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yawn

I do get tired of these "recieved wisdom" nuggets as seen in the headline here - see also "ipad is for consuming only" and "linux not suitable for desktop" (although that one seems to have died a death) etc. etc. and of course the actual article is a rather mundane overview of one or two of the features

Since I'm here: is Lion turning into iOS - no. I'm finding it makes me even more effective - I fly round my Air like I can fly round my source code with Vim. I find the gestures and the trackpad make a mouse feel like a clumsy ancient thing, Launchpad is acutally not too bad sometimes - gesture tap is quicker than ctrl-space typing enter (I use launchbar now - switched from quicksilver when it was going through rough times). Mission control, or whatever it's called, is much better than spaces and expose - I love the re-arrange spaces so apps I alt-tab between are close to each other. I find that full screen and focusing on a single task is much better for my concentraion - and was something I've been trying to do since long before I got Lion.

this is actually a power users update whatever you might hear
Slightly old data...but I'm sure the trend is still intact: in its 2009 fourth-quarter report released to the public on February 3, 2010, AOL.com reported a total of 4.999 million subscribers in the United States. This reflected a 27% drop from its 6.879-million subscriber base for the same quarter of 2008. At its peak, AOL reported having 30 million members worldwide, according to a 2006 report published in BusinessWeek.
Irony: Every infected computer is stroing malware.
Ask HN: Horrible boss wants to connect on linkedin. Do I?
I worked under the absolute worst manager I've ever had for about half a year. He was a micro-managing, second-guessing, passive-aggressive asshole. Coming home everyday after working for him left me an irritable and exhausted mess. The product I worked on had potential, but his ham-fisted attempts at controlling every little aspect of it left my creativity neutered.
I would be really interested to read an informed analysis of these two cases in the context of public company shareholder dynamics. I think it's an understated advantage of Steve Job's ultra-centrality at Apple that shareholders tend to defer to him in a way that I expect they might not with other companies (obviously this might become a disadvantage when he leaves). Has pressure from shareholders meaningfully affected the decision-making of companies like Nokia and RIM? Are short-term incentives defeating long-term incentives because of such pressure? I don't know, but I'd love to hear from someone who does.
Sorry, Professor!

I feel like I went out of my way to satisfy your arbitrary demand, and throughout this entire 'debate' you are just insisting I am wrong, but not backing it up with any facts, evidence, or even arguments.
I'm just curious, are you using Apple's Magic Mouse, or a mouse with a traditional scroll wheel?
I think there are two reasons for making people use their real names, and it's not this. One is preventing non-person entities from using the service. Nobody wants a "friend" that's "Mashable News" or "Coca Cola". When these accounts start following you, it's worse than spam. If you want to advertise, buy an ad so I can block it.

Secondly is the "anonymous people are jackasses" problem that's pervasive everywhere on the Internet. If people have to use their real names, they will behave on G+ as they would in person, which makes for a nicer experience.

Anyway, you can legally change your name to whatever you want (I have a friend whose US passport says "Ingy döt Net"), so if you really consider yourself to be your nickname, get a government ID with that nickname on it. Problem solved. (This problem is also solved with Photoshop, FWIW.)
We did do our homework and took inspiration from your blog post about putting on, either Future Ruby or Ruby Fringe, I forget which at the moment. I appreciate your concern and pointing out that conference organization is often a thankless task. We've been working on the conference for better than a year and continue to learn lessons that can only be learned in the first year.

This is not a decision we made lightly or without any contingency.
Yeah really, I stopped reading "adapting to “natural scrolling” is difficult due to years of muscle memory." I'm sorry but I've had no problems using 'natural scrolling', doesn't it take a few days to get use to yes, but it's possible to get use to it. If for whatever reason you cannot get use to it, you can always change your settings to the 'old' scrolling style.

If anything, I'm disappointed that Lion wasn't even more of a change, but I guess for me it would have been change for the sake of change, as Lion, just like Snow Leopard works great for me.

Additionally, others I personal know that have switched to Lion, no one has any problems with it and everyone likes it. Granted we're all a bunch of geeks working Tech Support and use Windows as well.
They switched from Windows XP earlier this year, and it’s taken them this long to learn how to _quit_ an app, as opposed to simply closing its windows.

That's exactly why Lion is more beginner friendly. They don't need to know how to quit an app anymore. Why would you ever care to quit an app? That's a legacy concept that's so ingrained in the author's memory that he can't comprehend not knowing it. Think, instead, of all the time his parents wasted trying to understand this quitting apps thing.

My girlfriend was using my iPhone and kept asking me "how do I quit the browser now." She was used to a PocketPC/WM phone, where if you don't manage your open apps, your phone crawls. I had to keep saying: "don't worry about it, just lock the phone. There is no closing."

10 years from now we will look back on quitting apps and saving files as relics of the ancient times, like floppy disks and parallel ports.
Google+ Has Mark Zuckerberg's Attention, Shouldn't It Have Yours?
I wonder if some algorithm using ratio of giving and receiving +1s/circles/posts/etc could be used to curb this kind of practice, by converting +1s of legitimate users into +2s, +3s, and so on.
The way physicists understand this is that the curved space-time view of gravity is an approximation that is only valid when you have a lot of gravitons. In that situation you do not see individual gravitons but only the aggregate effect of the ‘sea’ of gravitons you are in.

This is similar to e.g. fluid dynamics, which is only valid at scales much larger than the atomic scale. But if you look close enough, you will see effects that are not consistent with viewing a fluid as a continuum of matter (e.g. minute specks of dust moving randomly because they are hit by individual atoms).
Pure BS. Pretty much everything here is either a non-issue, or something that actually undermines the argument.

For example, "it's taken them [my parents] this long to learn how to quit an app, as opposed to simply closing its windows". Well, my parents have been on Mac a few years now, and they still haven't learned it. Now they don't have to. Great!

Plus there are other changes that will help beginners. Both my parents have been flummoxed after accidentally clicking the top-right lozenge in an app window: "where did all the buttons go?!". That lozenge is history. Great!

Etc.
Funny, I feel exactly the opposite way. New users won't care one bit about the scrolling direction. They won't care about mostly-invisible scrollbars and they probably won't even discover multitouch gestures.

They will however find the App Store, they will see the Mission Control Dock icon and they will recognize the window resizing controls. They will also find use for the ubiquitous autocorrect and full screen apps.

All things told, Lion is a departure from Microsoft Windows paradigms, and thus will give switchers a somewhat harder time. But in general, I think it is a lot cleaner and more discoverable than its predecessors.
I feel like $30 pales in comparison to $8mm.
it won't matter. The OS is the issue, not the machine. I have a Cr-48 that has the same issues as above, in ChromeOS. In Ubuntu Classic, it's almost dreamy (the two extremely notable exceptions are having to reboot to take advantage of the 3g, which only ChromeOS can seem to start, and the trackpad, which I have no answer for.)
So if the security guard catches me with my pockets stuffed with loot before I actually go out the door, would you say it's not shoplifting because I only intended to commit the crime, but didn't complete the act?
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Plus, Lion makes quitting apps virtually meaningless.
"withering violence on the Mexican border"

You _are_ aware that the BATF and other agencies have been facilitating that violence, right? Google "Operation Fast And Furious", then consider how that contributes to ever-growing bureaucracy.
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Engineers think in features

Customers think in benefits

"men are from mars women are from venus" "apples and oranges"
"The old way, the Snow Leopard way, was that advanced features were purely optional. If you wanted multiple desktops, you activated Spaces. If you wanted to put the UI to work for multi-tasking, you used Expose. It was great for people who wanted more from their Macs, and it worked out perfectly for newer users who needed to ease into it all"

I think this was the point. Much of the effort in Lion seems to be around exposing useful, but esoteric features, that were present in previous versions. My perspective is that Apple wants everyone to be able to get more from their Macs, not just the elite power user set. Mission Control and full screen apps really make the case for virtual desktops. Spaces were basically lifted whole from Linux desktops, but they now actually feel well integrated into the Mac experience.

Just because someone is not an advanced user, it doesn't mean that they should not get advanced features.
So shadowban them instead. The kind of people who would allow their system to be compromised are not the kind of people who would care or notice if their +1's didn't count.
Who owns the right to analyze your data?
It makes me realise that life can end in seconds, and I did nothing to cherish it and my loved ones today.
I agree, it was the same after Snow Leopard. It was the same with Windows 7, although maybe less so since Vista was sooo horrible and a lot of people were happy for the change.
> The real problem is that you should only be able to patent a solution

Not just any solution, a non-obvious solution. If presented with a new problem, as tech often is, you can think up a solution in a day, it shouldn't' be patent-able because others are going to come up with that same solution. The one click check out is an example of this.
First, I haven't used Lion yet. But from listening to Engadget it sounds as if they have made some rather confusing changes.

For example, they point out that application-wide gestures are two finger and system-wide gestures are three finger. This strongly assumes that people know the difference. Based on convos I've had people don't. "Which version of Office are you using?" "XP". "Office XP?" "Umm, Windows XP?". "OK, that's the version of Windows. What is the version of Office?" "The whole computer is XP". They were using Office 2003.
I was looking for more details, too. I don't mean that I suspect the OP of falsehood. It's simply that I'm a woman in a male-dominated field, and many people have asked me if I've ever faced prejudice at work, and I've always had to say no. That and the post together got me wondering if my prejudice-sensors are malfunctioning.
I agree, but that is why it is configurable. Actually, I guess I could get used to it--but that would make switching OSes so much more painful it is just not worth the effort.
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Expect decent behaviour, and expel those who cross the line. Teenagers are fully capable of learning to behave in public.
That's a merry proposal, but!

The real problem is that one can't actually steal a patent (or copyright). It's virtual property. And there is no closely guarded secret, either; quite the opposite: a patent is published openly as part of patent process. Downloading any documents from Lodsys and disseminating them on the 'net won't hurt them in any way.

Also, I doubt there are any interesting technical documents on this invention (or any other invention for that matter) on Lodsys' computers ;-)
I'd be interested in this as well (as someone preparing to start a flask project)...
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Good read, thanks. But in practice, with all its problems, C++ has been proven to work over and over, and the author's - Tim Sweeney - work is proof of that. Today, 6 years after this talk, has anyone successfully made a commercial game with the game logic built with FP, and if so, was it more productive than the former approach? I'm not saying the lack of examples prove it's not beneficial, but believing it is, is still only a guess.
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* Superficial isn't a synonym of "wrong". *

It is a synonym for "barely worthy of anyone's time.

And yes, of course Google wants Google+ to make them money. But saying "they want a healthy, vibrant, non-threatening community...thus allowing them more page visits and thus ad impressions, thus allowing them to make lots of money" has a completely different synergy than "they want your name so they can sell it".
Why are you talking about not having to quit apps? Lion still has the concept of quitting apps versus closing windows. Are you just talking about iOS or am I missing something?

I actually think the handling of background apps running state handling would be one of the best things to port from iOS to Mac. There are obvious large hurdles, though.

--EDIT--
I guess you're talking about resume but the issue is having apps still running after all windows are closed. I see people who leave all office applications open just because they were working on a document, spreadsheet, and slideshow in the last week. Apple needs to encourage more developers to focus on quick launch times and quitting applications like the App Store does when windows are closed.
Hey I just got the book late victorian holocausts by Mike Davis from amazon...have only read the preface in the last hour and I think its a really good read ....just wanted to thank you for the suggestion and some other very good points throughout this thread!!...will read RC Dutt's book next but I think I wont be able to take him that seriously as he is Indian and will probably have an Indian bias.
> I also wonder why Ballmer has to use all this corporate-speak:
"For all employees, we will shift a portion of stock award targets into base salary, providing more cash up front and obvious incremental employee value."

What is "corporate-speak" about that sentence? It seems pretty straight forward and accurateness describes what they are trying to do.
People downvote things they don't like, including the truth. They are also generally unable to distinguish between "this is how things are" and "this is how things should be", and will generally downvote as if you'd written the latter.
I like dynamic programming for various reasons, and at times it can get used as a technique for what really are computer science algorithms, but my experience is that that usage is rare.

With dynamic programming, I have to conclude that Google is just looking for ways to toss people out.
There is a "collective works" copyright, so I guess -- I am also not a lawyer -- that if one made a copy of some database, it may be infringing on the creator's rights even if the contents of the database consisted solely of public domain works.

So I think you are correct.
Commonplace as rare events go. Any American can get hit by a lightning; the actuality of suffering a death penalty concerns a much smaller number of people, namely a select few of those imprisoned for life. Especially in contrast to the OP's comparison to Norway, 46 versus 0 per year makes it pretty commonplace. There are over thousand people "on the list" in dozens of states at the moment.
And his use of parentheses is different than I expected:

(blabla :-) vs (blabla :-))
1) A valid reason.
2) Come on, just buy them a usb stick, it will be much cheaper in the long run and way more convenient.
3) Storage is so cheap and CDs so unreliabe that you are better off just ripping them once and never use them again.
You have that one the wrong way around - it shows that 9/11 is relatively insignificant, not that driving can be drastically improved.
However, that's a difference that can be picked up experimentally and can start making sense: "two fingers keep me in the browser, three fingers throw me out of the browser and go somewhere else." You don't get punished by using the wrong gesture (unless it's a web page in Safari that doesn't support back and forward movement): if you use three fingers in one direction, three fingers in the other direction will get you back.

Your contrast of versions of Windows and Office is an apples and oranges comparison. People don't know that difference because it doesn't matter and there is no reason to even discover that difference.
There's a concept in psychology called Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which tries to answer the ? of what actually motivates people. Essentially, some motivations are more foundational than others, and you can't work on "higher" needs successfully while your mind is distracted by other problems. For instance, someone who is drowning is motivated by getting more air and will completely ignore hunger because it's a less immediate motivator than lack of oxygen. Ultimately, Maslow believes we're motivated by a need to maximize our potential, which he calls "self actualization", but it's very easy to get tripped up by motivations below that in the hierarchy.

You're asking us to help you prioritize between two opportunities. The FilmBet project sounds like something you really get a lot out of, which is pretty close to the "self actualization" need Maslow described. The vacation app will bring in lots more money which will help put you in a better place to self actualize later, but it sounds very much like a means instead of an end.

Trying to define the point when a need is met is somewhat subjective. For instance, some people are big eaters, whereas some aren't. Some folks are perfectly comfortable living paycheck to paycheck, whereas some folks want to have 2 years salary saved up for a rainy day. If you feel that you are secure enough financially, physically and emotionally, then I'd go ahead and do the FilmBet work because it sounds like you enjoy it. Otherwise, I'd keep plugging away on the vacation app because the money from that is going to help put you in a better position down the road to work on something you actually enjoy.
Don't spend energy on someone that makes you feel negative enough to make this kind of post.

Once you're able to do that, it doesn't matter if you add him or not, go with whatever costs the least amount of energy.
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It used to be cheaper. But they must have had problems garnering business or fighting voting ring detection systems. You'll notice there is a wider array of sites listed now than before. Lots of new video sites and things like Kongregate which weren't there back in 07 when they were very busy are listed now. For example, Hacker News (not listed, but surely is vulnerable to this sort of thing), about 4-5 votes within 1 hour and you're guaranteed front page. s&p aren't the only ones offering services in the market of course.
An article on design isn't the same thing as "how to be creative" swombat. And if makes you feel creative you can down vote this comment too, but that won't impact my awards shelf...
Brendan Kehoe (author, "Zen and the Art of the Internet") died Tuesday aged 40
This warrants a mention here, I think.<p>I'm sure I'm not the only one here who remembers this early guide to the pre-web intertubes. His funeral was on Saturday, jammed to the rafters, and while unbearably sad was also full of very amusing stories and suitably-odd musical choices. He and Elana (his wife) had been documenting his illness with Leukemia since he was diagnosed in March at http://zen.org/ .
> and it’s taken them this long to learn how to quit an app, as opposed to simply closing its windows.

Well that's the whole point: they shouldn't need to know the difference. The system should take care of that and beginning with Lion it will.

> As another example, let’s say someone who’s never used Expose or Spaces accidentally activates Lion’s new full-screen feature in Safari. Apps that go full-screen create a new Space to live in, and, obviously, they fill the entire screen. I don’t know about your parents, but the phrase “how do I get out of this” rings in my head just thinking about it. So does the needlessly lengthy phone call that would follow.

So you tell them "swipe left or right with three fingers" and then they'll know. Software doesn't need to be immediately and completely obvious to everyone in every situation. What's important is that basic concepts are universally applicable once they're learned.

And keep in mind that discoverability does not mean every possible action needs to be visible at first sight. Swiping should become immediately clear once you fool around with the trackpad; the feedback is obvious, immediate and pleasant.

> Use another app, and the same gesture could mean something completely different.

I don't think the slight differences in the minutiae of swiping gestures (one finger, two fingers, three fingers,...) is that big of a deal. There is (or should be!) immediate feedback and the actions are always (or should always be!) nondestructive. It should not take long for anyone to figure things out.

Granted, there is always the problem of especially older people being less... "playful" in how they approach new technology. Most often that stems from a fear of breaking things. Which is exactly why it's so great that we're finally on the right track with the latest trends towards "care-free" computing environments: autosave, unlimited undo, auto resume, automatic backup and synchronization etc.
New Mac user here (I've had mine for less than 12 hours now). Caveats upfront: I'm a long-time Ubuntu user and I'm a programmer, so I'm not exactly a parental-class user.

The most confusing thing for me was to get my Mac onto our university WPA2 enterprise network. It is actually impossible to configure Mac OS 10.7 for this (at least via a GUI). After an hour, I realized I could use the .mobileconfig file for the iPad/iPhone (on our network) to set up a profile for my Mac and then things went smoothly. This was annoying to be sure and I'm not sure what benefit derives from this removed functionality (since 10.6 can do this).

But other than that, I've had a blast of a day. Everything else has been fairly discoverable and I figured out the gestures very quickly. In contrast to some of the complaints, I like the reversed scrolling and I like the way that Mission Control works.

I'm certain that if I were to give this machine to my parents, they would be fine. Perhaps I would disable Mission Control but otherwise I cannot foresee stumbling blocks.
that is actually quite cheap...I think I saw a few months ago someone doing a similar service for reddit, and it was like $1 per upvote

edit: didn't find the actual site, but similar: http://www.freelancer.com/projects/Internet-Marketing-Link-B...
A few, early votes are what matter, then the snowball effect takes over.