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This is really an argument against socialism as the communists tried to implement it. Where the state nationalizes every industry and all workers become employed by the state which plans everything centrally. Most socialists have moved beyond that model and would instead prefer to see a system of enterprise that uses co-op's instead of privately or publicly owned business. Some industries would probably be nationalized or socialized, but not much more than already is in the best parts of Europe. The main idea is to make the enterprises benefit those who do the actual work and also make them accountable to those people and their communities. The main problem with capitalism is that someone other than the people doing the work get to decide how the work is done and how to spend the surplus of value that work generates. If the workers decided these things they would never vote to outsource their own jobs and would rarely choose to pollute their own communities. They wouldn't vote to reward a tiny minority with a fortune while they pay themselves poverty wages.
My Fiance made our lovely Wedding E-Invite
Wedding website templates out there suck!
Sharadha and I are both hackers. She built most of our wedding invite. Thought U guys might like it.
I switched back to GNU/Linux about 3 years ago when I started noticing and becoming aware of this ugly trend with Apple. I just couldn't live with myself anymore if I didn't also act according to my belief in digital freedom and empowering people. so after some self-questioning I have decided to switch to GNU/Linux and free software.
There are two kinds of copying. One is the lossy copying—you see someone sucessfull, you try to imitate that, but you don't undrstand which parts make the thing work so you fail.
Another is the Apple's "copying"—they see the idea which does not quite work, they tear it apart, find out what needs improvement, improve and release.
Hmm. It worked fantastically well for me on my nexus 4. I was very pleasantly surprised by this.

EDIT: I now see you are talking about going back to slide 1. I just tested and it took me ~5 seconds to swipe back to the first slide. Or you could easily change the url.
Earth's atmosphere had more oxygen in it back then, which it easier to be big.
If they do misinterpret my data, I'll simply go elsewhere. If there isn't an alternative, I'll try to build my own.

I haven't had to input my credit card details into Beeminder yet, so I don't see how they'd be able to take money from me, anyway. I don't use the pledge feature, and I've yet to fail any of my goals, so I've not had any problems on that front.
Exact Same here, I'm in the process of trying to get back on my feet, do you have any advice on what helped you most?
way too many choices. I don't know which one to start on...
This technology (with the curved display) would look awesome on a watch, of course with the caveat that the curvature would need to be convex rather than the concave one shown here. If it is at all possible that they build a narrow band that can display rows of icons, that could be something different, who knows? A lot of ifs in my comment, but then it looks doable to me.

EDIT: removed the word "single".
>something you'd expect from a struggling company like LG, probably not from Microsoft, Samsung, or Apple.

Nice try, trying to push an otherwise peaceful community into fanboy wars.

I hope your comment stays where it is right now - bottom.
> As soon as it crosses international boundaries (even,
> apparently, virtual boundaries) it's fair game legally for
> the NSA to grab if they can.

Would you say the same if NSA was replaced by some other organization in China, Russia, Krakosia?
Well, there was more oxygen in the air back then, which gave animals more energy. The largest pterodactylid was the Quetzalcoatlus, with a wingspan of about 40 feet. I understand it was mostly a glider. It was also very, very lightly built.

And no, we haven't thought dinosaurs were cold-blooded since the 70s or something.
This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone know of any standards for publishing PGP keys? Like if your email is sandra@example.com, you could publish your PGP key at http://pgp.example.com/sandra.

Seems way more in the federated spirit of email than just using pgp.mit.edu.
I wonder whether there's a market for "key weights" that fit a key exactly and are heavy enough to keep it pressed. Depending on the occasion I have used heavy implements (not exactly rocks), a variety of wedge-like tools like scissors and other things to keep a key pressed, but a dedicated tool such as a properly-shaped paperweight might have been much nicer ;)
Put the servers in orbit.

Oh wait, the NSA/CIA/military has their own private space shuttle (seriously)
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Check it out. Six years ago Yahoo! answers had some decent answers:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080301144511AA...
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It is a personal choice. I personally don't mind OS X as it allows me to do what I want.

VMWare Fusion + OS X = freedom of development choice. Bootcamp + Windows = games.

The hardware isn't bad either though it is slightly more expensive depending on how you look at it.

For Linux, I find that there aren't many good vendors that provide pre-installed Linux on state-of-the-art hardware especially when it comes to laptops.
Glad someone mentioned JQuery. Say what you will, but the flexibility of JQuery and the community behind it makes this one of the strongest, compatible and more stable JS frameworks to-date.
From seeing others dealing with bleeding edge node.js stuff - installing modules and following tutorials become confusing. Sometimes you get weird error and only after couple hours googling you find out that it is because on Mac it is a bit different and you would avoid it if you start with Ubuntu in first place.

Yes, Ubuntu, since it is most used OSS desktop right now and most tutorials, docs, etc focus on it from my experience.

So it boils down to what you do. If you do mostly client-side html/js/css you probably will be ok with Mac. If you do more server stuff - it might make sense to switch to Ubuntu to make your life easier. Start with Virtualbox with Ubuntu in VM to keep your workflow the same in the beginning.
I switched from OS X to Windows 8, and I virtualise linux using windows as the host OS.

I hate to say it, but I think Windows 8 is pretty good as a host OS (not having used Windows much since 2003).

I wouldn't be able to do my job without the virtulisation though, in the end I got so fed up with trying to install stuff naively on OS X with brew and ports and from source and whatever I was virtualising on OS X for about 2 years before I switched over anyway.
Super lame. Pretty easy to click 2 random buttons though.
No. As much as I hate iTunes, having a homogenous infrastructure at home between AppleTV, iPhones, iPads, and an old macbook pro acting as a server, things just work.

Our personal laptops are an Air and a Retina MPB. Moving the wife from Windows to Mac was enough of a step (she uses excel and other biz apps), Linux would be a non-starter. Given the i* devices, for me, I couldn't revisit Linux without incurring management headaches I don't care for.

There is more to "switching" than just is an OSS option available.

I have a number of VMs -- ubuntu and FreeBSD for development. Desktop remains homogenous.
> it can thrive more quickly in other parts of the world

I live in a 3rd world country and it is obvious to me that bitcoin can thrive here more quickly. Let's say I'm a freelance programmer. There is no practical way for me to receive money from clients abroad. Even if I get money somehow, there is no practical way to "legitimize" them and use for large purchases. Want to found a startup and sell stuff online? Good luck trying to get a merchant account. Want to save for retirement? Either keep money (in USD of course, not the local currency) under the mattress or trust it to the corrupt banking system that goes pop every 10-15 years.

Bitcoin is already making life so much easier.
I put together a new desktop machine for the first time in 12 years a few weeks ago and decided to run xubuntu on it.

The most annoying aspect of it is the discrepancies between applications and keyboard shortcuts.

If you're a power user mac who uses keyboard shortcuts a ton then going back to X11 apps can be a little painful.

The other downside I had was on install I had no wireless card and had to download a tarball to a usb stick and recompile my device driver just to connect. I kind of expected things to just work by now, it's a shame there's still these little hiccups but I guess I shouldn't have bought cutting edge?
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The size is not only determined by the underlying physics, but also by the environment. So there can be a arms race of size, the predator needs to be roughly the same size as its pray, so the larger pray has a evolutionary advantage which gives larger predators an evolutionary advantage.

And to stay with the analogy of the article, the same is true for organizations. Some parts of organizations need to be as large as the corresponding parts of competing organizations. For example the legal department and marketing.
Exactly this! If you are deploying to Ubuntu, it is so much easier on you if you have your dev environment running the same thing.

On OS X I found it not to be too different an experience as well, I would run Ubuntu server, open terminal, SSH into the local server, and in the browser just hit the VMs IP, as opposed to open terminal, and hit localhost.
+1 definitly!

I have tried many times but, every time I had to go back to OSX for some reason. I am a big FreeBSD fan and for me OSX with the port system was the way to go. Now Apple is more and more getting in the way but FreeBSD not really running on Apple hardware.

On the Linux (I tried Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/Gentoo) point of view you can't really find a distro that is working well enough and have a similar port system.

I'm kinda stuck with OSX...
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Generally speaking ultrabooks make great linux laptops, pretty much right out of the box. The more of the functionality of the laptop is provided by Intel stuff the better.
The desktop business is not dying, it's just reaching its natural equilibrium in a world where tablets are sufficient for casual use. But no way are smartphones and tablets going to replace the machines that are used to do most of the work, so the "workhorse" market is pretty safe.

One way to leverage this (and pretty sure MS is doing it) is the opposite of what you suggest: to make their smartphones an effective auxiliary device for PCs, beyond just email and exchange and Office. Something like SmartGlass for productivity. Interestingly, there's already work from MSR along these lines, but it seems some way off.

As for Android compatibility, BlueStacks already goes a long way there. If they want to, they could snap them up anytime, but I'm not sure they'll want to capitulate on that front.
A six inch display? Really?

So not only is it shaped strangely, but it's massive. Where exactly do you put it?
You don't really need vendors for desktop Linux, just pick the best hardware you can find that's either on your distro's HCL [1], or uses standard components (Intel/AMD cpu, Intel/AMD/Nvidia graphics, Intel wireless networking chips, etc.).

There are good companies out there like XoticPC.com that sell such hardware with or without Windows or other OS, and still provide a warranty and really good support no matter what OS you put on it.

Ubuntu and probably most other major Linux distro's work essentially as well Windows if you stick to mainstream hardware (with a few exceptions like multi-monitor support and Nvidia Optimus).

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport
I was a somewhat reluctant Mac user for several years (say, 2006 to early 2012). Reluctant because I've never been a fan of apple products in general, but at the time Apple provided the best combination of good desktop environment and unix-like environment that made my life as someone who works on server software much easier.

There were always many nitpicks I had to deal with and fix every time I reinstalled or got a new computer, and they piled up and up with every new version. I switched to xubuntu with a toshiba z830 and my life got easier. Then I switched to Mint and things got even better.
> Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?

No.

> forced corporate policies

care to elaborate? I'm not sure what this means. Policies forced by the company you work for? How does Linux solve this?

> lack of hardware choice

Plus, not a minus. I think the 13" MacBook Air is the best laptop on the market today. Tight integration between hardware and software is key.

> closed operating software

Don't care, see answer #2.

It's also probably worth mentioning that I make my living through iOS (in part through my site: http://www.cocoacontrols.com)
I'm using Windows 8 too and virtualization for server testing. What stops you from going Linux-only?
In mine case its Adobe :)
The video would probably be nicer to watch if each frame used a sliding window into the data; that way the animation could be quite smooth instead.
I've never been able to fully grasp mocking and stubbing.
I'll say something that's vaguely awful: what's in it for me?

I use Linux at work and it's not bad, but I'm less productive on it with 95% of tasks than I would be with OSX. It looks worse (I recognize this is subjective.)

A lot of my friends use Linux and tell me that if I spend the right amount of time tinkering with it -- making it mine -- I'd reap the benefits of a bespoke OS, just like slipping on a suit that's tailored just for me.

But what's the point? I lose out on apps and aesthetics for hypothetical yields in productivity -- I don't want to do that.

In terms of your points:

- forced corporate policies: My employer forces a Linux desktop and either a Mac/Windows laptop.

- lack of hardware choice: I will take to my grave the assertion that the MacBook Air is the best laptop on the market. (Or at least the prettiest.)

- Closed operating software: This does not bother me.
is that banksy in the video?
I don't see how LG is struggling, they had a dramatic rise especially in Android smartphone market share. Are you thinking of other areas?
Shame Connect 4 is really boring. First person to move will always win if they start in the middle column and use perfect play.
It's rather disappointing that the case doesn't fit perfectly in that direction. Would've worked better on the iPhone 4-style symmetrical-side design. Pity they dropped that for the 5c.
I want to shift, but I like the macbook pro hardware so much better. Running Linux on macbook pro just kills the battery :(
I would if there was hardware that's as good as the Macbook Air. I know that it can run Ubuntu, but I'm not sure how well the trackpad and battery perform. And with the upcoming Mavericks, that bar is going to get a lot higher.
tl;dr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Being_the_Right_Size
It's entertaining for people who aren't perfect at it. Same goes for things like Tic Tac Toe.

Entropy = entertainment
You shouldnt pollute your local system with all the dev libs you need anyway. With things like vagrant its very easy to put your projects into containers which run identical enviroments to your target. For these containers it also doesnt reallt matter if you run them from an osx, linux oder even windows host.

Another option would be to get some remote Server and do your development there, which has the benefit of being available from anywhere. In that case you will have to use some form of remote editor like vim/emacs though since syncing from local is painful for bigger projects, especially if you work with different branches.
You can easily live nowadays on a one-parent income... just not in the Bay Area. I lived in the Dallas area and that was the norm -- and not just for middle-income tech people either. A modest house (that doesn't cost much) and only one car (as it was in the 50's) and you can get by on a 60-70K salary, even taking into account childcare.
Yep, Adobe is one, but funnily enough iTunes is another. I have spent thousands on iTunes over the years and with iTunes match I don't have to download everything either. Though iTunes on Windows is pretty rubbish (it's slow and looks pretty bad, doesn't do UI scaling properly).

I also want everything to mostly just work, which is why I liked OS X in the first place (it has a Terminal, and everything mostly works!).

I dual boot Windows 8 on my Macbook Air, I think Apple still do make the best laptop hardware.
Yes, and I am happy.

Life is particularly better for the C and C++ programmer. Valgrind's primary platform is Linux. For many years Mac owners were stuck with a horribly out of date and malfunctioning GCC, and even now with clang there are problems (the clang in xcode 5.0 has some horrible miscompiling bugs which were reported months before release).

Is everything perfect in Linux? No. But overall I find it an improvement. The only app I miss is keynote, OpenOffice is a poor substitute.
This. +100. I'm growing increasingly uncomfortable with the Apple ecosystem. iProducts, iCloud, etc. I can't transfer this to that cause I'm not allowed, click here to accept this, turn on location services so we can track you - on your laptop. It's getting to be too much.

What's the best laptop for running any Ubuntu flavored desktop?
Oh my gosh the days I remember playing Midtown Madness, it was the only game I ever really bought and played endlessly. It was such an addictive game. I can't believe it was made by MS.
Let's say OP discovered a sure-fire way to make money with his located documents and the info they contain. He puts together all the money he can, puts it all into play, and wins huge. What starts the SEC or anyone for that matter into looking at him as an insider? When they do start looking, what ties him to the the taxi at all?
This is me. The only difference s that I can't keep up a project for more than a day or two. After that, it's the next new project that takes my interest.

I didn't do as well as I hoped in high school because my parents couldn't afford a tutor. Getting me there was hard enough. I'm not exactly stupid, or so I've been told, but failure after failure which can be attributed totally down to my lack of self-discipline certain makes me feel inadequate.

Hell, just implementing this very technique is one of my failures, amongst other failures to improve my self-discipline.

It's having a massive impact on both my work and home life. Even to the point of asking HN for advice. Nothing I try works.

I'm seeing a psychologist tomorrow for an extra perspective. I hope they can help (as long as the appointment doesn't slip my mind at the last minute!)
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So you're willfully less productive because you want to have a cleaner conscience?
Overall, I didn't even get to pay much attention to the actual content, all I was focused on, after a while, were those animations & how to get them moving.

If the only aim of the designer was to display the power of parallax scrolling, Kudos.
I switched from a combination of OS/2 and Windows 95 / Windows 2000 TO Linux as my primary desktop OS about 13 years ago, and have never looked back. You can have my Fedora Linux desktop when you pry it from my cold, dead, fingers.

As for OS X... I'm sure it's nice, but I have no interest in Apple and their locked down, proprietary, closed off, "walled garden" ecosystem. I'm no rms, but I have little to no use for software that isn't OSS or FLOSS.

I did just switch from using Gnome as my primary desktop environment, back to KDE - after about 6 or 7 years of Gnome use - and I'm pretty damn happy with the current iteration of KDE. If you haven't tried it, give it a look, you may find that it's much better than you anticipated.
This interview with Ovshinsky has some interesting stuff. [1] He talks about his motivations being socially driven, his vision of how humanity can use science and technology to make our world better, how a car company reduced his 201 mile range electric car (which happened to be his very first prototype) to a 125 mile one at retail, and how it might be a bad idea to go into business with an oil company if their long term strategy is counter to yours. Neat guy.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh4KuCVlF14
If their code was so easily leaked, it's not out of the realm of possibility...
> - Tooling. Are there any good dlang IDEs with ... code completion?

The DCD utiltiy can drive the code completion for a bunch of editors/IDEs.

https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD

It works well.
Connect Four is a 7x6 board. Their board is a a 5x5, which I'm confident is an easily forced draw. False advertising!

-A connect four enthusiast
Are you wedded to Ubuntu? If not, Fedora is a pretty nice distro as well...
It's quite difficult to play perfectly, even if you study theory and openings for hours.
Where did he say anything about being less productive?
Oh someone needs to get Qualys (ssllabs) to take a look at that.
Actually I'm more productive and happier with desktop (KDE Plasma) and most of the software now: But freedom and rights are far more important to me than little differences in productivity.
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I've been converting MacOS users to Kubuntu/KXStudio for the last year and a half. Since Lion, MacOS is now less user-friendly than kubuntu overall, and their system is usually more responsive after the update.
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I switched a few months ago from Linux to OS X. The OSS desktop is not yet ready, but I believe that it can be ready in a matter of two, three years.
I know it's merely your opinion, but you seem to be using the terms "best" and "pretty" interchangeably. I find that very surprising, but maybe it's well-designed UX on Mac that you are referring to when you say "pretty"? Anyway, pretty is one of those things that I learned is worth sacrificing in favour of productivity - be that in code or when I choose my OS or tools.
Have you tried LibreOffice? It's a significant improvement.
I spent most of my professional career in windows (healthcare, IE6, etc) but personally switch to ubuntu a couple years ago as I got into development. I do find myself reaching for my work MBP when I have to do video/photo editing stuff, but otherwise, I don't see a huge difference in productivity. Switched a couple of offices to OSS for admin, and that went surprisingly well.

My cell/tablet are android, so there was no real incentive to move to Mac from a house-compatibility standpoint.
A general thanks to aphyr for exploring all of these kinds of issues in distributed datastores at a level where someone without a lot of database knowledge can understand and reason through. If anyone hasn't read his Jepsen series and is interested in these kinds of things, it is well worth a read.

Of course, I wouldn't read it if you store very important data in any of the datastores he talks about, you might be scared to learn how your system actually operates =).

P.S. - The Spanner link is broken, you have some invisible character being added to the end, gets encoded to %E2%80%8E
Use Beamer for presentations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)] and never look back!
VAT is not a 20% sales tax; it's a 20% tax over the profit the seller has over the final customer. If a seller has a 40% profit margin on a product then he pays taxes over that, not the entire cost of whatever he's selling.
> What's the best laptop for running any Ubuntu flavored desktop?

Thinkpads (the actual ones, not the cheap Ideapad-in-a-black-case-things). Of course, you don’t really save money compared to a Macbook, but the hardware appears (to me) much sturdier.