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A right click in most programs on a "file" will reveal an option that is along the lines of reveal "filename" in finder. iPhoto does this.

I don't know if I understand what finder is doing different than say windows explorer or konqueror in linux. when you click on finder it opens a new file browser that has the typical list and icon view as well as some quicklook view that I don't like much and a nested list view where each column is a different folder. It seems pretty similar to windows in my opinion. (not that it's all peaches, I would really like to have a file cut and paste option instead of only copy but I digress)

edit: Looking at your higher up comment I guess you are talking about the isuite of programs that aggregate all your files and handle them internally? even that is a folder on your hard drive(~/usrname/Pictures/iPhoto Library is still a folder just right click on it to select show package contents and you can get to all your files or just open iPhoto and right click on a picture you want to locate and select reveal in finder) though and it's less of a function of finder and more of a function of the iphoto itunes etc.
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Article is totally absent of any substantive suggestions to "fix the problem". The real issue is that if you look at the risk-adjusted reward of doing or working at a startup, it doesn't compare well with working on Wall Street.

And then there are those who say, let me do a few years on Wall St and then I'll pursue the startup thing. What happens during that time is they lose their entrepreneurial edge (they become corporate dull) or they take on a lifestyle (nice house, cars etc = high fixed costs) which makes startup life less feasible.

Of course, in startup land, you have your occasional stellar upside scenarios a la Zuckerberg, but if economics is the main motivator, Wall St is a logical, rational choice esp if you work to live (and not live to work).

I say all of this as an NYC startup who feels this pain at times (although I think it is overblown and more of an excuse). I just don't think bellyaching about it achieves much.
That is interesting, but butter is (a) pretty damn expensive and (b) contains milk solids which are an enormous problem for those who are lactose intolerant, (c) as to whether it is gross or not, can't say, but I think that is a PPP (personal perception problem) :)
Keep in mind the specs were written to standardize the behaviour that existed at the time: there were implementations of memcpy that worked a bit faster because they didn't have to test for overlapping regions. That's why there's a separate memmove function in the first place.

So people saying that memcpy should work like memmove are really the ones advocating for changing a spec that is currently quite explicit.

Enabling this type invalid behavior from app code is a classic example of introducing dependencies on undocumented behavior. Over time these dependencies accumulate in complex systems with the resulting effect of increasing software incompatibilities, not reducing them.
Did you have version control? That's the most damning accusation to me.
I'm significantly confused. The article seems to be talking about the distinction that OS X has between closing a window and quitting an application, and talking about how this behavior exists on Windows and Ubuntu as well. I must be missing something somewhere.
You can be a hacker or a lawyer, not both.
Presumably this growth that the finance has supported is happening somewhere other than in the US?
I find it difficult to believe it's not a rendering of yet another academic research, but apparently this one is real [1].

[1] http://www.festo.com/net/en_corp/SupportPortal/Downloads/148...
Here's the non sequitur:

1) inflation makes it costly to hold money

2) inflation forces you to make stupid speculative investments and frequent trades

The second doesn't follow from the first.
The remarkable thing is that for thirty years we've been using tools that default to destroying your work. I can't think of a better example of our collective tolerance for janky technology than the persistence of such a glaring regression from the typewriters (etc) that personal computers replaced.
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The title is a suggestion. Discourage your friends from putting their energies into creating financial products of dubious value and instead encourage them to engage in substantive work that makes a clearly positive contribution.

Yes, yes, I know you want a secure source of income. Well, try think about ethics first, if not only.
More people would use desktop apps if they were easier to install. I tried to talk my mom through installing skype the other day, and we hit a snag. So she just used the video chat in gmail. Skype would have been better for her for various reasons, but she settled. If Skype were in an app store, she'd have bought it.

I install way more software when I'm in a linux environment, since it's just one simple command to do so.
>What happened to the hacker news ethic of voting up things you like, but only voting down when someone is rude or malicious?

That has never been the ethic here:
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=117171
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347
Finance firms put 100% of their time and energy into finding ways of making money out of existing money without producing any other value.

Entrepreneurs do a little of this too, but foolishly allow themselves to be distracted by an irrational desire to also make novel and valuable contributions to society.

Eventually the entrepreneurs will learn that a part time effort won't cut it and they can't beat the guys who give it 100%
>'The best line is when he says, "features.html should 404."'

Redirect 301 /features.html http://example.com/benefits

Surely ...?
This is the guy that said everything was going just fine in Japan, and the rest of the world should go about their business without getting involved or trying to help, right?
The article claims you didn't use version control. That's hard to believe. Is it true?
This is about Concur. They have an incredible story, but they don't get much attention because they're in the business-to-business space.

If they were a consumer company, they'd probably get daily articles and blog posts written about them.
Yes, you're probably the only one thinking that, because the idea that there is a problem with Youtube and Fedora is based in an inaccurate reading of this article.

He said Youtube worked fine. It was compared to as a control. The problem was with some other site using Flash.
You've got to understand that it is very hard for highly technically proficient people to be nice to everyone. For someone at Linus's level, a LOT of time is spent answering what seems like the worst kind of stupid questions.

This causes massive compassion fatigue. Take that into account, and it becomes clear that Linus is not as big an asshole as you think.
I was really hoping this was exactly what the headline made it sound like.

It is interesting to see the history of the quit/close pair in programs though.
I'm no expert on W.Buffet, but I've read a lot about his life and investment principles. He owns companies like Sees Candy, and although I love a good ol' box of Sees around the holidays (and I admire their company), I can't help but associate my Grandmother with their products!

What I'm trying to say is that Buffet is, for me, is a generational investor - the best of his generation or even (arguably) the 20th Century, but definitely of my Grandmother's generation. He's remained incredibly relevant to a large extent based on his investment principles, looking for value bets and investing (or rather, buying) for the long run.

I, for one don't think that Facebook is overvalued at all, if you think about it's revenue potential, but Buffet invests in undervalued companies, not over-promised ones that have yet to reach their potential. Facebook's egg hasn't hatched yet in a way that justifies their evaluation, but it's easy to reconcile Buffet's investment principles with more speculative investors that see Facebook as a safe bet.

Finally - it's not hard to image a few different models that could outpace or even replace Facebook's main product proposition (providing a common, social "space"). So not many investments remain secure over a very long term. That's the brilliance of Buffet.
I hate hero shots, do we have to have hero shots?
You should be able to just specify a list of files to the compiler. They should sort themselves out.
These generalizations about finance being unethical are misguided and misinformed.

A bank/VC that gives a loan/investment to small business/startup. That's finance. Hardly unethical.

Allowing people to get a car today while paying for it over time (instead of paying upfront). Hardly unethical.

Yes, there are bad actors in finance as there are in every space. Don't the Zyngas and others of the world via their offers engage in "ethically questionable" tactics?
It's easy to fix the problem. Stop the government from stealing money and giving it to the banks.
Are you sure iPhoto still has a 'reveal in finder' option? I"m not seeing it... Though I don't know why you'd need it with iPhoto since you can just DnD photos out to the desktop (or wherever) if you want to work on them.
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I'm in Manchester as well. Studying for a CS degree.
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The original article mentions you didn't have version control or staging servers. You didn't mention that claim. Is it true?
Pretty early, but it had good profits. That's what the US Embassy likes to see most (other than the fact you're going to hire Americans).
...and economists will tell you something completely different. His points are awful and rely on no empirical evidence.
Autoadvance is inhumane. Speakers should not be expected to have their timing down so well that every slide transitions smoothly. The presenter will inevitably be a couple of seconds off on every slide.

I am impressed how well you pulled it off. It is hard enough to write, memorize and deliver a 7.5 minute speech. Then to add a sadistic constraint like autoadvancing slides, that raises the bar. But you nailed it. Hats off.
I heard this as well so when I got my android I didn't install one. But the battery life was horrible. Often, if I used the phone regularly during the day the battery would be dead by 9-10pm. I installed a task killer and killed everything when it booted up and killed a couple times a day. After that I suddenly have ~1.5 days worth of battery available. I'm not sure which app was being such a hog (I suspect it's an app that was refusing to let the phone go into sleep mode) but the task killer was most definitely necessary.
This is what a designer's true work is! Solve a problem - bring clarity and form to chaos. While the problem "too simple" was a UX thing.

World of designers need more examples like this, especially in web and User Interface designs - where they think "Photoshop Magic" or "detailed icon sets" are the key and not solving the problem.
Word on the street is it's 85 billion $ now.
Ah... thanks for correcting me, and I must say, I'm very surprised to find that I was wrong about this.

EDIT: Well, on second thought, notice that in both cases, although pg stated the he thought downvotes should be used to express disagreement, more upvotes were given to other commentors that though downvotes should only be used to boo rudeness (which is my personal opinion, as well). So I think maybe there is a division in the community on how this is supposed to be done.

Actually, the experience I was just whining about is case in point for why some people think downvotes should only be used to boo rudeness. I think a lot of people downvoted me just because there was a response to me that was strongly worded, even though it was (in my opinion) not really even relevant.
> Seeing this purely as a spec v pragmatism issue isn't going to get us anywhere.

That's because it's not.

The spec ( http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/mem... ) explicitly states, "If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined."

Which means the real debate is between two technically valid interpretations of the spec: one that arbitrarily breaks existing software for no discernible benefit✻, and one that does not.

(✻ Unless, for ideological reasons, one believes that breaking said software is the benefit, in which case this is still a sneaky and passive-aggressive way to go about it.)

It's even fair to cast this particular debate as nonsense vs. pragmatism, because that's what it is.
Err if this is the new site. Shouldn't their "Getting Started" be on left? And then regular links for regular users on Right and top?

Wonder what logic they followed to design the new site.
If, however, you just want something to replace javac everywhere you use Java today, I believe Mirah is a better fit.

My prayers have been answered! A better java has arrived!
Edinburgh here too :) (grew up in Glasgow, but now I work in Edinburgh)
Ummm, growth is still happening in the U.S., and has continuously happened aside from a few quarters here and there. The point is not if we're growing, but how much faster we can grow. This is very basic economics.
As an Ubuntu user, these articles scare the hell out of me. The quit or exit command is not confusing at all. And if you want to get rid of it, you'd better make sure that none of your programs have any memory leaks ever (good luck with that).

You know what is much more confusing than the quit command? Having to go into the CLI or the task manager and kill stuff manually because it is eating half of your memory and processor time doing nothing. Or having to restart your PC every day because it just gets slow after a while.

Here is the most important thing about GUI design - you should confirm people's expectations. People expect to be able to quit stuff.

It is extremely annoying that this starry eyed experimentation is going on in the most popular Linux distro. They are basically risking the one foothold Linux has been able to make in the desktop world. If you want to experiment, you should start an experimental distro and not risk your's and Linux's one single solid success.
Thanks for the list.

When I bought a memory card from Fry's I just picked a cheap 16GB one

Which happens to be that Patriot 16GB Class 4.

I did perform the reset and all of the setting up upon initially putting it in

I do also have a lot of music, my phone has around gigabyte or two of leftover space on it but it should never be this slow.
> I'm thoroughtly disgusted with the way I've been treated here, especially the number of downvotes I've gotten.

The first sentence of your post that is being downvoted is okay; it contributes something to the conversation:

> A spec is a contract between programmers and in the long run, it's better (for users and programmers) to follow specs and expect others to follow them, rather than to let others break them willy-nilly and just bend over backwards to accomodate.

I believe your second sentence is the reason you're being downvoted:

> Oh, but I guess since this point requires actual thinking to understand, it's not in the realm of reality...

That sentence is sarcastic, insulting to people's intelligence, and contributes nothing to the conversation. If you lose that attitude, I think your contributions would be better received.
You don't want to mitigate exposure to hackers. You want exposure to hackers because they're the ones who can write your code.

For mitigating exposure to crackers, though, it makes sense to minimize the number of possible entry points someone could compromise in order to put malicious code on your production servers. The source control system (did they really not have a source control system!?) is a less vulnerable avenue than ssh, because presumably third-parties review what flows through source control before putting it on the server.
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They're on quora.com.
Flickr's the exact same, as I'd imagine most big sites are.

Really the only way I can think of providing fast vs slow with most sharded architectures is to slow down the non-payers as opposed to speeding up the payers (which is obviously a horrible idea).

I'd like to focus on the two benefits that the OP mentioned: speed and reliability.

The obvious idea to speed up the pro experience would be to isolate pro accounts on their own shard with fewer accounts per shard as compared to the non-pro shards. This might provide some improvement but not much. And here's why:

1) People that pay for pro generally use the site more which means that they have more photos, more comments, more faves, more everything. The advantage of not fighting others for the same resources is quickly dwarfed when you have an order of magnitude more things to keep track of.

2) The majority of the site is still non-pro. This means if there was some speed-up by isolating the pro accounts (which, as stated, I doubt there would be), you'd only enjoy this speed when you're visiting other pro accounts which would limit your ability to have a fully fast experience.

The second request concerns reliability.

This one is easy. Maintaining two versions (ie, the fast and the slow versions) of an application involves two paths through the code. More code and/or differing architecture means added complexity. More complexity means more opportunities for things to go wrong, either in code or deployment. More things going wrong means a less reliable site, so by definition increasing reliablity for a subset of users but not another set makes the site less reliable.
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The difference being historians have facts to go by, and economists have dreams.
The growth has been primarily in the financial industry.

Oh - I get it now - the finance industry has provided support for itself to grow.
A lot of the financial industry though today works so many layers above actual loans it's hard to see how they contribute and even harder to see why they make so much more money than everyone else. I'm not an expert, I'm sure there is some justification, but it's not obvious to most people and that's why, sometimes, we the laypeople wonder.
I'm of the opinion this understates the problem.

First, it is an ethical problem. The idea of producing things is not taught in elite colleges, nor is the idea that it is possible to make a positive contribution to society (e.g. rms) without becoming superrich (no offense to those for whom this is their primary motivation).

Second, a lot of the products of which the GDP percentage is based upon simply involve repackaging and selling debt. (e.g. http://ow.ly/1sf8Rp ). In other words, a lot of the economy is based upon accounting tricks.
I have spent the last month testing DuckDuckGo as an alternative to having Google as a default search engine.

While I am hugely impressed with the quality of search a one man company can get, I am not impressed with DuckDuckGos results compared to Googles. It works okay for many searches but it sucks a really long-tail queries and its "zero click" information thingy has serious problems distinguishing between the relevant results when more than one is potentially relevant (search for "black swan". The most likely result, the recent movie, isn't even listed though an ancient one from 1942 is or search for "castle" which would normally give the time and tv-station that program is one, except it confuse it with some BBC documentary).
I think your overall point is solid, that the application (or os) should be making sure it always has a saved state of my document.

But...there would still be a need for a way to specify where the document should be stored on the filesystem. For instance when writing software, files have to go in specific places. The file can't just be saved anywhere, or in some application specific bucket, I need to be able to specify the location.
If early web browsers has stuck to the spec and rejected all "bad" inputs, then web probably would have been a better place today. Sometimes the user's interests are in the future not in the now.
Well, Internet Explorer's canvas implementation only begins with IE9. I would not expect a lib that is based on canvas to work in any previous version of that browser.

EDIT: And even then, you only get the 2d context, can't do any WebGL fancystuff with any IE. (Though I don't think oCanvas does any of that anyway?).
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Anyone up for a Liverpool meetup?
Google. Zynga. Facebook. Intel. eBay. Apple. etc.

All needed bankers to get them access to capital and grow faster, helping them hire more employees and contribute to our economy's growth and standard of living. I'd highly recommend you rely your points on empirical evidence over populist talking points.
Because it was killing the company. The reason board meetings at Amazon and Google don't involve people benchmarking performance is that the sites are competently run. But anything that is putting the company's future at risk is a legitimate question for the board to talk about.
I went back to Office (after switching to OpenOffice) when the ribbons came out.
Then again, I'd say at least half of students in a typical college class could care less about what they're learning.

If someone has the initiative to go through videos and essays, chances are they're learning more than the bottom 50% in the equivalent college class.

I think initiatives like this could eventually offer valid alternatives to the 'college degree', but not a 'college education'. A degree is what you get from mastering an area of studying. A college education includes additional social and professional skills, which I think is what you're concerned with these initiatives not addressing.
The evidence is that the finance industry has grown faster than all of the other sectors, proving my point.

I'd highly recommend that you rely your points on empirical evidence than empty claims.
Because Sixdegrees did that. In fact, it was the entire marketing point of Sixdegrees. I don't think Friendster was trying to imitate Sixdegrees generally — after all, it was a failed bubble business — but unavoidably you tend to model what you're building after things that you've seen before.
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What happened to the hacker news ethic of voting up things you like, but only voting down when someone is rude or malicious

If you intend this as defense, you'd best go back and look at your posts. You've been plenty rude, and arguably at least a little malicious.
Wait a minute, I think you're misunderstanding the intent of the sentence you're criticizing.

I was parodying Linus.

I was making the point that that's exactly what you should not do.
There something ironic about the web page using Arial as main font.
A review of the study that compares margarine and butter from the risk of heart disease point of view, and some more links at the end:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/10/butter-vs-marg...
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