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> there are decent COTS tools to handle it

Of course there are - Microsoft's ecosystem is huge. And tools can use Office as a library

> output rendering is consistent

That's not a format problem

> It's also better documented

Now that's just wrong. It's more extensively documented (the spec is an impressive stack when printed) but there cannot possibly be a better specification than freely available source code. If you really want to know how to read an ODF document, you can always read LibreOffice's source code. And use it too.
Right. Nobody is going to make an Linux-exclusive major game. On the other hand, Linux has already taken off, just not for desktop usage. And BSD Unix is successful in gaming, as the PS3 and PS4 are BSD Unix with their own shell.
Detente is still chilling to the rest of the industry. It raises the barrier to entry for anyone who would potentially wish to compete. I think it would be better to fight it out and prove just how broken the system really is.
What about Ubuntu? they have their own store so they could benefit directly from the game's sales
Facebook's youtube video have bigger width of the feed when in someones profile
which may be why terrorism is a predominately educated middle class affair.

But accepting your argument, I cannot give in to nihilism. Take the children out of the factories, put them in school, build libraries, train teachers, and wait twenty years to see a vast difference.

If you are a military dictatorship that uses your twenty years to educate the country and drag it by the bootstraps into the global upwards pastures, you may retire with your ill gotten gains on a beach somewhere with our thanks. Get rich and change nothing I want you hunted down with dogs.
Was the last time you set up Linux in the 1990's? The hardest part of installing Ubuntu is downloading it and burning the startup disc.

The installation takes about 15 minutes (less with a USB stick). Installing media codecs is an option at install that requires one box to be ticked.

Installing Steam requires downloading the Steam installer from their website, double clicking it, and hitting the 'install' prompt that Ubuntu sends you (ie. at least as easy as Windows). Once Steam is installed, it's the same experience as on Windows.

As far as things like Nvidia drivers go, it's also very easy with Ubuntu. Peripherals are mostly plug and play.

As long as you don't have extremely old, obscure hardware, it will be a very easy, smooth experience.

And installing Ubuntu on a computer is much easier than setting up OSX/Windows to double boot...
That's a pretty sick position to take. You think it is ok to sexually assault someone if they allow body shots on a bar?
The opinion is rather dense and I don't expect everyone will take the time to read it. In the interest of promoting discussion, here's what Ars Technica said:

"The government’s response (PDF), filed on September 30th, is a heavily redacted opposition arguing that when law enforcement can monitor one person’s information without a warrant, it can monitor everyone’s information, “regardless of the collection’s expanse.” Notably, the government is also arguing that no one other than the company that provided the information—including the defendant in this case—has the right to challenge this disclosure in court."

... and here's the paragraph of the opposition document that they are quoting:

"(U) Third, Moalin lacks standing to assert the interests of and service provider, or the interests of other persons whose telephony metadata may have been collected along with his own, regardless of the collection's scope. Fourth Amendment rights are "personal in nature, and cannot bestow vicarious protection on those who do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the place to be searched." Steagald v. United States, 451 U.S. 204, 219 (1981); accord Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83, 88 (1998) (a person claiming Fourth Amendment protection "must demonstrate that he personally has an expectation of privacy in the place searched"). Accordingly, "a court may not exclude evidence under the Fourth Amendment unless it finds that an unlawful search or seizure violated the defendant's own constitutional rights." United States v. Payner, 447 U.S. 727, 731-32 (1980); see also In re Grand Jury Proceedings, 827 F.2d 301, 305 (8th Cir. 1987) (rejecting argument that a subpoena was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment because it "may make available to the grand jury [money transfer] records involving hundreds of innocent people"); United States v. Rigmaiden, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 65633, at 38 (D. Ariz. May 8, 2013) (United States did not violate defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by acquiring 1.8 million IP addresses from Verizon); Li, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS at 17 (because the court concluded that the defendant lacked any reasonable expectation of privacy in the evidence obtained from the third-party service provider, "the court also finds that defendant does not have standing to seek suppression of the evidence"). Therefore, neither Moalin nor his co-defendants have standing to challenge the United States' collection from the service provider, regardless of the collection's expanse. See In re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring the Production of Tangible Things, 2013 WL 5307991, at 5 (For. Intell. Surv. Ct. August 29, 2013), (hereinafter "FISC's August 29th Memorandum Opinion" or "In Re Application of FBI") ("Put another way, where one individual does not have a Fourth Amendment interest, grouping together a large number of similarly-situated individuals cannot result in a Fourth Amendment interest springing into existence ex nihilo.").
> Microsoft shaking down Android vendors

Please can we stop saying this? I can write a whole essay on how licensing patents is the norm in tech industries, and how Microsoft (and Apple) are using patents exactly as they were meant to be, and so on.

But since you're a Google employee (IIRC), I'll just point out that it was Google that was actually convicted and made to pay 14 million for doing what you are accusing Microsoft of doing.
"[The singularity] is science fiction" - Noam Chomsky [video]
No one is saying that this is the best of all possible worlds. Without proposing any solutions that work within the framework of reality, though, all you're doing is basking in your moral superiority.
Parts of it say "do as Word 6 does".
Currently at 2426 views.

Only 910,883,012 more views to snatch the number two spot in the 'most watched on YouTube' charts from Justin Bieber. Should be a snip...
For those who like me had trouble finding the actual benchmark results mentioned in the article:

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1310099-SO-RADEONRV716
But Ubuntu is open-source, so if Ubuntu tries to lock anyone in, Valve just forks and has full control. The very nature of Linux and open source distros is what Valve likes, Ubuntu is simply the most accessible and easiest to recommend. Steam works just fine on a number of other Linux distros BTW (I've run it on Arch and openSUSE machines too).
Indeed, we are.
The #1 way to fight back is to quit which increases costs to the factory owner, if you don't then it's better than the alternatives.
If you bought a mac to play Q3Test, surely it's not beyond the realms of reason that someone with PC, would dual-boot Linux to play a game (since it's no cost).
The fact that it's easier to port from Linux to Windows, could be great incentive to build for Linux first then port out. As a converted Ubuntu user for the past 1.5 years, I'm rooting for this to happen. I could fully drop Windows if it does.
Free for all, enjoy while it last:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6DDC4CV0s
can't believe modern OSes can't run properly with 2GB of RAM. In the 90s we certainly didn't have the same standard.
But do Speaker Greg Stumbo, and most especially Larry Clark, the Speaker pro Tempore since January 4, 1993 (sic), disagree?

Do I really have to explain that state officials run state governments, not the state's elected Federal representatives who do their thing in far off D.C.?
aargh - I keep doing that. Probably a dozen times over the past few years - it's the strangest thing. I now know more about a minimalist composers works than I ever expected to for a tone deaf Mozart fan.
No. Look, I'll read the last paragraph for you:

"The reason I want Word to die is that until it does, it is unavoidable. I do not write novels using Microsoft Word. I use a variety of other tools, from Scrivener (a program designed for managing the structure and editing of large compound documents, which works in a manner analogous to a programmer's integrated development environment if Word were a basic text editor) to classic text editors such as Vim. But somehow, the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems. They have warped and corrupted their production workflow into using Microsoft Word .doc files as their raw substrate, even though this is a file format ill-suited for editorial or typesetting chores. And they expect me to integrate myself into a Word-centric workflow, even though it's an inappropriate, damaging, and laborious tool for the job. It is, quite simply, unavoidable. And worse, by its very prominence, we become blind to the possibility that our tools for document creation could be improved. It has held us back for nearly 25 years already; I hope we will find something better to take its place soon."

--TFA

So, you can disagree, but the "why" of your first comment is pretty directly addressed by the author.
Valve can use Half-Life 3 / Portal 3 exclusives on SteamOS to push adoption of the OS/console which benefits them greatly.
This is advertisement for a book that is about made-up words.

I find it interesting that it is all one giant image and how the wild number of typographic styles confuses me immensely.
"forced her hand"

Oh my. This is assault. She was forced to do something she didn't want to. The exact definition of assault. Which community is this? Are you part of this community? Why are we not exposing this community. Steve, please help us expose this vile and malicious community which forces people. Today it's blogs. Tomorrow who know what it is.
What's a better way to store, say, a dict in python?

I've not used python for repeated input/output before, so this is an open question for me.
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On the surface I agree completely. Right down to the level of when I'm standing in the WalMart thinking about whether to buy that fair-trade coffee or not.

In practice, that solution doesn't work so well. Usually the goods wind up simply taking a longer boat ride through a country with looser standards before winding up in the US/EU.

The fundamental problem is Bangladeshi. It requires a Bangladeshi solution. High-minded westerners can help, some, but it might be smaller help than first seems possible.
this was obviously computer misuse. although they didn't intend to show you, you saw the secret credentials. go straight to prison.
Amazing piece. As someone who likes to using planning as an excuse to not do, this really hit home for me.
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Microsoft should allow Windows Phone to run on a VM next to Android
You need to think about this not on a simplistic single-game game theory model, but more specifically, creating a linux exclusive game would be part of a broader long term strategy. Boosting the popularity of an open gaming system would reduce the rents that can be charged by network holders on gaming companies. This would, obviously be a short term money loser, but with firms like Valve, that have a major foothold and could take the short term hit, boosting a open system/network could pay dividends in reduced future costs (granted, i'm not in the industry, and this is purely speculative).
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Chomsky, Valiant and the algorithmic mirror
Anyone who calls this bad/spaghetti code hasn't seen bad code.
By your definition, there's countless rapes in movies. Can we change the hollywood movies from here on to always ask 'may i have sex with you?' before they start making out? If they don't ask, I want these movies to be rated R since they are showing rape and possibly sexual assault.
It only has to be exclusive to the Ubuntu store, doesn't stop people playing Steam games. Valve forking Ubuntu, doesn't give them right distribute the game.
I would love to see that essay of yours. I think this issue is not enough said and he should not stop at all.
>I'm all for tests but tests aren't the ONLY way to write software that you can modify without "breaking things."

What are some other methodologies that can let me change code with the confidence well-written tests give me? Would love to be able to employ them when automated tests aren't feasible.
Totally agree with your point about selling GTA$

One small correction - the max bounty you can place is $10k and the max you can gift is $5k
That sloppiness is also it's core strength. It allows people without training to slice and dice data. The process is almost never pretty but they're "free" to compute.
Version 4.0 on the Mac was probably its zenith. And it fit on 2 floppies, IIRC.
I want to print this on cards to hand out every time I hear some jackass equate poor with lazy.
Exactly, it is a social problem. The problem is not chemicals, the problem is the society (or, sometimes, personal) failures that drive people to abuse chemicals because they help them avoid dealing with their problems. We have the same problem as drug addict has, only on societal level. Drug addicts feels bad and takes drug to temporarily feel less bad (which get him ever worse later). We feel bad that we have these problems and we take the drug of tougher enforcement and feel-good prohibition and imprisoning people that defy our good intentions - which makes us feel better for a short while with disastrous consequences in the long run. We as a society have to get off regulation and enforcement drugs and learn to deal with the problem as a healthy, responsible adults do. We learned to handle alcohol, we can learn to handle other chemicals too. It would be a long and painful recovery - and we didn't complete the "recognize the problem" step yet! - but we must do it if we want healthy society again.
I'm German. What kind of proposal is this?

As already pointed out these words are constructed from other more basic words. As the German language allows for this, some people like it to juggle around and come up with (more or less) funny words.

I guess the majority of English-speaking natives find this funny.
Because they blatantly scraped Google. Funny thing was how all Ms employees parroted the same PR bullshit at the time.
The idea of VMs on mobile seems a little weird right now but if the VMs can be integrated at the UI level we can take advantage of the different strengths.
Most of them are perfectly valid hypothetical neologisms, and I'd say that Fingernageltafelquietschen is perfectly cromulent.

What really grates me about that list is that they write supposedly german words in broken letters without distinguishing final and terminal "s". It should be Fingernageltafelquietſchen and Tageslichtſpielſchock, not Fingernageltafelquietschen and Tageslichtspielschock. (I remember getting that one after watching all three Back to the Future movies back to back on a sunday morning, it was still like, early afternoon after that... totally confusing.)
"If they're presenting work for review I ask them to write it in markdown."

Perhaps a git repository to track feedback and changes?

Do they need to use diagrams or images at all?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/11/us-usa-security-sn...

thank you for grabbing alternative. here is the reuters again.
It still says "We’re making our source code freely available on GitHub."
Because then they are no longer the victim?
Comparing it to OS X is a little unfair because it's literally impossible to buy a Mac that doesn't have OS X pre installed, but compared to the average Windows bootstrapping on a clean system Ubuntu is far more user friendly and it's been that way for many years.
MVPs should be quick and dirty
This is exactly the problem. You do not know the message is not important. In fact, every message is important to someone.
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It's a Python shell for an Apple API. What did you expect?
I guess pg chose to pursue YC instead of that kickass goatee...
I have a feeling making this problem into a race problem will only make it worse. If there's anything that can make completely insane drug discourse in the US even more insane (it's hard to see how it's possible but it is) - I think it's exactly making it about race. Yes, I know there's racism among law enforcement and establishment - but the source of prohibition problems is not racial. Alcohol prohibition failed, and drug prohibition failed too, for the same reason, having nothing to do with race.
I get the impression you've missed the announcements of SteamBoxes and SteamOS.
Valve do have triple-A titles, and they do -they may- have the incentive to release it exclusively on Linux/SteamOS.

What concerns me about SteamOS is their (supposed, as I don't know if it's been actually confirmed yet) Ubuntu base.
I personally loathe Ubuntu, it and all its derivatives seem bloated and unstable, I get the same feeling using it as I would get using Windows Vista.
Remember the extra hoops Vista introduced to get to basic network settings?

Ubuntu might be Open Source, but it's not open, user-friendliness should not equate locking down an OS, there must be -and is- a better way. I feel GNOME on my Arch install does the job admirably, so much so that friends want a piece of the action.
I see this whole blog like skydiving off a plane. You know what it involves. Mid-dive you cannot change your mind. You have to live with your decision, it's too late to go back. It's called being 'responsible', 'mature', 'growing up'. You need to understand what your decisions mean. If you keep your head, there's a good chance you will make it to the ground safely. It was surely traumatic but you are atleast living.
No, it's still rape.
I think they can, Parallels on Mac makes it pretty seamless to run Windows applications -

http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v5/screenshots/6.e.Win...
Ubuntu is really easy to install - not sure when you last did this. It will find the Nvidia binary driver for you and get it. Browsing the web is easy, you've got firefox and chrome right there, youtube works (which is all the video most want).

Windows 7 on the other hand is hard, it installs with virtually no drivers leaving you to find them from all over the web, it's a awful experience.

P.S. I played DOS games in the 90s it was harder than Ubuntu is now.
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I don't think Quartz is available on Windows unless you install Safari.
The lack of Win32 API is not a big deal porting-wise.
Nobody mentioned family planning. The girl started to work because her mom became pregnant with her 6th (? I counted older brother and 3 younger siblings) child. Was this pregnancy planned? We will not know, but there is some possibility it was not. So, providing girl's parents with contraceptives and educating both mom and dad in their use would have had a real immediate impact on this girl's life.
No, it highlights the fact that what you have said is not correct, and a court of law would show you to be wrong.
Amazon is good at pouncing and snapping.
I have my doubts about how much sexism was in play, but I also accept that the writer of the article necessarily has more first hand experience of the situation than can be adequately laid out in a short column (which may in turn have been edited for length by a copy editor). Note as well that she is going out of her way to be circumspect about the identity of the person in question; I am perfectly willing to believe that there's more to the story but that she is choosing to exercise some discretion to avoid impinging on the person as an individual and also to avoid the possibility of a libel accusation. I don't think ageism is a big issue here since the star hire was apparently happy to end up reporting to the author's (then) 32 year old cofounder, and the author appears to be of a similar age.

The point I'm making above is that the grandparent poster seems to have some need to make up facts that are not present in the original story in order to justify his angry tone. In short, I think he has a giant chip on his shoulder.

What I think you and a lot of other posters are missing is the import of her paragraph about how diversity costs; when they were a freewheeling write-the-r-own-rules startup they could afford to blow off or ignore anyone who tried to leverage personal biases such as sexism, ageism, or anything really. Once they were funded and had investors whose expectations they had to satisfy, they were also obliged to deal with suppliers (of skills in this case) whose economic apparent economic benefit outweighed the ancillary costs in terms of team cohesion and founder status. She's pointing this out as an example of systematic discrimination - not in the casual but incorrect sense that most people use the term, involving some villainous type whose primary goal is to disenfranchise others, but as an unfortunate consequence of the laws of supply and demand.

If you need to hire a hotshot in some specialized field and the expected value of that person's economic contribution is greater than the cost of buying out a cofounder, then said cofounder is at the mercy of any personal biases that the hotshot might have. And being a hotshot is absolutely not correlated with any kind of superior moral development. I have met plenty of highly skilled people who were leaders in their field but who were markedly undeveloped in other respects, and indeed I could say the same of myself in some respects.
In the middle of a long browser session with multiple tabs open and I receive a phone call boom. BSOD !

The phone restarts and the browser tries to reload all the tabs but the session is lost.

It bugs me even if this is once a week event. iPhone has been around for 6+ years and by now it should be mature enough to not go kaput when a piece of code misbehaves. Android (nexus 4) doesn't do that. They support hundreds of devices. Apple had only a handful and that too with much less diversity.
> Because it will marginally increase the cost of the goods

And this is not even a given. Even in blue-collar industries it can be quite profitable to improve working conditions and thereby raising employee productivity.
We find it lustig actually.
Ask HN: which tools would you use to integrate 5 different t companies? 
We are having a smaller problems with getting our stuff together. Communications have been much better after we've started with Hip chat instead of Skype. Now we're transitioning our monitoring to Pingdom and code repository to a git.<p>What would you prefer to use in these situations?
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If your local filesystem is literally an untrusted source, then you have big problems. All your own Python code is coming from that same untrusted source, along with all the .pyc files in your code and on PYTHONPATH. Is a .py or a .pyc paving a path for all sorts of nasty exploits, just because it can be run?

This isn't even limited to Python: every executable you are running on that machine are coming from the same untrusted source, and every binary you build on that machine is also tainted by extension.

Does loading a kernel from disk pave a path for all sorts of nasty exploits?
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Seems like people like you are easily convinced to do anything. And promptly blame others when bad things happen. Best of luck.
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