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I disagree. In this scenario her parents do have a straightforward recourse - go and buy her the physical device sold by the patent owners (who's interface is apparently almost exactly the same, hence the patent infringement claim).

Now, you could argue that the patent isn't legit (it may not be) or that the dedicated device is prohibitively expensive (it may be), but both of those arguments are tangential to the point you were trying to refute.

Fair points. I agree on the first (basic programming courses are now being offered by some schools, but they're not mandatory and far from universal), however I'm a little more hesitant on the second. Knowledge of physics is extremely important to solving basic problems you run into everyday, I just think it's so ingrained that most people don't think about it. Home projects like building a deck or wall mounting a TV for instance are examples of things that require basic understanding of physical laws in order to complete successfully.

I think your first points kind of undercuts your second in that we simply don't think about how physics helps us with our everyday problems since the basics have been ingrained since childhood. I agree that basic computer architecture/programming should be taught in grade school and will go further and say that if it was, it's utility would also fade into the background as we end up applying those childhood lessons unconsciously in our every day life.

This point seems to make the same assumption I've been seeing across HN that programming is somehow more _special_ than other fields/creative outlets. All of his points are the same for people who lack a deep understanding of physics, which quite frankly is far more relevant to our every day world.

I don't think you should ever discourage someone who _wants_ to program, I just don't think it's knowledge that everyone needs. Getting a general understanding of the way computers work (high level) would be far more useful to the vast majority of people.

Why cede the self-hosted source control market to Github if, as you say, most people don't know Github has a presence there? If that's the case, this sounds like a great time for them to enter this market.

Interesting that all of these points apply equally to Exec (a ycombinator startup), but everybody had nothing but praise for them.

It seems like there is a growing market for offering the most basic of web development tasks as a service to all the non-technical people trying to start a site these days. It seems people are moving away from all-in-one website builders (no geek cred.) to do-it-all frameworks coupled with a large variety of 3rd party services to implement the few things the framework doesn't.

It'll be interested to see the common man's web stack in a few years.

Try Navicat. Works cross platform and is extremely powerful and robust. Best GUI RDBM I've ever used.

"For example, this figure also includes... FedEx and UPS employees."

Well, I'm sorry to hear that FedEx and UPS are responsible for creating far fewer jobs than I previously thought.

Great write up. One of the more interesting things I've read on here in a while. Thanks for sharing.

I wish I could upvote you more than once for this comment.

For Postgres there's Momoko http://momoko.61924.nl/ which is really quite nice. If you're using MySQL you have a few options including patching MySQLdb as explained by chartio (http://chart.io/blog/2011/06/10/making-mysql-queries-asynchr...). I followed the chartio approach and added in some async cursors to fit in better with the tornado database module. Pretty straightforward stuff.

I would argue that journalists shouldn't be making "jumps" at all. Report and critique the facts not what you think they may imply.

I was wondering if anyone was going to mention that. If you're already working with jQuery I would think the tmpl extension would be a much better choice.

Why change Windows? Eventually all software becomes outdated.

Wow. That post was just all types of awful in so many different ways.

Agreed. One need only look at the Apple/Google/Microsoft flamewars that occur daily on this site in order to realize this.

I don't get this post at all. It's poorly written and is comparing Python (the language) to Rails (the web framework), concluding that it's easier to create a website it Rails?

If you read the release notes I believe the new pg_basebackup tool satisfies your needs.

Please elaborate on how it's easier on the user. I agree it's easier on the designer (though I disagree that that's a good enough reason NOT to use a fluid layout in this day and age), but I fail to see how a design that refuses to conform to my monitor size is any easier for me.

Agreed. You're the first person I found on this thread who seems to share my belief that simply white listing every company with 25 employees or under (based on headcount alone) is extremely naive.

That's because, as you stated in your post, you haven't used them.

On a side note, the quality of comments has gone down while the know-it-all undertones have sky rocketed.

I'm not sure you understand what businesses actually use email and Word for.

Singapore's not quite the oasis you make it out to be. Have a look at how much it will cost you for a car once you get over there.

All those things you list are a detriment to the merchant since they all hold up the payment process (longer checkout lines, disgruntled customers, etc.) as well as potentially giving the customer incentive to back out at the last minute.

If I were a merchant, trying to sell me on the above "features" would pretty much convince me not to take part.

That's just wrong. So if I leave the door to my house unlocked and you walk in and take my stuff it wouldn't be stealing?

Honestly, this was pretty all over the place and seems more like a stream of consciousness than any sort of proper comparison between the two markets. Sounds like he's been getting annoyed by support requests lately and decided to write a rant ("comparison") about his Android market experience.

"To start, we're jointly announcing that new devices from participating partners..." (Verizon, HTC, Samsung, Sprint, Sony Ericsson, LG, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Motorola and AT&T) "...will receive the latest Android platform upgrades for 18 months after the device is first released, as long as the hardware allows."

That to me is the most significant of all the announcements listed.

Seems to be FUD. I've been using multiple Android devices for years with my router and it's not listed on there at all.

Interesting back story http://www.businessinsider.com/boy-genius-online-poker-scand...

Actually, I believe in this case iOS users are paying because they're conditioned to pay. I don't think the quality argument for this ssh client really holds water.

Maybe Android users are just more discerning in who they give their money to?