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This is US T-Mobile, not UK T-Mobile, German T-Mobile, or any other T-Mobile; or at least: the article doesn't say which T-Mobile, but includes an image containing "$0.00".
Cool! I also like your blog at http://yourneighbours.de/ :)
They don't want to do that. Marching you past the 1st class passengers already sitting with their drinks is advertising!
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I do this with WP's caching plugin and a caching plugin for Drupal. It bugs me that these aren't part of the official distribution and need to be plugins.
I've moved from TextMate to Sublime Text 2 over the past few weeks. The only thing I miss from TM is the ability to jump back to the last opened file with command-t.

Has anyone managed to hack their config to enable that feature? I understand there are some callbacks available that might help, but I haven't figured out how to put them into action.
I haven't used IntelliJIDEA, but I do use Jetbrains' Resharper, which transforms VS into a much better IDE. If that's anything to go by, IntelliJIDEA's intellisense will be better than VS's intellisense.

Having said that, I just watched the screencast[1] of Python intellisense in VS, very impressive.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoGsSlrxKk
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Impressive :-)

I've only read of the "original" SCCS, but never seen it in the wild. Did it actually work well for its practitioners? (e.g. - RCS, for all its weaknesses, works well enough for a small project and small local, trusted, group)
I would flip shit to get that many views. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Doesn't look like it:

Our remote debugging solution depends on msvsmon to provide the attach-to-process functionality, so remote debugging doesn't work on linux out of the box. However, given a process attach infrastructure on linux you could reuse our debugger.py to talk back to Visual Studio, as that is a simple socket connection. If you wanted to implement that and contribute it back we'd definitely look at taking it.

http://pytools.codeplex.com/discussions/259591
How will you handle thousands of users behind a corporate firewall?
Agreed. I played with a Nook Color a couple weeks ago and was impressed. If I could figure out a reason to add yet another piece of portable electronic junk to my collection (alongside a Nexus One, a Dell netbook dualbooting Linux or Mac OS X, a laptop, a Kindle, a DS, and probably other crud I can't remember now), it's what I'd buy. It's cheap enough to nearly be an impulse purchase, it seemed fast enough and powerful enough for what I'd want to use it for (though the netbook with a keyboard works better, since writing is mostly what I imagine I'd want to use it for), and it was cute and fun to play with.

So, yeah, there's already a low price point competitor to the iPad, though it's not being marketed as such. B&N may be making a mistake in not pushing it harder as a full-featured tablet...but maybe they know its limitations better than I do. At that price point, it almost certainly is similarly specced to a very low end Android phone, so probably can't actually run a lot of bigger apps effectively.
He could just say "tl;dr\n<machine specs>\n<I use static pages>".
Agree it's fugly but it's so powerful.
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Agreed. I'd like to see the energy industry fumble around with maps trying to locate oil deposits because this new fangled GPS-thing doesn't quite work right.
I heard one specific Joomla site used 800 queries to render the front page. A dev needs natural talent to reach that point, I guess.
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Because Firefox is very plugin driven, and its current design disables plugins that aren't compatible.

It is not in the best interest of users to have their plugins disabled automatically as a "feature".
It has been my experience that, while working in a group, it's actually harder to get things done. You have to reach a consensus first before you can act. The progress may be steadier, but in the long term slower.

Maybe I'm suffering from a bad college trauma. During college, we were forced to work in project groups. This was always a disaster, I remember calling group members at 2AM to email their contributions to the project, only to find it full of mistakes and largely copied/pasted from the internet. I'd spend the rest of the night editing the piece 'cause I sure as hell wasn't going to flunk on their behalf. When I would do a project on my own (my Thesis, for example) I'd get substantially higher grades with less hassle in less time.
How many times does this need to be said?
This is not an easy thing to do. Customers sometimes don't know what they want or how to articulate it.

If you keep having focus groups with customers and continually implement what they ask for you might end up with something like MS Office where you have a kludge of actions buried within and across multiple menu items.

As a contrast to that look at Windows Phone 7. If you've ever used it it's rather elegant. I feel that they looked beyond the "comments box" and dug deeper. It truly feels like they made sure the devices it runs on are communication devices (making calls and texting) first and layered in modern smartphone functionality (applications and cloud storage).
It's always exactly the time when you need your service to be up the most that it goes down. What matters is how they respond to it.
Finally managed to compile it on Arch Linux, using Cabal. I had to close my browser and IDE as there weren’t enough memory to compile it otherwise (it required more than 1000 MB).
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Really don't agree with his assessment. I'm loving Lion - Pretty much all the little updates have improved my experience of OS X.
sure, we're losing money on each unit, but we'll make it up in volume.

I've heard the supplier argument because, but I think perhaps it's because Samsung may be interested in buying it, to escape Apple litigation (along with the PC division). Easy to sell as a going concern. But the simplest explanation is: today's HP is stupid.
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I think Microchip has made more of an effort to be hobbyist- and open-source-friendly than Atmel in several ways:

1) Microchip's IDE is cross-platform (Linux, OSX, and Windows), while Atmel's IDE is Windows-only.

2) Microchip has a company-sponsored bulletin board on their web site for hobbyists (and professionals) to answer and respond questions. Atmel doesn't (avrfreaks.net is not associated with Atmel).

3) Microchip makes more microcontrollers in DIP architecture, which is useful for hobbyists; e.g., there are at least six Microchip microcontrollers with USB ports in DIP layouts, while Atmel has none.

4) At least Microchip is making claims about being open-source-friendly. I have yet to see Atmel mention open-source in their marketing materials.
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Not sure if anyone using or treating IDLE for serious development here, but PyScripter is a quite powerful IDE for Windows.
Been there, done that, own the downvote.
I understand your excitement. I've been watching your work on it! You deserve a nice, long vacation, man.

Thank you.
Source: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110831PD211.html
Yeah, I'm sure almost any phone will survive a hard vacuum.
Hang around long enough and you'll find that very little is new under the sun.
I don't experience any of the issues the guy mentions in his article.

Sometimes I wonder how some people's configurations get so wonky that they have all these issues. It's clearly an atypical case.
Blogger used to work this way. You used to be able to download an archive of your site and host it on your own server! The thing is, unless your site is very simple and small, regenerating static HTML becomes more of a headache than maintaining a system that serves the content out of a database.
Whenever I start Firefox it tells me:

"Stop! Whatever you were going to do, it couldn't possibly be more important than checking if fart-button-xpi has been updated from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5! Now just five more clicks and I'll restart"
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Probably not what you want to spend time reading, but a big chunk of Private Equity literature covers this.
As far as I can tell, the goal of Windows 8 is to have 2 kinds of UI: a traditional mouse/keyboard computer interface, and a touch-optimized Metro-derived interface. Since Lion and the iPad have different interfaces, this doesn't seem obviously wrong to me, but perhaps I've misunderstood your point?

The communication about the development platform has been awful. Almost no one seems to understand what they're doing at all, and Microsoft needs to own that problem and fix it. But Peter Bright over at Ars Technica has written several pieces about how everything we know seems to fit together, and it seems to boil down to: (1) C++ isn't going anywhere, (2) there's a huge base of .Net developers, and .Net isn't going anywhere either, (3) there's also a huge base of developers more used to web-standards based tools, and we don't want to make them learn .Net or C++, so there will be tools for them too, (4) there will be a new common UI layer for all of these to improve consistency.
Do you choose what version of a web site you use? Generally no. You trust that whoever is running it cares enough to not break it for you, just like Chrome users trust Google to not break their web browser.
I'm the first to lambast Apple when they push some crap but Lion is a minor improvement to the previous incarnation. I don't see any of the things he mentions. Those crashes make it sound like has faulty RAM because aside from Chrome crashing once I've never had an issue.
I haven't had any of the problems mentioned. It's certainly been smoother than upgrading to Snow Leopard was.

I also think think the backwards scrolling will catch on - Windows will be copying this in about 5 years. More often than not, Apple's "weird" UI changes turn out to be good ones.
On average that means 1.2 Mb memory available/request, which isn't particularly boring either.
As oft-cited as it is and as much as I hate to resort to it, I think Robert Frost said it better:
"Two paths diverged in a yellow wood..."
You need a way to see what the other friends are buying. Let's say I set up a list of 10 items that I send to my 5 best friends for my birthday. They would like to know if one of them has pledged to buy me a certain gift, so that I don't get something twice. Of course, it should be made so that I can't see what my friends are planning behind my back.

The only problem with this is it would be easy for me to send an invite to another fake friend and log in with that e-mail to see what my real friends are doing.
Is there a way to buy a pdf version of the text? From the links at http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ I got:

CourseSmart: eTextbook rental. Amazon: Kindle version. Nook: eTextbook. not sure if I can download pdf cause you have to sign up to find out. Cafe Scribe: cafe scribe format. Kno: format only works on iPad.

Edited for formatting.
I upgraded my Macbook from Snow Leopard to Lion, then gave it to the girlfriend. She'd never used a Mac before. She didn't even notice that the scrolling was the opposite way round to other devices. Not until I pointed it out to her after she'd been using it for a while.

I now use a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 with Ubuntu instead. It's come a hell of a long way over the past few years.
Very interesting article, I can see some of our discussions in there. I think it's indeed fair to say most people could use less stuff in their lives (minimalism). Furthermore, it's honorable to strive for a simpler life in this age of the Internet and globalization. However, I also agree with the comments that the audience for this article is probably individualistic, unbound, single young men.

Both minimalism and stoicism are about constraints. Therefore, I do not agree with replacing books with a Kindle. A Kindle - like most Internet-connected mobile devices - represents abundance: an abundance of information. Hence I find this point a bit at odds with an information diet. Having physical books puts a constraint on what you can carry around with you (especially important when traveling). Also, which is an argument not heard enough, reading from books - especially hardcovers - has aesthetic value, and it's easier to remember the contents of the book.
I think it was "Do, or do not; there is no try"
Another vote for not seeing any of these problems.

Also, I think it should be mentioned that Lion cost me 10 bucks per machine to upgrade. Vista did not.
You can get too carried away with scalability though. I run half a dozen WordPress blogs, plus some static sites and email for multiple domains (with AV and spam filtering) within 500MB of RAM. I don't need to implement any caching because I already have sufficient resources.
"for the host" is key, really. the customer has to do a lot more work on a VPS than on a shared host, so I think shared hosting isn't going away.

Now, I agree with you that the shared hosting market will continue to move more towards constraining the user to a particular language within that shared hosting environment, as that allows the host to provide better service, but this has been true for a while. For the last 10+ years, if a shared-hosting provider allowed you to run an arbitrary binary, it only allowed you to do so as a second-class citizen, behind several layers of setuid wrappers and other (usually slow) security. Back in the day, if you wanted to run at reasonable speed on a shared host, you'd write in php, and use the supplied MySQL database, which conceptually isn't that different from what many of the language specific cloud providers do today.

The interesting thing is that this means shared hosting, usually with a well-supported but language constrained environment, is actually becoming the premium hosting option. VPSs, formerly the high-end option, are now the cheap stuff. Which makes sense; as a provider, sure, the VPS costs me more ram, but I can get an 8GiB reg. ecc ddr3 ram module for under a hundred bucks now. Ram is cheap. what costs me money is the support, and it is a lot easier to rent out unsupported VPSs than it is to rent out unsupported shared hosting.

If anything, with this new 'premium' image and advances in billing customs, I think we are seen a renascence in 'premium' shared hosting services.
"Avoid it where you can" is the wrong attitude. You do need to be cognizant of the issues around the license, though, and, for a commercial entity in particular, avoid it where it will infect something you don't want infected.

I love Linux and am fine with using it and its GPL'd code on my servers, but if I needed to extend an OS as a product (eg if I wanted to create the next OS X), I'd look at BSD long before Linux.
He's not a troll; he's genuinely pissed off about OpenDoc being a casualty and while he's right to be pissed, he comes off like a jerk to a room of people. Steve Jobs proves what good leaders know: you are not be doing your job if everyone loves you. Dissent is going to happen if you're on the right track.

The way Jobs handles this guy is brilliant and most public speakers get really rattled by people like this.

On the internet if you are attacked by someone who says you don't know what you're talking about, and they lay out a systematic description of you that is scathing, well that leads to flame wars and it leads to projects losing steam as well if the leadership doesn't know how to tackle dissent effectively.

This finesse and keeping a cool head during an attack against what you love is what separates the big players from everyone else.
I use Lion every day for at least 8 hours and I'm just not seeing all the problems this article talks about. There are problems and Lion is NOT ready, it's a good beta basically. It feels like the author got all of their friends niggles together in to one massive article where as in reality only a few niggles affect him.

I've had problems getting one of my side projects to work well with Lion (MiniTune, on the app store). There is currently a fix going through app store approval and things are slow I guess because Apple have a lot of apps going through the store atm.
That is how viaweb worked. All product pages were static, and once you finished editing, you would 'publish' and it would create the static files for your online store.
Get this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

It's called a caching plugin, but it also compresses and minifies stuff. Any site can benefit from loading faster. You can turn it on and let it go. It has sane defaults.
If you want a look at the long-term consequences of a culture of pervasive custom UIs, look at the current state of Windows apps. Every single app looks different in some minor way for no discernible reason. The sum of them on the desktop adds up to visual noise and clutter that is needless. I realize the differences in look are not intentional: GTK here, .NET there, each with a different layout engine.

But the sad fact is, nobody seems to care about it. There is no standard UI on Windows anymore, and it drove me nuts.

My favorite whipping boy in this argument is Trillian: http://pcworld.hu/apix/0911/trillian_astra.jpg
I never experienced any of the Vista issues either. That doesn't mean the issues didn't exist or that Vista was a good product.
Most of the pythonistas I know are more or less evenly divided between Mac and various flavors of Unix. Windows users are somewhat rare, but present. I was curious if other groups have different profiles.
Seriously, I feel like I read this on Signal vs. Noise in like 2006.
Couple of features I wish ST2 had:

1) Ability to rename files and tell that to git/any revision control while it does it.

2) Bundler integration to automatically add all bundles to the project so they can be searched on.
Why does Apple not have a UICalendar in UIKit?
Me either. He specifically mentions Steam, and I was just playing TF2 last night on my 2008 MBP with no issues.

I have not personally experienced any of the items that that he is reporting on either of my home systems, both of which are running Lion. This article smacks of link bait.
Been a windows guy since I found out what a computer is. Two days ago, I purchased a Macbook Air for school. This is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I don't have a single problem that the author mentioned. He probably upgraded an old Mac to Lion and is having all these problems.
I haven't had a single crash. Launchpad is a good thing to happen. There's no clutter when you are trying to look for an application.
If you are thinking about purchasing a Mac with Lion or upgrading to Lion, don't believe this guy.
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab navigate through the "stack" of recently opened views (files). Is this what you mean?
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I used Jekyll to generate my static content a few months ago/ Just type a text file, and then push it out to the server. I really thought that was cool.
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I'm pretty disappointed with Lion. Though, I don't see the problems this guy mentions... There are wireless problem on my iMac.. even after the update to fix the wifi problems... but I'm most disappointed with the complete "FU" Lion gives to multi-monitor support... using mission control is really really painful in a multi-monitor setup. Not to mention I don't actually get to use the new fullscreen apps because Apple hates that I have a second monitor I'd like to use (Just guessing here... why else would these blatant multi-monitor issues exist if not to intentionally hurt me?).
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His having had such problems with XP that he was looking forward to Vista [1] certainly supports that idea.

[1] Two assertions I have never, ever heard before.
NOTHING is forcing you to use it

This is the perennial argument of the feature addict, but it isn't really true.

I suppose you can ignore core language features if you never read or fix any code but your own. But in a few years this new stuff is likely to start cropping up in the source code of Drupal modules and Wordpress themes and the PHP frameworks, and if that happens there will be little choice but to deal with it.

The bigger problem is PHP contributor resources. When you add a core feature, that feature needs to be supported forever. The time you spend supporting it is time you could have spent fixing other things. Worse, the effect is nonlinear: Each new feature potentially interacts with all existing features, increasing your surface area for bugs. In extreme cases, you approach an event horizon where you can no longer ship anything.

The painful thing about the latter effect is that it happens even if the new feature almost never gets used. One might end up doing 20% more QA and maintenance to support 0.1% of one's customers.

You are absolutely right in one sense: If one simply abandons PHP altogether one need never deal with it again. The thought has occurred to me. Pity about the hundreds of thousands of existing customers, though.
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I agree with about a third of this. I like the new gestures, but some of the new UI animations are gratuitous. Launchpad seems pointless, and I've had a couple issues with Spotlight. One thing that REALLY bugs me is that pinch and zoom in Safari randomly stops working.
I'm not trying to be flippant, but should designers need to be able to code? If not, why not?
True but there's also a difference, you're not controlling a multi-billion dollar piece of hardware, perhaps containing astronauts; your tolerance for failure due to radiation can probably be higher for a hobbiest science experiment.
Agreed: One sunspot or gamma ray burst and your Nexus One will stop working very rapidly.

The "age" of rad hardened devices is pretty much limited by the processes used. Only simpler designs work well. The finer the traces, the more charge-related problems occur and the less reliable they will be. Also, there's not much interest in making it better because it works fine as it is.

If you take away the JVM, most of the OS, the graphics stack, comms layer and all the fancy abstractions from the Nexus One and Android OS, a 1MHz RCA 1802 is fine ;-)

Simple is good enough though when you read a bit of telemetry and you use low bandwidth RF comms.

Also the Nexus is a really bad idea as it contains FLASH, which if you fart any radiation near, it flips bits like crazy.
Everyone keeps framing this as a competitor to the iPad, but it's going after a market that is not currently buying tablets at all. People who can't afford an iPad or don't want one at the current price:features ratio. If this means anything for the iPad, it's that it may expand the android tablet market enough to attract app developers, making it more sensible to produce an android tablet with high quality expensive hardware in the future, when the app eco system is more mature.
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Things broken in Lion for me -
1) Flash is broken very badly in Google Chrome. Slightly lesser broken in Firefox.
2) Resizing a video playing window will show artifacts.
3) There is a lag in the desktop showing up after credentials are entered into the login screen.
4) A small number of apps appear to start automatically on bootup. I dont know if Leopard is trying to remember what I was running before I shutdown.

All things being said none of them is a major issue. Then again I was a Vista user back in the day and I was just as satisfied with it. My only nitpick with Vista was that copying directories with lot of small files was very slow.