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Pretty sure you can compile Objective-C on Windows, since gcc supports it, and OpenStep worked on Windows.

It's Apple's libraries you don't get on Windows.

> It's ridiculous to say we broke things for many people.

Two weeks ago, I had to swap my company's network over to OpenDNS because Google DNS was having an outage. And then a day later, I spent 2 hours trying to chase down a problem running something that turned out was a result of OpenDNS feeding a page full of ads to something that was expecting JSON.

You might not have broken things for all the people that continued to use your service, but you broke things for people like me. And this is a place where people like me hang out....

mdellabittaon Model M keyboard

Relevant subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards

mdellabittaon LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

This essentially IS LXDE.. That project's developers merged with another team to work on this. LXDE's going to be maintained for a while, but I imagine it won't get as much attention anymore.

mdellabittaon Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files

In NYC, you can check out Park Audio, Tekserve, and B&H (although B&H had horrible amplification last I checked).

mdellabittaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)

Appinions, New York

Software Engineer

Appinions is a SaaS Platform provider, helping Fortune 1000 companies like IBM, Oracle, Nissan, and Dell with Influence Marketing. Our platform uses patented natural-language processing and social network analysis technology developed at Cornell University to help companies identify and manage the people, ideas, and publications that drive their market.

Skills & Requirements:

As a Full Stack Developer (Java & Javascript) you will be involved in design and implementation of a range of new capabilities built on top of our influence-based data platform. You'll work with amazing data apis and an great set of developers and researchers to produce compelling and scalable web-applications. Our senior engineers typically have at least 3 years of Java web development under their belt, but you should have a keen understanding of web application technologies both front-end and back. We currently use the Spring framework so some experience with Spring is ideal. You should have a strong grasp of common OO design patterns, familiarity with a variety of data-stores, and a passion for good API design and performance.

What You'll Do:

Work in a team environment to build the next generation of influence-based applications Play an important role in design and implementation of an important new set of internal APIs Develop awesome new features front to back (using Java and JavaScript) Work with a team of developers and researchers ( who specialize in natural language processing, social network analysis) to create create scalable web apps with elegant, user-friendly design Requirements:

5+ years web development experience both server and client-side web-development Ability to architect complex applications using frameworks and APIs Familiarity with Java Experience with client-side HTML/CSS/JSON/Javascript/JQuery/AJAX Experience with server-side frameworks (Spring MVC/REST/Node.js) Working knowledge with a variety of relational and nosql data stores (mysql, mongodb, hbase, redis) Familiarity with cloud environment a plus (e.g., AWS) Basic unix shell skills * Strong user experience instincts Perks:

Work in our mid-town offices Health, Dental, Equity, other benefits Competitive compensation Advancement opportunities

I'm an engineer here at Appinions, so feel free to AMA!

mdellabittaon Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots

Why is the Hypercard one a picture of MacOS 6's Control Panel?

mdellabittaon Ubuntu 14.04 released

To my eye, XFCE in Xubuntu looks a lot better than in ootb Debian. Might want to give that a whirl.

Also you check out tint2, which is a nice 3rd party panel also used in Crunchbang.

mdellabittaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

Appinons - http://appinions.com - New York, NY

Appinions Inc. is a Manhattan-based startup that provides a SaaS influence marketing platform and services that let people see the web through the lens of peoples’ opinions. Behind the services is a natural language understanding platform, based on over a decade of research at Cornell University by Dr. Claire Cardie, Computer Science, and her students.

We're mainly a Java-based shop, and heavily use Hadoop/HStack, AWS, Spring, and JQuery. We focus mostly on front end user experience, big data, identity discovery, and NLP problems in free text.

Right now, we're mainly looking for full-stack style engineers, but we're in a growth mode, so if you think you can help us out, by all means, submit your resume!

http://www.appinions.com/company/careers/

mdellabittaon Fucking Shell Scripts

At my workplace, we just coined the phrase 'tickslexic' for when you can't remember what type of quotation character to use.

mdellabittaon SR-71 In-Flight Breakup

The cesium in the fuel and exhaust wasn't all that great.

mdellabittaon Prefer mercurial to git

I guess part of the issue is that Stallman came up with "Free Software," so there's obviously a version of the meaning of the term which is entirely up to Stallman.

If you agree there's a wider meaning of the term, then it's up to context whether someone's making a no true Scotsman argument or rationalizing the behavior of an antagonist.

Just pointing this out, because you might as well be arguing the meta-point about there being a cathedral of the meaning of "Free Software," or a bazaar. Hah.

mdellabittaon Prefer mercurial to git

Apparently, decay on the disk itself is sometimes caused by cosmic rays:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbbym/index.htm...

mdellabittaon Google wins everything (part 1)

Was it just me, or did the list at the beginning remind anyone else of http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm?

mdellabittaon Startups that have bootstrapped their way to profitability

http://www.squarespace.com was bootstrapped.

mdellabittaon Too many electric cars, not enough workplace chargers

Is it just me, or is the solution not to add more chargers, but to add more cables connected to a single charger, and have it round robin charge all the attached vehicles throughout the day?

mdellabittaon Poll: What level of math is programming roughly analogous to?

> Programming isn't analogous to math

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry-Howard_isomorphism

mdellabittaon FreeNAS 9.2 is out

No, FreeNAS uses ZFS for RAID. Generally, you want to disable any RAID features in your card so it presents the disks as JBOD to the OS to avoid incompatibilities, which he did.

mdellabittaon Paid maternity leave world maps for mothers and fathers

It should be said that this poster does not speak for all Americans, and not even a majority of them.

mdellabittaon Emacs My Way

Don't install any plugins. Emacs is definitely usable out of the box. One of the attractions to it is that it's a meta-editor environment that you can use to build any editor you want, but you don't have to. Only bother installing a plugin if you have an itch to scratch, and you'll be fine.

mdellabittaon HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster

The verbosity is not only comprised of long method names.

mdellabittaon Artificial intelligence: Our final invention?

I can modify my brain fairly easily. The trick is to modify it for the better, which I haven't mastered so much. :)

mdellabittaon Everything you need to know to install SteamOS

What makes you say that? It definitely is a Valve product...

mdellabittaon IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released

IDEA's done Android for years now. And now it's the basis of Google's Android Studio.

mdellabittaon Announcing Scala.js v0.1

Imagine a polyglot project where some major .Net libraries are already in use, but ongoing development or integration was done in Scala.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but there's a use case there.

mdellabittaon Spotify Raises $250 Million, Valued Above $4 Billion

Also, Google Music works a hell of a lot better on Android and Linux than Spotify ever did... I just wish you could keep Google from crapping free tracks all over your library.

mdellabittaon "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.

I use Kupfer in Xubuntu. It's sort of similar to Quicksilver on the Mac: http://engla.github.io/kupfer/

mdellabittaon Elon Musk defiant in face of federal investigation of Tesla [video]

> Do you know what car is least likely to catch fire? A horse.

Actually, their fuel source conveys a significant fire risk:

http://bchanicker.org/2013/09/27/risk-of-spontaneous-combust...

mdellabittaon Scroogled Keep Calm Mug

http://mashable.com/2013/11/18/xbox-one-facts/

"The Xbox team has stressed that the motion-capturing camera Kinect, which is bundled with every Xbox One, is a much more sophisticated device than its predecessor. The camera can see a lot more of what is happening in the room; it can sense the number of people, see their skeletons, monitor heartbeats and even recognize faces."

At least Google can't see my skeleton...

mdellabittaon Understand closures

The behavior of the "I don't believe you" buttons was only slightly annoying, but then I made the mistake of clicking the "now i do" button, too. :)