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This is exciting news. I'll probably end up with one of these as well as a Jolla (the Sailfish phone) in the near future.

Saw this posted by Mikko earlier. It's an interesting ploy, and I'm interested to see what comes of it. Specifically, I want to know whether the media, as it were, is going to be willing to propagate this sort of story, even with the plan being relatively well-known at this point.

Of course, this could be a long play. "Leak" this plan, build confidence that the media isn't going to propagate false stories, and then when a similar plan is effected, people are potentially more likely to take this manner of news seriously.

While that's a fair statement, an OS--mobile or otherwise--doesn't really need to be among the top few in terms of adoption to be valuable. Lots of people still use their N900 and N9 phones and want something to be a successor to them. This is likely the way I'll be going next.

It's an interesting (read: niche) market, to be sure. It's the same market as someone who might buy 8 raspberry pi boards, or 4 ODroid U2 machines for the purpose of learning about parallel computation.

The Epipchany chip (the coprocessor on these boards) is supported as of GCC 4.8, so we also may see some novel ways to offload work to this chip in the future.

> What is not cool about Perl?

Perl is my first interpreted language. It has a very special place in my heart, even if it was awkward at first to get used to it coming from a C background. Perl will always be a cool kid.

>May be a better way is to create a nice atmosphere where women feel welcome and comfortable, having very strict code of conduct in conference and generally us (male engineers) being nice to them - this might take time, but the changes would stay.

I agree wholeheartedly! I think that this is the sort of attitude which would be conducive to moving the state of affairs along. In these fights it's often lost that the problem at hand is that treating people in a way that makes them feel like they're not welcome and not respected is at the root of the issue.

Is this a limitation of Widgets, or of the status of Widget development, though? It seems to me that there's a LOT of untapped potential when it comes to widgets.

Anecdotal data, admittedly not perfectly analogous.

I got serious about playing the game of go relatively late in life for a go player--I was 23 years old at the time. In 2 years of hard study (1~2h/day, and a bit more on weekends) I rose from essentially a complete beginner to dan level play. Since then, life has pulled me away from playing go as actively, but the work I do at this point does let me maintain my level of play.

I think it's fair to say that you get MORE out of your effort at a younger age, but at the same time, I think that if you're serious about learning and honest about the way you learn, you can absolutely get a LOT out of those hours--and that ultimately, you can get the same utility as you would have, by tailoring your studies to the way you learn more effectively.

...Which they ought to do. Offering the ability to enumerate user accounts is unlikely to be the immediate goal of this utility, but it's an effect nonetheless.

A good portfolio can be created well before one goes into--let alone graduates--college. I understand the graphic design industry to be largely portfolio-driven, and it continues to confuse me that the IT industry isn't the same way.

I lean pure CLI as well except on macs, which I use purely to try and maintain compatibility with as many Unixy OS variants as I can.

Just in case anyone isn't aware of the video to which you're referring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVCk10AzS0

I don't speak Swedish and I'm considering using it out of spite.

Order of installation on new macs: Quicksilver. Brew. Tmux. JewelryBox.

Lazy package maintainers have created the perfect atmosphere for a project like rvm to be an essential part of life.

I think it's probably marginally better than linking the Expect site proper, since it provides decent context.

It's a really useful tool that has a surprisingly small amount of awareness.

Shameless plug: I built a small library to provide more Expect-like features in Ruby, since I didn't care for the interfaces exposed, for application development. Presently works on Linux and OS X for 1.9.3, and Linux for 2.0.0 (OS X untested, but assumed good)

https://github.com/cwuest/expectr

> Facebook's button seems to be perceived as more user-friendly than the unknown button on someone else's site, even if the unfamiliar button was designed to be less hostile than Like.

I expect that Schneier's blog is one of the best places to start reversing that common (and understandable) perception. Given the pervasive nature of fraudulent sites focusing on Facebook, one can't blame the users--but shifting their frame of mind from "fraud is bad!" to "tracking/other invasions of privacy are bad!" is overdue.

I love my N900! It's on my shelf as a backup phone. Ours aren't all that uncommon in terms of Maemo users' stories, as I understand it.

The parallax effect on the final page was a nice touch.

This makes me want to visit Austria (and Vienna in particular) sometime soon.

> Values? You make it sound as if it's ethical values.

One could make the point that I mean ethical values. Telcos' ethics are certainly at play here. The values to which I refer can be summed up as, "prioritize profit over a robust network and user experience, avoid empowering other entities to compete on even ground."

> How is Skype more integrated with WP, than say iOS or Android?

My understanding (disclaimer: as I stated above, I use an N9 primarily. I do own an Android and iOS device, but they aren't my primary handsets. I don't own a Windows phone) is that Skype (a) comes pre-installed on Win8 handsets, and (b) has its functionality integrated into the OS similar to the way SMS and cellular-network-phone applications are.

I don't think so, personally. Skype just adds yet another factor to work against them.

> Nokia (with Microsoft) make beautiful hardware and Windows Phone is lush, but for some reason is not getting the market love its quality deserves.

Two points here:

First, it pains me to see MS lumped with Nokia. I'll be clinging to my N9 for a very long time yet (and probably only move on when Ubuntu or Firefox phones are compelling). I miss Maemo/MeeGo.

Second, the reason which MS doesn't get the love which its quality deserves (let's accept that it deserves a lot of love for the sake of this argument) is that Microsoft owns Skype. Telcos aren't huge fans of Skype, as a rule--it doesn't quite jive with their values. For Windows Phone, which integrates Skype by default, to really take off in the marketplace, we need to see the founding of a telco which doesn't do anything BUT data as their subscription model. With no voice fees to compete with Skype's inclusion on the phone, there will be no reason for telcos to marginalize the platform.

Indeed. Either that or consider it a rental--because that's all it really is.

> Steam's DRM is reasonable.

This has yet to be seen. For a while, Steam was seen as a way to keep other DRM at bay. Bioshock changed that (I'm not aware of 3rd party DRM on steam titles prior; open to correction here). Now Steam is a distribution platform which also incorporates DRM which may, or may not, result in customers getting screwed, while games distributed through Steam may choose to incorporate additional DRM. The sad truth is that we simply don't know if Steam's DRM will ultimately screw over their customers. That will be seen at some point in the future, when maintaining servers is no longer financially viable.

I don't think that Google showing a propensity to give services the axe, rather than simply deprecating them and giving them little or no support is a case of "not satisfying demands." That, mixed with their history of spotty support for the things which they DO officially support gives them the appearance of being a shifting platform. This lead me, at least, to depend on them as little as I have to.

This bug is not yet completely squashed in the wild: ' OR 1=1 --

This is an awesome petition. Thanks for bringing it to our attention; I've signed it.

That being said, I don't view the cellphone response as particularly progressive. The way it parses for me is "we think your phone should be unlocked if you don't have a contract." It didn't address the criminalization of unlocking cellphones while under a contract. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'd love to hear if I am, but I've read it a few times and I can't find another way to read the response.

Totally valid reason. I use cards for the sake of ease of tracking and protections offered by cards. I wish there were an optimal situation wherein you had privacy and protection both.

The last time I had cash on my person, it was because I was traveling, and wanted some on hand. I haven't carried cash, as a rule, in almost a decade.