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The 21st-century desktop isn't based on the fat-client desktop of the last 25-years. It exists on the Web in Web-based applications and software as a service (SaaS) and what I call "Content as a Service." If the content providers have their way, you'll view content from the Web instead of downloading it.

So I just took a break and played a round of SC2 and now I'm back to do some work in Photoshop/Excel. Just thought you'd like to know.
Thnx! Yes, UI is a pitty one, I could use some good advice on that.

Main problem: I'm trying to combine the 'MTV functionality' with the original functionality of listandplay.com (generate playlists in a few clicks). I thought about splitting up both projects, but I want to avoid that... What would you do?
Closer to the source: http://basanovich.livejournal.com/163813.html

With more photos and crude English explaination from the author. Reposted by a friend, as the original author doesn't disclose himself.

This piece of news made a couple of hops before it got out to English-speaking internets.
Why did they decided to cut the graphic at 400,000 years before today? Maybe that's because a couple of million years ago the concentration of CO2 was well above today's level?

By the way here is another picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmospheric_CO2_with_glaci...
I'd never been very good at it. I could play, but would almost always lose to anyone that had spent any real time studying chess. Then a couple years ago I got into it and spent maybe 100 hours on it. Now I know I can demolish anyone that doesn't really play, but I'm probably at the bottom of any club or group of serious players.

One innovative tool that helped a lot is http://chesstempo.com. It presents puzzles, but each puzzle has a dynamic rank, so the site is always adjusting what it gives you to your current skill level.
If you would have read the first sentence in that article, you would've seen the author argues the contrary ... that Linux on the desktops is not dead.

On the other hand your point is totally useless.

Linus is not going to be professional in the areas that
commercial software makers only support
Windows or Mac

NO SHIT ... unfortunately it is not going to happen soon. You know why?

Because Linux users don't pay for software, and proprietary software has some kind of stench attached (RMS says so).

E.g. Adobe tried to ship Flex Builder for Linux: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/

And I've been to one internal meeting in Adobe that discussed the viability of Linux. Users not paying for software was problem #1, but they still considered it viable because of recent trends (e.g. Dell / Walmart starting to sell Ubuntu / gOS computers).

Guess they backtracked on that decision based on consumer feedback.
Does anyone have any reference(s) to the methods used to sample data about atmospheric 400,000 years ago? It's amazingly interesting.
Mostly: boiled potatoes, sour cream, meatballs, bacon chop, yogurt, bananas, pancakes, pasta, rice, sausages, brown bread with honey.

All of my friends prefer baked potatoes or fries, not me.
> The 'swinginess' of it can make it a bit of an eyesore.

Come on. It's not that bad. Doesn't it default to native look and feel on Macs? I think it does in Windows and it did last time I used it on Linux.
I'm the opposite, I used OS X for a few months and found it abysmal for development, really unfit for power-user usage (keyboard accessibility was horrid) and completely uncustomisable. I switched to Linux and never used it again.

I used to use Windows before that, but now I've switched all my computers to Linux. Windows is a close favorite (7 is great), but installing the dev tools I need isn't easy (or possible, sometimes). OS X is a distant third.
Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Unfortunately, I think you're right.

A friend of mine (who works in energy) was telling me about how the case for renewable energy is being made (to some extent) successfully in Kansas. They push three points:

- reduce expenditure
- US should reduce reliance on foreign oil
- have a duty to protect the earth god gave us

I wonder if the broader case could be made more successfully along these lines (with variations for each arena) rather than leaving it to more divisive arguments where people aggressively take sides (religion vs science, views on reach of government, etc).
UI needs to be simplified indeed. It's a bit complicated because I used the original ListAndPlay.com UI to start with.

Second Hud: those are the 'most often used' buttons, removing duplicates is a good idea indeed. The 'generate' text is visible to give you a way to enter artist search mode in non-fullscreen mode. The search bar above the link (with tick in it) is for searching through Youtube directly (instead of using Last.FM data). The tick is to show all the ajax is finished, a loading animation is being shown while busy.

Why What How is maybe not clear enough, what would you suggest as intro? Resize & move is incase someone got a low resolution and couldn't see the dropdown.

Thanks for your feedback phoboslab :)!
Only ever pizza if I don't have time to prepare something. I like simple foods, like chicken salads (I agree that caesar is nice), traditional british roasts and what not. I love Indian food too.
Lots of homeless people I've come across are usually looked down upon by other people for god knows what; silent assumptions suck.

I've talked to a few of them and I've been amazed, every single time, what sort of stories they bring to the table, and the sort of intellect a lot of them possessed.

After talking with an old homeless guy at length over a period of a year about literature and various other things, he carted over a basket full of books to give to me and a few of my friends - he was a huge book nerd and talked a lot about McLuhan, life, and literature.

It was pretty obvious that many people didn't have much of a high opinion of him - it was only after you've decided to so much as look at him and say something that you'd find out the truth.

I don't know what the hell happened to him, but I didn't see him after that year.

I miss him dearly.
I agree with you on everything, except the fact that it's solid. In my experience, it crashes a bit more than Windows (Gnome/the GUI does, the rest of the system runs great). E.g. gwibber-service keeps taking up 100% of my CPU at random times, network-manager-applet keeps disappearing, disconnecting me from the net, etc.

Other than that, I love it, it's my main OS. I just wish they debugged it a bit more. Ubuntu is known for using bleeding-edge packages rather much...
Alternative: There's no reason for my username to be public on the vast majority of sites/apps/crap that I use, so I'd rather just have a username, no password.

The secret username can be associated with a display name, real name, physical/email addresses, etc. You can use the latter to look up the former along with a password/probing question/ping (email, text, phone) to retrieve the former.

It seems to make more sense to me logically anyway: I'm not anonymously entering a secret club with a password. I'm identifying myself, and based on my identity I'm allowed to do something.
Really doesn't work with FF and Flashblock. I can't even enable the flash object because it keeps catching the click even and displaying an alert.
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix (1997)
You can disable Flashblock for a certain domain from the Flashblock context menu.
I really think it should be as simple as possible. Split both projects.

Your UI could be just a search box, where you enter the artists name, and the App then creates a continuous stream of music videos. Not more, not less. Maybe add the Skip button and count (server side) how often a video has been skipped, to create a "blacklist" of bad videos, that won't show up anymore.

Look at the UI of http://www.mixest.com/ for instance - I think they nailed it.
Wow. I really dig this idea of sharded / modular network problem solvers. It would be interesting to take it a step further and let the solvers themselves negotiate their own distribution over time, CPU use, etc. - e.g. replicate all the active solvers on all the clients but allocate chunks of variable size to each depending on which evolves to be the "dominant" solver on any given CPU. You'd need an algorithm to stop Montecarlos from becoming the dominant process everywhere, probably. Montecarlo is notorious for chewing up a processor, but in various applications it often does not need to be run constantly, so the free cycles could be used for something else.

I especially like the idea that this could be applied to anything, not just Go. I did something in this direction a few years ago with an a-life data processing platform that used SOAP to shard problems to groups of machines.

At that point there are two issues, firstly the protocol becomes a bottleneck if you're dealing in large datasets, and secondly if you're dividing something up spatially you still have to aggregate your results. It would be the same if you divided it problematically for Go moves, unless each algorithm could give a "confidence" indicator that could be used reliably so that the master engine would not have to montecarlo each result set. That could be done if the montecarlo was moved to the sub-servers to test their own moves before sending the moves back complete with percentage wins for direct comparison in the master engine. It would chew up a lot more cycles and mean more machines, but it would remove the post-processing bottleneck.
Ah! That's because there is a div overlay to catch the clicks on the video in order to fix the play/pause. I couldn't find another way to capture any mouseclicks on the flashvideo through the Chromeless flashplayer itself, if anyone knows a better workaround, tell me!

For now a (dirty) fix, you can reach the flash video object itself by (right mouse)clicking on the Youtube logo.
Thank you very much, I think I'll be using it very soon!
Can find ground bison at the grocery store just like regular ground beef (in Austin). Also, you could get either of them in a burger at a Fuddruckers.
It depends. If you are in "economy mode" life can be relatively cheap in MV. On the other hand, in Buenos Aires you can survive on much, much less because the basics are much cheaper. A yuppie lifestyle costs about the same in both places (housing costs aside). Eating out is not that different, clothing and electronics are more expensive in Buenos Aires and transportation is a wash (cars are more expensive, public transportation is cheaper).
You made the right choice :)

I got to about 7 kyu, and then it suddenly hit me. Balance is key. Therefore you should concentrate on those aspects of your life which have become more urgent. I haven't played very much after that realization.

In my view, Go (or any other hobby, really) would stand in one corner of the board. Your family, personal life, and work would be at the other three corners. As the situation on the board evolves, you would choose your best play. Focusing too much on any one area would leave you over-concentrated. It would be too inefficient. You'd easily secure one corner but lose the other three.

But then, if you spread yourself too thin all over the place, trying to please everyone, including yourself, that would leave you with a vulnerable position that could fall apart at any moment. That's clearly not good either.

However, if you patiently settle your stone formations before moving on the next area, if you gain strength in one corner/side before expanding towards another, if you are fluid in your decision making process when choosing a direction (life does throw you stumbling blocks doesn't it?), THEN you'd be a wise man indeed :)

I do make it a point to participate in a local yearly tournament (five games over two days) whether I feel ready or not. One day, though, I will come back to Go in full-force.

I'm also ludwig on KGS, btw. If anyone fancies a game, you can always reach me via twitter (@ludwig1024).
It is amazing to see how much thought is going into this when you can just use one line of Facebook API code.

Why make a user type anything? They are most likely already signed in to Facebook anyways.

If they don't have Facebook, then what good are they if you cant use one button to get immediate access to their name, email address, DOB, gender, profile picture, location and access to their wall?
http://seedcamp.com/

http://www.thedifferenceengine.eu/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=518097
Go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Flashblock -> Preferences tab Whitelist and add listandplay.com
Quinoa and vegetables. Good brain food.
I'll admit, he had me going until I saw the byline at the end.
I can understand that point of view, but I notice that a lot of desktop Linux users bring up UI customization as one of the big arguments for using Linux.

I've always seen extensive UI customization as just one more distraction between me and real work. I'd rather just set a flat black or very minimalist wallpaper and get cracking instead of spending hours finding the right interface theme, tweaking the colors and fonts, and designing the perfect wallpaper to highlight my CPU/RAM/weather/calendar desktop widgets (I have done all this before).

I'm actually really glad that the only UI customization that's easy to do in OS X is choosing between color or greyscale title bar close buttons.
Ask HN: How would you get a friend started on programming
A close friend of mine recently came to me to teach him programming. He had absolute 0 background knowledge in the subject. Otherwise, he's a smart guy with a genius keen interest to learn.

I started teaching him some simple Objective C syntax. After doing some if & while demos, I taught him the concept of OOP and made a very simple app that relies heavily on OOP with him. By now, I could clearly tell that the guy was totally confused and didn't really understand the concepts of OOP. A few more attempts and 2 hours later, we both gave up.

How would you have done it?
What resources would you have used?
What language would you teach a first-timer?

Or a different question would be: How did you yourself get started on programming?
Daddy, what's a desktop?
They're just as good for a lot of use cases.
20oz Cokes and water (sometimes seltzer).
Wow. That's so fantastic I can't even describe it. I can't imagine how much buggy software there is out there because of this.
I have experienced some Gwibber weirdness, but in 10.04. It's been behaving very well on 10.10 and I haven't seen Gnome crashes in a long time except one during the upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 (since no non-linux desktop OS can do such a feat - imagine upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 while you work on the machine being upgraded... - I consider that a moot point)

It's hard to debug with the vast amounts of undocumented hardware people run it on. The developers have access to only a tiny fraction of all the hardware combinations their users have and an even smaller fraction of those have some documentation or specs developers can write for. Graphic accelerators and wireless interfaces are just two very visible categories where far too many hardware manufacturers want to make sure open-source developers fail.

There used to be a hardware popularity/test app with Ubuntu. I can't find it on 10.10 but, if it might be useful for you to run it or whatever came to replace it. Also, it's entirely possible very few people run it on the exact hardware you have and filing a bug report may help others with similar problems.
I think I prefer Johnny Carson's introduction of Bill Clinton in 1988. :)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4464083
Intelligentsia coffee when I can get it. These days we've been using the "toddy" for cold brewed coffee. It results in a quite nice cup of hot or cold coffee and takes about as much time to make a single serving as instant would, but doesn't taste foul. In the past I've used a moka pot on the stove and still do on occasion.
Oh, no, nothing like that. I agree, and never spend any time customising the look. My wallpaper is usually solid black color.

What I mean is, for example, the horrible implementation of Spaces, which could very easily has an option to work correctly, but doesn't. I need virtual desktops, but it's not a virtual desktop when cmd-tab shows you all the windows on all workspaces. I need to separate workflows on each desktop, and I just can't do that on OS X. They could have a simple checkbox for this, but it's currently impossible, unless you use Witch (a third party alt+tab replacement). This is one of the reasons, but it's the general mindset that pervades OS X. It just doesn't want to give users options, even those are very sane.
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That isn't very smart - whenever I need to find the search field, I scan the page for a single field with a button under it. Should I need to login, I scan for two fields above each other.

Using your "system" I would end up searching in the login form.

Oh and it doesn't work with any known password rememberer feature I know of.
There's mathematical operator keys in the main part of the keyboard too. :)

When I had those keys on the keypad, I never really used them because they were further away from the home row than their counterparts on the main keyboard. With the left-hand hitting Shift (if necessary), it's not difficult to hit them with the right hand.
The F# Asynchronous Programming Model
I got a friend who also eats raw plants for lunch everyday, I tried it for a few days, raw capsicum is juicy and delicious!
From another post in this thread, it seems http://elitekeyboards.com/ has "FILCO"-brand keyboards available with Cherry Brown key-switches.
"Shunya" - sanskrit word for zero/null/nothingness
it also signifies existence(infinity/everything) is contained in nothingness.
should work as a gud koan too :P
Ah, it's good to know Gwibber is fixed in 10.10 (I'm running 10.04). I'm waiting a month or so after each release, because upgrading right after release has given me problems in the past.

Gnome doesn't crash completely, just a few applets disappearing or other weirdness. I agree that it's hard to debug wireless adapters or graphics, but gwibber, for example, shouldn't really take up all your CPU like that.

It's generally fine, everything works fine on all my computers, except nm-applet, which does crash on three separate computers quite frequently. I hope it's fixed on 10.10, thank you for the info!
You're assuming that everyone has already managed to obtain everything they need. I don't think this is the case.

Society is a spectrum - the person you are a describing resides at one end of that spectrum .. there are still many people who need (and want) to buy physical goods, over experiences.
Spaces definitely has its issues, that's for sure. Aside from the alt+tab problem you mentioned, it just started feeling really slow so I turned it off.

I guess you could make an argument that Apple gets a lot of usability ideas from Linux, but when they go through the Stevejobsification Process they tend to lose some of their usefulness in trade for simplicity and prettier looks. I think the problem is that the only people who even notice these things are power users, so it's not even a factor in adoption rates.
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I started playing Go at 4 with dad and played a while of IGS (the Panda net thing) and got pretty high (around 2D). But felt in love with Starcraft which is for me, GO+Chess and in real time :p
Los Alamos
Yes, climate and atmosphere do change. There is nothing sacred about current measurements and composition.

Here are estimated CO2 levels through geologic time -- "currently" rather low! -- at UCSD site:

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1...

CO2 is essentially airborne fertilizer. Our planet wouldn't be so green without lots of it. (I'd rather be alive during an interglacial, abundantly green geological period.)
> Unfortunately there aren't too many Go players where I am

Put yourself on the map, just in case! http://igolocal.net/
Casual : Coke (vanilla and Cherry)
Late work : Redbull
Tired : lemon tea
Morning : cold coffee
Night : cold water
Good thread. I don't have much dot add, but: water water water. I've got a weak spot for a big glass of orange juice in the morning and go through phases of making yogurt/banana/frozen berry smoothies. Favorite drink is a gin tonic.
Sadly there's also the opposite side. I always try to talk to homeless people begging in the street, getting their attention by giving them a small amount of money.
A few weeks ago I came to talk to this girl coming from a different country who was just visiting friends in mine. I was looking for that special spark you found in your acquaintance but I simply couldn't find it. After about 20 minutes I had to admit that she was just plain stupid in the normal sense of the word and brainwashed enough to reject the help society offered her. It was a bit depressing to see that she really was just a homeless person and that there wasn't that much more to her.
Well, I'm in Australia, and the nearest thing I could find in our supermarkets is kangaroo meat, sliced and packed
Was Moore's Law Inevitable?
Usually during the day, I try to drink cups of hot water, rather than coffee. It's a little strange at first, but satisfies my need for a hot drink while keeping me away from the caffeine monster. Just lately, I've been having the odd coffee to keep me going, as my wife and I have a new born baby and sleep doesn't come as easy as it used to.

Cherry coke with lots of ice. I'm addicted to this stuff, but I know it's really really bad for me, so I try to keep my consumption to a minimum (I still usually get through a couple of 2 litre bottles each week).

I don't really drink much anymore but when I do, I like a long Jack Daniels and coke with ice.
How often do you switch restaurants? Same place almost everyday or must always be different everyday?
Does Price Matter?
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I was interested in it's layout. Do you use QWERTY or other layout like Colemak and Dvorak with it?
I wouldn't touch pizza even if I had no other options - bad experience from eating nothing but pizza for a whole week at college
Coca cola.
Graylog2 v. 0.9.3 released. (self-hosted exception and log management)
I just released Graylog2 v. 0.9.3 - Graylog2 is a free and open source log management solution with web interface that you can use for plain syslog or with the "Graylog2 Extended Log Format" for exception tracking with structured metadata.
A very diverse range of selections, I'm impressed!
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i think, you can´t do everything all at once.
since programming is quite abstract, perhaps it would be enough to do some basic stuff like variables, ifs and basic output.

most important (to me): always show the results, like run the program. otherwise people have no clue what all those strange lines mean and do.
martin
Ah, well... it's understandable when you realize that businessweek is seeking entry to the "dying technology" list...

Presumably they think that aggravating their readers they'll be able to hasten their suicide. I support that ambition for all such user-hostile practitioners of 'journalism.'
Probably, but the stevejobsification process in this case completely missed the purpose of the feature and produced a larger desktop instead. I agree that only power users notice these things, but I was commenting on why I don't use it, not on why I don't want other people to use it :P
Can you reprogram where arrow keys are? I have my arrow keys in emacs as Alt and then IJKL (like WASD), so it would be nice if Fn IJKL worked the same in OS.
Chocolate cereals & milk for breakfast.
For lunch and dinner I usually start with soup and then random meat (beef, pork, chicken or turkey) with rice and salad (lettuce, tomato and onion).