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My response (http://groups.google.com/group/coda-users/msg/3a3d56671544ee...):

I guess I'm a slut, I regularly also use BBEdit, Textmate, vim, and sometimes Espresso, depending on what I'm doing (in the mood for? eh? eh...). Each of them has their strengths — despite what you think, they don't have feelings and don't care if you don't commit.

Panic does the Apple Way very well. Not as full featured, but the features that are there work together so well that the overall experience ends up being more pleasant than with a feature-full program.

I'm sure they are working on Coda 2: When they started their blog, they said their top priorities were Unison, Transmit, and Coda (http://www.panic.com/blog/2009/12/yes-panic-has-a-blog: Pretty sure putting Desktastic and Stattoo before Coda was tongue-in-cheek). Unison 2 was already released and Transmit 4 is about to be released (http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/04/coming-soon/).

So, Coda is up, and I'm sure they're going to knock us out with it — the most-wanted (and even the not-most-wanted) features have been repeated on that list so much as to be annoying.
That's a great idea, actually.
Liberal is used as a descriptive term in the US while in this case it’s part of a party name. Party names don’t have to – for various historical reasons – reflect the current political positions of a party (think US party names). That’s especially the case in current European democracies with proportional representation. All the parties have very similar positions close to the center, it’s easy for any one party to end up to the “left” or “right” of other parties on any one issue.

(Liberal also doesn’t have the same meaning in Europe as in the US. Liberals in Europe are usually socially permissive as well as economically permissive – like Libertarians in the US. But that doesn’t have anything to do with the point you are making – Malmström’s position is not exactly socially permissive.)
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At 1:14 you see the Ministry of Truth. That tripped me off that. :)
Right, I agree that the trade-off of pretty CSS over good source control is a bad deal, but it's the fault of the source control tools for requiring you to write in a certain way.

Edit: In my original comment (can't edit it now), I should have said "isn't it screwy to need to change your writing practice..."
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I imagine you could use python-spidermonkey to execute isolated bits of JS. But yes, getting the window object into context in python would be super useful
Unfortunately, Perl-WWW::Mechanize does not yet handle Javascript, has anybody (Perl, Python, Ruby) a solution for that? DOM+Javascript simulation comes to my mind. Or maybe a fully controllable browser component (where DOM and JS are built-in) with an API. Anyone with first-hand experience?
The individual in a tribe of hunter-gatherers has a very different concept of privacy. In his/her world everyone pretty much knows everyone else's 'business'.

The whole concept of privacy is relatively new to humanity. This doesn't mean its not important. Its actually an emergent property of a scaled civilization.

Its an unavoidable situation there but, of course, in that case 'everyone' is a fairly small number.

The Internet is revolutionizing privacy and proximity for the FIRST time since the rise of organized agriculture.

This isn't going to be an easy transition and will require revisions in law, credit-creation and finance, governance and especially cultural norms.

I don't know how it will turn out but I suspect it will be a deal 'maker or breaker' for humanity's future development and the role and rights of the individual.

It's a true evolutionary landscape and its design whether arising by accident or intent will determine the nature of our future evolution.

How would hunter-gatherers run the world? (pssst... They Do!)
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-would-hunte...

The Problem in Scaling Altruism: Where's the Intelligent Life?
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2010/04/problem-in-scal...

On Social Energy, Enterprise & Expanding the Technology of Money
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-social-energ...

Unhindered Speech and Association must be maintained as inherent qualities of this developing landscape. And the information inherent in this speech and association, if it is to have ownership at all...

Must be owned by the Commons!

The Individually-controlled / Commons-dedicated Account, I believe is an essential element necessary as part of this transition.

But I'm an anthropologist and not a computer whiz just trying to understand this new landscape and provide a suggestion or two...
Except Google had a good balance sheet/P&L...Facebook is barely profitable...and facebook has already reached it's peak.
Be careful with sarcasm, this is often taken literally. (You are being sarcastic, right?)
that has not crossed my mind.. still it's unbelievably difficult though..
Yes, that's my question, why in the world is the number in the description in the first place???
I think a better takeaway is that they are attacking a unique niche in Venture Capital. Allowing for people to cash out before IPO, as well as allowing those who understand the company to run it.
Apple also wants to control other platforms. And they are doing a good job of it, as well. Pushing H.264, their involvement with HTML5 with WebKit. Apple wants to control all aspects, and if they could, they'd control the web experience as well. This isn't to suggest that other companies aren't jockeying for position as well. I just don't think Apple is merely looking at their platform. They see anything that runs on Apple as their platform.

And yes, again, I'm focusing on Apple here, but they aren't the only one playing the game. =)
While I use linux more and more (archlinux), I kinda like Windows because it's straightforward to use. Linux is much more powerfull, and it can do wonders, but to unlock this potential you have to spend hours learning the innards of it's working. And it ain't pretty.

Most software nowadays are incredibly complicated, and what Windows does in essence is hide this complexity from you. That comes at a steep cost as you lose control over the machine. But let's face it, the common user rarely needs more than windows has to offer.

Also, what this article bash is complexity, and I dare say that Windows is simpler than Linux. Perhaps not under the hood, but Windows gives you a neat interface to the machine. And under it everything mostly works, sometimes it doesn't and you get a piece of frustrating error message. In Linux on the other hand, you need to have a hand at everything to keep things smooth, but you can shape the interface any way you want and fix almost everything. The problem is I have found the rate of software failure to be much more important on linux which kind of cancels this effect out.

Finally, when you see that the article states

"But the damned computers get in the way of all the things the computers help us do. There’s this whole artificial paradigm about administrator accounts, and security, and permissions, and all other manner of things that people don’t care about. A host of ancillary software is required just to keep your computer running, but that software introduces more complexity and more points of failure, and ends up causing as much grief as it’s intended to resolve."

It's hard to defend that switching to linux would help like computers. Ancillary software has more to do with linux 10.000 libraries at a package each, than with crapware, which is not required and can easily be removed.
You might want to take a look at qooxdoo: http://qooxdoo.org/demo
taglist is the most popular vim plugin. It gives a sidebar with your tags (in the ctags sense):
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Seems to be written with a kid who has misplaced loyalties to a product instead of his own requirements.

He already had a history with BBEdit, he should have known during the Panic trial period that Coda wasn't ready for his needs.

That someone who has a _choice_ in the IDE he uses and then stays loyal with one that makes him less productive makes me question how smart a guy really is.
I would bet they're focussing a lot of effort on Coda for the iPad. It's the perfect match for that platform: 7 apps in one with no app-switching.
Or you could just push F11...
I get the feeling it's intended more for presenting than for actual browsing.
The one thing Coda or any other GUI based editor is really nice for is CSS. While it's rare at I have to delve into that stuff, it is really nice to have amenities like a color picker and a visual representation of the colors instead of just a hex code. So while I use emacs for my source as well, I jump into Coda for the rare cases where I am making style changes.

I'd love if there was some emacs-y way of doing this, but it's just not good at gui tasks.
But then you can't read the actual CSS properties.
"How do you get started in enterprise Java development? What is the best way to gain experience without giving up on the current day job that pays the bills?"

Find a small business that needs a web app and build it for them using your favorite technology stack. That's how I started. Show your interviewers the code - shuts off a lot of stupid gotcha/trivia questions.

(due disclosure: Though I worked on enterprise dev for 10 years I haven't done it in the last 8 years or so. I got completely bored and the projects all started to blur into each other and so I shifted to algorithm intensive AI/machine learning sw. But it was kinda fun for a while and I worked with some great people and companies. I recently talked to some of my ex colleagues and nothing much has changed in enterprise dev.)
I don't know. Microsoft had larger growth rates than Apple.

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/04/microsoft_windows_p...

"Microsoft said worldwide Windows consumer licenses grew by more than 35 percent in the recent quarter. By comparison, Apple this week reported an increase of 33 percent in Mac sales over roughly the same time period. That was impressive, too, of course, but Microsoft is growing from a significantly larger base of sales to begin with, making its higher growth rate considerably harder to achieve."

Which is actually interesting, when you consider when Apple succeeded. It was during a time between XP and Windows 7. Vista got thrashed in the press and between friends (and I like Vista), so you didn't have the upgrade their. So, basically Apple was competing against XP.

Of course, this is a simplification of everything, but with Windows 7 doing so well, I think you have a lot of people fine with finally upgrading off their rather old XP machines. Combine that with the economic turn-around, and the fact that people are still money-aware, the lower cost of the upgrade to a Windows 7 machine is very attractive.

With what MS has in store with Live Wave 4, I think we can see them finally bringing things together. Couple that with Windows Phone, and Office 2010, there are a lot of interesting things with MS at the moment.
Suppose the Porn/Stanford stories break. These are both big media-genic scandals.

Now the public widely perceives the SEC as incompetent/corrupt/perverts. Congresscritters declare that "something must be done", so they fire a few people, maybe do a reorg. Oh, and assorted SEC higher ups become known as "that guy who didn't catch stanford" or "that guy who didn't notice all the perverts in his office."

This gives all sorts of SEC officials a perfect motivation for drawing attention elsewhere.

As for launching a "risky" investigation, what's the risk? The case fails, and the public thinks the noble SEC was beaten by the evil vampire squid? The worst case I see from this is that congress decides the SEC needs more money/power. Oh noes!
I like Coda's CSS Editor, but for CSS Editing alone, you'd be much better served by a unitasker app like CSSEdit.
You can use Java based HTMLUnit. Emulates a headless browser complete with Javascript and DOM.
shady oligarchy money. that's their secret sauce.
The problem is that you assume your thoughts on justice worldwide.

China may have a totally different understanding on what is allowed and what not.
The whole privacy data thing doesn't worry me very much in my country. But it's scary when i think of other countries.
I love app engine and if it had SSL I'd use it for all projects I do ... BUT: It feels odd to run the speed analysis tool in google webmaster tools and discover that my very simple site is slower than 80% of the sites on the internet...

I use python, btw, so it's still fairly fast, but for some reason even the simplest pages (one datastore request by key and a simple template) are still not "fast" compared to the rest of the internet.
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hands down. jQuery is the simplest and most powerful, and has the biggest community.
Job postings are built something like children's wish lists for Santa. Your kid doesn't actually expect a pony AND a nintendo AND a dog AND a trip to disneyland. Entry-level job postings don't actually expect 3-5 years of experience.

It's normal to be ignored over and over and over when you submit resumes. It's the hardest road to employment. Because 99% of applicants are crap, no one applicant gets a lot of attention. Tweak your resume, make more phone calls, keep trying.
Hacking with Google ?
Are there any other ways to hack sites with Google ? Spare Google Dorks ? http://www.techno-flux.co.cc/hacking-with-google/
Maybe you mean something different, but I'm pretty sure both SproutCore and Cappuccino don't demand your back-end be written in JavaScript, or any particular language.

Also, your framework choice is going to depend on what you want to do. SC/Capp are meant for building webapps, not websites.
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And in related news, Facebook selling 400 million Facebook accounts
Well, there are also:

Algol syntaxes, e.g. wordy ones with begin end instead of { and }. It introduced cancer of the semi-colon and := and quite a few languages followed it, most notably Ada and Pascal and its derivatives. C is obviously an optimization of it, but it also adds its distinct features.

There's the postfix Forth family including Postscript and Factor.

Python's use of significant white space deserves mention.

I could go back further to BASIC and its line numbers, FORTRAN IV with its column significant spacing (e.g. the statement continuation column), but you get the idea....
The problem with your theory is that the SEC, not Goldman (or any other party possibly under the secret control of Goldman), controlled the timing of these reports.
You can also take a look at qooxdoo. http://qooxdoo.org/

It's feature rich (more than cappuccino at this time), it has good documentation, it provides a nice unit test framework and it's easy to use.

One thing that worth noting, is that framework like capp/sproutcore/qooxdoo are design with all the widget in mind(not the case with jQuery). That provide a more coherent api, everything is test against each other, it's easier to build, maintain and update. But all of this at the expense of being a little bit bigger (kb).

One advantage of cappuccino is the GUI builder Atlas, but only if you're on a Mac and all your team members are on a Mac. There is no announcement yet if or when it will be available on Windows and Linux.
Shutting down FB account might be a solution to privacy issues, which can be easily solved by starting to use FB from something like TweetDeck. That's not big of a deal.

But, the mere fact that people are feeling "friction" from shutting accounts leads to a more profound problem here - portability of personal data on the cloud. For a 'social' web to happen in reality and for 'everything to move on cloud' to happen anywhere out of Web 2.0 conferences, this feature is required.

You can't shift 'everything on cloud' when 'everything' is tied to one privately held entity. This goes for every 'social' services provider out there. If I can change my cellphone provider, why not my social network provider?
Sorry for the downvote from whoever… I upvoted you. I think you've got a point.

CSSEdit is a great way to edit CSS. More more intuitive and relaxed, not necessarily better, but neither is emacs necessarily better.
>Liberal also doesn’t have the same meaning in Europe as in the US.

I know. I am Italian.

>Malmström’s position is not exactly socially permissive.

That's the point. There's nothing liberal in censorship.
I wish there was a "Like" button on this post.
Nifty. Always glad to see cross-pollination in the Ruby/Python/Perl world.
BBEDit's global find and replace can't be beat.

The biggest complaint I hear from younger developers? BBEdit is too expensive. When I bought my first copy back in the day, it was cheaper -- I think around $40 - $50. Then they doubled the price.
I wish something like that existed for Windows.
On some pages, the number of affiliate aggregator upvote links takes up some significant portion of the page (Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.). It would make sense for somebody to aggregate the aggregators, a meta-aggregator if you will, and just have one button on the page that sends it to all of them.
>I know. I am Italian.

Oh, sorry. I promise, no more bad assumptions. I should have just written that party names are not a good predictor of political positions and left it at that :)
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Should also flash the firmware since it rarely if ever ships with the latest version.
Curious - I wonder what the legality is of distributing Isaac Asimov's copyrighted materials.

There is some subtle meta-insight of the internet being some form of MultiVax, but encumbered by extensive copyright laws, which limit its usefulness, but at the same time containing the story of Multivax regardless.

Further Meta-Meta-Insight:

http://www.google.com/search?q=copyright+status+%22The+Last+...

The first hit seems to have the most insightful analysis:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/happy_birthday_isaa...
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The law above pretty clearly covers the "Oops, I found it in a bar!" scenario:

...steals, or without authorization appropriates, takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information...

Appropriates? Takes? Carries away? Yes.
I actually use this on a daily basis and I must say it leaves something to be desired. It isn't stable and for whatever reason it'll often just drop external styling until reloaded.
Yeah. The developers at barbarian mentioned in a blog post that they started the project since they needed a browser with fullscreen support for mac to present slides. But I personally use this to browse things where I need concentration - like reading some serious stuff.

And there is a "Kiosk mode" which would prevent me from doing an alt+tab. To come out of kiosk mode I would have to type my password once. When the password prompt comes up I would ask myself once if I need to really go to some other app now, or if I should continue concentrating on reading this for more time. This process makes me concentrate longer on what I'm reading.
Full-screen mode has traditionally been missing from Mac browsers. Safari and Firefox still don't have it, but Chrome does.
Sounds interesting. Care to expand?
Ruby still growing?
Who'd of thunk?
Good point, though I have one argument: if the insurance and healthcare companies are adjusting rates by online identity, and they are doing so legally, then they'll just charge a higher rate for someone they can't 'infer' due to lack of a descriptive online identity. Scary thing is these sorts of inferred decisions may be considered morally OK by some :(
Would you mind sharing this script with HN'ers?
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ExtJS has repeatedly claimed that their Open Source license does not apply to an application in which any part (including the backend) is proprietary. I don't personally agree that that's how the GPL works wrt JS, but if you can't afford the commercial license, be aware that the owners of the project don't think you can use the OSS license on a non-OSS app.
Is it just me, or is using women and/or relationships as metaphors for tools and/or languages really getting old?
My main home computer, a laptop, is named Workhorse. But after seeing some of the creative naming techniques people in this thread have used, the next machine(s) added to my home network will be named using Klingon swear words.

I quite like the idea of using the word 'petaQ' to name a computer, especially if it happens to be a Windows machine.
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I never have despite frequent requests, and not all automatically generated (at least by conventional criteria). I'm beginning to worry about whether people get that not joining Facebook could be a conscious choice rather than a mere oversight.
Vimperator gives a nice full screen experience, and good keybindings too. http://vimperator.org/screenshots/vimperator_hints.png
Depends on your requirements. JQuery is great if your goal is also to maintain a progressive experience that somewhat works without javascript.

If you're after a feel closer to desktop apps, or a high level of interactivity, and also don't care much about users who don't sport a modern browser, I think the best library is Ext, both in terms of community size and widget features. But, qooxdoo would be a better choice among free alternatives, (i.e. Sproutcore and Cappuccino)

In a nutshell: In case of Sproutcore, I don't think Sproutcore's widget set is great. As for Cappuccino, I'm not sure about running code over an "Objective-j" layer on top of javascript, which is slow enough. And, I'm not a mac guy at all.

Qooxdoo has introduced some support for progressive pages as well, but it's nowhere near JQuery. I'm also maintaining a project called JsQt, that converts .ui files from Qt Designer to qooxdoo code. See http://to./3t6p to get a quick feeling of what works and what doesn't. So you also have a basic gui-designer support for qooxdoo as well.