And this post citing the obvious gets upvoted to the main page and the app ecosystem for touchless user interfaces i built over 2 years and posted to HN at the same time gets unoticed. Lame.
It's immoral that governments take poeples money and use it for intents orthogonal to those original people intents, e.g. war, subsidies to monopolies such as the oil industry, corruption, etc.
Google on the other hand provides a great services for free and acessible to everyone. I would prefer my taxes to go to google; and if they would become government they would be much more efficient than any government out there.
By the way google if you want a toy country to try stuff, try Portugal. This goverment could use some help and they are some nice people who support the private initiative.
Politicy makers are dumb. They took ages to resolve an issue such as availability to choose the default browser on an operating system, yet, in their closed world of waiting for their retirement checks, they, and their fault of ideals in their confortable sofas do no address the :
simple issue of hardware and operating system separation.
The most boring presentation ever. He is like, so i created google, so i don't have to make an effort to show excitement in my new product, that's for the marketing and sales.
No onstage demo, jizuz i always present my stuff live ! that's where the emotions are.
If the guy that invented sms patented 140 char messages there would be no twitter. Or irc messages, or smoke signals, or X where one people sends a text message to others.
Patents are a bureocratic perversion that do not acomplish any progress to humanity, they just perpetuate the bureocratic system itself.
Google closing reader was probably something to do with the French un-digital papers that wanted the interwebs going to their website-o-pages to read content there.
Should have been coded in python :( .
Whenever i see a project that i think is cool and then see that it has been coded in languages other than js, c++ or python i consider it just for my usage, and not for my contributions as developer.
I divide my days into coding and planting seeds+farming, and i like very much both tasks. My opinion is that there is a bandwidth for everything, but kids should follow their passions and do what they love best.
When i'll be a parent i'll teach them this because it's lovely, and that ! oh but this skill is amazing also ! There is bandwidth for most everything but above all your kids will copy you and see what you love and probably get inspired to follow their own path.
So teach them to do what they love and love what they do ! and teach them to feel happy above all. But teach them by being that example yourself !
Manning was just a kid, playing games, never thought he was doing something that these skeletors of society would pursue him in the future for.
And again, something that had no consequences gets a kid to suffer the rest of his life, just to keep military and courts and other "serious people" all of which that could also be seen as criminals of bigger crimes such as inflicting pain for a living (military instead of farmers and abundance, lawyers and judges instead of friendship and disputes in games and drinks). And these military go to war with the mote to spread freedom and democracy, what for ? to arrest kids for life ?
Skeletors of the world... grow up, relax, have a beer and life for the swords to plow shares or tanks to tractors, or drones to aerial seed planters!
I can't use Ubuntu, I've tried countless times, the experience sucks. I'm trying mint, and i can't even access latest libraries, everything is old, no partition resizing during installation, lack of distro tools and lack of polish; in mageia everything is fresh and if it not the free support quickly updates them.
Mandriva had rolling releases with cooker and mageia has also with cauldron. Sorry for looking like a troll but i never got the hype with this ubuntu distro, i wish HN supported mageia more since distrowatch even reports mageia as the number two more popular distro.
The creators of DF could partner with some game studio to create a nice GUI for playing, or create an API that could allow for beter interfaces to evolve, the tilesets are great, but custom tutorials would be awesome.
I tried playing DF once but was overwhelmed with the information and didn't try again, and i used to play nethack and adom.
I also recommend ADOM for those who like nethack and redrogue that is a roguelike meets platformer, very nice !
What about a petition to prevent lawmakers from creating legislation that turns regular people into criminals.
One simple legislation to rule them all. The GOML (Get off my lawn) law.
The two games i enjoyed the most in 2012 were played in linux:
FTL Faster Than light, Redrogue.
I don't care much about fancy graphics, i prefer a good story and gameplay.