jorgecastillo

I won't be adding much to the conversation but I really feel I need to say this. If Sony doesn't release this film I am not buying a Sony product ever again.

Thank for your feedback, I'll be more specific.

After all is said and done, Google is still the fairest company and the Google ecosystem is the most open. Seriously, can you imagine a world with out Google? Can you imagine a world were we're at the mercy of Apple & Microsoft? I just can't stomach that with Apple & Microsoft you have to pay to program your own device! You can dislike and criticize Google all you want this doesn't change the facts.

I had more esteem for Amazon, after this I definitely view Amazon in a different light. I am glad the only thing I buy from Amazon is books. In a few years when I have more time & money, I'll keep this in mind and maybe go directly to the publishers. I don't forget this sort of thing. Some time ago there was an article titled 'Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home'. Not that I was too fond of the Motorola brand before, but since then if I know a someone is buying a smartphone, I advice then not to buy Motorola.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5973282

After reading most comments here, the linked announcement, your blog post & some other websites, I only have one question left. If Microsoft releases their code under the MIT license, will mono follow suit and stop using the GPL?

As you say this news is great for C# developers. The rest of us couldn't care less.

I am not going to apply or anything but I got really curious reading this "REMOTE from US East Coast, Western Europe, China, Brazil, Mexico or Japan". Do you have any particular reason to limit your remote workers to this areas? Why exclude Eastern Europe, South Korea, Canada, Australia, etc?

I don't know, I think the past was definitely better but there is no point in thinking about it. You just have to move forward and not lose hope.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

I would definitely be interested in hearing this story.

An open source stack is not just a stack it's also a community & to me personally it's a way of living. More importantly you can drive the destiny of that community & software. If as a developer you invest your time in open source you won't regret it. Your destiny is in your hands and not in the hands of some random engineering in a big corporation.

The worst that could happen it that you end up having to take part in maintaining some piece of critical software to you but with a small community. That doesn't sound so bad, the worst that could happen with a proprietary stack (Visual Basic 6) it that the owner forces you to move to some new shiny thing.

>And I do think there are broad swathes of the political establishment that are really invested in keeping America dumb.

To me this sounds as crazy as thinking that the US government knew about 9/11. Unless your under living under extraordinary circumstances (a disease bankrupting you, etc) nothing can stop you from learning. People choose how they spend their free time if they choose to watch TV instead of learning, it's their own choice not some mandate from the establishment.

I hope I don't get down voted, but unless you're being schooled in a hovel and/or lack decent living conditions, it's up to you. No one is a self-made man, every successful man has been supported in some way by society, but there is a certain threshold at which you can't blame circumstances. I support public education from kindergarten to PhD level, but I don't think everyone needs to have the best education possible. Everyone should have access to proper conditions for learning, then it's up to the students to learn or not to learn.

I think this depends on the personal criterion of each user. At less in my personal use I find that Linux is much more user friendly than Windows. On the long term I am sure they will be better of using Linux even if the transition didn't work out as well as they thought. I don't think the use of Linux in the public sector should be encouraged only to save money. Widespread use of Linux will also help encourage the development of a local tech scene.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, I am not even going to read this article.

DigitalOcean

Wolfram Alpha

You can't imagine how much value this services provide for me, they are worth every cent.

Quite frankly if we put in a balance everything good and bad Google has ever done, the positive things they've done outweigh the negative things by a ton. I think that of all the tech companies Google is the most awesome. Seriously I am glad I don't have to pay an Apple tax or a Microsoft tax to develop mobile apps. I am grateful that Android is OSS just for that Google will always have my sympathy.

My favorite operating system, unfortunately I had to uninstall it since I intend to learn Android development. If you haven't tried it yet & it looks like it has the software you need I invite you to give it a try.

This is the best answer so far, I also like programming but I am not sure if I'll ever be able to make a living out of it. Either way my free time will always be spent the way I like! XD

I think that all this "get people to code" movement is bullshit. If you like programming you are going to do it no matter what. For some years I was without a computer, but I still managed to program in my smartphone. I will always like programming regardless of the outcome. If one day I become successful because of this great. If not at least I lived my life the way I like.

If you want a real quick tour of different programming languages I would instead recommend.

http://learnxinyminutes.com/

You have probably never even tried OpenBSD or you wouldn't even be saying this. You are saying factually incorrect things about OpenBSD, in fact blatantly false libelous lies. OpenBSD has a huge number of precompiled packages, the needs of the average user are probably covered with the available packages. The only thing I miss in OpenBSD is VirtualBox and the Android SDK other than that every other piece of software I used in Linux is available as a package. I can do the same things in OpenBSD as I can in Linux, music, videos, Libre Office, web browsing, programming, etc. Software is not extremely outdated, some packages do get a little outdated from release to release, this is barely noticeable and not a huge issue.

http://www.openbsd.org/

https://stable.mtier.org/

http://openports.se/

I use Chromium (logged in) as my main browser but if I try this queries in Firefox with a clean profile I get the expected results. So no Bing and Google are not equivalent I get much better results with Google. Next semester when I return to school I'll check my queries from the school network to see if Google gives me the expected result from there. Either way I like Google more than Microsoft and I rather switch to Yandex than to Bing if it ever comes to that.

I don't think Bing is as good as Google, no other search engine in the world can compete with Google, at least when it comes to content in English. Google can almost read my mind, I can't say the same about competing search engines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011954

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504324

I don't think anything can compete with Google when it comes to search in English. I almost feel like Google can read my mind. With the adequate query you can find anything you've ever read on the internet if it's still online. Yesterday night I wanted to re-read a blog post about a guy that made a few bucks with QNX, but I didn't remember much I tried a few queries and I got the expected blog post with this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=netherlands+blog+qnx+a+few+b...

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-make-a-quick-buck

I just tried the same query with DDG and Bing and they don't even come close to giving me the link I want.

Now I will have to share my own library story. When I was in middle school I loved going to the library, reading books, comics, manga , magazines. In summer I used to go very often to the library. I would walk from my house to my local public library and go straight to he bathroom so that I could wipe the sweat from my face and arms. I've had some of my happiest memories in that library. I will share my most significant experiences.

The computers at the local public library had Windows (XP maybe?), we could use them for an hour or more depending on how many people wanted to use the computers. They also had computers in a kid section which had some games and limited internet access (the library's portal) and some more computers in another section which only had access to the library's portal. Once I was using a computer which was only supposed to be used to check books, somehow I discovered that a lot of times the library's portal also had a link to the item in Amazon, and from Amazon I could get into Google and then to any website. I got caught and scolded by a librarian, she told me "If you ever used this computers to get into the internet again, we are going to cancel your library card" or something like, well I never used those computers for the internet again. I used the ones in the kids section and it felt awesome.

Another significant thing that at that time didn't seem that significant was when I checked out a thick programming book on C or C++ I am not sure. I had a vague idea about what a program was and I had read thick books before. I didn't even had a computer at my house but I was so curious. I opened it tried to make sense out of the text but I couldn't, it seemed like Chinese. The next day I returned the book and I never again got interested in programming until high school.

Wow! I didn't know that, I've always thought it was written in Perl.

I you don't want to miss anything use a feed reader that stays up 24 hours. Since I don't have a server and I a power off my computer when I am not using it, I use Feedly.

This looks awesome, if I had more free time and I was more capable I would apply. Good luck!

I like this link better.

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

Damn! now I am depressed. What more can I say the first sentence says it all. Adding to my comment would be pointless.