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As someone who recently moved from XP to 7, my review can be summed up as "it works".

Feels just as fast as XP, and the new UI is a neutral/positive change. The best feature is the configurable systray settings (always show, always hide, hide but show notifications).

Admittedly, I use my desktop for video games and internet, and 7 seems to work great for that (as opposed to the launch version of Vista).

edit Forgot to say that "good enough" may not be good enough to restore faith in Windows for those burned by the Vista launch, but if you bought a new computer and it had 7 no tears would be shed. That alone might be enough to keep users.
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Besides the useful contents I enjoyed this:

>If you see a typo, a spelling mistake, an error, or any other issue, please tell me about it by opening a case in my issue tracker or by sending me an e-mail.
Could you point me to some further reading about the criticisms of KIPP? I've noticed obvious incompatibilities between their philosophy and the research catalogued by Alfie Kohn, but he obviously doesn't bring up KIPP by name.
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Interesting -- I've also experienced that. Sometimes it's because I can't think of the word I want to use in one language, but an equivalent word in the other language gets stuck in my mind.

More info here:
http://www.stutteringhelp.org/DeskLeftDefault.aspx?TabID=156
Oh the MPEG-LA have definitely got patents, but it's a bit uncharitable to characterize their first-hit-is-free strategy for web video as lurking.
After reading, my mind was drawn to road signs which share the same principle. Seeing a sign with a picture of two people standing awkwardly would not put "crosswalk" into my mind. Also, I notice that the color of a sign itself is significant. The red X in the corner of my browser shows color plays a role here too.
Nice collection ! Community moderation/features would be nice.
The little features of the FF buttons work well for me, though.

For example, you don't need a New Tab button (it's not enabled by default anyway) - middle-click the Home button instead.

And if I want to create a new tab with the current URL, I middle-click the Refresh button.
You may want to consider playing with other color schemes. IMHO, the current palette makes the site look a little dated.
"disaster" is a but harsh, but i think perhaps a better implementation would've been to supplement the existing layout with this as another view option. i like that its almost purely visual, but imagine if apple entirely replaced finder's lists with coverflow.

and, impact?! IMPACT?!
Would be a lot more useful organized in ways other than alphabetically. Hm...
Nice, I actually hoped someone would just send me a link to something I didn't know about. This isn't quite as simple as I was hoping, but it may be easier than otherwise.
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I'd love to see more of these types of requests, i's nice to see unique problems people are facing and sometimes you find out about services that solve those problems that you didn't know existed.
Compatibility isn't much of an issue unless you are doing something low level with the NDK, or are using an API that has changed significantly between versions (most are fairly stable). Otherwise just follow the recommendations from the Android team for different screen sizes, etc.

I haven't released my app yet and it's going to be free initially anyway, so I don't have any direct observations on revenue.
Strictly in terms of different cultures, more cultures have polygamy than strict monogamy. If the advantage was evolutionary, you would not find so many cultures that have a degree on polygamy.

Polyandry on the other hand, is extremely rare which makes complete sense when factoring in the effort required for a woman to raise her children.

http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/worldcul/Codebook4EthnoA...

# of cultures - Maritial Composition:
36 - Missing Data
186 - Independent nuclear, monogamous
453 - Independent nuclear, occasional polygyny
69 - Preferentially sororal, cowives in same dwelling
18 - Preferentially sororal, cowives in separate dwellings
344 - Non-sororal, cowives in separate dwellings
157 - Non-sororal, cowives in same dwelling
4 - Independent polyandrous families
Wow. These guys are not timid about trying changes.
By appending version suffixes by your self, all your clients/apps must be made aware of the current version suffixe and coordinate it (say you have multiple files with different version), can get real messy. And with that method, there is no way to mimic deletes either.

I think the main goal of S3 is to provide a dropbox like feature. You can simply PUT/GET/DELETE/COPY just like before and not worry about version control... and s3 just transparently handles it for you
Great article. This is why symbolism is so important. You reduce the cognitive load to the absolute lowest level while still getting your point across, so it takes less time to interpret.
Time shifting is reproduction. Me scanning a book because I want to read it on my computer is reproduction. Both are prima facie copyright infringements that are justified by fair use. I'm not sure what the legal definition of distribution is, but copyright law primarily concerns making copies.
That's more a function of the community here. No guarantees that billg would have an equally good community. How many "windoze suxx" comments do you think would get voted up on every article?
I'm from the UK and languages education here is (or at least was when I was at school) horrific. We didn't start learning a second language until secondary school (age 11/12) and the only options available were french and very basic german.

My french teacher couldn't speak french properly - she used to look stuff up in study guides and read it, pretty badly, to us. Much of the focus was on memorising lists of words rather than learning to build sentences etc. I don't think my experience was that unusual.

The argument that native english speakers shouldn't bother learning other languages because everyone else is learning english is common, but ridiculous. We all travel and migrate more than we used to and this trend will presumably increase over time.

Being the odd one out in a group because you only speak english feels like a disability in many places. It's especially embarrassing when the group speaks english to include you thus highlighting the difference even more.

I didn't know languages education was voluntary in the US. I would have assumed that most children, especially those in California, would be required to learn spanish. Maybe some french for those living near the border with french speaking parts of Canada. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It's well established that learning a foreign language is easiest as a child. Perhaps the best way to make a monolingual nation multilingual is to adopt a policy of favouritism in hiring teachers for young children who are bi-lingual.
I use mc on osx/linux, and far on Windows. Great products!
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Thanks for the information - glad to hear you haven't found compatibility too much of a problem. I don't plan to do any low-level stuff that might cause a problem.
Nearly every American has two years of a foreign language in high school, and nearly every college requires two more years. I started Spanish in 7th grade and ended up with 5 years of study. However, I don't use is and as such, I've lost it.
There's a joke in the title somewhere.
Gladwell is sloppy, but to be fair, in that essay, it seemed like Greenspun was out to avenge Pinker (MIT). It was more attack than criticism.
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Four fun facts about sloths
Corporate Intranets usually have Home bound to some Kiosk style information page. This is the starting point for most corporate application journeys in this setup.

So it can be quite useful for staff to got straight to the Homepage no matter whose terminal they are sitting at.
I'm only arguing against the blanket statement that there is no such thing as victimless tort.

As for the distribution issue, unless there are actual damages I still don't think the copyright owner is a victim.

That's like saying that you are a victim if someone walks across your property without permission. They may not be legally able to do that (in the US), but if the act does not affect you in any way, you can not justifiably claim to be a victim.
In Google Chrome, the new tab page is actually quite useful, so I use the home button all the time.
Study shows that better gamers have bigger brains, are better learners too
MapReduce for Idiots - using only bash and php
Ofcom to charge terminated downloaders to appeal
You have a couple of cheat sheets of mine in your directory, which I appreciate. However, you directly link to the PDFs. It would be nice if you included a link to my site that lists the sheets I've made. Maybe on the source page for my name?
Where's the control group? The study seems to compare two skills in bilingual kids only. It's interesting, but it doesn't seem to tell us anything about the advantage of speaking 2 languages.. like single language kids could read 2x as fast and the results wouldn't change.. or those words may happen to be easy ones anyway (seems somewhat likely if they happened to occur if those combinations of letters happened to appear in both languages).
Unfortunately a recent trend in native app design is to remove more or less essential elements, such as the menu bar. This makes it a lot harder to scan the UI looking for a particular piece of functionality: you have to guess which button is actually a menu, and which submenu of that menu the thing you're looking for is hiding under.

For example, Chrome doesn't have a nice and simple Bookmarks menu like FF (or Favorites in IE). You have to waste an entire chunk of vertical space on a "Bookmarks Toolbar" before you can access the button which is actually a menu, under which the bookmarks are hiding. One of several reasons I don't use Chrome.

There are lots more examples in Windows Vista and Win7. Take wmplayer: how do you open up a URL for streaming? It's hard to find that kind of functionality in the visible UI, because it seems not to be present. Instead, you have to use the context (!) menu on some of the window chrome (!!), and you can see that they've squished what used to be the main menu bar into the context menu. The UI actually ends up being more complex (it's harder to get at the features), the only "benefit" being that the application, on the surface, appears to do less.

Not to mention the now-fashionable ribbon toolbars, used in Wordpad and MSPaint - they've changed what used to be a modeless UI paradigm, i.e. menus, into a mode-based one with switching tabs. In many ways it feels like a step back into the 80s for me.
Characterizing Chinese Web Use
Some user voting might be nice. This would likely create a canonical cheat sheet for each section.

For instance, here http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/ruby/ the first cheat sheet isn't even ruby specific, and I think this is a lose.

Otherwise, a great site I'll likely be using it in the future.
Make applications on your machine comply to whatever network policy you have? I honestly don't want to have to whitelist every single one program I run to be able to do access the network. Do you?

I'm also pretty sure changing firewall-rules requires administrator priveledges, and hence it's no different than it is on Linux. Except ofcourse on Linux, the firewall isn't application-aware, so you can't even control which processes are allowed to open inbound communication.

This really is a lot of noise over nothing.
Outsourcing doesn't work because good software engineers are few and far in between.
I should have used the word "marriage" instead of "monogamy".
I'm a big fan of bilingualism but if you're living in America and inclined to do business primarily in America, then the advantages of it are not so great next to the prodigious effort required to learn another language. Most Americans study Spanish, but then a) countries and people who speak only Spanish are not typically great economic prospects (compared to, say, Japan or Germany or what have you) and b) supposing one were to study Spanish and use it for one's career, one would be competing with American native speakers of Spanish who probably speak better Spanish than you.

If a country like, e.g., Japan/China/South Korea were a skip over the border instead of a 10+ hour plane ride away, I'd recommend every single person to study Japanese/Chinese/Korean. In Sweden, even if English weren't the lingua franca for Europe, you'd still be close physically and economically to multiple English-speaking countries.
I've debated adding community features like voting or comments on the cheatsheets, but I haven't decided yet. I may experiment with some of these features in the future.

There is currently the option for anyone to suggest a cheatsheet that is not currently in the directory. (So if anyone sees a missing cheatsheet, let me know!)
Having moved by work laptop to 7 from Vista and my sons laptop from Vista to XP I can say that both are upgrades - with my own preference being for 7.
If you're like most Americans, you never really had it. Were you fluent? I've "studied" it in school for 6 years (MS, HS, Univ), and I'm not even close to fluent. I don't think the school system is equipped to do that.
What I'd like is being able to type in a big search textbox sth like:

"java try catch syntax"

and it would automatically (without me hitting enter) fetch the sample code and display it in a nice syntax-highlighted manner. It should also offer auto-completion like Google (eg. after I typed "java try"...).

Or:

"php class syntax"
"svn ignore files"
"diff show side by side"
"c++ template function"
etc.

It'd be a lot of work but it seems doable and it'd be a killer destination site for programmers.
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I'm not sure if I agree with the article.

However, I'm going to add some anecdotal evidence about the differences in cultures: when some coworkers interacted with Mexico, they would often say "ahorita mismo" (right now) when they meant "sometime in the future"... if you didn't know what they'd do, you'd have been very disappointed (stuff they said they'd do "right now" got delayed very often).
Can you explain why you think this is complicated?

http://www.doodle.com/xdm3zs79gn9md2tw

It's what I use and I haven't thought of any way to improves it. What do you find lacking or excessive?

This alternative, for example : http://www.meetingwizard.com/ : seems enormously over the top by comparison.

Here are some other alternatives:

http://www.agreeadate.com/

http://www.setameeting.com/

http://www.scheduleonline.com/

http://www.google.com/search?q=meeting+schedule+tool+online

Perhaps you could tell us what's wrong with them, and that could act as a spec.
I like that you can just log in and get started. But having to send a link and/or email to add a person works against that. Why can't I add people just by name until I decide to roll it out, at which point I could send the link/email.
Somehow that reminds of the uncanny valley, the more human-like a robot becomes, the more one starts looking for it's errors in details. Same with computer graphics, video games - the more realistic the characters are, the more you start looking for things that are not right - for example - eyes, but no focusing, or moving. I worked long time ago on Metal Gear Solid port to the PC, and we made all eye textures twice better, Kojima talked with us only once through the whole project, and he was not happy with our new eyes in the game. He said, that the game (back then) did not had the technology for the eyes to move around, and focus, so their team decided to blur them - this way you can't spot the problem - it was masked.
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Taking this error, in which the peer-review process was circumvented, together with last year's revelations of Hadley scientists discussing the wholesale subversion of peer review, is very troubling.

I'm not sure how to express this to show disgust with the putative "scientists" while only casting skepticism on their work (rather than outright rejection). But it would seem that they are so caught up in their agenda that they believe that the end justifies the means, and are willing to compromise their work and mislead the rest of the world in order to realize their goals.

But I have to note that impeaching the source doesn't necessarily invalidate the conclusions. Still, it means that we must subject their claims to increasing levels of scrutiny.
If they had added a working backup solution everyone would be up in arms accusing them of anti-competitive behavior.
Of course, that makes sense. How about a "Preview" link that uses Lightbox or Fancybox to bring up a cropped screenshot of the cheatsheet? Just so I can get a look at some possible things they'll cover and the format of it. Not a huge deal, and probably a bit of work just to get the sceenshots.
How much weight can those handle? I don't want to throw my $100k NetApp in there and have the bottom fall off.
I'm sorry, but comparing an entrepreneur who has to leave a company before he gets rich to a civil rights leader who gets murdered before his children are recognized as fully human and equal members of society by his government is pretty damn tone death. There is no comparison. That epigraph shouldn't be there, and that post shouldn't have that title.
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Greenspun's arguments are bit a flippant, as noted here in the ending comments:

"To see just how much of a factor this is, look at how mishap rates plummeted after the introduction of CRM training at US carriers in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Prior to widespread CRM training, the culture at major US carriers was largely as Gladwell describes current foreign carrier culture: the captain's word was final, and co-pilots didn't speak up or contradict the captain."

Dismissing PDI out of hand as "already handled" is perhaps being disingenuous about the role it may play.
Ask HN: An app to organize business-cards ?
Hello everyone,

Since starting to work on my business, I come in contact with many different professionals (engineers, lawyers, accountants etc). And I am slowly drowning in business-cards with hand written notes on them.

What applications/methods do you use to keep track of important people, their phones and comments you have on them ?

[Not everyone are on LinkedIn etc, and not every senior partner of a law firm will add you there, even if they are willing to take a phone call from you. So it needs be a one-way method].

Thanks for your time
I agree. My next big task is figuring out the best way to rank the most relevant results for each tag. I am looking into several options including voting and an aggregation of other popularity factors (# clicks, # bookmarks on delicious, # links, etc).
"how many people's professional life has been shaped, by the software framework that DHH released to the world. So in a way, he has created jobs."

This suggests that were someone not using Rail they'd be unemployed. But, really, if there were no Rails then people would have been using (say) Nitro, or sticking to some Java or PHP framework.
To take it to its logical conclusion: Wealthy men are putting off marriage because of the current divorce laws or are marrying women who are equal or wealthier than them. Wealthy women don't face such problems. Ex husbands generally don't file alimony.
It's not much of a perceived advantage to study a 2nd language as an American, because no matter where you go there's probably someone who speaks English, and chances are that wherever you go few if any speak the 2nd language that you studied as a kid.

There's small payoff for an American to study a 2nd language. There's large payoff for people from non-English speaking countries to study English; it must be true or perceived as such, because it's such a widespread practice. We already know English.

I'd like to see Spanish mandatory or commonly studied to fluency, given the demographic changes in America. It might also encourage us to have closer relations with Central and South America. I doubt it will happen.

Note: I understand there are many benefits to studying any 2nd language.
Yep, I do have a CS degree, and I realized that the crisp corners are not differentiable ... but a short paragraph about that and giving a few real world examples would have strongly improved the post.
Play with Clojure's Java interop facilities. You'll find you get all three of those points for free.
It makes it easy for someone to launch a denial-of-login attack, just set a script to log in with n random passwords, then the user won't be able to log in. With a rate limit, once the attack is over or blocked, the user can log in. With a ban after n, they would have to manually reset their password after each attack, which could be set to happen eg once an hour.

Not that I've ever knowingly heard of someone getting attacked in such a way.
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It will take some magic for Apple to convince book publishers the Newton ][ is a better proposition than Amazon's. Amazon sells the paper versions too.

But I won't risk a prediction here. With OLED, PixelQi and that other Qualcomm color display competing, there is too much noise to predict what will happen to any individual product. The ecosystem will thrive, but who will inhabit is is a mistery to me.
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Agreed, I much prefer to pay for an app that I use rather than deal with ad noise. Ads waste my time and attention, and in all my years on the Internet I've clicked on an ad probably 4-5x and never bought anything as a result.
Anyone aware of any legal issues with using this service in the United States?

I don't recall any, but I'm not really very up to date on the legal issues involving encryption and/or VPNs.
"I've never been able to get Linux to give me this many file descriptors."

What do you mean precisely? Do you mean that even with proper ulimit, sysctl, etc setup Linux fails to give you this many descriptors?
Thanks yannis! If all the HN'ers boomark the site then that should be a good start on my traffic target :)
I believe Android-based devices will play important roles in this ecosystem, specially if devices with animation-friendly displays become the norm.
Presuming the data is being backed up at the block level on the disk, so that no random seeking is involved. If it's on a filesystem basis, involves many small files, and we're talking spinning hunks of rust, 3 hours is a ludicrously optimistic estimate.
Hopefully all of those who called anyone skeptical of AGW over the last few years "climate change denialists" (by extension from "Holocaust denialists") are now acknowledging that there WERE serious issues with the assertions all along, and are now apologizing for their rashness and intemperance.

I wouldn't bet on it though.