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Unfortunately, the traditional way to solve this problem on a mac is to arrange the windows, and remove what wasn't needed. Full-screen apps weren't supposed to be used.
In a similar vein, I truly love the way Postbox handles my multiple email accounts.
http://www.postbox-inc.com/
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I love my Macbook Pro -- best laptop I've ever owned. I even love OS X in that, for the most part, everything works without issue. But articles like this make me wonder why I shouldn't switch back to Ubuntu.

TFA mentions the following software that runs just fine on Linux:

* Chrome
* Dropbox
* Google Services
* Crashplan
* LastPass
* Google Calendar
* VLC

Some software doesn't run under Linux but has perfectly capable replacements:

* Adium: Pidgin
* TextWrangler/BBEdit: GEdit, Emacs, Vim
* Mail.app replacements: GMail's web interface
replaced these long ago.
* Evernote: Can be used via the limited web
interface.

Some of them are even commercial replacements for features that most Linux desktops have had forever:

* iStat Menus (which I bought)
* Witch window switcher
* HyperSpaces
Agreed. The smart authors who are going indy are having to think of themselves as entrepreneurs not just writers. Making contacts, delegating tasks that aren't to their strength (covers is a very good example here), promoting their work, it's all part of the package as an indy, because they are making themselves a publisher.

Sadly many don't get that and still want to JUST write, but I think Konrath and a few others who are busting their ass or at least used to will get through to a lot of the rest, and the others will either get lucky or fail.
When you're really used to work with some IDE (let's say you've been writing PHP in NetBeans for years, use a lot of keyboard shortcuts, etc), then the thought of leaving it and switching to some other editor to work on a RoR project is not the most comforting.
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I can understand the obsession. As pointed out, the UK is massively centralized around a single city. Media ? London. Finance ? London. Politics ? London. And so on. There may be local centers of excellence elsewhere - and devolution has been an improvement - but if your startup relies on, for example, shmoozing clients or investors in the media or finance sectors, then London is where you want to be.

Personally, I think that's one thing (well that and our antiquated infrastructure and class system) that's holding the UK back, and it didn't used to be the case. But that's the situation we have.

However, there is no reason why people who don't need to shmooze with clients need to live in London or the Home Counties. If your job is coding, then remote working is a viable - and cheap - option, with the occasional company meeting every other month. A lot of companies have a lot of success with this model and, well-managed, it works well.

I think a lot of startups are still attached to some "Social Network" romantic ideal of a hackers' playground where we sit in Aeron chairs and eat pizza doing all-night coding sprints in between Nerf gun fights. However that has absolutely nothing to do with success or failure of a software project. A startup needs to adapt and economize and a huge office in central London is hardly the best way to do either. First, you are paying through the nose for office space you don't need, and second, it's hard to get people to work for you.
Easily my favorite spy story from WWII. For those interested, fantastic book on Operation Mincemeat:
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Never-Was-Counter-Intelligence...
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Free weight strength training is one of the greatest things you could do to improve your health.

The program to which you refer (http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5-beginner-strength-tra...) seems to be a slightly different spin on Mark Ripptoe's legendary Starting Strength program (http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/The_Starting_Strength...).

If you are serious about improving your strength and health in general, buy Mark's book (http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...). It is probably the best $30 investment I have ever made.

NB: I am in no way affiliated with Mark Rippetoe. I simply have incredible respect for the man.
WOAH. I think it was just yesterday I said on HN that I'd flip out if any bank ever did this. And here we are...This is why cash is great to carry around!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140095
I wouldn't call it SMS banking, but rather a SMS-driven remittance service.
What do people usually do after they run a failed startup?
I can think of a handful of books that have had a major impact on me. Off the top of my head:

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Game - Neil Strauss

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank

Business @ The Speed of Thought - Bill Gates

The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki
How do you know it's not the browser?
Hackers using Telnet to attack corporate servers
Is this similar to blippys model?
nor is free/month; yet FB has a $50B valuation.
I'm skeptical of anybody who claims to have a simple answer to success at weight training. The more I learn about weight training, the more ignorant I feel.

A few books I've enjoyed lately are 'Starting Strength' by Rippetoe and Killgore and Brookfield's 'Master of Hand Strength'. The latter book is a real eye-opener: every page is stuffed with information that makes sense, but you never would have thought of. (Hand development, of course, is important for computer keyboardists.)

Although it's not a complete weightlifting manual, I like the attitude of Bruce Lee's 'Art of Expressing the Human Body', which turned me on to circuit training. Some other good books which are more focused on bodyweight training are Cook's 'Athletic Body in Balance' and Boyle's 'Functional Training For Sports'.

People with with injuries or chronic pain can benefit greatly from training, but they need to be smart about it.

For instance, my knees are wonky so I watch my workload and avoid traditional 2-leg extension exercises such as the leg press and the 2-leg squat. Instead I do single-leg exercises and intense hamstring work that has stabilized my knees.

At some point you're going to transcend other people's cookie-cutter programs. For instance, reading Lee and Brookfield has gotten me to focus on forearm and grip strength, because everybody I see who lifts has big upper arms and scrawny forearms. The more you learn about it, the more you'll discover there is to learn.
Yeah, 2 million shipments over 3 months is around 33,000 a day, which is only 10% (or less, given Android's accelerating growth) of the activations that Google sees. And of course, not all those shipments are activations.

I wonder if they're not telling us about the activation numbers out because they're too low? Why else hide that information that every other company is bragging about? Not a quarter goes by where Apple and Google don't both release their activation numbers.
So what are your choices now? Eclipse?
What Lady Gaga and hedge fund managers have in common
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Get an MBA?
Your intro video shows fuck all. I'd expect to see some actual game design / play rather than just composting a few images.

Many when told they will get "X" but can't find "X" will click away to one of the other gabazillion things the internet has to offer.
I've never read a book, no matter how weird or even badly written that didn't have a bit in it somewhere that stuck. There is gold to be found just about everywhere. A single book that has changed your way of thinking, and I would assume that you meant 'in a positive way'?

For me if I had to point at a single book it would have to be Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything.

It shows besides being a very compact overview of how we got where we are today how often we repeat our mistakes and how easy it would be to make this world a much better place than it is today and which forces are holding that back. It changed maybe not my way of thinking but definitely my view of the world in a way that changed how I lie my life. I used to be an idealist thinking that we could achieve some lofty goal of human accomplishment during my lifetime (for instance, an end to wars of commerce) but now I realize that we may not realize that goal ever.

So, effectively this book freed me from fighting windmills and freed my resources to try to improve the lives of those directly around me instead of on a larger scale. The effects have been pretty dramatic.
I moved from my iPhone (which finally bit the dust) to the LG Quantum. The nice things:

- Zune Pass. It's like Netflix for music, but you can carry your queue around with you even if you're off-signal.

- I stayed with AT&T, and have significantly fewer dropped calls and better signal quality than on my last phone.

- A single start screen with all the apps, auto-updating so you can see weather and other info without having to launch the app is really fantastic.

- No iTunes. The phone can just sync over WiFi, and there's no weird tethering-to-one-machine garbage.

- The keyboard! It's got two modifier keys (shift and FN), and the keys are large enough that I can type pretty quickly. I need to port a mini-emacs and a terminal window ASAP. It's that usable.

The not-good:

- The App Market really isn't there. And where there are similar apps, the ports smell of outsourced development, as many of them (Yelp and Kindle, I'm looking at you!) crash and/or just don't have a very smooth feel.

- Location services seems to have a lot of trouble figuring out where I am to anything smaller than a zip code.

- I'm not on Facebook or XBox Live, so I feel like some of the social integration is a bunch of work they did that I just miss out on. Fortunately, I could just remove those apps from the front screen.

- Trying to browse the Metro UI media app is a real pain. If I'm listening to a song, do I use the back button or swipe in a direction? Well, it depends on how I got to the Now Playing screen, and there are a few cases where I've been just stuck and had to close and re-open the app so that navigation would reset and I could get back to a artists list.
If you do it on the server you do it once (when you deploy), if you do it on the client it happens every single time.
Get ideas from the admin templates at themeforest. Maybe you can even buy one: http://themeforest.net/searches?term=admin&type=files
Not necessarily voxels, but possibly discrete connected structures, arranged in a graph.
Famous words from one of America's best former governors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drioQ137NhA#t=0m34s
Application level switching makes sense to me when you are working using "one app, one task." Switching from my IDE to chat...? sure bring up my both contacts list and chat window.

But a power user is probably using more than one app per task, and is multitasking (or whose task requires many separate subtasks), and of course some of the apps are used in multiple tasks.

It would increase productivity if I could easily bring up the windows I'm using for task a, and switch easily to the windows I'm using for task b, even if textmate and a terminal are in use in both tasks. Yeah yeah, we have spaces... the point is that, for me, while purely window-level switching is a poor solution, app level switching is both a poor and often actually anti-productive solution.

(I, also, am a longtime windows user now using os x. That's definitely a factor, here)
Part of it's also the fact she has a LOT of books out there, the more material you have the higher chance someone discovers you and if you write well enough, they'll love your stories and start buying them all up. THAT is how an author makes a living at it without being a lottery, create enough content that fans can keep buying while picking up a few new readers here and there.
Start another one!
That looks really nice. I will try it out when I get back to my Mac.
The MBA normally precedes the failed startup...
Prepaid Android phone or have them sign a two-year contract?
Whatever the hell they want to? Sheesh - it's a failed startup, not the loss of a child. People fail at all sorts of things all the time, and the best way to guarantee an eventual success is to keep stepping up to the plate.
Out of curiosity, what would a "visual MD editor" look like to you, and how would it be different from a plain text field or a split screen like http://attacklab.net/showdown/ ?
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Thanks for posting that. Never knew!
Indeed. I moved in with by g/f and soon after that, her Rogers Internet service went up in price and monthly cap got slashed to 60 GB/month. I subscribed to Netflix service for the 30 day free trail, but promptly canceled after I saw the horrid selection and b/w usage. Needless to say, we are switching to Teksavvy since I've been a customer of theirs since 2001
Do normal people (read: non geeks) use Reevoo? I've never heard of it, but maybe that's because it's in the UK and I'm in the US.

The population providing the reviews can skew these types of analyses.
Article with a foundation in microeconomics. Because of imperfect substitution and joint consumption technologies Lady Gaga and hedge fund managers make more money than investment bankers, who do not enjoy the benefits of joint consumption technologies (every deal is piecework).
The Stronglift 5x5 program is basically the Starting Strength program with a few modifications.
I think the equity a startup is offering me is very low. Am I crazy?
Here's the story. Company A is a new startup with one person. This guy has already invested a considerable amount of his personal money (more than a million) to purchase the domain name and a few other assets from an old business.

He has great business/sales/management knowledge and is someone I've known for years, but has no technical background. I'm a developer, and he wants me join as a technical co-founder. There's a business plan, but no prototype yet.

I was offered 2% equity (vesting over four years) and a fair salary (less than I made at my last job) plus benefits to join this company.

I thought the equity seemed quite low for being a technical co-founder, even though the sole founder has already invested quite a bit. There's also less risk in the sense that he has the money to pay me a salary.

What do you all think about the equity being offered, given this situation?
>Why Russia?

Your question seems to indicate the belief in a global terrorist organization. I would recommend the BBC documentary "Power of nightmares" to clear up this misunderstanding.

In short, Al Queida is a name we made up and there is no global terrorist organization. There are and were a lot of isolated terrorist groups but they don't have some common goal. They're as likely to fight each other as anyone else. The terrorist groups that do exist attack their own enemies (e.g. IRA attacked England, Chechen separatist attack Russia, etc.).
Anyone looking for a simple, (open!) osx music player that just has a playlist you can drop folders onto and nothing else, check out Cog.

http://cogx.org/

Also, Path Finder, a finder replacement in the vain of Directory Opus on windows. It has tabs, split windows, everything you would expect. It also has command line integration and a built in hex viewer/edtior. The only thing I've ever wanted for is regex-based filtering of listings, but I can cope without that.

http://cocoatech.com/

I would go mad without this. Finder sucks.

EDIT: And how could I forget springy, an archiver that lets me double click on archives and actually lets me browse them in their own windows and selectively extract from them, rather than instantaneously spurting files everywhere like every other OS X archiver seems to do.

http://www.springyarchiver.com/

It took me over a year just to find an OS X archiver that behaves like ones on other platforms. It seems mac devs are a little obsessed by mimicking the default apple workflow.
It's easy to calculate. They claimed to have shipped 1.5Mio to carriers on the 21th of December. Now they claim it's 2 Mio.
I'd expect that the carriers only order new phones after the old ones have been sold, so one can wager that the carriers sold around 500.000 phones since december the 21th.

So that's around 500.000 / 37.
That makes it around 13.000 activations a day.

So given that the device was introduced beginning of November, it has been on the market for 2month and a couple of days. So then we have 13.000 * 85days = around 1.1 mio devices sold. The rest is waiting on shelves for eager customers.
Doesn't sound too good.
With Safari I can right click and copy a image and paste it into another app...every time I try that with Chrome the paste is broken. Fixed maybe?
This works only in chrome, your web-app can also do this, but the user will have to authorize your web-apps use of this. I wrote a small chrome reminder extension which used these notifications => https://github.com/minhajuddin/quickr . That should show you how to create a notification from your app.
+1 for Quicksilver (adding key bindings to all of your applications and some of there core functionalities definitely supports the 'power user' tag) - and I agree that most of these are just preferred apps, not necessarily power user-specific.
Text edit is the other app that gets replaced, BBEdit or UltraEdit for any efforts that just aren't comfortable in vim. I would hesitate to call adding a GUI text editor a 'power user' update, though.
The rest of this reads like an ad for the various services (many of which are good, but not indicative of a 'power user').
How can people live without making use of spaces?
Personally I think 5x5 is too much volume compared to SS' 3x5.
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Nice idea I am following then to see what happens !

Cheers from Brazil.
Looks like his web server has died, here is the Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...
Sort of a shame how that all panned out. I was on a mailing list where Robin Hanson was talking about the upcoming Pentagon prediction market a month or so before the media got wind of it. I was very skeptical at first, but he did a very good job of meeting people's objections - mostly by explaining details of how it would be implemented.

Then the media got hold of the story and people raised all the objections I had heard before, but the explanations couldn't fit into single sentence sound bites so they never made it into the news.
In fact, I'd like to be able "attach" a terminal to another app for switching purposes. It's probably the same with finder and browser, (I'd add text editor).

A "one task, one app" type of app should have it's functionally-related windows grouped for switching, but a highly multipurpose app where different windows do not serve different functions should be separate.
Good post nonetheless.
GEdit is hardly a replacement for BBEdit. UltraEdit just released for Linux though, and should more than accommodate anyone who wants to switch to Linux and keep a solid GUI text editor.
In my opinion one thing that is very different from the US compared to Europe is that labour laws here are pretty favorable to employees. This has the downside (from a start-ups perspective) of having a workforce that is mostly happy.

Happy people are in a strong position to negotiate and will also not easily go and leave their happy well paying jobs in order to be 'repeatedly punched in the face' (that's not mine).

So besides the obvious advantages that an ecosystem like Silicon Valley offers you can bet that if you see a European start-up that the people behind it are extremely well motivated and probably have some funding. As opposed to the 'throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks' strategy employed in Silicon Valley. Typically European start-ups have a higher rate of success than their American counterparts but the magnitude of the individual successes is lower.

This is all from my limited perspective so apply salt liberally.
Interesting licensing terms!
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I've been working out off and on since I was in high school and I figured I would try something different this time around. I started with the HST program and have been absolutely floored by the results. It sounds lime the 5x5 program he mentioned might be similar.

Anyway, the idea that muscles respond to increases in load more than the absolute load itself, combined with the idea that sets beyond the first working set offer little value sounded opposite to most of what I've heard over the years. Six months in I've developed faster and more evenly then I ever have. Anyway, it's worth looking into. Do a search for Hypertrophy Specific Training (the site is all muscle-guy crazy but the info is good—and free, the dude makes his money on supplement sales, not selling his program)
She started the new year off with a bang.
Sure. But its labor-intensive. Like running a coalmining operation, vs finding a diamond on the beach. Where's the glamour in slogging along for years with a team, many of whom you've never met?

Face it, this is a rock-star-wannabe site, and unapologetic.
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San franscisco   they say stay away from
Ive been there once from the east coast buy I may follow these tips when ycombinator calls
There's a reason for that - ISPs throttle delivery based on message type - bulk vs. transactional. We work very hard to make sure that transactional emails have NO reason to fail to be delivered, or even delayed. By allowing bulk sending, your message is likely to get through eventually - but it might end up behind a several hundred thousand/million message bulk email queue - meaning that your customers' "forgot password" email or account verification message could take hours to show up. For our customers, that's simply not acceptable.

We've got 5+ years of experience with our bulk email service, Newsberry, to back this up. Not only are our IP reputations carefully monitored and maintained, but we keep bulk and transactional as far away from each other as we can because they're treated SO differently by ISPs.