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The "hand vs scroll" issue is a problem. I asked a few of my friends but the results were 50:50. That's why I'm still not sure which one to make the default.

Anyway, thank for your suggestions!
As noted below, his versions (or contributions) to most of those software projects were all pretty trivial. And listing "projects" like hexdump is kind of cute -- it's 211 lines of code.

The one claim that stood out there -- the one that gave a really testable statement that would have surprised me if true was, "ESR is the second biggest lisp contributor to Emacs after RMS". I thought, hey, there'd be a surprise, so I decided to run cvstat on the emacs lisp subdir:

- RMS contributed the 2nd most code to Emacs' Lisp with 217542 lines of changes.
- ESR contributed the 39th most code to Emacs' Lisp with 6367 lines of changes.

The reason that I don't like the guy so much is because he claims to speak for a movement, that by his own prognostication is a meritocracy, and I don't feel like he has the credibility for that. Combined with the fact that I think a lot of what he says is bozo-riffic, I'd prefer him step back from his self-appointed spokesman position.
"Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality."

Apple's genius is that almost everyone has this affliction as for what clothes they wear, car they drive, house they live in, and you can make money applying it to the technology they use.
Disclaimer: I own one iBook, 2 PCs (Windows) and 1 EEE laptop (Linux).

This article is so woefully ignorant and presumptuous; it really takes away from what could have been a hilarious tongue-in-cheek piece.

Everyone is certainly entitled to their own rantings, opinions and preferences, but attempting to back up said opinions with unfunny blanket statements and ignorance doesn't really help anyone or provide any sort of entertainment.
I don't think that's entirely true. People might talk (brag?) about their latest results but if you want to compare notes on methods it can get extremely frustrating.
If you still want to try with panoramic photography, here is a very short tutorial on how to stitch them:

http://panoye.blogspot.com/2008/02/tutorial-panoramic-photos...
Whenever I think about a "next generation" OS, I tend to imagine something like Squeak. I'm glad the SqueakNOS guys have decided to go with an underlying Linux kernel instead of doing it entirely from scratch.
Hand mode needs to be default.

It's a commonly accepted UI paradigm that the mouse needs to be 'engaged' (via a button press) in order to have a functional effect on the UI. In the non-engaged mode mouse is only used for indicating otherwise actionable UI elements.
You're right, I should make it more visible... There is a google custom search field on the homepage (at the bottom of the right column). Or on the menus: Panoye -> Search.
"People like much more to put useless photos of their cats on flickr."

Right :) In fact this is why it is an "app", not a "startup". I have no idea on how to bring it the masses and/or how to make some money from it.

It is still a hobby project and it will probably remain so.
Maybe I got it from the same source (POET?), because I describe GUI's as Fisher-Technic activity centres.

But I mean it as a compliment: clear affordances and immediate feedback.
That really only applies to the file/script accessing the map. If you're using .hosts files and mod_rewrite, you can just interpret /country/city/panorama-name as parameters and call the maps API from a central script located in the root.
It seems to me that he doesn't like macs because they arent like Windows/Intel machines. The whole mouse button argument shows that he's criticising something he hasn't really used. When I first started using a Mac I missed it because I'd never used anything different but now I don't even notice.

His whole article is a reem of comment designed to provoke, with no facts to back up his claims.

By the time I got to this bit where he calls mac users "superficial semi-person assembled from packaging" all I could think was what kind of moron can get a job at the guardian nowadays.

I use the best tool for the job I'm currently doing and in some cases that's my mac and others my PC.
I like it a lot. A couple of critiques:
- I had to look for what the app was. Yeah, the explanation is on the right, at the top of the sidebar, but I'd almost like to see it above the google map on the page.
- I'm not terribly keen on the font choices throughout the page... specifically what's bothering me is the character spacing, most noticeable on the right sidebar.

On the whole, I think it's a brilliant idea, and at least to my knowledge, isn't being repeated anywhere else. That said, I'd focus on layout and design, and accentuate the social aspects of the site where I could.
"...glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults..." is spot-on accurate. But not the way he means.

Can anyone doubt that his own PC contains a fair number of photos, movies, music, games, etc? Guess what?
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You could probably use a FrogPad instead. That keyboard looks huge for such a small device.

http://www.frogpad.com
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Very apt that this is in the Guardian. A newspaper for haters.
> looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.

My first mac was a used ibook. The original owner was an author. She wore the letters off the keyboard and wore the hard drive out. Writing a book. This one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0977351475
You can just get the API key for your domain name, http://panoye.com/, and it will work for all directories in that domain.
How do you think it IS accurate, then? I'm curious to hear what you have in mind.
Yeah. I mean, I like a lot of the innovation on the web, but that's just it - innovation. I see a lot of these apps wasting resources to look and feel like a desktop, and I wonder - why? The Internet can do more than that. It's open to direct URL access. You can make a site that does one thing and does it well and have it much more convenient and accessible.
don't even get me started on copy/paste on iPhone ;)

Especially since said rant contained lots of code and that's nearly impossible to type with the iPhone autocorrect in the way. Grarrghghghg
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This is fucking stupid stupid stupid. I have the same complaint for it as I have for Processing. The code should document itself and should not be cryptic.

Right from the tutorial:

// connect sine oscillator to D/A convertor (sound card)
SinOsc s => dac;
// allow 2 seconds to pass
2::second => now;

Why not something like:

SineOscillator connectTo: digitalToAnalogConverter.
2 seconds wait.

Why do programmers continue to create cryptic-looking languages? Saving a few characters doesn't buy you anything except confusion.

Like look at the functions: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/language/func.html

Why should a sound/audio engineer be concerned with the return type of a function? Have one simple rule: every function returns something. Static typing makes sense for optimization but I would expect at least some minimal level of inference.

Yet another language designed for creative work that's hindered by the illogical mind of a programmer.
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The only thing I found interesting about this article is that there are British versions of the commercials. The rest of it was what pays the bills for (some) journalists - completely uninformed bullshit.
I can get along on a Mac with only one mouse button, but I find that I really do prefer a three-button scroll mouse, which looks very out of place while I use it with my iMac. :)
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You want me to use Smalltalk? OK I downloaded Squeak and plaed ayound with the cute MINI-OS-GUI-platform-thing.

Ok very different from what I had done before. Seemed to make easy stuff hard. Of course that could just be me not being used to that type of programming.
How long does it take to learn Squeak, I mean to really learn effectively?

Is there a way to use Smalltalk as an ordinary programming language?
Is there somewhere I can go to download and get going fast?
I actually find the writer quite funny, his style is to stretch the "truth" much like Colbert does. Check his TV show about TV shows: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=charlie+brooker#
It is rather simple to poke fun on operating systems, be it Windows, Linux or OSX. It is also rather simple to poke on hardware in Macs versus PC's.

There are 2 things that makes me want to buy another Lenovo Thinkpad the next time (I am currently on an older X40 thinkpad): Hardware specs and Ubuntu.

The hardware specs on a price-comparable Lenovo/Mac makes the Lenovo win. Granted it may have less cache, but it doesn't run hot and have to clock down the CPU (I'll bet this happens on the AIR macbooks). Lenovos have better screen resolution (but OSX has the cool rendering patents). I am amazed by the stability of my current Thinkpad.

OSX is not interesting enough for me to warrant the more expensive hardware. Remember, most of my day goes on inside an emacs-session window and Gnome is a fine graphical UI for me. 5 years ago, it would be pain with a PC+Debian or (horrors) windows. But Ubuntu is actually quite hassle-free as an operating system. And if there is a problem (of which I've had none), I know how to dig to the treasure.

But - that does not make Mac's to "Glorified Fisher-Price activity centres". I know a lot of people who swear by them and I can easily interact with them on my Linux-box. Interestingly, many of these are amazingly good computer geeks. I guess showing UNIX APIs into OSX made the difference.
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I'm looking for the latest Warren Buffet news published in Hacker News but I don't know how to find it without wasting my time. I know this site is for hackers but looks like is for slacker because we are wasting time here for no reason.

BTW: looking for -site:news.ycombinator.com warren buffet- at Google does not work.
Your whole environment is there. Your editor, and your API documents are the objects themselves. Open up a browser in the Squeak environment and start clicking around. Open up a workspace and a transcript and write some samples that use the classes you find in the browser.
In some cases you do want a full traditional OS but one with a better security model than Linux/UNIX, or one with version-control built-in or..or..whatever else Windows/UNIX/Linux/etc. are lacking.
This trick's idea made me laugh!
Exactly. A good example of what I consider the "Right" way can be found by looking at a bunch of the Google App Engine sites that are out there -- many of the most useful ones just expose some specific functionality via a REST interface. Give it X, you get back Y.
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I half want to upvote you and half want to downvote you..so instead I'm going to comment: google him indeed.

I just spent a few minutes reading/watching some of his stuff and it's more amusing than this "I hate Macs" one, which I thought wasn't that great, whatever his overall point was. Maybe it's just bias on my part for probably having greater technological knowledge than him, but the same would probably apply to most of us here.
That's what I'm doing these days. The big changes haven't happened yet... but hopefully it will come.
First season? I STILL feel like that, and it's starting into Season Five. Either it's the best show I've ever seen or it's close to the worst.
What language are those code snippets in?
I feel the same. He is a well known British comedian, but probably unknown in the US. This article (which is not his best) is no more than one of his satirical rants. Some people here are taking it way too seriously :)
Is this guy serious? He can't be serious. I'm going to assume this is dry British humor that doesn't transfer extremely well to text. Otherwise, this is the most misinformed anti-Mac article I've ever read and I hope he gets fired / dies immediately.
(1) 'Buffett' has two 't's

(2) Still, either [site:news.ycombinator.com Warren Buffet] or [site:news.ycombinator.com Warren Buffett] returns 90-180 results for me from Google. Is there a specific recent result you're expecting that it's missing? If so, that's Google's limitation.

(3) There's also searchyc.com to try; it returns 157 results for [Warren Buffet] and 86 results for [Warren Buffett].
I did enjoy some of those. And I probably should have been more clear about "uninformed bullshit." I think opinion pieces by journalists are often meant to provoke indignation by being deliberately facile, because that creates controversy and gets people talking about the article, showing it to their friends, thus increasing readership. Sort of like my comment above ;-)
You may want to try Google "Advanced Search"

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a...
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He is right on about the choice of Mitchell and Webb. When I first saw the UK Mac ads I thought: really? Jeremy is the Mac!?! They are making the anti-Mac people's point for them.

Also, relax. The overreaction here is stereotypical. This is an attempt at a humourous rant meant for a general audience. If you know what Terminal.app is you are not in the target audience.

p.s. All the Peep Show episodes are on Youtube - check out a few to see the character most widely associated with Robert Webb: http://www.runciter.net/peep-show-episodes.html. A lot of other great British TV is on Youtube too. They seem to have much less of a problem with uploaded episodes on the net.
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It seems scraping is legally questionable. mashmaps.com (google maps + showtimes mashup) got a Cease & Desist from Hollywood Media Corp for scraping Google.

Does anyone here know where this information can be sourced for free or licensed from?
Apple's attempts to turn a computer into a style accessory have also brought out a lot of resentment in some people. When things suddenly becomes fashionable, they tend to become heavily commercialized and flooded by people whose interest seems superficial, and it adds a lot of noise to the community. (It's sort of like the "Eternal September" effect. (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-...)) I think this is a large part of why some people gripe about Macs / Mac users being pretentious.
What starts as a compelling profile of Minor's business life degenerates into a puff piece on lifestyles of the rich and famous. (Skip page 3/4 ;-) )

It sounds like much of his problems stem from being at odds with the industry's heavy hitters in the middle of the biggest .meltdown our industry had ever seen.
This week: Charlie watched some episodes of Larry Sanders (on his PC). He played the customised Fawlty Towers map for Counterstrike (on his PC). He listened to the Windows startup jingle every 10 minutes as his PC repeatedly rebooted itself.

Methinks its humor, not a real attack on Apple products.
try http://www.searchyc.com

That's what I usually use. It's just one of those things that's passed on here, like oral tradition, rather than something written down in the guidelines of the official hacker news page.

Others are like, talking about what constitutes hacker news, and telling people not to complain about being downmodded.
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There is a correlation though between stock price and how "good" the place is to work.
http://www.greatplacetowork.com/great/graphs.php

I know stock price isn't a perfect measurement, especially in the short term, but it's still interesting.
I had two thoughts about this article:

1. "Great, Charlie Brooker's back on telly tonight!"

2. "Bollocks, it's a half-arsed article from last February."
why would you look for warren buffet news on a site like YC?
>> "[Macs are] computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work;"
> But don't Macs have a larger share of the 'technically-minded-user' / 'geek' (whatever) market than Wintel ?

There's widely used OS's besides what Apple and Windows have, ya know?

Just because Wintel sucks doesn't mean apple also sucks.

btw Wintel is for " ignorant button mashers too dumb/lazy/uninterested to learn how proper computers work;
I don't get the No OS bit. Why not call it an OS and claim: it boots in a few seconds? Then, make it run C code, and voila, you're set.

Are we ever going to move beyond Unix?
A good comment from the original thread:

"Mac users - before you get all indignant and start
proving Charlie's point here, lighten up - it's
funny! Mac users have a sense of humour too you
know, so please, please don't bother to 'correct' the
misinformation here - it's just a humourous opinion. I
sometimes think I'd ditch my Mac simply to avoid being
associated with these insecure earnest types - but then I
use Windows for five minutes and realise I'm stuck with
them, unfortunately."
Yawn. So the OP writes a long post in order to show us that, based on an extremely biased sample, not everyone at the top of society is a blithering idiot.

If he really thinks there's "cream at the top", he should try hanging around real estate moguls and health insurance executives. That'll bring him back to the reality wherein shit, in fact, floats. VCs and hedge fund managers are nothing special compared to serious tech entrepreneurs and hackers, but compared to business executives as a whole, they're 99th-percentile, easily.

In any case, I think the reason the world is fucked up has more to do with ill-intended competent people than stupid, incompetent people. The Bushes and Palins may be genuinely stupid, but behind them are Cheneys, Roves, Romneys and Erik Princes-- thoroughly intelligent and competent, and even more thoroughly evil. The failure of U.S. society, for example, is not the result of error or entropy, but of plunder and malevolence. To blame it on "idiots in suits" is to inaccurate, in any case; the "suits" who excel in mainstream corporate America are neither intellectual nor curious people, but they have a fierce political/sycophantic intelligence that very few people can match.
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This has been scraping google for almost 3 years now. I've used nothing but it.

Why would you get a cease and desist for publishing local cinema times? That's rather ridiculous.
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I disagree. Doctor Who would definitely have used a machine that you've probably never seen before. Something quirky that you'd never know how to use if you had never seen it without training. Perhaps an SGI O2 running a customized Slackware... with a WM that he wrote himself by hacking Compiz and WMII together.

Oh, and the rest of the article? Amusing but content-free.
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(1) My mistake but google should know it.

(2) Yes, it was about buying a company, the first search result in Google gave me a comment with a possible answer but its not the one that I was looking for, I linked to the top parent while in Hacker News but is not the one either. So it's not what I'm looking for.

(3) I can try to go to searchyc.com but still a waste of time.
Or: "Now Inside the Tent, Pissing Out".

At least he's honest about the context-mutable and flimsy nature of his bearing. Most people are like this; of course, they hate "corporate executives" because nearly everyone does, but given a chance to spend an evening with a Fortune 500 CEO, wouldn't even think about turning it down.
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Thanks for your contributions, but personally, I am fed up with the "business tips" topics. They may be practical and useful to someone with a startup, but they are otherwise not very intellectually stimulating.
>> "Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults;"

>Terminal.app ?

You sir are a sadist or a satirist. Terminal.app is awful!
You could also setup a Yahoo! Pipe for it and then subscribe to the RSS feed of the pipe.

This way you could stay on top of any Warren Buffett HN without having to search for it post hoc.
At the beggining YC was for startups and I think that the words of Warren Buffett could be useful for entreperneurs and/or startup founders.
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Your web app is cool. Two ways to survice: Get acquired or die because Google implements the same feature.

Anyway, I really live it. It is really stunning and amazing. But, you should at least let users know how to upload their panoramas. Put a big "Upload" button in your frontpage.
Build the GUI of the 21st century :)
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I think the hand should have some physics. If you hold and flick, the scrolling should accelerate depending on the speed of the flick.
Thanks, I tried but no luck and not very user friendly even though is a nice work.
"But don't Macs have a larger share of the 'technically-minded-user' / 'geek' (whatever) market than Wintel?"
Not in my experience... do you have the data to back that statement up?
I'm a Mac user. However, those commercials are the first ad campaign so insufferable that I almost wanted to return my product after I bought it out of spite.

I feel like their advertising actually makes it tougher for a nerd like myself to convert to the cult of Mac. It's Unix with an unbelievable GUI, what else could a nerd want? But I still take shit from friends and coworkers who think I bought it so I can put on my ironic Castro hat and head out to Starbucks where I'll listen to Decemberist mp3s and blog for p.e.t.a.
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