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Your first problem is that you started deleting stuff from a folder that Apple now deems wise to hide. With all due respect, why on earth would you start from the ~/Library folder? Why not delete these from the Mail client?

You can even "backup" from inside Mail.app. (Right click a folder > Export)
Also, if you really want the Library folder, you can just go to Finder > Go > (Hold option) Library

There are real criticisms to be aired, this is not one of them.
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What do you think would be its implications on Flash Support for Desktop Browsers? Will Adobe discontinue its support when some other biggie comes and claims that HTML5 is the way to go for desktop browsers as well?!
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Well, then you haven’t met my parents. (I also hit Cmd-S frequently but sometimes I honestly forget.)

Auto save is an obvious improvement. The whole saving paradigm sucked and I’m so happy that Apple is tackling it.
So only rich people have the right to live in US?

People die here all the time, it's crazy! I've never heard of even one person who lived forever. /s
If they use some specific waveform that is identified on the other side then it should be either perfectly accurate or fail to measure anything depending on background noice - not lose precision. Reflections from the walls is what I'd be more worried about.
TBD. Incorporating user feedback and giving users options are pretty fundamental to Microsoft's standard operating procedure, so my guess is that the next public preview or beta of Win 8 will force a lot fewer changes on the user.

Really, the desktop mode of Windows 8 doesn't change all that much for power users, it just replaces the utterly broken Start Menu with a fullscreen start screen. It also makes this start screen the default environment for unsophisticated users, which is probably a reasonable move.

Aside from (IIRC) not letting you set a preference to default into the desktop mode on launch, the biggest problem with the start screen for power users was the low information density. This should be a setting, just like the default for Explorer is these giant icons and tiles for files, but you can easily switch it to use "Details" if you like to get real work done.

I think the end result for power users on traditional systems is likely to be that they deliver a desktop mode with only modest differences and a start screen that serves as a much more usable replacement for the start menu (and possibly the option to turn it back off). The start screen also provides a better replacement for some other ambient things like the desktop widgets that nobody ever sees because their apps are on top.

Meanwhile, that start screen, set to a lower information density (as was previewed), should be a pretty nifty base interface for tablet users and basic/new desktop users.

I'm sure there will still be some people up in arms, and possibly rightly so if there are some things they don't fix between now and the final release. But Win 8 has the potential to be a significant step forward without being too coercive on people who already have a good workflow in Win 7.
The problem is: Most people don't do that, especially new computer users. (Or, these days, people who are used to web apps, which don't use command-S.)

They don't learn until they've been burned, probably quite badly. If the computer doesn't HAVE to burn them in the first place, why should it?
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When it comes earning _my_ personal respect for (possibly) killing others and (possibly) getting killed, I can only apply my own personal ethical standards. I cannot possibly defer to the government to make that judgement for me.
Currently I'm using a matrix to determine adjacency, but I'll give this graph idea a try. Thanks for the tip!

PS. Have you actually realized a succesful implementation? (Just curious)
I think you're right on all counts here. A big issue I see is that the General Flash Hatred causes people to not acknowledge that there are places where Flash is clearly superior for the users' experience.
It works for me right out of the box on a brand new Lion install. No settings have been changed yet.
I am going to be paid $325 for spending 2 hours talking about cloud computing as part of a focus group. I figure this study has to be sponsored by some big, clueless company - IBM maybe? If anyone in the Boston area is interested in participating contact me and I will get an additional $50!

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As someone who enjoys watching the planes, I would love to have an iPhone app where you point and click and get a plane data, model number, etc, either from engine noise signature or from silhouette. That's the way to do it.
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I did just that, but the algorithm fails on the provided Tokyo picture. It works on other pictures, tho.
I like your optimism about Javascript's future, but I think it's a bit naive. Even if Javascript was AS3 today, we would still have to deal with a lack of cross browser consistency, the ancient text document oriented DOM, a lack of the same powerful graphical APIs found in Flash, and the lack of a standard top level object oriented structure (as found in the Flash platform with MXML, SWFs, SWCs, symbol and timeline architecture, etc.)

I'm not just hoping I'm counting on Adobe or someone delivering a good Javascript IDE that mimics OOP design, and I'm keeping an eye on Google's Dart project, but even after that I'm not expecting the experience to be nearly as smooth or creatively liberating as Flash.
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I think your comments just highlight the user unfriendlyness. Am I really supposed to enter some cryptic shell command I copied from the internet to be able to see my hidden files?

I can never remember keyboard shortcuts, even for screenshots I have to Google every time because I make them only infrequently.

Instead of buying an alternative file manager, why not just install another OS...
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Example: Remember JavaScript crypto and it's problems? As it happens, Flash 11 added a new secure random number generator for crypto.
Yeah, haXe is cool. It's a step in the right direction, but it's not first class native support.
Having had a "I really am starting to dislike Mac OS X, but Windows 8 looks pretty good!" revelation, I started to use Windows 7. I came back after about a week and told Mac OS X I'd never leave it again. I reinstalled Windows 7 about 2 or 3 times, lots of weird, inexplicable errors, one of which required a Microsoft FixIt program to run as there were some "corrupt registry keys". Gosh, it was not good.

That said, I agree that Mac OS X is not getting better. It needs to change. Everything since about 10.3 to today has been fairly incremental, and OS X is showing its age (ever wonder why Apple never changed to OS XI? It's because they're all the same...).

It's also showing that it doesn't have any real push at Cupertino to get better. No-one is driving OS X. Hardware is being driven by Johny Ive, software was arguably being pushed by Jobs, but it's clear that he was only interested in iOS for years. I'd note that iOS is going the same way as Mac OS X: stagnating in the face of competition that is doing more interesting things (amazingly, that competition is Microsoft!).

I feel like Apple is a company that rests on its laurels until the market practically forces it to change. The change that's coming for Mac OS X is that it will go away altogether. I think Steve hated it, and was waiting for the time when they could sell you iOS only. The only reason they keep Mac OS X around is for developers, and Apple aren't exactly known for making them happy.

Microsoft's dual-paradigm Windows 8 shows it's not that crazy. I think Mac OS X has an expiry date of about 5 years from now.
I'd also love to try this, we're working on indoor positioning here and this is a solution we had been considering. Have you done any test with ultra sounds?
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You want to use the linked image [1], not the one they show in the post.

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Why do you turn your Mac on and off all the time? Sleep works fine. Just close the lid and stuff it in your bag, then open it up again. Yes I know it never worked on Windows. It works on a Mac.* The only reason I reboot is for an OS update or for the occasional installer that's too stupid to just launch the services it just threw into the "start this at launch" system.

* well eeeevery now and then shit gets in the way and breaks it, upgrading in place to Lion introduced some heisenbugs with regards to using my Air closed with an external monitor, but they vanished after a reinstall. And this was the first time I'd had sleep problems in the entire decade I've been using Macs.
The AIR runtime is basically Flash Player and it's allowed on iOS — it sucks. Adobe also spent years on Flash Player for Android and it's not that great.
I was left wondering why didn't he just export his mailbox. Or add his GMail account to Mail.app and just drag and drop his old inbox into his new Google inbox. There is absolutely no 'lock-in' with Apple's Mail client.

The strangest part was the line about how there were 'many things worse in Snow Leopard than in Leopard.' There was hardly anything different about Snow Leopard from a user's perspective, the things that did change were pretty hard to complain about (smaller application file sizes, Microsoft Exchange support, and um... what else was there?). From a developer's perspective, Snow Leopard was a vast improvement. Just about the only 'bad' thing about it was the end of the line for the PPC.

Emotions about Apple run so high, it's hard not to think of this as trashing one product (OS X) because of negative feelings about mostly unrelated products (iOS, the App Store, the Apple brand in general).
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What on earth did you do to make Windows start having "weird, inexplicable errors"? And, why do I never have these problems?
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I haven't upgraded to Lion, and likely never will, because they removed the single best feature of OS X, "all-windows" Expose with no stacking into app bundles.

Default Expose was terrible in Snow Leopard too (strict grid layout vs. the old natural spatial layout) but at least then there was a hack to get the old version back:
http://superuser.com/questions/118424/old-leopard-expose-on-...
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Sorry, late reply here.

I know that Android is built on linux. But I don't see that as being hugely important. It's about the interface and the "mindshare" of the users and particularly the developers if you want to have a solid app selection for those users.

There's going to be a huge issue with ANY new platform. It's the chicken and the egg all over again.

Apple created a platform and got a bunch of users interested because the product was so mindblowingly refreshing amid all the crap phones available to consumers at the time. While applications weren't available from the get go, the users loved the phone despite the lack of apps.

When the app store was made available in the second iOS release allowing developers to make applications for those phones it effectively bypassed the chicken and egg problem.

Take a look at WebOS. It was unique and refreshing although not mindblowingly refreshing like the iPhone/iPad were. Thus, it's userbase was small and it's developer base even smaller. Developers wouldn't look at the platform because there weren't enough users. Users won't look at it because of the lack of applications.

Many of the original iPhone purchasers were tech savy people. They were the only people willing to spend $500-600 on a phone. People always ask those tech savy people for advice. Those tech savy people say "I love my iphone and here's why." But the same didn't happen with WebOS because the tech savy people wouldn't buy the device because it lacked apps. At least, not until the TouchPad hit $99 anyway.

What makes you think Ubuntu has a chance here? Seriously. Granted, I will give you one thing about Ubuntu and that's at least that they're trying to provide a consistent experience. Which is assbackwards from Linux in general with the Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment, Xfce, XMonad blah blah blah. Sure, those give you choice. But on a tablet or phone, choice isn't always a good thing, at least not the same level of choice you find on a desktop.

But I just don't see Ubuntu as a possible threat to anything here at all. As someone else already mentioned, if someone wants a tablet OS, just fork Android and run with it. At least you have a working base for something that's already seen success. You can mold it into something unique like Amazon and B&N did. I don't think Ubuntu can compete.
I dislike Flash (mainly because it's unnecessary and decreases browser usability), but I've not been witness to this supposed utter horribleness on OS X that everyone always talks about.

In my experience, it runs about the same as it does on Windows. That is, fine enough, but sometimes CPU hungry. It used to crash Safari sometimes, but that hasn't happened in recent memory.

It may be a horror on Linux, but I think many Apple users exaggerate because they also dislike it for other reasons.
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Sign me up. Ubuntu has been a decent attempt at a desktop Linux, but there is no "great" laptop hardware for it. Commercial Linux so far seems to be about two things: server, and cheap crap. There does not seem to be any interest in the power user or developer who needs a workstation, despite the fact that this is the one thing desktop Linux truly shines at. And when I say workstation I mean for work, i.e. not a web/email appliance.

Now maybe the power user market just isn't big enough to cater to, or the economics around copyleft makes it impossible. I don't know. But I sure would like a portable Linux workstation that's actually good. And I'm not talking about a heavy, fat System76 laptop with 1-2 hours battery life. Mac hardware has a real edge in this area.
The worst example of this tendency? Photobooth. You can press shift and alt to disable the flash and the delay (resp.), but there's no hint of this feature anywhere. I think it's not even in the help or in any documentation.
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Same with Ubuntu unfortunately.

Seems like one of the smaller Linux variants will have to save us. At the moment, I'm quite taken with Fedora/Gnome 3. Although Ubuntu+Gnome 3 and the upcoming Linux Mint with Gnome 3 are solid options...

Yes. I like Gnome 3. Gnome 3.
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The full-screen mode is terrible. It leaves everything but your main monitor completely empty, making it essentially unusable for anyone with multiple monitors.

Homebrew is awesome but it should be way easier to compile from source without installing Xcode.
I don't really understand this comment.

Are you saying Tim is an Android fanboy and hates the iPhone?
I think this might be much faster with caching, but the mistake was to put caching in some external database, rather than local process memory.

There are only 4 characters possible: `,i,k,s - that means on a 64b machine you can have 29 elements fitting into a native integer (5 bits for length + 29 2-bit elements). Use that as a key for a hash in a cache and compute the longer terms in a standard way to avoid smaller mallocs, preallocate large chunks of memory which can be filled linear way... I'd hope for 1.5-2x speedup over the original "dumb C".

Sigh... now I'm tempted to actually try that. Does anyone know of a good library of SKI fragments for testing?
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Same here. The Show Related Messages feature is even an improvement over Gmail's conversations. Now I want that on my iPhone.
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iTerm != Terminal. The alt-arrows works in Lion's Terminal; I just checked (although I use iTerm, where it doesn't work). iTerm appears to be the only app that doesn't respond to ctrl/alt-arrows. I use them quite frequently, and it always trips me up that iTerm works differently than essentially every other app.
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> Linux has huge driver issues and the package managers make me think like a data center sysadmin rather than the sole user of a dev workstation that I am.

Ubuntu was actually like the first desktop OS with an "app store," and Linux in general has taken all the hardware I've thrown at it with gusto. For instance, I have a USB Wi-Fi dongle. Windows 7 x64 couldn't use it, but all recent version of Linux have done just fine.

> And Windows is horrible as a development platform unless you stay slavishly within Microsoft's overpriced ecosystem.

Windows is fine for development. It may not have all the Unix-y tools, but it does have most of them. Just this week it even got a great Node.js port, in fact. Not to mention it probably has more IDEs and development environments than any other OS... I don't understand your complaints of it.
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>So I'm quite sure that C is a high level language.

Except it isn't. At least not anymore. This statement was true a few decades back, when C was the highest level available. Today, C is barely a level above Assembly on the abstraction scale of programming languages.

Mind you, I'm not saying that's bad (and most other people don't mean it as an insult, either). C is a powerful language that will probably be needed by generations to come. But calling it "high level" today is being stuck in the 1970s.
It seems that this course's curriculum centers on the hardware/algorithmic/mathematical level more than the semantics and ontology of modern object programming. The latter is much more philosophically interesting to me, and to me it's that side of things that gets closer to the pertinent philosophical questions that are raised by the dominance of computers in our society.

Also, no reference at all to the massive amount on The Philosophy of Technology written in the last hundred years? No Heidegger, Ellul, McLuhan?

It seems to me that abstract, domain-level programming concerns like object hierarchies are more essential than algorithms or binary math to the intersection between Computer Science and Philosophy. Once you get past the parallels between, say Philosophical Logic and Digital Logic (the first six weeks of both classes cover many of the same rules -- DeMorgan, etc.), I think the most pressing concerns are best addressed within the realm of the Humanities, Liberal Arts, and a broad Philosophical discourse.

The curriculum I'd like to see might have topics like:

* Christopher Alexander, Aristotle and the Gang of Four: Are Design Patterns Nominalist or Formalist/Realist in nature? (You could go for a while on this one. I'd love to see the GOF's appropriation of Alexander critiqued, and maybe brought into contact with the concerns raised in Heidegger's essay The Question Concerning Technology).

* Building, Dwelling, Coding

* The Question Concerning Technology Revisited: Are we now Standing Reserves of Information?

* Russell, Pierce, Saussure and the semantics of type systems

* Bergson and Agile -- the relationship between intuition and iterative process

Or something like that. You get the idea (or not...)
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Is KL open source? In other words, if I modify my JS apps to include KL, am I locked in to you as a vendor? Thanks, interesting post.
Actually, I liked text manipulations shortcuts in native text input fields. They are very consistent and easy to get used to.

Option (Alt) means "word". Opt+Left — move one word left, Opt+Right — move one word right.

Cmd means "all". Cmd+left — move to beginning of line, Cmd+right — move to the end of line, Cmd+up — move to the beginning of the text, Cmd+down — move to the end of text.

PgDown/PgUp/Home/End mean the same thing as in other systems, but without moving the cursor. All this might be a little frustrating at first, but it's muscle memory and you can figure the logic out in a couple of days. Don't fight the system, embrace it.

As for cmd+shift+g, you can look these shortcuts up in the menu, if you are not sure where to look, use help/search, type go to and the top item will be what you are thinking about. That said, finder still sucks.
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Probably, but I hope not. HN has a community of people really knowledgeable in a lot of areas who really try to maintain a high level of discourse. I fear that the priorities of monitization would alienate many members. I couldnt fault PG for wanting HN to pay for itself, but I hope the community itself would justify its remaining as it is.
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People act as if flash is being abandoned. Its not. Mobile Flash is. Several new smart-phones and tablets nowadays use browsers with REAL FLASH on it, so there is no need to continue development on mobile flash. That's all that happened. No big win for anyone.

Adobe has been focusing on html5, as have the rest of the web, and imho, Adobe has some great tools to author content in html5 already.
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I went from being a total Windows junkie to loving OSX since I switched over in May. No regrets. My windows desktop is left sitting, while I use my MacBook Pro all the time. I don't know exactly what you consider dumbed down, while some parts are now hidden, they can easily be found with minimum effort.
> But there was no good reason to remove the 'all app expose' feature, leaving only the within app expose. They either just overlooked it or want to brainwash users into some sort of app centric paradigm.

Do you mean the "Show all Windows for the current app"? I'm pretty sure it's still there. Might have a different gesture tho.
I loved Gassée's Freudian slip at 0:10:44:

"... now I'm a vulture capi... er, venture capitalist."

His story of getting himself fired from Apple by Scully a bit prior to that was also quite amusing and revealing of his frank nature.

I also loved Bill Atkinson's story at 18:17 paraphrasing Steve Jobs convincing him to drop out of med school and join Apple:

"You know how fun it is to surf on the front edge of a wave? Now think about the poor guy dog-paddling on the tail end of the same wave... it's no fun! You go the same distance, you know, but this guy's just eating the back of the wave; this guy's surfing. Come to Apple and surf!"

And finally, for those wanting to skip the bulk of the video and go straight to the part with Gassée discussing NeXT and Be, it's at 58:22.
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