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>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.

Little known feature: in Mac OS X just open the Help menu and type in any menu item you want to access. The menu will just point you to where that menu item is[1]. I always use it as a quick access when trying to accomplish any task that requires menu bar access; pressing Cmd+Shift+/, type in whatever I want, select the first item and press enter, hooray for global keyboard actions!

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/8QzXw.png
That just doesn't make sense.

Whether it's R. Scott Perry or GoDaddy's PR flack who're confusing DNS with WHOIS data, I'm not sure.

I've encountered throttle limits on WHOIS queries from numerous registrars, going back years. In the normal course of events, it's not necessary to query WHOIS a whole lot, but some legitimate uses (spam and other forms of abuse fighting, for example) are ... expediated somewhat by access to, say, contact information for a given network.

Some years ago I investigated caching whois clients and found jwhois to be reasonably good (it presumes information about whois servers which isn't always accurate) and both greatly speeds up response times and reduces repeat requests for a given entity.
People who think they can seduce a developer with a beer cabinet and a fuseball table don't deserve to get good developers.

What developers really want - and what they never get - is power, not free beer and a crappy football table. Power to decide what they are going to work on, power to decide what tools they want to use, power to decide whether they want to use a waterfall approach or the ubiquitous soul-destroying agile way.

One time developers were almost fully in charge of software projects. Nowadays, they are at the bottom of the wrung, further from the decision making process for software products than anyone else.

Give us some power over our work and maybe we'll think about working for you.
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I bet ZFS would already be there if not for license compatibility issues.
OT question. How healthy is the Twisted ecosystem these days? Besides it being stable and been around for years, how does the post-divmod horizon looking? Is the whole stack still being maintained?
I suppose you could argue the benefit of keeping it private is that it doesn't let their readers see all the personal drama and histrionics that could impinge their editorial/journalistic credibility e.g. it's their job to report tech news, not to be a platform to communicate their personal feelings about internal office politics.

I get the feeling that this article is precisely as a result of the 'new media' model of content production at sites like TechCrunch. The author rightly lauds this models dynamism and agility in the article on his personal site (that was linked in the article) but do you think something like this, that's so close to verging on unprofessional, would happen at a more conventional publication? Because I certainly don't.
The entire point of Siegler's/Carr's description of TechCrunch is that the writers publish their own work. Despite all the fancy(?) trappings, Tech Crunch is actually one big joint blog.

I wonder if anyone at AOL even _knows_ how to delete a post from TechCrunch. I guess they could always ask mike to yank that posting... :-)
Yeah I've heard plenty of horror stories about the Amazon Store and that link you provided is a good example, plus there are plenty of others out there too. Once the Amazon tablet arrives it may be worth looking at it again because everyone is obviously tipping it to be a huge seller thanks to the popularity of Amazon, so we'll definitely have a look.
Thanks for the advice.
Can someone tl;dr on this whole situation? I read the linked article but it doesn't provide a lot of background (basically, just takes a long time to say, "We will be seriously bummed if AOL fires Mike Arrington") on the situation. Why is AOL considering canning Arrington? The article says he said or did something they didn't like; what is that thing?
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Thanks, that was interesting. Not least the comments, including one from "Too Smart", which said:
"Being dumb is much better than having to play dumb. It does no good for a girl to be too smart," and suggested complimenting the girl for her sweet looks.

Sort of trollish? Maybe, but it also is true that 'good looks' show, and have immediate 'consequences', whereas the intelligence that's innate to us doesn't show, and the real challenge of intelligence maybe is to find a way to do something with it. Something that makes life meaningful. Which takes constant work, self-confidence, and daring.
"This site is about to change forever and we’re in the total fucking dark."

"If AOL tries to bing in their own Editor-in-Chief to run TechCrunch, it will be a colossal fucking mistake."

I can't believe that rant went live. Somebody is getting fired.
He’s starting an investment portfolio called CrunchFund. The worry is that TC will write stuff that is pro-"CrunchFunded" companies and slam their competitors.
True. Confident people are less likely to do unnecessary things out of self-doubt: testing themselves or trying to win external validation. Confident people are more likely to focus on the work that matters and more likely to be happy. Ergo happy people are more likely to be efficient.
I think that mac's Help menu is also an example of great UX. If you don't know where 'copy' is, just click on the Help menu and start typing 'cop..' and you'll be presented with a beautiful animation (sort of) that shows you exactly where that command is. The great thing about it is that it's system-wide and works in every single application (and for those who don't know: the key shortcut is Command+Shift+/, you can use it as a menu-item launcher!)
The correct way to deal with corporate income tax is to have corporations disburse their income, and to disburse the tax credits along with the income.

The correct way to deal with inflation is to to keep it low, and understand that inflation + capital gains tax creates an effective wealth tax, and that some wealth tax in the mix, along with income and consumption taxes, is a good thing. Inflation is not, and should not, be taken into account on term deposits for the same reason.
For me it is rewarding to here these findings written on paper. I am forever generating ideas and am continuously faced with awkard silences as people are not sure whether to laugh or congratulate me - it seems true, many people are unable to distinguish a good idea from a bad one (although the article talks specifically about 'creativity').

NB: In many occasions laughing maybe the most appropriate option!
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In my limited experience with academia, I would argue this article is more about recognizing one's ignorance in front of a problem, which is indeed one of the most important attributes of a good scientist : "i dont know how to solve this problem, yet".

This is in fact quite the opposite of a stupid position - which would handle the issue of being faced with a challenging problem with either militant ignorance "i don't know and I don't care" or uninformed arrogance "This? of course I know : <insert wrong answer here>"
OK, so AOL doesn't want the potential conflict of interest and that's all there is to this?
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Aren't booth babes not just a copy of car shows? I think in car shows they are doing this because of the "when you drive (buy) this car you can get all the babes in the world".

I also don't get it in sports. Why should a striptease-looking-girl give the winner the price (motorsport for example)?

I think booth babes are an expression of "I've got nothing interesting for you so I hired some babes to get your attention".
Well, according to the author himself, Techcrunch writers pretty much have free reign on what to write, without any posts needing "approval" before going live. Source: http://parislemon.com/post/9859907607/its-not-a-mirror-its-a...
AOL backed the fund.

It's exactly as much of a disaster as it sounds.
If they do keep it cross-browser this could be a really great thing.

I for one would be very keen to use something like this so long as it has a clean, well documented API and could run anywhere with a standards-compliant webGL browser. Raw webGL is pretty low level stuff, so a good engine/library would make a world of difference.

Done well this could be a good way for Mozilla to stay prominent.
Read the article, AOL already destroyed any sense of journalistic credibility. Right now they're just trying to get their side of the story out before AOL officially responds to its own f-up by shooting the messengers.
Hmm, was just reading "Good to Great" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great) about leadership, simplicity and doing what you're good at. Something tells me TechCrunch is not a great company if things are going to collapse this way without Arrington...

Oh, and something tells me little oversight for your writers leads to massive internal communication issues like these...
Why?

(I use news.yco... just wondering)
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You keep saying "without using a vm/jit" like it's something Apple did, but in reality, Rosetta is a JIT and not every Mac OS X binary for PPC was a Universal one (which, incidentally, caused a few problems when Rosetta's translation wasn't up to par, either).

Also, .NET is "portable" not just across Windows releases, but through the work of Mono large portions of it also work on Linux, and on other architectures via Linux as well -- so presumably, anywhere Mono or Microsoft's official .NET are compiled, .NET will run so long as no weird x86- or binary-specific things (like P/Invoke) are done. There are other problems with Mono, however, but those are for another discussion.
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i always like it when people paint a big "fire me now"-sign on their forehead. it's bold, it's cool and he will find another job anyway (or maybe start a startup instead of just bitching about them)
I think this ^_^ thing is likely to attract downvoters, if nothing else.
In a way I think that's the point. Siegler is so out of control at this point that he does the one thing TC has always done: if you can't figure it out, light a bomb under it and see what falls off.

Will it still be the old TC? Is this just about Arrington or is it AOL finally digging its heels in and trying to tame the beast? Or are there some kind of dark machinations behind the scenes that nobody's talking about?

The easy way to answer all of it is by writing something that nobody can ignore. AOL's reaction will show their hand. If they torpedo the article, that's that, If they ask Arrington to use his big swinging editor title for real to kill it then that's that. If they let it sit, then they're willing to let their own property hold them to the fire with the entire valley looking on. Either way, hand-wavy secret shadow dealings are out the window.

TechCrunch reports the news. TechCrunch makes the news. It was ever thus.
I started reading TechCrunch again yesterday because I heard Arrington would be fired. I don't like Arrington.

When I think of TC, I usually think of the CrunchPad drama, Mike's sexist comments, Mike complaining about the Google kid standing in front of his car and the CrunchFund conflict of interest.

There are other startup sites that don't have the same arrogance.
I agree, this wouldn't happen at a more conventional publication.

Open questions: Will this sort of thing become the new normal, as blogs become more mainstream and legacy publications take on some of their attributes? And would it be an improvement if it did?

Yes, TechCrunch should be about tech news and not about their office politics. But does publishing it disproportionately harm their credibility, or does not publishing it give them credibility they don't deserve? c.f. phone hacking by UK newspapers.
My job requires solving problems. The happier I am, the easier it is, because being worried about anything is quite a distraction. I'm not sure if I work harder when I'm happy, but it's certainly easier to get things done.
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About 4 months ago I took the StrengthsFinder 2.0 test to identify my strengths.

I was amazed at how accurate the results they seemed to be - although why wouldn't they be, I was taking a test about myself! It felt great to be re-assured that my strengths are recognized.

So I now have a list of 5 strenghts (known as themes), what do I do?

It would be great if I could simply enter these 5 strenghts into a website and see a list of people with similar profiles and see what jobs they do and see their feelings of job satisfaction.

Has anybody else taken this test? I would really like to hear if the results were accurate and what action (if any) people have taken to move to a potentially more rewarding job?
All of the old Divmod team are still hacking Twisted. It's still maintained, everything gets taken care of, and there's really no doubt about Twisted's future.
Some discussion on this already:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2962632
When I walk by a booth and some stunning girl - who in real life would never even look at me - comes out and says "hiiii!" in the most fake display of flirtyness imaginable, I instantly get the feeling that I'm being conned and I'll do my best to stay away from that place.

But there is a distinct difference in having BBs do actual presentations and having them answer real customer questions. I see nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn't get tacky. As a rule of thumb, I would advise tech companies that target nerdy types like me to get rid of generic BBs but to continue using good-looking but knowledgeable women to present stuff.
Can anyone get me the source (or swf file) of the animation?
Allow video to roll to see the actual animation.
That's a really nice site.
Just going to leave this here.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dunning%E2%80...
He starts off by claiming there's no hidden conflict of interest because Arrington has no editorial control over the site. Then this:

> Quite often, you never even see what he brings. But it permeates the entire site.

Which is it?
The extra one that should be mentioned (but only for used Macs, I suppose) is "what was the latest Mac Apple dropped support for in OS X, and how much newer is the Mac you're looking at?" I hear with Lion they burned the Intel Core Duo (i.e. 32-bit) CPU Macs. Which are probably still pretty solid machines if you get some other OS running on them.
> Ask why their company wastes everyone’s time and their investors’ money using
> people who provide no value.

There's a few statements there which aren't backed up by references. Which is cheaper: hiring extra people to staff a conference or flying out a bunch of $100/hr engineers, putting them up in hotels, and so on? I would think it's a waste of money to bring out the engineers. Not only in terms of expenses but also the opportunity cost of them not working for an entire week.

Of course, this depends on the audience. For something like CES, the average conference-goer will maybe pick up pamphlets and enter a draw. For that, hiring models who are experienced in trade shows and are comfortable interacting with people all day long are the better choice. For a conference which is far more technical and the audience will be interested in the nitty-gritty details of a technology, then only hiring models is likely a poorer choice. A hybrid approach might be worthwhile.
Why don't they integrate something like nailgun? Run a JVM in the background and redirect command line execution.

http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/background.html
If you try 1.3, the clojure.repl namespace contains some niceties:

http://clojure.github.com/clojure/branch-master/clojure.repl...
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I'd really like to see a timeline graph of:

(real startup stories) vs (product reviews/facebook news) over time

That's where you'll find the problem, I have a feeling it will be sloping in a certain direction.
Why does the link go to page 2 of the article?
hackerne.ws is registered anonymously.

Today hackerne.ws points to news.ycombinator.com. Perhaps tomorrow it will proxy news.ycombinator.com instead, and add browser exploit attacks to pages as they pass through.

You might say this is paranoia. But there is no cost to using news.ycombinator.com instead of hackerne.ws, so why take the risk, however small?
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I'm not particular fan of Arrington, but I do think TechCrunch has shown with all its negative AOL postings is that it's not beholden to the hand that feeds it.

You kind of jump all over the place with your points.

1. professionalism. Yes, they don't exhibit professionalism in the traditional sense. they don't mind airing dirty laundry and posting personal rant posts.

2. Then you get into the question of bias. I think it's clear that they don't pander or hold punches with respect to AOL, their parent company. The whole point of the rants over the past few days has been the fact that these are independent writers who don't feel any particular loyalty to this unaffiliated crunchfund. And they don't like the implications they do.
> One of them has never turned on. I have no idea what it's for. It has an icon above it that sort of looks like a piece of paper.

Totally off-topic, but have you happened to start a print job on your machine and look at that light on Windows? That's my closest guess.
Let me guess, you got a call from an "SEO expert" but declined to use his services. Then you were listed on Google as closed.
You can have a huge influence on culture and morale without ever lifting a single finger of editorial control.
http://crossbrowsertesting.com/ is an alternative that has proven very good and cost effective for me.

This does appear to be cheaper though. The local testing thing may be cool. Not sure how that will work.
Agreed. I'd suggest this irreverent style is cultivated/encouraged by Arrington. Would this have been posted under a more traditional editor's watch? I doubt it.
yeah, they are so serious and proud, these hackers. =)
Oh hey, this is awesome! I thought about doing something like this but then opted for the (ultimately more flexible) python script.
This is an issue that I've been interested lately.
I've been prototyping a yet-another-gl-context-lib (like sdl,glut), and this is one of the issues that I wanted to focus on.

On apple platforms, there is CVDisplayLink (osx) and CADisplayLink (ios), that triggers a notification on the vsync interrupt, which should give rock solid framerate-stability with minimum cpu-usage.

I've yet to find similar solutions to other modern platforms, which is a little disappointing. Though there is hope that vsync swapping is implemented little more sanely on other platforms.
Also dwm (windows compositing window manager) has some more knobs to tune, don't know if they help.

For the input-lag, handling messages in a different thread than rendering should work, but doesn't help with battery-draining.

And also the input that comes as messages (keys, mouse) have timestamps on them, not sure if they are granular enough though. So while it might come with lag, at least you should be able to simulate the game state so it makes sense with the inputs you've provided

I wonder, do media players on windows work with pure luck or do they attempt some kludges try to keep the framerate stable, without burning the cpu/battery?
These are good tips, here's how my conversation generally goes with other people's children:

"Hello, I'm Phil"
"Hi, I'm Maya"

Then just stare at one another until another adult speaks.
It will be great if you posted how popular each site is in China.
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> over priced, and under performing

For me they always performed well and the reduced need for maintenance saved me a lot of time (which might equal to money for some people).
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While there are many positive stories about Macs on the internet, I wonder how close to reality that is.

I only have one experience - a 3 month old Macbook's USB ports all stopped working. I went into the nearest Apple store and they said it had "water damage". There was no sign of water damage anywhere around the ports, and when I opened up the laptop there was no sign inside.

When I asked how they knew, I was told they "had a method of testing", which they were not going to share with me, and that was that.
100%. So how long for arrianna then?
Straightforward hosting too. I use them simply for 301'ing requests to my root domain to my dub-dub-dub site, that being hosted on Amazon S3. The pay as you go approach to that makes it very cost effective.
This reminds me of a story that I wish I could find again. It was in the Reader's Digest Young Peoples' Annual from sometime in the 60s. I read it in the 90s, so some of the advice ("don't go dutch too often") was truly perplexing, but this particular story was about a girl who played baseball.

She always sat and watched the boys play baseball. One boy in particular caught her eye. He asked if she wanted to play and she jumped at the chance. She wanted to impress him, so she pitched the ball hard and fast. With each player she struck out, he seemed less and less happy. Finally, it came her turn to bat. By this point, he was hardly paying attention to her at all. She swung out. "Oops", she said, "I guess I'm not doing it right". His eyes perked up and he came over to talk to her. "You should hold the bat like this", he said, "and don't swing so hard". She smiled at him. She could bat just fine, of course, but it's important to have priorities.

I wish I had a copy because I'd love to read it again. I suspect that the consequences of treating girls like pretty dolls, rather than the explorers, creators and leaders that they can be, will be felt for a while still; but I hope a few decades from now I get to read this article again and laugh at how things have changed.
I couldn't agree more! I ended up settling for a Dell XPS laptop instead, although I was contemplating buying a macbook pro and hope to get comfortable on it. I am glad I didn't go ahead with it, there are so many such simple but significant differences in a mac that just don't seem to justify spending time trying to get comfortable with a machine when I can easily get a better one at half the price and not have to spend any effort on getting comfortable with it.