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> Do you understand the distinction of having an air of professionalism and actually being professional?

I was assuming that being professional also gives out that air. It's been a while (20 years) since I've used English as my primary language so my grasp of some concepts has loosened somewhat.

Also: being Swedish I'm from a country that knows to get proper drunk at parties, and a whole bunch of stupid shit happens at office parties. Shit that could easily be avoided by not being there to start off with...
Conspiration to kill the president. A single person cannot conspire, so that EX NIHILO a possible crime appears needing at least two people. Each of them alone may noy have a fourth ammendment interest BY HIMSELF (it is difficult to accuse someone of conspiration without a partner...) . A conspiarcy takes two to exist. It is not so easy as they state it. And it is because... people are mostly relations, not monads. It is not ex nihilo, it is ex essentia personae why the mutual interest may appear.

Edit: Imagine: we are searching your house looking for evidence of conspiracy. But you are the only suspect...WTF?
If the certificate keeps changing, regardless of whether it is valid and/or expired, then it is an indicator that not all is well.
It's not rape if the other person has no way of telling that you want them to stop.

The fact that you committed this sentence to HN boggles my mind.
Let's cut the crap and get to the point: are you saying that the Patent Office should grant a patent for tip splitting to Google? Yes or no?

It's sad and hilarious at the same time to see Googlers defend these ridiculous positions as their company shifts strategy every week chasing an extra dollar. Who knows what you'll defend next week.

You build up a nuclear arsenal so that it becomes unthinkable by your opponent to attack

Redmond and Palo Alto are shaking in their boots, this tab splitting innovation from the smartest people on earth really tipped the balance :-). Apple and Microsoft have been building operating systems and patenting each step of it for 30-40 years. That's why every Android manufacturer bowed to Microsoft
To bring in the cleanup crew? Or "teach the kids a lesson" perhaps?

Whatever the reasoning, kmfrk's comment rings true: wasn't this all about transparency?
Get real. Linux needs a better user experience to explode. The amount of work needed to get even a 'user friendly' distro like Ubuntu up and running is ridiculous when compared to getting OS X and Windows in the same state. Simple things, like listening to music, watching video and browsing the web are harder. I haven't tried to set up a gaming rig with Linux, but I imagine it will be like trying to play games on DOS 3.0 back in the 90s. At this point, it's easier to just buy an iMac and boot into Windows to play games.
Draw internals are an absolute mess. I've tried to fix bugs in Draw multiple times and just ended up discouraged.

It took me around 3 months, full-time, to write an import filter for LibreOffice that still only kinda-sorta works. And it depended very little on the rest of the codebase.

I think you underestimate how complicated a modern office suite is, and how much years-old technical debt there is floating around in LibreOffice.
It's not welfare as welfare is commonly understood: a subsidy for the poor that everyone else pays for. To Alaskans, it's just free money, so the negative connotations that typically come with the welfare label don't apply.
Looks interesting. I like the idea of showing the results of the Quartz 2D commands on the side and the Python prompt. I'd just like to know what the limitations of the free trial version are so I could try it out.
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They misconfiguring apache to serve php as text file instead of being processed by php engine. One missing line in apache config can do that. It didn't last long, but of course people saved every bit that was leaked this way. Which is mostly entry points of course.
I envy Outlook users. Envy.
I admire your composure in replying to that post.
Please note, that most of these words aren't real German words, but are constructed from other German words.

Some of these words make not the slightest sense even to a native speaker.
The SSL key is only for the transport correct? My assumption is that the data in storage would still be encrypted by the customer's private keys. The USG could then obtain the private keys of the customer by watching the decrypted SSL traffic, and is also why the gag order would be very important to the case.

I think this is a pretty big misunderstanding by the author of the article.
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It seems as though iOS 7 was inordinately buggy when it shipped. With iOS 6, apps would crash multiple times per day, but iOS 7 is an entirely new level of buggy-ness. Springboard crashes regularly. My lock button stopped working after upgrading (I've researched this, and apparently this is an issue that has been known about since Beta 2. Evidently, Apple never got around to fixing it.) The phone routinely becomes unresponsive. The Apple TV version of iOS 7 was bricking devices and had to be withdrawn by Apple. This is not a functional operating system.

iOS 7 is a complete and utter embarrassment for Apple. It was nowhere near ready to ship, and it's become apparent that Apple's hardware release schedule dictated the iOS 7 ship date, and compelled Apple to release iOS 7 prematurely.

Although I've long been a fan of the iPhone due to its superior app ecosystem, I simply can't take my chances with another Apple mobile product. Apple has forced me into a situation whereby I can either elect to continue using a phone that does not turn on and off and crashes perpetually, or use a functional Android device with an inferior ecosystem. Basically any sane person would chose the latter.

iOS 7 was in no way ready to ship, and is still a major regression from iOS 6 even after several subsequent minor releases. The fact that Apple released such an incomplete OS to millions of users really makes me question their judgement.
> based on the one-sided account of one person's blog post.

... as well as corroboration by two other witnesses.
"Guns don't kill people"

Presidents are just tools in the hands of whoever owns the finance and media outlets.
The thing about sweatshops is that they could make the same clothes, retailing in the West at the same prices, if they hired adults on a 45 hour weeks with genuinely optional overtime and didn't treat their staff abusively. There would actually be higher employment rather than lower employment in the local economy as a result. In many cases the only people that lose out would be middlemen that earn very well by developing world standards reallocating outsourcing contracts to cheaper factories offering worse conditions. Sure, the fact that economic globalization allows people in poorer countries to earn an income doing work for richer countries benefits them, and it's very difficult for factories and even local governments to unilaterally enforce better working conditions, but that doesn't mean that the people whose best option is working in the garment industry wouldn't on average be better off if retailers actually knew where their clothes were made and regulation was so pervasive internationally and effectively enforced that buyers didn't have the option of getting T-shirts for a cent less from the factory that employed actual slaves.

The evidence so far doesn't support outsourced garment manufacture as being a route to developed country status either.
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I think more in terms of having a breakthrough in mindshare. A big game that is exclusive to Linux, at least for a few months or more, could give Linux the buzz and mind share it needs.

Saying "Battlefield 4 will be released for Windows/Mac/Linux" doesn't mean nearly as much for Linux as saying "Battlefield 4 will be released for Linux-only this year".
melbourneit recently famous from the Syrian Electronic Army social engineering "hack" bringing down or defacing multiple sites including the NYTimes.com, where it is hosted.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2423699,00.asp
I have an different experience. When I install Ubuntu or Fedora I have things like an office suite, a PDF reader, Photomanagment, etc. If not I tick a few checkboxes in the software app and "Install". With Windows i have to download a bunch of setup.exe files and click through... every time. I admit that i have not used windows 8 so far, so maybe it has become better nowadays...
Energy as currency is interesting, but still has problems where cheap energy such as oil and coal has side effects which do affect others.

And are you constantly "rebaselining" the division of energy production or to you let the accumulation ride? If you let it ride, you'll have the same slow redistribution of a wealth gap between those who are capable/lucky enough to get a little bit of a headstart and continue to leverage it to more and more wealth. (or do you think you need some hybrid between the two, some something else entirely?)
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> any quietly upvoted defense of child labor sounds like "the slaves had it better than in _x_" or "women were spared _y_" jobs to me when it comes to defending poor social policy.  Grown-ass white men getting paid to develop digital toys justifying to themselves why the situation for 9 year old sweatshop workers is good enough. JFC.

I'm not defending this situation at all. It is unforgivable that factory owners sock away millions of dollars while literally paying their employees pennies. This is not okay. Unfortunately, this is what profit making entities do when they don't have regulations forcing them to do otherwise, hence my argument that any serious improvement in working conditions will require legislation and enforcement from the government.

As for being a "grown-ass white man getting paid to develop digital toys", well let's just say that my dad grew up in an impoverished fishing village in southern Bangladesh and somehow made it to America and raised me a solidly working class family in NY. I'm currently in school thanks to need based financial aid that covers my expenses.

So no, my perspective doesn't come from a background of privilege trying to justify oppression. Things are what they are and I don't think being angry about it solves anything.
They don't do that anymore. Ask your Facebook friends, hphp has changed since then.
Kentucky is as about as "red" as the current Federal government

Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul would disagree... (although of course, given that Obama is somewhere to the right of Nixon on most issues, it's not so far off)
Remember that healthcare.gov was created by two different groups.

The front-end people did an okay job.

The back-end people is the Canadian company that has messed up.
They made good business decisions to make that money. That does not give them the right to become ass holes and claim everything they did was original and exclusive to them.

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. Some better than others, some different, some identical. It is insane that this shit needs to be patented.
Cocoa-rack: Run rack apps within Mac apps.
I haven't had the need to use it in a while, but Ninite was great at addressing what you're talking about:

http://ninite.com/
Isn't that what SteamOS is attempting to be?
In this discussion I have tried to disagree like a gentleman: to be polite and respectful while making a case for something I believe to be true.

In return, you have sworn at me, called my argument "a pathetic dodge" and "entitled to the absurd," and came very close to putting words in my mouth with the North Korean strawman.

That makes it difficult to have a polite discussion, but I do want to clarify one thing.

I didn't say that Crockford was responsible for the economic cost of the old json.js license. Of course he had every right to release his code under any license he chose.

I'm simply saying that there was a cost, compared with the situation that would have existed had the code been originally released with a standard MIT license. People spent time and money that they wouldn't have if that had been the case.

Since "cost" seems to be a loaded word here, let me put it another way. It should be clear that there would have been a benefit to the world if the original json.js, JSMin, etc. had used a standard MIT license, because many more people could have used the code. That benefit was lost because of the "Evil" clause.

And, to his credit, I think Crockford eventually realized this when he re-released the code with a pure public domain dedication.
Mind if I ask you to clarify?

I know several people who are your average users (use their PCs as a VCR and Facebook machine) who were convinced to switch to Ubuntu a few years ago and have since been enjoying it much more and have found it more intuitive than Windows.

Ubuntu has everything set up out of the box for you, and the feature that everyone seems to like the most is indeed, a Unix advantage: centralized package management.

In Windows, they had to hunt down binary installers from all over the web to get some piece of software. Now they just head over to the APT/dpkg frontend (Ubuntu Software Center) and do everything in a flash.

How is listening to music and browsing the web harder? You have a graphical DE that makes it point-and-click just like any other OS intended for consumer/mass use.

Perhaps you were installing a minimal Ubuntu without X11?
The example of Halo for xbox has the important distinction that Halo was an exclusive title.

Almost by it's very nature Linux is not conductive to exclusive software, simply because when you build something for Linux you are likely building on top of open source dependencies which have far less legal and technical barriers to being ported elsewhere.

For example most Windows titles rely on DirectX which is only supported on MS systems. If the game development culture on Windows revolved around OpenGL we would likely have seen more Mac/Linux ports of games already.
If I posted to HN every time I learned something new, I'd have a lot of nickels.
I hope to hear some news about updated MacBook Pro's as well!
Flags and lack of upvotes :/
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> It puts power into the hands of the government.

True, in general. But the prison population is also overwhelmingly non-white, and non-white people statistically vote Democrat. Prisoners can't vote. As one of the two ruling parties in America, it would be in the Democratic Party's best interest to liberalise drug laws to augment the racial minority vote.
My experience: I have a completely stock Linux Mint, grabbed Steam.deb, installed it by double clicking on it, logged in, installed Left4Dead 2 just like I would on Windows, and played a campaign without any problems. That's about as good as you can expect things to be, in my book.
You wrote:

> she could have easily denied him the opportunity when things started getting too close.

That's garbage. She said she froze up "like a deer in the headlights". She sounded terrified, so no - it wasn't easy at all.
Whilst I agree with the broader point that there is room for improvement in the Linux user experience I find that the "out of the box" experience on a modern ubuntu is far more complete for many uses than Windows is.

For example after a Windows 7 install you need to go and install a plugin before you can watch youtube videos and you need to install a viewer for PDF documents. Both of these things are provided by default on an Ubuntu machine.
> British policies were explicitly designed to stifle the same changes happening in India

How so? I'm genuinely curious.

I know the British brought a system of law and education and a massive train system to India, and I don't know much else about what they may have done. None of that seems like it would serve to stifle the Industrial Revolution.

It seems to me like promoting the Industrial Revolution to the maximal extent possible in India would have been the rational thing for the British to do. You don't produce wealth by holding other people down. And the three examples I gave above would support the idea that that's what they were aiming for---development. But maybe there's something I don't know.
Yikes, I was not aware of that.
and you know this, how?
That's a pretty weak straw man argument.

Back in the real world, such activists usually would-be trade partners to provide childhood education and regulate working conditions as a condition of market access. As large, wealthy markets, territories like the US and EU have a great deal of leverage in such matters.
When was the last time you actually installed Ubuntu? It mostly installs itself with little to no input from the user.

>I haven't tried to set up a gaming rig with Linux, but I imagine it will be like trying to play games on DOS 3.0 back in the 90s.

Install Steam, install game, play game.

>it's easier to just buy an iMac and boot into Windows to play games.

As someone who actually does dual-boot a Mac using Bootcamp for gaming purposes, and who also games on Linux, the former was far more difficult to set up (installing Windows on a MBP from a USB stick is a fool's errand).

In short, you simply don't appear to know what you're talking about. The trouble with gaming on Linux is selection, not anything intrinsic to Linux itself.
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Absolutely brilliant name.
Probably this once Mav lands for the public: http://roaringapps.com/apps:table

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Oh, looks like it's already there in waiting: http://new.roaringapps.com/
I did read the article in full, also what does it matter who wrote it?

A skimmer and a keylogger are two very distinct things. When I read the title I was interested to find out how the skimmers were placed, placing a keylogger takes much less skill and craft, it's a piece you can buy in bulk, whereas placing a skimmer usually requires a different class of criminal, skimmers often have to be fabricated for each location.
I get the impression they have much bigger problems than PR right now, and they really don't have any time to devote to PR.
I'm sorry, but do you actually read what I am writing?

"For unrelated reasons [...] I would prefer to leave names out of such blog entries"

First of all, I did not say anything about shutting up in that sentence. Second, even if you interpret "leaving out names" as "shutting up" I wrote "prefer" and not "must" or "have to".
There's no way they are going to back off on this because they have been advertising it in the game via the MOTD status messages. If they suddenly decided not to do it, the backlash from entitled online gamers would be legendary.

Having said that, Rockstar giving everyone $500k GTA$ is pretty much a non-event in the face of the fact that they will be selling GTA$ for real money. The $500k of GTA$ money they are giving away will be purchasable for 10 bucks in as many $500k increments as you wish to buy. And while in the case of buying the money outright you can more easily choose to not participate, the fact that tons of other people will participate (I've seen people waste ridiculous amounts of money on COD Black Ops 2 "camos" for example, things that don't even give them an in-game advantage the way money does in GTA V Online) will already make the overall game economy incredibly loopy.

If you really don't want the free money, when it appears in your bank account just use it to put super high bounties on random people. You'll burn through the money nearly instantly with nothing personal to show for it and cause epic havoc on the server you're on at the same time, which is very much in the spirit of GTA.
Maybe I had a unique experience, but when I was in grad school (chemical engineering) we exclusively used LaTeX for thesis work. The journals we worked with also required it, if I recall correctly.
Fairly sure, I've been suffering with this on 10.7 and 10.8 on different machines. Some more info here:

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-de...
So Numbers is a good, platform-locked spreadsheet editor for simple uses?

Dropbox+Excel seems like it would do the same thing, but even with more flexibility (including version control, document sharing) and supporting even more platforms.

I don't think you can ever consider spreadsheet software to be 'user friendly'. They're spreadsheets.
The question at the heart of this: what stakeholders exist that are incentivized to create a Linux-exclusive game?

Halo was XBOX-exclusive because Bungie was owned by Microsoft; their specific goal was to make an XBOX-exclusive title, and there was a very real incentive for them to funnel energy into the platform. DICE (and to a much lesser extent, Valve[1]) gets nothing specifically from having a Linux version besides the slightly larger target audience (and PR); there's nothing in it for them to spend massive development time on a AAA game and not release it on Windows + Mac + Consoles as well.

Am I missing something?

[1] From what I understand, Valve's pursuing non-Windows options to try and avoid a shootout between them and Windows Store. That's pretty understandable in of itself.
I disagree with that, as the open source dependencies of a major game application are tiny compared to the application itself.
So only for Macintosh computers, then?
Good documentary about Bangladesh and the garment industry:
http://vimeo.com/6393377
> America did not just magically start out as a wealthy nation,

[...]

> The idea that we can magically transform these 3rd world nation into 1st world nations is naive at best, The same path America took, is the same path these nations must take.

America isn't a good example. It stomped on so many people to get where it is today. And even right now America only continues to function because of the exploitation & corruption of other countries. Nobody can/should follow America's footsteps.
Same here. But it seems that it will be unlikely, given they have shown pretty clearly they understand that a. if you are the boss, don't make advances on underlings, and b. they are unlikely to make an advance until they are sure thy have communicated clearly with the other person.
He could have obtained that by simply saying 'you're great, I love working with you, but I'm being offered more elsewhere.' He'd still have been reporting to a co-founder, not a junior employee. I find it weird that people insist on discounting this factor.
I nominate 0 AD. I've been quite impressed with it, and would love to see it reach widespread distribution.
If you don't already do it, set up separate branches for each advisor/supervisor so you can add their comments there, then merge it back with your own work. i.e., just pretend that they're using git too, but do it for them.

And I second the pandoc recommendation if you can get it to work
I think he does understand pearjuice's comments. He seems pretty appalled by them, which is pretty understandable really.
Porting something Linux -> Windows is likely much easier than the other way around. For example you can run GTK/QT on Windows but you can't run Win32 on Linux without relying on something like Wine.

So you would need to have something that was either designed to be cross platform from the get-go , or you need to re-engineer around different APIs.
Chip and pin has been widely used in Canada and Europe for a few years now.
Could be. Don't forget - Nobel prizes are given our for work done 20-40 years ago. So Asians doing stuff now will only get recognized in the future. With time, I think they will catch up to Jews.