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I like it.

The last version had promise, but was somewhat half-finished. This time it's pretty good (though it still has bugs).

I love all the changes that make tiny netbook screens more usable (auto-hiding dock, the dissapearing menu bar, easy access to other apps, e.g. music skip, via the menu bar, auto-hiding scrollbars).

I'm somewhat unique in having a touchscreen netbook. It's mostly for the kids but the touch-able dock seems to be working for them.

For me, I like that they've went with a power-user friendly keyboard launcher similar to Blacktree's Quicksilver for Mac OS X (which Apple later copied into Spotlight).

Less importantly, I like the looks and the general simplification of the UI.
The LibreOffice project hoped they would, but Oracle didn't like the idea...

Probably the biggest thing is that IBM wanted it with a more permissive licence so they could keep selling their commercial product without giving away any of their source, but the LibreOffice project wanted to keep the suite as free software (which is why all the new code that LibreOffice writes is LGPL).

As it is, OpenOffice at Apache will probably bitrot - pretty much all Linux distros have switched to LibreOffice (so that's where all the developers who aren't employed by IBM or Oracle have gone), and LibreOffice can use Apache code in their product, but Apache OpenOffice can't use LibreOffice's code - so they won't benefit from the massive cleanup that the LibreOffice project has done to the codebase over the last year, or the new features they have brought in.
Exactly the point I try to make in the article.
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I'll happy run the deck ads, its pretty much invite only though right? The reason the Internet is covered in adsense is because pretty much everyone can join and the cpc from my experience is better than similar providers.
Debt is a dangerous thing. I don't think the same about governments. But I consider debt to be disastrous for individuals.

The reason is simple a lot of your work, time and energy drains into paying the most scary thing invented by finance industry so far - 'Compound Interest'. This is especially dangerous in the case of credit card. The debt keeps mounting because of two reason, you being unable to pay and yet still continuing to borrow money. This sort of a spending patters brings a lot of pain to people every where.

And all of this for what? Upgrading from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4s. Is this really worth?

In this sort of set up people living with a savings driven life get a automatic lead ahead of spendings driven people.

Because while you are working to pay off the interest money. He works for the same time and saves that interest money.

I think it will be safe to say to say that if your paying X% money as interest to bank by working for hours Y(Remember you are loosing X% money, thereby in effect rendering your Y hours of work useless, as though it never happenned). The same X% is the money earned by the savings driven guy in the same Y hours(Additional to the money he is already earning. So this his extra income).

You work to loose money and he works to get rich. Although both work for the same time. One gets richer other gets poorer. This is how bad debt can inflict suffering on you.

These days you can be relatively rich by just saving money! And avoiding debt.
Also, in a similar vein, checkout GFX: http://maccman.github.com/gfx/
Why is something fundamentally broken?
So true. I know someone that self-published a book and made a few thousand dollars with that first edition. That small success ended up a contract with a large publisher for the second edition. She did all the writing, editing and DTP. The publisher took care of the cover and the printing. She did not get an advance from them since she was unknown and, several years later, she still did not earn a single penny from that second edition.
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You're way way off the mark with your thoughts on these new "ad networks". DF is not a good example, gruber is a brand, DF isn't just a website and his use of a small ad network is proof of nothing. He would make a lot more with adsense etc, but money isn't his goal. You have to assume money is someone's goal when they run adverts, otherwise why run adverts?

We tried out one of the fancy curated ad networks (projectwonderful) and if our experience is anything to go by they suck, they absolutely suck. Unless you are in a very specific niche they will not do anything but make your revenue tank.

There's a reason these advert displays are not widely popular, it's because they pay nothing. Sure on a blog with a few thousand visits what's the difference between $100 and $50? Larger sites will hurt a lot.
Yes, as far as I know these are all invite only networks. It is what makes them special and good respectively. There is a good business model in these kinds of networks and if more such networks can come into existence then blogers like us will have an option.
No. There's just not enough resources (developers, designers, testers, etc) to do that.

The Gnome project just decided that it was time to try and make a desktop that wasn't based on the Windows 95 (and up) desktop metaphor, and the only way that was going to work was to commit completely to that goal.
October 23, 1986

Everyone in the office has been playing a lot of Tetris - a
Russian submission for the IBM PC. It’s a classic, like
Breakout. But I don’t think Broderbund is going to publish
it. The knaves.
Going to march is better than sitting at home saying "marching sure isn't going to fix my situation."
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Is it me or the usage of "patterns" here is not very accurate. It could be called "mobile screens design". "Pattern" could be used for specific and abstract solutions to interaction problems. For instance, the Google map's corner in iOS, that you click to get settings, is a "UI pattern". Some such patterns can be abstracted from the OP, but what I see is a list of categorized screenshots.
I'm pretty sure @ckj did that. I've sent him a link to your question. He also used the same technique for our 404 page on Pixelcloud. http://pixelcloud.com/404/
Yes, I agree that Gruber is not the best example but is just that an example. I am trying to prove a point which is that there are ways to make money online from advertising.

I do not have any experience with the networks first hand but from what I can gather from their websites and other places they are a step in the right direction.

I know most "big" websites will not change but at least if smaller blogs and sites start experimenting with something other than AdSense I think it would create a better experience for the end user (us).
Probably because the Canadian accent is not currently supported - US, UK, Australia, if I remember correctly.
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From the post:

"UPDATE: Turns out that the notifications/share button doesn’t really work like it’s supposed to on Opera. So Google was just hiding it (till they got it to work?) so people don’t wonder why it doesn’t work. Sorry! Really should have checked if it’s working before posting this. D’oh!"
Ask HN: Development for small range of customers
Are there any approaches on sucessfull/efficient development of wide applications for a small range of customers? Given that there is a financially strong, but very small customer group whose business processes are based on an international standard, though differ in many significant ways. So it seems to be impossible to develop an application that can be sold to every customer without major adjustments being neccessary.

So eventually some smart guys/girls came up with an idea to serve small customer groups with maximum efficiency and minimum amount of work?

I hope I made my case clear. It was hard enough to phrase my question in my native language ;)
Unfortunately the article provides no real extra benefit beyond the tl;dr version.
I find the most interesting part of this 'hack' is how it's next to impossible to pull off a successful protest in civilised society: The greatest trick the upper echelon have pulled, is convincing the masses that using violence to achieve your ends is uncivilised.

As a non-US-er, we sometimes look down on the US for having a gun obsession, but there's no way anything OWS does would escalate to the point of seriously grabbing everyone's attention like, say, building an army, storming a building and forcibly arresting a CEO. They say OWS is inspired by the Arab Spring[1][2], but that would be a pretty tame example compared to the revolutions in Egypt and Libya. The people in OWS are upset, but not desperate, and I'm not sure this can lead to any sort of radical change unless the 1% agree voluntarily, which is obviously unlikely. It's very hard to think of a non-violent way to actually incite some change.

"The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work." - Paul Myers

As a postscript, the amount of copycat protests are also slightly embarrassing. It's great to show solidarity, but for instance I don't think there needs to be one for my town. It's just awkward and trivialises the situation, since our economic problems are negligible compared to the US.

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1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Arab_Spring

2. http://occupywallst.org/about/
I am convinced that that in the same vein as america pioneering the separation of church and state, the next big government evolution will be the separation of state and business.

It will be extremely hard to accomplish though because historically money and power have always been bedfellows.

The real problem is the people are complacent, most of what western governments legislate is in the interests of lobbyists, but people only care about lawmaking when they are personally poor or if it concerns foreign policy (TERRORISM).

I have always thought a jury system for legislation might be a good idea, get the sponsor of a bill to stand in front of 12 randomly picked citizens and have them explain what the bill will do, and most importantly, why they are trying to pass the bill.
A nice style, but for beginners, why would you suggest going into Vim (or any editor) with the potential for screwing up? Even RVM's actual installation documentation says to just do this:

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile

(from http://beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/)
I agree with your assessment of why the protesters protest, and that they don't have a clue how to "fix" things. I disagree with your claim that this indicates anything "fundamentally broken", other than the mindset of the protesters in thinking someone else should step in and make their lives better in all the individual ways they consider their personal situations undesirable.

Edit: Clearly people disagree. I'd appreciate some responses to go with the downvotes; I'd enjoy some discussion, rather than silencing.
CodeMage provided an excellent analogy to answer this question some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080440 - you should check it out.

Another way to look at it is this: The grievances of the protesters cannot be fixed by individual action. They require a change of the rules, i.e. political action. When such grievances become large enough, you (i.e. the people) use progressively stronger methods to try to tell politicians that you're serious about it.

If the political system is flexible and effective enough to react and address the grievances, then the movement succeeds, e.g. the civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s.

If the political system is too rigid and unable or unwilling to react, and the grievances remain, then the state will ultimately fail, e.g. East Germany in the 1980s.
That sounds like a good way for the people calling themselves the "99%" to lose what little support they might have from the 98.999%.
@jayesheg - I tested LDoS on nginx. It easily crashes it within a few seconds.
I've been given and have consequently used many defaced bills over recent years. You haven't seen all those bills stamped with things like that bill tracking website, or just random notes scribbled in with pen? If there are rules against accepting these, they're not followed by businesses I've dealt with.
seemed pretty obvious once you'd seen "C2DM". The tool looks quite impressive - like that it's IOS and Android. Will be giving it a try in the future.
This sounds like "A Bad Idea" to me.

What's the real issue? Is it that the original coder refuses any comments, or that the OP is a particularly liberal commenter?

In either case, I don't think a technical solution will solve the actual problem. This falls into the same basket as naming conventions, tabs vs spaces, and commit message conventions: You need to figure out something that works for the team.
Deciding to live near work. House on 1st yr/job. Several other jobs.

Or boulder have one single building with all companies, or this guy can sell houses for homeless people
I am new at this whole blogging thing and It is a work in progress. I try to write about things that interest me and hopefully I will get better at it with time.

What do you think would provide real benefit for this article?
That would turn legislation into marketing. We have a bad enough problem already with knee-jerk legislation passed because it sounds shiny.

Now, as a filter, introduced in addition to umpteen other ways to prevent legislation from passing, it sounds potentially helpful. Anything that makes legislation fail by default without an exceptionally good reason to pass would improve matters.
Design by the number
I would add to the ad(d)s here ;-) , become a mentee to || code with other good programmers. Preferably ones with humility / kindness as much as skill. Changes your life. Its like guitar.. you've got to find mates to jam with.

And read lots of different code from low-level to SICP.. from early 80s to the present day. Get ( legit ) access to closed, commercial code as well.

Also, its really weird, but learning in these sorts is rather non-linear.. you will feel like there is no hope for 10 months, then the 11th month comes and suddenly you are freaked out about what you can do.
Actually, many are angry because failure was rewarded with money. The core issue was that the financial sector took huge risks with mortgage backed securities, which weren't properly rated by firms like S&P, and when that lead to the financial meltdown, the government bailed them out. Other than Lehman, Wall Street firms weathered the meltdown fine but the people of the US - and other countries - felt the brunt of the downturn.

Since the beginning, many groups with different goals have been attracted onto the OWS movement, and the message has been scattered. My bet is that the movement will peter out due to lack of focus and won't have a lasting impact on politics or policy.

Meanwhile, the mortgage industry is still partying it up on your dime:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/business/fannie-mae-and-fr...
From the article:

- Ease of expressing constructs arising in problems.

- Suggestivity.

- Ability to subordinate detail.

- Economy

- Amenability to formal proofs.

I think it would be very useful to improve notation for programming languages as well (we could borrow a lot from mathematics).

With all the advances in display technology and unicode everywhere, you'd say there is no longer a need to limit ourselves to flat 7-bit ASCII in a simple grid. Still, we do. Is it really the best way, as it seems lacking on all the above points, or simply a matter of habit?
You identified a well-known problem without providing a solution. For example you could have talked about the reason for things being like they are and alternative methods for them achieving that. But you'd have to provide some new ideas, don't just drag up micropayments again without adding something new.
I was a Ubuntu user for the pass 2 years, only until the heat problem kicks in. I don't know why most people don't have this problem, but my computer is extremely hot while running basic graphical tricks, and moreover, this thing has not been fixed for the last 3 releases. And secondly, the Unity is extremely stupid for multiple monitor. If he has 3 monitors, how would he like it to constantly look to the left most monitor just to switch between tasks? I recently purchased an additional monitor, and because of this stupidity, I no longer use Ubuntu despite I hate Windows so much. This could be a reason why Ubuntu will NEVER get to offices, since most of them have multiple monitors.

Wonder if we could have USERS to say what they want in each release? If Ubuntu continues this path, I'm afraid tech-savvy people will stop using it, not to mention many new users will never start trying.
This may come as a surprise to you, too, but the IMF has finally caught on to the fact that inequality hurts economic development: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2011/sdn1108.pdf

Obviously, forced total equality is unlikely to be good either. But from a certain point, inequality causes macro-economic imbalances that prevent natural growth of the pie.

Besides, what the "pie fallacy" ignores is to discuss the relationship between income and wealth and the talent required to obtain it. Think about it that way: by almost all measures in almost all areas, talent, work ethics, whatever you can think of, it is all essentially normally distributed. But if income should reflect those virtues, then we would expect income to be essentially normally distributed as well. So why do income and wealth essentially follow an exponential distribution?

Something really fishy is going on there, and it is only appropriate to challenge a status quo that leads to such an outcome.
Off-topic but anyone else seeing every instance of "fi" in the text replaced with a slightly overlapping AV? (I tried to cut and paste it but it pasted as just "fi").

I'm on Ubuntu Ocelot & Firefox 7.

nevermind: I'm seeing it on various websites that use ligatures. Possibly because I'm half-way through an Ubuntu upgrade.
The Iceweasel name in Debian is not because Debian give away Firefox for free (as in no cost), it's because Mozilla only allow you to call the software Firefox if you use an official build (or get permission for non-official builds), and I believe the artwork also has a proprietary licence, making it non-free by Debian's definition.
"The greatest trick the upper echelon have pulled, is convincing the masses that using violence to achieve your ends is uncivilised."

Bam.

I amazes me that when 500,000 people marched in London on the 26th of March, people were dumb enough to ignore the messages being sent, and instead focus on some superficial property damage.
Or in a slightly more cynical way (as one of my favourite bloggers commented):

> If you hold a protest and you aren't throwing rocks it will fail.
"A lot of the most talented people are going out and getting funded to start their own company,"

Talent and ambition tend to go hand in hand, and that is the way it should be. If the most talented among us don't attempt to blaze new trails, then the human race would stagnate.
The nice thing about the old commodore drives is that they (almost) use a standard bus that allows easy implementation using microcontrollers:
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A long time ago, some crackpots thought protests were worth protecting. Can't remember who they were, must not have had much impact...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Your characterization of the pie fallacy is wrong.

pg: "I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into adulthood. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the wealth. If you plan to start a startup, then whether you realize it or not, you're planning to disprove the Pie Fallacy."
S another standard on the usage of cloud computing necessary? 
One more customer guide on the usage on cloud computing was issued. isn't this another obstacle to the freedom of utilizing cloud services?
The same number of clicks that it did to find out that it was in private beta, get annoyed that my time was being wasted and leave.
> I don't like having to click twice to access an application, so it works well for me.

Windows 7 does it very well: it just pops up small "previews" of all the windows. That's what OSX does by keeping the left-button pressed on the icon (it switches to app-exposé), but without the click and in a cleaner manner.

OSX's (and apparently unity's) behavior of bringing a random window to the front when you click it is helpful when you only ever have a single window for your application. Otherwise it's not generally very useful.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/10/the-occu...

I think this article summarizes the point of the "Occupation" well.
To a large extent this is the purpose of the House of Lords in UK parliament.

The selection process for its members is not at all democratic which leaves a bad taste in many people's mouths. But the general concept of an elected body whose members serve over several terms of government can be helpful to limit overtly populist or ill-thought-out legislation.
For every saying there is a contradictory saying.
which I assume is pretty much the same today

a) Why would you assume that after a major crash the distribution is the same?

b) And the paper that you quoted says this: "So as of April 2010, it looks like the wealth distribution is even more unequal than it was in 2007."
I will try to keep these ideas in mind for my next article. I would try to provide more alternatives (where possible) and new ways to achieve goals.

Thanks
My point is that pointing the anger at corporations without equally blaming government won't fix anything.
Unlike other resources, dangling references to memory are catastrophic. They generally go undetected (no layer of indirection to invalidate them) and can arbitrarily corrupt any future object, violate any type safety rules of the platform, and make even bug-free code execute incorrectly. "Is this object really dead?" is the kind of mind-numbing but critically important question that computers demonstrably answer much more reliably than people. That's why even objc uses a simple but expensive form of garbage collection (reference counting) rather than making you declare "not only am I not using this, I hereby bet my reputation that nobody else is either" by calling free().
People can make very ugly websites now without CSS3, I don't think it's anything to worry about.