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Linux is great for a desktop if you like to tinker. If you have time and inclination to tinker with your desktop OS.

If you don't like to tinker with your workstation, and you just want a good GUI and a bash prompt to get some fucking work done, using Ubuntu for a day will make you cry in frustration. You just waste so much time.

I've spent way too much time the last two weeks trying to get a second monitor to work through a DP port - no such support. It sucks. I plugged it in, the monitors are not detected, install some different drivers, still not work. Tinker tinker tinker. I go out and buy a cable adaptor, see if BOTH monitors on DP will matter... I buy the wrong cable. Crap. Back to the store, they don't have DP->DVI cables. Crap. Order one online. Wait for a few days. Try every possible combination of settings and ports - max resolution 1280 * 800. All told I think I've spent about 16 hours tinkering with my Ubuntu desktop for various minor problems that bugged me. I could have been working that time if I had a Mac desktop.

And don't even get me started on IntelliJ and Java in Gnome.

Some people actually enjoy debugging these issues - but me, I'd rather be working productively. I love Linux for servers, it is totally easy to use there. For desktops... unless you have strange dependencies, there is no valid reason not to just use OS X. PCs are only cheaper if the value of your time is zero. I tend to value my time slightly higher than zero.
It's a bit funny observing those predictions. Everyone has his own... Using a not very scientific probing on google, This is the number of articles saying that we will run out of ipv4 in year X:

- 2007 - 689

- 2008 - 1,970

- 2009 - 618

- 2010 - 3,590

- 2011 - 2,180

- 2012 - 1,750

- 2013 - 2,620

- 2014 - 749

- 2015 - 686

I wonder if there are any betting companies interested in this event ;)
This is also a good source if you want to know how the exhaustion will occur: http://ipv4.potaroo.net/
And install http://lxde.org/ if you like a light weight desktop.
I think it fair to show the video of John Stewart destroying Betsy McCaughey, author of both the death panel lies and now this cancer survival rate lies.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/finally-jon-stewart-gives-betsy-m...

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba596

"...Two interesting things about this Daily Show interview with GOP health care demagogue Betsy McCaughey: (1) It was cut off in the middle, with Stewart directing viewers immediately after to the website, where the unedited second part would be waiting; and (2) Stewart patiently, politely, and firmly smacked down her exaggerations, misrepresentations and lies. I hope every other newscaster in America was watching...."
to me it sounds as if they have had enough of pulseaudio and all the HDA and chipset mess... just provide an encrypted blob binary for skype's functions, and croudsource the rest, building on their proprietary platform...
In Ubuntu 9.04, go to System->Preferences->Preferred Applications, and select Chromium. I'm using the chromium-daily PPA (https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa), and links from other apps work fine.
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Need to check out how this app fares!
I would think the military would be about due for a new generation of rifles for the troops.
Large chunks of the large early allocations have already been handed back over the last few years. There isn't that much more left to reclaim or sell.
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It's just like the word authentic. When I see a restaurant with "authentic" in the byline I avoid it. If they have to call themself authentic than chances are they aren't. Authenticity is achieved by x-factor and word of mouth.

When I ran my small company my title was owner. There was only one employee so it was obvious who "found" it. And sinced I financed it it was me who "owned" it.
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Regarding #1

Something similar was done, but it was explicitly recognised that the purpose of lojban was not to generate "the semantic primes of language." Such as exercise is regarded by some linguists as meaningless, and by others as too difficult. Instead, concepts were listed, and from them a "covering set" was extracted. Similarly tenses, both spatial and temporal.

After the concepts were agreed, it was expressed in each of the (then) six major world languages. The words thus obtained were put through a weighting algorith,=m to try to find a "word" that had components of each, and that became the lojban word for that concept.

You can see the etymology and vocabulary here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Lojban/gismu

There are documents about the process and how it was set about, but I'd have to hunt.

Regarding #2

There is a predicate "nenri" (cognate "inner") which means "x1 is inside x2". Thus

"There are dogs in the kitchen"

can be rendered as

lo gerku cu nenmi le jupku'a

Less precise:

lo gerku cu zvati le jupku'a

"zvati" means "at" rather than "in"

There is a web page that will gloss grammatically correct lojban here:

http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php

I'm working on a tool to help create grammatically correct lojban interactively.

Hope that helps.
You can get the correct result by normalizing the string first:

>>> import unicodedata
>>> print unicodedata.normalize('NFC', u'Les Mise\u0301rables')[::-1]
selbarésiM seL
Yes. It also makes more sense to start off with Founder, because it can be hard to predict what role you'll end up in (with growth, raising capital, etc.)
Without knowing the details of the incident, it's hard to blame them. Personally I prefer the first responders to focus all their attention on diagnosing the problem. Once other people arrive on the scene (which in a hosting company I imagine is not many minutes after pagers start going off) they can take charge of notification and posting updates.
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Direct democracy works exceptionally well in Switzerland, and the citizens vote four times a year there.

Time to state the obvious: the Dems have controlled both houses of the state legislature for decades, and they shovel money to the state employee unions in exchange for block voting. And it works.

Then there are all the regulations they pass that make CA the worst rated place in the US to do business, driving businesses and their tax money from the state.
There's a bookmarklet for that (jQuerify) which I use all the time: http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/04/better-stronger-safer-...
I am struggling with OS X a lot, too. I think it is also a matter of perception: if there is a problem on Linux, people say "ah, it is the tinker OS again", if there is a problem on OS X, people say "hm, I paid 1000$ for this, so it must be my fault, not the OS".

One important thing is to make sure you buy the right hardware for Linux - OS X does the same, it only ships for a very limited selection of hardware. I have had Ubuntu on my notebook for years and hardly ever need to tinker.

There are always things to tinker with, even on OS X - it is just important that you don't have to tinker with the stuff that enables you to work.

Edit: just read this other HN submission about the Apple Magic Mouse, and lo: some tinkering required to get it to work - http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/11/you-win-some-yo...

And that is Apple's latest, shiny product.
Just for the sake of completeness:
http://chargify.com/

Haven't tried it yet, but looks similar to spreedly.
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Seems it works as well with the Magic Mouse..
I did enjoy reading that interview. It's always interesting to get insight into other people's way of working.

What struck me most about that interview was how it was written. How simple the wording is. It's clear to read, the language he uses is straight to the point and it's concise. I assume the interview as over e-mail. The sentences he uses are short and unambiguous. Plus they're easy to parse. I wonder how long it took to write that interview? If it just comes naturally or if he had to edit and tweak it a lot.
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Well I guess they need that fanatical support.

Personally I would just say fire the support people and use the money to hire somebody that can actually deal with servers.
Considering the high prices of alcohol in Sweden, it is quite effective for the local population to compare that metric.
I think you misread me. When I said "there's no poverty here", I was speaking of Scandinavia.

Here in Norway, the perpetually unemployed partially disabled people are well looked after, and can afford the $30 pizzas as well as anybody else.
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Meeting more of them, for starters. I don't think I would like to be a waiter for life, but I think it might have helped me to overcome some social inhibitions, had I taken on such a job as a student.

As an IT worker, I sometimes leave the office to talk with clients about a project. But that is very rare.

Edit: of course there are other ways to work on the social inhibitions. I really want to go to more conferences/bar camps and at last give my own presentations, too.
I live in Poland, so maybe I'm not the right person to criticize your NHS, but from what my friends who live in GB say (and I have a lot of them:)) NHS is worse even than our polish NFZ. And man, does NFZ suck.

It may be because in Poland NFZ is "tax and corruption" funded, so it has more money than only tax funded NHS.

But - in Poland you goes to first contact doctor with regular cold, or head pain, or normal flu, and you have 100% chance of seing the doctor, and he probably will right away prescribe you some antibiotics and send you to tthe blood tests.

In GB, I've heard, the first contact doctor is nurse in reality most of the times. And he/she will just prescribe you the painkillers and send you away, till it's something more serious.
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This could be a reference to the (possibly apocryphal) anecdote that Milton Friedman was told that "we have no poverty in Sweden."

To which he responded "that's interesting. We have no poverty among Swedish-Americans either."
I actually kind of liked the interleaving optimizations on pentiums. Its fun to do in real life as well :)
In any fucked up system, one should look first to the incentives, right? Which takes us to the journal system itself. To me it seems hopelessly outdated, at least in some areas. So here's a thought experiment:

Science (especially now) seems to be largely about gathering data, doing a simulation, or inventing a method (to either gather or analyze data). The data-gathering papers would be more useful as commits to a giant database in the sky, the simulation papers to a giant VCS, and the methods to a giant wiki. Indeed, within the labs I've seen, something like this is in place internally.

It would free up the journals to publish articles about the interpretation of analysis results, and reviews of larger bodies evidence to compile them into deeper theories - which rightly belong in journals. Peer-review would be done by upvoting (!) So what would PhDs be optimizing for? Commits x Votes.

Yep, I just suggested that academia should be redone in the image of HN (I'm probably not the first).
You do realize the US has one of the highest debt to income ratios in the world. So while your friends aren't drowning in debt, the picture for the rest of the country doesn't look so rosey.
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The police in Botswana also doesn't carry guns...
Hey, I'm an exclusive Linux user (well, I have a Mac too) and I think of getting a Win machine.

Or maybe I'll just get a PS3 and be done with it... :-)
Yay my site is back up. If only people actually go there so it matters...
I am using an 8 core Xeon machine.
Yes but in that case they took at least 40 minutes before notifying customers and posting on their status blog... I had to contact them on the live chat to be able to know what was happening...

And they could have a script that directly posts to the status page something like "A lot of our servers are down, we are working on it please be patient" when they detect some problem wouldn't take long...
http://www.rabbitmq.com/faq.html#performance

"From our testing, we expect easily-achievable throughputs of 4000 persistent, non-transacted one-kilobyte messages per second (Intel Pentium D, 2.8GHz, dual core, gigabit ethernet) from a single RabbitMQ broker node writing to a single spindle."

Or what do you mean by serious?
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This post has raised an unrelated thought:

Why aren't Mozilla using Apple's "There's an app for that" to push "There's a plugin for that" as a way to counter the rise of Chrome and Safari?

It seems piggy backing off Apple's propaganda that quantity > quality = best would be an easy thing to do here.
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Interesting.

I'm at St Louis, but yet I have new slices too (couple of months old) and they appear unaffected as well.

Are slices allocated in the same data center as existing customer slices? If so, that's neat (and helpful as I'm routing traffic between them).
Yeah, being in the managed hosting industry, I can say that having constant power "outages" of this magnitude is pretty unacceptable for a company of their size. Especially since its part of their marketing scheme!
That's a lot more debatable than you think. Vista was crashing all over the place back before they added some patches and service packs, and from a usability standpoint many people despise the new ribbon interface.
With a decent error page, you can at least give ordinary people a link back to the home page.
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The service I'm getting from Slicehost has really went to hell ever since Rackspace took over. I had something like a year solid of uptime with them when I was actively writing in my blog and getting traffic from the front pages of HN and proggit.

Now my server freezes up all the time despite little traffic.. I haven't written in my blog since May and yet I've had my server require a hard reboot three times in the last three months. I get so little traffic that I don't really care, but my mail forwarder for my personal domain is sitting on the same server and now I'm really having to consider moving my mail forwarding off to some other service.
sounds like he's also been reading wolfram's nks. the whole book is about how complexity is created. and wolfram suggests that humans wouldn't be able to purposefully create something more complicated than ourselves (though leaving open the possibility of doing it by semi-accident).
You can ask for slices in different places if you have more than one.

The outage took out my primary and secondary app servers (resulting in an outage/apology e-mail to customers, ouch) and so now I'm thinking about accelerating my move to a more decentralized system.
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Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to delete a hundred comments...
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Except a dedicated box can do everything a VPS can do. The analogy is not that accurate.
Usually the best way to do customer service is to first admit the problem, then solve it. I'm sure not everyone who works at Rackspace is technical, so someone could initiate the email notification 5 minutes into the downtime, maybe that could be done via nagios on an external system even. If the system sees that 50% of the servers are down, notify all customers, regardless if you were directly affected or not.
As a counterpoint, I've noticed no difference in support or stability since the Rackspace merger - if anything I'd say there's been less downtime for my slices since then.

(EDIT: My slices are located in STL2, in case that's relevant.)
Having shot all three ( ...

Only on a programmers hang out will you encounter triply nested parenthesis in casual writing. ;-)
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The article, as many of its ilk, presupposes that certain things are "good" and others are "bad".

Purchasing power is used, rather than GDP as some other commenters have assumed, but it only tells you what is possible to purchase rather than how closely what is possible matches what is desired by that population!

Interacting with Scandinavians I've found that the concept known variously as hyggelig , gemytligt, hyggw, koselig, gemuetlichkeit (in various northern European languages) is very central to their cultural identities. It represents a sort of... "social coziness", a comfortable harmony, and this is what is sought. To me this stands in contrast to states of mind that would make an American happy.

Don't take my comment as saying that this cultural concept somehow renders Scandinavians superior. I find that my own preferences tend towards having the greatest purchasing power, but without delving into the murky depths of cultural relativism it's important to understand that the subjective evaluation of objective economic parameters can vary wildly.
Found this really interesting, although I was never really in much doubt at the "intelligence" of these increadible animals. Wendroid is right to point out the magpie example of self awareness, although I would like to know the relative brain mass index of these birds. I have heard of very similar things with that whole family, with Miner birds being notorious for having mastered a small vocabulary.

Had a quick look around for some info on this topic and came accros a great resource :
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Animal_Minds

I was looking for the study conducted on elephants (Payne, Katherine. National Geographic: "Elephant Talk." National Geographic: USA. August 1989) where they studied the infrasound communications of wild elephant herds. This one always struck me as significant, because it whispers to us of a vast and efficient network that would have spanned large areas of the African continent. I always thought of it like whale song, although being propogated through a denser medium it would travel faster and further (?). So maybe at some point during their ancient past, the elephant herds were in constant communication, following signs of water and congregating on grazing grounds and to mate/socialise.... I think this (like the dolphin superpods that have only recently been described in any great detail) shows of a formidable intelligence.
Tried this mouse in the Apple Store. The scroll is nice. Apart from that it's shit just like the Might Mouse. Real left clicks and middle clicks are indispensable. Get a Microsoft Wheel Mouse.
> Well I guess they need that fanatical support.

Im not a rackspace user :)

But yeh; someone is probably getting a tongue lashing. Human error is so easy; even for experienced engineers and especially with live electrical equipment... (been there, done that, got the scars)
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At the low point (2000) the EUR was 0.8 USD. At the high point (2008) it was 1.6 USD. The (old) EU and the US are close enough economically for a factor two to decide the outcome of most comparisons.

Also, when people say Norway is rich, it is not just because it has the second highest GDP of the world. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway#Economy). It is also because they have saved a good part of the oil money (more than USD 100.000 per capita, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Government_Pension_Fund_of_...) preparing for the combination of an aging population and finite North Sea oil resources). So they are rich also in the literal sense of having a lot of money, not just spending a lot of money.
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Good. Companies are going to keep putting off IPV6 migrations until ARIN slows down their deployments of new IPV4 IP space. To this point all the doomsday talk hasn't had much impact on reality. Request IPs, get IPs, ignore problem. Once ARIN does slow down new deployments companies will have to make more efficient use of their existing IPV4 space in the short term. Most of the big deployments I've seen in ISP environments are very wasteful or were hugely over engineered to start with. In my environment I haven't requested new IP space in the last 3 years and could probably go another 2-3 years without a single new public IPV4 IP address.
How does buying stuff on credit increase your standard of living? At short notice, this may be the case, but this kind of behaviour is not sustainable. You know, there will be a day when the bills become due. What are you going to do then? Pass them on to your children?

It is really weird that Americans feel “we’re rich, you’re not” because of all the things they “possess” (on credit).

I wonder how many members of these armies of homeless that populate the US streets are where they are because they lived a live today they couldn’t even afford tommorrow.
I think it is back up. at least my server on hived.in is up.