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You will learn a lot with a tandem coder

fromhet — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:42:23 +0000

Article URL: http://cretscard.com/blog/2012-12-08-the_tandem_coder_manifesto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4892787

Points: 2

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New comment by fromhet in "Software on Steam"

fromhet — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:11:24 +0000

Some people seem to fail to understand that Steam is yet another package manager, but this time filled with only non-free stuff, in a way that has so much DRM it's unusable in any ways but the intended one.

Steam on linux is, I think, a big problem for us. There will be dpkg (or whatever your distro chose). This one will install apps in a way that is consistent with the system, and with POSIX. Then, there will be steam. Steam is used because it is the only way to get apps people want. I do not own a game I paid for on Steam. Not even in the way I own non-free apps like Alfred or Ableton Live. I don't have a right to use them, I am merely allowed to do so.

I understand that it is in Valves interest to lock us down like this. But in this case, their interest is against ours, the users.

New comment by fromhet in "Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit"

fromhet — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:20:30 +0000

Thank you very much, I'll start using this! Very elegant solution, indeed.

New comment by fromhet in "Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit"

fromhet — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:53:02 +0000

In the article, OP explains that they (there should be a gender neutral singular pronoun in english) are in middle of analyzing data from a certain income group who are used to getting around the web, who handle both desktops and phones. It's in the first or second paragraph!

New comment by fromhet in "Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords"

fromhet — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:44:03 +0000

This is without doubt terrible, we all know that. But it is not uncommon that web services leak passwords, so common that we are quite accustomed to it and expect it to happen from time to time.

This is not the right way to deal with the problem.

Authentication security for cloud services should be something that sits in the browser, not (only) on the server. This is done by 2factor auth, but that too relies too much on the server admin being good with security.

Maybe one solution would be that the router everyone has at home doubles as file server, and that all webapps files are stored there instead on the remote server? That would move the responsibility away from web devs (who often behave irresponsibly) to the ones writing the os for the router.

There are of course many ideas that are better than mine, but to let web devs have control of this is evidently not a good one. Something needs to change.

New comment by fromhet in "Google for Entrepreneurs"

fromhet — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:44:35 +0000

Seeing this made me really realize that Google is huge. Huger than I could imagine.

I remember vividly when I first saw Google.com. I think it was at the end of the millennia. They got bigger in small increments, but now they are enormous.

New comment by fromhet in "Amazon search results in the Dash"

fromhet — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:10:13 +0000

The first result when I googled "donate ubuntu" was this link: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate

It's not super hard to do. If we all gave them $20 for each new version (something they truly deserve) they would not be in dire straits.

New comment by fromhet in "Amazon search results in the Dash"

fromhet — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:07:23 +0000

The music lens searches thru your music library. When the files containing the music are outside of the library, they are treated as files, not as songs. Is it really so strange?

New comment by fromhet in "Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed"

fromhet — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:11:20 +0000

Being profitable is not a 'shortterm end'.

New comment by fromhet in "Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed"

fromhet — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:09:44 +0000

Why would Canonical do that? This is one of the streams that help pay designers and developers. When I bought my phone I did not complain about not giving the money to EFF or GNU. When I bought my car I did not wish for a slider about donating some to Audi OR Costco OR give it to the gov. It's just, well, not something a bussiness would do.

New comment by fromhet in "Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed"

fromhet — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:05:10 +0000

That would make it very non-free software. And that is what ubuntu is trying to not be.

New comment by fromhet in "Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed"

fromhet — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:18:59 +0000

Is this in any way different than having Google as default search engine, taking a share of music sold via the music library or taking a share of what software is sold via the in-os-app-store?

Nothing shitty, I bet many (not you guys who read HN, but non-power users) will like this feature. I don't think I'll disable it.

And that: it's possible to disable, that is nice.

New comment by fromhet in "Introducing the Command Bar"

fromhet — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:01:28 +0000

Vimium is awful compared to pentadactyl.

New comment by fromhet in "The Declaration of Twitter Independence"

fromhet — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:00:55 +0000

Develop for status.net then? They don't have the user base, but if you make a killer app that runs there but not on twitter, well, you'll still win. If not, it's twitters fault they will fail when all 3rd party devs get new projects.

New comment by fromhet in "Introducing the Command Bar"

fromhet — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:30:53 +0000

Not leaving the keyboard is one big thing. I ditched webkit for Firefox in order to be able to use Pentadactyl, but it's worth it to not have to leave the home row.

Learning a few commands is not hard, and there is always the ol' mouse to fall back upon if you don't want to remember all those commands.

New comment by fromhet in "Want to learn Rails? Start here."

fromhet — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:38:28 +0000

So basically

1: Study it

2: When you're lost, research and ask someone

New comment by fromhet in "X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old"

fromhet — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:53:06 +0000

Here is a programmers.se question on the subject of X vs web that y'all may be interested in: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/165041/why-di...

New comment by fromhet in "How I Learned to Defrag My Brain"

fromhet — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:46:44 +0000

Why is google not avaliable in the list of services at leaknotifier? That is something many of us use.

New comment by fromhet in "Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox respond to Miguel De Icaza on Linux Desktop woes"

fromhet — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:56:13 +0000

I think it is more about people being exposed to Windows and Macintoshes. If my non-technical parents had Ubuntu at their jobs and their computer were shipped with it, do you think they would even dream about searching for a new OS to learn?

New comment by fromhet in "Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox respond to Miguel De Icaza on Linux Desktop woes"

fromhet — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:52:55 +0000

Oh don't tell people how they feel about things! There are hordes of non-programmers (or their likes) using Ubuntu, even if they could choose Windows or Mac. Neither my SO or brother can code and they have rarely if ever been in a terminal, but are both very happy with Ubuntu.