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A lot of what he mentioned can be done without writing a line of code. He is basically talking about a large scale home automation system with a voice interface to it

Even if you can find your package in the repos, you can always build from source if you like. In that case it a ./configure && make && make install away

I can't speak for OSX, but Ubuntu beats Windows these days in terms of usability, mainly because the software ecosystem is not polluted with crapware like it is with windows. If I …

This has to be a joke site satirically poking fun at all the "learn to code" sites that seem to be popping up every day.

Fascinating. This article (esp the part about young people not even thinking about their future knowing its already decided for them) reminds me of the novel 'Never Let Me Go' by K…

Makes perfect sense to me. Webber and RedBull are not on good terms therefore RedBull doesn't give him Traction Control esp since there's a good possibility that he might blow the …

I'm sure if a starving child in Africa read your post they would be angry that someone went out of their way to get angry over another person making very personal decision. There a…

Shocked that the top comment is not just another one criticizing or trying to diminish something about the article/story.

You are right. When I first joined HN reading comments was my favourite part. I would be in awe of all these intelligent and insightful people, I would often skip entire articles a…

I see nothing in what you said other than subjective anecdotes. >> How exactly have their decisions "paid off"? The main complaint over the last year and a half against ubuntu esp …

This post is nothing but a nice heaping of FUD. Looking at it from a distance the decisions made the Ubuntu brass have largely paid off. I like many others had my doubts when I ini…

This goes without saying but no one is forcing you to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10. 12.10 is not an LTS release so naturally you should stick to 12.04 if you don't want any of the k…

While ORM level validations are nice to have, they are in no way substitutes for database level constraints. Just relying on ORM level validations is like saying "hey I'm doing err…

Did you read the article? It clearly states that the "species" is unstable, prone to health problems and has major reproductive issues. What do you expect is going to happen if the…

The entire thing is solved by bothering to look at the caption on top of the info-graphic. Even if you don't read the associated article, it's reasonable to expect that a viewer is…

It's a shame that the ridiculous amount of hyperbole involved in anything that Stallman seems to say these days is probably reducing his stature among the tech community and the hi…

Using D3 for simple straightforward graphs (ie. where you just wanna throw some data in and get a generic graph out) is like using Rails for a simple 1 page static html site.

Why would having a fix width be a problem? In my mind the alternative is the canvas automatically expanding to the right and thereby requiring horizontal scrolling through the brow…

It might be, the design was different but this seems like an excellent resource too. Thanks!

This is slightly offtopic but there used to be a clone of Hacker News that someone created. It was HN without all the startup stuff, instead focusing on hardcore technical topics. …

Every developer is familiar with Shell and Unix tools, it's trivially simple to lookup documentation and get something working really quick with unix utilities even if you are not …

I don't see this as a problem at all. I don't know if remembering the entire body of knowledge by heart is even possible for the average human being. I like to compare learning in …

It's amazing that considering Ruby's philosphy we didn't have named arguments until now. I think this was a case where the idiom of using hashes as named arguments working well eno…

BB10 does indeed have an Android Player and in my experience it works pretty well. I played with it earlier in the year and while it did not support apps that made JNI calls at tha…

While this had a happy ending, can you imagine an alternate universe where the founders for whatever reason decided not to hire the guy? Leading him on for several months, making h…