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I haven't read Manufacturing Consent, but I did try to read Hegemony or Survival.

Big mistake. Note the difference in publishing dates. References in Manufacturing Consent are backed up by things like "column inches per unit time in the New York Times." Also note that he is not the only author of _Manufacturing Consent_.

You remind me of an old USENET poster who used the logic: "I didn't read X by author, but I read Y, and it sucked, therefore X must suck."

Sorry, but that only has a passing resemblance to real logic.
I agree with you, though the upside of canvas is that it's easier to get it working on IE (via excanvas)
> I still believe that Microsoft lost a great opportunity of having .NET become the universal runtime of the net

Phew, I'm sure glad we dodged that bullet. Imagine that !
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Hm, I am having troubles actually formulating why I think you dislike git. I think the best description I can come up with is that git developers group commands by different categories than you do.

Let's take a look at this:
(1) git add puts things into the index, while (2) git reset sets the working tree and/or the index back into a certain stage.

The git developers basically grouped "adding stuff" and "setting things back" together, while you would like to group "managing the index" and potentially "managing the working tree" together (such that "stage" is "manage index", while "tree" (or something like that) would be "manage working tree").

So I think no one is really right or no one is really wrong and nothing is really bad. There is just a perspective mismatch
The "sneer and arrogance" displayed in the thread is from people who actually already implemented most of these features, and from people using those extensions.

This article boils down to "It isn't pretty enough, and I didn't write it." In other words: no actual relevant content. Just a lot of pretty images as text, BIG FONTS, and whining.
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Everything he wants is handled by eproject and a tags table. (If you don't want to generate a tags table, just have something generate it for you in the background. I use the Perl-specific http://github.com/jrockway/editor-tags/.)

Anything, icicles, ido, ibuffer, and iswitchb, are also good tools.
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Thanks for the reply. I think if we focused we could reach enough stop gaps within our lifetime such that some people alive today lived to ~250 years but I think without focus this is beyond our reach, particularly when Christians would rather see people die of disease than benefit from the use of discarded cells.
This may be counter to the rules but, for those who read the comments before looking at the article, this isn't worth reading. He says "Challenges? Life is already hard, I want /easy/.". And nothing more that I can see. The title suckers you.
Netbeans? There is a drop down of all open tabs, but that can't be filtered. There is also a window which shows open documents but for some unfathomable reason it can't be docked.

The only navigation I can see for open projects is the tree view which is painful for large projects with files scattered across the project (e.g. web frameworks).

edit: Ah, I see. The article wasn't about text editors. It was about how file navigation (within whatever environment you use) sucks.
I didn't know that was part of what it did. I still think that's a bit of a stupid way of dealing with it (especially as my ISP isn't even using Webwise!) but I can understand why they're concerned.
Why not have a go yourself?

If you have a Mac laptop, you've got yourself a mobile usability station. Just get a copy of Silverback App ( http://silverbackapp.com/ ) and start usability testing!

Following on from that, if you'd like to make the most of your usability tests I'd recommend getting "Rocket Surgery Made Easy" by Steve Krug which will run you through the general process: http://www.sensible.com/rocketsurgery/index.html
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I think technology is taking diagnosis from doctors , but not in the way thought by MYCIN ( diagnose using a list of symptoms).

A better way to diagnose is using improved molecular tests, and new imaging methods. those have a few benefits:
1. Higher accuracy.
2. Sometimes you can diagnose in a very early stage of the disease , with no apparent symptoms(i.e. screening)
3. You can diagnose by the cause , not by the symptoms. when you have the exact cause you can give much better treatment.

Molecular methods probably have easier acceptance by doctors vs expert systems , probably because they don't seem as a direct competition.
Personally, I prefer the simpler graphics like those of Michael Paukner (http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/) or David McCandless (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/).
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The centrifugal (pseudo-)force is not mv^2/2 (kinetic energy), but mv^2/r (much less). And the centrifugal force must be orders of magnitude less than the gravitational pull: if not, the moon wouldn't be there in solid state, to start with, as all its particles would separate from its center of mass. Not very plausible.
Hear hear
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Why isn't there any RSS Feed so that I can subscribe to hacker news ?
But you just did the same, if you didn't know xmonad you wouldn't know of the 1px red border either! ;)
That was eye-opening. When I first saw the shoe store/churros/billg shorts-adjusting commercial I was just baffled. I didn't hate the commercial. I just couldn't understand what the heck they were trying to accomplish.
It doesn't matter which moon you drop it on. It will fall.

Unless it's an imaginary moon. I'll give you that.
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People here use strong words when it comes to criticize MS. They say how bad MS is and on the other hand how 'cool' is Apple. Isn't that hypocrisy ?
As a south africa developer, I can just express my excitement about all the things happening in SA atm. We will see allot of new and exiting start ups. It has now been made easier. So this is big fir us! happy
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This is pretty common for people living under some sort of dictatorship. They rationalize and justify the status quo. All the propaganda reinforces this effect.
If we are lucky they will fix it before 2011.
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I think being free and easily accessible like this on the iPad is news.
I'd also like to comment on the original article but I need to have a twitter or posterous account of which I have neither.
Sort of tangentially to this (fairly good) article, I have noticed a number of people recently somehow conflating all fructose with high-fructose corn syrup and other refined variants. I am not sure if this is just symptomatic of ignorance or a concerted effort of some kind.
I've seen things like that in the west... for example, in the corporate world, they're often straight to the point about disciplined damage control. Which might not sound so bad, except that corporations are so omnipresent that the media is dominated by them. (Like with this Washington Post article; both the advertisers and the media company are corpoate.) So by an analogy, I guess it feels kind of like working for a really big corporation, where everyone knows you're basically supposed to say what the bosses want, refined by specialized PR organs. (One where they don't merely control the government; they ARE the government.)

Maybe China's censors get to work in pleasant offices, and have incentives like climbing the job ladder, more luxuries and status, greater pay if they move to the private sector, etc. Some might be ideologues, others cynical; maybe most just treat it like a job and they're just cogs who kind of know better but are too comfortable where they are, like the people I know about working on facial recognition for CCTV systems.

But yeah, the Chinese system is a lot cruder. The cost of disobedience isn't just losing your job and healthcare; it can be jail, maybe worse.
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Sigh.

“Orange?! U R DUMB!!!!1!” – that’s what I don’t like. Not disagreement with the actual content of the article.
Wily (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/) is a major Unix port. Some quick googling says that it should work on OS X, though you need a three-button mouse for its chording-based interface. Its design is strongly influenced inspired by Oberon (http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/) (the OS, not the beer).

I find its design very novel, but the mouse-centric UI is a dealbreaker for me. (I went back to Emacs.) If you're already using a Mac, you're probably a bit more forgiving of mice, though.
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This links to a print version. The original link is centered but has more clutter than content.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9173238/Microsoft_tur...
IANAL.

There is a U.S. trade embargo against Iran. I seem to remember some licenses mention this, but the Ogre engine's MIT license certainly does not. Unfortunately, I think the U.S. governemnt > MIT license.

http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/ira...

http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/ira...

To whom do these sanctions regulations apply? All U.S. persons and entities (companies, non-profit groups, government agencies, etc.) wherever located...

Criminal penalties for violations of the Iranian Transactions Regulations may result in a fine up to $1,000,000, and natural persons may be imprisoned for up to 20 years. Civil penalties, which are not to exceed the greater of $250,000 or an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed may also be imposed administratively...

EXPORTS TO IRAN - In general, unless licensed by OFAC, goods, technology (including technical data or other information subject to Export Administration Regulations), or services may not be exported, reexported, sold or supplied, directly or indirectly, from the United States or by a U.S. person, wherever located, to Iran or the Government of Iran. The ban on providing services includes any brokering function from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located. For example, a U.S. person, wherever located, or any person acting within the United States, may not broker offshore transactions that benefit Iran or the Government of Iran, including sales of foreign goods or arranging for third-country financing or guarantees.

In general, a person may not export from the U.S. any goods, technology or services, if that person knows or has reason to know such items are intended specifically for supply, transshipment or reexportation to Iran.
But it didn't appeared on Firefox's address bar as it does for all other sites.
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Apple doesn't really disapprove apps with low quality, though. They only aim to reject apps that are against their rules or that are malware.

Recently one of my web sites was cloned badly for an iPhone app, and it was just bad. As in ugly - sure, it had the functionality, but nothing else. Certainly not Apple standards.

Also, the video game crash might have had all sorts of reasons, among them a lot of competition. You don't need an "app store" to establish a brand that is recognized for quality. Isn't the Nintendo Seal of Quality a good example? You can just invent such a seal and let the rest of the competition get by without the seal.

There are certainly a lot of crap games for the Wii around, is my impression. (Never had a game console before the Wii, so can't say how it used to be).
Anything, in particular, seems to cover most of his wishes.

He dismisses the menu style that ibuffer / iswitchb use as ugly, and while I agree that their output is cluttered, I still find them vastly superior in practice to a one-file-per-line list. They make more sense with an editor that uses a minibuffer, though. (I use dmenu, too.)

Also, I think displaying the file extensions in lowercase would make them easier to visually disambiguate at a glance. Block of CAPITAL LETTERS hide ascenders and descenders, making every word a rectangle.
Hi read some reviews of this book in amazon and I saw this:

WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING

? Don't argue!
Give in! Agree that the other person is right; often they are and if they aren't, you'll never convince them of it by arguing.

and I ask what?! don't argue with people? that is exactly my problem, if i don't stand to my points and argue with people they won't respect me for having my own views! I don't think that is a good quality at all! people should be heard!
what do you think?
OK - It has a boring title but you have to admit to the "Friday" entertainment value...
Agreed, major weak sauce.
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That didn't work for me with nvi or vim, it just says, "/usr is a directory". Does it require an extension? (I'm assuming your 'vi' is a symlink to 'vim', which is not always the case.)

Similarly, Emacs has dired, and in some extensions you can edit the file metadata in place and hit save to rename files, chmod, etc.
By the way, search for 'distributed proofreaders' (add international or europe ad lib.) for a good ti ... er, I mean for a nice do-something-useful break (to get in the mood for real work).
This author doesn't read his own studies or check his numbers. Here's the most glaring example:

> One of Lustig’s opening assertions is that The Atkins diet and the Japanese diet share one thing in common: the absence of fructose. This is flat-out false because it implies that the Japanese don’t eat fruit. On the contrary, bananas, grapefruits, Mandarin oranges, apples, grapes, watermelons, pears, persimmons, peaches, and strawberries are significant staples of the Japanese diet [17].

Except the Japanese DON'T eat much fruit compared to Americans. It's in his own citation:

Japan fruit consumption: 41.5 kg per person per year

USA fruit consumption: 126.5 kg per person per year

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/wrs0406/wrs0406h.pdf

http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf

Americans eat over 300% more fruit than Japanese. I don't know what a "significant staple" is, but from my time in Tokyo, Osaka, the rest of Kansai, and Hokkaido, Japanese have a heck of a lot less fructose than Americans do. It's mostly rice, meat, fish, and vegetables, and the main desserts are only semi-sweet like mochi and red bean.
People who were born in the year of Apollo 15 are now 39 years old. I should know.

So the only people who have ever seen this video you refer to are people well over forty, people who have been shown a videotape in (e.g.) a physics class, and people who have caught it on YouTube, a medium which is only a handful of years old and where it is hard to find moonwalk videos among all the piano-playing cats.

It's probably hard for young people today to appreciate what life was like before home video recording. You had to hope for the TV networks to rerun something in order to see it a second time! There were also only half a dozen channels on TV. And we had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow...
Very interesting article. I continue to be amazed at how primitive our nutrition science is but I guess that's what happens when you combine a tough problem with market distortions.

The tough problem: there are a million variables to control for, people's environment (work, health, happiness, etc.) confounds everything, accurate reporting is difficult, food quality varies (e.g., apple nutrients have changed over time), etc.

The market distortions: huge subsidies and entrenched interests for factory farming with a heavy emphasis on grains, cereals and legumes, particularly wheat, corn, and soybeans.

I've found that substituting lots of fat and protein for carbohydrates while emphasizing food quality (little processed foods) produces lots of satiety, and improvement in physical performance, a better lipid profile and loss of body fat. But YMMV.
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I don't think that's as big a problem as you find it, currently. Maybe you just chase down more topics than others.

There is definitely an abundance of introductory material on the internet, but more importantly, there is an abundance of topics people have never encountered and ooh/aah over decent introductions to. Just assume everything you find accidentally is introductory.

However, as the niches get filled out, in-depth articles and commentaries may start emerging. At that point, a difficulty ranking system will have to emerge, and the associated conversation will fall naturally in the same difficulty category. A more relevant problem, imho, would be connecting the more demanding material to the introductory stuff without subjecting people to discouraging information deluge, draining directory shoveling, or a shallowing wikipedia scatter effect.
What would happen if we killed off BBC Have Your Say?
I wasn't commenting so much on the content as on the, for lack of a better word, style.

In Orwell's world, which I believe correctly describes many real corporate, religious and government worlds, such things are emphasised, alluded to. Never directly acknowledged. People still respond as if they were given a clear, directive, but it's never said.

"News recommendations should refer to Central government main media websites."

should be

"News recommendations should refer to accurate official sources"

"Online programs with experts and scholars on this matter must apply for permission ahead of time. This type of self-initiated program production is strictly forbidden."

should be

"Online programs with experts and scholars on this matter must be recognised authorities in their field. Verify the reputation of such individuals with the appropriate sources ahead of time."

If not for their content, such clear directives might be construed as the rule of law.
It's not so much social networking sites that would be great, but the possibility of free interactive education. The quality of teaching that most (poor and black) South African school children are subjected to is shockingly poor.
That would only appear if you put a link on the html header of the website, but you can still use the rss link at the bottom.
Wouldn't the Windows EULA protect these companies and their users from patent lawsuits? I assume they run Windows in addition to Mono.
Most common use is to find control characters in a file where they shouldn't be.
My favourite one in this category is the TV commercial of French nuclear power industry conglomerate Areva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva):

English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZsamFWyBI

French version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3B__ovj2jU
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Correct; I've been using this feature for at least 6 months.
If the USA reneged on its debts, then unless there was clear, serious, and obvious provocation from China, I suspect they would have difficulty borrowing more money.
Could you please use "monospace" instead of "Courier" for inputs in "http://ycombinator.com/news.css? It looks terrible on Windows.

And it would look just as nice on other platforms.
A more thorough post on the same subject has been posted on HN before: How to build a popularity algorithm you can be proud of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797740.

It's been a great resource for me.

EDIT: Fixed the link.
They can get quite wide and deep. See spree's network graph for example:

http://github.com/railsdog/spree/network
"To provide that same level of attention and care that Nintendo gives to developers for one of it's (few) products to app developers would be impossible for a company of Apple's size."

Sure, but if they can't provide the required service, perhaps they shouldn't offer the product to begin with.
Did anyone else draw a parallel to the current Internet censorship in China?

There are differences of course, but they are both instances in which the government feels threatened by the power of information that the Internet gives the individual.
Apart from hating the video, I also didn't sync my Twitter "friends" because gravity asked for write access. Reading should be enough to find my friends.
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Yeah, I didn't understand the reasoning either, and he didn't explain. The context was that a mutual friend introduced us, because he thought we'd work well together. (He knew that the WeatherBill fellow was actually going around to local Clojure meetings to try to find interested people.)

I mean, they have telecommuters on the opposite US coast. Dunno why crossing an ocean is a bridge too far. (And how would this apply to South America?)

Yeah, I'll try to ask him; these managerial decisions puzzle me. I have the suspicion it's two things: a) a gut feeling which is hard to articulate and b) the Google practice of not hiring if you have a whiff of doubt. (WeatherBill was founded by ex-Googlers, IRRC.)
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More precisely, the relationship between China and the USA is such that if it goes sour, both countries have a problem, because:

- trade and investment between the 2 countries is large, and if it was halted or reduced, powerful and well-connected people in both countries would suffer

- if China sold all its US securities in a rush, it wouldn't get much money from them

- if the USA reneged on its debts, or even looked likely to, it would have to pay more to borrow money in future, and the dollar might stop being the world's reserve currency (which would also hit the USA, because people would in effect stop giving it free loans)

- any serious downturn in US/China trade would also negatively affect the reast of the world, since these are 2 of the world's 3 biggest economies (they are the 1st and 2nd countries, but drop to 2nd and 3rd if you count the EU as an economy).

So there are strong arguments for both the USA and China not to let their relationship sour.
Us non-English Europeans follow and tweet in both English and our native tongue fairly often. Then there's Belgium that has three official languages and Finland where a small minority speaks Swedish (as opposed to Finnish). So I wouldn't be so sure about that.
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I do this for http://www.bikechatter.com and it's actually quite useful. There are plenty of pro bike racers who write in their own language, and it's nice to be able to get the gist of what they're saying.