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"Recovery partition" is misleading. This feature works even with a fresh hard disk. I assume it's some kind of netboot built into the EFI bios, but I'm just wondering how long it will be before someone hacks it to load other software, or even hijack it for malware.
This document is too long to read on a screen (yes, I'm old). I got it into Instapaper, but would prefer physical paper.

Is there a link to a pdf version or something, somewhere?
I disagree, I very much read that as 'which are [environmentally] ok to eat'. However, a friend's wife is pregnant. He - being somewhat preoccupied with pregnancy at the moment - may well have read it they way you did.
It hasn’t been good for you personally. I was ok with the way it worked in Leopard (worse than Leopard, but ok) and I think Lion is a definite improvement over Leopard. Again, for me personally. Windows are resized proportionally and not on a grid, the overlapping windows haven’t been a problem for me and I actually like that apps are grouped together.
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I eat fish 3 or 4 days a week but I almost never eat any of the fish listed as "not okay". Cod is the only exception. Price seems to regulate this list pretty well.
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Preserving fish species is more important than not poisoning yourself?
Yeah. That's conspicuously absent from the "questions" page. e.g. "Why a new DVCS"? or "What problem does veracity solve?"
"Mission control, abort! abort!"

Well that's how I feel :)

Seriously, I too came from linux (ubuntu even) to osx having last owned a mac when it had a whopping 128k memory.

I heard someone say on a podcast recently that when Apple Computer became Apple (jan-07), that's when they started leaving power users behind.

Anyhow, my Lion/MC/Spaces gripes are along these lines:

1. 1-D vs 2-D grids. This is terrible for me personally.

2. Animations. If I'm typing ctrl->right/left, it means I'd like to get there more quickly than my mouse allows. The (for me) nauseating animation is just painfully slow and sickening (literally).

3. I've read many people say, 'use ctrl-<desktop#>'. Well yea that's somewhat better and has a snappier animation (like ctrl-<arrow key> had with SL spaces) but I personally find this awkward. First, if I am going to go the trouble of that, I want to get to that desktop immediately so any animation seems silly. Second, it's still 1-D thinking. Having been able to ctrl-<arrow key> to my 3x3 grid in SL was a basic with my workflow.

Now I'm sure my mother will love Mission Control, and not tire of the eye candy animations, but for people working all day with them.... ugh!

I just don't understand why Apple can't bring it's stunning "Here's how to use a trackpad" gif-like spiffy animations to the System Preferences more broadly, and add more customization to the UI in general (like turn of animations!).

I know we're the 20% and not the 80% but it does suck, making me seriously consider going back to *nix now that I'm digging deeper into vim.
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Are you talking about Lisp programmers vs Java programmers?
Blue Ocean Institute makes a similarly up-to-date sustainable and healthy seafood database accessible via text message. Text FISH to 30644 to try it.
Isn't that basically how the various ASCII renderers for 3d games over the years have worked? Minus the html5 canvas obviously, although being as you can run the entire of quake in javascript/webgl, that can't be far off.

Good old aalib.

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/
Funnily enough, this seems to be common knowledge amongst gym instructors. Yet many of the people who routinely do pushups as part of the conditioning or warmup for indoor sports don't seem to know, even if people have been doing it for decades.

Even worse, in the cases that I'm experienced with (for various martial arts) these pushups are done on mats that make it even worse because the wrist is even more over-stretched (because the ball of the hand sinks into the soft mat, while the fingers do so less); and doing push-ups on the knuckles is considered something 'for the hard core'.
Decide what a certain piece of a product (or an entire product) does. Let's say you are product manager for the invite piece of twitter. You'd decide how that should work, how it's measured, what to focus on next, etc., and you work with your team of developers/... to make it so.
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Dead zones are not created by overfishing but by intensive farming techniques on land and what's subsequently washed into the sea via rivers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
its not, its someone playing around with ascii
I hope this will not increase the water consumption...
I don't know where you live, but employers can be sued over many things outside of the US as well; including this, I can imagine.
There is something like this for HTML + CSS. It's called tangle.js and was created by Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
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I think that would make an interesting poll... how many people read it as "Which are okay to eat - for our planet" and how many read it as "Which are okay to eat - for my health"?
Despite the google argument, URLs still count for sharing links with people. If you have to email someone a nasty unreadable 140-char URL, it depresses the shareability of that link in every way - digitally, orally and written.
Congratulations. In my opinion, math is not easy to explain, but you did it very well. :)
It's 2011 and I don't see much sanity in the Java projects being churned out by some of my colleagues.

What frightens me the most is that they honestly think they are doing it right. They really believe Maven is sane and that Hibernate generates good SQL.

Some of them even say "of course we are using Java - what else would we use?"
Don't they have more important stuff to do than pander to the interests of corporations?
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IMO, this shows how important each respective product is to each company.
I assumed this was about mercury levels too, I would have never guessed it was environmental.
This is from the SourceGear guys, Eric Sink's company. If you dont know what the do check out sourcegear, they make some great stuff for developers in the .Net stack.
"The amazing thing about being human is that we can overcome instinct"

That's not unique to humans, which is fairly obvious to anyone who thinks about it for a minute. I'd even argue that it is, in itself, an instinct.

When anything overcomes instinct, it's never just for the fun of it. Animals (and we are animals, pure and simple) will often override their instinct to attack with their instinct to survive. I won't try to seduce the wife of a man twice my size, despite my primal urge to get laid because the risk outweighs the reward. Nor will a pack animal copulate with the Alpha Males females for the same reason.

There is nothing that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. Humans may have superior intelligence, but we don't have a monopoly on intelligence, we just have the best kind. Arguing that humans are distinct because of our mental faculties hold as much water as saying birds are superior because they can fly. If we point to our dominance in the world as a distinguishing factor, we must then concede that we rank well below insects, bacteria, viruses etc.

Humans are pretty cool animals, but we're still animals.
This is a silly list. Not because fish aren't important, but because there's no way to take action on this list. Studies have shown that a huge amount of fish is mislabelled. Yes, pick up a piece of xxxx from a seafood market and the odds are that it's not xxxx.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/science/earth/27fish.html

Consumers have no effective way to verify what they're eating. This is a situation where there is either government action or no action; no private personal actions can be successful, barring the creation of instant cheap at-the-restaurant-table DNA analysis.
Conscripts are not at all like 'proper' soldiers. Conscripts are just there to sit out their time. You can't compare that to training professional, actual combat-ready soldiers (i.e., not truck drivers and radio operators - although of course they all go through the same basic training.

The amount of time that is put into taking away individual identify and replacing it with a group mentality in combat troops like e.g. US Marines or Foreign Legion legionnaires is huge (from what I know of reading books and watching TV - it's not like really know anything about this).
I usually only eat what I can catch. And if I can catch it, well... that fish just won the Darwin award because I suck at fishing.
Source: http://pastebin.com/RA15ix7S
A UX article without pictures? For those of us without Lion, what does it look like?
Right, there are lots of factors.

I prefer working from the office, but I imagine I would have a different opinion if working from the office requires a long commute or scraping ice off my windshield in the morning. I also work for myself, so it's MY office. ;)

I also somewhat enjoy the feeling of being among the hustle of downtown. There is energy there. So many people doing their thing to carve out their slice of the pie and I'm among the relatively happy and successful. That's motivation and energy that I don't feel at home.
Or bzr lightweight checkouts?
Unfortunately, international legal frameworks with respect to the oceans are not keeping pace with technology.

Anything that reduces consumer demand is a good thing, but American demand in the big picture is a small piece of pie. The Japanese will not be satisfied until every last aquatic creature is extracted from the Mediterranean.

America's biggest contribution to eradicating sea life are the destructive land use policies in the Mississippi watershed. We provide ridiculous incentives via direct payment to grow corn with massive quantities of fertilizer, build massive levee systems to reclaim floodplain land and cut canals in the Mississippi delta.

All of these things together have turned the Gulf of Mexico into an aquatic wasteland.
This is apparently the cause http://www.medianama.com/2011/07/223-files-sharing-sites-blo...
A movie producer has got a court order requiring ISPs to block file sharing of a PARTICULAR movie...(singham). The ISPs have blocked the entire sites en-mass.
Quicker checkouts, less data on drive?
Hey Brian, thank you for explaining the reasons of why the Linux version hasn't seen the light yet, I have been keeping an eye on Backblaze since this blog entry you wrote http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/12/15/10-rules-for-how-to-wri..., quite a while now, and it sucks that there's still no Linux version available, so as others have mention please consider releasing something.

PS: I'm already one of your costumers and I'd love to be able to use your service in my linux machines.
I'm not going to run down the whole list, but some of the worst from a mercury perspective -- shark, swordfish, and most types of tuna are listed here as "not okay to eat." May be there is a correlation between larger fish with the most mercury and fish that are more endangered.

The fish in my diet consists almost entirely of salmon and trout, and occasionally a tuna tartare (I would have a real hard time giving that one up.) I avoid farmed stuff.
Just working fine.

Airtel, Bangalore.
Charge the same you normally charge, but tell them "I'll work 1 week for free because I love you guys, but after that I'm gonna charge my normal rate".

Lowering your price is going to lead to bad feelings on both sides. Don't do it.
Aha! Great, this is definitely pretty awesome. I don't think anyone's written something like that in Common Lisp yet.
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His main complaint about Circles is that it's too hard to have all that freedom.

Wah wah wah.

You can make yourself crazy making circles, until you realize it's all about levels of sharing.

There's stuff I want to share with my family, there's stuff I want to share with my coworkers, and there's stuff I want to share with my friends/coworkers who are "geeky". I don't really care if George is from Fast Company or fastcompany.com. I just know he likes Jazz and would appreciate this John Coltrane video I found.
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I would imagine any company with a decent size patent portfolio has one that covers this.
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/

"newly-released Mac starting with the Mac mini and MacBook Air."

The low-level "Internet Recovery" is custom firmware. And the malware could happen, but it would be like chopping off somebody's head, then re-growing the brainstem into a hijacked mind. Unlikely.

It's much, much easier to hijack an existing install, than to exploit the install, corrupt the hard drive, force a complete re-install of a custom OS built with a malware kernel from somebody else's servers.
> The best option that should be on this list is to not eat any fish at all.

Your logic fails for the following reasons:

- not all fish are from the ocean

- not all species of fish are in fact overfished. There is no Sardine crisis.

- Fish consumption is linked to increased IQ including in babies and children

- Piscetarians have lower rates of heart disease than both vegans and occasional meat eaters

- Promoting abstinence over harm reduction is generally a very silly and inefficient way to do things
They are a VCS company, why would they out source their core competency? Second that kind of seems to be their MO, knock off an existing system, only do it better(their primary product is a visual source safe done right.) From what I have read, it seems like it will be away for Corporations to move to this fancy new DVCS thing while still maintaining a modicum of control and centralization(it supports file locks.)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/mission-control.html
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and this kills my weekend project minutesbox.com in India.
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I've been meaning to learn JS for a while now, thanks for all of the resource links.
Very interesting view. I worked in a lot of different projects and was forced to suit both roles in different moments, so I dont know exactly where I fit, but I really like the creation school.
I personally prefer a different approach. I open both the browser and my favourite editor on the same desktop. I edit my HTML/CSS stuff and as soon as I hit "save", it is shown immediately in the browser. All you need to do is:

1. Add a <meta> refresh tag to refresh the page once per second. Alternatively, with one line of JavaScript you can refresh even more frequently, e.g. immediately after "on load".

2. Bonus: Use a tiling window manager such as WMII, which automatically adjust the size of your editor window if you resize your browser window, and vice versa. That way, you get some kind of "split mode" and don't have to struggle with resizing multiple overlapping windows.

In summary, using auto-refresh + tiling window manager resulted a big increase in comfort for me. Not only during CSS development.

A bit off-topic, but related: If your target runs in the command line, the Unix command "watch" is a perfect auto-reloader:

watch --interval=0 your-app

For instance, debugging some PHP code by auto-rerunning the test suite might look like this:

watch --interval=0 php run-tests.php

This gives you immediate feedback after hitting "Save" in your editor, without even having to struggle with your browser.
Could this be retitled as "hipster goes to harvard, couldn't stand preppy atmosphere?"
Secondbar (I'm not sure about Lion compatibility): http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79
It puts another identical menubar on the second screen.

If you prefer a more "vanilla" option, I've found that putting the menubar on the right screen and the blank screen on the left reduces mouse travel (you can move the menu between monitors in Display Preferences). Since menu for an app is filled left to right, menu items are then closer to the center of your workspace.
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who was returning from Thor's love interest in Asgard. She is a warrior too. She recalls having to go through the rigorous exercise regimen to see part of a warrior.
Same here, Airtel Mumbai
This works great until 10 years down the road you pick up an old Mac at a thrift store and discover that the internet recovery for Lion has been ended and the newer OS's aren't supported by the hardware.
I don't think he was really complaining about the Harvard bubble - just commenting on it.
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I'd say it's pretty good, http://blog.fogus.me/2011/07/21/compiling-clojure-to-javascr...
Hi Brian!

I sent an email to sales support explaining my issue on OS X Lion when I was trialing your product, but did not get a response.

Please feel free to contact me at mqudsi@neosmart.net. What I was seeing seemed to be that the software was flooding the network card (wi-fi on a slow WiMax connection) with requests, causing it to timeout entirely such that I could not even ping my router. This doesn't require drivers, kexts, or anything and can be replicated in user mode. It's pretty much akin to DDOSing your own connection.

While I ended up purchasing a Mozy home license for a year, I do not think I'll be staying with them as I am not satisfied with either their client or their backend.
Reminds me of the hacker's manifesto, but a lot less eloquent.
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How does file locking work in a DVCS?

edit: I tried reading the code in sg.c and sg_vc_locks.c and I don't understand what the purpose is. Basically It just breaks someone else's push if you have a lock?

edit2: Why can't I clone the veracity repo? Odd that a version control system doesn't seem to be self hosted. Unless I'm overlooking something of course. Nevermind: http://public.veracity-scm.com/repos/veracity
This is a recurring problem with Wolfram: he honestly doesn't seem to be aware of what is going on in the world at large. When he came out with 'A New Kind of Science', everyone in academia was aghast that he had spent 10 years of his life reproducing research that was readily available in existing academic papers (not that NKOS wasn't a great book, but it was hardly new science). Now he's pushing a technology that indeed looks as if it belongs in 1999, as though he's completely oblivious to the ongoing evolution of HTML5 and Javascript.
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That's a very interesting link, but saying that we might as well not bother because there's labeling issues is rather overstating the problem. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
google+ should require to add people to circles. so it's not random. I think this could be fun. not like IRC, totally random and refreshing really quickly.
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True. The problem is that 99% of laser pointer owners don't really understand what a laser is or does.
Looks like Reliance aims to be the small brother of RIAA. They already have an image as crooks among consumers.. this will only make it worse.. don't know who to blame, courts for giving a blanket order or over eager ISPs.
Downloading multi-gigabyte git repos just to work on a very small subset of it.
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There is actually a correlation: large, predatory fish accumulate the most mercury because they're highest on the food chain, and they also tend to be rare and slow to breed, and hence more endangered.

With farmed fish it basically depends on where it's farmed. It can be very healthy and sustainable, or quite terrible.
"With fish stocks under pressure, which are okay to eat?" makes it really obvious...
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Quite amazing that there isn't even a "Documentation" link on the site. I wonder if they think that having an embedded Q&A/Stackoverflow component to the site takes care of this.
I'm not sure I'm entirely thrilled about a new document format that requires a 106mb download to view.
...or google code, bitbucket, or launchpad. I think you're missing the point: veracity has all of these features built in.

I'm not sure baking all of tyyese features in to the VCS is going to be a winner long term, but they've got some interesting ideas.
Let me fix that for you:

"And the plurality of Harvard students aren't wealthy legacies, they're extremely lucky middle class kids."

Need I remind you that there are a ridiculous amount of kids who take ridiculous courses for high schools (e.g. even college courses), get extremely high testing scores, and loads of extracurricular and get rejected on the basis that Harvard has a quota for each school and a quota for ethnicities.

Otherwise, Ivy Leagues' demographics would probably turn into the fair-and-balanced UC schools ...
The "--depth" argument to git-clone, as of 1.7, produces a read-only repository, which rather defeats the point.
That's strange, I seem to recall seeing DVDs in stores just the other day. Maybe the reports of its death are exaggerated?
Fairly well phrased, although the arguments against 'corporations' and 'conglomerates' are fairly unsubstantial. (in the pastebin, that is, IRL is a different matter)
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I still can't quite wrap my head around what it means for a DVCS to have exclusive locks. It seems like either the locks aren't exclusive or the system isn't distributed.

Edit: this kind of covers it: http://veracity-scm.com/qa/questions/102/why-would-you-desig...

I guess upstream is somehow aware of all downstream repos and can communicate with them outside of push-type operations?
I'd be surprised if Apple didn't keep a whole 4GB around for Lion a lot longer than 10 years.
What happens if the hard drive crashes and the partition is not available? A visit to the Apple Store I guess?
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Bleh I find most coffee to be better than starbucks. Barring of course the free coffee I get in my office. That stuff tastes like hot mud.
Be authored by regular non-programming shmoes, if you take Wolfram's word for it. It looks like they've discovered an interactivity model that is unusually simple while still being relatively powerful.
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I got hired for my current internship in the same sort of way. I loved the company, and emailed one of the VPs telling him how much I wanted to work for him.

Probably doesn't work every time, but it's worth a shot.
> October? November?

Novermber according to Ars's review.
I was in this "Apple" Store 2 weeks ago (I live in Kunming). They didn't have the airline magsafe adapter in stock.

The thing that gave it away for me (besides it being in Kunming) was the non-Lucida-Grande typeface everywhere.

If anyone wants me to go in there next week when I get back to the mainland, let me know.
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