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For me, as someone that does all his work in Windows and stays away from consoles as much as possible, this entire discussion is hilarious.

I think your project is cool, it certainly is a fresh take on the console, but the minority of people that like the unix console will be very resistant to anything graphical, and the majority of people that prefer graphical interfaces will just wonder why the hell you still need to do all of that typing. :-)

The fundamental problem with consoles is that it's impossible to explore the interface. You can only use it by knowing the possible commands beforehand.

Hmm.. Perhaps that's something you could explore with Termkit? With the added graphical output, is it possible to show hints for what I can/want to do, given what I've already typed? I dunno, just an idea.
Its interesting a friend of mine runs the team that does the Netflix PS3 app. The "app" is actually a webkit implementation with one destintation - Netflix". They love it for embedded devices. Particularly platforms where you have to go through a certification process. They get the "browser" cleared once and then can update the app on a regular basis. It allows them to do a lot of A/B testing, they get quick updates out etc.
The one thing you can do is replace the soles. My shoes are about $150 and replacing the soles costs about $30. The uppers pretty much last forever.
We also may share such information and any User Content you create with third parties. We may share your PII, Non-PII, and Aggregate Information with third parties to complete your transactions and provide you with advertising and other promotional materials on your Nintendo 3DS System.

In government & medical work, they hammer into you that PII must be protected. Nintendo specifically saying they can share it is a big deal. Agreed, PII != usage data.
All software patents abolished. Stop stifling people's creative urges damnit.
Thanks - i'll look into this
About a year ago, they claimed they were developing a web-based editor. That is some significant focus shift.

Does anyone have information on what triggered it?
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I've toyed around with similar concepts, but went the way of trying to middle-man the input and display of a standard console instead of trying to recreate one. Admittedly that creates some limitations to how integrated things can look without extra work, but it allows for normal interactive programs and really only enhances what was already there. Plus there's the added benefit of being able to run commands even while something interactive is up.

In any case, these kinds of hybrids are inevitable due to the vast room for improvement that exists in desktop and system apps combined with how powerful the web standards have become for UI and interactivity.

Really though, while I think TermKit is a decently executed attempt at this, it alienates some of its audience for obvious reasons. It completely throws away the charm of a shell with visual style choices and breaks powerful features that people expect. That's fine, because even with those departures it can suffice as a casual mode with certain conveniences for times when it makes sense.

Visual styles can be fixed or customized, so that's just shortsightedness by others.

As far as expected features like interactivity and whatever else people feel TermKit lacks, it seems like any hybrid terminal that takes this route should really try to implement a quickswitch that lets you fade between a rich terminal and a standard text console, already at your working directory with the same permissions.

Sure, people could just task switch to another running console, but that segments the whole experience a bit more.
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One of my mentors in Grad School (the late David H. Crane, FAIA), got a grant to design an emergency shelter right out of Harvard GSD. He and his team spent months designing a precast concrete building which could be deployed and erected quickly. At the end they did the economic analysis of the fabrication costs. The only place where it was economically viable to build it was lower Manhattan (this was back in the early 1950's).

This design suffers similar conceptual problems: diverting potable water to make a concrete structure when a tent would serve adequately - one of the biggest problems early in a disaster is providing potable water in sufficient quantity to maintain sanitation and provide adequate hydration for the local population and aid workers.
I'm sure this has been worked out by the team, but I am curious to know more about the load-bearing nature of the concrete shell. I would imagine this is a very important consideration if it is to be used in post-disaster areas (i.e earthquake disaster areas where there may also be aftershocks). If, for example, the tent is not fully inflated before the concrete is added, would the hardened building be structurally compromised?
This doesn't actually sound promising at all to me for solar power generation. In the original press release [1] they speculate that they may eventually reach 10% efficiency, which we already have. Given that the effect requires stupefyingly absurd amounts of light and that they're going to have to improve by several orders of magnitude to harness this effect to do real work without causing the medium to explode due to a sudden influx of a huge amount of light, all to obtain an efficiency we already can, I do not see this as likely to be useful for solar power generation.

I criticize the need to try to attach every bit of research to the buzzword de jour. This is legitimately interesting on its own and the odds of it having some further use either scientifically or for some other engineering purpose is quite good. They've established a new boundary condition on some very venerable equations, which can't hardly help but be useful at some point. Tenuous connections to an application that it probably won't be useful for weaken the point, not strengthen it.

[1]: http://ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=8368
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Okay did you read the article? It points directly to a link that explains how someone found yet another vulnerability in PSN and that individuals were already exploiting it.

http://sony.nyleveia.com/2011/05/17/warning-all-psn-users-yo...
That's a brilliant landing page; demonstrating the tool in-page is all the description anyone needs :)
Can't see tags/category showing up on a demo post, but it's looking like a really lightweight solution. Great work!

In your opinion, what would make someone use this over setting up a hosted Tumblr?
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My local editor is vim in a terminal. :)

It seems like TermKit could handle curses applications fairly straightforwardly and without modifying those applications. Just set TERM=xterm, and when you see the xterm initialization string, either open a new tab or define a region in the existing tab, and emulate an xterm within that region. (If you use a region in the existing tab, it could have a control attached to it that splits that region out into a new tab.) That would allow existing programs like vim, htop, powertop, and mutt to work perfectly within your terminal.

Personally, I'd like to use this like an enhanced standard terminal. So, for instance, I'd like to have the standard ls output rather than something graphical, but I'd like the filenames in the ls output to act as links, so I can click to open or hover for a preview. And while I want the standard cat command, I'd also like to have the command that displays something inline in the terminal (with the above-mentioned control to move it to a new tab).
Yes, it irks me too. I consider myself a "hack" when it comes to programming. I tinker, I play, I build, but I have mostly surface knowledge. "Hacker" is a term that should be reserved for real programmers who actually know what they are doing and dig deep into vast reserves of knowledge to get around barriers that us mere hacks would come to a halting screech at.
You can't because programmers aren't in control of themselves. The ones who have enough cash and power are more than willing to continue with the present system or they cash out and leave someone else to do the work of opposing it.
Its more like older generations of all sorts nailed cursive. Remember, back then 99% of all writing was handwriting. Even those who had typewriters only used them to make final drafts of documents - the first versions were all handwritten. The fact that people's handwriting back then was so good comes from them having ample opportunity to practice good handwriting.
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TXL, its apparently predecessor, is very well documented (http://www.txl.ca/). TXL is a very interesting approach to parsing and worth reading up on if you're interested in the area (or are waiting for documentation for Colm :)
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Isn't MongoDB under the AGPL, requiring MongoLab open their entire system?
I really hope this guy gets hired by Apple. There are some really great ideas here.
I was introduced to RESTful APIs when Rails started championing them. And while I've read a number of REST articles, it still seems like I'm not understanding the nuances of long-term vs short-term decoupling of client/server to the level that Fielding demands for REST. For example, there's his blog entry here:

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

A key point is this paragraph:

"A REST API should spend almost all of its descriptive effort in defining the media type(s) used for representing resources and driving application state, or in defining extended relation names and/or hypertext-enabled mark-up for existing standard media types. Any effort spent describing what methods to use on what URIs of interest should be entirely defined within the scope of the processing rules for a media type (and, in most cases, already defined by existing media types). [Failure here implies that out-of-band information is driving interaction instead of hypertext.]"

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When I try to absorb this and other points in that blog entry, I feel like I've failed to understand the real lessons and I'm thinking too short-term with fixed URIs for CRUD on data. But then again, in the comments, Fielding says "REST is software design on the scale of decades: every detail is intended to promote software longevity and independent evolution. Many of the constraints are directly opposed to short-term efficiency."

This makes a lot of sense to me and suggests that truly RESTful design isn't necessarily the best fit for people who want to throw stuff up on the web and then evolve to a more stable API.
Looks interesting, but... there's simply not enough information. How's it work?
> That is: care about the experience you give yourself.

The key thing is, if you care about the experience you give yourself, it will be easier for you to give the same level of experience to others -- and they more likely than not will appreciate it.
I doubt there's a city code in the land this would not violate very nearly every clause of. But a similar thing that could actually evolve into something disruptive is something like this: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/16/business/realestat...
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Never been in one, cannot verify. Didn't even know they cruised that high. Anyhow, a typical Citation X say from Denver to SLC is one hell of a bumpy ride over the rockies, luckily its a very short flight.
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PSN hasn't been hacked again. A webpage has been hacked that could change your password. Definitely a misleading headline.
My experience has been that cheaper clothing, on average, actually lasts longer than the more expensive stuff. The cheap stuff is designed for people who do physical work. even if you don't, the more durable fabric and stitching will stand up to more runs through the washing machine.

The jeans I'm wearing right now are the costco store brand; I bought a bunch during the first .com boom for $12 a pair and used them for quite some time.

My experience has been that more expensive jeans are usually made of thinner, weaker material. I bought a bunch of fairly nice calvin klein brand jeans which cost 3x as much as these jeans and they all suffered catastrophic failures within the first year or so of use. (nearly all of them, I'd go to lift something fairly heavy, I'd hear a tearing noise and feel a draft. Irritating, as I'd have to interrupt the work day to change pants. The costco brand jeans? when they fail it's usually that the knees or the seat would wear through.)

I'm just saying, expense does not correlate very well with durability. Have you ever owned a 10 year old BMW? I can tell you from experience that a 10 year old toyota is going to be more reliable.

I'm sure you can find many counterexamples; I mean, certainly a nice pair of vibram-soled leather boots is going to last longer than any athletic shoe; probably longer enough to make them cheaper over the long-term. Hell, if you want to look "professional" there are specialized work-slacks and button-down shirts made by companies like Dickies that are very durable but also fairly expensive.

But my point is that more expensive is usually not a very good heuristic for more durable, especially when dealing with fashion items.
Yes, it is slower than GPU mining. I meant this to be more of an introductory easy to use miner to get people interested without having to download anything or configure anything. So it is slower than GPU, but you can generate a usable amount of BTC to play around with

I wonder, what's the math behind the electricity use of an idle CPU vs a CPU at 100%?
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Wait, why not? The JSON could return in a standard format that the client knows where to look for links to other documents.
The water need not be potable. Maybe not a great idea for a drought/famine caused dislocation, but maybe for a flood/typhoon destruction of housing event.
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I own a PS3, I definitely won't delete my PSN account yet.

All there is to steal is already stolen, I'm going to remove my credit card info from my account (if that's even possible...) and make sure never to buy anything from sony ever again (on the psn or elsewhere). But I already paid for the console, so I won't punish myself by banning myself for online play.
Why do I have to enable websockets on Firefox 4? Perhaps using a websocket library that is compatible with older browsers might be a good idea.
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Spending a month in France made me realize just how great customer service is in North America. (Luckily France has other features.)

The one HUGE exception was the French national rail service. They must get great compensation, or have good hiring policies, because everyone I dealt with was spontaneously helpful and didn't mind spending extra time with me, even to the point of extending their work hours.
Some highly disruptive technologies in construction over the past 100 years or so:

1. Prefabricated components based on standards
2. Electrification
3. HVAC
4. Digital design tools
5. Digital controls
Rude because there is simply no polite way to call someone a loser.

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Apple's eMate 300 had 12 hours of battery life, a keyboard and a touchscreen with handwriting and shape recognition back in 1997. And I tested the battery life myself. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Emate_300
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Unless your office is paying for the electricity ;)

--edit-- Really? I'm getting downvoted for a valid point?
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Nice to see a Haskell/dutch startup getting funding, but I'm still not sure what exactly this app does. Is there a tl;dr explaination why I might need this, how does it make it easier? The alpha version didn't really make anything easier for me.
Well, IMHO being "tinkerer" is an important trait for a "hacker" :).

I was thinking about the hacker == kids who DDoS mastercard or steal infos from the PSN. Some of them might be hackers, but that's not what a hacker is. Bruteforcing PSN accounts using a stolen DB is not really the mark of a hacker's job for me.
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I like the output mechanisms much better than I like the input mechanisms of TermKit. I don't think text only is the one true way. I'd like to view images and even interactive things, with the mouse, inline.
I'm so impressed with that. If I was getting that much criticism (for something so obviously excellent!) I'd be shaking in my boots. :-(
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Agreed.

Having seen some of my friends successfully and easily set up memory pages on Facebook, makes me more inclined to choose Facebook (which I know and (somewhat) trust) over 1000memories. In other words, the exposure that Facebook has (or will have when memory pages become more widespread) is far greater than 1000memories due to their pre-existing social network.
I agree but let's say the son had a script running that opened Google after, wouldn't be hard to do. It's a good idea tho
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Please note just how absurd this claim is when you consider something like the photos taken with the 3DS camera.

I don't think that the photos you take with a 3DS are what Nintendo means by User Content. First, aren't the photos stored locally on the 3DS? They are on the DSi. Nintendo would have no access to them. I think User Content means all of the stuff you tell Nintendo that's not explicitly personal information (PI).

From the EULA, After the Nintendo 3DS menu is updated, any existing or future unauthorized technical modification of the hardware or software of your Nintendo 3DS System, or the use of an unauthorized device in connection with your system, will render the system permanently unplayable. Content deriving from the unauthorized modification of the hardware or software of your Nintendo 3DS system will be removed. Failure to accept the update may render games and new features unplayable. (Chapter 3, Nintendo 3DS End User License Agreement)

Is this different from what the iPhone, PS3, XBox and other consumer devices that connect to corporate networks do? That doesn't necessarily get Nintendo off the hook, but if we're going to having genuine discourse about this - and not just knee-jerk responses - then we need to know the full context.

Piracy, of course, is Nintendo's motivation here, and as I understand it, piracy on the DS was rampant.

Finally, regarding children's personal information, I suspect they're required by law to have certain policies regarding children's personal information. Of course, they can't actually prevent children from sharing such information, so they have to state what should happen, and probably have silly age-gates.

I find the site's comment on this disingenuous: If children shouldn't use the device for what it is made for, then why is Nintendo marketing it toward children? There's more to the 3DS and its online play than sharing personal information.
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A bit of an aside, but because something is free does not mean it is above criticism nor does it mean you can't bitch about things it doesn't do.
It would be interesting to see someone who understood both this and Perl 6's grammars to do a comparison. Based on Colm's quick description and my rough understanding of Perl 6 grammars, they sound like they are roughly equally powerful. But I admit I'm not sure I understand what "transformation language" means...
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I love this!

It has fundamental conceptional flaws. But hell, finally someone is rethinking the terminal, please continue working on this!

Here's the direction I would propose:

It must be 100% backwards compatible. This is not optional, anything else is a non-starter. Likewise trying to re-invent the entire unix userspace toolchain is a terrible idea.

So why not do it the UNIX-way and how terminals have always done it:

Start by emulating a normal terminal (xterm/vt10x). Add support for a special ESC-sequence that switches the terminal into TermKit mode (and another one to switch back).

This way we have a normal terminal, with a bonus-mode.

A simple cli-wrapper could be provided to mix the "magic" in. E.g. to cat a PNG I would: 'cat foo.png | tk_wrap'.

And on the screen that image would magically be embedded below my command line, just like any text output would.

tk_wrap would be small wrapper that first emits the termkit-esc, then the stdin-data (converted to the json meta-format), and finally the termkit-end-esc.

That's the basic architecture that I'd like to see. And from there, sky's the limit.
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robo calls would be a bad idea. people lose phone numbers when they move or go away to school. an email token is the best solution. if you are in the subset that lost your PSN email account then you can call sony to sort out some other method of verifying your identity.
Mainly just because I wanted to keep it simple for this test, and I assumed there would be enough people who would either enable, or use chrome/safari to get some good feedback.

I'll use the data I get from this test and decide whether I should support older browsers or not.
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If you are referring to changing your password the first time you logged in after the breach, then what is happening is that PSN knows you created that account on that PlayStation, hence the lack of confirmation. I created my account on a friend's PS3, and when I signed in I got sent an email which contained a password reset link.

It's rather strange then, given how secure the reset process was post-hack (and I think they did a really good job of making it secure and convenient) that they left such a gaping and obvious hole!
True.

I've been thinking this over for a while. Right now, the general consensus is that the price of bitcoin will end up being related to the cost of electricity for computing, and in the long run transaction fees will have to go up or down to make that happen.

I think this will change.

When you have negative externalities like this, where people don't pay for electricity (they're renting, or in a condo/apartment building that has electricity included) or even free CPU power, as in an office, then the economics change. The price of bitcoin won't be tied to the price of electricity/CPU power, it will be tied to the cost of running a website like mine that lets people take advantage of free CPU power.
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I don't see how this would be like true OH (not that I've ever been to one), which only truly works if it's about one or a couple specific/isolated topics.

I suspect it would be more like a pitch-your-company-and-Paul-will-give-you-his-opinion-about-it session.