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I've been lurking on HN for 4+ years, don't comment, and have only 3 karma. I'm breaking radio silence to say I've just purchased your book and very much look forward to reading it in full. From what I've skimmed this really meshes well with a direction I have been trending in myself and I just wanted to give you a vote of confidence and congratulations on getting the book out into the wild. I hope you are not too put off by the reactionary backlash here on HN. For a site ostensibly about new tech perspectives, I find the commenting culture of this site often puzzling.
I've always thought Portland, ME was an incredible city. Just curious - what made you choose there (especially coming from NYC)?
What is the tech scene like?
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Isn't that like claiming individual permissions pop-ups are working just fine on mobile devices, because people are carefully and individually considering whether each given app needs each requested permission?

If some autofill feature starts training users to click "Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok, whatever, just Ok!" any time they sign up for some account or site feature, how long until masses are unwittingly sending along way more data than any sober assessment suggests they ought to and we're shrugging our shoulders and saying "well, the site asked..."
The company's duty is to maximize the value of its shareholder's holdings in the company (i.e., stock). This can be done by maximizing profitability (see, e.g., Caterpillar, most publicly traded companies), but it can also be done through growth (i.e., Amazon, most startups) at the expense of maximized profitability.

It's easier to maximize profitability than it is to maximize growth. This is why more companies pursue the first path.
No one said the Ubuntu community is a meritocracy.
What a nice bunch of kids... I hope they find a business model someday.

All snark aside -- If I were a NYC Ruby guy, my main reservation is that it feels like a road to nowhere. If you want me to join a cult, give me something more than "trust us because A15Z gave us $15M".
On the other hand, you get to work with these people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo
That's a bummer. It sucks when someone is driven out
of a community by the behavior of others. :-(

Sadly, this isn't unheard of in the F/OSS world, and this isn't the first time something like this has happened. Even more sadly, it probably won't be the last.
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The sample chapter really drives home what I dislike about Zen. It's taking this cute little ego thing and trying to lure it into a trap. Hah! That'll show it. Cut off its tail! Clever!

Rather, I prefer the more direct Advaita Vedanta approach: quickly smother it with napalm.
I am very much rooting for Wayland. It is going to bring features like screen/tmux to graphical programs. Nothing like going to work at home mid day and attaching to the individual programs that you had running on your other machine. This is the reason I currently use terminal programs instead of X ones. Doesn't sound like Mir is providing more over Wayland than just including input, which arguably could be provided outside of the server itself.
>Atmospheric? Sure. Hypersonic? Why?

These are to augment current capabilities, especially if there's escalation of hostilities. If there's a conflict in the Pacific, we cant rely on having our forward air bases. Most likely these will be launched from domestic locations and ingress/egress time will have a large impact on total coverage time.
11 digits and 11 digits are the same order of magnitude, at least.
I don't know how you can expect to keep a neutral tone when equating this to war. That is striking an incendiary tone from the beginning.

Releasing Android was not an "attack". It was entering a market with a competitive product. The fact that Google was able to leverage new methods and resources (open source and the continued evolving of the Linux kernel) to reduce the cost of their offering (to the point of changing where revenue is generated in the product) is a normal market behavior. Pooling monopolistic grants and abusing the legal system to thwart market behavior is not something I think we should condone, regardless of how much the other companies felt under attack.
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Seems very similar to the Pier 57 container-built floating mall/exhibit space/tourist destination under development in NYC. I wonder if the same developer (Youngwoo & Associates) is involved?

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-pier-57-incubox-shipping-contai...
Well, I naively continue to expect rationality and solutions on HN including the solution to these VC shenanigans.
Nothing beats real-world experience. My advice, try to build an app that's relevant to your interests or goals. Automating things you'd normally do could be a good starting point. Think of a particular feature you've required in the past and build something that does it. If you're unsure of what to do, try cloning something that is open source. That way, you can consult, and learn from the original source as your develop your solution. Good luck.
Plus in some companies it's very hard to advance, so it's crucial with which position you start.

There are cases where people go from one company (A) to another (B), and then after some time get back at A and get a better position. If they stayed at the same company the whole time they wouldn't be able to do that.
But is that also the same Lockheed Martin that's destroying the future US airpower with that stupid JSF idea?
Going a bit Bill Lee there.
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I use Ubuntu on my desktop and have sent a number of patches to them and their upstreams when I encountered problems.

One thing about Ubuntu is that, if you put Android to one side (Android basically uses the Linux kernel, but does not use things such as libc etc.), Ubuntu is the largest Linux desktop by far. Wikipedia web logs show them coming at 77 times the number of their nearest competitor, Fedora ( http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOpera... ).

Combine this massive user base, which often is not of the traditional Unix user background, with its automated bug report tools like apport, and traditional bug reporting trouble ticket web sites like Launchpad, and you have a massive exposure of the traditional Linux/X/fdo/Gnome ecosystem to users. Which means many of the "eyeballs for bugs" can, and sometimes does, come from Ubuntu. I have mostly looked at the evince/poppler/cairo applications and dependencies, and it seems to me that far more bugs are discovered on Ubuntu than in any of the other distro bug trouble ticket systems. If apport reports were more carefully maintained, that number would increase by some multiple.

I have also noticed that Canonical is good for patching bugs reported anywhere on Ubuntu. For example, if a patch or bug report is languishing in the Debian trouble ticket system, Ubuntu will sometimes grab it and apply it to Ubuntu. So reported unfixed bugs in Debian, with patches languishing in its trouble ticket system, will be patched in Ubuntu. For example, this ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570904 ) bug report was never touched by any Debian developer, but it was patched downstream on Ubuntu.

The thing about Ubuntu is it seems to have bad relations with so many of its upstreams in the FLOSS community. Linux. X. Gnome. Debian. Banshee. And I guess in this specific case KDE.

It is too bad that things are not working more smoothly, where the massive user base exposing bugs is not flowing upstream more smoothly, and making Linux, Debian, Gnome better products. However much Ubuntu forks things, it is still very dependent on these upstreams, Gnome included. Yes, Gnome included - take a close look, Unity changes some things, but there are still tons of dependencies on Gnome.

And Ubuntu really is dependent on the FLOSS community. When Ubuntu finds a massive fd.o or Gnome bug, it tends to get patched quickly. The entire ecosystem of all distros is looking at it. I have seen a lot of Unity only bugs languish. Basically, 99% of them have to be fixed by a Canonical engineer. Usually this does not happen, even if it is a major bug you sometimes have to wait a long time. Ubuntu has the user base but it does not have the developer base.
That's nice! Duedil has already offered these records for free, but it's nice to see the government catching up.
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Saw this on /r/SideProject. Excellent work.
If patents are granted to drive innovation, how is Rockstar encouraging that in this case?
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon did: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubu...
Well, that actually makes more sense to me, I was wondering how exactly they planned to get a datacenter's worth of bandwidth out to a ship. Sure, you could run a cable when you're in port, but the rest of the time your datacenter gets to enjoy satellite networking, yay!
Unfortunately Mark Shuttleworth didn't stick with a proper decision not to create a rift: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551

> We considered and spoke with several proprietary options, on the basis that they might be persuaded to open source their work for a new push, and we evaluated the cost of building a new display manager, informed by the lessons learned in Wayland. We came to the conclusion that any such effort would only create a hard split in the world which wasn’t worth the cost of having done it. There are issues with Wayland, but they seem to be solvable, we’d rather be part of solving them than chasing a better alternative. So Wayland it is.

I still don't understand what made him change his mind completely and disregard all the problems, which the rift created by Mir would cause.

Bothering others to support Mir would be a common occurrence now and a direct consequence of this completely unnecessary "hard split". And it's unacceptable to bug people constantly when they say they aren't interested in that support.
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I'm now way more hipster just from reading their jobs page.
I had thought about that myself, but this is only leaking email address. I publish publicly anyway. It's not asking for CCN, or any other "secret" data.
Is it just me or are all those annotated links super confusing? I tried clicking on their jobs page link, but it just gave me this slow loading pop up thing with zero helpful or related info. Cool idea on the $1k though.
Right, but obviously his ethics and your ethics do not match.
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I guess I don't understand the blink reference
[ Giving away Android for free was a direct attack on Microsoft's and Apple's business model. They are simply responding in kind.]

So Google Entered a new Market with good product and different business model, MSFT and AAPL responded with litigation.
Thanks for making it obvious.
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I do know that they have Conal Elliot and that he's been exploring compiling Haskell to their space time architecture. Though I gather that's still a ways off from being for general consumption
Got it now - thanks :)
It needs them but then insults them? Ok, I got it now :)
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Not just you. I wanted to see the jobs page and failed.

Doesn't take brilliant to fix that...
I don't know. I am not sure what to think about that situation.

The attacks were not really that ad hominem. While I see Martins point with the technical reasons and why that annoys him if political reasoning gets accused, his technical reasons are more grounded on policy, and the step from (technically founded) policy to politics is not that far, especially if you are someone who is convinced that your new solutions for something is great and want to see it adopted, which could be Shuttleworths position. And reactions like Intels sabotage is probably not something that is easy to accept with a smile.

And I don't think that you have to apologize for the effect of your actions, but for your mistakes. So it's not necessarily about how Martin feels, but about what Mark said - if that was indeed wrong, for every aspect of wrong. I didn't like his language comment, that was harsh and targeted against foreign speakers.

Also, there were always clashes between Ubuntu/Canonical and Kubuntu/KDE. I don't see behind the curtains, I have no overview who behaves how when they interact directly. But the language barrier and the cultural differences (isn't KDE still a bit german influenced?), and the question who holds the power, makes the situation probably prone to issues like these.

Finally, I don't think it is possible to judge about the technical aspect of the whole discussion without being familiar with the code of those projects, so it's hard to take sides based on that.

I should probably add: I was a team member ubuntuusers.de, the german ubuntu support forum Martin mentions in his post, and remember him a bit from then. This leads to a bit of sympathy, but that was years ago and details are gone, and I parted on bad terms with that team (I hope that expression fits here). So I am always not sure in which direction my history with the Ubuntu community influences my judgement of such situations. Grain of Salt and stuff.
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I agree completely, I didn't intend to argue that this particular plane or one like it is necessary (especially as I haven't managed to read the linked article yet!), but that satellites alone are not sufficient and some form of atmospheric craft still has value at the moment.

Interestingly they were already experimenting with drones back when they were flying the Blackbird - I wonder how good they are now?
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Interestingly enough, there are a few books that are new but can command a decent price for such a new book. For example, a first edition printing of Saga #1 which is just a couple of years old can fetch $75 or so, with a $4 cover price. It really has a lot to do with the creators of the book, and the number of issues printed during that first run.

The 90's killed much of the comic book collecting market. Marvel and DC fed speculators hunger for variant covers, limited editions and multiple lines of books with the same characters.

I can remember going to a comic book store in the early 90s when the Death of Superman issue came out, hoping to snag one of the coveted issues sporting an all black bag with a bloody S on the front. My 8 year old self was basically laughed out the door, saying they'd all be bought up or were selling for multiples of the cover price. That really killed a lot of my spirit for collecting. I just recently got back into comics, but purely for the enjoyment of reading them, so I buy digitally nearly 100% of the time.

Digital comics are interesting, they remove the speculating, collecting and coveting of comics for some perceived monetary value and put the content front and center, which is where it should be.
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Wow and here I thought that passing a "Tech Interview" just got you a job offer. Now I learn that this company, unlike every other company full of geniuses, is impossible to join. Makes me want to join them even more!

Reminds me of this other company that called me up out of the blue and said "We're only looking for Rockstars. Are you a Rockstar?" That also made me want to join that company in a heart beat. So many choices...