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I always thought that the text shortcuts are intuitive and easy to remember. Shortcuts you are used to are always going to be easier to remember than new ones – that is always going to distort your view. I wouldn’t put to much weight on that.

You navigate text using the arrow keys on their own (characters and lines) or with one of two modifiers: Alt (words and paragraphs) and Command (lines and text fields). If you use no modifiers you are moving around one character (left, right) or line (up, down) at a time. Alt allows you to move from word to word (left, right) or paragraph to paragraph (up, down). Command navigates to the beginning and end of the line (left, right) or text field (up, down). As you can see there is a clear and straightforward hierarchy.

People are already used to using the arrow keys to navigate text. The modifier keys do nothing more than what they are supposed to do: The arrow keys still do similar stuff than before, it’s only slightly modified. This is an excellent example of picking awesome keyboard shortcuts.

You can add Shift to any of those combinations to select instead of just moving the cursor. Command-Left moves the cursor the the beginning of the line, Command-Shift-Left selects everything between the current position of the cursor and the beginning of the line.

Shift is used for selecting things everywhere, no matter the OS. OS X definitely picks the right modifier for selecting text and everything is still consistent with moving around in text. Anyone who knows how to move around in text can easily be taught how to select text: It’s exactly the same, only with Shift.

If you use Backspace and Delete (which is Fn-Backspace on keyboards without the Delete key) together with Alt or Command you can delete words or lines respectively (as you would expect).

Again, OS X remains consistent. Backspace and Delete work with exactly the same modifiers in exactly the same way as the arrow keys. This behavior is once again easy to teach.

This all seems crystal clear to me and I’m loving it very much. I think all the key combinations make intuitive sense.

I hope I could also explain why I think that OS X is so consistent and intuitive in this regard.
Has someone tried using this "overhead planes" query with Siri?

It should be possible because Siri uses Wolfram Alpha for some questions.
"everything just works". haha. I like your sarcasm

I hear that so often from Mac fans,... just after they get done telling me about their latest problem.

As an owner/user of 4 macs, 3 windows machines and 3 ubuntu machines my personal mac experience has had no more or less problems than my windows or ubuntu experiences.
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Aside from the prison/leo system mentioned below, Drug cartels have a vested interest in the continued war on drugs. There is no way they could reap the profits they currently get in any other way.
I find it hard to take these sorts of rants seriously. It's a user who wants to do things their own way, but not bother learning how exactly that is done. I call this mixed-level behaviour - e.g. users who won't use the built-in functionality, but not understand or correctly use the alternative more technical methods.

Take the mail example, Mail.app already lets him export his mail box, delete his mail etc. He never needed to rifle through ~/Library to get at it. However if he's tech savvy enough to want to do it the manual way, then he should know how to fire up the terminal to access ~/Library, or more simply by holding the option key and choosing "Library" from the go menu. I don't this is breaking osx.

While I can't vouch for why he has a magnitude of locked files, given the mail example I have a fair idea of how he's gotten in that situation. While os x does give him the option to gloss past certain locked files. He's likely seeing the error because he's removed files which are "spoken for" (i.e in use), these are often located in ~/Library and it's kind of the point of why ~/Library is hidden. Again, if he wants to be tech-savvy, he should just rm the files, or rm the contents of the trash folder. (Or if it was mail.app responsible, just originally remove the mail from inside Mail.app)

OSX certainly has some way to go in addressing this kind of mixed level behaviour, but it's not going to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot.

About the other features: while I don't appreciate the iOS-ificiation of mac os, it's trivial to turn these learning-curve reducing features off, and on laptops I find they make more sense than they do when using a mouse + keyboard.
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F.lux is actually available for all platforms! I've been using it on Windows for a while, one of my favorite small utilities.
He's referring to "the modifier key symbols you can see in Mac OS X menus". http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343

Only 1 out of 5 appears on the Apple keyboard. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/B
This is like the 3rd time I've seen this submitted by a new user account in the last day.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227929 (by new user quadrix)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221160 (by quadrix again)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3228256 (by new user greenale)

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=makramer09 (new user or shill account makramer09)

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgeorge (new user or shill account jgeorge)

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alexenko (new user or shill account alexenko)
And what if my workflow involves making multiple files based off the same document? Say I making png buttons in Photoshop. I change the test to "Order" pick save as, type "order.png", change the text to "Cancel" pick save as, type "cancel.png", change the text to "Help" pick save as, type "help.png".

It sounds like that work flow just got massively tedious.
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That's because alt-arrow isn't a ANSI control sequence. What should it map to? You can see what your terminal is sending with this command:

stty -icanon -echo; od -c

Hit your key sequence then hit return a bunch of times until the line comes out. You'll see some sort of ESC sequence.

When done, control-c then type "stty sane" (it will not echo).

For iTerm I get "\e[1;9D". Terminal, interestingly is giving me "\e\eD". When I turn off my "Use option as meta key" preference in Terminal it gives me "\eD". Which is the same as plain left arrow.

Also, neither of those escape sequences does anything in bash for me.
Hopefully Tom will let me know when the H264 version of YouTube has the same features, speed and usability as the one that uses a flash player.
Random guess: this may not be a full temperature sensor but just an on/off switch that is triggered when the temperature is above some limit.
Pairs nicely with my sonic screwdriver...
So why use cloud rather than ’Internet-based'?
I don't think that argument holds so strong.

Cops don't just get fired when crime goes down. The number of police employed is pretty flexible, you can keep them on if you want. There are plenty of good uses for police.
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I've not used lion so am not familiar with it, but going from what someone else is saying above, you need to 'duplicate' then 'save'. If it's autosaving, this doesn't make sense conceptually either. Why would the app not be autosaving once the duplicated document has been created? Why do you need to save separately?
I think I use tools like Divvy http://mizage.com/#macdivvy more than I use the zoom icon, it makes it so much easier to position windows..
What proportion of OSX users use 30" displays?

Hell, what proportion of them use desktop-variety computers?
Nice easter egg.
I think as the employee gets a larger and larger influence over decisions about their own compensation, the line between 'failure to do your job correctly in the best interests of your employer' and 'embezzling funds' becomes more and more blurry. And the latter of course is more than just a firing issue. So perhaps not quite the same, although where exactly you draw the line I guess is subjective.
Should I upload a picture of my Macbook Pro keyboard? Because the funky characters are not on there. Just the words, Fn, Control and Alt/Option. Command is the only one that has a symbol as well as a word.
We'll have eliminated the means (smaller banks)...

Smaller banks wouldn't be able to sell securities they believe will go down? I didn't realize that buying low and selling at the peak required scale.

As of now, I don't see what's changed since 2008.

That's because you aren't paying attention. The I-Banks are now bank holding companies, the regulators have laid claim to several floors of their buildings and are imposing massive new programs, the banks have figured out that they need more stringent underwriting standards for homeowners and have drastically cut back on loans [1].

[1] The market for home loans is now over 90% Fannie/Freddie - strangely, the agencies haven't figured out that home loans should be reduced.
When I was 15 I spent a lot of time working on my own compression algorithm... The idea was to treat the data as one giant integer and divide it by 2 recursively, each time reducing the size of the data by one bit.

The hard part was finding a way to store the remainder of the division if the data was odd...
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Amusingly, the comp.compression FAQ that this page cites includes a discussion of this very patent from way back when it was submitted. Go to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-8.htm... and grep for "5,533,051".
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> end of Apple java

I'm not sure why that would be seen as a problem. The situation where Apple were maintaining their own Java implementation was at least slightly anomalous; returning responsibility to Sun/Oracle and OpenJDK makes a lot of sense.
? thanks for making my question seem dumber
What I understand you're saying is that the keyboard shortcuts may typically be more efficient to perform in Windows. That could be true but it's a different topic from discoverability, where straight up full text search is better than collision hampered and segmented expansion of menus.

Beyond the basics (cut/copy/paste/new/save/quit/...), there's a fair chance we don't know which sub-menu the function we're searching for resides in (and shouldn't have to care).
"yellow box" was more or less the NeXTStep stuff, the Classic emulation was the "blue box".

http://lowendmac.com/musings/boxes.shtml

Originally, Carbon was not in the plans at all (the yellow box corresponded to what is nowadays referred to as Cocoa). Adding that was a substantial additional task, but probably well worth it.
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Yeah, sorry, I meant blue box.
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> Do you realize how many jobs there are at stake here.

Of course. Do you realize how many more people are saddled with the cost of providing those worthless jobs[1]?

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Parable_of_th...
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What exactly can't you do in html5 that you can do in flash?
The guy does't sound like an advanced user and may be using a sledgehammer to pound in a nail. He's not complaining of bluescreens, he's complaining of corrupt registry keys, which can do as little as preventing the one app from installing the way he wants.

Reinstalling Windows is a sledgehammer here. Looking up his error code, all he needed to do was reregister the library. If he's not an advanced user and so doesn't feel comfortable using the CLI, then it's not surprising a tool would be used. But reinstalling Windows to resolve this is like rebooting your computer because you want to turn caps lock off.
Perhaps add some templates or examples to give a clear picture of what the output will be.
Apple has become a zombie!

Why?

1. They have lost their Zen design philosophy - it has come to the point of ridiculousness with the new features in Lion; features for the sake of features. Since Steve is gone, there is probably no way back.

2. They have lost their perceived moral superiority - system closedness, App Store censorship, sueing people left and right, don't seem to care one bit about chinese labour conditions; they are worse than Microsoft or IBM ever were.

3. They have lost their coolness - the cool kids dig free, independent software; they are not the "Think different." company anymore, they attract people who desperately seek to belong to the masses. They attract sheeple who buy an iPad to tell their friends that they, too, have an iPad.

Summary: The Apple of today is a heartless consumer electronics giant, just like and worse than any other out there. It still sucks the last drops of blood out of the spirit it used to have in the past.
If you play this game, you can stretch anything to be "on topic".
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I'm very happy OS X, though not perfect, is the way it is.

Many switchers expect OS X to behave like their old OS's. It's like they get imprinted on the first OS they used and can't move on.

They just don't "get it". Maybe OSX is too visual for them and they don't understand the trade-offs made to keep it simple and consistent. They don't see the 30+ years of tradition in the UI.

On top of that, Apple stupidly doesn't have a manual for learning the cool tricks - like holding down the command key when you click on a window title in the Finder to see your path history.

Maybe you and O'Reilly need one of the many O'Reilly books on the subject. This one is one of my favorite.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920014553.do?green=CC950...
We're currently working on this idea for Denver Startup Weekend. Teacher texting tools have been "hot", lately - but we think we have a new twist.

We're building a web app that would make it easy for teachers to send parents feedback in class. Is Johnny being a jerk? With three taps on your iPhone (or 3 clicks on your laptop), Johnny's parents will get a text, email or call letting them know about his behavior.
I can't wait to see produce that is organically farmed by robots.
The ibm+cobol and amazon+php pairings are laughable.

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"Definately" need to run spellcheck...
Bah, Unlambda is clearly artificial. You want something that is ridiculous in a natural way, you use Iota: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot
That's only true under the assumption that popularity is the only factor in visibility. On hacker news that's not even true entirely because there's a temporal factor: new postings remain visible for at least a short time. However, there may exist other possible ways to artificially increase visibility in order to promote diversity. Some of these methods are the research subject of Paul Resnick at the University of Michigan who is listed as an advisor.
I have (fond?) memories of using Get Info on various applications and setting how much memory they would take from the OS, and then going to About This Macintosh to check how much memory I had left over.

Incidentally, up until version 7.6, the Mac OS was simply called "System", as in "System 6" and "System 7". (Systems 1-5 were rapidly iterated through and forgotten--even System 6 still ran on a Mac Plus). Mac OS 7.6 was the first version that was designed to run on clones, hence the change from generic "System" to "Mac OS".
>There's a difference between believing someone I know and trust (in this case, my mother), and some random guy on HN (who I don't know at all, much less trust) who claims some of his friends (who I don't even know exist) claimed something.

I can play that game, too:

There's a difference between believing someone I know and trust (in this case, my father, uncle, and the fathers and uncles of close friends), and some random guy on HN (who I don't know at all, much less trust) who claims some sociologist (who I never previously heard of) claimed something.

>You must be joking.

If it's as prevalent as you seem to believe, you should have no problem producing some concrete examples.

>Assuming the source of the initial report of the woman getting spat on was the Coast Guard, this might be true. But there is no indication in the FOX story that this was the case.

Since you clearly missed it the first time, I'll repeat myself:

>The first sentence of the story is:
"The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harrassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters."
There's something very refreshing to read about a startup that isn't in software. Not to say there's anything wrong with software, but I--like a lot of HN readers, especially in the Bay Area--tend to hear orders of magnitude more news about web apps than robots.

The really exciting thing, of course, is that there are CS techniques and ideas that can be applied to both: machine learning springs to mind immediately. Robotics and web programming aren't entirely dissimilar which is exciting--if I get bored of what I'm doing now, I could reasonably go into robotics or several other seemingly unrelated fields.
I'm not in North America any more (moved to Chile), so haven't been catching up on the occupy movement in the last few weeks. So I'm no longer as familiar with the status of the movement.

But your question strikes me as odd for a few reasons, and maybe I'm just not understanding what you're asking. Is there something that Facebook and Twitter, which were very capable of being leveraged during the Arab Spring, is not doing? Is there something special about Occupy Wherever that these tools aren't working anymore?

Are you looking to help get involved by developing an app?
The internet and the web aren't the same thing. Please don't talk as if they were.

This is more important than it may seem at a first glance. Non-techies already tend to genuinely confuse the two. Those people have no problem buying a crippled data plans that will let them query web servers and nothing else, because they will believe they "have the internet" on their phones. But when you're behind a big NAT, with no public IP and most ports filtered, you don't have an internet connection. (Even according the big French carriers themselves. Thank goodness, They since stopped calling their data plans "internet" in their ads.)

The obvious effect is that the web is taking over the internet. As it does, it becomes increasingly acceptable to block nearly everything else (for home connections at least).

That would surely "tame the internet".
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Not all apps are self-contained. There are plugins, drivers, extensions to the OS etc... That's why having an install script/uninstall script that the OS can reference from one place is useful. Lots of install scripts also have repair functions, as well as options to modify the installation. Which is why having a my software control panel is useful.
I thought the drop in crime rates coincides with the advent of video games. More teenagers spending time on the consoles and less time shooting each other.
Right, there is no "about" link :(. It's just like any other landing page for a very disappointing content/product.
I dig.

Also, you're so right.

Johnny really is a total jerk.
Maybe not in general as a species, but I find it hard to believe that on the scale of a single pack/pride/etc they wouldn't learn not to mess with (or at least be more cautious of) humans after 1 or 2 of their own were killed.
Well at least we know that there was no valid prior art. So at least that part of the patent review worked correctly.
People still use ColdFusion? wow :O
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Not true. You only have to connect to steam once for activation and to patch. Otherwise you can chill in offline mode all you want.
No CHRP Mac ever shipped. The closest anyone ever came was Motorola with the StarMax 6000. The CHRP spec evolved into the New World ROM architecture used from the original iMac to the end of the PowerPC era, though.

There was indeed a PPC version of NT that was designed for CHRP. But, separate from that, Apple also seriously considered using a custom version of NT with a Mac-like GUI to replace the Mac OS. It was one of many options under consideration along with Be, NeXT, and Solaris.
I have strong feeling that majority of money flow comes from Bitcoin-related services. Would be interesting to see real numbers.
> Just don't use closures :)

So very much not Javascript then
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"Mac OS: The button instructs the app to make the window larger to fit the open document."

As others have pointed out, the zoom button is completely arbitrary, and doesn't simply fit the open document.

--- Examples ---

Terminal: fills the entire screen

Safari: instructs the app to fit the open document. (what happens if you have multiple tabs open? which documents gets fitted?)

iTunes: SHRINKS the entire player to a mini player (how did they determine that a "zoom" button should shrink something is beyond me)

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These are all apps that come with the system, so there is really no excuse for such arbitrary behavior. There are numerous other 3rd party apps (firefox, filezilla, etc) that simply fill up the screen.

I call it the Surprise Button because whenever you click it, you have no idea what's going to happen.
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"VBA: Zynga: People seem to hate you." that's a fact!
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Their response to this concern on the FAQ at Kickstarter is as follows:

"No one has yet made an effective attempt to leverage the strengths of the Internet to improve the quality of information we consume, at the place that we consume it. In essence, we are bringing crowd-sourced peer-review to the event horizon where information is produced—the thousands of news sites and blogs on the Internet. To encourage quality, we will employ a reputation framework.

We’ve closely researched over 20 current and previous online projects such as ReframeIt, SpinSpotter, ThirdVoice, Stickis, Fleck, ShiftSpace, WebClipper, zBubbles, and others – as well as offline efforts such as FAIR and Media Matters. All have key conceptual flaws which ultimately are or were fatal limitations on their effectiveness and scalability. Hypothes.is is a direct result of our conclusion that previous efforts have missed the essential ingredients of success, and has been designed to address each of them."
That's awesome that Dwolla is moving 350 million a year, but I wonder how many total transactions that sums up to. Since they're charging per transaction, showing a net transfer amount doesn't really give any ideas about total revenue or if they are profitable yet.

It's an interesting price model for sure, but I'm surprised they just didn't do the typical "under-cut everyone else" strategy. It would be hard for me to stomach seeing $1 million transfer through my system and only 25 cents getting deposited in the company bank account. I mean that's a %0.000025 cut, and since this service is so convenient, I imagine they could charge more.

Remember, things aren't priced at what they are worth but what people will pay for them. Even a 0.5% cut gives you 5k on a million dollar transaction, and that's still tons better than paypal.
I guess that explains why people complain that pharmacies refuse to give them cold medicine [0].

[0] "Give me some pseudoephedrine geez!!" http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1488355
Drops in rape rates coincide with the increased availability of pornography and prostitutes.

So I wouldn't be surprised if violence decreases with the availability of alcohol/drugs and entertainment.

I think kids are probably less likely to get into gangs if they're at home playing WoW and smoking pot.