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I didn't use Spaces before Lion. It's still not perfect but I like it better now with Mission Control. The full screen behaviour is annoying. What if I want to go full screen on a secondary display? Huge oversight and who knows when they'll fix it. (fwiw The reasoning is that if there's only one app the menu bar should be above it or something so you don't have to move your mouse to the second display to show the menu bar. I think it's a lame reason since people w/ multiple displays are typically not grandma types that get confused about such things.)

Maybe old configurations don't mess things up. I had nothing but great experiences with Migration Assistant and upgrades since I started using Macs in 2005 until Lion, even through the PPC-Intel transition. I had a problem with my upgraded Lion machine though, it no longer connected to my Windows 7 machine's SMB shared volume. After doing a fresh install I was able to connect again and I had tried connecting from 10.6 so I know Lion was at fault. That's the only issue I had but it does lend some credibility to the fact that old configurations can be problematic, in my eyes.
I tried it for a bit, then happily re-imaged back to Snow Leopard. There's just too much goofy laptop oriented crap that I don't want. I was laughing out loud reading that article. And grimacing, as someone who works late in a quiet house, at the loss of fine volume adjustment from the keyboard.

I will have to test software on lion, but I'll just dedicate a partition and drop into it when necessary.

The worst thing for me was Mission Control. I miss the proportionately-scaled windows of Tiger(?) Exposé, but I utterly refuse to completely disrupt my flow with the clusterfuck that is Mission Control. Re-fuse.

I'll freely admit that I'm on a Mac Pro in a sea of laptops, but I have work to do, and it's just easier in Snow Leopard than it is in Lion.
Me either. I've upgraded about half a dozen Macs with Lion at this point with no problems at all. The rating for Lion on the Mac App Store is 4 starts with over 150 reviews so it seems to be working well for most people.
Is "event sourcing" similar to the acid-state business used in happstacK?:

http://happstack.com/index.html
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I fail to see why I should lower my expectations from my Operating System because of the price.
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Have never experienced that.
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It's not specialization. It's laziness. Actually, you could even call lacking one of the most basic requisite skills of the trade incompetence.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that you rolled that rug up and threw it away to make space for the new and shiny rug. Too bad the new rug still has some moths.
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My concern with the wordpress cacheing plugins I've looked at is that they require the webserver to have write access to the webserver directory. This is particularly dangerous on shared webhosts, as a malicious customer on the same server could write php files in your cache directory.
I think this is a fantastic way to do interviews. I could count on one hand the number of interviews I've been involved in where I actually felt like a true measure was taken of my skills and abilities as they relate to the job I would be performing. Instead it just feels like an excuse to trot out a bunch of computer science trivia.
It's not the cost of the upgrade that matters. It's the cost of lost productivity and regressions.
Very cool. We visited the NC Maritime Museum in Beaufort a few weeks ago. I don't know that I'd make a trip just for that, but if you're in the area (Emerald Isle, Atlantic Beach, Morehead City) it's definitely worth stopping in.

The museum also maintains a workshop for building small craft which is cool to watch, and the whole thing is free (donations accepted).

Disclosure: I'm a native of the area, but I've been away long enough to attain 'dingbatter' status.
Yeah, right. Adding more pieces to the puzzle makes it more interesting to solve!
"With multiple code bases touching the same data, schema improvements become nearly impossible."
Few companies have procedures in place that allow this; but it is possible if you have the right procedures.
No, US law requires no such thing.

Receivers capable of operating above 18km and 515 meters/sec are export controlled, but then, so is cryptography software.
I used spaces before and prefer mission control. I also have an external monitor so I am not sure what he is talking about it not supporting a second screen.
Mail crashes a lot? It's been more stable than Snow Leopard's, for me. I generally leave it running for a few days at a go, consuming >1000 emails per day, and it's even starting and searching and everything more quickly than the previous version with less than 1/4 of the messages.

Mission control and launchpad - generally a miss, but not horrific. Address book, on the other hand...
"I also think data integrity is easier to maintain with a system like this."

If you are in the middle of a transaction and you realize that some constraint is being violated, how do you roll it back without interfering with the other transactions?
I also think data integrity is easier to maintain with a system like this. SQL constraints don't allow me to express nearly as much about data integrity as I can in code. Sure, I could use stored procedures, but if I'm going to write code somewhere, I'd rather it be in my app.

Surely I could just as easily say 'Sure, I could use a data access layer in my app but if I'm writing a multi-app database, I'd rather the database enforced its own integrity.'?

Nothing's the perfect tool for every job, but I certainly think stored procedures have their place and have the power to handle the bulk of tasks.
Apple will take money from pro users but doesn't care about them at all from a strategic perspective. See Final Cut Pro X and the total lack of consideration for businesses running the previous version. No, Mac OS X won't suddenly drop support for multiple monitors, but I don't expect Apple to devote much time to making new features work well with them.
I had a few funny moments before I did a clean install of Lion. I've never had great success upgrading any major OS change, Mac or PC. Fresh installs always work best for me.
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"It’s not about who makes them first, but who [spies on you the most].”

I love Android and I'm so happy for its success. But I cannot recommend these tablets to anyone due to my boycott of Sony. Their lack of moral values and the way they treat their customers has led me to not just boycott but to actively campaign against them.

Say no to Sony.
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Since you're one of the few published experts on this specific, evolving area :), what are your thoughts on the tradeoffs between the current popular frameworks (i.e. are they so different - yet mature - that each one could conceivably be a best fit for a certain type of applications?). And which framework do you currently prefer?
T-Mobile expected government intervention, hence the breakup fee. AT&T hoped to bullshit their way through the SEC.
The idea is good. However, not unique (yet :)). I am sure you know http://www.giftsproject.com.
It will come down to "ease of use". Maybe try to integrate it with the social networks through an easy to use app (within that social network instead of adding more to the already crowded profile wall's etc...).
If you wanna hit a home run maybe try to figure out how the gifts will be selected: http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html.
Its not easy but if you find an elegant solution I believe you will be off to a good start!
Yet the Comcast/NBC deal sailed through.

Frankly, I think that's the path AT&T was hoping to follow: pass out a few lobbyist jobs, sail through.
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One day Andy figured something out: if you say bold, polarizing things, you can get a lot of people talking.

Since then, Andy's done very well by this finding, and he has milked it rather vigorously. This grows tiring, though, because such polemic tends to be free of fidelity.

Andy tells us that he'll never hire people who are out-of-shape because they have character flaws. He publicly "redesigns" websites, making bold, unsubstantiated claims, free of any understanding of the functional design requirements. Then, he puts antagonistic bunk like this out there.

The problem with the post linked here, is that it presents opinion as dogmatic fact, when many strong arguments can be made for another approach. Meanwhile, this notion is, in my mind, quite dangerous to young designers who are already trying to learn too many things.

I don't hire designers who write code. I hire designers, developers, and strategists who work well together. They all work, literally, next to one another.

By this, I mean that we don't pocket designers in one corner and developers into another, like some agencies do. Instead, a designer sits next to a strategist, who sits next to a developer, and so on. By doing so, each of the professionals we've hired learns why their colleagues' concerns matter. Meanwhile, by allowing each to be concentrate on their respective craft, we do better work for our clients.

For the record, I think it's great if you're a designer who can write a little code. That being said, I think it's much more important if you can communicate well, write effective briefs, build good wireframes, think about big picture strategic concerns, and all kinds of other stuff.

Then of course, I've played right into Andy's game. Once again, his bull-in-a-china-shop act has resulted in my saying more than I probably should.
Any particular reason?

It does seem like if the WIMP interface to Metro can be made to work well, that many many users will flock lemming-like to Metro-style apps.

As a developer, I want to be where the users will be.
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For those who want to take this kind of approach (object prevalence) in Common Lisp see http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-prevalence/

Sven Van Caekenberghe (the author of cl-prevalence) and I used this approach to power the back-end/cms of a concert hall back in 2003. A write-up of our experiences can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/svc/RebelWithACause/index.html

The combination of a long-running Lisp image with a remote REPL and the flexibility of the object prevalence made it a very enjoyable software development cycle. It's possibly even more applicable with the current memory prices.

I especially liked the fact that your mind never needs to step out of your object space. No fancy mapping or relationship tables, just query the objects and their relations directly. I guess that's what SmallTalk developers also like about their programming environment.
And this is actually news since they always said the old UI would be there. I agree, this is the way to go.
I don't see "site-lisp" on my quantum programming butterfly.
>.., but it has absolutely no place on my home desktop

Why do you say that without even giving it a fair chance?

They haven't even revealed how it will play with a keyboard and mouse.
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Oh, I see now. I guess it has worked in mintty for a while, and I didn't even notice it wasn't working in putty.
Wow, can the founding chairman of ICANN be so out of touch with international markets that she doesn't mention the value of internationalized domain names? Perhaps anything you can't read in your native language doesn't have value to some, but this article only considers one aspect of new TLDs.
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He's referring to bribes. Typically with Republicans you buy a few of the important ones and the rest fall in line pretty quickly, however with Democrats you have to buy each one individually but generally at a cheaper price. Admittedly it is hard to say which way is more expensive on the whole, but there is something more admirable about a whore who plies his or her own trade, than a pack of them where the only one with any sense at all is the one in charge.
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songs under hot section arn't loading. And channels under the home page give no response. same problem for firefox and chrome. But im intrigued by the idea. Would like to play with it
It's possible that they expected the massive breakup fee to have an effect on the regulators in a way that a smaller one wouldn't. Just imagine the teary-eyed AT&T executive testifying in front of the TV cameras about how the evil government is forcing them to give $7G to a competitor.
Excellent, I hope we can get this in Chrome pretty soon too.
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After getting used to Chrome's silent updates, I started to find it breathtakingly ridiculous the way Firefox kept interrupting its startup asking about updates. When I start Firefox, it is because I want to go to a website. Giving attention to updates is not what I want to do.
And you have that famous quote from Henry Ford that may or may not have been spoken by him:

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/henry_ford_never_said_the_fa...
So looks like I need to give Sublime Text another shot.

I switched from ST1 to vim after almost a year of using ST2 exclusively for work. I very, very highly recommend you try Sublime Text out - I've used many editors, and Sublime Text is still, for me, almost the perfect mix of must-have features and ease of use. Alas, vim's amazing power was a little too much of a draw.

And if you try out Sublime Text, don't forget to check out it's killer feature (which doesn't have): Multiple Selections. They're the single most powerful non-obvious editor feature I've ever seen, and I greatly hope they make their way to every editor when people start to understand that.

In the meantime, this new vim mode might just might bring me back to ST2 full-time. Here's hoping!
I have to agree, I'm not having any issues with Lion. Everyone I know that has a Mac or Macbook has updated to Lion without any issues and I've heard no complaints. The biggest issue I did see was one friend that had problems with plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator (i think it was) which was fixed within days.
There was some post about a happy Win/IIS/CF guy - he definitely should read this.. ^_^
You must be talking about Stacey then as it does some of the described "magic". :)

http://staceyapp.com/
I think it also keeps you focused and on track. A single founder can easily just keep changing directions (which I've done myself) when they should be focusing on one idea.
hmm strange - it's all working here, but i'll look into it! thanks.
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That's still a pretty massively long time compared to, say, Ocaml or Haskell. (0.01 seconds for hello world, for both of them)
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>> I hire designers, developers, and strategists who work well together.

I think the biggest problem in these conversations is misaligned terminology in our conversations. Based on the rest of your post (and only this post), I would rewrite your sentences as:

I hire artists, developers, and designers who work well together.
Eh, theres always Verizon. AT&T cant get out of its own way anyway. If the govet wanted to block something, they should have stopped Google from buying youtube...
Yea, I was thinking the same thing.

Chakra (IE9) already has it, I think.
I think he means that it went the way of Jamba Juice at WWDC.
There is a crazy-like-a-fox madness to Southwest's boarding. It's more than just the use of A-B-C sections.

If you pay for a business class ticket that gets you up into the front of the A line. Those people are usually frequent travelers who don't mess around in the aisle. The roomy exit rows are highly coveted for long flights, so experienced flyers are going halfway down the plane which again prevents people from bottlenecking in the first few rows.

Infrequent flyers are likely to pass on the $10 fee for auto-checkin and end up at the end in the C boarding, so they aren't holding up anyone in the aisle. By that time the rest of the plane is settled, so the flight attendants can assist them in getting them into a seat with their luggage stowed.
> What if an update silently breaks the update process? Hrm!

This is part of why Chrome uses a separate application (Google Updater) to do the updating. Even in the worst-case scenario where we update to a version of Chrome that can't even start, the updater still runs and can later update to a fixed version.
If this could become the centralized way to handle packages for Sublime Text like npm has become for Node I think it would be a big step forwards towards Sublime Text replacing TextMate.

Maybe I've just not kept up to date with what goes on with TextMate but to my knowledge there is nothing like this for TextMate and looking for packages for TextMate always becomes a googling quest for me.

Now of course, with TextMate, there's hundreds of packages doing more or less the same thing to different authors tastes, if the same thing happens with Sublime Text, there would need to be some sort of filtering in this package manager?
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Hey folks, sorry if this question has been asked before, but I wanted to get some opinions from people who have experience or ideas for how to move my career direction more from a programming to an operations standpoint?
I have about 5 years experience as a professional web developer and the more that I do at work, I seem to prefer setting up and implementing processes that allow the other developers (and also other employees) to do their jobs more effectively and also that allow my team to deliver our objectives more quickly and cleanly.
How would you target jobs that to move into this area? Or how would you structure a resume that would highlight these things?
> Other languages, like JavaScript, are weakly typed, which means that the programmer doesn’t have to worry about such piffling minutiae; you can just write some code and let the compiler do the heavy lifting.

JavaScript isn't weakly typed, you can't for example "cast" a number to a string. There is automatic coercion but that's a different thing. I think he means dynamically typed in this case, that or duck typing.

> Type inference fills in the gap between strong and weak typing so that you can still write sloppy code, but reap some of the speed boost.

I don't even know what to say about this. Following this faulty logic might lead one to believe that Haskell has type inference to make all that sloppy Haskell code perform well. Type inference doesn't have anything to do with strong and weak typing, it has to do with manifest and implicit (or inherent) typing.
I know about that, but those arrow keys are so tiny. It becomes even more awkward if I want to select text (e.g. shift-fn-left).
Yep Yep, same here. I was hating on the scrolling for the first couple of hours, but now I'm completely use to it and it works great.

I haven't hear anyone complain about Lion in my office or on a personal basis and the people I know would complain if they saw an issue.
Who in their right mind decides to name a service "Qriocity"?
I am reminded of the 'ultimate success formula.'

1. Figure out what you want

2. Take Action

3. Are you closer or farther away from what you want?

4. Re-adjust if necessary and GOTO 2 until you have what you want

edit: formatting and spelling
Yes, you can definitely do it either way. Years ago as a demo a friend built the heart of a financial exchange in stored procedures. It was very fast, and very reliable. But the same is true about the LMAX system that Fowler describes.

Personally, though, I'd much rather do my important coding in a real programming language. Better tools, more libraries, bigger communities, and no vendor lock-in.
Codemirror seems like the way to go: http://codemirror.net/mode/javascript/index.html
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Anyone able to get Zen Coding running on ST2? I'm following the instructions at: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=580...
That only works immediately after I close the tab. If I close one tab, close another tab, navigate to some other site, browse it for a while, and then decide to reopen that two closed tabs, then I can't do that.
This was on a shared hosting platform, where the provider probably oversold capacity, and without access to the command line. I suspect part of the delay was waiting for the CGI script to send data to the browser.
That was my dad's bd. His best friend was also born in the day.
Given that phones are sold worldwide and phone vendors probably don't want to deal with ITAR paperwork for features that aren't even officially supported, I'm betting they have crippled GPS.
I think this is great! its simple and works... also it remembers my SSH keys for each instance.
Good lord, where do you put them?
Doesn't surprise me. ptrace() on the first version or two of iOS would panic the kernel with TODO messages.

Generally, XNU calls panic() at the slightest sign of trouble, while Linux tends toward more fault resilience (through the oops system, etc).
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This package manager has almost single handedly converted me to a Sublime Text 2 user. The simplicity of adding packages is a huge convenience of having to track down and install TextMate bundles or plugins for any other editor.

Huge win for Sublime.
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By the time Snow Leopard becomes a real liability, geeks will have beaten Lion into submission. It's like a month? out from Lion's release. Nobody who likes Snowpard has any business running Lion right now.
Sublime is (excluding vim) by far the best text editor i've ever used. I just wish i could afford it.
I am not sure about particular situation about OOo/Libre Office in Australia, but I have gut feeling that Defence and Cloud are not much compatible. Unless Australian Defence wants to create their own Cloud infrastructure.
Lion is not for you.

Snowpard will continue to work without being a liability for probably the next 12 months, at least.

Giving up on Lion isn't a moral failing. Give the pioneers some time to absorb the arrows. By next March, I'm betting that (suitably tuned) Lion won't be anywhere nearly as annoying as it is today.
I love the idea of actual project-based coding interviews

The best interview I ever had was a project-based interview with a YC company. We spent 9 hours implementing production code using a language (python) and framework (django) I'd never worked with before. Fortunately, python is close enough to ruby that we were able to successfully complete the project.

The position was a first-hire engineering lead so the length of the interview made sense. Obviously, this isn't reasonable for a normal position, but a scaled down version is a good approach. I would have loved to accept the offer and work with them but had to go with another company in the end. I was moving to SF with my family and needed a higher salary versus mid-salary + equity.

Now you have the overhead of possibly paying each person for some work, the paperwork that goes along with it...

I wasn't paid for this work and wouldn't expect to pay a dev for a 2 or 3 hour interview, which is what I would expect for a normal position.