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Seems Google just stole the same market-share normally composed of Linux-users.
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Which is funny, because my startup actually revolves around two of the seven cardinal virtues. I think he hits the nail on the head because he's talking about how anonymity has allowed people to embrace more and more of personalities they would not have been able to otherwise in meatspace.

But as your real identity and your social graph ties closer with your online persona, I think we're going to see a shift in a different direction. I'll let you know how it goes.
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I found fault in the student protests even though these fees are going to affect me quite a bit next semester. It seems the money being raised is being spent to keep all the engineering, business, economics, and law professors around while the other majors are likely going to suffer severe cuts or flat out closure. I know for the Hacker News crowd those previous majors are likely the ones that matter most. Unfortunately, Berkeley offers a great deal of interesting classes where the professors will either leave or they will be cut. Linguistics and history to name a few personal favorites (Disclosure: I am a history major) are going to be two such classes. As much as people like to see a degree in terms of economic potential, of how much money a person can make with a degree, in the end it is about knowledge no matter what field you study. In my experience while I felt that computer science taught me a whole lot about computers, studying history has taught me a lot more about life.

I am not blaming the administration for the fee increases. They might be large and bureaucratic, but they nonetheless have higher ups that they are responsible to. The real blame goes to the people of California and its legislature. All tax increases in the assembly have to be voted by a 2/3 majority while a tax decreases do not. This is near impossible as the assemblymen and assemblywomen tend to be along hardcore party lines. Further, adding Prop 13 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978...) has not helped at all making it near impossible. Ending Prop 13 would give the state quite a bit in revenue to continue funding higher education and fund many of the chronic deficits California faces. Unfortunately, even though the California public views higher education as an important goal they also want low taxes at the same time which is impossible to sustain (if 8 years of Bush have taught us anything). Those are opposing goals!

Professor Lakoff is attempting to propose a ballot which will change the tax initiatives to majority rules. It simply reads, "All legislative actions on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote." It is called the California Democracy Act (http://www.californiademocracyact.com)
Hi. As I noted, I invest in people and products, not business plans. Frankly, for a seed stage investment, i don't want to see your business plan. I just want to touch your product and understand the way you think.
It is supposed to replace XP netbooks, at least some of them.

I know geeks have trouble with "less is more", particularly when we're talking about computers but, for ordinary mortals, XP is a mixed bag of benefits (running Skype and a thousand other native apps) and costs (running all sorts of malware, and various equally nasty bits of software to keep you safe from the malware).

Anyone normal who's switched to a Mac from Windows, or put the money they would have spent on a netbook on an iPhone touch has made the similar tradeoffs. Less traditional PC apps but better at doing the things they care about.
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I find it amusing that you say "imagine it", since it's like this for me. People think differently :)

I see 8+3 as a number in the lowish tens. If I want the exact result I quickly increment "9-10-11" in my head. Some special cases (0,1,9 and 5+5) are easier.

I guess ability in arithmetic isn't really correlated with ability in calculus, etc., since math has always been my forte.

I'm studying at a japanese university right now and I see the effect of raw memorization daily. It's not pretty. I don't think it's highly underrated.
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skype is not a big deal. This thing will probably work great with Google Talk, which is INTEROPERABLE with other xmpp clients running libjingle.

I'll take that over skype.
Google has said that whenever people use the web, they make money. They're behaviour so far (Open Source browsers, deals with Firefox, apps for iPhone) suggests they have no real need or desire to lock people into their client software, when they can lock people into their server software which they access from any modern browser, on a phone or a PC.
I can't seem them leaving the code required for voice/video on Google Talk off of this thing. This is interoperable with any xmpp client which happens to support libjingle.

[edit: this is a beautiful thing http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/... ]
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> ... raw memorization daily. It's not pretty.
> I don't think it's highly underrated.

Raw memorization is dreadfully damaging. Equally, having to add 5 and 8 by counting up is a complete block to other tasks. What's needed is a range of techniques and skills, each assisting the others, and each helping students to get that insight that stops math being a collection of tricks and unmotivated rules, and starts it being a coherent set of principles, facts, tools and techniques.
How much of the goodwill Apple once had with programmers have they lost over the App Store? A third? Half?

pg, can you please clarify this? What exactly does it mean to lose "a third" or "a half" of goodwill?
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> ADDED IN EDIT: Now that I think of it, how many of you simply ignored the instructions to fill counters in the boxes to help you, and tried to see what was going on just by looking at the numbers?

I didn't ignore it - yet it didn't help. The instructions are ambiguous. How are you supposed to fill them in? What is the connection between the 8 in the first example and 8 counters? Are they the same by accident? Why should both results be the same (8+3 and 10+X) - I thought about adding 10 new counters, so that's 8+3=11, 10+8=18, 8+10=18 (although it doesn't make much sense either). Then thought about adding 3 to the lower box (not good). There are simply not enough information to "solve" this. Even if most people can guess what the right solution is, I don't think that's good enough for homework.
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Sure, because when a bunch of 'damning files' appear on the internet just in time for a major conference it must be true.
As has been said elsewhere, most likely examples were done in class, and this is extra work to act as spaced repetition. Without that lesson it might not be obvious to some. To me, it was, but only after I'd continued filling in boxes in the grid.

In general, homework is not intended to contain the entire lesson all over again. That means parents often don't know what to do, or how to help.

Further, lessons and homework are often not intended to be done by creative people without instruction. Creative people find unexpected ways to follow instructions the teachers (or lesson planners) thought were clear, obvious and unambiguous.

I see a lot of criticisms of lessons and homework like this, but I've also seen the frustration from teachers trying to create lessons that are EXCITING and ENGAGING and ENTERTAINING and THRILLING and WONDERFUL, because now they're not expected just to be good at teaching and experts in their subjects, but also entertainers.

This lesson/homework isn't perfect, but I think many of the criticisms aimed at it are misplaced and ignoring the context. This homework is being assessed as if it were a lesson, and that's unfair.

Finally, homework that my colleague's child is set is accompanied by a sheet explaining the lesson. My colleague hos no trouble helping with the homework, and constantly praises the variety of approaches and integrity of the work.
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They don't - you can run basically anything you want on JavaME without code signing. The only difference is that you can't set a permanent "ok" for some actions without it (that depends on the phone model though).
As we have discussed yesterday in the IE9 post, the bottleneck is not JavaScript execution anymore, it's DOM manipulation. Having jQuery "precompiled" wouldn't help all. Browsers need faster DOM interfaces.
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Some Nokia devices have a TV out facility that lets you see the screen output on an attached TV. Coupled with a Bluetooth keyboard you have the beginnings (I know it isn't perfect) of an acceptable input and output arrangement. Then take a text editor and something like Python for Series 60 and voila - a mobile development device. I've already got Putty (SSH) running on my phone, so I can do server side development via that.
Random thought ...

Let's suppose, as a hypothesis, that "Global Warming" is not being caused or significantly contributed to by CO_2. The natural conclusion, then, is that we don't need to worry about burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) because the CO_2 they produce is not causing global warming.

Problem: Even if they aren't causing (or significantly contributing to) global warming, they are still running out.

Observation: Even if the consumption of fossil fuels isn't causing (or significantly contributing to) global warming, we should still try to stop using them, because that way they'll last longer, and give us longer to develop alternatives.

Think of the global warming drive to lower fossil fuel consumption as an aid to getting to "ramen profitability." It's a way to be able to pause and draw breath, and to work out what to do next. Lowering their consumption gives us more time.

Of course if CO_2 emissions are contributing to global warming, even more reason. But it's not the only one.
This lack seems a symptom of what pg is describing - they are no longer getting the best and brightest programmers around.
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The best QA teams have developers and security people in them exactly for this reason. Quality is not what the users see - it's a correct implementation of what the specs say, built upon a series of basic assumptions that apply to all software they ship.

Treating QA as a step after development is a mistake that causes endless suffering to users.
Either you learned nothing and so it's a non-story. Or you learning something and so it's a story. Which is it?

I found enough interesting details (including the acquisition price which I hadn't seen elsewhere) to make it a linkable story. Seems like a few folks agree. And I simply don't get this meta-complaining, especially since:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Editors could have also changed the title here. Why have votes, flags, and even editorial control if you're just going to clutter the comments with meta-complaints?
You're being up-modded for that comment, so people obviously agree with you. I think it's important to realise that not everyone does, because not everyone thinks the same way.

I've helped out in primary classes, and sometimes when I've done something like this kids have been so excited they've jumped up and run around, unable to contain themselves. They've suddenly seen why something works, not just been told to memorize it.

It's the range of ways of thinking about things that matters. Here's one that doesn't work for you. Fine. Find another. Use both. See how they're the same thing, but from different points of view.

Sorry, I'll go away and stop ranting now - I'm just getting angry and will say something I regret.
Hey nice comment! I was thinking something similar.I believe that it should be possible to effectively use both mechanistic and teleological language. In mechanics you have newtonian (mechanistic) and lagrangian (teleological) approaches. I often wonder how well determined the shapes and forms of animals are by evolutionary dynamics. I would think that evolution is very sensitive to small accidents and fluctuations in populations, i.e. you could rewind the clock and run evolution forward many times and get many different answers. Against this view are all those examples of convergent evolution.

Another reason that people may react harshly when you use teleological language is that biology (unlike physics) is constantly under attack by people with all sorts of crazy theories about a supernatural designer - (talk about a teleology!) so I can understand why such language would be somewhat taboo.
Paul's new RFS "development 4 handhelds" seems to be quite simple:
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How to design a IDE that doesn't need a keyboard.
I admit that this may be a bit diffcult as long programs are "written". Does anyone have an idea, how programs can be "sketched" or "told"?
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> Unfortunately, even though the California public views higher education as an important goal they also want low taxes at the same time which is impossible to sustain

California:

-Highest personal income tax in USA

-Highest corporate income tax in USA

-Top 5 in sales tax

-Highest minimum corporate taxes per year

-Generally high fees for doing anything related to the government

-Highest overall revenues from taxes

-Highest tax yields per citizen

...

California's problem isn't low taxes.
I don't think he was referring to programmers from any period. I'd be surprised if work for Apple computers ever constituted even 25% of programming work, and I'd be shocked if Dave Winer's reach was even 1%. I don't mean any offense by either, it's just it's a really big world.
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It's because it was harder for the sperms to become less vulnerable to temperature than it was for the testicles to move apart. When you think the evolution way, you get the answer ;)
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"you can install Windows on any hardware you want as long as it's compatible"

Sorry, I had to laugh.

Part of the blame for Itanium losing the 64-bit bandwagon could be pointed to Microsoft, for not having Windows ready for it when it became available. Or for delaying the launch - it's silly to launch a processor without an OS to run it on.

Having Windows support for your hardware is paramount to any desktop computer company since the early 90's (with the notable exception of Apple). Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC (as in PReP) desktop systems are not dead because x86 systems were a better price/performance choice: they are dead because Microsoft pulled the plug on NT for them (and Linux was not ready to take its place at that time). That's also why all our computers are remarkably alike from the inside. It's not that Microsoft is open - it's that they have computer makers cornered.

Today I can get a non x86 computer and expect all my userland to work (with the possible exception of Flash, Skype and parts of Eclipse). I could not do that in the 90s.

The Itanium is not an expensive server chip because Intel cannot build an Atom-like processor with the Itanium ISA (heck - it must be easier than do it with the x86 ISA). It's an expensive server chip because it won't run Windows 7 and Office.

I see very little competition in the development tools in the Microsoft space these days. Tool makers know better - if they make something that competes with Visual Studio, Microsoft will come after them in the next release cycle and it is not worth the pain to fight them. That's why every non-Microsoft development tool around is built for a niche. Or is free, a case where Microsoft will not be able to go after you. That could be a reason for the free language explosion we are seeing.

And thanks. The Psystar imbroglio is a statement of how evil Apple can be about competition these days.

It even seems that after stopping attracting the best and brightest, they started attracting former Microsoft minions...
Chrome OS will fail, unless we fix the Web. And this is why:

To create an album and save all my pictures I have to login to Flickr. To upload a video I have to login to YouTube. To find out what my friends are doing, I have to login to Facebook. To let everyone know what I'm doing, I have to login to Twitter. To check my emails, I have to login to Gmail. To chat online, I have to login to Meebo. To update my CV I have to login to LinkedIn. To blog I have to login to Wordpress. To listen to music I have to login to Last.fm. To write a comment, I have to login to Hacker News...

Hey Google, my mom and my dad are to old to remember 20 different passwords.

First, we need to solve the authentication problem. And I'm not talking about OAuth, that's a scam. It's insecure and the concept is flawed.

We are not ready for Chrome OS yet.
> I got an app rejected because the reviewer did not like the price I set.

That's a new one. At least for me.
What you guys think about the whole idea of Chrome OS? I am starting to see the advantage in two areas:

1) ultracheap internet devices. I would immediately pay up to $150 to have a tablet which I can switch on and instantly (7 seconds) have browser there.

2) I will see the same desktop from everywhere.

But, what will Microsoft do? My guess is that they will wait a bit to see how will it take of, and if it will gain some market share, they can easily copy the whole idea and come up with something like "Windows 8 Light", or "Windows Silverlight". They could remove some parts of Windows 7, leaving just the kernel, part of .NET, Silverlight support and IE. Then they can add some online support, and we will have Chrome OS alternative, but with a possibility to run native windows app.
The Apple II... A computer you could turn on and start programming in 3 seconds... When will we be able to do that again ;-) ?
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The problem is that there are two bottom boxes and both of them are empty. So it looks like they're asking 8+3=11, 10+?=?.

They should've formatted it like 8+3=11=10+? Then it'd be clear we have 11=10+?, 1 equ. & 1 unknown, BAM! solved.
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The sad fact is a complete lack of alternative. Personally I hate Apple so much. However, I still buy one or two Apple computers a year.

If you're a developer, and you want a stable environment that gives you access to the Terminal (bye, Windows!), has nice typography (bye, Linux!), excellent text editor (TextMate is the best one I found for Ruby) and does not cause stupid problems with printers or wifi (bye, bye, Linux!), you have no choice but OS X.

Their hardware is a piece of crap. Even a company that made an ad with them, agrees with that:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1489-every-mac-ive-owned-has-...

I think it's very similar if you are a professional photographer. Windows is so bloated it's painful to work with. Linux has no Adobe toolkits and you end up with OS X again.
It sounds like you are looking for Software Engineering for Internet Applications.

http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/

I am working through this book right now, very slowly since I have a lot of other stuff going on right now. Links to my source code so far, as well as my running website-in-progress, are below.

http://github.com/ericlavigne/seia

http://lavigne-seia.heroku.com/

I'm still at the part of the book where it provides guidelines for selecting tools (I chose Sinatra, Sequel, and Heroku), and exercises to become more comfortable with those tools. The next chapter is about planning.
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Ever since I moved from Windows to Linux I never had the need to develop on such a monster. My netbook (with some extra memory) serves me well. When I am at my desk, I just hook it to the big monitor, a keyboard and mouse and away I go.

The only moment I wish for an i7 is when I have to buildout Plone, which is time consuming, but specially so on a machine designed for battery life. Fortunately, I have been doing mostly Django work, so I haven't been building Plone out lately.

I wonder if other Linux developers also feel the need for 8GB i7 machines.
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>I'm thinking about the (No Internet Explorer) -> Internet Explorer 3.0 jump

But they didn't build that from scratch, they bought the original Mosaic codebase.
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She does appear to be part of a start up team - http://bundl.it/About

Not hawking your own product in every blog post you write is a good thing, not a bad thing.

(No judgments here on 'super popular' or even 'awesome developer' as I don't feel entitled to comment on either.)
I wish you were joking but my xgf went to a private liberal arts college in the mid-atlantic. I chose the state school route because it would be cheaper, I was told. Even though we were similar economically and academically, her tuition bill was far lower than mine, class sizes were smaller and more focused, and she got far more help in practically everything.

Unlike my school her school was basically the same size over the last 5 decades (no new buildings, no new mortgages, no new tuition increases). Mine went on a building spree of new dorms, cafeterias, renovating the stadiums, new recreation center, and a hotel. When the shit hit the fan they stuck the students, who weren't even asked about it, with the bill. They were told the alumni donors and state would pay for it. But donors and the state can stop paying when they don't feel like it. The students don't have that luxury.
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