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So how much of my personal life do I need to hand over to a faceless corporation so it can decide how much I ought to have to pay for milk?

Just my annual income, or should it also take into account if I've had an expensive medical procedure recently? Or my number of dependents? The value of my stocks? Or if my breadwinning spouse just threw me out of the house?

What a treat this info would be for the ad department.

The ability of HN readers to rationalize Apple's consumer-hostile practices is nothing short of breathtaking.

Any stick is good enough to beat parents with, if you're a childless 20-something on a tech forum.

In my 40s and feeling the same. It's the sad irony of life that just as we get truly good at this stuff, we either retire or move into management.

Most of it applies to any posix-ish shell, even on non-unices.

And you can get quite a bit done on Linux without knowing any of it.

Schools in the US are funded at the local county/township/municipal level, typically by property taxes or sales taxes, though it varies from state to state. Nothing really to do with income taxes, apart from the occasional grant.

"Because Linux still isn't ready to roll out for the average enterprise office user. "

And my point is, how will Chrome OS enterprise be different?

Do you think they'll write their own Printer management tools, or just install CUPS?

Will they write their own Active directory client, or just use SSSD or Samba or whatever RedHat is using these days?

So have enterprise Linux distros, for at least a decade now. People still use Windows.

Maybe it would be helpful if our operating systems were optimised for working and learning rather than to selling us crap and mining our data.

If your high school programming class was using Alice or Scratch, that's probably the real issue. My kids picked up Scratch at around 9 or 10, and loved it. My oldest got the bug and went on to learn Python, Java, and Lua; he's a HS Junior and contemplating going into CS. The younger ones are less inclined to programming proper but still like making things in Scratch. But if I were presented with Scratch or Alice as a teenager I'd feel a bit patronised.

If you were already a passionate programmer when you took these classes, it's not surprising you felt disappointed; but that doesn't mean these aren't effective tools to introduce the uninitiated to programming concepts.

"To start with, it runs Linux, which has a steep learning curve associated with it and isn’t suited to beginners."

I couldn't take the article seriously after this. "Beginners" click icons and run applications. This works under Linux like any other OS. Anything more complex than that isn't going to be done by a "beginner" no matter what OS you're using.

The way Microsoft implemented 32-bit support in Windows 64 broke a lot of the legacy applications I help maintain (from an admin/support standpoint, not development standpoint) at work. Years after switching to 64-bit Windows, we still uncover subtle bugs that need to be patched in our configuration or by the vendor (if they still exist).

If these applications were more mission-critical, we'd definitely want to stick with 32-bit Windows.

  Attempts to open the file are normally blocked, but in a move reminiscent of the Windows 9x flaw, if the filename is used as if it were a directory name—for example, trying to open the file c:\$MFT\123—then the NTFS driver takes out a lock on the file and never releases it.

Verified.

I won't lie... I'm going to have a bit of fun with the guys in desktop support today...

Am I the only one who thinks there should be at least one actual screenshot of emacs on a site titled "emacs is sexy"?

The joel test seems very applicable to a scenario where you have a large team of people working on a small number (or even just one) of big product-oriented projects.

I find that a good chunk of it doesn't apply in my job, where I'm one guy working on a large number of simple web applications.

I work for a local (County-level) government, and our firewall logs have been available by FOIA request for years. I can't say if congress is as transparent, but if people really are intent on exposing congress's web browsing habits, that would probably be a more productive way to begin.

When it showed up on my phone one day (probably after an update), I thought it was some kind of malware and removed it. It looked like the kind of crap I removed off windows xp computers back when I did tech support.

Sure, and we should.

But it's the difference between me saying "I did this cool thing, check it out." and "I did this thing, and it's way better that what you've been doing."

The former statement is likely to elicit praise and appreciation; the latter is likely to prompt a challenge to your assertion. It's just human nature.

>Haha wow I can't believe the negativity in these comments.

To be fair, the article's presentation rather invites them. It's basically presented as "Look what these Indian women accomlished for 10X less money than your male-dominated American groups spent." It's put Americans and males on the defensive, so naturally they will defend...