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I ran Linux because I disliked Windows, and then all of the Linux UIs started emulating Windows. Only Windows is now emulating OS X, and now the typical Linux desktop looks like a really old version of Windows.

I blame fvwm95 and everyone who liked it. ;)

Windows has never been Unix-y, OS X is Unix-y and friendly. Steal what's worth having and then invent something totally new.

Ubuntu is on the right track here. I hope they go farther:

-> Make paste Alt-V instead of the current Ctrl-Shift-V. Make close window Alt-W (for Window) instead of Alt-Shift-F3 (or whatever it is). Generally make the keyboard friendly for Terminal users and stop using awkward chorded key combos for things people do every day.

-> Stop wasting space with a toolbar on every window and stick it on top of the screen. (For those who may complain about the position of the Mac toolbar-- remember your Linux desktop probably does -both- a toolbar on top of the screen, -and- a toolbar on every window.)

-> Go from a window-centric model to an application-centric model where I can quickly switch between applications and windows without leaving the keyboard. (i.e. Alt-tab, Alt-~)

I've tried to go back to linux desktop (kde, gnome) and it was a struggle to use, even just to manage emacs, a bunch of terminals, and a web browser. I still like e16.

I don't know what to make of xulrunner (XUL in Mozilla was too magical) but the concept is right. Native C w/ Javascript as the HLL, and wrap older applications in a Canvas... Newer apps would combine Javascript, HTML, and native code. Wrapping application dependencies (clipboard, fullscreen, etc.) in Javascript (where new standards are emerging anyway) would provide incentives for application developers (cross platform, cost savings, no qt versus gtk, web reuse, etc.) Grant you'd still need custom native widgets -and- Javascript lacks a concurrency model. Just a thought.
The problem will solve itself when the price of an ipv4 address becomes prohibitive. Either that, or telcos will see ipv4 addresses as a valuable source of revenue and intentionally drag their feet. And then the internet will die.
Please note - it seems this is a q2 client, not the full game - one of the steps is run-dedicated-server on your machine.
And I love that it's a percentage, not, eg, 10k options.
People who care about something make noise. People who don't, don't. That would explain the disparity on its own, without the positive feedback lowering the psychological barrier to entry for those who kinda care and find a herd to follow.
Those Facebook notifications were being abused to send your friends notifications that looked like normal Facebook notifications "You've been tagged in a photo", then in the event they were clicked it would do the same to their friends. I'm thrilled Facebook disabled them for applications.
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I think the author gets a little carried away with his thesis in blaming the fall of the Roman empire on complexity.
ICANN is likely to step in, should they attempt to make cash off of IPs.
Xerox PARC manged to do a lot of good before the prolifieration of software patents.
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We don't have the rights to redistribute the quake2 data files, however, if you download the full game, or own it, you can modify the code to unpak and convert the commercial full-game files.

The code contains the single player shareware quake levels, and multiplayer.
I wonder how much of these news ratings are a reflection of the changing preferences of their primary audiences. Though I think CNN attempts to be as neutral as possible, I have always considered it a somewhat liberal network. Fox, on the other hand, has always come off as very conservative to me.

As a young (26) libertarian/liberal I don't even own a TV, I get my news from nytimes.com, BBC and NPR driving around and links from my social circles. I think if I had a TV I would watch CNN. My father on the other hand has a TV, and its on Fox.
Funny thing about CNN's gulf war coverage.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17MPJ2bQ9Y
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I think the cnn audience is ( used to be ) generally younger and more progressive and therefore has made the jump to online news earlier. This can probably not account for all of the decline however.
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How atrocious is this: George Clinton got sued for sampling his own music. If that's not a sign that the licensing system needs to be changed, I don't know what is.
I'm not the only one! I feel better knowing there's at least one person out there as crazy as I am :)
Choose one, either 'call someone out on it', or 'walk out'. Or, do like Zed and write a big passive-aggressive blog post about something that clearly bothers you, but that you won't deal with in person.

Nowhere in the article did he describe a reaction from any of these 'passive-aggresive dominants', after they were 'called out' on their offensive behavior.

Neither in Zed's article or this thread, has anyone done so much as mentioned their problem with the offending party.

Sheesh, people. I'm not throwing my feet up on the table, but if those who do bother you so much, then let them know when it happens right in front of you, instead of waiting and venting on the Internet.
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At the risk of being argumentative, I don't think so.

Usually, and seemingly in the context of that interview, belief usually means something different from 'my current position.' It does usually imply some sort of rigidity and does imply an unwillingness to change. In the context of current political correctness it also amounts to a request that thee not be challenged too much.

Notice how that word ends that line of questioning as if either, (a) you have arrived at the root cause or (b) the issue is no undependable. Belief (or practical synonyms such as conviction) leads to no more questions. 'I became very convinced that these are correct' would have prompted the question 'why/how.'
I'd imagine that this requires some beefy server resources? Even Google has a breaking point...
it amazes me that people put up with living around poor people and their disgusting habits. this guy chooses to live in a city where there is human fecal matter on the ground as a matter of course.
I can't help but wonder why you let a pile of shit sit outside your office for a week.
We make Facebook apps for YouTube channels, and the removal of app notifications definitely hasn't hurt us. In fact, it may have even helped, as we are no longer getting lost in a pile of app spam. Our users actually want to be notified when new videos are available! Over 50% of them sign up for e-mail notifications, and slightly less than that get the notifications directly in their Feed. We don't trick them into doing this, and it is easy to opt out.

As long as you provide a service people actually want, I think you'll be safe regardless of what changes Facebook makes to its policies.
I think it's more enduring because complexity is recognised as the core problem of software development , and a lot of smart people work on this problem.

Also it's much easier to change a complex piece of software than a complex organization.
Once technology catches up to the Avatar level in the home, coupled with ever increasing bandwidth downloading, the same people which pirate their movies now will go back to the same thing.

I think movies do to an extent go the other way, with higher production costs leading to the epic blockbuster perception the public gets which drive them to the cinemas. As long as the big budget is spent wisely on a great concept.

Innovations such as the Red camera technology and mostly green screen filming continue to drive down TV costs for those using this tech. For example I'd imagine Sanctuary is a better investment for SYFY at the moment over Stargate Universe even with low ratings just because it's production costs would be so much lower for similar effect.
Did he just disclose a potential OpenSSL vulnerability?
That's because Fox News isn't really a news channel anymore, they're more of a 24/7 entertainment/reality TV thing pretending to be a news channel. No wonder their ratings are so much higher - news is boring compared to entertainment.
Isolation levels are really a poor design decision, because they imply the use of locks. Serializable is great, but impossible to implement efficiently. Repeatable read, read committed, and read uncommitted can be implemented efficiently, but allow for various unpleasant isolation artifacts.

The one we're implementing is really the one everyone wants - snapshot isolation. It can be implemented very efficiently, and is stronger than repeatable read, read committed, and read uncommitted (so you should never want these three). It's not as strong as serializable, but nobody can give you a scalable serializable isolation level.

Snapshot isolation also guarantees consistency, but requires all transactions to be idempotent (so they could be rerun in case of a conflict). It's the best of both worlds, in practice most other databases already behave this way anyway.
doesn't the trend to outsourcing many governmental services makes governments simpler?
Actually it's very powerful. The mammalian brain has fantastic mechanisms for identifying a location in a context, remembering it for later, returning to that location with modest use of conscious thought, and remembering what characteristics and activities were previously associated with that location.

Do a web search for "grid cell" and "conditioned place preference". Also "memory palace" will learn you about an ancient place-based technique for memorizing huge amounts of information.
Thanks for getting this done. But come on, CURL is documented pretty well. There are even examples. What's there to know? Init a connection, set the flags, pass in whatever you like, submit, and check response. Pretty straightforward to me.
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Whilst I agree that relative position is used in language, I don't think you can associate that with ease of use. If anything, your example of language is a good one to show how relative position makes things so much more difficult (although it gives you more options) to learn/use.

And I think empirical evidence lends credibility to the article - everyone gushes how easy the iphone is to use compared to all the other phones out there. One of the biggest reasons would appear to be the 'fixed' layout.
File is still somewhat reasonable, since one of the meanings is an ordered sequence of similar-sized things in a row. (As in "rank and file".)
And in what capacity is the app store legally responsibly for carrying apps that allow recording?
"How old are you, 12?"

I downvoted you for this disrespectful comment. I don't think this is the tone most of Hacker News users want on this site.
Left out is the 10 years spent networking, building relationships, learning about business and developing products.
Developers were abusing notifications, and facebook decided to do right by their users and disable them. It should be lauded for putting its users' needs before those of its developers.
And HTTP's "UPGRADE" method may become popular. People can update their app software a lot more easily than the OS and routers.
Static hives on farms sound like a good idea but still the pesticides will be a problem. We are the problem, not the bees.
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"While it clearly isn't considered offensive in the US, it's still a pretty rude gesture"

There are a bunch of other gestures that meet the same criterion. I am Indian, so I'll list some I'm familiar with:

1. Not addressing your teacher/professor as "Sir/Madam". Addressing a teacher as Mr. X/Professor Y is verboten.

2. Displaying photos of your family at work (mild, but yes)

3. "Disrespecting" your elders/teachers/bosses with counterarguments.
...

On the social front, you'd be expected to

1. Not address your elders solely by their first name.

2. Not cohabit with the opposite sex before marriage.

3. Not smoke/drink.

4. Not eat pork/beef.

5. Not change your gender.

Which of these did you object to/are you going to object to? Will you refuse to work with someone trans-gendered, as would happen "instantly" in India?

The fact is, you were in the US not India. I would argue that the onus is on you to adjust yourself to the customs of your hosts rather than the other way around. Just as an Indian would expect any US (or otherwise foreign) visitors to keep in mind the Indian customs.

PS: you used two epithets to describe your teacher in the same paragraph. I find it amusing that your "Indian" sensibility (Guru! Respect!) is not offended by it.
For me, it's almost 2/3 of my life being 23.
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Well, I think it definitely is a cultural thing. I've never seen anyone prop their feet up on a table during a meeting and judging from the appearance of the gesture in various kinds of videos, I don't think it is common anywhere in Europe at all. This means that any explanation that calls on something crosscultural like 'wanting to relax' falls short. There is something more behind it, even if no one that does it realizes it.
People don't want to think. They prefer to go with like minded individuals and groupthink which is easier, hence Fox's popularity. There was a time when it was fashionable to figure it out yourself but that went the way of Martha Stewart. While I get all of my news from the Naked News (.com) network I believe what was best about CNN was Lou Dobbs. At least you knew where he stood and if you liked that you would tune into it. It's just as easy to filter out the one-sidedness of news as to get something generic and make your own opinions.
His point is that we're all in awe of something that was already done 17 years ago, except it's now hip for being on the web. He's right.

Except it's awesome!
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That's Quake 2, not Quake.
"Do it in India and your boss would fire you, instantly."

You must have worked for some really sick companies in India to be "instantly fired" for putting your legs up on the desk. That kind of behaviour is appropriate(maybe) for some medieval feudal environment (lese majeste) but hardly in the 21st century. In any Indian company I worked for (and I've worked for a few), if a boss attempted to fire his subordinate just for putting his feet on the desk, the boss would be out of a job in record time.

Now if you went to America and expected an American to act by Indian norms and did something (by your admission not
offensive by American norms) and you felt all offended and huffy and "lost respect" for him on that basis, you are the idiot, not him. When you are in grad school, working etc in another country you should follow their norms as much as possible, not they yours.

Why don't you come back to India (I am an Indian and live in India these days and so "come" instead of "go") where you can be surrounded by people who follow your norms to the letter.

But then, norms vary widely across India as well (though obviously not as much as between India and America) so you might want to go back to the exact village or city you came from and never step out of it. That way you won't have to meet "fuckers" you "instantly lose respect for".

You must be a pleasure to work with and just the type of person who'd be comfortable in an informal startup atmosphere or on a college project team ;-). With your hyper sensitivity to "insult", I assume you constantly researched all things potentially offensive to all nationalities you encountered (and in an American University you must have encountered a few dozen) and kept this data up to date on a continuous basis.
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so for inserts do you need to have some kind of uniqueness constraint that makes sure that a repeated insert is rejected (the first example that came into my head when i read "idempotent" was a simple insert, which isn't, as far as i can tell)?

[sorry if this seems like an interrogation - it's just interesting stuff you're doing...]
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That's inspired.

I guess the insight it that valgrind is basically retrofitting a type system over the raw memory accesses.

I wonder if a similar approach could be used to check that certain classes of program input are all processed in a certain way? (e.g. untrusted data being escaped before display in an web app (XSS prevention), e.g. charset conversions being performed)?

It would require more work (valgrind would need a different set of things to warn on, and a way of realising when some memory has been made safe).

All very reminiscent of perl's taint mode (scalar values are flagged with a contagious 'taint bit', which prevents their use in output, calls to 'system()' etc.)
So I'm curious about this scenario:

How do you feel about an engineer, maybe with good ideas, maybe not, who gets an MBA? Would they be useful in a startup or anywhere else for that matter?
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Some cultural observations about shoes on the table, feces on the sidewalk, and what it all means.

a) shoes on table

Western Europeans also find the gesture of shoes on chairs and tables repulsive, both in public and in private.

In my experience, shoes on the table in public seems to be a US specific behavior, but please correct me if I'm wrong. You know, something you'd see in a Western. It's a very laissez faire gesture, of a confident and free people, unlike the stuck up Europeans with all their rules.

The most memorable experience for me was with the CEO of a company where I worked. He would do this in every meeting, even when we met with executives of another company. It could have been a dominance gesture, but more likely his hippy attitude.

I've also observed that people in the US tend to put their shoes where others will sit or put their hands, e.g. chairs, benches etc.

b) dog poo

People in the US pick up after their dogs, I find this great! A lot of Europeans don't, which is super nasty. The memory of dogshit in Paris and Berlin, especially on a hot summer day, makes me want to puke. Google for Paris and dogshit and see what I mean.

a + b) what it means

Now, to each their own, but from a hygiene/medical standpoint, shoes on chairs and tables should not be done. Let me explain why.

Even with no visible dogshit under your shoe, there are myriad diseases that can be transferred this way. It does not have to be as horrible as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinococcus_multilocularis, but there are many others. Eggs of parasitic worms hosted by domestic animals are quite hardy. That's why I'd say, leave you shoes (not necessarily feet) of chairs and tables. Why risk infecting yourself and others? Like wearing a seatbelt, a simple behavior that can save your life.
Creative destruction is the theory of evolution applied to economics.

It will always be in the interest of some to hinder the pace of change; however inevitable it may be. Side note: Who Moved My Cheese? is a great parable on dealing with change and I recommend it often.
This looks like a fun idea, but 10 seconds are just too short. In those 10 seconds, I have barely realized the structure of the code. Actually reading the code, seeing what it does and spotting for bugs is just not possible in 10 seconds for me.
Was the candidate diabetic or just inconsiderate?
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I learned exactly what you're pointing out. Also to better engage in a two-way conversation about the product, which features should be implemented, why we should or shouldn't do something based on technical merits, etc.

I've always had a lot of respect for people that know stuff I don't and if they have good reasons I'll go with their judgement in their area of expertise. But it's a lot easier to engage in a meaningful conversation when you actually know what you're talking about.
CNN is the perfect home for nonthinking individuals. They are in full-blown groupthink constantly reaching out to the bloggers and twitter and the guy on the street and begging the viewer for their emails/tweets/input. I know I've personally stopped watching CNN exactly because I desire news, not uninformed opinion.
Hmm, in the 90s I always thought of the CNN audience as older and more conservative, but that was admittedly just an anecdotal impression. I mean, compare the audience that watches John Stewart to the one that watches Larry King.
I'm quite confused why this is getting attention. It's not hugely difficult to enable a public IPv6 address on a server alongside the IPv4 address. The advantage of doing so? If one runs a serious website, there are many more back-end servers that handle database requests etc. than there are user-facing webservers, and all of these back-end servers can use IPv6 to talk to each other and the webservers. If IPv6 addresses are cheaper and easier to get, then it's a win for the company. They can upgrade each internal client-server pair to IPv6 in unison since they're a single organization.
That's a silly argument - any site which uses a non-trivial number of backend servers will have an internal network using RFC1918 v4 addresses, and there's no shortage of those (djb covers this).

As someone who runs such a site, I'd only think about upgrading the internal networks to v6 long after the public internet has gone to v6.
Why don't you explain why feet on table is a dumb hangup while farting is a rational one.
Hygienic or not. Zed or not. Poor manners can tell you a lot about what to expect from that person in a business relationship. I avoid people with poor manners.
Essentially, it means that any transaction might potentially be rolled back and rerun. This isn't a problem for SQL, but suppose I select some stuff, get back into the host programming language, fire off some rockets into space from the Kennedy Space Center, and then insert some data about the launch into the database. This is a big problem, because if the insertion fails because of potential conflicts, the whole thing needs to be rolled back (including the rocket launch), and rerun. A lot of software is written to account for this (i.e. don't perform any external state modification you can't roll back until you've confirmed the transaction is committed), but a lot of software isn't. To really have great isolation and performance, you need to write software this way. For people that don't, we'll support serializable level, but there are very strong limitations as to how efficient this can be.
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A lot of what you are saying is a sweeping generalisation.

> People in the US pick up after their dogs, I find this great! Europeans don't, which is super nasty.

I live in Yorkshire in the UK and you can get fined £1000 for not picking up your dog turd. I'm not sure how well it is policed but my town is fairly free of dog turd. Parks, pavements etc are clear. I dont see much at all.

Please dont make sweeping generalistions like this. You are just plain wrong.
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Suppose you are using a cloud hosting service, or multiple such services, and don't have the luxury of an internal network? Then your network IS the public internet.
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