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> Seems to me Windows is a perfectly open enough OS to act as a platform for tinkering and learning about computers.

Maybe, but Linux just seems more convenient. I mean, can you install gcc, golang, nodejs, python, ruby, ghc, lua (...) on windows with a single command? And all the other tools you might want to use, like editors, databases?

And you will never know if they want to do kernel-level coding if they don't have access to the kernel.
For hardcore nerds like yourself there will still be Linux. I don't see it as an ominous development. And for old stick-in-the-mud people who never got into Linux like me, this could make doing stuff with a RPi much easier. (Edit: btw I'm using "hardcore nerd" as a compliment).
Probably. Their account was created 9 days ago and has only a few comments under it, none of which are meaningful in any sense. They're either a troll or an account owned by an Astroturf network.
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You could read this forum (if you can read russian or ok with automatic translation) http://zx-pk.ru/showthread.php?t=23349&page=4#postmenu_71167...
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When introducing kids to programming in a classroom environment, hacking the Linux kernel is a completely OTT scenario. And Linux will still be available and probably the most popular OS to be installed on RPis, for those kids who are the next Linus Torvalds.
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Open or not... I want a working DSI or I'll go with something else with eDP.
Apparently "IoT" means "Internet of Things" ("Windows Developer Program for IoT").

Is this a wildly recognized acronym so that it doesn't even need a footnote? (In a Sans Serif font you can't even tell if the first letter is an i or an l; it's really bad).
I was originally against ad-blockers, because it provides me with an incentive to look for alternatives and I also want to reward websites that don't do this shit.

However, it's because of scams and malware pushed by means of ads that I started using ad-blockers myself and I recommend it to all my non-technical friends.

It's also the reason for why on my Android I'm now using Firefox. For Google to not provide at least a glimpse of a plan for Chrome's add-ons support on Android is unacceptable, for one because I now expect my browser to have add-ons support and I originally started using Chrome based on this expectation and because on mobile these websites are even more aggressive in pushing their ads. And with Firefox I can use AdBlock Plus on my Android, with uBlock coming soon.
I am in computing now because someone put Linux on my laptop when I was 11, I don't think I would have ever really thought about it otherwise.

It's not necessarily that I could look at the source of the kernel (I didn't), it's far more the philosophy of the OS as a whole meaning that I could tinker with whatever I wanted, pull apart components and see how it broke, dive as deep as I wanted into any area of the system.

A Linux system is far more openly composed even when you're not at the source level, Windows is comparatively a black box. A value of Linux is teaching people how computer systems are put together and function, it is unequivocally better at this than Windows.

I don't hate Windows either, but I do think that Linux aligns itself far better with the RPi's mission statement.
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It is irrelevant whether they can or not.

The FDA and other health agencies have made it crystal clear that these devices are allowed to provide health guidance only and not be used for anything critical to life.

If someone bought the watch for this feature and it didn't work Apple would be in serious trouble.
Clue have an amazing team, mission and product. If you want to do something useful instead of selling more ad inventory, I would look into joining them.

And Berlin is a great place to live.
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I think you overestimate the need for access to the OS for learning things. The cracking scene, demoscene and games industry was almost exclusively built on Windows. A lot of that was just as, if not more, advanced as what a Linux programmer does.

I do think the trend of iOS, Android and similar Windows environments is troubling. But if they ship Windows 10 on the RPi with something like QBasic and Visual Studio it's probably just as good a learning tool as Linux. Or even a better one considering the rest of the application ecosystem.
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Yes and looks like Snappy Ubuntu Core is already ready to run on it as well: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/02/snappy-ubuntu-core-on...
Any chance for headless browser/testing stack with webgl support (mesa, llvm, even less than 1 fps would be enough)?
I doubt even Apple knows the exact numbers.

They are likely still tuning the daylights out of the software. One of the fantastic things about the watch is that the battery life improvements will flow through to iOS and OSX.
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"There have been quite a few projects that did hack the kernel and drivers directly."

Of course there are, but I was taking issue with Windows being unsuitable for a classroom - is it realistic to claim that teachers are getting children to modify and compile the Linux kernel in the classroom? No, that's silly.
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You are really reaching to say that sed/awk/shell and Lisp were more of an influence on either Ruby or PHP. Ruby has all the same special variables as Perl, FFS! PHP was originally written in Perl. But somehow awk was the bigger influence in either case?

Sorry, but your retcon fails. Even Scala admits it has Perl influences -- http://perl8.org.
Sometimes people do things for fun rather than economic maximisation.
What's wrong with Southern/Eastern Europeans? (who are willing to work Western hours - the diff is 2-3 hours...)
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I completely disagree. I used Ubuntu for a year and I spent more time fixing things or trying to do things in the OS than I have in all other operating systems combined. My nephew tried to install Ubuntu on his new build and hit brick wall after brick wall trying to install the OS and Minecraft. It simply hasn't gotten easy enough and I'm afraid it's too late now.

I don't see a comeback for linux. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=linux
Hm, now the link in the article (www.discoverpresentsonline.com/david-brain/report.html) just redirects to the real discover magazine.
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> All this said, if you want cheap and software open, go with the Odroid C1

According to
http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php
the Odroid C1 uses a Mali-450 MP2 GPU. This is at least as closed as the VideoCore IV used in the Raspberry Pi.
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> I suspect I'm going to have to do copper on poles to make it viable, but how do I find out who owns the poles and what they charge?

That's where a lot of leg work comes in. You'll have to start asking the city who owns them. I started by emailing the first person who sounded like they had the title of "secretary". It took about 5 emails getting batted around before I found out.

> Also I don't have any idea how to go about purchasing upstream bandwidth - any advice there?

Again, this is the leg work on your part. Do all the research you can and figure out who has fiber running nearby. You're going to have to tap into that for service. If it's the provider you go with who owns it then you won't have a seperate dark fiber leasing cost. CenturyLink, AT&T, XO, TW Telecom, Layer3, Qwest (many of these have merged together, but they sometimes use older names when referring to circuits -- so a qwest circuit might be running nearby but you'd go through centurylink to get it) will all be more than happy to take your money, but most of the backbone providers probably won't return your phone calls if you're not talking about 100G connections.
In the article it mentions it only lets you see the article if you have the tracking cookie from the ad
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> The cracking scene, demoscene and games industry was almost exclusively built on Windows. A lot of that was just as, if not more, advanced as what a Linux programmer does.

I think you mean commodore, or atari. Windows gaming came a long long time afterwards. It is more advanced in some ways but it does not beget OS programmers, like an open source OS does. If OS programmers die out, we're in very deep trouble.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. That does make sense. And of course. I was just digressing. Your original point still stands.
And there's nothing wrong with that. Kids will be more productive on Windows and more likely be able to take those skills with them. How many kids need to know linux in the future? Here's what the Linux trend looks like: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=linux
I do:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=android
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Very nice. I truly hope we will get 1 click/command (all open-source) LAMP (or even full Drupal/Wordpress) installs or 1 click personal mailserver installs (Postfix/Dovecot/Roundmail/sieve). Lets take the web back into our homes. With the RPi's low power usage this would be the perfect match.
That part made me scratch my head a bit, because they shouldn't have access to Yahoo cookies.

I think the article meant the http referrer needed to be yahoo?
Somewhat unrelated: I ended up googling "take the cake", - I never heard that in English before but it seems it has a long history: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/take-the-cake.html
Shot over the bridge in some spat with intel?
The way you went meta in this comment: I wish I could find more kinds of comments like this on the internet. This I can refer to in 5 years.
Now, while legally, you are perfectly right, Windows is as close as ever, it's not actually that hard to look under the hood.

I work as a Windows device driver developer, and sometimes I need to reverse engineer some of the internals, and the source code from WRK is easily available on the internet : (http://gate.upm.ro/os/LABs/Windows_OS_Internals_Curriculum_R...). These are sources from 2005-2006 timeframe, but they are tremendously helpful when debugging. If you compare the disassembled version of an exported function from the Win 8.1 ntoskrnl, in most cases it's almost identical to the sources in those links. Of course, there are a few parts of the system which suffered changes, but nonetheless, it can still be very useful.

I would also recommend it for studying operating systems, but obviously, along side something else. Let's say after starting with XV6, or Pintos, Minix, then moving on to NetBSD, Linux, only after that having a look under the hood of Windows, to see a slightly different approach.

There is also the 'Windows Internals' book, but I never found it too useful. Describing concepts without any source code, and without a view to the implementation is not very helpful for me.

But I completely agree with you, personally, I would never use Windows if I wanted to play with it, I only use linux and bsd at home.
naturally everyone wants to avoid a situation where people are afraid to try out different operating systems. instilling open mindedness and eagerness to learn new things, to kids, the idea that the OS isn't important it's what you can make it do... will stand them in better stead than leaving them with the idea that Windows or Apple or whatever, is the only way it's done.
I'd never thought of using misspellings from graffiti as a pronunciation clue, but it seems so obvious.

I wonder how anthropological linguists would someday treat modern rap and hip-hop. In German, for example, it's not uncommon for the artist to slightly or not-so-slightly mispronounce words to make them fit a rhyme. Would that help or hinder a study?
One important difference is cost - the BBC micros were expensive compared to their competition.
It's unfortunate that you apparently had bad experiences with Ubuntu, but this thread is about development tools, not installing third party games from external sources. Yes, if you want to game, windows seems like a more convenient choice, nobody disputes that.
Their current running WindowsOnDevices program showcases Microsoft's developer preview of a new, tiny version of Windows that runs on small CPU-based devices like the Intel Galileo dev board. I'm sure they are aiming for something similar for RPi2 (it's obviosly impractical to run full scale Windows 10 on such underpowered devices)
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I'd say, your base-1-million system is virtually impossible to make...

But you are right: what counts is how much information you can store or process per square inch / per Watt, not really how many components you need to achieve this.
We tell our customers that ad blockers are their first line of defense against malware on the web, and it's true. Web ads have been bad for years and continue to get worse, and content providers aren't doing enough yet to police the advertising on their site.

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I don't know the exact scenario in Croatia or Brazil;
In general, writing off loans sets a bad precedent. People would again take loans, and will want the Govt. to bail them out. I have seen these things happen in India. There were cases people took loans and were waiting for the next election, to get their loans waived off.
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Yes, the more particles Joe has, the less it is likely that it will be recreated elsewhere. But here I'm talking about particles not being Joe, the rest of the universe.

I see it this way, it doesn't matter that I get 10 times a 6 when throwing a dice, I just want a 6, I'm not concerned about the whole process, just about the result.
Aren't there many ways to get to a point where particles assemble to form a brain similar to our own?

Also, is it possible to ignore the vast majority of the universe, because is a dim light from a star so important, or do we have to, because of the butterfly effect?
I had that issue as well, where it would freeze if it transferred lots of data (as in, a large number of files in a dir would freeze it when doing ls on the terminal), and the problems went away with a higher-amperage power supply.
Somebody found out it wasn't posted before I guess.

I hadn't seen it before so I upvoted it.

Same for a bunch of other guys I guess.

Regarding advertisements: I'm fine with them as long as they are interesting. Also, quite a lot of the stuff you see on HN is advertising, -advertising for someones consulting business, SAAS offering etc..
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I'd actually prefer the panes to be a bit wider, but that's not that important.

What I find weird is that I can go 2 layers back on the same page, but then I suddenly have to use the browser's back button to go further up. I have to use the back button to close the right-most pane. And sometimes the back button does not work, or I have to use it multiple times to get "one step" back. Loading times feel worse, because you stare at a blank rectangle and wonder "is this article empty" and then it suddenly pops in.

I accidentally dragged a paragraph around and had to go back to the front page and follow a link there to remove the local copy I created. I also don't know how I would publish that copy if it were an intentional edit.

I'm sure it makes sense once you've understood it, but discoverability seems bad. Despite all its flaws TiddlyWiki seems to get the basic SPA wiki UI "more right" to me.
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I would prefer giving to a children an ZX Spectrum and explain how use it to make programs on BASIC, that putting in front of a Windows. At least, they would understand what is doing the computer, instead of seeing the computer doing "magic"
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can you install gcc, golang, nodejs, python, ruby, ghc, lua (...) on windows with a single command

Yes! Just install chocolaty and type

cinst git
cinst mingw
cinst vim
(and so on)

Prior to Windows 10 it is a third party tool and not officially supported by windows. However starting with Windows 10 windows will ship with a version of this command called OneGet and it will be be officially part of windows.
>Kids will be more productive on Windows

Citation needed.
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Sorry for the typo in the link in the comment above. Too late to edit it. Here's the link :

http://stratechery.com/2013/understanding-google/
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Will it run some version of flash? (and yes I tried gnash to no avail).

I spent the weekend explaining to an 8 and 6 y/o that they can't share and look at other Scratch projects at scratch.mit.edu on the RPi :(
Cool, one of the examples (etoys) crashed Safari (8.0.3) FTL JIT. :)
That's a great article, thanks for linking to it.

I missed the original submission and discussion which was here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972139
Hell yeah. That would compel me to switch to an IDE. In fact a React component-centric IDE would have been awesome.
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Perl5 has a lot of historical baggage that makes certain things difficult to do efficiently. For example, how objects work. There is an insane amount of indirection involved for a simple method call, and this indirection can't generally be removed if we want Perl5 to stay highly backwards-compatible. Numerics aren't particularly efficient either. Perl5's opcodes are very high-level. That makes each individual opcode pretty fast, but makes it difficult to inline stuff. Variables can have “magic” attached that can change their semantics substantially. While this is very flexible and allows to do some amazing things, this also requires this magic to be checked on each access. So Perl5 has a lot of features that rank high on “clever”, but low on “can be optimized”. Perl5 never got JIT support, and only has a couple of very experimental Perl-to-C transpilers.

What is fast is string handling and log mangling. Perl was created for that; everything else is bolted on.