around the time the first iPhone was released. That year all Apple employees were given free iPhones, so of course, everyone at the week long conference were glued to them. I remember very distinctly riding a bus to the campus with my fellow Apple employees and seeing every single solitary face buried in their iphones, all of us sitting in silence. Despite my enthusiasm for the iPhone I do remember having a slight sinking feeling at viewing that. I was seeing a glimpse into the future to come.
I really like this project, its fun and love the design. However I find the environmental argument incredibly flawed, especially the 900 million umbrella figure. If we use Trapicks figure of 33 million umbrellas sold in the US and assume that the US is representative of the general population of the world then only 600 million umbrellas are sold each year. I suspect its far less, I would expect the US to consume more than the average number of umbrellas.

I think this wildly outrageous number is damaging what otherwise is a really cool project!
I love the way ideas like "Deliver medicine to most remote and poor areas of the world" are listed next to "Video game I would like to see"
This is a dated sentiment. According to this Forbes article Tumblr is on track to make $100 million in revenue this year.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/01/02/tumblr-...

Tumblr has actually managed to pull off ads very, very tastefully. With brand and product recognition and well thought out ad-campaigns that feel like a part of Tumblr rather than banner ads.
I wouldn't conflate the institutional problems plaguing Eclipse with a strict FOSS/paid business dichotomy here, especially because Eclipse was started at IBM, and continues to be funded and led by IBM/Oracle, etc.

It's tempting to make these sorts of claims because a mild level of user hostility plagues most FOSS gui apps that we encounter, but I think it's more useful to think instead of how difficult it apparently is for organizations to make effective UX design decisions.

It's equally likely that a "horrifyingly designed UI" (much like Eclipse) came out of an Enterprise Software shop.

None of the incentives are aligned toward optimizing user experience (i.e. rarely do the people who use the software the most have any say in how it gets built). And, because the way responsibilities are divided (i.e. one team per set of functionality, I imagine), no one in the leadership structure is empowered to make big changes that affect everyone; and so you're left with small incremental improvements and shitty error messages.
In Japan and some other countries, there is a law requiring cameras to make loud noises so pictures cannot be taken discreetly. I wonder if this will apply to Glass and, if so, what Google will do to enable Glass to be sold in Japan. Is there even an external speaker with which they could make the noise?

(http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/32442/jurisdictio...)
I'm missing why it's not replacing the G+ Messenger app (or maybe it is, idk). For some one who's been able to install the new Hangout app - do you also still have the Messenger app as well?
thoughtbot’s take on Sandi Metz’ rules for developers
isn't thinking about user convenience a good thing?

Can you elaborate? Are you saying that the most reasonable technical solution is what people should select, regardless of what the potential users are willing to do?
IPower.com web host uninstalled PDO because it allows a 'remote connection'
FB is vastly different from Zynga and its earnings are only a fraction of the total valuation, which is based on hopes and dreams more than anything else.
This is the worst opinion piece I have ever read. The fact it made it to Wired just devalues the whole magazine in my eyes.

Did nobody seriously review this before it was published? Did nobody ask what sort of trauma the writer may have suffered?
Those tweets were getting shorter and shorter, mainly because they kept adding more and more people.
But this is what software development is all about anyways... it's like complaining that they have to type a lot in order to get _anything_ working. My whining detector went off.
Sergey Brin TED talk: Why Google Glass?
This is very cool. Minimum clear implementation of the algorithm that replicates the effect of Shazam. It's refreshing to see a blog with actual code sample got voted up instead of all the press releases.
Got a lot of "The Ukraine"s instead. It's not the Ukraine, it's just Ukraine.
Given the Twitter comment thread, it seems like IBM is not as involved as it used to be.
I travelled to Japan in February and noticed that my Nexus 4 suddenly started to make shutter sounds when I snapped photos there, after I connected to my friend's wifi hotspot. Something similar will be implemented in Glass for sure. Of course, there are many workarounds around this, including separate camera applications.
IIRC, the term used to refer to Microsoft employees is actually Softies.
"I can admit to stating a preference for men over six feet, but have dated men not even an inch taller than my 5'6" self."

QED.

I think it's less of a conscious thing a lot of the time, rather it's an ingredient in sexual attraction + 'chemistry', so naturally you women often feel more attracted to a taller man (if that doesn't sound terribly condescending, I don't mean it to be!), in the same way we men prefer symmetrical faces and a certain hip-to-waist ratio. We usually wouldn't put it that way, but it's inbuilt.

It's only 1 factor of course. I think of it in terms of chemistry prerequisites - once you get through those then the real stuff that matters comes into play, but without it you're never going to advance beyond the friendzone.
Xoom, Hypermart and Homestead were a couple I remember using.
People forget this but Microsoft is at their best when they're the underdog — just look at Lotus Notes, Word Perfect, Netscape, Apple in the 90s and OS2. If they had the right leadership and if they refocused they would be killing it.
This is an interesting metric, often forgotten.
Companies are just people. What better way to gauge future success than by the mood in the room?
Center of tech is shifting from SV to “application towns” like NY & LA
AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King?
Very cluttered UI, but then again many other IDEs come close, no? Still quite bad though...

I don't think startup time or even close-time are particularly important. If you're using an IDE, you shouldn't expect to open it up and close it time and time again in one session, unless...

I think the main pain in the ass you missed about Eclipse is that it crashes a lot. I actually quite liked Eclipse until my project got a tiny bit bigger, and it kept on crashing every few hours. Worse yet, its backups are really bad. You'd think it had some auto-backup facility set on default, but there isn't one that works well enough.
Creepers have been creeping for years and years and years.

They peer through curtains; they make spyholes in cubicle walls, and with digital cameras they hide cameras in ceilings and books and showers and shoes.

Voyeuristic porn is a category. Upskirt is word popular enough to have an understood meaning.

I'm a bloke. I'm not worried by those creepers.

But I am uneasy about some users of Google Glass. I'd be really uncomfortable if I was standing at a urinal and someone was next to me still wearing Google Glass.
The majority of teenagers don't upload their sexts or videos. Sometimes it's done to humiliate others, but it usually goes on Facebook. This doesn't change anything.
Memo to Wearable computing engineers:

Remember where I have been and what I have done, or tell me where to go and what to do in the future.

Just stay out of the way of the now.
How Big Companies Are Feeling Their Way into the Internet of Everything
Do you think Yahoo made back what they paid for GeoCities based solely on the added value of GeoCities?

By the way, thanks for posting. It's always nice to hear from people who were there at the time.
Just like this story. The story is a rehash of results, without any analysis. The accompanying picture does not even mention Microsoft. What level were the employees at? Which division? What is the sample size?
These statistics are never ever that simple as the story makes it out to be.
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That's really reminiscent of Zappos. I don't know how their service first attitude was taken at first, but I think over the years we've accepted it as a genuine thing.
Really? I thought it was rather silly, rhetorical to a fault. Just about every single one of those "memorable passages" had the alternate explanation of "they were doing this thing that people normally do, but they had Glass on".

There's some insight there, but the author missed it in getting so focused on zombies with glass, and people with cameras in the bathroom.
> We should never have had any expectation of privacy in public places.

I fully agree, but I see this from another perspective. In the past, people in public didn't care so much when they were photographed or filmed in public. Nowadays, so many people in public will claim privacy or their personal rights.

This change in attitude has brought the art form of street photography nearly to extinction. In the past, people often ignored photographers, while nowadays, some people will demand you delete pictures, try to take your camera to smash it, or even threaten to call the police even though they just accidentally ran into your view finder.

In Germany, some privacy fundamentalists have already threatened that are going to destroy Google Glasses when they meet people who use them, and call that "digital self-defense".
Losing your preferences when creating a new workspace is a problem I've never quite figured out.

These days I set up a clean workspace and configure it and just make copies instead of creating the new workspaces from Eclipse.

I've heard some advocate a best practice of just using a single workspace and using views and Mylyn to manage context. But there is a point where Eclipse goes over a performance cliff with the number of files and projects and the system is just not usable. That and the ever present possibility of workspace corruption make separate workspaces the way to go for me.

Also: Key bindings suck. I used to be able to get "Home" and "End" work in a sane way on Macs, but not anymore.
Yet disappeared the Yoda fad, has not.
Google Glass, while intriguing at first, is something that deeply troubles me.
Hmm... as a Libertarian / Voluntaryist / Anarcho-capitalist / whatever-you-want-to-call it, I am sympathetic to what Larry Page is saying. But there are definitely aspects of this story that are fairly unappealing (Larry Page naked, for starters).

I'm not sure what the answer is though: By now it should be clear that "government" as a tool to social engineer a perfect world, isn't working. Corporations are always the villians in this cyberpunk'ish stories, but you don't have corporations without government. But you can have technology without government or corporations, so what happens when the tech itself becomes so powerful that it changes the basic nature of society? Getting rid of government and/or corporations won't help, and if you try to counter technology with more technology you just have an arms race.

OK, I'm depressed now. :-(
that's kind of the point...
simply add another accelerometer - two shakes to download, three shakes to delete.
I used to work at Samsung. Left after 2.5 years.

From your comments, two things are obvious:

1. You have no idea what you are talking about or what he was talking about.

2. Your comment is top-voted and that's bad.

Leave alone whining. This guy has not even touched upon what is like working as a software engineer at Samsung. Over the time you learn to despise yourself for just working there and then leave and if you lazied around till late and didn't leave in time then you are stuck and then you despise yourself more.

Two years down the line you look at yourself and then figure you are mechanically doing and following all those work and procedures that you used to hate and then you are scared.

You just name any aspect of a work place or work and a (non HQ - though they are now coming out slowly) Samsung engineer can tell you how horrible that is.
I had been to Korea HQ(Suwon) 5 times and I realized the HQ engineers are same with the only difference that a Samsung job is worshipped in Korea without parallel. If you talk to HQ(Korean) engineers about Samsung's low quality work and lowest quality work life balance - they make it a matter of prestige and patriotism.

Good luck Wiktor, you left in time :-)
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If my glasses are prescription and I'm at a yoga class I'll be constantly aware to not stare for too long or go to the first line. It's a huge burden.
I'm having trouble deciding whether this is a serious post or a troll. The C "improvements" are particularly hideous.
What's the difference between using the label CSS class and just setting the title attribute to get the tooltip popup?
> AFAIK nobody has declared that the purpose of Glass is to "free us from having to look at [oure] phone[s]"

As I recall, there was at least one guy:

http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/27/sergey-brin-with-google-glass...

Brin asks: “Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people?” Is the future of connection just people walking around hunched up, looking down, rubbing a featureless piece of glass?
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About updater/plugin mechanism in eclipse I just want to point out that is actually being fixed/improved greatly in upcoming Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler).

Eclipse update mechanism (called p2) actually at is core is very powerful and can actually find out/remedy the installation/update but it was just never exposed in the UI used by Eclipse IDE's.

Simply explained before Kepler p2 would just try and do exactly what you told it to "install these 2 plugins" and if its dependencies somehow conflicted it would give up ("could not complete operation").

In Kepler if this situation occurs p2 will try remedy the situation and try find out which plugins would need to be updated or maybe even downgraded to make it possible for you to install your plugins.

Thus we are some that actually care and do what we can to improve it - this feature got in with help from @prapicault

And for full disclosure i'm @maxandersen from the conversation OP linked to and lead of JBoss Developer Studio.
Not frightened by the article, but by the fact that I can't decide if I am for or against this.

That's sort of the same reaction I am having. I'm all for getting rid of governments and most of what we call "law" today, but this particular vision of a possible outcome seems a bit disturbing in some ways. But, then again, it's just speculative fiction, not reality...
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Norton doesn't drink anywhere near enough whiskey during the event to even touch Wogan's eurovision legacy.
See, there is where you are wrong.

There are NUMEROUS statutes that prohibit the surreptitious filming of people where a reasonable expectation of privacy exists. I think a bathroom qualifies.

And I think you'd have a hard time getting a jury to convict someone of punching another guy in the nose for filming them in the bathroom.

Honestly, do you think the VERY FACT that he has a camera running at the time he gets punched by the guy he was filming wouldn't be prima facie evidence that he was in-fact filming in a private place? Cloud or not?

I'm willing the guy who is looking at a sex-offender charge and life-long pervert registration is willing to avoid pressing charges just to make the whole thing go away.
I've done surveys like this before - it's usually just an email that goes around to all employees and asks them to rate the company, management, peers etc on various metrics from 1 to 5.

The picture in the article shows the top 10 most happy, which is why Microsoft is not listed.

But this is a pretty lazy, low value article.
TDD has some challenges, but it addresses the critical need of having solid unit tests for code that allow projects to be modified and used by diverse sets of programmers who aren't going to reach out and ask you if their change broke your code.

I've frequently heard criticism of TDD most loudly by those who don't write unit tests, do unit tests manually, or intend to write them "after they get everything working." This last excuse is most egregious because one rarely has time to go back and write tests for something that is working because there will always be something more pressing than addressing the minor technical debt of writing "unneeded tests."
Yes, the G+ Messenger app is still there (not that I think I've ever used that more than once or twice).
Can't think of a better guy than you to implement Rackspace's strategy - good luck!
I fear for my kids. We try to limit who takes pics, still, we find pics of them online. With Google Glass...this task will become almost impossible.
On this note a list of areas to keep an eye on in no particular order:

* Laser weapons technology
* Wearable computing (quantified self)
* Wearable computing (iphone replacement)
* UAV delivery / transport costs
* UAV and helium airships
* hyper-local editors (@kingshillchat)
* errr
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Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror, Series one episode three, "The Entire History of You" is pretty good television sf version of this kind of thing.
I use data-label because i don't wanna limit labels just for images. but for the images, it's a good idea to use ALT attribute. Thanks.
Andrew Mason, ex-CEO of Groupon, joins YC as partner
I actually strongly (but respectfully) disagree with the advice about asking the VC for a position at a portfolio company.

VCs all know each other. If a startup's technical founder goes to a particular VC to let them know they're thinking of bailing, every other VC in the world (effectively) will have access to this information, and that company will never be able to raise funding.

If you're really committed to leaving (which is fine), I would cut ties with the company first, then start asking around. At least that way you don't leave the other founders in a weird limbo state where they effectively can't raise money.

Tell the other founders why you're leaving, and offer to introduce them to other technical people that may be interested in a consulting engagement / employment when they raise money.

I do, however, agree with the part about getting the paperwork in order. If they are successful in raising money after you leave, the other founders and future investors will likely do everything in their power to dilute your equity disproportionately. It would be worth the $500-$750 to talk to a lawyer and make sure all of your ducks are in a row.
I think it's good that Yahoo's trying to diversify. The problem, is that Yahoo! is like that destructive little girl w/braces in 'Finding Nemo', benign neglect (Flickr) to worse (Delicious) typically await the quality properties they acquire. Can't they fixate on something else instead of sites I care about, please?

Marissa, there's a wonderful property called Experts Exchange - it gets a very high buy recommendation from me. There's also Ask.com - both great websites and perfect complements to Yahoo's growing stable of excellence..

Just please, leave Tumblr alone. Let it live.
All the rebranded Eclipses remind me of those concert tours that rename themselves for every local market to make it look like the rinky dink local radio station organized a massive 3 stage music festival. "Oh wow, you guys wrote your own IDE??! That's gr... Oh."
I get where you're coming from, but those comments sound anti-Google... and as is clearly evident I choose to use Google for most of my communication, I'm fairly for-Google.

I think this is perhaps my fault, I failed to explain in my message that the confusion isn't with the notion of Hangouts as a new product, it's very specifically in context of replacing existing services I know and use, and how I cannot cognitively see the old service in the new, to the degree that I'm now very confused about the whole offering (and am not the only one).
Technology can never solve social problems. The answer is to simply work on fixing the problems we have in society the only way we actually can: through discourse, activism, democracy.
I cannot even find the original survey. Is it available online?
If thousands of people had Google Glass on, it's possible some were advertising props and not fully functional - this would explain some of the behaviors the author saw.
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"performance. for example the typical problem (i think it is a bug) when you switch between java and xml editor and you wait like 5 sec."

be sure you are not using Eclipse 4.2.0 but at least latest 4.2.2.
its petty of you to dismiss my point as being 'dramatic'.

No, sorry, that's not true. I wasn't the one who judged your original post - the one that was killed (by flagging) within minutes. Those people judged your post as hyperbole/dramatic/whatever you want to call it as well. I'm judging this specific post, however, and it is dramatic both in it's content and certainly in it's language. The title is just silly - "Can we have an honest discussion about abusive flagging on HN?" (italics mine). What other discussion would we have other than an honest one?

"Abusive" is just a word chosen for effect; misuse, while definitely being less dramatic, still implies that the community is doing something wrong. I don't think most of us feel that way. I think most of us old timers flag for different reasons than the newbies. My suspicion is that a lot of the older members (who also have high karma) flagged your original post for the reasons I've mentioned. If I'd seen it, I would've flagged it (as I've flagged this one).
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Please explain why Ireland should get the tax from Google's business activities in the UK.