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that's fine, but your "only comment unless something really annoys you" is disingenuous -- this is the only thing that has annoyed you enough to comment on.

I'm sorry if my reaction seemed a little strong; you mentioned not being able to understand the sentiments you were hearing. I am suggesting that as my tiny online community vanished overnight, perhaps you could empathize with that and extend that to the other incomprehensible sentiments you were hearing.

I, for one, have resisted any sort of move towards pitchforks or torches or even (gasp) public condemnation, because I acknowledge that this is, indeed, how google operates, and also that as a user of a "free" service, that this is its actual cost. And i do still hope that the aspects of Reader that fostered such a good community can be rediscovered in G+; it's bugged me since G+ launched that the integration with things like Reader was poor.

And it may yet improve along those lines! -- Doesn't make me any less sad about the loss of my community, though...

(Likewise, you might not have used "Notes", but they could be both public or private, serving as both a vehicle for discussion or a bookmark-service for research, archiving, etc, a la pinboard or delicious. Again -- maybe not a feature that you used, but one that people who did use now need to replace.)
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I couldn't take it anymore. After living for a while with the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, which allowed me to simply hide some of the stupid white space, this last change made Reader essentially unusable.

Today I switched to Bloglines, and I can keep using j, k, etc.

I have to thank Google, however, for making my switch so easy with their export utility...
If you believe that Apple is making a lot of money with their App Stores, sure. But they don’t. Even with the absolutely massive iOS App Store. The Mac App Store is tiny in comparison.

It’s just not Apple’s business model.
I think grandparent is talking about Landauer's principle which relates information and energy, electrons aren't involved in any way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
It's all public information.

Square is exempt from the California Money Transmission Act per FC § 1805(d) (see http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=fin...), since it's actually JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. that is moving your money.

Square does not have a license.

http://www.dfi.ca.gov/directory/mt.asp

And Square has no plans to get one as of last month.

http://www.dfi.ca.gov/publications/summaries/2011/september....
I think the fear is that Apple will decide that the MacAppStore is the only way to install software on OSX.
I've consulted in the past on embedded projects. In my experience, maintaining a non-trivial body of C++ code is easily a factor of 2-10x harder than maintaining equivalent C code.

I have lots of reasons why this is true, many of which are specific criticisms about C++. There is one issue that is industry specific: Everyone working in embedded has either come from the bottom up (deep firmware in assembly or machine code) or the top down (Java in school), and when you get a dozen people where half of them treat C++ like "C with classes" and the other half treats C++ like it's Java, it's a guaranteed disaster.
You can try to contact Paul himself or Bing Nursery. Paul Graham did a similar thing last year. Here's his blog entry:
http://paulgraham.com/idealunch.html

check my submission from last year.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1863923

or

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-11-03/tech/29971104...
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I do, BTW Unity/Gnome3 copied this kludge as well and they're proud of it. This is an equivalent of launching a new computer line which throws away SSDs in favour of punch cards.

See, "apps" made sense in the prehistoric times when single-threaded desktops with limited RAM were primarily used to do one thing at a time. But things changed. The concept of an "app" have not been making sense for a long time: you can run Gmail and Facebook in two browser windows (which together live in the same process) or you can have a single window (Chrome) launching one process per tab, or you can have a terminal with several processes running in different windows, or you can have a copy of Microsoft Word embedded inside of an Excel spreadsheet. Similarly you can have an iframe with embedded Google Maps inside of your Wordpress blog. So what's an "app" then?

Microsoft correctly recognized in early 90s that the concept of a "program" or an "app" was obsolete, and modern UI should be using "window", "document" or "folder". An app is just an implementation detail: you can have 3 apps involved in rendering a single document or drawing the same window. Early smartphones couldn't handle these tricks (like multi-tasking) well, so this temporarily reincarnated idea of the "app" came back from the grave, to be happily copied by Unity just because "iOS has them".

Boo.
Very well. I thought it was suspicious and called it out as such, but I thought i had done it in a reasonable way. My mistake. He's since replied to me and i believe i've replied to him in (what i hope is) a civil manner below.

Yes. It works fine for a lot of people, and observing this does not invalidate your complaints.

Can you tell me about this? Previously, i had one-click share within Reader, and two click sharing from the web via a bookmarklet. I am genuinely curious about how this got easier with the new Reader.

What's your workflow now to share an article with a carefully curated group of friends?
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I found this post on HN marked as dead : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3189432

It was about castle.so, a site similar to dropbox. I can't understand what was wrong in this post to be marked as dead?
Ordering a saved pizza order that we order frequently at Papa John's is incredibly easy -- certainly way easier than telling the order to someone.

I suppose it's possible that coffee is different in some non-obvious way, but I'm not sure how.
:) yeah, i know what you mean but I was trying to say that Paul Graham didn't tell me submit this story. :)
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I know about all that. You're basically saying "lets stick with the past... just because.

If you're going to simplify things, do so in a meaningful way and keep up with the times.
You're seriously still beating this horse?

Why couldn't they partner with another institution that already has the appropriate licensing? Or, alternatively, they seem well enough funded to be able to post the appropriate bonds.

I get your position, but with the constant whining, you're not winning over people.
Oh man...so tempting to get a Kindle now despite having an iPad 2.
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I agree that your job search has to be active. Check out http://workastic.com. I wrote it so that people know exactly what to do when they are looking for a job (the secret: activate your network and get referrals to the companies you want to work at).

It has the same idea of tracking who sees your resume, and more importantly, who does what with it.
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I think this ease is somewhat offset by the extent to which Ubuntu are pushing it.

When I updated to 11.04 I tried Unity for about 3 hours, got annoyed by certain things hurting my work style (the all-workspaces Alt-Tab mentioned above being one), and logged out and back in via "Classic Ubuntu".

I felt no antipathy towards Ubuntu at this point, and I was impressed they were trying new things. They just weren't for me.

Then 11.10 came out, and immediately my machine starts bugging me to upgrade. Apparently when 11.04 came out Canonical had said that Classic wouldn't be available in 11.10, but I missed this.

The upgrade process doesn't prompt you about that fact at all - it just takes the GNOME configuration that you were using, uninstalls it, and gives you only Unity.

After trying Unity again (<1 hour this time), I went to do the same old "Ubuntu Classic" switch and there was no option. That's when I got cranky. I had to Google to find out how to get back the desktop environment I'd had before I upgraded.

I would have felt good about the Ubuntu upgrade if any of the following had happened:

- Upgrade process had said "Please note the environment you are currently using (Ubuntu Classic) will not be available after you upgrade. You can install the gnome-panel package to re-enable it after you upgrade."

- Upgrade process had seen that I was already using Ubuntu Classic and didn't remove the gnome-panel package as part of the upgrade process, letting me keep the Ubuntu Classic after my system upgraded. How would that have hurt?

- (Best One) Upgrade process would have asked me "Would you like to try the new and improved Unity environment after you upgrade? If you change your mind later on, you can log back in as Ubuntu Classic" (alternatively, it could have said "install gnome-panel package and then log back in as Ubuntu Classic" if they couldn't bear to leave those packages installed.)

I agree that to some extent this is me whining like an indulgent nerd about an OS I got given for free, but it's also bad UX on the part of Ubuntu.

During a standard upgrade, your operating system shouldn't decide that the way you've been using it is wrong, and give you an unexpected and not immediately reversible transition to a different way of using it. That's hubris on the part of Canonical.
> to think that it takes ONE man outside of Google to fix their product is downright silly.

He spent 5 years at Google, including being the lead designer on the Google Reader project. It's not like he's some schmuck out of nowhere, and I don't think he asked to be a one-man team.
> Just dump everyone in one Circle

To me, this is shit work (that the author was talking about).
The article misses the foundational reason Vim is still relevant. Observe:

:help style-changes

The basic steps to make changes to the code:
1. Adjust the documentation. Doing this first gives you an impression of how
your changes affect the user.
...

Are you blown away yet? The first step in hacking on vim is to hack on the docs. This has been true since the start. Many's the hour I've spent bouncing around in Vim's incredible docs, and I have no doubt it has encouraged more contribution from more hackers.
I have made a stupid bookmarklet to hide the 140px of header that i don't usually use. I have called this GoReader: http://www.searcheeze.com/it/p/free.musik/bookmarklets
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As of 9.0, the old version of VACUUM FULL has been replaced with a new implementation closely resembling CLUSTER (except without anything to do with an index, of course).

So, if you need to reclaim unused space in a table (usually only useful after a large delete or update), VACUUM FULL is a reasonable way to do so.

But, if you happen to have a useful index order, you might as well use CLUSTER so you get that benefit at the same time.
Looks interesting -- they posted that a week or two after I was searching. We're heavily into animations and games right now, including one where the student is building up space invaders, one complication at a time.
"But the only way to avoid this one major failure mode is for Shuttleworth to ignore, as politely as possible, the complaints of his users."

The problem is Shuttlworth can't keep his mouth shut. Personal attacks only make the situation worse. He should take a page from Apple here - "keep your mouth shut" - and produce.
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First, I'm not trying to win you over. I'm trying to get a license, as is my right.

Second, a lot of people consider the particular fight I've chosen to pick fairly important, as it would do a lot to corrode the monopoly that banks hold on payment processing. So one person's whining is apparently another's heroic battle (not my words).

Third, the issue of money transmission licenses is also directly relevant to this particular topic.
“One book can be borrowed at a time, and there are no due dates. You can borrow a new book as frequently as once a month, directly on your registered Kindle device, and you will be prompted to return the book that you are currently borrowing.”

Hmm only once a month? That seems rather low.
Because then you have to control ALL of the memory, not just the data that you're interested in optimizing. Not to mention that (at least in the JVM) the gc is pretty tweakable, and the entire team may not need to know about all of the tweaks.
is there an easy way to see or search for books that are available for this?
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Is there an API for something similar available? It would be pretty cool to not limit this to phones.
I feel that I need to warn you; there seems to be pro-MS/anti-Linux bias in the article.
I know a few people from the "upper socioeconomic class" and they are even more likely to not upgrade/use "the best browser", and instead just use what came with their laptop/desktop/whatever. I'm talking GPs, Lawyers, Accountants, Investment Bankers.

I have no data to base my sweeping generalisation on, other than personal experience
Yup, it's also (impossible?) extremely hard to close without login/logout. IIRC, a `killall nautilus` wasn't even sufficient.

A workaround is to use gnome-tweak to have nautilus not manage the desktop. I highly recommend it. As much as I don't like nautlius, I feel that it drawing the desktop is flat out archaic.
is it just me or is this some sort of google app engine rehash with js?
You say this, as every major platform migrates towards apps. Windows 8: (huge push on becoming) app centric. Mac OS X: (becoming )app centric. Android: app centric. iOS: app centric. What OS isn't? Linux. (eh, edit, this really isn't fair. Linux is as "app-centric" as I need it, though the "linux is so secure" assumption is uh, going to become fallable as its competitors approach an app-centric, isolated model. (also, X doesn't protect apps against eavesdropping, etc). Also, Ubuntu's Software Center is making the experience at the least, app-like.)

I think in terms of apps. "I need to switch back to my browser". "Alt-tab". "I need to change windows in this app", "Alt-`". I guess owning a Mac got me prepared for it, but I love this new behavior in Gnome3.
It's for any book available on the Kindle.
There's self-install WordPress.org and hosted WordPress.com.
I am not aware of self-install Tumblr blog.

The post is comparing Tumblr with self-install WordPress.org.

About hosting:
Replace Tumblr with WordPress.com

When you use WordPress.com, you don’t have to worry about hosting. They take care of it.

Edit: OS X Lion sometimes auto-corrects Tumblr with Tumbler.
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I don't see why you can't just use the Kindle app for this.
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Exactly, that's the time consuming part. Not a lot of people are following a 100 blog, I was. I remember checking my rss reader every 2 minutes to check a new article.

The only solution I found to get back to normal life was ditching my rss reader. Now I just the read 3-4 blogs frequently and check the others from time to time. I enjoy the design of each blogs. It's part of the atmosphere and of the read.
We shouldn't have to embarrass a company before we get access to a useful application.
I don't think we can have an accurate "theoretical minimum mass" for information because it is highly dependent on our (incomplete) understanding of small particles.
Aye. I've done work for a startup (flipped, now owned by a larger company) that has a massive portfolio of domains. It leases out directory listings and sells domains. :(

It seems a common problem that "safe bet" ripoff ideas get funding. Atlassian is the big local exception (along with some other small groups like http://crowdhired.com, http://99dresses.com and http://orionvm.com.au). On the other hand you have DesignCrowd, and other funded copycat startups like http://spreets.com.au, http://pygg.co and http://wooboard.com.
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That doesn't seem to be the case.

" ... the available library consists of more than 5,000 titles, including more than 100 current and former New York Times bestsellers."
"if all you need is a mark, the Python convention to add an underscore in front of your private method or variable works just fine, as does the convention to make constants uppercased. I've seen quite a bit of JS code use these conventions too."

Until you have a user subclass your class and accidentally stomp over one of your private names, causing your class to mysteriously fail. I've been bitten by this before, and it'd be nice for JS to offer a solution.
some of the kindle product pages have a specific section mentioning the borrow feature. For example http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-ebook/dp/B003G83UI2/r...

However I don't see this on most of the kindle pages, so I assumed it was only available for specific books.
I think this is a problem that needs solving. Occasionally developers need business people as co-founders (even just to get a SWOT marketing analysis done before you build that MVP).

I think there is a lot of places to meet technical cofounders, or even design/UX cofounders, but not business cofounders.

But sometimes you need a busines cofounder. I'm lucky (business major in college) - I can do it all, but that also takes time away from development. But a business cofounder could take those business tasks off my hands (and frankly, probably do them more efficiently than I could)

(I'd certainly be interested in talking more about this with you guys)
What's with the popped collars?

The problem with the Australian tech industry is most of the big players are just copy cats.
Thank you for the link. I stick to my original question though and the reason is that I'm not in favor of domainers or "domaining as a business."
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> What if my phone's battery is dead ?

Go to an ATM.

> There are countries where phone penetration (and not even smart phone) is not very high, but the population still need to have credit cards.

There are also countries where SMS payments are much more popular than credit cards. It's not a one-payment-system world.
I want a share-to-G+ that does not involve a public +1. And I want G+ to manage "unread" status so that I don't see the same things over and over. And keybindings in G+.

The social features of Reader were not great, but we had an active group of about 30 people who shared research papers. Quite a number of new collaborations and papers were born in Reader comment threads. I see between 100 and 200 items each day, perhaps 20-30 of which are scientific papers shared by colleagues. G+ is generally not very utilitarian and it's clearly worthless for this use case.
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Really depends on how you feed on information. Like I said in another response I was an avid user of Google Reader and netnewswire. I was checking it every 2minutes to read a new article, I had basically no life beside my rss reader (and before that I had no life because of IRC, another story).

The only way to go back to my normal life was to ditch my RSS readers. Now I'm enjoying a few websites and I realize I really don't need all those informations. Some websites I don't even need to check their new articles "in time".

And I found out I did care about the "charisma" of websites. It was like reading a different news paper, different texture, different layout, different feeling.

I understand both part, but I think very few people need a RSS reader (do we all read 100+ websites everyday? I was and I don't anymore). And I think a lot of RSS reader users would actually enjoy going back to the tranquility of reading directly through a blog's interface. I know it's less practical, you change the UI everytime and if you read a lot you only need the information. But juste give it a try, don't use your RSS reader for like a week, or at least a few days if you really need it. You'll see a difference :)

TL;DR:Internet doesn't have to be all about information.
Amazon is doing a very good job of enticing people to buy the Kindle Fire. I opted to get a Kindle Touch instead of the Fire or an iPad. What's interesting is that I don't even think about getting an iPad.

I would have gotten one had Apple upgraded the camera for the iPad. But then the announcement for the Fire and Kindle Touch came out. All other tablet makers have been trying to compete with Apple by copying Apple. Amazon has created compelling reasons to consider it's devices and I think the strategy will be a great success. They aren't copying Apple.

What's shocking is how much Google has dropped the ball. They have Youtube and Google books and could have created compelling reasons to buy Android devices. I don't think about Youtube when I want to rent a movie I can't get on Netflix. It's clear that pretty soon I'll ditch Netflix and just go with Amazon Prime. This is even more likely given that books will be part of Amazon Prime.
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BigCommerce isn't a rip-off, and it's a really good platform (from what I've seen).

OrionVM.... it's a good idea, but not exactly innovative. But then, "innovative" is worth nothing on its own.
The whole article feels so sleazy.
"one book a month"

That makes it pretty much useless.

EDIT

I guess I'm just not the target audience. For the record, I borrow three longer novels from the local library every one or two weeks (depending on how busy I am with work and life).
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Am I the only one who loves Ubuntu and does not use Unity at all?

Basically, what I want out of a distro is a convenient platform to build the system I want. That's Window Maker with a lot of xterms, an Emacs session, a Firefox session, and possibly other applications as I need them.

Any distro can give me that much. The reason I pick one over the other is ease of administration. Ubuntu gives me this in the package management systems, the large repositories, hardware support, and, if all else fails, large, well-trafficked forums where questions actually get answered. (I'm leery of less-used distros because I know, I just know, that I'd stumble on some odd corner-case problem that nobody who's used that distro has seen and be up too late diagnosing and fixing it myself.)

So all these posts that imply Unity is the only way to use Ubuntu sound, to me, like people implying New York City is the only place to live in America. It's big and it's in all the movies, but there's a whole continent out there just beyond.
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