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Just for kicks, here's a (terribly ugly) pipeline that will display the contents of .nls and `ls`, with duplicates removed:

ls | cat .nls - | column -t -s: | sort -r | perl -ane 'print unless $x{$F[0]}++'

and then obviously just echo "dirname: description" >> .nls to append to the file.

I would be interested in seeing a better pipeline, one that doesn't need perl/awk/ruby/what have you to remove the duplicates correctly.
My first website was a combo package from them, which included a domain name.

When I had my own server and tried to transfer the domain there was no way for me to get them to release the domain name.
If I cancel my hosting account, then I would have to wait until the domain expires and becomes available again, so that I can then re-register it with another registrar, was their reply.
No matter what I tried I couldn't get them to let me transfer the domain name away from them or even update the nameservers to make it point to the new server.

Things surely have changed by now but because of their policy I lost a well established domain name, so that I haven't touched their services ever since.
I'm using xterm with Solarized and it works pretty well. gvim is indistinguishable from vim in a terminal. I haven't observed any broken apps.
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> why are they going into the menu for rotating

Some quotes from the article regarding that (2 separate quotes; there was text between them):

"To make changes to the photo, you have to use commands located in two places."

"In iPhoto the same option is not so easy to find. If you click the Edit button and look on the Quick Fixes tab, you’ll find a Rotate button. But clicking it rotates the selected photo (or photos) counterclockwise only. If you guess that Rotate options are on the Edit menu, you’d be wrong. Instead, you have to look on the Photos menu, which is where the Rotate Clockwise option appears.

In Windows Live Photo Gallery, just about every task and command is available from the ribbon. The design allows you to pick a tab and then scan its contents to see commands that apply to the task you’re trying to accomplish. In iPhoto, you have to learn where each command lives.

A good example is the option to use the current photo as your desktop background. In Windows Live Photo Gallery you’ll find a Set As Desktop button at the left of the Create tab, or you can right-click on a photo and choose Set Desktop Background. In iPhoto, that option isn’t available on a right-click menu. Confusingly, it’s not available from the menu that pops up when you click the Share button at the bottom of the window; you have to use the pull-down Share menu instead."

> And if you're on new-enough hardware to have real multitouch (the past what, 4 years?), they've already seen the gestural approach because it's been pushed at them from every angle multiple times - rotate 2 fingers = rotate picture. And that works from the editing perspective, the single-picture, and the bunch-o-pictures list. Zero clicks!, since they seem so focused on clicks as a measure of UI design.

Using the multitouch gestures is not quite that obvious. I've used mac for a little over a year and I've never used any other gestures than the two-finger scrolling. Besides, clicking on a single button is just simpler than rotating your fingers (assuming you want to rotate the image 90 degrees).
> should have gotten this thrown out by the editor

Would happen on a print magazine, where space is limited, but on a website there is no such thing. Besides, Ed Bott generates pageviews and that's their performance metric.
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This is something I'm very interested in addressing. What documentation is missing? What is it that you feel is needed for people to get started and stay hooked?

For example, is www.webnoir.org filling this need in the web space? Would a better clojure.org with Noir like examples fill the gap?
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I am familiar with stack traces, and it's certainly true that with enough experience you can solve a majority of errors just by analyzing the stack trace. But I seemed to run into strange edge cases where the stack trace never mentioned my source file, or would only say line 0. (You mentioned that that could be because I sent the function to the REPL, which is something I never considered! I will definitely have to go back and check, but I think that there were times when that was not the case.)

> What would you suggest to improve the debugging/error situation?

The easiest possible improvement, and something I might write soon, is a simple stack trace parser that would extract only the relevant information. If Clojure errors said "Probable error at this line" first, and then gave me the stack trace after, that would be a lot more user friendly, especially for beginners. And it seems pretty straightforward to parse out lines that have the current file name in them, etc.
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I guess his point was that catering to students is just one way to solve their own problems; basically, they need to stop whining and put in some effort: step up pay, or training, or process, or hire two people to do the job rather than having one guy work 80 hours. Hiring students was just one example where it requires extra effort from employers to get good employees, effort that (it seems) they aren't willing to put in.

I was especially disappointed seeing Shah on this bandwagon of whining, since I mostly like his blog and writing. But no, apparently he too prefers 40k wage slaves that make him rich but who he only needs pay enough to survive but not enough to become independent. (I have first-hand experience with how reporters twist and turn words so maybe the article misrepresents what he's saying, but even in the most favorable interpretation of his words I don't really see how that could have happened without the reporter straight out fabricating a quote).
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"the machine must present a single address space which can be considered non-volatile"

That doesn't solve the problem, or it is at least an oversimplification. How do you ensure that you are only writing out valid states, and not some state that is temporarily invalid (i.e. in the middle of some operation)?

I'm sure there's an answer for that, but that seems like totally the wrong direction. That's what a DBMS is for, and/or a modern filesystem with DBMS-like features.

I think that DBMSs and the fancy features in new filesystems are underused by applications. Perhaps that could be improved through greater standardization of the way to access basic ACID guarantees. Or, perhaps OSes should have these things more built-in and the lower-level APIs that are tricky to get right should be more obscure.

In any case, an oversimplified notion of persistence does not improve matters. Virtual memory just seems like the wrong place to solve these problems. How do you do a "rollback" of some operation when it's a direct modification of the in-memory state? (Note that a rollback is not the same as going back in time -- a rollback surgically undoes a single operation without affecting concurrent operations). If nothing else, a program bug can do a lot more damage (sometimes subtle and not detected for a while) within its own address space than it can to data already held by a separate program (like a DBMS or the kernel's filesystem) with its own consistency guarantees.

I think one of the most common software engineering mistakes is to not understand the role of a DBMS in application development, or to drastically oversimplify it (usually leading to a bad reinvention of the DBMS). The reality is that most applications would be greatly simplified by using a full DBMS (typed data, etc.), and almost all applications would be greatly simplified by relying on ACID guarantees.
Thanks that will help a lot(although I mostly use eclipse these days) but for smaller tasks having to reopen gvim with more files or opening new files can get annoying(also the lack of project/file groups checking).
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Another report on the same study, from Jan. 2001 in the Harvard Business Review: http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-hbr-list-breakthrough-ideas-for-2...

Here, the authors identify "making progress" as the single best predictor (of a number that they looked for) for job satisfaction, beginning a circle that is closed with the NYT article.
Actually, I would hope that they would pursue those cheating for 1000's just as hard as those who cheat for 1000000's, corporation or not.
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ClojureScript won't have the startup time of the JVM and is probably better suited for command line scripting.
Just some observations:

-I can't seem to find any benefits that this provides beyond at traditional Comparison Shopping Engine (e.g. Google Shopping). Why would I want to use this over the existing ones?

-After clicking through on a product I ended up on a product which was out-of-stock ( http://www.bluefly.com/just-a-cheap-shirt-cyan-and-brown-pla... )

-While I have the heading and subheading font installed (Raleway) it is isn't very readable, at least on Windows.

-Most searches I put in had 200 pages of results, some way to most effectively view results would be awesome (infinite scroll, filtering)

-The link to click-through was often slower than I would have liked, this can add a big drag on the shopping experience

The idea of a higher end comparison shopping engine specifically for apparel is a good one. The question is how can you improve the overall shopping experience to make it compelling for your users.
I admire your attitude, in trying to make quality software instead of the shovelware and scamware we all know. Making money is important, but that doesn't mean you have to throw out all your standards as engineer just to squish out every last penny.

Sure, with enough marketing, spinning, social engineering you can make anything sell well, but if customers feel screwed they'll eventually avoid you like the plague. At least that is what I believe.

(yes -- I know you can also state the opposite "there is a sucker born every minute, have suckers as your target audience". But I don't work that way)
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Usually that kind of payment system is there to avoid having to pay significant per-transaction fees, which are especially onerous for low-priced stuff.
I'm baffled he finds it natural to set the desktop wallpaper from the "Create" menu on Windows while he is also confused it's not in the "Share" button on the Mac... It confuses me more it is in the "Share" menu.

Obviously, setting your desktop background is all about creative sharing.
Happier people don't bother to work. Because they are happy where they are. They don't need more. Greedy people work harder.
Microsoft just treats each application as an OS,like sub-OSes integrated in one big OS, then it is call Windows.
I think that's the problem. It's very tempting to abstract gender out of the picture by talking about the vacuity of sales staff in general, but gender is involved. There is an established narrative of women as pretty but useless, and the women in question are being fit handily into that role.

Look at it this way: if you talk to enough sales guys who don't know anything, you'll write off sales guys as being useless. But if you talk to enough booth babes who don't know anything, you'll write off attractive women as being useless.

Booth babes aren't defined, like sales people are, by their goals or their training, but simply by being pretty women. That's the only function they serve, and consequently the level that they're judged at. That's the danger here, that it's not just a matter of salespeople getting a bad rep, but establishing an entire gender as useful only as eye candy at conferences.
The missing # key is annoying, although it's not the kind of thing that would make me change operating systems. Apple's chosen shortcut for the '#' character is Alt+3 which is frustrating for terminal users who use Alt as the meta key—for example, it makes it hard to enter channel names in Irssi.
All that is mentioned here so far as I can see is a method for getting focus information coupled with a virtual retinal display. How are they proposing to get the image on the other side of the arbitrary thing you are supposed to be able to look through?
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That is incorrect. It needs the JVM to compile, but once compiled it's pure JavaScript... so the startup time would only be node's.
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Thats entirely a different problem, as of now we are completely focused in providing browsers across OSes and Mobile platforms with a very easy to use UI!
TechCrunch's days were numbered the day Arrington sold it to AOL. The honeymoon rarely lasts more than a year, so this is right on time.
Honestly you should talk to a lawyer rather than getting an opinion here. Although before you do you should ask yourself:

a. Do you feel like you are you in the right? Or are you using a name that belongs to someone else (even if they didn't register the domain) -- if the show was on the other foot how would you feel?

b. Even if you are in the right do you want to take the time and expense to defend a pet project? This is what's known as an "opportunity cost".
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Thanks for posting this. I'm working on a new product design and am constantly struggling with the question of how many controls to keep visible at all times and how many to hide behind clicks. There is a difficult tradeoff between functionality and keeping the UI simple.

I've been erring on the side of hiding (and if possible eliminating) less used controls. And this comparison pushes me more in that direction.

I find it quite funny that the author "concludes" that iPhoto looks more cluttered than the Microsoft design, especially with the last screenshots on the last page[1]! In iPhoto, you can clearly see the image you are editing, whereas in Photo Gallery, the hovering menu is hiding part of the image. Ironically, he spent the rest of the article criticising iPhoto's dropdown menu controls in favour of Microsoft's convenient ribbon layout.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apple-vs-microsoft-which-user...
Because of incentives, because the actions that created the capitals gains in the first place were already taxed, to be able to correct for the self-employed who incorporate vs those who don't (situation of getting dividend on 5 stocks Coca Cola is very different from being a sole proprietor and paying yourself effectively through dividend), to keep the administration sane (how can you smooth a windfall like selling a house? You'd have to do it over 10 years or so, how are you going to keep track of that? What if the person moves, across the country or abroad? etc...)

None of it is as simple as it looks - there is a reason we ended up in the situation we are now. Nobody likes it, the IRS itself the least. It's not a matter of saying 'oh let's just start from scratch'. (See also: 'second system syndrome', which applies to law just as much as to software)
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And it's gone... 404.

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Yes, all of them are. Apple notebooks are the worst at running Windows.

You don't have to type product codes -- you can install without one and copy/paste from a text file works fine once you're all set up. You don't have to insert DVDs, Windows installs fine from a USB stick (except on Apple notebooks, so there). Installing Microsoft Security Essentials will shut up any AV warnings.

Besides, you don't even need to install Vista to get an upgrade copy of Windows 7 working. A Google search would have told you that.
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Although it is annoying, a small coffee shop like that MAY have a couple of searches a week that would bring up that listing. Article makes it sound like they are losing out on thousands of $$$
I'll be the first to admit that I know very little about the internal structure of TechCrunch in particular (and AOL's web properties more generally) but this article strikes me as being enormously counter-productive.

What benefit is there in airing all your dirty laundry like this? Publicly 'shaming' AOL into backing down?
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I think you're mistaken in the assumption that greed and happiness are mutually exclusive.
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Agreed.

However, there is some kind of a point here, which is that applications shouldn't be forced to deal with all kinds of error-prone methods. For instance, I think that filesystems are more low-level than most applications should have to deal with, and the hierarchical structure more often represents some arbitrary imposition than a useful organizational technique. It's 2011, and linux still doesn't offer a stable filesystem with snapshotting/versioning, CRCs, atomic operations, etc. Soon btrfs may be here, but it will be years before it's widespread enough for application developers to count on it, and the basic posix APIs won't make it easy to actually make use of these things.
Do you want to appear more wanted by other colleges, or would you like Columbia to want you? Consider taking a professional writing course.

Also, if you're an entrepreneur, what do you expect to learn at university? If you have the inclination and drive to actually launch a startup then you may be better off with self directed learning. Just make sure you cover the boring(to the uninitiated!) bits.
If you start a company and then pay yourself part of the earnings, there is a risk too that the company goes bankrupt. If you specialize in an industry and get a paid job, there is a risk too that you dont find a job or get laid off. I dont see how the risk of capital investments is any different to other kinds of investment that would justfy it to be taxed differently. A better explanation would be the higher capitalization of the groups lobbying for a lower tax for that income group.
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Maybe the author is motivated by their personal reputation?

What benefit is there to keeping it all secret?
I'm just surprised that they actually published that on TechCrunch. I would be even more surprised if AOL doesn't have that deleted within the hour.
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Great advice, thanks for the insight.
Would love to look at Freemium but flat out working on other improvements and functionality at the moment to include it, but here's an idea - do you think (in your opinion, and anyone else who is reading) that doing a short-term promotion here and reducing the app to $0.99 (the lowest price I can make it, because it's not possible to swap between paid and free in Android Market) would be enough to entice people who read about the app here to try it and provide reviews to help get the word out?

I'll certainly spend time working on the wording in the Market listing to see if we can get moved up closer to the top, or at least start appearing on the first page and I'll also check out that link.
Thanks again for your feedback, I really do appreciate it.
EDIT:

I think that in the future, the following phenomena are likely to proliferate:

- high-res satellite and airplane imaging of the globe

- public geotagged photos, including compass bearing

- Google Street View road images

- public security cameras on public streets

All of this data can be integrated using software like Microsoft's PhotoSynth, to stitch together a gigantic 3D model of the real globe.

Then, people with Voxel Vision will be able to look around at streets and landmarks that are interesting but physically occluded.

======

Edited to rise a relevant comment from further down the thread. Original answer follows:

Jon Rodriguez here, project lead.

Your question seems ambiguously worded.

I will answer both possible interpretations of the question:

===

Q:

"How do you propose to do the sensing task of seeing inside real world objects so that that data can be rendered?"

A:

The source of content depends on the application.

1:
put a virtual screen at distance infinity, so in a boring meeting you just look far away to check your email

2:
for telepresence surgery, use a MRI to do the 3D imaging of the patient's interior

3:
Google Street View images allow you to see to any point in a city, even if buildings are between you and it

4:
educators create custom 3D models of physical phenomena they want the kids to vividly explore, such as a 3D model of a human neuron, or a 3D geological model of the Earth, or the interior of a grape.

Etc.

In particular, virtual reality games and worlds can be easily shown this way, as long as the game artists take the extra effort to give their models interesting interiors.

===

Q:

"How does a Heads Up Display that is in front of a real-world object (like a brick wall) then project a virtual image that appears to be behind that object?"

A:

This is where the adjustable lens on the virtual retinal display comes in.

By properly decollimating the light from the VRD's screen or laser, you can give that light an arbitrary "equivalent optical distance".

Despite the fact that the light is originating at 2 cm from the eye, it can appear to originate at 2 km from the eye, in that 2 km is that distance that the eye will have to accommodate to to put that light in focus.
> TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over

Nope, still dramatic and hyperbolic as ever!
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I've learned about a lot more than physics from Feynman. I also see little evidence that classes are taught by experts in their subject matter except at the university level, and even then only rarely.

But let's post a link to Khan's comments/rebuttals to the claims of the NAS article you cited.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2633796

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2634324
Well but this isn't written in CoffeeScript. This is what I was saying: CoffeeScript can work alongside Node.js but can't access the filesystem. It might be good in its own right for DOM scripting and such but it doesn't open any more doors than Javascript.
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What's wrong with just pressing the rotate button more than once? When I see a picture that has is rotated wrong, i just think "rotate". Thinking about left? right? needs more brainpower, and finding the small icon also. I'm faster just hitting the button until I'm satisfied with the rotation. It's EXIF rotate anyway, it doesn't change the picture quality.