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>If you have a phone, there's a >92% chance it's running Linux.

>http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24108913

>Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013

What?! iOS is not Linux, smartphone market is not all phone market and shipments/marketshare is not equal to usage share.
I strongly suggest looking at the actual arguments presented in the article.
Not really, only apparently.
Sounds like the makings of a mild horror film for those who mosquitoes target!
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Seems like everything is just blown up to me. Are someone's words making you feel bad? Give it back to them or stop your crying. Why bother whining about it publicly? If people don't want to stand up to a single man by themselves then do you really think ganging up on him will solve anything for them individually?
Seriously, she had to be a fucking woman. Keep in mind that she made it about gender.
"As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.' Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing."

Clearly, that was an angry denouncement...
/sarcasm
I also bought Logic 9 about a month ago so I emailed iTunesStoreSupport@apple.com with my original order number asking for a refund which they approved this morning.
Just like Linus said, some people work better with certain types of people. If you are a highly sensitive person then working with Steve Jobs/Linus/Bill Gates [1] is probably not going to go well.

The question might be that because Jobs/Linus/Gates are in positions of power and management, should they have to adjust their personality when working with other people?

I'm not convinced that should be the case. Choosing to work with someone is largely voluntary.

[1] http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/No-Bull-Bill-Gates...
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>If you want cheap prices and high quality service, then you have to deregulate the industry, and a deregulated telecom industry will focus on the high-end consumers, just like every company does.

Uh, if the industry is focusing on high-end consumers, they're going to be gouging the hell out of them. That's hardly cheap.
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I moved from PCs to recording non-EDM music on Logic in 2009. It's perfect.
Summary of this article:

"There is some limited but direct evidence that Programmer Anarchy is effective, and as of yet no evidence that it is not. However, it confuses and scares me, so I will say many words about how it could never work."
Yes, I also found that immediate confusing. Might be time to start using two letters for the names of JavaScript libraries. ;-)
An encrypted home directory will help some with that.
I subscribe to your point of view.
Apple isn't a utility so isn't a relevant comparison. Cake isn't a utility either, that's a foolish aphorism and is not a relevant comparison because we aren't talking about a limited resource.

I can have both reasonable prices and universal service because now that Verizon is cutting people off from land-based phone lines, broadband is the country's communications utility, and it is entirely reasonable for a society to use its elected government to construct infrastructure and guarantee utility service to all of its citizens. It means both regulation and spending at the federal level: Verizon or Google or whoever picks up the cost of digging where it's profitable, taxes are spent make them whole where it isn't, but the regulation is they have to do whole counties at once. Yes, once you've gotten everyone to 1gbps or 10gbps or whatever "as good as it can reasonably get" is you can go ahead and deregulate for a while.

Municipal governments have, for good reason, the right to manage their local right-of-way, because no one outside of town cares about that one blind turn on Middleofnowhere Street where someone's going to get killed one of these days. That's the only scale of government that can or will manage traffic safety or road conditions for local streets, and they have to have a say on how construction is done.

The federal government will end up writing a huge novelty check to solve this or it won't happen. It'll be 10 times bigger than it needs to be because the corruption there is somehow just as bad as at the municipal level.
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I would argue that having the type of professional software that only companies like Apple can develop, available at an affordable price, is a great win for consumers.

Companies will find ways to compete. Just look at the $30-$50 apps that emulate stripped down versions of Photoshop (Acorn, Pixelmator) - yeah, they aren't near the full feature set of PS, but they get 90% of us what we need and for way less money. I'm sure audio apps already have some of this going on in the market.
"As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die -- not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing."

And? I mean, it's tasteless right after his death, but is it equivalence to personal attack and intimation?

Is the world black and white, and if someone says even one negative thing, then it's a full equivalence?

You can delete the Stallman reference, and the point still stands.
You can use your default card for once-off charges as well (just don't specify a card ID when making a charge with a customer).

You're right that you can't use a separate card for subscriptions yet -- we just use the customer's default card. We'd love to hear your feedback on this though (feel free to ping me at amber@stripe.com)!
No, it was passive aggressive bullshit, hidden in eloquent crap. The very thing Linus tries to avoid.
An oddity in this lexer is that it allows numbers followed by an identifier with no separation: "99foo" turns into two tokens, number "99" and identifier "foo".
The core problem here is that there are two different ideas about tolerance in play here, which I think is poorly understood as people tend to fling around the term without understanding that the word can describe almost diametrically opposed things.

Linus is advocating for what you might call personal tolerance; as a human being, you should be prepared for the fact that not everyone in the world is like you, not everyone shares your standards or your culture, and that some people may be abrasive by your standards in a way that is acceptable in their culture or microculture. (And while it is talked about less, the alternative can occur too, where you encounter a culture that is more deferential than you are used too, and similar misunderstandings can easily occur.) It is for each person to accept these differences and learn to deal with them.

The American left/liberalism has embraced a different definition of "tolerance", what I might call social or societal tolerance, which is that each individual is responsible for learning what is offensive to the person you are dealing with, and treating them as the other individual expects. This is what has given birth to the concept of "political correctness", and this is the domain in which "You have offended me" takes on moral overtones; you have abrogated your social responsibilities in that case.

I mention this without endorsing one or the other. (I'll freely admit to thinking the former is generally more scalable and a better idea, but I could easily write an argument in favor of the latter as well. As a personal matter I tend towards a mix of both.) I just don't think you can really understand the full context of this discussion without having this idea clearly in your head.
I interpreted the threat as a passer-by stealing the laptop and not giving it back.
What makes someone a lobbyist? Do they have to bribe somebody?
It's something I was going to work on for 0.5. I do a fair number of things to make lazy seqs not blow everything up and pprinting will force lazy seqs to be realized causing all sorts of nastiness. There may be some decent middle ground in there somewhere though.
Yep, she wrote it. I know because it says so in TFA.
> His lack of manners is really shocking.

Your perspective is not universal.
It would seem to be very hard to get people to do the dirty work that nobody wants. (There's always a reason not to document...)
I'd like to hear some advice from another leader of an open source project of similar magnitude and diversity of contributors.

It occurs to me, there is no such other person. Maybe, the way Linus sets standards and decides who to communicate and how, works for his situation.

If most people are put off by his philosophy and would rather contribute through intermediaries, well, mission accomplished. Somehow he has to whittle down the 10,000 people who would like to communicate with him constantly to maybe, 20.
I've been looking for this!
Aside from all of issues (good and bad) surrounding design, features, pricing, etc, I'm just glad to see that Apple is still paying attention to the pro users.
I must have missed that - thanks, I'll look into it.
Appcelerator picks up $12.1M to grow mobile enterprise platform in Singapore
At least the Ubuntu VM can be password protected and encrypted, unlike OS X in this scenario, or am I missing some other issue?

Using a VM as the "real" machine seems to be at least as effective as any other suggestion made here and far less brittle.
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This is the biggest piece of feedback you have gotten yet. Q isn’t nearly as famous as e.g. Backbone or Ember or Modernizr, but it is established and well-known. Your name is actually a barrier to this catching on, I think.
PokeMMO is great if you want a multiplayer pokemon.... What I dreamed of as a child
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Does it count as "invented" if they don't bring an actual product to market at all? If anything, that sounds like they anti-invented it - no one else can create one without their permission.
I find the "I'm Finnish" defense to be somewhat strange. Let's say someone comes from a culture with rampant sexism and racism, and he manages a project by throwing sexist and racist epithets at contributors, would we excuse it? Then why do you get a pass just because you were raised to be a jerk? At some point, you've got to break free of some of the bad personal habits you were raised with.
Ember transitions + touch gestures, iOS-style
Will the NSA use the Xbox One to spy on your family?
Venturocket announces $700K Series A
Show me one company that can accurately measure value created. It's the holy grail of management in software engineering. Anyway, in such a company you as a software engineer could be able to work (say) only 30h/week, so there's no overtime problem.
willfully stupid is a perfect description - of your government. had you opened the process to any kind of competitive process you would find your coffers filled. i did this work ages ago and paid several hundred dollars just for the right to pass each home.

the cable companies laugh at local governments, all the way to the bank.
because I wanted to use html/css as the UI toolkit and utilizing JS gives me a bunch of stuff for "free." I looked into using javafx and various other java-y things that embed webkit but they are painfully slow, to the point where it wasn't practical to even try using them.
Not data in itself or indeed proof of anything I guess, but I bought Brennan's book & immediately put my prices up (not double, but I'm working on it). So far so good though.
You're absolutely right that it's totally up to him and he can act the way he likes, but I think the point of the article is that if you're claiming that open-source is a "community" endeavour, then perhaps being a giant asshole isn't the best means of accomplishing that end. He is discouraging potential developers from wanting to work with him for exactly the reasons you mentioned: it's not a job, there is no pay, he's not your boss. The last thing I want when volunteering my free time is some guy belittling me. As has been mentioned in this thread, there are ways of accomplishing the same task while being a reasonable human being. His ego and entitlement are justifying his behaviour and it's bullshit.
There's a difference between "You are an idiot." and "What you did was stupid".
What's the difference between this and the "flat" structure Valve, and I believe Github, have been using all of this time?
C++'s template syntax is not a result of C source code compatibility.
This will sound rosy until something like this actually happens to you. It is very emotionally taxing and traumatic.

And worse, once people like Linus start advocating it, all these fan boys (who have in no way made a significant contribution like Linus) will start following suite. Imagine, that guy who setup your repo at work or your QA, come and tell you to diaf and jump off a bridge in front of everyone in the office for making an off by one error.

I think people need to realize the insignificance of the things they're doing. Yeah you think you optimized the hell out of your app, ok big guy, take a trip to Africa, no one gives a shit.
They are, but it's easier for a programmer to develop business domain experience, than an end user to learn programming. Adding a business analyst between them works if it's a great BA, but frequently it cuts the accuracy of the communication.

I can't think of too many times when I got burned putting programmers in front of customers. They don't always facilitate the meetings or ask the open ended questions, but it's great when they're present.

Same concept as getting factory workers to observe end users of their cars. Valuable, even if the product managers and marketers own the interaction.
"If you want poor people and people in rural areas to have..."

"We" as in the people who control our culture, only want the 1% to have all the money. It seems pointless in that environment to allow poor people to have cable TV... they are not being permitted money, jobs, health care, education, healthy food... why bother running expensive fiber anywhere except the richest neighborhoods. Don't pander to a cultural view which has been obsolete for decades. "We" want the poor to be deprived.

"makes municipal government regulation the worst kind of regulation"

Its the impedance mismatch of a multinational getting regulated by a tiny city. Its just inherently wrong. Like having the military regulated separately by every little village, or having the EPA regulated by every little town rather than at the level of the pollution impact they regulate. Or having the feds decide HOA rules.

I will say if you ran a tiny one town CATV system, then it would be reasonable for a tiny town to regulate it. This is not whats being discussed of course.
Once upon a time twenty years ago I enjoyed this minutiae of C++. Now? Not so much. I just want to get work done and this is a case where I feel I'm fighting the language rather than using it.
Because we are human bodies, with all the intuition and wisdom that entails.

It's less intuition and wisdom than many people think; gut feelings for example should be examined, though they're often telling you something important.

I think it's reasonable to infer that, as we are human bodies, we would know how to make ourselves stronger. The idea that mental exercise keeps the brain sharp comes from a similar intuition; it is not surprising to see it confirmed through study.
That won't work since escapologybb can't type a password at the OS X lock screen.
You're jumping the gun a bit... the main problem is that they can't secure their main computer, since they require dictation to work in order to enter passwords. For the main login screen, the dictation software isn't loaded yet.

If they can password-less auto-login to the main computer, then use their dictation software to load up a VM, that VM could be considered secure.

As a side note, can't you also run Mac OS X as a VM guest from a Mac OS X host? I thought that Apple made that license change a while back. If that's the case, they could keep it all Mac, if they'd like.
someone could build a login sequence that uses yes/no questions that only you know the answer to. Then it would just be a matter of how many bits of protection you want. eg: 32 questions would be something like 32 bits of entropy. Kind of laborious but also fairly secure because the order and selection of questions could be randomized, so someone would have to shoulder surf many questions in order to break in.

eg: Is this your mom? (with a picture). Is this your favorite color (a color showing). Is this your phone number? Is this your house? Do you like cheese? Do you like candy crush (ok, no entropy there, the answer is always "yes") .

now, does someone want to make this product?
That's fairly common in languages that aren't particularly whitespace sensitive.
Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey
I'm curious how this will turn out. It's obvious that the State will try to assert state secrets, but we've already seen another court say that now that the information is public, they can no longer assert that privilege.

When Snowden first came out, I was skeptical that the information leaked would actually cause any real change to occur within governmental institutions. If lawsuits like this continue to pop up, we may begin to see the courts restraining the executive in a significant way.

A big problem here is that people in the executive firmly believe that these programs deter terrorism in the same way they believed that torture would provide actionable intelligence. They need to stop and re-evaluate whether other tactics may be as or more effective than blanket surveillance.
It's a trade off. Publishers can give you marketing, proof-reading, cover design, book layout, etc. But you get paid much more per book if you self-publish and you have more control over the final product, price, marketing strategy, etc.

It's relatively straightforward to get freelance proof-reading and cover design. You could use something like LaTeX to layout the book and if the market you are targeting is relatively niche then you can market it at least as effectively as a publisher, by using a blog / website.

How much hassle do you want? How much money do you want? Is there a publisher who wants to publish your book? Do you have a ready made market?

I've self-published a book on a niche topic. I used Lightning Source, a print on demand company. They expect you to give them everything print-ready. Some print on demand companies like CreateSpace will hold your hand a bit more.

Personally, I enjoyed learning all the things that were needed to get my book into print. It's also nice to make much more per book (~70% or the cover price rather than ~10%).
>> He's wrong, the behaviour isn't acceptable.

I agree that he's wrong, but clearly his behaviour is accepted by his colleagues, because they continue to work on his kernel.
The big difference between Linux and Jobs/Bill Gates is that people working on Linux are not employees. They are more like friends at a dinner party. The host can be a jerk to his party guests when they say something the host finds disagreeable and as long as it is personal opinion and doesn't come to blows the offended guest can just leave in a huff and have their own party where the host is not invited.
I still can't believe they actually thought that thing was going to sound like a real bass guitar.
I don't know about catastrophe but it's sad that Apple put that much manpower into pleasing a small but vocal minority of bloggers.

Normal users really don't prioritize the faux leather vs flat issue that much - for them features count more.
Great ressource! thank you so much
I'm pretty sure a subsonic rifle shot is still pretty loud. :)
Fair point.

Lets go with this instead. 92.3% of all smartphones are connected to projects headed (present or past tense) by blunt 'assholes' who have hurt many feelings.
It's because we in the US have had actual intelligence beat out of us in our schools so that garbage like this is important. I think Linus is right on the money with this.
I'm glad it's useful :) What is your use-case?
Loosely related anegdote: Not so long ago I heard of a study here in Poland (we curse like sailors) about which parts of society swear the most. The first group were the uneducated, bottom class workers, etc., just because they just don't know better how to express themselves. Obvious, right? At this point you think it will decrease linearally, but as it turns out, the second most cursing group were the well educated, people in position, all sorts of groups you would 'expect better', yet they are confident enough about their intelligence and vocabulary they don't feel the need to apply artificial boundaries around their means of expression. The ones who curse the least are the ones in between - because they are the ones who care enough to pretend and want to separate themselves from the lower classes - a matter of being paranoid about their social perception supposedly originating from insecurity.

It's beyond me why people expect Linus to beat around the bushes like he were on an audition with the queen when he's not in a position to care enough to bend over third party social standards.
I hope this doesn't result in another Final Cut Pro X, in that case, everyone back to Pro Tools or whatever alternatives are available.
This certainly seems to be allowed: http://stackoverflow.com/a/39247
One of those things is in his control.
PaperclipTaken, your comment was excellent but has been marked "dead" for no reason that I can see.
Although idea of sharing music across the web sounds appealing in theory, as a musician, I personally wouldn't love the idea of working hard on something and 'web-collaborating' with a stranger and have them possibly add things to a song that I wouldn't like hearing in person.

On the other hand, the github idea is interesting. You "open-source" your music and allow others to fork it while still having some form of version control and rolling back if you don't like the changes or just want to revert to a different stage in the mix.
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I really love the philosophy of LightTable and will make a serious attempt with 0.5 to make it part of my standard dev workflow, but I keep wishing it had a single-stepping debugger built in, especially for clojure code. Am I doing something wrong that I keep depending on such an old-timey feature?

Again, thanks for the great work and sorry for talking about even more functionality (the existing LightTable is just so cool that I'd love to have it be even more awesome by including my favorite features :-)
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I don't have a problem with that, as long as the 50h/week is reflected in the contract and stated during the wage negotiation. The problem is that often(?) it's not, so you can't know your true wage until you've changed the employer and there's no turning back.