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>Microsoft isn't making changes because they want to improve the user experience. They are trying to change the user experience in order to preserve their desktop monopoly by leveraging their new users and preventing a barrier of entry to other OSes.

You're looking for a malicious intent in everything Microsoft does. Isn't it possible that the Windows execs simply believe tha the ribbon interface is an improvement rather?

Your idea also just doesn't make much sense. If switching to the ribbon adds a large barrier to entry, then it's also a large enough change to discourage customers from upgrading to Windows 8.
Opera is one of the few applications that I am consistently happy with - and I don't limit my comparison to just other browsers. But I don't like the comparative dialog in general, so here's a few things that impress me:

-- Having the panel toggle set to the left edge of the screen is absolutely perfect. If I were to transplant one feature from Opera to Eclipse, for instance, that would be it.

-- Also, being able to set the tab cycle order (for alt-tab and when closing) is indispensable. Having to cycle in tab-bar order feels downright archaic.

-- The little features, like having notes sync between machines via opera link and integrated bit torrent, are similarly difficult to imagine going without.

There's plenty more...
There's a lot of useful advice here, and I'll do my best to action on this ...
The most important part will be to get enough discipline to apply the system - a challenge in itself!
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You're looking for this: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Although, there is one that prevents modification as well if that's what you're looking for.
The real competition to Backbone in this space in my mind is Sproutcore 2. At its core it's lightweight enough to be a drop-in replacement but has a vastly more sophisticated approach to handling dom updates, cascades of updates, data bindings and dealing with large sets of data.
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"Abuse of closures (are those real closures in JS anyway?) leads to spaghetti code."

Yes, of course they're real closures.
glimcat you have given me something to really think over.
The Mac OS X command open allows this directly:

$ open -a macvim filename.ext

which permits:

$ alias mvim="open -a macvim"

as a shortcut.
Thanks, I didn't know about the paste mode.
If you look at comments Steve Jobs made at one of the All Things D, you know that Apple wants the file system and finder gone from the user experience. It believes the apps should manage this complexity for you. You can see this embodied in iPhoto and iTunes and you see it in how Pages and Numbers now work in Lion
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The most recent of my ancestors to have immigrated to the US (I'm American) was Alexander Kerr (b 1694, Roxburghshire, Scotland) although there is some question as to whether or not he was the father of my 6th great-grandfather, John Kerr (b 1728, Williamsburg, VA). He was a Jacobite, convicted of treason in 1715 and given a choice of either hanging or America, so it's not like an abundance of entrepreneurial spirit drove him to emigrate.

Of course, there may be more recent immigrants in my family tree. I don't know where all of the branches go.
I stand corrected on immigration.

I thought of that approach to the science problem, but I just don't think you can hand the big "disqualify voters en masse" stick to the political world and not expect them to use it. It absolutely would start out as you describe, but the pressures to exploit the non-scientific views of any of the major political orientations would just be too strong, and any attempt to fix those problems with further rules cause their own problems. (The first one that leaps to mind is "kick out any question that 60% of the population doesn't get right", but I can still play a lot of nasty political games within that constraint.)
I recently started using a Mac about 6 months ago, and I'm surprised at how terrible some of the user experiences are. The Base OS is nice, but there's a lot to be desired by many of their applications. Finder is probably my #1 biggest complaint, because finding files is so hard to do with it.
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There is no crime here, even if the coins were originally stolen. Use your head, exactly as the government is not doing.
Are you compiling with any optimisations on? If so, did you check the asm output for your looping version? It's possible that the compiler detects this pattern and replaces it with a BSR instruction in the binary. Even if it doesn't do that, it's quite likely that the compiler is vectorising the loop for you. Which might explain why you're not seeing a speedup from BSR: not because BSR is slow, but because the compiler is making your other code fast.
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While I agree to some of your points (i.e. I'll go WTF?!? if someone would sell my crappy book), there's no need to go off the hook ;D
Have you heard of Spotlight? It's the button at the upper right of your screen. It indexes all your files.

If you are talking about files that belong to the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X: that's what locate is for, for example - try typing that into a Terminal window.
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More cynically, Labor Day is a day off from work, so Americans are usually barbecuing with their families and enjoying the last bit of summer rather than sitting inside and using the internet. They would have a bit more exposure waiting until Americans were back to work.
You're reading way too much into molecule's comment. He's merely commenting on the fact that the chosen hosting platform is explicitly designed for purposes that are counter to the chosen license. I see no judgements on the choice of the license itself. Can you explain how the comment implies that "everything needs to be on [programmers'] terms"?
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Thanks! Will update the document tomorrow to use that in case no one makes a better suggestion.
I don't use to use social networks, but as a hobby time "open source" coding project, I thought that post it to some place like this was a good idea to get some community feedback.
The article was about open source/free software. It's obviously important to the author, and unimportant to you, since you didn't even mention it once. That's why you didn't find any worth to the article.

I happen to agree with the author. I think that it's very important that all "platform" portions of the web are open source, and disqus is becoming a very important part of the web platform. But it's not so easy to create an open source disqus. The software is one thing -- but disqus is about the service as much as it is about the platform.
The point that (most) users just want to "find their files" and not "explore the filesystem" is a good one. That said I think both Apple and Microsoft have not found the optimal solution but instead seem to be stuck in local maxima.

I actually tend to use the shell for almost all file management tasks. But it seems to me to be an exercise in futility to try and make a file manager app that pleases both users who just "want to find their files" and those who want to be able to organize them in a specific way or for other reasons need more direct visualization of the underlying filesystem.
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This is also known as the Ancestors Paradox
git is a great vcs, and github a great hosting platform, even if you don't intend to use features like forking and pull requests
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I like the ribbon. I'm glad they're starting to use it more outside Office.
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I don't think it's malicious, I think it's self-preservation. It's a fact that their innovation has been strangled because of their strategy to circle the wagons around Windows. Look at what happened once they gave their engineers some breathing space: they created Bing, which is seemingly decent. Also, X-box and especially the Kinnect. Microsoft CAN do innovative things, the only problem is their corporate culture to protect Windows at all costs.

Changing the user experience, to me is a competitive enhancement. Do you think people actually cared about that much about menus that it needed to be changed? It's really doubtful. It's obvious that they are trying to differentiate themselves from the other OS's with it.

Ribbon was the only major new feature added to Office. Again, it's obvious they were doing this in order to give people a reason to upgrade, because Office is now fully-featured, with very little reason to upgrade. I'm still using Office 2003, and I could probably get away with using Office XP or 97.

In terms of discouraging current users, that's why they have the option to remove Ribbon for older customers, but they will default to the new way for new users. I'm still using the Windows 95 interface on Windows 7.
The biggest difference between All My Files and Libraries is that Libraries requires you to manually manage library paths if the file is not stored in default locations. All files shown up in Libraries still retain the hierarchy layout of original directories.

All My Files just show recently used files (newly added, recently opened) in Spotlight index categorized by kind (not filetype, e.g. all my .py .rb files are grouped in developer category) and they shown up as a flat list without any hierarchy.

I agree that Finder is a bad example, though. (Even though I don't think I need anything more from Lion's Finder.)
You seem to be saying that by the time they are
playing at a level where general strategic advice
becomes applicable, they'll already have learned
it. This is a little circular.

Can you point where the circularity comes in?

I said that by the time the advice that can be learned from reading TAOW becomes useful they would have already learned it from their "battle" experience.

What I am saying is that reading it in book form will at most provide an "aha - that's why this strategy I've been contemplating is good!" moment, rather than a new idea about how to play the game.

I've been playing sc2 on and off (mostly off) since it was released and am a diamond league player & most of the time the game is still more about paying attention and tactics rather than high level strategy for me.

And I am pretty sure I would have not have even got to this level were I not already a somewhat competent wc3 player.

Maybe if you play 10+ hours per week of sc2 every week since it came out you would not need years to master the game, but as a busy professional with little free time and many games I doubt you could ever reach that level in a matter of months without having played a lot of sc1/wc3 beforehand.

EDIT: take a look at http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Battle.net_Leagues#Lea... - 80% of players are at platinum league or less, where the game definitively requires more getting over basic tactics than high level strategy. I would bet you can win with a marine/zergling/zealot rush in almost every match in these leagues if you have sufficiently superior micro to your opponent.
As a person who is sympathetic to Buddhism, I appreciate what you're saying. But, what you are describing is still vulnerable to the "anesthetic defence": Can you (or someone) remain conscious after the administration of anesthetic, especially after training? If not, then consciousness appears to be a strictly physical phenomenon.

I haven't found any literature to suggest that consciousness thru anesthetic is the case. I don't deny that meditation may give you the impression that you have reached "deeper" levels of consciousness, but I don't think your conclusions are justified by the evidence.
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My great-great-grandfather was abandoned so I'm guessing 5 or more.
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You might want to read: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/02/please_dont_...

I'm sure there is a cottage industry of people who take creative commons works licensed without the non-commercial attribute and sell them. They aren't making a ton, but they do sell a few and it costs basically nothing to put it up on Amazon.
Relevant from last week: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/02/clone-wars-rise-of-the-fa...

“It’s this whole cargo cult thing, where people imitate the things you see on the surface. Foursquare does badges and they did them really well. And then all of a sudden everyone was like, ‘I want to add badges to my startup!’”
Banks lend out more money than they have. They report to their account holders that they have the money on hand. That is both fraud and a ponzi scheme.

This is the root of the entire problem. Until fractional reserve lending is frowned upon internationally, as money laundering is, this problem will not end.

Of course, there is no political will to end fractional reserve lending. Both politicians and those who elect them demand economic growth today, and in as much volume as possible. As we are seeing now, the results of a bust only serves to aggregates this problem while during a boom the system appears to be fully functional and healthy.

So build your companies for wealthy bankers.
I think for the purpose of that question you are immigrant yourself (left your comfort zone and moved for unlimited time).
Okay, okay, s/average person/person of average means .

Yes, I am a fan of government action against private malfeasance. The private health insurance industry, in the form that exists in the U.S., shouldn't exist.
> That said I think both Apple and Microsoft have not found the optimal solution but instead seem to be stuck in local maxima.

The Finder is not a maxima in any search space. It's always been terrible (where always == since OSX was first released) and it has not significantly improved over time.

As to Windows's explorer, I've find it regressing over time: I have not found 7's explorer to be superior to 2k/XP's under any metric, instead it's more confusing (menubar randomly hiding and showing), it defaults to completely pointless and insane options (Burn as one third of the sparse toolbar? Really?) and the search UI is a severe downgrade from XP's once you get to your results.
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I just had to agree with this comment - Finder might just be one of the worst parts of OSX. In my opinion the Ribbon UI may be one of the biggest innovations in UI Microsoft did during the 00's (Metro UI = 10's?). The amount of space that the Ribbon UI provides for the main window (way more rows than the old UI) and the few amounts of clicks needed to perform your actions make it crazy efficient!
Funny, when I had the same concern, my next thought was "Well then it's time to start writing my apps in Javascript".
To be fair, I assumed the same thing that the parent did.

The reaction came from "The guy just said he doesn't want to allow forks or changes" so what does it matter if github has a feature that allows it. The button isn't a licensing agreement like CC, GPL, etc are.
There's a new add-on for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2-click-like/

Sweeet :-)
You can buy the wicked laser but to use it out side you need to fill out a paper work:

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Really?!

FDA has this to say:

"Laser lights beamed at aircraft also have FDA concerned. Incidents associated with laser lights beamed at aircraft have tripled in a 4-year period since December 2004, when the Federal Aviation Administration began tracking reports. In 2008, pilots reported a total of 950 cases of laser light striking an aircraft or illuminating a cockpit."
Let's just say that my family name has been attested in the same geographical location for over 2000 years... ;)

Also, what about families that have changed countries without moving? For example, I live in Croatia, but was born in Yugoslavia. My grandfather was born in Austria-Hungary empire and died in Croatia, never moving across a border in his life.

Also, I would move and emigrate on a moment's notice, but these days it's much more difficult than it used to be...
I actually had a pretty decent idea of the userspace graphics stack going into this, and I still understood very little of this article.. It seems to be more of a bunch of notes rather than anything that's supposed to be helpful to someone.
As said by dirkdeman, there are other possible structures (also "vereniging onder firma", etc.)

In any case, investment are investments, not debt; while a proprietor in NL may (depending on the structure) be personally on the hook for any unpaid bills (to e.g. suppliers), you have to get really sleazy before the investors can demand their money back.

Talk with someone who knows Indonesian law, though. IANAL, and the Dutch and Indonesian laws are probably not exactly the same anyway.
That's a very nicely designed blog. Kudos to whoever did it, Jeff.
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'web intelligencia'? i think you could have made your point without a cheap us against them anti intellectualism aside.
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Unfortunately, the remote features require a GUI version of vim. Personally, I prefer to run vim in a tab of my terminal.
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The submission itself is "us vs. them." What did you expect?
The poll doesn't fit me exactly. I made the count along my maternal line and chose the appropriate choice, but I have lived overseas for two three-year stays, so I know something of the immigrant experience and definitely know a radically different culture and language. And my wife is an immigrant (so she is at 0 generations by the poll rules) and that influences my daily life quite a lot.

My son, also an HN participant, and a would-be start-up founder, has similarly lived overseas even though he now lives in his country of birth, and he plans to move in another few years to another country none of us have ever lived in.
One of the comments on this article referred to this long but very insightful article.

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operati...
Same here for me, but it takes at least one more generation to get back to the U.S. Civil War.
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I think the OP brings up a good point here in that Mac OS X users and Windows users are two very different types of users who both use their computers in different ways. I imagine the Mac OS X user has a higher base level of skills than the average Windows user (just based on a shear numbers game Mac OS X 10% of market, Windows 90%).
Pfff. There are two types of agreeing to deals. One's for someone trying to use legal tricks to force you to do something unreasonable. Telling me that I may not look to see how something is done is not acceptable and is only "agreed to" because judges don't grok what a purchase is.

Don't expect people to be bound by forced promises.

If I was in a different societal context where I could say 'No', and you know, shoot someone if they got pushy about it, then I'd be truer to my word. But given that I can't there's no choice but to lie - I'm certainly not going to stop learning just because someone told me to to preserve his market share.

Also, the same thing applies to DRM removal, etc. Once I buy a product it's mine - be thankful I didn't just warez it in the first place.
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For Firefox there's an add-on, take a look:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2-click-like/

It supports five or six like buttons.
Dang, Peteris! You and James just keep cranking it out. Looking forward to Testling.
I think this only works if you know which file you are looking for.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I start up Finder, there's no way for me to start from the root directory. So already, I'm not sure exactly where I am. Then when I start drilling down into directories, etc, there's only one of 4 views that will give me some sort of indication where I am, but not really. I have to concatenate all the directory names together in my head, as well as scroll left and right depending on how deep I am. I can't just cut and paste a location into the terminal window, and I find this really really annoying. It almost verges on useless to me.
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I think web intelligentsia and putting designers in quotes is way beyond anything in the submission itself, but on these things everyone's mileage will probably vary. That aside, I find your argument to rather odd. I would extrapolate from that general idea of responding in kind that if someone is rude to you on someplace like HN, that it would be reasonable to expect rudeness in return, perhaps even that is justified.
Git considers the first line of the message the "shortlog", and not surprisingly, Linus has a very accurate, succinct shortlog. The git tools make it very easy to get reports using just the shortlog. So you can have what you want, those who want long logs have that. Best of both worlds.
1. You win. This contribution make me think there needs to be an open source awards show. Your "best contribution to a web platform in 2011" nomination is in the bag.

2. PG should be calling you with an invitation to the next YC class, not for this, but for everything you guys have accomplished in the last year.
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What about an add-on designed with the only purpose of implementing this 2-Click solution?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2-click-like/

:)
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Note that there can be other explanations than "willingness to pick up and leave your comfort zone completely". Immigrants may have a much higher "need"/want to: show their worth, climb to another social class, escape from the confines/limitations of the "ghettos" (psychological as they may be) typically associated with immigrants of same origin, etc. IOW, it just may be that the pain of working on a startup is more bearable than something else, and therefore an acceptable "escape route" ... And, FWIW, I voted "0" :)
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Wow, are you sure you're talking about the Mac OS X Finder :-) ?

-) This option makes navigation much easier, I don't know why it's not turned on by default:

http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/findertip1.htm

-) You can drag any file or folder into a Terminal window - simply drag and drop. You can also simply "Cmd+C" a file, go to Terminal and do "Cmd+V". The absolute path of the copied file will be inserted.
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