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That being said, you should fill in the email address when I need to create an account. Maybe make it greyed out since it is optional, but if I'm giving you access to do the import, I'm likely going to tie it to my email address.
Nothing's wrong with GNU; the problem is when it becomes a de-facto standard. Having more than one compiler available will improve both as they compete, and it keeps code more time-proof and gives developers and users more options.
The 2GB 11" is the model Apple handed out to people at the event announcing it, so that makes sense.
I don't know about 1934, but this is what the ballot looked like in 1938. http://danariely.com/2010/10/05/hitler-nudge/

In any case, he doesn't answer the central question that arguing for anarchy inevitably provokes: once we take away the power monopoly of government, what's to stop someone from seizing power by force and being far worse than any government that preceded them?

The problem with the Hitler example is that that's pretty much exactly what Hitler did. Weimar Germany was far from a model of sane government; it felt powerless after the war, it was crippled economically and it lacked real leadership. The spirit of nationalism that had made Germany such a powerful force before WWI had been broken by its defeat, and Hitler took power by stepping in to fill the void that it left.

In other words, the Hitler example is exactly what a sane government prevents. The problem there wasn't the fact that there was a government in power; it was that there wasn't one. Anarchy was the problem, not the solution.
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Last I checked, a couple COBOL programmers I know were making some serious dough updating mainframe code at the bank I used to work at. Not a bad place to be if that's all you want to do. May not be the target demographic for this crowd, but if it pays the bills...
Once again, MG is blinded by his fanaticism.

My favorite line:

"This thing boots up in less than 15 seconds, ready to go. My i7 iMac with 8 GB of RAM takes something like 2 minutes."

As if RAM had anything to do with boot time.

And my Core 2 Duo boots up in less than 2 minutes, so I'm not really sure what his problem is. (If he wants fast, maybe he should try Linux.)
I mean, why not make it open-source? It's half-resume, and half-premium accounts for a nice service.
> Most Linux problems are people fighting against hardware, if you just pick your chipsets sensibly it all works out of the box.

True, but easier said than done.

First you have to find out what chipset a given laptop has. The salescritter won't know, the advert doesn't say. The manufacturer's website might have the info, but it won't be easy to find.

Now you have to figure out if the chipset is supported. That's non-trivial because the "supported" lists don't necessarily use the same chipset names as the manufacturer. Sometimes minor variations don't matter but sometimes they do.
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Good question, and I don't know.

I just went by cat /proc/cpuinfo and htop which both show 16 independently operating cores. Maybe I have an octo-core and it has hyper-threading? I can't say I pay a great deal of attention to the specifics of the machine I'm hot-desking at, but I suspect that even if it is 8 cores hyper-threaded that Unity should still run smoothly.
Good call on making preset feeds loaded as soon as you open the page, lets you test it out right away. Instant engagement.

Also, it uses Google Reader shortcuts + imports feeds. Making the transition easy.

Excellent way to present a product versus a strong competitor.
Yes, hi SamWillis.

What you say echoes my understanding of creating a product 'in China'. Often there are loads of steps where it makes sense to use local talent instead.

This means a lot of the rhetoric of 'jobs going overseas' can be empty.

I think in future that local firms will have a chinese manufacturing partner and list this fact to clients as a 'we save you money this way'. Local expertise with approved baseline manufacturing cost.
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Great idea. Noted for later when the server isn't being hammered. Oh my god is it being hammered.
Bit more context here, as well: http://quippd.com/show/4530/Bees_can_effectively_approximate...
Not object oriented?

PHP 5 is just as object-oriented as Python, Perl or Javascript. Sure, you can have global variables and functions that aren't tied to classes, but you can do that in the CLR too (you just can't write 'em in C#.)
In fact, I think that every single item on the federal budget should be put in exacly these terms. Every $1000 the government spends could in principle be returned to the tax payer from whom it was taken. If you can't say "this money is better spent on this government action than, say, a steel worker with a family who has 25% of his income taken as taxes", then it shouldn't be so spent.

That said, I think asteroid deflection is easily worth the money.
Interesting the fact that is definitely going again the trend of extracting content from websites to present it in a more readable format (instapaper, safari reader). I like the general interface, but I'm not a big fan of having to ready my rss crowded with ads and banners.
Most algorithm and data structure texts deal with in-memory algorithms

Nope, they deal with Algorithms in general without regard to storage. Usually when an algorithm has been developed with some sort of memory in mind it is titled as such. As an example cache oblivious algorithms are algorithms which are cache aware but oblivious to cache size (aka supposed to be good no matter the cache size).

Sqlite is the only database I can think of that is small enough to be read. If all you are interested in is algorithms applied to disk storage I don't think I would recommend writing your own database since that is going to involve writing a large chunk of code for SQL parsing, query planing, etc. Why not just write some data processing tools for data mining.
Very impressive, the UI stuff has clearly been thought about. At the same time, I found it a bit confusing. Also, landing straight in the app is cool, but it doesn't tell me how it's different, so I don't know why I would spend the time to figure it out.

It seems to have a lot of mysterious features like "instafetch" and "intelligence trainer" and stuff.

I guess I'm saying that my first impression is that it looks nice but complicated, like there's the promise of great stuff there but it seems like it would be hard to figure out. Compare with Google in the early days: great technology, crazy fast, but all that tech is hidden in the background and you don't see that, you just see the search box and the results.

Perhaps you've been too enamored with the cool/powerful features and haven't focused enough on keeping it simple?

But definitely awesome!
It seems to be a bit disingenuous to contend that a small amount of research before making a 1400-1500$ investment is too much to think about.

It is when I have no way of testing what I've researched, and no guarantee that I made the correct choices. I'm willing to pay a little more for such a guarantee.
Apple hardware isn't as diverse I'd wager, and as such it's more likely that an Apple OS will be more tailored to work with Apple hardware. That and the quality build, make up the premium.

Some laptops are stamped with Linux support - something like Suse professional and they are more likely to work.

It's a bit of a gamble at the end of the day, and I'd say the same for Windows running on a laptop. If every thing just works, praise the lamas - keep it. A bit of homework certainly helps before going out and buying something.

I have OSX Tiger on an old power book. Free quality apps are few and far between. Though I like the OS. Loads of apps on Windows, but I don't like the UI.

OSX and W7 users can always just place Linux in a VM if they wanted to and have the best of both worlds. Ideology and small touches in Gnome keep me wedded to Linux.

I still blame the hardware vendors...
They assume that the purpose of study is to pass tests.
Nice thing is that you have the option to only read the Feed instead of the Original Site. By clicking on 'Feed', you get the same treatment as Google Reader. And NewsBlur persists your preference.
People have offered to write the drivers, and even agreed to sign NDAs. What more is the Linux side expected to do?
I agree, one shall not be careless when it comes to domain security. Days and even months of your hardwork can go in vain. And, the efforts you put-in is far more important/precious than money; so one must be careful about it.
FWIW, after trying VNC on OSX (via Linux and Win7) I have to give Microsoft credit for their RDP implementation. It kick's VNC's ass for speed and usability -- no contest.

Still, it's nice to know how to do this on Macs.
I'm afraid that I have no understanding of that popular culture reference. Are you calling me a fascist?
My 2 years old unibody macbook 13" boots (rarely) in about 1 minute, with its old 160 GB hard drive. Maybe he shouldn't have bought a shitty SSD :)
I don't get it? All I see is a hat.
Is it possible to:
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- delete account
This would've been better as a simple link to a man page, I think.
I'm running 10.10 on an ASUS 2.5 year old "gaming" laptop and a ASUS netbook and 1 - 7 seemed to be fixed. YMMV.
There are also lots of good frameworks written in PHP. Wordpress of course (in June 8.5 percent of all sites were powered by WP) and Drupal and I've come to really like CakePHP.

Considering the Wordpress numbers I wouldn't be surprised if PHP powers 15% of all sites on the web, perhaps more.
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I get this error when I try to Google Reader import: http://grab.by/73TI
I'm surprised he cares about startup and shutdown times.

One of the lovely things about the Mac laptops is that you never have to turn them off. Close them and they go to sleep in a few seconds. Open them up and you're ready to work immediately.

The uptime on my laptops tends to be a few months.
I am on the fence regarding the 'human nature' argument. From my personal experience, when interacting in smaller groups, people are basically good. It's only when the groups get larger that things go wrong. Also it's not as though this isn't the kind of thing that anarchist thinkers have heard and 'refuted' before.[1] I'm not sure I buy the argument, but that's one reason that 'ideals' are called such, eh?

> The irony of anarchism is that in almost all dimensions you are more free under a centralized government.

While I agree with your comment in spirit, there's a lot of real-world problems with this. Ask anyone with a minority sexuality if they feel protected by the law. And it's not just 'gay marriage' that I'm talking about, there's communities that are even further marginalized, like the polyamory community. Their lifestyle is explicitly illegal... Basically, all I'm saying is that this idea of equal protection under the law is the exact same as equal protection under anarchism: only an ideal.

> Like communism is the insane end of the scale for the latter, anarchism is the for former.

I've really come to dislike dualisms in politics, because the abstraction is always leaky. Anarchism is still a collectivist political philosophy, though it does focus a lot on the individual...

1: http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secA2.html#seca215
If I get a VPN somewhere I would make sure I trust that endpoint to some degree. Just like I won't be caught surfing on public wifi I don't mind surfing from my home connection as I trust that there is a bit more protection than on a public wifi.
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Heh, soon. Those are lesser used features that just haven't seen the light of day due to higher priority features. They will happen soon, though.
The "People" you're talking about are the very small tech minority who were in the "scene", dcc-ing or on usenet, or torrenting (when that came about).

What Apple did, is they boosted the average person's music/tv/movie collection. People like my mom and sister. There's 1,000 of them, for every DCCing/Torrenting one of us.
My laptop (macbook uni 13") has 2 GB of RAM; my desktop (slackware 13.1) 768 MB... but it's showing its age, 5 years :) I mostly use the macbook as an X terminal to the desktop, actually :)
It sounds like a good idea. Why don't you explain the revenue process using catchy graphics like: 1- Take photo 2- Submit 3- Profit!!!
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:-( I've seen that before and haven't been able to figure out why. I'm definitely passing the scope parameter. (scope=reader, or something like that).

After the hailstorm of traffic dies down, I'll look into this error. Thanks for the report.
I think #7 is the kicker.
a french startup is doing that: http://www.citizenside.com/en quite successfully
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How much work is it to compare a feature list to the HCL on your distro of choice? Hardware either works or it doesn't, and problems are rarely unique to a given unit in a line of hardware.
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...in case it decides every Linux kernel on every non-iPhone smartphone...infringes some patent they have that touches LLVM in some way.

Is there some legal precedent you know of wherein compiler patents extend to the output of the compiler?
Anyone know how these guys can offer cashback on all apps purchased in the iTunes store?
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A guy who's clearly into the latest and greatest hardware, and can give a good comparison against the fastest other machines out there is a waste of your time when reading a laptop review? That makes no sense. Hopefully this isn't a "he's rich so I don't care what he says" thing?
What's interesting, though, is that when you scroll back a few links on the same site, they reference a survey that showed 82% are not passionate about their work.

http://blog.rypple.com/2010/10/82-arent-passionate-about-the...

Bolsters the argument that passion comes more from inside, not from external validation.
Gates is smarter than most people you'll ever meet. As a freshman, he proved tighter upper and lower bounds on the pancake sorting problem than had previously existed.

Yes, his professor told him in class that X was the tightest bounds currently in existence. He came back a few days later and said "I'm pretty sure I have faster." He was right.
I suspect the learning is not needed, I like the Google Reader learning because it's so straight forward. (what I read, I like)

I love the reading experience you've designed, though.
I appreciate that initially you need photos and maybe that is why the site is geared as it is, but what you really need to be testing is if you can sell the photos, will people come to you to buy them.

I'd assume the "cell phone generation" is a slightly younger mix, one person telling someone else that they managed to top up their phone credit this month from the money made from selling cell phone pictures is going to be all the advertising you need, could be very viral in that regard.

But marketing those photos to potential buyers is probably where the hard work begins, and in my opinion your site says nothing to point me in the direction of buying photos, what I could use them for etc. iStockPhoto, Getty Images and the like don't target photographers on their homepage, they target people who use photos and you need to do that to.

Awesome idea though, I really like it, I can really see how you can make money from it and how people might find it useful. Being able to geotag and search against that would be amazing too - concerts, riots, natural disasters etc etc. Good luck. (Future feature, let Twitter trends create a list of "Photos we need now" so that when photographers come to your site they know what bloggers might be looking for).
Needs a better tagline than "Make easy money from the photos on your camera phone!" How about, "Profit From Your Pictures!"
I'm not sure. I'm just commenting that in iPhoto (and I just upgraded to '11) they are stored uncompressed and in their original format.
For a public wifi user, how do those 150k downloads actually affect the probability that someone else on the network is using a session-hijacking tool? Given that it was already high enough that people should have already been taking preventative measures, any increase you can attribute to this would still fail to justify the witch-burning you're looking for.

There is zero difference between what someone using public wifi should be doing today and what they should have been doing last week. Now at least more people are aware of the problem.
(From the alt text on the hyperlink where I said that):

Yes, it has the 'class' keyword, but [it seems] that was bolted on relatively late and wasn't the primary focus in PHP's design.

See the linked article: http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/php-is-not-object-oriented/
How are you going to handle gathering model releases for the individuals in the photos? For example, iStockPhoto has detailed requirements on which photos require a model release (http://www.istockphoto.com/tutorial_9.0_modelrelease.php).
This is the plan, yes. But it depends on how many devs quit. It enough people shift to LibreOffice, that plan might fail and OO will be either scrapped, or only available to paying customers.
I agree and should have been more precise. Most algorithm and data structure texts fail to deal with the issues surrounding secondary-storage application, including optimizing disk accesses, buffering, etc.
MG might or might not run into trouble once his SSD drive burns in / fills up, as it no doubt has on the other laptops he talks about. His comparison might be somewhat apples to oranges..
This reminds me of how Stallman's open source ideas have really shook up the software industry.

I wonder what he thinks about all the recent turf battles with Java, Android, OpenOffice etc.
Well, the site is very front-end JavaScript heavy, so most of my time is spent on JavaScript. For the most part, Django has been great. I grew out of many relational SQL-based models and moved most of the key-value type data to mongo. (Stories, classifiers, feed load histories are all in mongo. Feeds, subscriptions, user accounts are still in postgresql.) And the feed fetcher is all custom code to run distributed and consistent.

Django has stayed out of my way and that's been nice. I've used Django on other projects (specifically Storybird: http://storybird.com, an collaborative storytelling startup) and it's been the moon for us. Absolutely incredible. And I write RoR at DocumentCloud and it too has been phenomenal. They're both great. Choose the language, not the framework.
Very nice concept and UI ... great job!
When you say you are an anarchist, what exactly do you believe? For example, do you believe in a police force?

My problem is this. I agree a utopian society is an anarchist society. But it seems to me that the only way anarchy can work is in a world where resources aren't scarce.

As soon as resources become scarce, you have conflict. As soon as you have conflict, you need a way to resolve it fairly.

I just can't understand the "how" of anarchy.
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Yea, there is still huge money in "legacy" languages like COBOL. There is plenty of financial sector software out there on COBOL that still works fine and is simply so massive after 30 years of development that rewriting it has never been successful.

Luckily, I think most of us Java devs have had the benefit of the shift towards a more polyglot style during the last several years. I think our generation of developers, if you can call it that, are more capable of weathering the storm; ultimately, we will be fine if Java dies.
This is just ridiculous fanboyism, how old are you 13? "just works" experience of Linux? On a laptop? Really?

OSX users spend loads of time tinkering with the system? Really?

You are either completely detached from reality or a troll.
I have a hard time taking this book seriously since in the preview the author while focused on Christianity and the Protestant Work Ethic says that Christ "Rises to His rest in Heaven" on a Sunday conflating the Resurrection (on a Sunday) with the Ascension (on a Thursday).

Minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, I know!
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I installed fedora on a W510 a few weeks ago. It wouldn't suspend, because the kernel USB3 driver has no support for suspending. Having blacklisted the driver, I find that I can now suspend, but USB doesn't move back to the USB2 driver, it just doesn't work. Still working on that one. Fortunately, when attached to a base station the USB2 only ports on that work fine.

Your other point that I take issue with is that you can get substantially better hardware outside of apple for the same price. In my experience, a laptop with similar power, battery life, weight, size, and build quality is not a great deal cheaper.

Please note that I say this as a lover of linux in many ways. It's a fantastic desktop/server OS, and I think apple's desktop offerings are poor value in comparison, but I can't say I've ever had a good experience with linux on a laptop.
You may not be able to move the top bar, but that is not an issue since that is the menu bar, doesn't matter where on the screen it is located it is going to take up space, might as well be in a central location.

That being said, the Dock in OS X can also be positioned on either the left or the right side of the screen as well as at the bottom where it has always been. Not being able to move the menu bar is not an issue.
It's not so much an assumption on their part as a realization thats what we've turned the education system into, at least in America.

In primary, secondary and even advanced schooling, there is a heavy focus on the students doing well on the (section/chapter/book) test just so they can drop it all and cram for the next one.

Sure, there is some incremental build up of knowledge or they wouldn't be getting anywhere. However, there is little focus on cumulative review and testing.
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This is an excellent example of someone bootstrapping up a community and profitable business. Also, I've worked with Aibek on a project I proposed to them (which didn't end up working out) and he and the rest of the crew at MakeUseOf are great to work with. They also seem to be really ahead of the pack on what's new and actually useful on the web. MakeUseOf tells me what, why, and how of apps that are relevant right now.