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I had hopes that Steam Machines may leverage Linux to consumers but trying to configure my father's Linux machine to his needs brought me back to reality.

I don't see why. A Steam Machine would solve exactly the problem you point out: it would set a fixed configuration that developers could target. Then other distros would have to adapt themselves if they wanted to run those games, and not the other way around.
That would require you to listen to and chart out these 6 mediocre songs. I wouldn't ask you to do that. You've got a music background, I take it?
I've actually went to the Wikipedia to look up, who the creator of Io was. :)

No, seriously, thank you for creating it. Although I hadn't had the chance to use it in production (most of my stuff is just numerical), Io is an incredibly enlightening language.
If you use mutiple Logitech keyboards/mice in an office, chances are high someone else is controlling your mouse/keyboard input.
This is absurd!
It's fun to work in a more fun workplace! Things to do and see gets off some of the stress and load you know.
The engine is proprietary, stefantalpalaru couldn't "take up the flag" even if (s)he wanted.
If this is all there is to the story it's quite disgusting from Google.
Worst for him.

I personally feel that C & C++ develop on Windows is ANAL.
Installing libs and detecting isntalled libs, it's very problematic, when on my GNU/Linux desktop I only need to do a :
sudo apt-get XXX
or
git clone XXX & make & sudo make install
If a programmer cannot understand Linux then the programmer is a fraudster.
omg, you're right.
Security needs to be considered here too... I hope they considered that.
Bitcoin just dropped $50, Coindesk price as I write this is is $226.20
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I havent gone through the rest of the FAQs but so far they've got my questions covered.
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A couple of immediate findings visiting forecast.io on my phone just now:

1. It defaults to my ISP's location 400 miles away in London, which is understandable but doesn't give me an obvious way to correct it. Can't select my city shown on the map or enter coordinates.

2. Despite guessing that I am in the UK it defaults its temperatures to Fahrenheit, which is utterly alien to Europeans.

10 mins later: still stuck on London.
There was one actually recently. Wrong bignum square in OpenSSL CVE-2014-3570, which caused quite a stir with Bitcoin Core. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2rrxq7/on_why_010s...
That's actually kind of awesome.
With Microsoft and Windows 10 having an App Store will certainly cause Steam OS to continue to Develop. The longer it is being baked the better it will be in the end.

Certainly people still need the need for Linux as an alternative to Windows and I have so little hope that OS X users would also see the need. Looking at you HTF+.
Edit: actually this is wrong: the Guardian and Independent (left) have published, Sun, Times Telegraph and Mail (right) have not.

Original: it's also worth noting that all the UK newspapers, from both sides of politics, have republished the relevant cover.
Further below in the post, Debuggex and similar tools are discussed as well.

Regarding the visuals, RegViz can be considered as something between Debuggex and traditional plain-text tools.
A 138 Year old bridge that is supported by 4, 100 feet wells
They are a huge publicly traded corporation and you expected different?
It stinks for the user. It's way better for developers who aren't into having their software pirated though. Which in the end is better for the users.
Well all of the 50+ people I know using linux everyday including myself, most of them as their major OS, have encountered these type of issues where you lose huge amounts of time trying to get something rather trivial to work. While your claim "It's between chair and keyboard" aka "yeah that's because they don't know how to do it" is of course perfectly valid, the reason the problem exists in the first place is usually elsewhere.

That being said, my last Debian install was pretty much effortless. But I seem to have a machine with which most Linux distors are quite happy :]
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Samsung is interesting here. they still make their phones with removable backs. Thus third parties can offer larger batteries and replaceable backs. And I seem to recall a claim that in SK Samsung sell their phones with two batteries in the box. One small for "style" and one large for endurance.
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See this story and the similar tales in the comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243627
Speaking on Today, [Omer el-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain] said causing offence “just for the purpose of offending” was not freedom of speech.

Distancing yourself from the extremists [FAIL]
apt-get also only works extremely well for FOSS releases. If something is closed source (reality check) the developer will need to maintain the a build for each distro+release. The user will also need to add that apt repo and click through Linux's warnings about that.

> What a pity they've decided to take a political position rather than a technological one.

Ironically, it's the political (rather: religious) position of Linux that is getting in the way here. If you're not looking through the rosey colored RMS glasses it's very clear that the dev has taken the practical position.

Don't get me wrong, I wish it was different. Linux has amazing potential, but it unrealistically hostile toward these guys. Maybe SteamOS will bring some uniformity to the situation.
I agree that I don't need more than a day of battery life, but I don't agree that i'm getting that now with my iPhone 5S. I'm OK on a day when I'm near a plug a couple of hours through the day, but a day when I'm out, or traveling, or somewhere where the coverage is less than perfect, I need to make sure I bring an external battery with me.
Fits in nicely with Paul Graham's story not to talk to corp dev at all.

Still, I find myself hoping that someone did turn up on April 9.
I'm with you - been running Linux since those days too, and I also think that the problem is entirely political in this case - he's already admitted that its not for any problem with the Linux host for C4 in particular, just that he's a frustrated Linux desktop user and wants nothing to do with Linux. But the Linux support is there and the C4 engine works on it .. so this is more of a political rant than anything else.
slightly OT , but for those who like this look, Voxatron (http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php) is still a thing. It's morphed from a robotron-y sort of thing to a sort of "fantasy console" (that has a robotron game as an example). It's a fascinating experiment, and the development track is all listed out in the site already.
> Warning: this article contains the image of the magazine cover, which some may find offensive.

It's the first time I've seen something like this on Guardian; I don't even remember it on articles discussing rape, murder or such, which is usually where "trigger warning" applies.

Personally, I find such trigger warnings, and especially "you might be offended" warnings, totally ridiculous. What about me? I find such warnings an insult to my intelligence and a trivialization of people's personal responsibility, where is my warning?
He was training to be a doctor. One of those who takes the Hippocratic Oath to essentially "First do no harm". I expect more from doctors (and nurses; my mom was an RN, and I was close to some doctors for social and business reasons when I was in middle and high school).

It's the false affidavit that makes this crystal clear to me. He knew the situation was a lot worse than he stated in it---and note that at least as this article is framed, he allowed himself to be silenced.
Great story. Thanks for the morning inspiration.
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I'm sure the Wednesday issue will sell out in no time, despite its edition of 3 million, and become a "collector's piece" for those opposing terrorism and violence (as well as for those who want to resell it on Ebay for a profit ;)).

I really admire the courage of the Charlie Hebdo staff, who, just one week after the attack, publish a new issue of their journal.

For me, the main problem now is how we deal with the political consequences of this tragedy: Many politicians already bring themselves in position to create new laws that will allow them even more wiretapping and surveillance. British prime minister David Cameron was arguably one of the first here, as in his recent speech he even puts in question the right of anyone (terrorists included) to communicate in private [1]. Other politicians from (mostly) right-wing parties all over Europe are seizing this opportunity as well and demand stricter anti-terror laws and more government surveillance. I think we need to be very watchful now if we don't wanna loose even more of our democratic freedoms for the sake (or the illusion) of more security.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/12/david-cameron...
Just because someone doesn't take your side in debate does not necessarily mean they took some other non affiliated point of view.
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I used to think society would, at some point, grow up and leave religion behind.

But lately, it just feels like a far 'lower' form of religion is just taking over. I think that western christianity has made some big strides. For example, by leaving all the violence behind.

Now the violent ones are winning. This makes me sad for the future of Europe.
The answer to this developer's install problems are a VMWare virtual machine running on his usual Windows setup. By his own account his actual Linux code works just fine - the only thing that was in his way was his inability to install the OS in the first place. It seems a shame to throw out all that working code over such a trivial & easily solvable problem.

Wrestling with weird stability problems (which might be a hardware fault, might be buggy display drivers, who knows?) for weeks on end before flouncing out stage right promising never to return is the mark of someone who hasn't really thought things through.
Piracy is rampant on jailbroken iOS devices.
I don't think that's particularly wishful thinking, however, your alternative phrasing could be seen as equally, if not more, leading.

When quizzed on the behaviour of a C program I would expect a careful and experienced C programmer to consider the behaviour described by the standard (which standard?); unspecified and implementation defined behaviours; and deviations from the standard in both the compiler and the environment. Often I'd expect the answer to be "it depends".
Much better than expected: It's defiance and almost turning the other cheek at the same time.
I live in Greece and I would buy one, if I could. I guess whatever the number (even 10 mil copies) will be (or better say) should be sold.
And it makes things worse. The idea that you have to tiptoe and thought police yourself around some group of people is sure way to antagonize part of the society against that group.
It's true, but how can you blame them? Even "reputable" sources like the official Java updater and many others attempt to install crapware.

I consider myself reasonably savvy and even I get tricked to install crap on windows if I'm not 100% attentive when installing software.

The other day I was setting up a brand new windows machine. I wanted to download chrome so I boot up internet explorer, end up at the bing home page and search for "chrome".

I've just tried again just now, here's what I end up with: https://i.imgur.com/1fTyQXI.png

You'll notice the first ad has a green URL pointing to google.com, seems legit enough right? Wrong, if you click it you end up on some other URL.

I didn't pay attention to that and actually ended up downloading the installer on that webpage, thankfully I realized something was wrong when the actual setup wizard looked weird. I still ran it though, and with administrator privileges, so I'm basically already dead.

This is me, all tech savvy and yet I fucked up with the first thing I attempted to install on a fresh windows.

After that I wanted a PDF reader. Adobe being completely crap I googled for alternatives and found many recommendations for "foxit". I download and install it: it tries to install a bunch of third party "cloud" services and prompts you to subscribe to third party services basically everywhere on the UI. I just wanted a bloody PDF reader... That's the state of "free" software on windows in 2015.

At that point you just can't blame the user, Microsoft should have done something about that issue at least a decade ago.
They get royalties from the MFi program (that "Made for iPhone" logo)
If the article had images that would cause offense or distress then yes it would carry such a warning. Normal practice, I have seen it many times, mainly for scenes depicting the aftermath of violence. Or even scenes of the meat industry.
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Orthodox folk - Christians, Jews, and Muslims - generally believe that secular folk aren't religious at all. I know a whole bunch of Christians who's idea of god is 'life and family' and, despite attending church and believing that Jesus was real, don't believe in an all-powerful creator with human characteristics.

Secularism is now so secular that the only religious people you hear about are the orthodox ones.
I have always thought that the offence was in the eye of the offended.

If something drawn by a human can disturb a person's inner world so much - the problem is his and not the artists'
It's not just market forces at work.

It's also about awful marketing. If app devs (and the devs running the app stores, for that matter) knew a thing or three about marketing and sales, this race to the bottom wouldn't be occurring -- or at least not as fast.
independent websites that use PayPal downloads and license keys

As of 1 Jan this is now economically infeasible in the EU (see "VATMOSS").
This was discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8870456
Winning, how?
> Personally, I find such trigger warnings, and especially "you might be offended" warnings, totally ridiculous. What about me? I find such warnings an insult to my intelligence and a trivialization of people's personal responsibility, where is my warning?

I agree wholeheartedly.

They may have decided to preface their article with this message because they feared retaliation by zealous Muslims who would not otherwise expect to see a depiction of Muhammad in the Guardian.

I don't think it detracts any from the content of the reporting, though.

# On topic #

There are two possible extremes to consider:

1. A world in which any idea or custom is subject to criticism. Nothing is sacred. We can criticize, laugh at, depict, and mock anything that anyone believes. Publicly. Without fear of violence.

2. A world in which NO idea or custom is subject to criticism. Everything is sacred. Do not criticize, laugh at, depict, or mock anything that anyone believes.

My problem with religious extremists is that they, in general, seem to want World #2 for themselves and World #1 for everyone else. I'm more of a "World #1 for everyone" sort of person, and you're free to mock me for that if you'd like.
I think the French people and most of the world has reacted in an admirable way after this attacks. Showing no fear and Charlie, showing that they are going to keep up, doing what they do, because it's right.

The world has to be very careful with how many governments are going to use this attacks as an opportunity to empower mass surveillance and other policies that will affect general people privacy.

Still, I'm happy about how the French people have handled this horrible situation.
If only the governments wouldn't use this "attack on free speech" to umm...restrict free speech. If the terrorists change your way of life, they've won. I thought the whole point of the march was to say that "We are not afraid! And we'll continue to be just as free as ever! Your violence will not scare us!" - and so on.

But nope. Apparently what it meant is that we need more censorship and self-censorship caused by increased and more intrusive mass surveillance:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-answer-to-terror-attack...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-it-means-to-stan...

If the alternative to once in a while terrorist attacks is turning every democracy into Russia or China, then I'd rather stick with the risk of terrorism.
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I'm rather curious why this depiction is considered to be that of the prophet Muhammad. Is it said so somewhere in their paper, or do we all just accept whatever interpretation is handed down to us by the fundamentalists?
Yes, there are similar sites to watho right now.

But we want to go a step further and create something to make job searching easier to applicants and companies.

And yes, I know that without Javascript my site doesn´t work. It´s because we are using Meteor which is a new Javascript Single Page Application Framework.
> And you can say any ol' thing to an adult and it's always fine, right?

Yep.

> You must be loads of fun to work with, live with, or otherwise interact with in any way.

I dunno, I'm too self-centered to think about that.
The search box from here [0] doesn't work.

EDIT: Firefox 32.0 running on Debian, Javascript enabled.

[0] http://www.watho.net/#!job_search_results/python
Windows 8 DOES have an App Store.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/apps-windows-st...

Edit: it was already pointed out by mxfh.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8878945
Well to be fair, the difference is subtle and depends where you put the emphasis.

From Microsoft it is a malicious software removal tool.

From just about anyone else it is a malicious software removal tool.
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One could argue that he did, indirectly. Freedom of speech means exactly that - the freedom to say whatever you want, within the margins allowed by the law, regardless of how it could be perceived by some specific group of people. Somebody is always going to be offended, I think el-Hamdoon missed the whole point.

What he could have said instead, but didn't, is this: "While I find the cover disgusting, freedom of speech protects their right to publish this, and they should not fear for their lives because of it."
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Western Christianity certainly haven't left violence behind. Just take the christian terrorist Anders Brevik who killed 80 people in Norway.
As the article points out, this is essentially the only viable move for Charlie Hebdo. To have so often depicted Muhammad in the past, have most of their staff killed for it, become the focus of a worldwide movement that promises not to be intimidated or cowed by terrorism, and then not publish Muhammad in the next issue? An admission of complete defeat.

That said, bravo.
Looks awesome! I will definitely look for it when it is available.

A suggestion: I actually had to re-watch the video to see how the player was losing life. A reduced collision area so the enemies actually have to appear to touch you, and some more visual / audio feedback of a collision with the player would be really helpful.
The article and many peoples reaction comes across as if these two 'individuals' actually represented the Muslim community. This is quite obviously not the case if it is looked at objectively.

And to say that somehow the Muslim community must bear responsibility for the individuals actions is like saying that all the people of France must bear responsibility for every wrong committed in their neighbourhood, or their city, or by their government, were those wrongs not commit by French men and women.
I still think it's bad. In the way that it teaches people that bundling software in installers is something legitimate companies do and therefore makes the general public less skeptical about stuff like this
Nope, what he found was very clear, enough that he felt compelled to remove his name from all that the laboratory was doing, in part to protect his reputation, and to completely abandon this attempt at his 3rd year in med school with no guarantee he'd get funding for a retry. He outlined this in a 3 page document that other uninvolved scientists have found very impressive, and that is clearly, along with his depositions providing a major foundation for the current legal case(s) (Duke has big pockets and very dirty hands, this is not going to end well for them). He was being very certain in my book.

There's also the responses of the PI and the PI's mentor. A real scientist doesn't take such questions as "a personal insult" as the now almost completely disgraced PI did (state medical boards that are desperate like North Dakota will still license the PI as a doctor, at last count). The PI's mentor wasn't that sort of unprofessional, but the article says he didn't respond well to this. Note also one of the Duke higher ups, apparently unprompted, introduced the word "misconduct" in all this.

If you're going to be a "life and death doctor" as I put it, for him one of the harshest examples of that, oncology, you're going to be making a lot of decisions that patients lives hinge on. A degree of certainty and decisiveness, what some call doctors' "God Complex", is required. I judge that he was sufficiently certain in his judgement of the research, and its implications for patients being treated based on it at the time. It's that last bit that I believe requires you to go above and beyond in determining if you're correct or not, and then doing what's right for the patients.
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The religious instinct hasn't gone from the secular western world, it's just been re-expressed in different more modern ways, variously consumerism, string theory, celebrity, and so on.

I'm pretty sure personally that it's built into our biology. In the words of Charlie Brooker:

"Imagine! Nothing to kill or die for! And no religion too! It's amazing, literally no one's ever had that thought before.

Okay, so there's always the possibility that the same part of the brain that handles fuzzy spiritual feelings is the same part that handles love and sorrow and pity and joy; the same part that makes us create songs and jokes and books and art and brightly coloured computer games in which an animated weasel collects starfish in a fountain; so once we wipe it out we might all be left scampering around the planet like thick, bipedal, cultureless mice - rutting, foraging, scratching behind our ears and doing very little else. But look on the bright side. No more religious conflict AND no more novelty ringtones. Two almighty evils erased for the price of one. Bargain."
Doesn't surprise me, since none been officially released yet.
Interesting. Do you have any more information about that scheme?
Western christianity didn't leave all violence behind, see for example anti-abortion violence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#United_S...
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