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Because Fitts's law relates both the target size and the target distance to the speed and accuracy of hitting the target. Not just the target distance. You can move the mouse very quickly to cover the large distance, without worrying about the accuracy, thus reducing the negative contribution of the distance, because the target size is practically infinite. The target area of the menu bar at the top of the screen extends infinitely up above the screen, because when your mouse hits the edge, it stops moving and stays in the target. Try it yourself. It's EXTREMELY easy to move the cursor to the top of the screen, no matter how far away it is. The distance doesn't matter, because the target size overwhelms it. That's what is meant by the "Mile High Menu Bar" -- calling it a mile high is an understatement!

This is also why pie menus have improved time and error rates over linear menus: linear menu targets are very small, and increasing distances away from the cursor, but the pie menu items all start out adjacent to the cursor, and extend all the way out to the screen edge, so you can trade off increased distance of movement for increased target size. The target area of the pie-slice shaped wedges get wider and wider as you move out further away from the menu center. (I don't mean they dynamically change size as you move, I mean that as you move out, you're in a much larger part of the slice. So with a four-item pie menu, each target area gets about 1/4 of the screen real estate, and you can keep moving the mouse even further when you hit the edge and still be in the same target slice.) Pie menus also minimize the distance, but around the center, the targets are at their smallest, but you can always move out further to get more "leverage" and directional accuracy.
You're essentially arguing that the expression of passion/emotion via a comment is below the standards of HN. It's an interesting viewpoint, but one I don't completely support.

The problem with your stance is that preventing the expression of emotion is often a cover for elitism. Rather than being a strawman, this is exactly what Paul is doing in his comment. i.e. "I am above being emotionally attached to this argument because it isn't very important. If you think it's important, you simply aren't at my level."

All of us - being that we are all subject to emotion - will allow emotional responses to topics that we feel matter. What it all boils down to is a disagreement on what level of importance you place on a topic. This of course has nothing to do with intelligence at all in most cases.

The continued association of intelligence to apathy is a bit of a fallacy, to be honest.
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It's particularly annoying when Google substitutes words without telling you. Or when they silently drop words and you only realise when a ctrl-F through the web-page says nothing found.
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ENOUGH ! so you saw Steve Jobs taking a photo. so what ? this thing is getting ridiculous and it is a good linkbait..

Everyone has to die sometime for some reason.He came, did his thing and went away,now it is time to move on and do your own thing.

Grow up and stop wasting time on the past ....
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On the Mac, you can Cmd-Tab to an app and then hit Ctrl-F2 to navigate the menu from the keyboard: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343

I concede that this doesn't address other objections to a single menu bar, such as identifying the active window / application.
Thx -- we cut stuff out of the URL now, though perhaps could cut out more. Note you can change the color in the settings: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html

We've also experimented with moving it around (including where you suggest).
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That's a neat idea. But I'd like to see it integrate with Unity3D.
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The problem is distribution. Not many people outside the technical/hacker community are even aware what Linux is, let alone Ubuntu. They need to have more hardware partners that aggressively sell ultracheap laptops/machines. Furthermore these partners need more low entry sales channels like radio shack, walmart, target, or even CVS where more middle class consumers have access to these machines.
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feels like old version of gmail.Not giving a negative comment, but the UI feels a little bit outdated.Features are good.Usability wise lot needs to be done. All the best.
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Being used to Google, I would first try “-site:youtube.com .”
Spot on. It's different this time.

Sure, it surprised us all when revenues and earnings turned out to actually matter in 2000, but it's 2011 now, man, and the future's so bright I've got to wear shades! The fact that I can download 14,511 apps that allow you to share photos of your cats is the only indication you need that we're living in the post-earnings era.

Making money is for squares. As long as you can line up that Series P round, the party's still on, man. Rock it, don't block it.
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Out of curiosity, what are your frustrations?

I have used DDG and found it to be amazing for some searches early on. I felt the same about Wolfram Alpha. Both still seem awesome in their own way, but I haven't been frustrated enough to switch from Google as my default search.

I will say that as I've done more development, I've added more of my own direct site searches to Firefox as keywords for sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Youtube and the Rails API. Searching said sites becomes "ctrl-L, so/wp/yt/railsapi <search term>". If I ever see myself having to dev on separate machines, I'd learn the DDG keywords for API searches.
> We'll get a port of Hadoop that comes with a plethora of toys in the System.DraggyDroppy namespace for impressing the suits

Sadly, for programmers who work where the impressionable suits reign, it's usually the suits who pick the tools their underlings will have to use to assemble whatever was conceived in the demos. They'll end up having to deploy Hadoop on Windows 8 Server and talk to it using the vile offspring of Clippy and Hadoop that lives under System.DraggyDroppy.
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Sure, though in interests of full disclosure, on a large screen the menu bar is actually "a mile high, and a mile away". Still, global menu on the Mac is probably still at least a wash for all but the most expansive desktops.

With Unity, though, the global menu bar on a large desktop is "a mile high, a mile away, and invisible". You get to guess where you should be aiming.

Are you really arguing that hitting a target you can't see is easier than a target you can see?

All that said, I do prefer Unity over other options on my netbook. The savings in real estate is well worth the marginal cost in usability. I don't use the menu bar much, anyway.

That last bit is probably Unity's saving grace: most apps used by most people are no longer designed with the menus as the primary interface.

Since they're less used, it makes sense to optimize screen use by tucking them away at the top of the screen.

I wouldn't at all mind if the menu bar had an auto-hide mode, though. Actually, what I'd like is a partial auto-hide. Tuck away over to the top left, with only the window widgets and the indicators showing. I'd gain a line or two in any editor or term on the right side of the screen.
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I'd say that's even worse. Look, if the tech is good enough it should survive a total rebrand. That's what they need right now. Without it, if they're too arrogant/stuckup/cocky/egotistical to make the change they're f'd anyway.

It's no longer a polite suggestion, it's a necessity. If they want to take the next step, they will need to rebrand and now is the perfect time to do it.
It doesn't appear that XMonad works as nicely, at least, I'm unable to get the panel to work. It seems gnome-panel is no longer used, furthermore, right-clicking on the new unity panel to configure it doesn't seem work. XMonad works... I'll just be panel free for a while.
Earlier, i would actively anticipate new ubuntu releases.
These days, its replaced by dreading what parts they have completely broken this time.
So far we focused on tablets and desktops. Phones require more radical layout readjustments. This is still in the works. Sorry that I didn't make this clear when posting.

Edit - I'm a co-founder of Pllop.
Is there a way to get google results instead of yahoo results? I don't mean using the !g syntax, but getting actual google results in the format of duckduckgo.

I love the site, but alot of the time, Yahoo's results are weak.
Sorry. No. He is not the cult leader. Most of her friends for the past few years have been folks who've also left the same cult, so there might be a common background, but no. This isn't the cult trying to take her for a few hundred more thousand dollars.
Did Google pay you to say this?
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Definitely agree. I set DDG as Firefox' default search engine (about:config --> keyword.URL) and it has come to the point that searching with the dedicated search bar has begun feeling clunky. I think there are no important sites which I frequent that aren't included in the huge amount of bangs yet. Could just as well get rid of the search bar altogether...
Gabriel is taking on a challenge that extends beyond Google's reach, the filter bubble. Luckily he's been able to implement several human curation strategies to make a better search engine based on reliable search results. On the flip side, Google has been fostering a limiting perspective on the world's information due to their personal relevance algorithms which drive more ad clicks.
Dear HN: Lets see if we can get this guy his dream job.
Don't give me so many options when you can, with a little research, make the right decisions for me! :)

(the N % that do not agree with you can probably perform some magic to bend the site to their liking)
IBM is very good at acquiring companies, rebranding acquired products as Big Blue offerings, and then pumping these down the established sales pipe to their enterprise customers. Notice that global services is the majority of their revenues - 57% - (http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/International_Business_Machin...)

Oh, if only I could hack into that beautiful stream of out-sourced services money . . . (hint, hint)
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You can configure a Magic Mouse to emulate middle buttons using MagicPrefs. It's a pretty useful add-on.
This seems a bit overblown for what amounts to a performance bug in a feature that few people even use (bookmarks).
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This doesn't strike me as very realistic. Aside from the issue of token-based security vs. other auth mechanisms, how else are you going to establish a secure connection to a private network aside from a VPN-like tunnel?
You'll probably be pleasantly surprised at how quickly he catches up once he's on the job, if he really wants it as bad as you say. I say give it a try for a few months, and then make a more permanent decision based on that.
They actually tried something like that for 11.04, but it was horrible.

This is way cooler, it just works.

Yea, it's a lot of effort, but I think it's worth it.
I essentially agree with you but it is important to understand that pride has its failings, even without being what I would consider excessive. By being proud you put yourself in the position of having your pride wounded. This is distinct from lacking pride somewhat like lacking feeling while having surgery if different than having to feel every cut. On the other hand, pride can be very important in giving the self-confidence and motivation needed to improve oneself and one's skills.
I remember one of my co-workers telling me that Firefox was running great for him now that he'd upgraded from 4GB of RAM to 8GB. It finally wasn't slowly grinding to a halt any time he had more than a handful of tabs open for more than an hour or two.

Seemed a bit like Stockholm Syndrome to me.
I'm not sure I see what the big issue is with VPN access.

The author complains that VPN connections choke the user's bandwidth, but I am not sure I know many examples of this. Typically through a VPN connection I will see higher latency to external internet point if the company does not allow split-tunnel routing. However, decreases in the user's bandwidth only occur if the company does not have the appropriate bandwidth available for the number of VPN users logged in. Perhaps I am just lucky, but I've never had this problem.

Regarding the pain of logging in, Cisco's new Cisco AnyConnect VPN automatically re-authenticates you to the VPN session so you don't need to keep signing in as you shift locations. Microsoft's DirectAccess allows you to have a VPN session automatically established with no additional authentication necessary whenever it finds a network connection available.

The author proposes cloud services? Those don't work too well for large companies in my opinion. In fact, I don't think they work well for small companies yet either. Google Docs just doesn't have the functionality required and STILL lacks the idea of having centralized repositories of information. If you want to share a document with your entire Google Apps organization, you can "share it" but the people in your organization must know to search for it in order to discover it. There is no way to browse "All Documents in My Company" which creates a huge pain.

Most companies and their employees, especially Fortune 100 companies, utilize "Network Volumes". Go into one of these company's and talk to the employees. "Oh, that is on my U drive, and the other documents, those are in the company wide public share on my P drive". They browse to these files seamlessly over the VPN, edit them, and they are updated on the remote server.

VPNs also HELP ensure compliance (though they definitely don't guarantee it). You no longer need to worry whether every single cloud service you are using has the proper security configuration. There may be some wiggle room here, but I know that with Active Directory Group Policies, I can really lock things down on users through one centralized management interface. If I have 10 cloud services, I have 10 different things I need to worry about locking down.
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It's not just bookmarks. It's history and the location bar. He mentions that one of the things which triggers his crashes is using the back button, which is a feature that I think a reasonable number of people use.

(I can't say that I've seen such issues myself... but it's been quite a while since I used Firefox under Linux.)
A fairly narrow set of applications listed on the 2nd page of the article. I think an important reason promoting the use of VPN services is not that you are protecting yourself from your users, you are protecting yourself against poorly written 3rd-party or in-house applications.

There are a lot of companies that are forced to use really large, complex applications that combine a myriad of different technologies. It's one thing to patch servers, it's another task altogether to try and maintain and update applications that stretch across mainframes, various database and mid-tier applications, with mixed-web/thick client access. The dependencies alone are a nightmare to try and manage.

To me, this is the most important reason for securing remote users. I want to protect them, and the company, from the medusas.
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Yeah, I think this is highly dependent upon the graphics card and the available drivers -- always run into driver hell with Linux
Amen to that. I don't know why I have to be downvoted just for pointing out that these things are not necessarily annoying per se, just when they become relentless memes by which a community validates itself.
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By chance, can you point me to a proof of that usability point? All I have is anecdotal evidence to the contrary, but I have long wondered.
juju is service orchestration, not configuration management, we think of it as a level above CM.

Basically instead of configuring machines you say "I want wordpress" or "I want cassandra". People have been using the term "apt for the cloud".

Here's a quick demo (out of date, but the idea is the same): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8IKkWJj7bA
I agree. Unless there is a significant push by OEMs, the Linux desktop will never see wide adoption. I wonder what were the reasons for Dell pulling their Ubuntu based options in the US? Inability to provide support, or was it a push by its main OS provider.
I switched to using just my monitor when using my laptop at work for this reason. It worked all right in 10.10 for me, but switching to 11.04 caused some issues when having 2 screens at a different res.

As I understood with my googling, it has something to with my laptop's integrated i815 graphics chip (and possibly with the chip itself). I do plan to upgrade to 11.10, but not until after my Monday deadline
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I can support this. Even trivialities like a (slightly) miss-categorized !bang got fixed in hours.
As a dev, FF was my go-to utility browser due to Firebug. Google released Chrome, and I found myself using FF rarely.

I rebuilt a laptop recently. After loading it up with software, it was a good 3 weeks before I even noticed that I didn't have FF installed.
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I posted to Quora yesterday to find out who exactly (besides Wolfram Alpha) is behind Siri's impressive sense of humor.

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Here here!

I've completely given up on Firefox on my MBP (3.06 Core2, 8GB, 480GB SSD). Between the egregious javascript memory leak and constantly increasing resource utilization it's just unusable. And my fans are running full tilt within 60 seconds of starting it.
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The faster cadence is technically less oxygen efficient, but since oxygen is not the limiting factor, that doesn't really matter. The reasons cyclists pedal at a fast cadence is because it uses the aerobic system more heavily than the anaerobic system, and the aerobic system is easy to keep "on" for a long time. You breathe harder, but your legs never hurt.

(I decided to start following this advice a few months ago. A 30 mile ride in 2.5 hours at 75-80rpm used to tire me out. My first 40 mile ride at a high cadence (95 rpm) took the same amount of time but I wasn't even close to being tired. My usual "training rides" of 20 miles take almost no effort unless I make a conscious effort to go anaerobic for a few minutes at a time.)
Wow, I didn't realize the violent stuff until you mention it, in fact, I love the presentation so much that I went directly to know how they did it and started playing with the tool... (who knows if I am a psychopath)
Acqusition.
I work in sprints, I have a protein shake every morning as soon as I wake up and at night right before I go to sleep, ever since I started journaling I ditched to-do lists.

Also, the most productive times of my life, when it comes to work is whenever I'm in a relationship and the sex question is not so prevalent in my mind anymore.

The best hack I know for working out is to change into whatever your workout clothes are and just wait until you feel like working out.
I'll promise not to call you shallow for liking the nicer things in life, if you promise not to hate me for considering "the nicer things in life", seeing people use code that I've written.

This isn't necessarily an open source thing, either. I'm not a part of an OSS projects, but I am part of projects that cost me money, that I see almost no financial return from, and that make me happy simply because people use them.
To answer your question: "What's more important...a highly technical partner or a highly compatible and motivated one?" Hands down motivation over skill in my opinion and experience. I've seen one go the other way, or finding a way to get help, but I've barely ever seen the reverse. Also, one quote of Richard Bronson’s I find myself repeating often "Hire for attitude, train for skill."

I think your team might benefit from a 3rd, back-end/server side cofounder. Then between the three of you should be unstoppable with all bases covered. If you cannot find that then you're doomed with or without your non technical cofounder, unless you learn enough to be dangerous, build enough to be able to afford an employee who is a back-end person, who most likely will end up trashing all your code and building it from scratch. I'd sure hope you'd welcome that.

You never said what your dilemma was.
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Also let's not forget SSL is kinda a mess. Not to say that VPNs aren't either though. It's tough out there. :)

I'll be using sshuttle once I get our external ssh gateway up.
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Do people not use bookmarks? I have thousands of them. What are the alternatives that I'm missing out on? (big xmarks user too so sync is a must)
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I'm running the Live CD in a VMWare Fusion VM, and it just goes to Unity 2D, so I'm guessing that a lot more hardware will see Unity in one form or other with this release.
"Making money is for squares. As long as you can line up that Series P round, the party's still on, man."

What's sad is I think many entrepreneurs are taking this seriously. They think "starting a company" means raising a ton of money, working on cool projects, and never once thinking about making real money.

It's getting harder and harder to call these projects companies or businesses.