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Linux becomes more and more usable for non-technical users and has done a lot usability-wise on desktops but let's face it there's still a long way to go.

If for instance you use Ubuntu (the most popular distro for desktop), it is still plagued by bugs(and even the Long Term Support version). Have a look also at the Linux Mint forums it seems better but many users complain about buggy Cinammon. Well all in all, the desktop environments suffer of more bugs than on Windows or Mac.

Here are the reasons that keep me switching for my home PC (Ubuntu is only installed on my spare PC that I use for testing) :
- No decent Flash support. The hardware acceleration by the GPU has been disabled (no option to enable it) and when I watch videos on youtube CPU reaches 100%. There's still Chrome which has its own Flash player and it improves significantly with a CPU consumption of around 50% but still far from I got on Windows 7 between 10 and 20%...
- Battery draining : again a hot topic and mostly related to bad integration with popular graphic cards and other hardware components (wifi cards) but most people complain of reduced usage on battery (50%) compared to Windows.
- For Java developers who use Eclipse, SWT looks ugly and performs badly on Ubuntu (not tried on other distros). Swing based IDE like IntellijIDEA or Netbeans are better but they don't match their Windows counterpart.
- Ubuntu or even kernel upgrades that tend to break things like for me a webcam support.

I wish these problems were solved because as a developer I still prefer Unix based OS. It is very subjective but what has changed for me recently is that now I really find Ubuntu to be more visually appealing than Windows 8 (and same for Gnome 3.10). The login screen, the dash, software center are really nice. Even the Nautilus file manager that I used to dislike now looks really nice (now it is named Files) The desktop experience is much more "consistent" than it used to be and Ubuntu with Unity/Gnome shell and Gnome have worked hard to make the desktop user friendly and sexy.
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There are a ton of events which rival the Holocaust in horror. In fact, genocides are being committed as we speak.
Something C was missing.
I'm not sure if it is a 100% perfect analogy to real-world economics, but the best analogy is that all money you use in Starcraft is "working capital". Money in the bank only does you any good insofar as it allows you to handle unexpected emergencies, all other cash should be deployed towards your goals. Which in Starcraft would be to defeat your opponent with generating more cash as a subordinate objective, and in business would be to either make as much money as possible throughout the history of your company, or fulfill whichever goals your company has. Amazon does this by keeping low margins to discourage competition and reinvesting as much as possible.

The biggest difference between Starcraft economics and real-world economics is that Starcraft has no regular expenses or debt, so there is no way to go bankrupt. This removes a large risk element in reinvesting your money.
RSS feeds make it easier be only a reader.

If you use the Twitter user interface to read the stream, reply and post buttons are right there. If you use an RSS reader, going to twitter to post something on your own takes an extra step. Also, RSS feeds make it easier to filter out advertising posts, whereas with the official API Twitter can ban clients which introduce Adblock.

This assumes that at least some of the RSS users migrate to the official UI, instead of abandoning the platform. But it might be a reasonable tradeoff.
We definitely see people swapping for Skype, yes. We're not trying to replace it for general communication - as an internet phone Skype is excellent - but for collaboration, not so much :-)
With the benefit of hindsight, do you still think the developer experience is easier with HTML5, or was it just that you were already familiar with HTM5, but weren't familiar with the native tools?
I wish Amazon would stop subsidizing Kindle device buyers, by surcharging everyone else by $2 on ebooks - especially when that money isn't even split with the authors.

http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/amazon-hold-ba...
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Do.com shuts down, transparency and alternatives
Any plans for Android version?
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Why Java Rocks More Than Ever: Part 3 – Open-Source
That's a good point, I guess with something like that you'll never know how close you are until you get there.

Nonetheless, once we get there (and I see no reason why we shouldn't eventually - even if it's via and exact simulation of a human brain) I'll be interested to look back and see how much of what we were missing was knowledge and how much was computational capacity.
The war on terror isn't unique because it was the first war that involved an insurgency/guerrilla forces, because it wasn't. What I'm saying is that during this conflict, pretty much the entire thing has been unconventional warfare.
I also religiously believe that a flush is better than a pair in a game of poker.
I think 'scaling' in this sense has less to do with data efficiency but how to develop large-scale projects for mobile, as in efficient release cycles and how to catch bugs before they go out into the wild permanently.

I think mobile app development has lots of similarity with 'boxed' products. Microsoft invests a huge amount of money in its test infrastructure for its boxed products, because once it's shipped it's very difficult to fix. I think the mobile development community incorrectly tends to treat development more like the web than they do a boxed product. For reference, more than 15% of Facebook users are using a release from 2 years ago (I will try to find the source for this info).
GAAP book value and GAAP earnings are definitely correlated with stronger returns for shareholders. Which seems to call into question the efficient market hypothesis, but says good things about GAAP.
GopherBrowse is actually free in the AppStore. No pittance required, small or otherwise.
> Does it makes sense in the real world to assert the existence of an infinite set, and have different sizes of infinities as a consequence?

Yes it does. But I might be biased because I'm a programmer and one of my jobs is adding constraints to unsolvable problems so they become solvable in the infinite set my clients actually care about.

It's surprising how easy it is for somebody to specify a problem that is unsolvable, only for it to become solvable once you ask them what they really want.
Delirium Tremens is no laughing matter. Most alcoholics won't get it when they go through withdrawal, but those that do will very likely die without medical treatment. With modern medical treatment, the death rate is 'merely' "5 to 15%".

I don't think most people treat alcoholism as seriously as it deserves; myself included.
Depends on what you mean by "directly witness," but that's neither here nor there.

What I am proposing would not cripple mathematics, it would simply replace "axioms" with _facts_ (such as, for a simple one, that adding one unit to another results in having two units). You can then get arithematic, algebra, calculus, and on and on.

If people want to go off and define axioms for made-up worlds that do not necessarily correspond to reality and then go do math with them, that's fine. In fact, I would encourage it.

But we should not be approaching _all of mathematics_ in that way, and that is my point.

Math has the same basis in perceptual concretes (i.e. "real things") as physics, biology, chemistry, etc.
Hopefully, Navigator Extensions, NEX, will take off. http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2013/07/30/introducing-nex
Croydon isn't fashionable, I get that. So you need to be happy paying a premium for a fashionable brand. That's all this piece is about, places where there is very high demand and a limited supply are very very expensive.

I have my own 2 bedroom flat in a professional neighbourhood, no through road, so it's pretty much a private community. Paying under £700 a month on a standard variable rate mortgage (I could push it even lower switching mortgage providers).

Looking out my living room window I see trees. In winter, I have views of Caterham valley. It's quiet and peaceful. This morning just the rustle of leaves and my clock ticking away. I'm surrounded by green, rarely hear traffic, a rumble of a train every now and again down the East Grinstead line. It's everything that London is not.

So it's part of Croydon, zone 6. A choice of two train lines, decent access to London. The 40 minute commute each way is good for hacking away at a personal project, laying down foundations for next steps, bolstering/improving unit-test coverage.

Granted, front-door-to-front-door, it costs me 11 hours to do an 8 hour day, but the time outside of that is all mine, in an environment conducive to lots of thinking and reflection, and coding zones.

And earning less than colleagues doing the same role, I have a lot more disposable income as a single tech-guy working in London.

Snub Croydon if you want, but you also chose to justify market prices of North London rent. That's why London has a series of commuter belts running parallel to the train lines. There's a tradeoff of cost, time and quality of life to be made.

I quite like the southern parts of Croydon: South Croydon, Purley, Kenley, Warlingham, Caterham. Croydon has good parts and bad, both can change over time, as people living there slowly change. I'm in a once-family area that's mostly professional couples now. On the commuter belt into London.
I tried using cygwin for a while too, but I finally gave up and tossed windows out the...uh...window. The cygwin folks have made a heroic effort, but it still feels like putting lipstick on a pig.
> it would simply replace "axioms" with _facts_

You are describing physics.
Am currently just in the conceptual stages but some sort of device where you plug in a bunch of ipods and then can select a song from any of them to play as well as queuing music etc.

Is cool because at parties etc. means you don't have to continually switch ipods to put on 'That song'
I'm not particularly impressed with HTML5's developer experience compared to say QML.
99.99% where did you get the figure from? So you expect Gates to sell his shares in Microsoft, Bezos in Amazon and Musk in Tesla? Aren't they already using 100% of their money? What am I missing here?
Here you go: http://order-order.com/2012/11/26/the-guardians-offshore-sec...

GMG is selling a product. They (the owners, editors, writers) no more believe it than at McDonald's corporate HQ they live on cheeseburgers for every meal.
If you kern a monospace font it's no longer monospace (fixed width), so that seems unlikely. Maybe you mean something else?
I agree that we should start taking our values to heart, but its ridiculous to act as if the situations are remotely comparable.

First of all, if Himmler and Goebbels were hell bent on fighting to the death, they almost certainly would have been shot and killed by U.S. forces. Perhaps not though, because high-ranking German officials aren't known for blowing themselves up, so there's a much better chance of taking them alive even if they do fight back.

Another thing to consider, is that after the Germans surrendered, they largely stopped trying to kill us. They lost, and we occupied their territory in a relatively peaceful manner. The same cannot be said for Afghanistan or Pakistan, so you really can't compare the situations.
Capital expenses do not affect profits for the reporting period they happen in. It is true that after that reporting period there is a depreciation cost applied to take account of loss of value of an asset.

For example, if a company buys a distribution center, it will not expense the cost of the distribution center as an expense. But as time goes on it will expense a depreciation expense that accounts for the loss of value of the distribution center as the building gets older, less useful, etc. But buildings last for a long time, and a building with the land it is on never actually goes down to a value of zero. So not all expenses associated with the distribution center will be applied over time.

So capitalizing something definitely helps you get more income.
Can't you give back the Windows license and install Ubuntu yourself? In Turkey, companies are required by law to uninstall Windows once you buy the computer if you ask them to. They give you the money you paid for the license while buying the computer if you haven't activated your computer yet.
What is noise vs. signal is the issue at stake here. The pro-serif people will argue that the serifs provide extra features on the glyphs, so they might provide more signal. Nevertheless my intuition says you're right.
>Bullshit. That's just your own very subjective opinion of UI preferences.
>I personally [...]

You're rather rude there. I don't agree with what you said and I can say the same thing about your statement. I know plenty of people my age with Linux experience that don't use it as their primary OS precisely because of the UI. And no, they don't want to waste time on config files with a WM, they did that when they were 16-18. And BTW, I was talking about Windows 8, not 7.
This sounds like the kind of "security" feature that will show up on a criminal court case in the future -- that's why I don't like it.

Think about how easy it will be for a company to prosecute the "hacker" who was able to circumvent the security of highly-reputed LastPass to do whatever minor thing they did. LastPass uses strong cryptography and blah di blah blah, after all, so this must be a hard-core hacker who needs to be made an example of.

I understand why the feature is useful -- it's a sort-of "honesty lock" that's easy to get off, but it's obvious to the user that they're not supposed to take it off -- but LastPass should change the language around it so that non-technical users understand that regular people, non-experts, can bypass it.
> JVM Clojure is more polished.

I wouldn't say that. In this case for instance it more or less just shoves java's error message in your face, you have to translate that back into the clojure you typed beforehand.
I will bet you $100 that in ten years time, it will not be commonplace to 3D print a fully working:

* Mobile phone
* Bottle of beer
* Sweatshirt or
* Pear

What do you say?
A bit of nitpick on point 3) - it's a logarithmic scale. The difference between +10 and +5 is 148 times and between +5 and +50 it's about 3.5e+19 which should be quite doable by something as large as a galaxy...
^This. As I understand it, serifs form a horizontal channel that guide the reader through long passages of text (ie. in books, blog posts). For long lists printed vertically, sans works better because there are no serifs to interrupt the eye path. This is why bullets work well - they guide the eye vertically down the page.
In a private company you would be mostly correct. In a public one changes like these might require that you go back and fix your previous quarterly fillings -> not something that is done lightly.
Have you tried Real World Haskell, [ http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ ] if you find Learn You a bit boring?
A small but important victory
What an intel atom netbook can do with a 1Gb of Ram
I had the idea a while back, it's great to see it implemented so well!

One suggestion though, the fact that use cases are wide open could stifle growth. I'd suggest a few different landing pages you could A/B test, each covering a very specific use case.

You could have one page explain that you can save your parking spot and share it with others. Another for sharing a meetup location. Another for saving your favorite locations. Yet another (where you may win big) would be easy location saving for photo and film location scouting.
I don't know, for me Far Manager for Windows seems way more useful than Midnight Manager for Linux.
Task lists and measuring customer satisfaction?
QtCreator is great, I don't get enough chances to work with it (mostly doing C# in monodevelop).

VS has really annoyed me lately when I've had to hop into windows. Way too much "waiting for background task to complete" stuff going on.
Please critique my launch page for Flourcast
This sounds pretty cool. Would the hardware be open source so that other people can build their own?
I'll set up domain forwarding correctly soon so ignore the oddity.
"Name Charizard, Types fire/flying, electric 2x rock 4x water 2x" etc. don't at all sound like "facts" to me. They seem to be the core of an individual pokemon, they are what makes that pokemon a unique creative work. This sounds more like publishing the chords of a song, it's melody and lyrics, but not using the cover art.

Anyway, the fact that there's even a discussion about this is proof enough that apple did good to reject the app. It's not apple's job to have a team of lawyers review apps with regard to the intricacies of copyright law.
Hmm, that's gonna be tough. I find the Wordpress+GetPrismatic or even Disqus kind of combination quite competitive to get traffic, and in a tech area, as I said, there are lots of great syndicators. I agree that your USP is subtly better though. Are you already profitable?

Also, why did you call it Sett? The metaphor isn't very obvious from your website.

And you should think of a better headline. Here's a good article: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/ultimate-home-page-headline/
"_facts_ (such as, for a simple one, that adding one unit to another results in having two units)"

That is not a fact, that is just a consequence of certain sets of axioms, but not of others. It is patently wrong for addition in GF2, where adding one unit to another results in having zero units.
I'm learning ye ol' C as well. I usually concentrate on pure C, and try not to rely too much on libs. But your post got me thinking.

"I'm developing on Linux and Mac (I use homebrew)." I don't know about Mac, but at least you're on Linux, I found C on Windows to be more annoying.

IMO, the ideology behind C expects you to do more of the code by yourself, especially regarding the infrastructure. As an example, a few months ago I typed up a program to compute the square root of two without using <math.h>.

I'm at the point where I rely less on books or stinkoverflow and read other people's code. It might be an idea to look at what libraries other coders use. Right now I'm snooping around github.
What does your site have that Deviantart does not fulfill?
Yes - I decode a raw stream in a thread using OMX. I don't need sound so I don't have to worry about a demux library, it's just a raw H264 stream I hand off to the hardware.
As a long time pandas user, I'd say this is one of the better write-ups I've seen that illustrates the versatility and functions of the Series and DataFrame objects without being too long winded.

Just one thing to point out regarding the final example: read_csv will actually fetch a URL if it's given as input, so there is no need to use urllib2 and StringIO. Instead, you can just do:

from_url = pd.read_csv('http://www.example.com/data.tsv', sep='\t')
Wasn't meaning to imply that, he's not stupid in the least. What I was impressed with was the initiative, as many users are afraid to make a change like that on their own.
This will get lost in the rest of the comments here, and the article was comprehensive, but:

A friend of mine just got back from Treasure Island (she works as a stewardess on millionaires boats), and hung out with a lot of the guys working on this. This is definitely Google's doing, and she was told that it is indeed a data-centre, but that's all the info she got.
What's the difference between your "fact" and an "axiom"? It seems to be the same thing: a starting point from which you derive everything else.
If you need to try that again have a look at Mint XFCE, I run version 15 on a 1.4Ghz Celeron-M with 1.25Gb RAM and it is usable for surfing and writing (it's an old Thinkpad R50 and the keyboard on it is so much better than my i5/16Gb Vostro that I often use it for longer documentation).
I think you're confusing aesthetics with usability/experience.
shameless plug http://bliker.github.io/cmder/ Not really that bad
I experimented with using cfgs in a code editor before but with the aim of making it easier to code on touch screen devices where curly braces and the like are difficult to type. Here's a prototype I started for writing Json.
http://nathanathan.com/cfg-gen/
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You know it is possible to use windows without a mouse? I make a living cutting .net code in Visual Studio sans toolbars/designer windows, we're not all as inept as this thread makes us out to be. Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but many unix tools have been ported to windows.
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I stopped reading when he implied that projective geometry is a wonderful game. My last party ended up with me defeated and crying.
> I figured that, this way, at least I could fix any of their computer problems remotely (over ssh), instead of helping with Windows on the phone.

Why did you not set up Windows to be able to do the same thing?
Nice. I think the price you're charging for the shirts is overall quite reasonable. Keep it up, ill keep my eye on the kickstarter.
At work, I threw arch on an old-ass laptop we had sitting around, and then installed steam and portal, hooked it up to the office TV and then had to sit there a minute to marvel at the fact that it all just worked. Never would have predicted that a decade+ ago.
As this is not Facebook, I have a hard time understanding why your feelings matter.
To make matters worse, that "dance" comment had close to nothing to do with what he was saying, making your -and my- comment an utter waste of thread-space.
Developers vs Developers
A couple of important distinctions between axioms and beliefs:

1) axioms are assumed to be logically consistent with each other, at least when the word "axiom" is understood strictly; it's possible that someone may believe two things that are inconsistent with each other

2) belief is an involuntary mental acceptance that a particular claim is true. You can't make yourself believe something that you know to be false
Agreed in that few people treat it with the seriousness it deserves. In fact it's almost a joke for many people - "haha, I'm such an alcoholic" etc. I'm sure if they'd ever seen the real effects of alcoholism they'd think twice about throwing terms like that around.

I drink a decent amount of beer and wine so I'm pretty far from tee-total, but misusing the term "alcoholism" bugs me a great deal.
Sure, but so will finding an appropriate cable landing site, getting a mini-substation built near that landing site, etc.

Cable landing is a hard problem.
AWS instance was scheduled for retirement
If you are hosting on cloud, you must automate everything.
> Right now I'm snooping around github.

I just spent an hour doing the same! I did see ccan on the front page here, that has some great snippets in it.

> IMO, the ideology behind C expects you to do more of the code by yourself, especially regarding the infrastructure.

See, I agree with you here, that's why I asked whether my mindset was wrong perhaps. The thing is though, I come from other languages where reinventing the wheel is seen as a really dumb idea, but perhaps in C it is the right way to go? I'm honestly not sure!

Cheers for the reply, it made me feel less lost ;)