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"Package management" is the wrong term. OS X just makes installing software less terrifying.

Let's say you wanted to install Google Chrome. On OS X, you go to chrome.com and click the single "Download now" button, and it downloads.

On Linux, you get the same button, except clicking it takes you to another screen where you have to know whether you are a "Debian/Ubuntu" or a "Fedora/openSUSE" user or need a "community supported" version, and whether you want the 32 bit or 64 bit version, and whether you want to "add the Google repository to your system", and here's a thing to run on the command line if you don't want that.

The "sudo apt-get install yadayada" stuff is legitimately great for power users. But for most consumers, the OS X approach is definitely to be preferred.
What happens if I already have a scoliosis and I spend 15 years or so siting at desk for 12 or more hours a day and I don't exercise?

Absolutely nothing. Provided that I eat appropriately to my activity and my chairs are always somewhat uncomfortable.

But if I spend a year working from chair as deeply reclined and comfortable (and position fixing) as this one: http://www.healthyback.com/products/Humantouch/Pc095-perfect... I get back pains because small muscles around my spine get weak and can be overstretched and damaged when I lift a fridge or something or just twist rapidly in some unusual direction.
Yes, please.

I would love to see a VM that I can just spin up that allows for an IPSec tunnel to terminate to it in a road-warrior config.

FWIW, here is what I have so far. http://superuser.com/questions/553193/how-do-i-configure-dd-...
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That depends on who reads the application. The history of patents, copyrights and trademarks demonstrates that the outcome is more a matter of circumstances than logic.
I get big red page in Chrome saying your SSL certificate does not match the domain. You need to fix that first. Also another big red message on you website explaining your product. Please use a different colour
"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."

I guess the rule about time management applies even when asking yourself to do something.
> ✗ Fusion power plants

I disagree! Azimov didn't say that we will be using fusion power, he said that an "experimental fusion-power plant or two will already exist".

Which is pretty much what ITER[1] is.

So to me, this is one of the most accurate predictions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
You could easily combine the boring idea with something new and shiny (that makes the idea work in real life^^).

Like a device giving you electric shocks every 10 minutes to make you remember to change your posture.
I'd like to thank @shuzchen for posting this. I bought a new Google Nexus 4 from MediaMarkt here in Germany on Saturday for 329 EUR and had luckily not yet opened the box (waiting for a Micro SIM to turn up from my provider).

I managed to take the phone back this morning after reading this, and get a full refund, and have now just ordered the phone direct from Google Play for 249 EUR (plus 9.99 EU shipping).

As a mental note I should always order online. In the EU you automatically get 14 days grace to return something for ANY reason (EU law). My spontaneous purchase on Saturday could have cost me 70 EUR more than it had to!
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I cycle to and from work, but my route essentially just goes from one side to the other of the city center, which means some narrow streets, some cobbled streets, and a lot of cars.

On the contrary to my previous job where the route was mostly car-free, my current cycling doesn't clear anything and adds to stress instead of relieving it. Walking is fine, but feels so... slow, and inefficient.
My only complain it's in Scala. I wish there were the same course but in Haskell.
I can only speak for Denmark, but here every other phone is sold on and off contract, but Google should atleast be able to sell it off contract in the Play Store. The same situation with the Nexus 7.
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Regarding eating seconds as a self-destructive act is short-sighted. The same man can both eat seconds and not be or look "like a pig", i.e. overweight, He just needs to exercise.
Standing, sitting. It's all so tiring. Why we don't have chairs in which you could float submerged in pen of small balls that have similar density as your body?
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It appears that they want to trademark the term "startup" for some kind of service to help new Mac owners get started with their Mac, etc. Possibly a rebranding of their "one-to-one" service.
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Replying to this because I can't reply to the child comment.

This is something I keep hearing, and I keep linking to the same thing. "Download and One-Click Install" can easily be done on Linux. In fact, that's even what it is called: "One Click Install", at least as far as openSUSE is concerned.

Explanation: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:One_Click_Install

Example: http://software.opensuse.org/package/chromium

Bonus: It still adds a repository so you have a working update path that plays nicely with the centralised package management that lets you manage every single package centrally, instead of having half a gazillion individual updaters, bundled libs etc.
I'll back this up too. If the phone can slide off something it eventually will slide off something - no matter how long it takes. I've put it down a few times and it's taken between 30 mins and an hour to make it's and eventually slip off an edge!

That said, I've dropped it a lot of times and it only has one crack on the back so far
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Well, haven't they trademarked the word "Apple", which actually is just a name of the fruit? 20 years from now kids will think the fruit was named after the iPhone logo.
I've gotten stuck - I use ActiveInbox for assigning labels to emails - that way I can group them into mini projects and todos. It's really good - but I don't know of a real client that supports gmail labels - if anyone does please holler - my life drips by waiting for JavaScript to run.
In Australia, McDonalds lost a case when they tried to stop McWilliams selling a "Big Mac" 2 litre bottle of wine, because no-one would mistake it for a hamburger. (http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.asp...)
It's pretty specific to support services... I don't see how this is even contentious.

Who uses the term "startup" anyway? (in a business context)
It isn't really a power plant until they turn it on. And so far, the difference between a fusion reactor and a fusion power plant has been a significant one.
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Rocha-e-Silva says the agreement grew out of frustration with his country’s fixation on impact factor. In Brazil, an agency in the education ministry, called CAPES, evaluates graduate programmes in part by the impact factors of the journals in which students publish research. As emerging Brazilian journals are in the lowest ranks, few graduates want to publish in them. This vicious cycle, in his view, prevents local journals improving.
New Webix Demo App "Smart Sheet" Focused on Grid
While developing Webix, we’ve made several demo projects, in order to check the usability of our library. One of these projects is “Smart Sheet demo”. It is focused on the DataTable, one of the core Webix components. Smart Sheet demo can be used to show tabular or hierarchical data.

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You can download the full demo or check the demo online.

This mini application resembles the interface of Smartsheet, one of the best web-based spreadsheets. It presents the hierarchy of tasks and allows users to edit it. (We’ve implemented only the client-side interface. There’s no real back end code for this demo).

Let’s look from the inside.
I found out recently that the French word for Internet user is "Internaute".
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Southpaw here. Right thumb on left ctrl, zxcv are all right under my fingers.
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In some circumstances, yes, but in general, no: game theory doesn't say that.

If the coalition's large parties have alternative small parties to choose from, the smallest party has to compete for entrance with the other smallest parties.

This 'reverse auction' makes it possible that a small party would end up with net 0 power when the right to govern is taken into account (could be itself negative).

An agreement that excludes a new election from being called should be possible at this point (e.g. Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition agreement).

The fact that we normally observe smallest members having outsized power might be explained by, e.g.:
1) Coalition in a two/three-party Westminster-style system tends to mean the third party is essential and doesn't have competition
2) Regression to the mean: we would observe this anyway if power in coalition was independent of party size.
You can argue a lot of things, but for most people, looking at font anti-aliasing, OS X is the one which needs improvement.

The fonts appear smudged out and blurry and are much harder to read on normal displays than the anti-aliasing used in both Windows and Linux.
To put it simply, he predicted that fusion energy will be at the experimental level.

For a 50 year prediction this is very accurate. (As apposed to the glowing walls.)
Absolutely great read and tons of advices! I'm all in software right now, but I'd love to release a physical product one day.
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This was just posted a couple of hours ago[1]. Some things to note that were brought up there:

- Apple already filed for this trademark in 2011 in the US and China.[2] They were granted a preliminary trademark pending a routine examination period where people can object to the trademark. The objection window began in 2012[3] and objections were filed. In March of this year, the USPTO mailed a "non final action" to Apple, starting a 6 month window in which Apple gets to respond to the objections. That window apparently closes next month.[4]

- The trademark filed in Australia is under the same international registration as the ones in the US and China filed in 2011: 1081614. The international registration is important to this particular case because it's Apple exercising its rights under the Madrid System[5][6], which allows companies to secure their trademarks in any Madrid Union member state by filing a simple application. Australia, China, and the US are all Madrid Union member states.[7]

- It's specifically for "Retail store services featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals, mobile phones, and consumer electronic devices, and demonstration of products relating thereto", indicating Apple intends to launch some sort of retail service called "Apple Startup" or similar.

- With a few exceptions[8], trademarks are restricted to the areas covered in the application. Assuming Apple is granted the trademark, it does not mean that they now own the word "Startup".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6288217

[2]: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/04/apple-fi...

[3]: http://trademarks.justia.com/852/96/startup-85296886.html

[4]: http://www.trademarkia.com/startup-85296886.html

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_system

[6]: http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/

[7]: http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/treaties/en/documents/p...

[8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6288395
Best 3 Video Converter Programs to Convert MKV to Nokia Lumia 1020
This article lines up the best three MKV to Lumia video converters that can convert HD MKV videos and play MKV AVI M2TS on Nokia Lumia 1020, one of the best camera phones.
Hi, I just graduated in CS this summer. Coming into uni out of foster care I always felt that things were much more difficult for me than for other students because other students had their families for support and didn't have the same emotional baggage that I do.

There have been times though where I've wondered if I was self-handicapping, how do I know that things aren't as difficult for them? I guess I felt it would be more acceptable for someone with my background to fail or break the rules.

Like the students the author writes of, I once thought I was exceptional but I'm not and it's surprisingly difficult to be honest with yourself about that.
Yup, nothing worse than a HR monkey with a meaningless number. "Bow before my all-powerful metric, puny mortals!"
Go uses `else if` as well, but since it requires braces `{ }` for statements in the "then" or else clauses, it doesn't have the dangling else problem.
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> The problem here is that we didn't have the final say.

Yup ...

There is going to be a real big shift in the next twenty years. We look at things like Developer Anarchy and say "what let the programmers run the company?" - but that's the wrong idea. It's let those with software literacy run the company - just as 500 years ago those who were literate took over running companies

For a while we shall see parallel organisations within one company - the illiterate traditional management model, and a more productive, clearly vital org that consists of all those who "get it" - whatever their job title

I wasted too many years trying to join the well renumerated traditional side - and regret the half attention I found I could pay to programming. But I have seen the light

Stop working for companies that are not dedicated to software literacy. Schumpter will be round soon enough to have a word with them.
I use a HHKB Pro 2 and I believe it's as close to keyboard perfection as humanly possible. It's evident from the pictures that it partially inspired this CODE keyboard.
The nice thing with materialized views in DB2 for instance (don't know about oracle) is that they are automatically picked by the optimizer to replace a join. So your logical query is - as it should be - completely exasperated from the physical storage underneath. The DBA just puts in a materialized view and the application will speed up magically :)
First sentence of the first link:

"Hitting the gym every day might do little to decrease your risk of death if you spend the rest of your time sitting down, a new study suggests." (I've emphasised the weasel words)

In the realm of health you can find a study to say anything. I've seen ones that say standing all day is an improvement over sitting, others that say it's the same, and even some that say standing is worse. The thing to look at is summary studies that look at a wide range of well conducted studies to see what the prevailing outcome is.

For example, according to a BBC news article[1], you can make "significant and measurable changes" to your fitness by exercising 3 minutes a week. So if we're debating using news articles, we're at an impasse.

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17177251
Where do you work that psychometric tests are required of candidates? It's the first I've heard of something like this (outside of various gov't/military jobs).
Thanks for that. Interesting! Looks like in Australia there has to be a likelihood of confusion even where a mark has reputation.

This is not the case in the EU, where the mere act of taking unfair advantage/causing detriment is sufficient for a TM owner to take action, even where there is no likelihood of confusion. Likewise, in the US, a TM owner would also have an action for TM dilution which does not require confusion.
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I would guess the author already knows this, but kayaking is strongly associated with shoulder injuries/dislocations.
Be careful, dude!
Here in the UK, it's not uncommon in large companies.
The Nexus 4 is completely baffling to me from a pricing /market strategy perspective.

There are ends to the pricing strategy spectrum take: low price, high volume (aka market penetration) or higher price lower volume (aka differentiation). The former is about matching specs and winning on price (eg, last years's Galaxy S model). The latter is about making something a little different that some people are willing to pay a little more for, usually at the cost of volume (eg, Samsung Galaxy S note).

The Nexus 4 was squarely in the category of large screen Android phones that all major manufacturers have been selling like crazy as their flagship products for the last year. They all compete with similar prices and specs. Nexus 4 matches the spec, priced 30% lower!

Great, cut price market penetration strategy!

Accept that the product hasn't been available. It's not in phone/electronics stores. Its not on Amazon. Its not available in most countries. Its not available from carriers (I like this, but if you are taking this position, find other distribution channels) etc. etc.

Whats the point of that? They could have been selling this as a niche product at a higher margin and made some good money. Alternatively, they could have gotten it into stores at the $300 price they were supposedly selling it at and outsold the S3, especially in Europe where other manufacturers add a big markup over US prices.
Apple has done so many stupid things in the last 2 years, i doubt we will use iPhones in 20 years.
> Assuming Apple is granted the trademark, it does not mean that they now own the word "Startup".

They already pretend they own the word "apple" and any logos of apples, even when they are not used by tech-related companies. I wouldn't put it past them to continue being a bully as they accumulate more words and symbols that they think they "own".
My work focus and overall health have really improved since I started running.

I started running casually a few years ago but began to notice a real difference when I began training for a half-marathon with a local team. The training only required a couple half-hour runs during the week and a longer run with the group on Saturday mornings. Having a goal to run a real race and support of team runs motivated me to follow through and I lost about 40lbs over the course of training. Since then I have run the full LA Marathon and in a couple of months I will be running the Chicago Marathon, and I can honestly say I'm in the best shape of my life. I never was a runner before but I can say I am one now.

It's not the running itself though, I think it's having a training goal and a team that supports you that can make it work. (btw my training group is Team World Vision, which has groups around the USA that run for causes). I would suggest the same result can come from biking, Crossfit, or other workout program where you have a clear goal and a group that supports your effort.
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Swimming is awesome. The overhead can be significant (finding a pool with lap swim hours amenable to your schedule) but the equipment cost is minimal ($20 speedo) and it's amazing exercise. I also find the time in the water to be a soothing break from the outside world.
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> Lifting weights would indicate that I have calories to burn that go towards nothing else that helps.

I don't mean to put words in your mouth, but this smacks of the whole calories-in-calories-out theory of weight gain that always comes up in diet threads in HN.

The reason I mention that is because I think programmers have a tendency to view things abstractly and quickly generalize. Sometimes this comes from an obsessive quality that makes us want to avoid spending any time thinking about anything that is not interesting work (witness the Soylent guy). However when it comes to the human body and our health reducing things to a simple equation comes at our own risk. Animal bodies evolved to survive and thrive under varied physical conditions and stresses.

If you don't like weightlifting then by all means do something else. But for all the people I hear complaining about RSI, and knowing what a combination of aggressive mountain biking and moderate weightlifting did for my RSI issues, I think it definitely comes with some very tangible benefits for programmers.
It would have been nice if they had some graphs showing projects that reached their goals early.

What would have happened if Ubuntu had set the goal at 1 million $? Then most of the backers would have certainty when they backed the project since they knew it would succeed in getting funded!

Maybe this would have led to 32 million, maybe not.
I don't get it -- was this at an operating company hiring people, or at the author's recruiting company (which seems to be a depressingly common way to hire people in Europe)?

If a recruiting company is so incompetent as to require personality profiling, and worse, enforce it so rigidly, it would explain why Europe lags so far behind the US in tech startups, despite having at least as many (if not substantially more) brilliant developers per capita.

If it's an operating company, then it maybe explains why European companies use recruiting agencies so much. Still seems like a huge tax on companies -- having decent internal HR would go a long way.
A friend of mine did the same to improve his ambidexterity (he's a surgeon and fine motion is important to him). I can't get used to it though.
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Controversial use of 'literally' :)
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Is this what DNSSEC is supposed to protect you from? (Or could they just change your dnssec records as well?)
I very rarely use my mouse while working, and most of the time I stick to touchpad or trackpoint navigation when I need the mouse.

This is one of the reasons I absolutely love the trackpoint: it allows me to use a mouse without my fingers leaving the home row, and the buttons are conveniently placed where my thumb already is. I'm saddened that the trackpoint is a rarity on laptops these days, I hope Lenovo won't drop it as well.
The outcome might feel wrong, but I think it might be actually better for the guy.

If he got hired, but would have his pay stuck because HR and higher management would not understand his value(e.g. not boasting his accomplishments everywhere, prioritizing business relevant issues over internal political issues etc), he would end up rage quitting and "wasting" years he could have spent at some more open company.
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