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I'm confused by why JWZ says that the Mork database code has anything to do with killing people. It is not presented as a product to be used for the collection of forensic evidence. Every user agrees to terms of use that suggest it is not a mission-critical piece of software to be used for sending a manned mission to mars or saving the location of your buried ingots of gold.

Relying on its data to convict someone of a capital offense says more about the justice system then it does about the software, and if an alleged killer should go free because of its unreliability, that says more about the inability of the police to gather sound evidence than about the inability of its programmers to build software for the unstated requirement that it catch criminals.
I casually dabble in making music with Logic. When you open it (in Snow Leopard), it opens the last opened project.

Logic is a pretty complex application, and there are a lot of different synths and filters. The synths take a lot of memory, since they have a large number (presumably) lossless audio samples in them (think every key on a piano, times X for X number of different strike velocities).

Therefore, Logic only loads the synths that are needed for files that you have open. It actually recommends with an alert box that you close your current file before opening another one.

When you open a file, it loads all of the synths for that file - this can take a long time.

The result is, when you open Logic, if the last file that you had opened isn't the one you want to work on now, you have to wait for that file to load, then close it, then open the file you actually want and wait for that one to load.

This probably won't be a problem for Adobe users, because Adobe is really bad at making native-feeling Mac OS software, so this probably won't be supported. But for Apple's document-based media applications (Final Cut and Logic, Aperture is different because of its nature), this is a bigger issue (Final Cut has some... bigger issues right now though).

The other issue is the privacy one. I used graphic designers working for competing clients as an example, but really, it could apply to anyone that values their privacy. Personally, I like my browser being a blank slate each time I start it back up.

A final issue that I can think of is with applications that tend to be opened by files (the user clicks on a file in Finder, not on the application). QuickTime and Preview are good examples. If I open a picture in Preview by double clicking it in Finder, typically I don't also want to see the last picture I viewed as well. I quit Preview when I was done looking at that picture for a reason - I was done with it.
Or those with high bandwidth costs. While $40 might be more expensive than a single download, if you know multiple Mac users in an area with small caps it might make sense to split one of these.

I'm curious how (/if) the license ties in to the App store. Hopefully they don't make you tie it to a single account once your computer is running.
Ahh...what you describe sounds a lot like Flask.
More likely it's a signal that the USB option is not the preferred upgrade mechanism. Apple wants to push every possible user to the App Store, and it's only extenuating circumstances that are forcing them to offer the USB stick at all.
The installer only deletes itself if it's still in /Applications. Copy it to a different partition before you run it.
Reboot didn't help for me, unfortunately. Still failed out with the same error after a minute or so.
I'm not sure if it removes it after installing, but you can probably just copy it to another drive beforehand if you're concerned.

If authentication is handled like other App Store software, you may have to enter your apple ID and password to run it after it's copied, but there shouldn't be a limit on the number of computers.
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Or maybe some of us are holding the single disc that came with our computers, from which we've installed both OSX and Xcode.

But no, we're probably just jerks, and out to get you.
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4B103 != 4B110. Everyone, get it from the AppStore!
I thought the same thing. Wondered if it was within the 3 mi/1000 mi box.
That makes no sense. You are unhappy that other people can get something for free now? That's self-centered. You were willing to pay the price, why does the ability of other people to now get the same thing for free change your original assessment? It doesn't seem to change anything for me.
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You can also pull the disk image out of the installer and make your own, rather than paying the $40 premium
What a vapid article. There are a couple interesting people on the list, but there is still no true justification for why I'd want to waste my mental real-estate on them on a regular basis. For example, I really like Guy Kawasaki, but not enough that I want to follow everything he has to say about everything every single day. And having Scoble in your list is a good way to be the recipient of an unending flood of content. And why you would give Dane Cook or Ashton Kutcher three second of time, combined, I have no idea.

In fact, this "article" seems counter-intuitive to the entire point behind Google+.
Is this true? For the same workload, would the i7 processor shorten or lengthen battery life?

If it's the same or better, $100 for the \i7 upgrade seems like a no-brainer. Or am I missing something?
I just asked, and found out we actually HAVE had a number of boot drives fail in our fleet of 200 pods. Most decisions in the pod are around saving money, so our initial thoughts were just that no customer data is on the boot drive so it isn't all that important. But don't get me wrong, there are SO MANY GOOD opportunities to improve the pod, Backblaze just stops working on the pod when it does what is needed for us and we run off to focus on other things. Your call on the boot drive is every bit as valid as ours. :-) I'm staring at an open pod here and I see plenty of good spots to put a second boot drive, and we'll probably be going to a 2.5" form factor (laptop) boot drive sometime soon which would yield even more space.
Boot Camp only allows for one other OS. Back when I tri-booted, I had to do it all manually (and use refit). Boot Camp had no idea what was going on.
Sorry to link to a Martin Fowler article, but that is what people are doing now: http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
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How many people usually end up participating? Is there a big disparity between the number of pushups the strongest person can do vs. the weakest person? Do you guys try to beat old records or just do it to get moving again.
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"team building" is like an arranged marriage - either you have a team or you don't, trying to force it doesn't yield any results and usually it's just an euphemism for being forced to do stupid things, most often to get drunk with everyone or "you are not being a team player". I would feel rather silly doing push-ups at work, especially at the command of my "team leader". Maybe people with more submissive personalities can swallow something like this more easily.

Aside from the above, where opinions may and probably will vary, doing just a single exercise very often is actually detrimental to health in many ways. Additionally, push-ups are exactly the wrong the exercise for most computer people, who tend to have rounded shoulders and contracted chest muscles - they are primarily a chest exercise, further exaggerating the rounded shoulders, where actually chest streching is needed and rowing exercises for the back. You might make fun of meatheads, but you actually should think a bit about what you are doing to your body, or it won't really do any good.
Maybe slightly, but no more than it would be for some chinese company to put pressure on the local police in San Francisco, and likely quite a bit less.
I'd imagine they're targeting more the situation of "I bought a new, blank hard drive".
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Actually civil disobedience is the act of committing a crime for moral, ethical, or conflicting legal reason. And it is salient. The motivation is in part "to commit this crime I seek to prevent or change a worse crime". To say that Anonymous is acting out of a sense of civil disobedience is to say that they are motivated by a cause.

Personally, I have no idea what motivates Anonymous or if they feel morally obligated to act. It's just as likely that they believe they can commit a crime without penalty. The actions of the FBI are, in part, to deter future individuals from participating in Anonymous coordinated attacks by reminding people that they are not that anonymous and there are consequences to one's actions.

Gandhi, King and other activists all were willing to suffer the consequences of their actions. They were motivated by a principle higher than blind obedience after all.
USB drives come out next month. Won't your download finish before then? :)
I've only been using Time Machine for about a year but my hard drive just crashed last week, conveniently three days after my MbP's hard drive. I've found it useful for restoring individual files, but I wish there was a way to customize the frequency of backups- plugging it in once a week is hardly ideal.
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I'm assuming hsmyers was directed/redirected to that site by their ISP.
MBA is not nearly as glossy as the MBP.
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Google+ will replace email, period.
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Well currently the pagination implemented using a closure so there is obviously some state that is kept on the server and used to calculate what should appear when "next page" is clicked.

Why can't the link to page 2 include the data that would be available to the closure? That way the client is responsible for keeping track of the user's session, and not the server.

Edit: Here is the source: https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc#L948 Looking at that has made me realise I can't read Lisp.
I skipped about four pages from the middle of this review because it was just way too technical. I know he's an engineer and wants to cover these things, but I'm not interested in seeing so much coverage for something that very few people will get.

It's not so much a review as it is an overview.
Pretty sure its not the Official way, but i would just take advantage of the new Virtualization feature, and run VM's of older OS, assuming you know where to get the images in the first place
When the VC start to take them seriously and give them money is when we really have a problem. If they are just trying, and not succeding, to get in on it is fine, I think.
As a matter of fact Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz authors of "Power of Full Engagement" say that the idea of self-discipline (in the form of strong-will) does not lie at the base of productivity. Indeed they say that human being do not have near enough energy to be self-disciplined in that sense for many decisions.

I think that the real value of the article's tips is that as you get used to not going on HN/Reddit or just avoiding other types of procrastination you will get used to not doing that and thus won't do it even if you remove the barriers.
Show HN: Our skunkworks project, easy CSS editing and hosting.
Fog Creek gave us a couple of months to work on something "new" for the company. After a ton of brainstorming, we came up with an idea kind of like JS fiddle for CSS, but with instant hosting baked-in. The result is http://webputty.net

WebPutty is built on Google AppEngine (a first for Fog Creek) using Python with Flask and Jinja2.

We'd love to hear what you think and if you find it useful!
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OSX Lion is completely TRIM compliant for all capable drives now.
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The argument that it was only $5 is a fine one, but to argue the overall point, I'm afraid you're wrong.

Would you feel the same way if you were renting a house, and had been saving away money for years, so decided to buy it off your landlord so that you would be a homeowner rather than renting all your life. Then a week later the same landlord, who owns all the houses on the street, decides to give the houses away to the tenants. Are you seriously going to be sat there, having spent six figures on the house, and say "I was willing to pay the price, I don't care about them now being given away free"?

Even on a less extreme example, if you spend $1000 on an iPad, and the next week an iPad 2 is announced and your iPad is in shops for $500, are you seriously not going to think "fuck, wish I waited to buy it"?
While it's a cool idea, I can only see it working first thing in the morning when everyone gets to the office but before you start work. Otherwise, chances are you'll be interrupting somebody's work, which if you're a programmer can be a huge hit to productivity.
Is it just because of the screen size or is the material different somehow? I'm actually toying with the idea of buying one to take with me on the road where the 15" colossus is just impractical...
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Clickable link: http://webputty.net

Blog post: http://blog.fogcreek.com/webputty-css-editing-goes-boink/
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the title is terribly linkbaity, but I do think it's interesting how Asus seems to have hit the bullseye with this product - almost evry review glows with praise, and many criticisms in the early reviews addressed flaws of Android 3.0 which have since been rectified. I was startled to see that Asus is apparently selling 400,000/month of these things - far short of the 3 million iPads a month that Apple is shipping, but impressive for a product that only became available in April. It is the leading Android tablet at present, at least until the next generation of devices featuring the Tegra 3 appear around August.
Ask HN: What do you do to follow open-source projects?
Every OSS project is different in terms of how they manage their information, whether it comes from a blog, a forge, twitter, a mailing list. What do you all do when you are using or interested in an open-source project and want to keep track of development, updates, news, articles etc?
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'Nobody will care' is missing the most important person's opinion - your own!

I don't agree that most stuff created gets thrown away or forgotten, especially in the sphere of intellectual achievements.

We live in the age of the internet, or as I think of it - 'perpetual memory'. Storage is cheap, communication is free, search is instantaneous and context is being built through sites like Hacker News, for example.

So the real question is, in my opinion, are you proud of your choices? Are you proud of how you spend your time? Do you meet your own standards? Do you want to attach your name to your work, your intellectual achievements?

If the answer is yes, how can it not make you happy?
We live in an age where our needs for food and shelter are easily met (at least in the US), and we can afford to pursue the higher elements of our hierarchy of needs. If we achieve self-admiration, then does outside validation even matter?
I dont really like the direction OSX is going tbh.
Its clear that its going more and more into the iOS direction, consumer orientated, easy to use for average users but not very efficient for power users.
Multiple Monitor workflow is even more awkward then before for example.
Direct link: http://www.webputty.net/
I think Google would be the last place they look for vulnerabilities.
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I don't think it's so cut and dried as "you have a team or you don't." Marriages aren't like that, friendships aren't like that---team cohesion falls on a spectrum as well.

I think there's value to team-building exercises when the participants want to be on the team, because just wanting isn't enough. But I agree that those sorts of exercises are certainly not sufficient alone.
Why Google+ will succeed wildly. At first.
This deal is being underwritten by U.S. taxpayers, who have given Tesla several hundred million dollars in loans (in exchange for zero equity). I suppose there's now a slightly better chance that some of those loans will actually get repaid...
How do you actually perform the search?
Maybe increased blood flow on the whole averages against the interruptions, causing a net increase in productivity?
You can invent some stuff and earn some decent patents and still be a patent troll.

You can be a genius and still have an anti-innovation business model.

Stronger patents on every little technique you can use on the Internet, held by people like Myrhvold, aren't very likely to help hackers at startups.

Those startup hackers who have real innovation that needs IP protection, don't need help from patent trolls.
Is it possible to create a UB for all three architerctures at the same time? (PPC, x86 and x64)
It sounds like every halfway decent web framework ever written.
I noticed. It's incredible! Paradigm shifting! I was just about to post it too.
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Doing pushups should be balanced with pullups.
Cache them using what app? Because google maps won't cache a whole city for me, certainly not at street level zoom.
It's a good thing that we have regulations so those bad things never happened.

Less snark version: who do you think writes regulation?
Humans are irrational like that but I try to not get annoyed by those kinds of situations. It's meaningless. If anything I would be annoyed at myself for apparently picking the wrong maximum price I was walling to pay.
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Updating to Lion was seamless and super quick. It installed for me during lunch hour.
You're missing that it's $400, not $100, which made it hard to decide.
I think if you're nodding off you might be better off with a nap. Then do some push-ups.
There is an obscure button in the App Store called Updates that will update purchased apps.
I shudder at the thought of writing Node apps in Windows only to later deploy them to a Linux environment. Sounds like a debugging nightmare.

Didn't we learn these lessons from the early days of Java when it was "write once, debug everywhere"?
To me, a work-life balance means maintaining a separation between work and activities. I do various kinds of training on my own. I don't want to do them at work. That's where I think about work-things. And I do my various kinds of training as a way to clear my mind of work-things.
30km up is not "to space". Not even "near space", if we take the Kármán line at 100km to be the generally agreed upon definition. The balloon is amazing and impressive but this headline is misleading.
re: Flash content: I was playing with an last-gen 11" MBA in the Apple Store a couple months ago, and saw that it wasn't capable of playing the YouTube video of All of the Lights <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfFfqiYLp0>; at 1080p without dropping frames. Obviously this is completely arbitrary because the MBA can't display 1080p, but I was a little concerned about it.

Have you had problems with HD Flash/Netflix?
These productivity hacks always really confuse me. Maybe it's just me.

Here's my logic: If you want to be productive (i.e. you have prioritized the current task/goal above all else), you just do it with full attention. If it's not very important or you can't align the task with a significant outcome, then you will be prone to distractions.

These tips boil down to negatively reinforcing distractions (not being productive) and positively reinforcing accomplishments (being productive). If you have the ability to apply all these reinforcement techniques in the first place, then you have the self-discipline to just do what you should.

Maybe I just personally prefer advice and tools that helps with prioritizing tasks since that tackles some of the underlying issues.
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we’re a tech co - meatheads are nowhere to be found

so programmers can't be athletic? I'm sure that's not what he meant, but that's how it comes across. also, the idea of group pushups as a "team building" activity - seriously? that just sounds awkward and weird. not to mention that pushups are not remotely sufficient as exercise if that's all you're doing.

you want to help your employees stay in shape? commit to making sure they have time to get some exercise, however way they enjoy doing so.
I agree with your point about bureaucracy being necessary when using a hierarchical model for society. This has a basis in our neurochemistry, in particular, Dunbar's number which puts a limit on how many individuals we consider to be people, where everyone else we know are lumped into 'the others' category. The majority of us treat 'the others' considerably worse than our friends, where we are more likely to lie, cheat and steal from them. Bureaucracy is necessary when such large organizations exist since it patches the bug. Unfortunately, as we can see from the results, it's a low quality patch which addresses the effects and not the causes.

An obvious solution is to go around the mountain. If such large monolithic structures come with such a burden then why not decentralize and cut them down to a reasonable size that our hardware can better handle? This is, ofcourse, also a patch, which, personally, I think would address the effects more efficiently. To address the root causes, we would either need to modify our neurochemistry or DNA or provide education so that individuals can overcome Dunbar's number.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew when starting your business?
A friend of mine was contacted by a local chamber of commerce to help put on a "Entrepreneurship/Startup 101" course. Most of these, at least the ones that I've been to, only teach how to raise significant sums of money from VC's a la the 1990's dot com boom and are taught by washed up VC's themselves. In other words, most of these things are worthless.

Which is why I ask: what do you wish you knew early on that would've saved headaches? So far, our list includes: choosing cofounders, rapid prototyping, "hustling" (talking to customers immediately, and selling your product quickly to get cash in the door), and Delaware incorporation. What else?

Our target audience is hackers, so we don't plan on focusing on actual product creation extensively, other than the mindset of gauging need via talking to customers and rapidly creating a simple solution around that.
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