skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, opera also supports this (without a -*- prefix). I think for the individual corners you use -topleft instead of -top-left-.
so let's give them more reasons to switch :-)
"Works for me" does not represent any useful information.Frankly I listen to the people it doesn't work for--- and they are legion. Since I develop for Windows (but open source for any) I have a machine that runs Vista, just like I have a machine that runs XP and another that runs W2K. Any thing else and I won't work for the client unless he gives me a machine to test with. From my experience (not lack of sample size, common to the blogger...) of the three only W2K is stable. Not to mention smaller, faster, simpler and a host of other superlatives. I intend sometime later tonight to OK VistaSP1 and I am prepared for the possible crash--- I believe myself to be safe since such problems were tied to AMD chips and not INTEL. By the way 'wumi' is a CPU one of those single points of failure you claim are all of the problem? And as for the new version of search in Vista; does any one know a working method to revert it back to at least XP if not W2k. There are many worthwhile 12 step programs in the world, windows search isn't one of them.

--hsm
I consider this TechCrunch once and for all jumping the shark. I have unsubscribed.
A lot of Vista bashing is coming form ex-Windows programmers being dog-tired of coding for this platform, which hasn't been an enjoyable experience lately. Problem is that it's virtually impossible to code relatively complex software for Windows that can be installed on a typical "Windows box". There is no such thing anymore: Windows machines are like jungles populated by all kinds of trojans, software firewalls (often several of them), anti-popup programs, anti-spyware programs, anti-anti spyware, and so on... Computers are being sold new in a barely usable shape (pre-damaged by sacks of crapware), can you imagine what do they turn into after 2 years in average Joe's hands? Letting your code run down there without a programmer's supervision is like picking up a Burmese prostitute without a condom: can be done, but it's a tough exercise.

My friend got a Dell laptop and it's touchpad (made by Logitech) greets him every morning with a pop-up. WTF?
You can make it do that. You can have different search domains for different shortcuts. With how I customized it, I hit apple+space to do normal stuff, option apple space to use it to access tho menu bar commands, etc. You could set one shortcut to do normal stuff and another to customize.

Compare Vista plus any app you want with it. If search is your priority, quicksilver is better. I don't have a horse in this OS race (but I think Apple is generally brilliant and Microsoft lacks vision). Plus, it's free.
D6: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Highlight Reel, Part One (video)
I bought a new Fujitsu laptop that came preloaded with Vista. Technically the machine is no slouch.

Right-clicking on the network button to open a network connection reults in a grey box loading and hanging on the page for 10 seconds or so before it disappears. At that point you can click on the exact same icon and have a list of options, one of which is "Open Network Connection". Clicking on that results in another 10 second wait, after which a list of possible networks to connects to opens up.

Either one of those waits would be permissable if Windows really needed to check if the network existed (doesn't take that long under Ubuntu though....). But both? And for the system to show nothing but plain grey boxes?

Frankly, I don't find the OS particularly usable for anything except Photoshop. And I'll be getting around to installing Wine soon.
A Day With Heroku: Building a Simple Color Crowdsourcing App
So what does Seattle say? My first thought would be that it says you should work for Microsoft. After you join it says, you should have joined 20 years ago.
D6: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Highlight Reel, Part Two (video)
I remember dialing a wrong number in Amsterdam a number of years ago, and the woman responded, in nearly perfect English, without missing a beat. I was impressed.
It is a very clear signal indeed, thank you for summarizing it well.
My sister, who drives a car worth about $100, had her car window smashed picked clean of her collection of burned CDs in downtown Cleveland.
Eugene, Oregon: Hey man, just, you know, hang out and get mellow.

Portland, Oregon: Be alternative just like everyone else.

San Francisco: We're so hip and important.

Padova, Italy: That was a long, hard work week, let's have a drink in the piazza and get a pizza afterwards.

Innsbruck, Austria: ... something in the Tirolean dialect that I completely failed to grasp, involving skiing ...
>Vista Is Good

who gives a fuck?
I can't speak for the others, but I, for one, was disappointed to see that this was not the Norwegian comedian, as I'd really love to see him linking caturday with onomatopoeia.
As another anecdote, here in Austria, which for many things has similar laws to Germany, you can't have dual citizenship, and being born here doesn't confer citizenship on you, as it does in places like the US, or Italy. So our daughter will be Italian and American, despite being born in Austria (not that we would have wanted it otherwise, but still...).

I met a German guy in the states, who was born and raised there, considered himself German, but didn't get citizenship until 18 or 19 because his parents were from Turkey.
You've conflated two separate issues (Vista the OS and Vista's launch) so it's hard to argue accurately about this. I think you're using a too-broad definition of launch if you can offer improved search as evidence of a successful one.

I would agree that Vista is an upgrade in the same way XP was: moderate improvements with new UI things to learn. And I think you're very right to refer back to XP's launch and how the same complaining was made then.

But I don't see who you can call Vista's launch a success. This would probably be better debated with empirical data about sales and time on the market and stuff, but just the general vibe about Vista is so horribly negative in ways I don't remember XP's ever being.

You say this is because more people are making their negative reactions known this time around, and we should ignore them because people like to bitch. But I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that their reactions would be negative -- they could've reacted positively.

I doubt Microsoft is proud of Vista's launch.
To me it doesn't seem like a bad place to start, at all, once a migration path away from it is in place. You can get started pretty much for free, and if things take off, worry about moving it someplace better.

OTOH, I've pretty much gone with Ruby at this point, and since that's not an option, I'll just keep my own server. I do like the control I have, even if it's expensive.
Vista is not good.
Emacs. By the way, you ought to attempt to improve your writing as well - it's painful to read something with a nearly total lack of punctuation and proper capitalization.
Not only that, there is a long and interesting comment from Joe Armstrong as well.
If you've never lived anywhere else, you owe it to yourself to move on. I grew up in Columbus, and while it was a nice place to be a kid, I could never live there today. Too sheltered.

And trust me...the valley isn't scary. It's nothing but a gigantic suburb, punctuated with office parks. Sure, the housing is hideously expensive, and there are freakishly rich people everywhere, but otherwise, the place won't present a challenge to you. San Francisco, on the other hand, is a different world....
Rails Powered by the GlassFish Application Server (Mongrel vs Glassgfish)
OS X has Spotlight, which searches inside files. It's probably comparable to Vista's search.
If it's reversible than it's not a vote. In other words, it's not interesting at all, errors are natural part of statistical data. Cheers up!
I really liked this articles, it explains how RoR is tradionnally installed in fair amount of details, and then explain the advantages of using an Application Server, glassfish in this case.
what do you mean emacs? is there a builtin htmlpagecreator?

and my punctuation is good and it is the internets anyway.
weebly and open design are both awesome, ty very much, exactly what i wanted.
You're partially right. I'm a Windows programmer, and that's probably why I switched to Linux with the Vista release. I still program for Windows, but from the safety and comfort of a virtual machine. What you say about spyware and trojans and viruses simply isn't true - it's really easy to keep a Windows machine clean: NOD32 + Windows Defender is more than enough. However, the reason for "which hasn't been an enjoyable experience" can be found in the lack of stability and performance that we're seeing on the Windows platform. A decade's worth of Win32 gunk has caught up with Vista, and it's made coding Windows applications a serious PITA. It seems that somewhere between Windows XP and Windows Vista the proverbial "last straw" was added, and it's made coding for Windows Vista such a dreadful nightmare. It's not fun; & more to the point, it's exasperating.

Using a framework like .NET helps like crazy (.NET:Beautiful::Win32:Ugly) but the performance and reliability issues still persist no matter what you build your applications on.

Take for instance my current Vista install. Out of the blue it won't resolve DNS addresses - for no reason. Basically, the mess of code that is the TCP/IP stack - just like the other stacks in need of a from-scratch implementation on Windows - has gotten corrupted somewhere along the way to the point that reinstalling networking drivers, clearing ARP routes, etc. just won't fix.

Too much gunk === impossibly difficult to keep stable/reliable for any period of time.
The problem is that Columbia is situated so far away from the other two, and from the "heart" of the city, that the university simply cannot have the same overarching influence on society that other schools that are better integrated with their surroundings do (like Harvard and MIT with Cambridge).
In addition, it's a matter of pure density- Cambridge and Boston, to a lesser extent, is seen as a college town because of the density of college students living in that area. In New York, college students compose such a tiny percentage of the overall population, and exert such a small influence on everyone else, that they are hardly given a second thought when determining the dominant themes in a city's ideology.
It sounded good at first, but "Environmentalism as a Religion"?? Personally, I care about the environment because I LIKE nature, not because I feel it is some god-given mission to be steward of the earth.

Also, nature is a common good, so if I care about someone else destroying it, it might be less about wanting to spoil his fun, and more about me not wanting him to effectively steal something from me.
It's a mix here. There's definitely a bohemian atmosphere (in many, not all parts of the city), but reducing that to sex and drugs isn't really fair. It extends to arts, street culture, work environments, etc. I think I see what you're getting at though, so I'll give a few specific examples of rules that are broken here:

- "Living in a big cultural center is expensive." It's cheap here. I don't know of any other western cultural center where that's true. 3.5 million people and there's a housing surplus. This has a huge effect on the city.

- "You need a lot of money." A side-effect of the above, there's a real de-emphasis on having cash here.

- "You should have a normal job." For good and bad, there's not much big industry in Berlin. Most of my friends either work independently or in relatively small companies. Most of those companies aren't startups in the sense that we use the word here, but small businesses that do well enough.

- "You need to grow up." You can still go out here when you're 30. Or 40. And it's not weird. And it doesn't mean you're not professional. Similarly, there doesn't seem to be the taboo against founding a startup over 30 (I'm 27 and one of the younger guys at the meetups I've been going to.).
I think the threshold is 20.
Sony + Tru2way = No More Set-top Boxes?
Techmeme vs. Hacker News
i think its a usability issue. Bigger and clearer up/down buttons might help.
Just because its the 'internets' doesn't mean that good grammar/spelling/etc. are not appreciated. The more clearly you communicate the likelier you are to get some help.

As for your initial question, perhaps something like Dreamweaver - http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ - would be what you're looking for.
Let this deal go. The company, I was working earlier, had a habit of signing on every customer that knocked their door. In the long run, it created a lot of problems to support those customers (at a very low margin or at a loss), just to maintain the reputation of "not leaving the customers cold" in the marketplace.

Letting this deal go, might also send a strong message to X, Y, Z potential customers, that you are offering much more than the cheapest solution and are willing to walk away.
Konqueror too!
DRM gives power to Microsoft and Big Media.

* They decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer

* They decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any given moment

* They force you to install new programs even when you don't want to (and, of course, pay for the privilege)

* They restrict your access to certain programs and even to your own data files

Even when you legally buy Vista, you don't own it.

* If your copy of Vista came with the purchase of a new computer, that copy of Vista may only be legally used on that machine, forever.

* If you bought Vista in a retail store and installed it on a machine you already owned, you have to completely delete it on that machine before you can install it on another machine.

* You give Microsoft the right, through programs like Windows Defender, to delete programs from your system that it decides are spyware.

* You consent to being spied upon by Microsoft, through the “Windows Genuine Advantage” system. This system tries to identify instances of copying that Microsoft thinks are illegitimate. Unfortunately, a recent study indicated that this system has already screwed up in over 500,000 cases.

http://badvista.fsf.org/

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/microsoft-learn-from... [Apple is even worse on DRM etc.]
Windows 7 : Microsoft Comes To The Senses.
Google Desktop is great. dunno how it compares to Vista's built-in search
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Ask YC: Best book to learns statistics?
The limiting reagent in a few projects I'm working on (or would like to work on) seems to be my knowledge of statistics/probability.

Ideally, I'd like something along the lines of Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds that could teach me from the ground up.

I have a fairly strong math background in general, but I've just never learned much stats/probability beyond the basics.

I'd appreciate any suggestions - there just seems to be so much cruft out there that teaches just enough to regurgitate for exams. I'm all for abstraction, but I rather dislike fundamental theorems being presented fully formed with no explanation/justification.
You are mistaken in concluding that "normal" people shape a city. The traits that make a city unique are the result of the actions of a minority of its inhabitants.

If your "logic" were accurate, Los Angeles would be no different than Tijuana, for example, considering that most of the "normal" people there are lower class Mexican immigrants.

Allow me to inform you of something essential about PG's essays: they require intelligence to truly understand, to the point that his core arguments will simply sail over the heads of those who lack it.
Evidence of not having the required intelligence includes attempting to refute the core arguments with a myriad of minor points that appear to point out logical flaws, when they only manage to address comparatively minor items of negligible consequence.

Mr. Graham's essays are valuable owing to their QUALITATIVE aspects, not to their total QUANTITATIVE sum . . .
like the asus eeepc using linux, I'd expect MS dominance to take a major bashing over the next years on PCs

false about Xandros. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_and_free_softw...
Sage advice.

If you do decide to pursue this deal try and take the hit on the upfront and not the ongoings.
Perhaps you could lower the initial price, raise the support contact cost, and add a sunset clause. This may appeal to those in charge of funding (who you mention are absent anyway) by shifting dollars around. More diligent clients would see this is not necessarily an attractive alternative and opt for your more traditional pricing model.
At least in Firefox 2, corners made with border-radius are not anti-aliased and look pretty horrible. (Firefox 3 may fix this.)
The message I get from Boston is "know your history". Pretty much every block has a centuries-old story behind it, and someone there who wants you to know what that story is. I don't think it's a coincidence that the National Genealogical Society is headquartered there.
Paul Graham Versus Iron Man
"be happy" eh? there is no correlation between legal pot and happy smiling people. none whatsoever.
on a serious note, I would say Amsterdam's message is 'be more creative' (or 'be creative').
Is it just me wor whom the word "ambition" rings the alarm bell?
I agree Vista is good -> for my bottom line, I charged a ton of money from companies to make their software UAC compliant.
Techmeme versus Hacker News?: http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/fight.cgi?q...
but it is still down...

!

why do we come back?
Another opinion http://www.whybasecampsux.org/, this is mostly about Basecamp saying "no".
I thought it ironical that Freeman Dyson has been very sceptical to computer models of the atmosphere:

"The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models [than to do empirical research]" -- http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html

but in this article seems to think that the economists have their models down cold, at least when they support his viewpoint.
Pong as a 200 page choose your own adventure book
I am the article author. Actually, the arctic monkeys do not give away their music free on their website or on myspace. Second, the group is successful because along with making great music, they have a great, very hard working 15 year old label called Domino, who also have for example, Franz Ferdinand. So Arctic monkeys is not internet based despite what you may think, has a real record label that puts money and marketing efforts behind them, and doesn't give their music away free. I am not saying that artists that have websites or myspace pages cant succeed obviously. Almost all artists have myspace pages so that would be silly. I am saying you cant just put your stuff up on the net, do nothing else, and expect to make a living -- particularly if you are giving away your music which is where Arrington thinks everything should go.
I'm not the cleverest guy in this room. I once took an online IQ test and only got 115. To be fair, lots of questions were things like "What of this has no relationship with Kansas". But I digress...

If a person trying to communicate cannot make his point understood by any but the most intelligent, then he has failed in communicating.
wow, that's pretty clever. It uses CSS link-coloring to figure out if you've visited various sites.

I didn't realize that works.
Williams On Copyright: Wrong

First, what is with the "music goes down"-statement. Arrington just said that "a new era of free recorded music and paid live performances is a very good thing". Lots of things are free and still up and running (eg. this site, tv, radio..).

"Second, there is no evidence at all that free music on the Internet is an effective". Ok, but there is. Next.

"Third, if the recorded music industry goes down, concert sales will not grow – they will shrink." There is no evidence that it would happen like this. First, marketing efforts results are usually hard to measure. Second, cleary marketing isn't the only thing, or even the most important thing on creating demand. It's the music.

If we get back to the original Youtube-Viacom case, what's the harm if you watch some clips of the Office from Youtube? It isn't like you were going to buy the dvdbox, just for watching it at work while sipping your coffee, but you might buy it afterwards, because it got your attention again.

Ok, I understand that Viacom has the copyrights, and Youtube is making money of them. This dispute, as many others, isn't about ethics, morale, downgrading our culture, terrorism or ripping of the artists. It's just about money. You can even watch South Park for free on their own site
Munich has more money and is (generally) less innovative. Berlin is more innovative but not so commercially successful (subjectively). Munich is probably the better place to succeed. Berlin is the place to invent more out there stuff.
Agreed, customers who agonize over price are generally trouble down the road.
What if they ate away all the Carbon, leaving non for food plants to grow? It might not be as simple as the paper made it out to be...
One other thing...

"The loss of the record industry will almost certainly have no huge effect on the concert industry."

Name a successful touring artist that has not had a successful, label based, recording career.
You're reading way too much into one piece of advice. The whole "eating from the bottom" thing is a time honored tradition in the computer industry. IBM mainframes were eaten from the bottom by Digital systems, which were eaten from the bottom by Data General mini-computers, which were eaten from the bottom by PCs, which will be eaten from the bottom by mobile devices.

But, your problem is not a paradigm shift that alters the competitive landscape. Your problem is a competitor with unsustainable pricing. Don't play that game. It's foolish and you'll lose more customers than you win by playing it. You'll also dig yourself an early grave (figuratively, and possibly literally, if you take your business too seriously).

Ignore your foolish competitor. Build better products, charge the right price for them (you may still be too cheap), and keep working. The low-priced competitor will continue to lowball his bids, and will eventually get a reputation for under-serving and over-promising. In a year or two, you'll have a chance to re-bid the same customers you lose this year. And the customer won't be so interested in getting the product cheaply.
http://crossfit.com

Enough said.
I bet he'd also like a pony, and Christmas twice a year.
The same is true of a lot of Boston beggars. I find people in the Boston area generally well-spoken. Education is emphasized a lot, not just in Cambridge.
The Internet Isn't 'Critical Infrastructure'
aston, are you from SC? I'm from Greenville (which sends the message, "How can we be more like Atlanta?", or at least it did when I last lived there 14 years ago). Small world.

The message in Charleston definitely has something about aristocracy and the value of old money, while the message in the rest of the coastal towns generally involves fishing. Except Myrtle Beach, where the message is, "Y'all come on down for a visit, and leave your money when you head back up north."
I totally felt the Dunkin' Donuts part of the message. I ate Dunkin' for breakfast twice while visiting. Who knew they served bagels?
My friends live in West Columbia, and I think they're trying to build a hip scene out there, but it's hard going.

I live in Honolulu. It's a miracle that I make it out of bed in the afternoon.
Went to Furman, agreed.

Visited Bob Jones as a kid -- "You know you're going to hell, right?"