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There are bike paths everywhere here in Copenhagen, so they're quite safe. Plus they are fairly common, so most cars and fellow cyclists know what to expect. Quite handy when picking up the kids, fetching groceries or whatever.
No, it's giving tech a bad name. Maybe as part of the whole "mentoring" thing angles and VCs give a start up, making sure the CEO doesn't post dumb sh*t like this in the first place (12+ experience need not apply) would go a long ways to helping the company not become a laughing stock. I mean, really, who is going to work at these companies?
My impression is that Linus shouts at everyone. Where the sexist comes from?
That's nice; get back to me when you find something portable, ie something good for hiking.
Is a UK company less likely to give your data away? I thought the UK government was also in on the spying. Really, is there any company or government that you can genuinely trust not to spy on you, or to hand over your data?
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I don't think that there are many people who would even dare to suggest that Linus isn't rightly the leader.

Also, just because trash code that doesn't compile is bad (because it is, no denying it) doesn't mean that we can justify every behavior that will get generated, right? If there are incompetent people who don't double-check what they're doing, they should take a KICK. He'll save both himself from the trouble of having to repeatedly call out other people's sheer incompetence and the project.
This kind of consumer NAT boxes have a history of being like swiss cheese. Only use them in bridge mode!
Most importantly, it's important that the center of gravity is a low as possible.

So if you want to put the cargo's weight between two wheels and sit somewhere in the center; it's better to have a customized standard frame with saddle in the back to make construction as easy as possible.

A side effect of the cargo weight in front and the drivers in the back is that the load weight per wheel is more evenly distributed.

Also, as mentioned before, it's easier to monitor cargo, kids and your vehicles maximum width in relation to any obstacles in front of you.
You're welcome. How do I reach you? I tried to login using Firefox, but had few hiccups. It will be easier to send you an e-mail.
Looking for a real Facebook-killer? I think it´s WhatsApp.
The vision of the surface (unlike the ipad) is that it is both a tablet, and a PC.

You can mount it on a wall, put a bluetooth keyboard and mouse under it, and you are at a PC.

You can clip in the little clippy keyboard, and it's a laptop.

I don't have a problem with ipads. Ipads are a specialist device for consuming content, and apple make laptops for doing other stuff on. You're supposed to have both.

I have a problem with Tablet/PCs, like the surface, because they are trying to be both, and failing. It's like asking for a lorry that's also a sports car - you're gonna get something, and it's gonna be really really bad.
He isn't different in person if you get him going.
In fact, he'll happily admit "he likes to poke people"

Basically, he's a very very very successful troll :)
Think about files in the context of a filesystem and an operating system. You can move them around, read to them, write to them, execute them...

Now think about what the browser runtime can do with "files". Well, next to nothing, because the browser doesn't have access to a filesystem.

For a browser to communicate with a filesystem it has to do so through HTTP and only in a very limited way.
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Show HN: UltraHook lets you receive webhooks while behind a firewall
Webhooks occur over the public internet. This is great if your environment is public, but doesn't work very well for most development environments - they're all behind some sort of firewall.

I've felt this pain on many occasions and wrote a tool that solves it. UltraHook is a ruby gem that you install on your computer. It sets up a tunnel from a persistent public endpoint to any URL accessible from your computer. Learn more at http://www.ultrahook.com
Show some intellectual curiosity, people. The same way some hackers get mad at others' unwillingness to dig into math/tech, many of you are refusing to put just a little bit of effort into being civil. It can be difficult to separate what's actually factually making you upset from the basal urge to express raw ire by cursing and belittling, but it becomes easier with practice. Just like math, or any other intelligence based skill.

Once you put some practice in, you can even do it with the same level of brevity as a immature tirade. I have immense respect for Linus and his accomplishments, but he frankly doesn't deserve a medal or apologetics for his refusal to increase his interpersonal intelligence. There is a higher level of humanity to aspire to than yelling at one another like cavemen OR Machiavellian passive-aggressive faux-politeness.

When I taught high school in Baltimore, I taught a lot of students whose most basic frame for interpersonal interaction was might-makes-right yelling and cursing. One of my goals was to demonstrate that no matter what, it's possible to conduct yourself without devolving to that level. It admittedly made it difficult for me to get my points across sometimes, but on the whole, I think I taught my students a very valuable lesson--that there is an alternative. In the end, there was a certain level on which my students always trusted me to treat them with human respect.

I expect more from a professional than a high school student. Being "politically incorrect" can make it easier to express your emotions, but it can also cause deeply held long-term resentments that manifest in unpredictable and damaging ways. Crying foul about political correctness is just making excuses about refusing to put in the effort to see things from others' points of view. And it also refuses to acknowledge that you yourself have your hot buttons that will set you off as well. And when emotional buttons are getting pressed, intellectual messages are getting lost.
can you get Live, Cubase or Reason on a ipad yet? can you connect your pro fire-wire sound card to an ipad?

NO tablets are great for playback and controller use cases for composing/creation not so much.

Now Live on a Surface pro might be good for music creation.
gofmt is the one feature that I think every language designer should steal from go.
More appropriately titled "Programming Languages at a Glance" by the author.
clickable link: http://www.ultrahook.com
If they were arrested, they wouldn't be arrested for "failure to comply with national security requirements" or whatever. They would more likely be arrested for insider trading or something equally plausible.
This is why I choose Ubuntu over debian on my (3) servers. I don't want to cut myself on the bleeding edge of development but I'd prefer to stay ahead of the curve; easier when you have more frequent releases plus a good selection of PPAs.
Which seafile actually seems to have basic support for.
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This is true. I think society has gotten better at stretching out the shelter over time. It used to be undergrad + law school, then figure it out. Now it's undergrad + banking/consulting/TFA + MBA + McKinsey, then figure it out.

Or for the lucky who were REALLY into programming, we knew early on that grades didn't matter as much so long as we learned enough to be valuable, since it's a field that's a relative meritocracy.

My experience, though, was the folks not handing in homework assignments were doing it out of laziness, not alternative studies.
Both the server and client are open source.
>> There is no such "sort of person".

Of course there is. Some people excel effortlessly, some are able to (and want to) dedicate themselves to a task and excel. Some can't excel despite effort and some cannot focus themselves to make the effort at all. We are all different. Or do you live in the kind of imaginary utopia where anyone can be the best at anything if they just apply themselves?

>> that graduation speech is about people who can excel at anything others put their mind to.

If you can excel at anything others put your mind to, simply because you want to excel (which was directly what was in the cartoon), then you can do it for anything you can put your mind to as well. This sets you up to win at life in almost any way you want to and is not something to lament.

The cartoon (to me) is about someone waking up to the fact they have choices and that they get to figure out what they want. Awesome. Good for them.

It also betrays a very naive (as you would expect from someone of that age) view of the working world and the rest of humanity and makes the assumption that all of the other people that do go to college and on to work have never had these thoughts.

>> if you can't distinguish the interesting from the idiotic assignments, and fulfill them all with equal dog-like obedience, that's not very smart

If she can excel at any task set, she's very smart and she's proved to herself she can do anything if she tries. She has a lot of life left to figure out where she wants to go.

>> Do you think people who blindly follow orders grow on trees, or are aware of the fact that's essentially all they're doing? Because I'd say no to both.

No, I think that the image of school as a robot factory and point of government control is overblown, almost to the point of a conspiracy theory.
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Possible, but how likely is that? Is it more likely that he's eating foods that are inefficiently digested (and where are the scientific studies on that?) Or is it more likely that he's underestimating calories consumed (numerous studies showing many people doing just that)?
Of course. People will be buying Office licenses for a long time; there's too many companies with mission critical stuff that relies on Access or Excel macros. They'll continue to sell Server licenses for the many companies that have systems built atop SQL Server. When you're an entrenched solution as opposed to a potential rip-and-replace, you definitely have a competitive advantage.
This really should be the top comment.
This article along with the vapid "comments" on here epitomizes how this site is full of idiots now.
I spend about 8 hours a day in Logic Pro 9, and while I haven't used Ableton a ton, I get the impression that Ableton Live is more geared toward synthetic/electronic and live performance applications, whereas Logic is a more generally focused DAW that competes more directly with things like Pro Tools.
Haha, yeah. Honestly, being nice in code reviews, half the time the person just argues for half a dozen comments or never addresses the issue, even if it's completely obvious like two methods doing the same thing but with different names. Oh, well, if we have to be nice and not get things done or suffer some idiot code getting in, we have to be nice.
Really? Got a citation? That sort of homophobia is very uncommon and very unacceptable in many feminist and social justice circles.

(e.g. the large reddit subcommunity dedicated to feminism & social justice "ShitRedditSay"/"SRS"/"the Fempire" has a large discussion (SRSDiscussion) with Rule #1 being: "SRSD is a progressive, feminist, antiracist, GSRM-positive, antiableist community", GSRM = gender, sexual & relationship minorities, i.e. anyone not a cis straight monoagomous person. Homophobic language would fall afoul of that)
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As always, it's how it's presented that matters.

I always ask for general demographic information when I interview with a company. It isn't about being sexist (well maybe it is against men)... I just don't want to work with a bunch of mid-20s white males. Not enough diversity of thought.

Disclosure: I'm a mid-20s white male.
Is this fully cocoafied like FCPX?
How can I get the mobile version on my desktop?
Office suite is still the Adobe Photoshop of business software. Office is still deeply entrenched in businesses and holding on because it still offers the most features.

For example, Excel vs. Google docs: you can do basic charts and graphs in Google docs, but clearly Excel has many more features, such as data analysis tools, and when you connect Excel to Microsoft SQL server you have reporting + data mart, where Google Apps offers nothing similar (not without a lot development work needed to set it up)

Google Apps is good but often you still find businesses also need Office suite. If Google were to say, directly connect Google docs to a data warehouse tool such as Dremel, the add a lot of advanced data analysis features to Google docs, then things would start to get interesting.
Indeed - I've been considering getting a DAW to hobby shop with, and have been on the fence between Logic, Ableton Live and Reason.

My (perhaps naive) impression is that Logic seems to be more geared towards recording live music, while Ableton and Reason seem to be more geared towards creating music in the program. They can all do both (recording live and create), but that's just my impression watching their demo videos etc (perhaps describing it as "core strength" vs "geared towards" is more accurate?). I'd love to hear from someone who's actually used one/more of them.
Of late, I've been using a 12" 1024x768 screen. It's hard to get distracted when you can only see 1 thing at a time ;)

A single IPS 27" 2560x1440 is great, though. (I used one for about a year) Tiling 3 windows vertically is wonderful, but it sometimes feels too big. Multiple monitors never worked for me unless they're small (<19")
Thanks. I never made a responsive website since the builder doesn't work on phones. It has been on my to do list for a long time.
> Notice which of those things is not like the others? That’s right, number eight appears to be placing female employees on roughly the same level a jar of chocolate eclairs.

Well - no.

You could interpret it as signaling that it is a fun and diverse work place. But that wouldn't make for good Two Minutes Hate.
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I think even most of the people who did put them back on the right are probably using them on the left now.

At the time it did seem a bit arbitrary and I thought it was an attempt to be more 'mac like'.

However looking at it along side Unity and the rest of the UI changes it made perfect sense to move the buttons their.

Personally I had no problems adapting to the buttons being on the left, it seemed to be more of an issue to change it from the defaults than to just get used to it.

I also like the idea of Mir provided they keep it compatible with Wayland. Having Android support for native Linux apps would be great.

About my only issue with Unity right now is the 'disappearing' menu. Not having it visible things visible can make you forget it exits, you do need that visual reminder. My mum keeps asking me things like how to print, the only thing I have to do is tell her to move the mouse to the top of the screen then she can figure it out. The apps draw is a bit of a pain to navigate. I think something the UI people have forgotten is that you need to be able to 'discover' these features (or the apps) and be reminded that they exist. If I browse a menu, then I will see all the apps I have installed or all the options I can choose.

In any case I'm using Awesome now. The desktop environment is mattering less and less. Almost everything is either in a terminal or web browser.
Your comments only really apply to the consumer market.

Microsoft's position in enterprise is extremely strong. Apple is not making any serious attempt to challenge that (and probably never will), but Google (and Linux) pose a real threat to Microsoft in the long run.
You may have a point there. I'm sure being able to draw on the screen is pretty good for art work too.
Has he ever tasted his own medicine?
If you're wired anything like a normal human being, you'd observe the effect saying it actually had and you'd stop behaving that way. So think of your current situation as having skipped ahead without the additional damage of a hands-on learning process.
I'm not a big fan of this title - while this is an ugly, immature job posting, I certainly hope it doesn't reflect at all on the Ruby community.
The $199.99 price tag is a surprise. Could anyone speculate as to why they'd be pitching it this low, given the price of competitors products?
With that exception clause that makes it non-GPL.
There are also some nice success stories around..what's your point? Lots of happy customers over 10k seats on Google Apps and Microsoft products.
Yes. I've used both extensively.

They share some qualities, but as the name suggests, Ableton Live is really geared towards live performance use. Logic is more for straight-up production. I mean, people use Ableton Live for production, but I think Logic is more flexible overall. (Because it's simpler, though, Live may be friendlier for people just getting into digital audio production.)

Also, just check out the interfaces: Logic is more for precision work, Ableton is all about getting to your actions quickly, as would be super-necessary when performing live and every millisecond counts.
I advise not learning more than basic usage of awk and to spend the time on more versatile languages. You can do very neat tricks with sed and awk, but when the problems become more complex, it is a lot faster to use a smarter language. And if you know well this language, you will discover that it may also be very concise for relatively simpler tasks.

When Perl was created, one of its advertised goal was to avoid all the time lost trying to work around the limitations of awk, sed and shell.
They have been fortunate enough being one of the first industries that got to take advantage of the scaleability technology has allowed for.

Huh? Read some history. The Industrial Revoltuion (starting around 1750) was the first example of technology and scale. It was quite effective.
Exactly. There's a tendency to throw around bullets points of advantage (It's open! It's not big-bad Microsoft, but a company you can TRUST! etc) as if the things are enabled by flipping a switch or the ethics involved are far more important than bottom lines.
This has been fairly common knowledge, at least here in India, where mosquito menace is common. Another really popular product is what is known as mosquito bats (swatters) like here: http://www.hunterbat.com/mosquito-swatters.html#rechargeable...
in favor of what alternatives?
Interesting use of the word "fugitive" in this article. They son't even bother calling him by his name in some cases; just "the fugitive".
I'm pretty sure Logic has been $199 since 2011, when it went from retail box to app store download.
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Scientists use sound waves to lift and move objects.
have you looked at http://leanpub.com ? It is a great platform to self publish.
I think Logic Pro has been at that price point for a year or two? But yeah definitely a lot cheaper than some of the competitors.
A few months ago I would have thought this sounds paranoid; but does encryption secure us against NSA intrusion?
The way I understand it, he was trying to state (in a clumsy way) what kind of team they have. Indicating that it's technical staff does not consist only of men.
If you have a popular project, though, or even if you have a crappy project but spend most of your time on work and don't have much time for it - it can be very valuable to drive off people who commit worthless wastes of time like stuff that doesn't compile or pass tests. If I only have time to do one commit or code review per night on my personal project, then I those people are a burden. At Linus' level, his personal project because a full time job and one of the most popular OS in the world, but that doesn't mean it is a good idea for him to start being nice to everyone and getting flooded and not being able to get anything accomplished.
good summary!

I rather liked this:

Justice Goodwin Liu wrote in the decision that while it was unclear whether this exemption covered GIS data, the court must err on the Sierra Club's side because Article I, Section 3 of the state Constitution requires that any law “shall be broadly construed if it furthers the people‘s right of access, and narrowly construed if it limits the right of access.”

Seems like a particularly sane guideline in an age where technology is moving faster than laws.
I used to use Reason (way back in version 3), and now am a full-time Logic user for all my music production. I'd say this is a pretty fair characterization, although I actually use Logic with VST/AU instruments to do essentially the same thing I used to do in Reason.
Logic 9 was also $199. There's also no upgrade pricing, so even though I just bought Logic 9 six months ago, the relatively low price point makes it a LOT more likely that I'll upgrade.
Moving the buttons to the left was important for maximizing in Unity with the combined menu/titlebar.

They could have kept them on the right but then they would get confused with the systray icons/indicators.
Leaves you more money to buy that shiny new Mac Pro to run it on. :)
It's not a surprise, they've done this to other pro products as well. The money Apple makes through these applications is a drop in the lake for them, by moving the price down so much they give competitors a hard time and appease consumers (and it's probably still at a net win).
Since they put it on the app store Logic has been $199, because there isn't an upgrade price from previous versions that used to cost $500-$1000. I think it's another halo effect -- Apple wants to sell hardware and is willing to use cheaper software like Logic and Final Cut to draw pros and prosumers to the platform. Most other DAW vendors don't have hardware sales to fall back on.
Probably as a hedge against people who already own Logic 9 getting annoyed that there's no upgrade price...
Kremlin says decision on asylum for Snowden not up to Putin
Don't CEOs ever run things by PR? This sounds like a rookie mistake of accidentally forgetting to cc the person in charge of making sure the company doesn't blow itself up in the press.
Do the pitch bend and modulation wheel controls (via MIDI) actually do anything with most of the synth sounds?

I've only just started tinkering with the "little brother" Garage Band program, but I was disappointed how bad support was for the pitch bend wheel from my keyboard into the supplied patches. (using pitch bend would cause secondary "note on" events which never got a "note off")
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I tend to prefer pleasant and intelligent personally.
Wow. The hacker news pretentious circle jerk begins.

I wonder what a bunch of non-developers and self aggrandizing people with piffy blogs who think they are "in tech" think about this.

Lets read!
I don't get it. Of course having women coworkers is a positive signal in a field dominated by males, and can certainly factor into a job decision.
They do, and they're also fully assignable to whatever params you want to adjust.
> Conversely, an average OSS developer will drive people away with this attitude

See the amount of developer churn in the *BSDs and some of the Linux DE projects.

Would we have had Linux on the desktop much earlier if developers used the robustness principle in communicating with their colleagues?
Kernighan's personal help file is excellent. If you need more, you should switch to a more powerful language.
Funny idea :-) For most cases I doubt the US and China would have any problems exchanging strings :-)