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Did you listen to the talk? :) X.org is quite an advanced graphic system mostly doing what you want it to do. Throwing it out and trying to make something new (for what gain?) means wasting so much resources that it's not even nice. (And how is X related to some start menu?)
>You have to take it out into the real world and test it in real world situations.

Like going out drinking and not paying (very) close attention to its whereabouts at all times?
Right. I suppose Sachin has to say that Posterous is for everyone, but it's really not. Those who want to socially share within a walled community will continue to use Facebook. Those who want to curate their media online without as much context will continue use Picasa, Flickr, and the others. So Posterous' niche will involve some mix of people in between, I think.

I will say though that their service is dead simple to use. But then again the Facebook and Flickr exporters are pretty easy to use, too.
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Such overwrought, content-free PowerPoint presentations have their place: Hell.

Maybe the problem could be averted if the presentations were replaced with short articles, like blog posts. It would be hard to do worse than what you've described.
For me, Powerpoint has always been a handy tool for limping through speaking in front of others. Handy source of notes, gives the audience something to stare at that isn't me.

Probably not the best aide for /improving/ at public speaking, though.
Which is exactly what the build service gives you...
Why? Do the Japanese have more thumbs?

Sorry. Had to get it out my system.
Quicksilver, with its magical plugins, will save you tones of time. I also have a mouse with many functions (hooray for Logitech), so I tend to bind those to Exposé.
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Personally I would have bought it, contacted Steve Jobs directly and right away (not called up Apple's support line, who of course cannot help with this issue), given him the phone without any questions or favors asked, and then just taken my chances that he would remember my publication in favorable light somewhere further down the line.
We need a better word for "anti-gay bigotry". Or, better yet, a set of such words which apply to common subsets of the LGBTQ alphabet-soup categorization. Right now all we have are words like homophobia and transphobia, which would do alright if only they didn't have the mental illness connotations.
Well, like Arch Linux's Pacman and AUR? :)

I found Pacman to be easy and simple--on the same level as APT, and when the binary package doesn't do what you want, packing your own package is really easy.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System
Let me know when you realize that 4 year olds are people too, and should have full human rights.

If you won't accept that case, then you're part of the problem that doesn't see it's the same issue over and over.
As opposed to doing what? Using a GUI editor? Using emacs?

vim is just as likely to be on any linux/os x box today as vi was to be on any UNIX box when you were learning vi, and it's still very powerful today.
Ugh. I keep looking for a way to turn this "feature" off. The fraction of a second it would take me to recognize and correct my mistake is far less frustrating and time-consuming than having to parse the message and select an option.

Of the hundreds of times this feature has popped up, I believe I've actually hit "y" twice.
Depends. Most apps don't link against X, but the toolkits. If the toolkits can be modified to support a cleaner network protocol (something primarily vector based rather than bitmap based).

I don't think the parent poster is saying that X is related to GNOME and KDE's start menu clones, other than they both need changing.
That is clearer and (to me) less objectionable.

But I still don't think you are fully understanding the reasoning behind the BF quote. My understanding of "give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety" is failure to struggle, even slightly, for the sake of a principle. The right, which you (I assume) are claiming is inalienable and therefore we can't say they "deserve neither liberty nor safety," is the right to liberty.

You repeat "choose" not to excercise a right as if a choice for the sake of safety is like a choice for the sake of good manners. But, it's not the same. A choice for the sake of safety is not a free choice. Hence, "give up (essential) liberty."

What BF is basically saying is that liberty is a right that must be asserted, in order to be deserved
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Hey, UGGs are pretty damn comfortable.

But seriously, who thought it was a good idea to take Facebook's biggest blunder (Beacon) and turn it into a venture backed startup?
Not sure what features komodo has for completion, but between the built in omni-completion in vim 7, it's pretty powerful which will complete on symbols in all loaded files and in things like header files. That's activated by Control-X Control-O. Control-P or Control-N in insert mode.

There are various plugins available to make it smarter for C++ and other languages (so it only searches in appropriate namespaces and the like).
Yes, suse build service is a very nice tool and much more interesting than a single package format, which wouldn't help much. And if the dream is to provide just a single binary package for any distro in the world, it won't work anyway. Well, maybe in theory, but if you mean it seriously, you need to compile and link against exactly the same binaries that the target system use. (Or static linking. Or just believe it will work. But serious commercial vendor who wants to provide a real user support cannot.) Which would mean that every Linux system would have to use the same binaries, which is, hm, nonsense.
Sorry to hear about that - I've got an x200 and it's been rock solid since I got it in november. I think I like it even more than I liked the 12in Aluminum PowerBook that it replaced.

PowerBooks have this modernist minimalist thing going on, but my x200 has a highly evolved, almost organic quality to it. I see tons of powerbooks and Asus/Acer/whatever laptops around, and a ThinkPad is so clunky-looking it's like a geeky cool pair of thick-framed glasses. And it runs Linux really well.
Same for me I guess.

One problem that I do have is that if I pay Canonical, for example, to make the whole OS better, it would mostly still crap out because I made the mistake of buying at AMD/ATI graphics card. Not sure who to blame at that point. The Ubuntu people say its from ATI/AMD and ATI/AMD say that there's not enough money in the market to justify better work on the driver(that or technical problems with the differences between distros). So what then? It would still have the same result.

But, in general, I do vote with my dollars.
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> when dealing with social issues and impeding on natural rights.

Maybe. I am a firm believer that your rights stop only where my rights start.

I would not be against drug use by other individuals (even if I personally think it is a stupid idea). Unfortunately, drug addicts do their best to make their problems your problems (i.e. they externalise the consequences of their actions).

This is manifested in such things as free health care and constant welfare and unemployment benefits. So, yeah, if you want complete individual freedom, it should be coupled with individual consequences.
Thanks for the very helpful answer, it's just what I wanted. :)

I do use IRC a lot, and I'll start using erc per your suggestion. One question, is there any way to get spell-checking on it? I'm hoping the solution is as straight-forward as x-chat's (this screenshot demonstrates it fairly well: http://i42.tinypic.com/rw2ljr.jpg though, I don't require fancy multi-language spell-checking, just an English spell-checker will do for me)

I wish I had a friend who used emacs! On that note -- anyone in this HN crowd who uses emacs from Milwaukee? I'm willing to gift copious amounts of chocolate (or whatever else you prefer) in exchange for even short periods of guidance. :)
The blog post from the speaker has a link to the slides: http://lunduke.com/?p=1075
I wonder if Laxpixies were profitable. I can't read much into their business model.
Ethics, the kind deferred to in politics, usually boils down to some vague, undefined but shared (common) something.

The American liberty is also essentially a common American sensibility. Very few of those who defer to it could articulate one of the (usually pretty technical) liberal arguments.
I thought the finder contacted a random apple support employee. The finder should be commended for even taking the effort to look up an apple support phone number if he actually did. The person who lost it should have plastered a lot of nice text messages to the phone with a number to call to return it from a friends phone immediately after noticing it gone. Say how you really need the phone numbers on it. A very low-tech solution that almost always works, you'd be surprised at the good-will of phone finders if they are presented with a super-easy way to return it that takes little effort on their part.
So what's your stance on alcohol and nicotine?
oh man, that's really interesting. It /might/ even be a realistic fremium model. The only real question is how they will cheaply handle abuse. If they can keep their abuse handling costs down, it's possible that they'll do rather well with this.

But, I've found that charging massively helps deter abuse. Man, when I was doing the 'first month free' deal? that was bad for me. But maybe these folks can pull it off?

But certainly, dealing with abuse cheaply will be the challenge. if they can solve that, they may end up doing quite well.
You say advanced as if that's a good thing. I think a lighter system that considers hardware acceleration and multiple monitors from the ground up may be a good investment in the long run. Not to mention audio, and vector graphics and so on.

Multiple X sessions (one for each monitor + one for each vnc session + virtual X sessions for whatever reason) has to be combined with Xinemera and with graphic drives and with a KDE/Gnome desktop environment... and all the parts have to fit together perfectly for the system to work. I just don't see that happening anytime soon.

The whole concept of X clients and X servers... it's just too much. X was created back in the 80s, and it still doesn't get the basic usecases right. The requirements for desktop computers have shifted a lot in the last 30 years, so this kind of thing is to be expected.

Starting over every 30 years? I think that's reasonable, especially when it's holding Linux back. We've learned a lot since, and X isn't going to last until 2030... so why not throw it out now?
The same argument was made against interracial marriage - that the children would be stigmatized, or harmed in some other way. (In fact, one good first step toward removing the stigma is to stop treating the parents differently under the law.)

I am a person of mixed race, and I'm shocked at how many of the exact same arguments against gay marriage and adoption were also used against interracial marriage and interracial adoption. (It's unnatural; it's against God's will; it will harm the children; it will harm traditional marriages; it will destroy the institution of marriage...) I'm curious if the people making the arguments are aware of this and would also oppose interracial marriage if possible, or if they just don't see the parallels.
How cleaner? X11 is very extensible, if you wanted some vector graphics methods, you could just make an extension. Whole font drawing got replaced in this way, nobody really use old X core fonts anymore, everybody now uses client-based Xft system. (Well, yes, you could make a new version without this old stuff. But backwards compatibility and so.) In fact, this is what happens if you are drawing with OpenGL, you use X11 just to make a window to draw in, set some other stuff, handle input, but drawing itself completely sidesteps X11 and X server.
I don't think he was saying that one (religious or atheist) is more moral than the other. Just that when we geeks take a stand on a fundamental question, whether it's moral or philosophical/theological, we often do it with conviction.
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I guess http://pleaserobme.com/ soon will list not only when you are not at home, but also what you have at home. So thieves know if it is worth it.
Get like 2 or 3 different cheat sheets and keep them available whenever using Emacs. Steal someone else's ~/.emacs[1]. Make sure you use those Emacs key bindings in your shell. Bonus points if you're on OS X, which has Emacs bindings for all native text widgets.

[1] Here's mine: http://bitbucket.org/[redacted]/dotfiles/src/tip/.emacs :)
How about we read "How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen Twitter Document Story"?

Hypocrisy is lovely.
I personally don't believe that automatically streaming your actions is a good way to produce entertainment or meaningful information for your peers.

We played with automatic location updates in Jaiku, but it was boring. Current trend of check-in models is a bit more interesting: you, as a person, are communicating something when you check-in.

We had similar experience of streaming your last.fm feeds: it's just noise. We grouped last.fm entries to reduce noise. Once in a while, you could see one entry from persons last.fm feed and if you clicked it you could see more. It was kind of fun to see a glimpse of person's music taste now and then and some good comment threads emerged around these entries. But people always commented that one visible entry, thus we could have same effect by picking a random song from person's daily last.fm feed and forget the rest.

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it's actually kind of entertaining with your friends --
contrary to what you would think, 99% of your purchases
are boring.

This is the essence of it: how can something that is 99% boring can be entertaining?

I strongly believe that if you want to build services around showing your actions, make it easy to people "lift" certain actions to be visible for their friends. Make it easy to deliberately communicate without writing. Don't publish actions automatically, that just produces noise.
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It may be slow, but the process for comics and articles are quite different. Comics go through multiple layers of distribution (possibly translation, colouring, lettering and the like through multiple hands) before they are published, in many different newspapers simulatenosly.

The process for getting comics published is focused on groups of comics as well, so rather then send one Dilbert comic a day, the distributor will take at least a weeks worth of strips, possibly a month's worth at once, and that bundle will be sent out.

Editiorial cartoons are much faster (next day) but they tend to be done for a single publication, or at least a small family of publications.

(edit: Add colouring, lettering)
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I learned Vim inside and out because it was the only Linux console editor at the time that did syntax highlighting, and it kind of stuck.

Also, working in 80x50 with only the editor open for a couple of months kind of gets you into the mode :)
An interesting question that might help everyone learn how they feel about this:

Would you allow a pair of people who are not in a relationship to adopt, for example, two great friends who just happen to live together, but are not in a sexual or romantic relationship with each other?
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The merit badge sounds like a neat idea, but the BSA exclude gays, atheists and agnostics, and to me, that taints everything else they do (girl scout are much better about this).

Since 1991, openly gay individuals have been officially prohibited from leadership positions in the Boy Scouts of America. A 1991 Position Statement states: “We believe that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the requirement in the Scout Oath that a Scout be morally straight and in the Scout Law that a Scout be clean in word and deed, and that homosexuals do not provide a desirable role model for Scouts.” The BSA thus "believes that a known or avowed homosexual is not an appropriate role model of the Scout Oath and Law."
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What? The article title says "Don’t expect OS X 10.7 to be locked down like the AppStore. Steve says, “Nope.”" Where did the "Not" double negative come from? Please fix this title and I'll vote it up
Think about the millions of businesses out there who need a website, and want to be on Twitter and Facebook. Most of these people have no clue how to setup a self hosted wordpress site. And even if they knew how, don't have the time to do it.

For these people, paying for a hosted website is well worth it.
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I haven't read the remarks, but I think it's possible for people with a lot more experience than I do to make that sort of assessment and be spot on.

It helped me.

One day, with any luck, I'll be able to look back and make the same remarks. Hopefully it will be because I'll be a lot better at it by then.
If you want to try something like throwing out lots of the current design and going to a new one, it'd probably be best to go around, drum up support, and bill it as something new. Sounds cool, but someone has to get coding.
Tumblr is a microblog. Posterous is a full blog + website creator that doesn't have to impose artificial limitations and post types in order to be simple.
All this talk about Blippy reminds me of conversations people had about Twitter. If you were on hacker news in 07 and 08 people were trashing Twitter saying how stupid it is. I bet many of those same people wouldn't say that now.

In time this will become the norm once some safeguards are in place. Mint.com could facilitate and or create such a system (social banking/shopping) that has such safeguards and allows start-ups to plug into it.
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The way I learn to use my tools is I start customizing them, thereby understanding how they work, how others use them and how I can utilize them. Look for .vimrc's of other hackers. I learn't many things just from the dotfiles.
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If I may ask why on earth would you read an eight page article on a show that you've never seen?
It's going to bellyflop. At this point there is no way you can satisfy the questions people have.

In some ways I always felt Lost was the TV version of a pyramid scheme: resolve one mystery, create two more, repeat. I gave up myself when mysteries started getting resolved by papering things over with outright mysticism -- "that's the way it is in this world" or the magic science approach, if you will, which totally turns me off. When the show was just about the Dharma initiative, or even the Others, both artifacts of a lost civilization and grounded in human decisionmaking and anthropology, I was more intrigued. I had to pack my bags around the third season.
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Sorry, antisocial was too strong a word. What I meant was something more like "socially awkward".
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I am curious to know if this is a real thing?

EDIT: Just to clarify, I am not saying it isn't, I am genuinely curious.
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The argument I mentioned is concerned with psychological development not biological. I don't see how what your saying relates to the argument in any sense. Based on the argument, it would make sense to deny the adoption in your scenario.

To present the argument again, because homosexual parenting hasn't been extensively studied, we need to avoid homosexual adoption until a foundation of research can be established in this area. Research on developmental psychology guides many of the child adoption rules currently in place. The argument is that the same standard should be applied to homosexual adoption.

Again, note my use of distancing language. This isn't my opinion; I do not hold one on this issue because I'm not qualified in this area.

EDIT: The American Psychological Association has filed an Amicus Brief that is relevant.

"Because many beliefs about lesbian and gay parents and their children are open to empirical testing, psychological research can evaluate their accuracy.... the results of existing research comparing lesbian and gay parents to heterosexual parents and children of lesbian and gay parents to children of heterosexual parents are quite clear: Common stereotypes are not supported by the data... Some areas of research, such as gender development, and some periods of life, such as adolescence, have been described by reviewers as understudied and deserving of greater attention... There is no evidence to suggest that lesbian women or gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of lesbian women or gay men is compromised relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents... although a considerable amount of information is available, additional research would further our understanding of lesbian and gay parents and their children... It should be acknowledged that research on lesbian and gay parents and their children, though no longer new, is still limited in extent. Although studies of gay fathers and their children have been conducted (Patterson, 2004), less is known about children of gay fathers than about children of lesbian mothers."

http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/parenting.aspx

Personally, seems like a reasonable standard of proof to me, but I think the people who hold the argument I've been presenting would say that the standard of proof necessary is up to the courts. Clearly there are areas that need more research, as the research is "limited in extent".
Every binary distro I've ever used (SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora) came with a little GUI that let you install packages without going through a repository. Just download the .deb/.rpm and double click on it. This is how a lot of projects deliver their latest builds. If you're talking about a unified package format (it doesn't seem like it) then thats a completely different issue.

As for 'stand-alone' applications, that doesn't make much sense for open source stuff, but there's nothing stopping you from distributing your software that way. A lot of commercial software for Linux is delivered that way.