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1. 181.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   Apologies to RMS, I really meant GNU/Linux ;)
2. 182.▲
   Poll: Do you still use Windows? do you intend to?

   8 points by gstar 18y ago|20 comments
3. 183.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   I use Windows mainly and intend to keep doing so.
4. 184.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   I use Windows mainly, but only because I have to.
5. 185.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   I use Windows but I intend to change.
6. 186.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   I use whatever OS I need to do the job.
7. 187.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   I use Linux mainly.
8. 188.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   I use Mac OS X mainly.
9. 189.▲
   by gstar 18y ago

   That's brilliant looking, and I bet it gets rid of drag from wingtip vortices and stuff. How cool! I hope this makes it into airliners, it'll be all Jetsons!
10. 190.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    Thoroughly agree!
11. 191.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    No, but the principle of the hackers diet is to keep doing it. I'm hoping that something I read recently about people likely having two different weight equilibriums (can't find a link) holds true.
12. 192.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    The trouble is, if you're unmotivated and your results aren't visible, time spent out of the office usually is vacation.
13. 193.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    I wouldn't read too much into how other people behave on here. I'm argumentative, rambling and usually off-topic, and most likely to satisfy my requirement for cognitive dissonance, I've carefully ignored my karma so that my personality on
14. 194.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    The hacker's diet is a perfect example of a watched metric improving just by being watched. When I needed to lose weight recently, I watched what I eat (in a google docs spreadsheet) and weighed myself every day, and lost 10kg in about 10 w
15. 195.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    Apologies in advance if this is rambling. I'm an IT contractor (never done web for money). My opinion was formulated based on my experience managing an IT division over 5 years or so and also doing various PM and architecture roles. You ca
16. 196.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    I thought it was a genetic algorithm writing an article somehow You have great intuition, because it actually was!
17. 197.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    The key point that I was trying to make is that IB is fundamentally separate from the code that is running in the application. In traditional RAD tools like VB, Delphi and Powerbuilder the interface and application logic are one and the sa
18. 198.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    You've got some good points, but Interface Builder (and I imagine Atlas) departs fundamentally from VB and PowerBuilder in that the code doesn't live directly behind the GUI elements. Instead, it's connected by a series of inlets and outle
19. 199.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    I can't give this topic the justice it deserves in an HN comment, but yes I'll clarify. In 10 years time, the "IT Department" virtually won't exist at most small-mid size businesses. I think a lot of business software is going to be taken o
20. 200.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    My punt is that Apple is going to make a big enterprise play in the next 2-3 years. Time is ripe, and it can be done without a big investment in capital. Wait until Steve Jobs publicly denounces enterprise IT as a business with no future.
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    by gstar 18y ago

    Fantastic. RAD tools for the web haven't ever been done properly. This could be huge. The funny thing is, it actually looks quicker and easier than IB - probably because Objective-J is interpreted and runs in the browser, and it has the co
22. 202.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    Hey, I said life - nobody said anything about brown trousers. Thanks for your concern though, and I'll just clean up with this copy of the Mirror.
23. 203.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    I'm always personifying companies, reading it back, realising Americans won't like it, and then awkwardly trying to rephrase it to avoid the issue.
24. 204.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    I (obviously) agree. You might see some reticence to post here though, as TC is a bit of a cabal and nobody with a public profile wants to shake the cage.
25. 205.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    I'm chuffed that a respectable outfit like last.fm publishes a blog post with a title like that. About time. Techcrunch has been on the inflection point of "mattering" to the wider public, which scares the life out of me!
26. 206.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    Rubbish title - and also the author drinks a lot of kool-aid (does that taste like Ribena?) A Mozilla monoculture would be just as harmful as an MSIE or Webkit monoculture, in my opinion. Also, Mozilla is pretty expandable, but it seems lik
27. 207.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    Why do you need to be a millionaire though? I think working for yourself, on (mostly) your own terms on your own product that you're passionate about is more meaningful than the box you might one day tick next to millionaire. There's no ri
28. 208.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    I haven't used windows in a few years, but after clicking through to that article and looking at the screenshot my instant response to seeing the disk manager was shudder . Does Windows 7 really still manage disks using the same highly bro
29. 209.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    Thanks for sharing, very candid and interesting.
30. 210.▲
    by gstar 18y ago

    2 weeks? Call me a pessimist, but I think the era of getting funding and building a product with two weeks labour investment from one engineer isn't going to continue. Quite apart from that, building the business is a much bigger concern th