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That's why iOS has a springboard in only one place, same for Android. These are modern interfaces, based on serious design work. Our goal is to compete with those, so we're not that interested in matching functionality that was in Win95, especially if we think that functionality will get dropped in Windows 8 or 9 or 10.

So they want Unity to be a GUI for tablets? How far up your ass does your head have to be, to think that a GUI designed for desktop use, and a GUI designed for tablet use, can be used interchangeably? Someone ask Mark, he'll know. Or someone who worked on Metro since they seem to have the same parts of their brain broken. If Microsoft does break into the tablet space, it will be from work on Windows Phone 7, it will not be from Metro. Apple recognized this when they used their phone GUI for tablets despite having a perfectly good desktop GUI around, and Canonical is all about copying Apple like a fucking funhouse mirror, how did they not pick up on this?

If they want to target the tablet space, good for them. I think the ship has probably sailed, but more competition there isn't going to hurt. But don't fuck traditional desktop users, who currently account for 100% of your user base, in the process.
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> a concept of an "app" makes no sense on a modern desktop, and windows is what users want to manage, not "apps"

I disagree; I think this is a subjective thing based on one's usage habits. I tend to think in terms of apps, with multiple windows attached to each. (This is partly because I keep a lot of windows open, and tabbing between 5-10 apps is more reasonable than tabbing through 30-50 windows.)

I agree with your main point, however; Ubuntu should be blazing its own trail, not mimicking the past.
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This could be the start of a good thing, but I am really itching for them to get a more reasonable limit to how often you can get a new book, not because I read that much but because I don't waste time on books that aren't great.

However I see no reason for them to not included any book in the offer. If a particular publisher isn't interested remove his book from Amazon completely.
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Topographical was the word I was looking for.

I'm no expert, but I don't think topology features much in the weather models. It's mostly numerical analysis and statistics.
ctrl-q will give you Visual Block mode.

If you modify your .vimrc and remove the 'Windows friendly' settings, the ctrl-v binding should work, I think.
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Also note the Oracle supplied GSA (Federal) price list: (see page 21)

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/gsa-pricelist-070...

Which means that's the cheapest rate Oracle is allowed to give. By law.
The issue here is a lack of communication. For example in LedgerSMB, we get occasional users asking for MySQL support. We send them a (lengthy) canned response detailing why MySQL support is not on our priority list and in fact why we wouldn't accept patches if they were written. We politely advise people to look for other accounting programs if this doesn't seem desirable to them. Pretty soon we got fewer and fewer. People could see what our position was, why it wasn't open to debate, and so forth.

But reading a lot of this what I see is "won't fix. Sorry, against our design" with no attempt to either leave the door open for future changes or figure out what the user wants. Better approaches include a long-term feature requests queue or some other way of preserving feedback for later review during design sessions, or a canned response which details why a category of feature requests is unwelcome and inviting further discussion of what could be done instead. If it is not applicable, the user ideally should be challenged and asked to justify why they need what they say they need before the bug is marked wont-fix with no discussion.
My advice to Mike - keep talking. I doubt he's a racist. He's kind of the product of a racist system (just like all of us), and I have a lot of faith that talking about it will bring about something positive.

Of course, there's whiney postmodernists who think that talking about the problem will make it worse. They think that the problem is racism, per say, and not the legacy of racism - the broken system. Most people are acting in basically good faith, and I think the more talk there is the more stuff will get fixed.
Back when business had Summer and Winter hours, i.e. before DST was implemented, we didn't have cheap everywhere-available electricity or inexpensive lightbulbs, so it kind of made sense. Nowadays it's just stupid - I'm a programmer with a flexible schedule and I've implemented my own Summer & Winter hours precisely to avoid the trouble of having to deal with readjusting my sleeping schedule when DST kicks in. If you can convince management to come one hour early in the winter (and leave one hour early, too) I'd suggest you go for it - it's awesome.

As for hiking trips, I don't know what planet you hike on, but my hiking trips take 10h minimum and 3days usually, and for them I'm more interested in light availability than some numbers on a zifferblat, so DST makes precisely no difference.
Agreed, I think Ubuntu is still a great distro for 'just working' on most machines I've installed it on. I dislike Unity too, so I install a couple of packages, grab my xmonad config file from github and get back to work.
Ah, this argument again. Simplicity rules.

I disagree. I like being able to set filters and granularity. I like having the option to give me the information I want, in the way I want it. I'm prepared to do the extra up-front setup to get the better end experience; I have hundreds of filters set up on my email, for example.

Don't give me forced simplicity; give me the option to tune it to my needs and give it the power to make it actually useful.
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I debug primarily with print statements. There are a few times when a graphical debugger has been/would have been easier.

At a Python conference some 10 years ago I asked the same question. About 1/2 the people in the audience who responded said they were also primarily print-statement debuggers.
What I find most interesting about this is the surprise tactic of the interviewer. This is one of my nightmares; I'm often terrible at recalling sometimes absurdly obvious facts (say, the names of friends) when I'm surprised or under stress. I can't count the number of times I've thought "damn, I should have said..." just minutes after it's too late.

I've been interviewed a few times (fortunately by friendly interviewers on not particularly important subjects) and I have to confess that it's not one of my innate skills. I'm pretty sure the right person with a video camera and the right editing software could easily make me look like an idiot.

I have a lot of sympathy for Arrington, even if he is a loudmouth.
As an OS X user, I would call OS X the opposite of "app centric". It's document-centric first. Apps are binding glue, but windows that represent documents come first. A window representing one document will never switch to representing another. It will always open a new one. The titlebar of a document holds an icon that represents the document, and can be dragged around. It can be right clicked to see the document's location in the file system and open any of the references locations.

And if you're talking about conditioning, perhaps you should considering not using Alt-Tab, a task switcher that has never really worked properly, because it cannot be both memorable, linear and context-adaptive.

Those shiny OS X windows that fly around without lag allow me to task switch visually, using touch gestures. It works great and uses all parts of my brain. I recognize windows by their shape, proportions and contents, not by a single icon. Swipe up, see all windows grouped by type, swipe up, focus on all windows of the same type. Swipe left/right, switch desktops.
Another vim user and I were discussing this and I came up with the nutty idea of creating a 'vimspec' that detailed the basic features and extensibility a 'vim-mode' plugin in another environment would need to have to be useful to regular vim users.

I think most people developing 'vim-mode' plugins for other environments aren't necessarily vim power users so won't be aware of how natural normal mode is to regular vimmers (and importantly, what features you will miss).

Some sort of vim standard for normal mode might go a way towards making normal mode with its commands a more ubiquitous interface for editing text.
The end of utility apps? What makes (used to make?) the Mac such a great platform is that apps integrate seamlessly. Making them work together in new ways that were not anticipated by the developer is incredibly powerful (Unix philosophy anyone?).

Sure, sandboxing will allow your app to talk to another app, but only if you request permission beforehand. But what if the app my app wants to intact with has not been written yet?

What about application launchers like QuickSilver, Launchbar, and all the hundreds of other utility apps?

Only allowing sandboxed apps will change the nature of apps that we will find in the app store from "utility" shifting to "just-do-one-thing".

And about the question about whether the Mac App Store will become the only way to install apps on the Mac: the question is not if, but when.
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I hate to be that guy, but you need to put your line-height where your mouth is.

.entry_content needs to be 1.5em at the least.
I had almost forgotten that Bill Joy, the creator of vi is also the co-founder of Sun; and Gosling, the father of Java authored his own version of Emacs.

Isn't it ironic that most people find Java, one of the major accomplishments of Sun, is almost impossible to code in vim or emacs without an IDE though?
This has already sort of happened. Apps are forced to have some sort of permanent presence now. In the past, you could be running many of these and still have a clean menu bar. Now, you have to have an icon for Growl, an icon for Quicksilver...
Nope, at least in GNOME shell the shortcut is
Alt + [key above Tab]
so no problem there
> You can still access all your files. Your app just can't do it without asking.

Sort of. You can't access files across restarts of your app right now. So something that needs to maintain a database of files in the filesystem (say a music library) will be able to access them when the user adds the files, but then will stop working after you restart.

The only way around this is a "temporary" exception - they absolutely need a permanent solution for this situation.
...but every major desktop platform has easily accessible configuration settings for you to change this behavior, eg. for Windows 7 I can just:

right click task bar > properties > taskbar buttons: never combine

...to switch back to a window centric approach, and this combined with the ability to use virtual desktops (even on Windows with a 3rd party app) with the taskbar only showing windows from that desktop, and going even further if you like, using a multi display setup where each display has a task bar showing only the windows from that display (like having "# of virtual desktops" * "# of display" actual virtual desktops) (note: I HATE this but know people that swear by it), you can easily manage even ~50 windows without becoming visually or mentally crowded, with no need for the app-centrick view that makes you click around all the time...

...the point being that unity should try and learn more from the nice and clean but yet easily costumizable interface of Windows 7

Disclaimer: I'm mainly a Windows user, touching a Mac from time to time, and using Xfce when on *nix because it just works and doesn't stand in my way...
Publicly deriding the changes (that a lot of people have put a lot of work into) and then saying "Hey, pay me, I could do better!" seems a little arrogant to me.

From Google's perspective I wouldn't rehire this guy.
Ced, the part about the significance calculation is a problem with the A/B test, not a problem with the Bayesian bandit version.

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There is some stuff happening in the world of angel investments/startup incubators here. We've got nothing like what the US has, but Startmate (in Sydney) started last year, AngelCube (in Melbourne) started this year, and York Butter Factory (also in Melbourne) is about to/has just started. And I'm sure there's more than this.
Yep, I'd like to see the rate card for SAP AG and compare hehe.
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In the context of a shared library, this might not be so bad advice. You don't know how you are going to be used (either by the program tat loads you or by another library loaded by the program).

In such an environment, it's much easier to accidentally create deadlocks that you know nothing about, because you can't predict the invocation pattern of all the libraries and applications potentially linking to you.
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It's times like this that I wish there was more scrutiny of the media itself. We've got a reporter, Soledad O'Brien, who is cynically exploiting an issue so she can get a good story and she doesn't have to answer questions about her behavior because she's got the bigger megaphone.
Card case is elegant and innovative. As a user, I love it. However, calling this a harbinger of end of credit cards is jumping the gun. If that would have been easy, PayPal would have already ended credit cards (for online purchases). I see no signs of that.

A completely different set of competency and technology will be required to replace the credit cards with their own payment solution (credit risk assessment, fraud prevention etc). Their impressive track record so far means they can certainly develop these; but it won't be that quick or easy.
So whats the startup opportunity here?

A mobile app that lets good cops anonymously dob in bad cops?
I think he's hit on a very good point: Many minorities are not pushed from a young age to excel in areas that are useful in tech startups.

There is definitely progress being made in that direction, but it's probably going to take a decade to start seeing real effects. Minority children learning HTML in middle school right now simply need time to get through high school, (maybe) college, and then get through the 5 years or more of actual work that it takes to get good at programming or graphic/web/UI design.

In the meantime, the best thing we can do is encourage as many children as possible to get into technology and science, and make the best use of the people we currently have available to provide good role models and mentors for those children.
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Adoption I can see being an obstacle. But I don't see this being particularly insecure.
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I believe that follows from what he said above:

> zero global state -- Make your library threads-aware, but not thread-safe!

His point is that even if you have global state and try to protect that using locks, there may be code unknown to your application that works on the same global variables and you may not be able to predict the order of locking.

He specifically mentions the example of NSS (name service switch), which allows you to optionally create and plug in shared libraries that will be invoked without the application or the core C library being modified. So for example, an admin could change /etc/nsswitch.conf to set up LDAP user logins but your application could still use getpwnam(3) without caring about whether the pw retrieved is local, NIS, or LDAP.
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With the same DRM they already use I suppose (I don't have a kindle, so I don't know any details). If it was possible to store the books somewhere else, people would be already doing that to share the books.
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This is the problem. This debate, right here. This is what I think the - albeit impolite - heavy-handed replies from Shuttleworth are trying to avoid.

There's no one right way, and governing by pure democracy simply won't work, because everyone has a different opinion.

And sure, you can make it configurable, but that's not the point - is it? If you're a power user, you'll find a way to manipulate the system to your will no matter what. But 99.9% of the users (well, when dealing with Linux admittedly that percentage is much smaller) will NEVER CHANGE THE DEFAULT.

So: apps vs windows? Side launcher vs bottom launcher? Doesn't matter. Just choose one, and for the love of all things holy, be consistent.
Whoa. That file contained the absolutely most naive string hash function I've ever seen:

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{
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if (s == NULL)
return val;

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It seems to cleverly avoid everything that's supposed to go into a string hash function, and makes me quite wary of the rest of the file's code quality. I stopped reading after checking that this function is indeed used (it is).

Also, the file itself was last modified on 2011-10-18, which seems to be pretty recent for something that's not used. Perhaps they're gearing up to start using it, and if that's going to involve any kind of even remotely performance-sensitive, I hope they replace the hash function first. :)
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FYI, http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/ is built on ES6 proxies and CoffeeScript.

I agree on circling a local maximum, but some of this is just JS catching up to Ruby and Python. Syntactic affordances for usability that desugar to only lightly extended kernel semantics.

The big ticket items are modules, proxies, weak maps, binary data, and the like.

When I liken JS to x86, I'm not comparing it to assembly so much as to a ubiquitous target for compilation. JS is even stickier and longer-lived than x86 -- witness ARM's rise on mobile while the web evolves mostly-compatibly, including JS content and the JS language.

Contracts and macros are on the Harmony agenda, further out.
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This does not seem like that much of threat to Twillio. It not only provides SMS but a wide variety of services. Also, there are a lot of developers already using Twillio, so it does not make sense for them to move to another service.
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And the maps app on Android, written by Google, is superior in pretty much every way to its iOS counterpart. Even ignoring the navigation component.
I think at this point its best if everyone waits until the interview actually airs before making any more judgements. It seems a little crazy that the situation has gotten to the level that it is at before the interview is even shown.
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Nowadays glibc has modern SSE code and the kernel uses "rep movsb". The kernel can store and restore FPU state if the copy is long and doing SSE/AVX is worth it. Someone on the Linux kernel mailing list measured that performance depends on src and dest being 64-byte aligned compared to each other: if they are aligned, "rep movsb" is faster than SSE.

The thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/1/229

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git...

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/x86_...
Interview 101: record the session too.

At the very least, you won't be fooling around with "What I think I said in the interview".
Except that the Android Gmail app doesn't show ads...
a concept of an "app" makes no sense on a modern desktop, and windows is what users want to manage, not "apps"

I do not disagree with you (long live OpenDoc ;-)), but as a counterpoint: users buy _apps_, not _windows_.

As long as that is the case, apps do make sense on a desktop.
Sparrow for iOS is something I have been looking forward to myself. I understand the issues you mentioned about Mail.app, but at least Push works if you setup Gmail as exchange.

I use Sparrow on the MBP and hope we get Sparrow iOS soon enough.