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I just got a new Air, and began using Lion, I have to say I've been very, very pleased. Especially on this machine it seems like it was naturally made for this type of computer. I use Alfred, but confession, I sometimes find myself using Launchpad... Though this seems to be true of most new OS X features they've introduced over the years, I plan not to use them, decide to give them a try, and end up really liking it.

The only thing I can't do is the natural scrolling, because I switch between too many computers at work.

I share the App Store concern, but I think they're going to find the right solution, developers have always been a key part of their plans, they get things wrong of course, but they tend to make it right, just not always as fast as people want - understandable gripe.
I'm fairly sure will be almost always free (except for live shows, and physical records as merchandise).

Music was free before copyright came along in the last couple of centuries, and is natural for it to be free again now that distribution and sharing is even easier. Already there are plenty of people releasing their music for free, and there is no reason why everyone shouldn't do the same.
The first thing I tried was `uname`, but it didn't work. I was kind of expecting it to do something clever.
It will be argued that reputation is a way of keeping down the innovative little guy who is most in need of funding.

Also, any reputation service will be opt-in, so we can imagine that cons will just move elsewhere. Also, intermediaries may have a vested interest in remaining ignorant of scams.
The confusion is in part perpetuated by Apple, who can't seem to make up their mind on the matter.

My UK MacBook Pro keyboard has "alt" and doesn't mention "option" at all. They have also shipped keyboards that just say option (no mention of alt). Many of their keyboards have both printed on them.

In most of their user-facing documentation it is referred to as the "Option" key. In Cocoa, it is the "Alternate" key.

The menus don't mention either: they use the ⌥ symbol. Which is on some, but not all of their keyboards.
I'd happily agree with you if Aaron would have written that he agreed with those laws. If you think a law is unjust then I think that you should not be doing the authorities work for them.
Anybody have experience with Hackruiter or TopProspect as alternatives?
It's also possible to convincingly falsify that information, and appear to be reliable to uninformed investors.

The market will provide a way to find only reliable investments, but it will also provide many ways for swindlers to find their marks.

I think a lot of people are going to have really great ideas funded that would otherwise be impossible, and a lot of people are going to be cheated out of their money. Unregulated crowdfunding is more of a gamble than an investment.
linux kernel code is good enough for c examples.
As an aside, I hate this post for one reason and one reason only: the hyperlink at the bottom alluring like-minded techies for a job in his/her company.

And that is not just in this post. Almost every such post that talks about something that strongly resonates with a techie and then drops the..."oh...btw...we are hiring..." at the fag end.

Please do mention if you require a green card or a H1-B or something related to residence status required of the position. I am forced to open up the line of communication with a are-you-willing-to-sponsor-a-H1-B. Only two out of a whole bunch I emailed had the courtesy to reply.
It seems that every week there's a couple posts complaining about recruiters these days.

It's one of the reasons why I've launched my own site to try and improve recruiting (for designers, at least): http://folyo.me
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Ask HN: who prefers the Chrome Offline GMail Reader to the new GMail interface?
>What about the increase in corruption in Mexico? An increase in corruption means more criminals can have drug businesses without being stopped by the cops.

The article isn't about why prices went down, it's about why violence went down. If corruption leads to lower prices and less violence, corruption is a good thing.
I am waiting for Google Voice or something similar to get here so that I can have all calls from an unknown number go straight to voicemail (including not actually ringing).

It is not even that I get that many calls but it would be nice to know that you won't have some guy call you.

I can't even imagine how annoying it must be for people who have business cards out there.
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What? I don't think air runs on iOS.
That means that in another 4.5 years EVERYONE will be allowed to use this superior compression algorithm without having to pay royalties.
Sorry about raising what I had hoped was a dead issue, but I tried the Chrome Offline GMail Reader (which obviously also works when online) today, and I really like the simple interface - I think that Google should offer this as a more public option.
I don't think the intent here is to put others out of business. The intent is to force the legal system to clarify the rules for playing in a new disruptive game. In fact, if his plan succeeds, he will surely have many more competitors than the handful of companies at the fringes now. If the courts rule that the laws on the books regulating the industry are invalid, I'm sure Dwolla will thank him for suing them.

Besides,many Supreme Court cases originated with deliberately provocative lawsuits and/or violations of unclear or unjust laws.
I would say the visa problem is probably the biggest contributor to the current lack of available developer talent.

If the US ever relaxes its visa laws, I foresee a big drop-off in the demand for recruiters…
Python is "The new kid on the block"? It's about 4 years older than Ruby.

Also, C++ is the "new standard"? It's one of the oldest languages on the list.
That's the mantra we all repeat at work when somebody's Mac crashes or just generally makes life difficult in some way.

I've banished my Macbook to the corner of my office, where it will stay until the next time I go on foreign travel. For SC11, I brought along my Thinkpad X201 tablet with Debian and Stumpwm; it just works.
MacPorts and Fink try to create their own little microcosm of a Linux system complete with all libraries and utilities.

That's more like a philosophical (and failure prone) difference that both Fink and MacPorts intentionally abandoned through experience, not really a "miles ahead" difference.

Not reproducing Apple's OS dependencies is a nice idea, but let's say I want to use python2.7 with openssl 1.0. Apple only shipped openssl 0.9.8 in Lion. If I mix modules that use OpenSSL 1.0 and OpenSSL 0.9.8, weird stuff happens. Now what?

(The answer is: now you have to start reproducing OS dependencies. This only gets worse as the OS dependencies grow more stale).

They generally seem to fail at this because major packages are broken all the time and conflict in a million little ways with the system ones.

I haven't observed this.
Not all views are equal. Just because creationism is an alternative view doesn't mean it should be given the same weight as evolution.

Views are comprised of smaller discrete points which can be objectively measured. I think some people have dissected your arguments and determined that added up it comes up short when compared to the other view.
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tl;dr enormous thread fight about shortcuts, most useless one I've seen here.
Got to agree ... every OS these days seems to annoy me in huge ways. I was surprised after I moved to a Mac that it had huge usability issues and even a lot of basic bugs. For some reason I always just accepted that Apple nailed usability but OSX (Snow Leopard) was annoying as hell. I miss so much the standard ability to navigate menus with hotkeys in Windows. I'm forced to use the mouse for a huge number of things that I never had to in Windows.

But then in Windows there are an almost equally number of annoying things, the primary being the lack of a Unix-like environment by default. I end up going with Cygwin but that has all its own issues.

Then Linux is just a neverending pita with driver issues, crappy versions of things like Skype, no possibility of MS Office, etc.

In the end I don't particularly care what OS I use because I know each and every one is just going to require me to customise the crap out of it before I'm happy (I will say for Windows and Linux that I nearly always end up getting there, so far with OSX I'm not and I'm not optimistic about the future with the direction Apple is moving).
Never heard of them, actually.

But the recruiter space doesn't seem to need disruption, since it fundamentally only makes sense in a pre internet age. Today candidates can find any company they like online and apply right then and there. The same goes for any company which can contact a candidate directly (either through a his/her blog if the prospect has one or through any of a number of aggregator services).

Today recruiters are like travel agents -- mostly useless, except if you don't have the time to look stuff up yourself.
Its fruit of the forbidden tree. Look at drinking, North America is one of the few places where binge drinking has large appeal.

Creating a banned books like is creating a reading list. Simply by making something illegal you give it appeal.

Once legal most people realize that whatever it is that was banned is actually pretty boring.
Really? Well, I haven't used a rock tumbler since I was in elementary school, but it wasn't a matter of picking a few rocks up off the ground and letting it run overnight. The whole process took around a month. Each week you'd dump out the rocks, rinse off the grit thoroughly, and then start it back up with increasingly finer grit. At the end you do a burnishing run to get that final polished sheen. You also had to be informed in your selection of stones. Most random stones won't polish up at all. And you can't mix stones with significantly different characteristics (e.g. hardness) in the same batch or else you'll ruin it.

Of course, none of that changes the intent of the metaphor. But, I think that's pretty weak too.
I'm new here, but could we say many ASK Hn's are opinions disguised as facts?
Last time I used a Mac? As I said this is my first one ever.

My comparisons are the different behaviour between Mac, Linux and Windows or specifically how Windows and Linux are similar but Apple OS X is just slightly (annoyingly) different.

I right-click on a file there isn't any visible/intuitive option to move not copy that file to another location other than just copy it. Don't you find that weird? Forget keyboard shortcuts there are probably hundreds for each OS that nobody ever uses or knows about, in fact most people I know at work are shocked when shown CTRL+X, CTRL+V, CTRL+C. Yes Command+C copies, Command+V pastes but Command+X does nothing except play a mellow jazzy error sound.

I can't even delete a file using Delete key now you have to admit that's screwy! Pick a file, click to select press Delete - nothing happens.

Who knows maybe I'll get used it to that's my point for getting a Mac I'm just amazed at OS X's awkward differences between Windows and Linux. Different isn't bad it's just different.
I don't think he says he actually hacked this guy. What laws are you referring to?
Completely untrue. How do you explain Apple if that's the case?
If it catches on in retail - like coffee shops, restaurants, etc..., I bet that average will go far down. Sounds like the average is weighted towards with the renters/landlords they have.
Looks like I was able to do it. I'm not sure if they will be happy to get a result in C#, though.

Also, not as easy as I thought it would be. A friend had to give me some help with the math to match the stripes.

Edit: How long did you guys take to figure this out? I took nearly 4 hours.
People have been doing l10n for user interfaces for decades. There's always a way to make things fit and still convey meaning, even with languages that tend to have crazy-long words.
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While that is what Hadoop is about, and it is successful at it, it is very far from being efficient; In my experience, you pay 10x compared to good use of the same hardware. "obscene IO bandwidth" is right, but at 10% of the practical maximum.

This is a tradeoff that people in computing have been happily taking for years -- e.g. using a higher level language is a similar kind of tradeoff (use Python instead of C - pay x10 in performance, get x10 shorter development time).

But this tradeoff only makes sense if the x10 thing you get is cheaper than the x10 thing you pay for. With hadoop, you pay x10 for hardware/computing time and more for administration (unless you have some kind of EC2 elastic mapreduce, at which point you pay x20 for hardware/computing but no administration cost), and you save some development time.

Two hadoop projects I was consulting on (or rather, consulting _off_ hadoop) were paying ~$10K/month each to Amazon for a while, when <$20K in programmer time for each reduced it to working on one beefy machine that was already located in the office, with ~$100/month cost (power, cooling).
Well yes, if you don't use your head.

Falling for these kind of swindles have always been possible and as an investor you can, and should, ask for whatever information you feel you need. The fact that there is no longer an official requirement for what to show doesn't mean that it isn't still fraud to show something that is false (so even if the books haven't been audited if they contain false information, they still go to jail). It can still happen to you today, the guys just have to fake the audit as well.

On the other hand, how much information do you really require to invest in bingocardcreator.com or bobs burgers?
>I should switch to Terminal every time I want to toggle hidden file visibility?

You only need to run that command once.
The path of a lot of system administrators from amateur to professional resembles that of a child who is exceptionally gifted at building erector sets being hired to construct a pedestrian bridge. Then, if the bridge doesn’t fall, the kid gets to build bridges designed to handle interstate traffic.

This is the key point. It's SO HARD to grow as a sysadmin, because there are very few people who can pass on information. We have pretty much one textbook (TPoSNA: http://everythingsysadmin.com/ ), and a few organizations like LOPSA and USENIX, but there are almost no Windows or Mac specific sysadmins who join.

There are also places where regulation is already happening, albeit in a top down manner, like HIPPA. I doubt top down "you must do this" regulation would help, but accreditation where people have to know and ought to follow best practices would likely do more good.
Wow. Certainly a different perspective. I thought Flash really changed the way we view the web for the better (video, audio, animation, interaction) pushed by artists who wanted these things for their own creative fulfillment, and standards should be grateful. I remember being told by pedantic standards advocates that all those things were not the purpose of the web and had no business, yet we did it any way out of "irresponsible" desire for "shiny toy" (I do find those descriptions slightly offensive, btw -- "pedantic" and "hyper-technical" are both terms I've heard such people use as words of praise for themself, but I don't mean them as compliments so I suppose I deserve the offense.)

I just wish you could do your thing, and I could do mine. Well, congrats, you win.
And then when the embedded Google TV becomes outdated, and there's no more software updates being published for it? You get left with an expensive TV that you have to buy the latest Google TV device for anyway.

I want my TV to do nothing else except display pictures. I can handle hooking other devices up to it to get my content.
False analogy. The guy doing 60mph does not compete with the one doing 55, and even if he was the reward is simply reaching his destination a few minutes earlier, not millions of $$$ that are at stake here.
I would say the example recruiter is not actually a connector. Based upon my understanding of the term, a connector has deeper connections than that, and is capable of actually putting people and concepts together in his/her head in a way that is relatively unique.

The recruiter described sounds like a more technologically advanced version of a beggar: ask everyone you ever come across for a handout, and you'll eventually get one.

Idiot recruiter story: in college, I did part-time work for the Corps of Engineers. It was basically an intership program, though with poorer guidance than you'd expect of one. I kept getting recruiter calls to work on Ada projects, despite it being nowhere on my resume. Recruiters refused to acknowledge my very relevant work experience (multithreaded C++) because they don't consider military experience, despite the fact I had nothing to do with the military...
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I don't buy that raising the incarceration rate leads to lowered crime unless you're putting people away for life. Seems more likely to create a larger number of people on the street with few job skills and a criminal record. Prison is where people who dabble in criminality become criminals for life.

Now, the idea that the drugs involved in the drug glut that brought on the peak in crime have been forced to lower prices without lowering risk - that seems plausible. Venkatesh's books showed us how little foot soldiers were making when the prices were twice what they are now.
And I completely agree that Adobe lost their way. I've felt this way for several years now.
I do not remember BeOS lacking networking, it may have lacked TCP/IP at one point, but so did MacOS at the time, you had to get it and a PPP app via a third party application. My memory could be failing me on this one, but I don't seem to recall not having networking in BeOS. My point though was not to compare BeOS to now, but BeOS to the Mac OS that was shipping in which case, besides for a few items and apps, BeOS was ready and would have been a huge improvement with little investment in development. They would have needed to provide a virtulization environment for the old OS, printing support as well as a few other odds and ends. Remember most OS's of the time where not multiuser, security was not at the forefront and most where on dial-up. Comparing what OSX became to what they where trying to accomplish at the time is a little bit of apples and oranges. They where touting shared memory and symmetric multiprocessing. It was still at that basic of a level that the old MacOS was so far behind on. To many observers BeOS fit the bill perfectly and would have had the users on a modern OS in short order. In the end they made the better choice but many, I would dare to say most of us just did not see the logic at the time.
Yes, I ported it and though the JVM performed well, it is beaten by the optimizing C++ compiler.

https://github.com/spullara/Benchmarks/blob/master/Server/Va...
This guy is clearly a complete moron, but the thing that annoyed me the most was not the fact that he seems to think he's a genius for being able to use Google, it's his total misuse of the phrase "work cut out for".

Also, consider what you’re sending in this email. What if this guy had sent me an email trying to extort me, threaten me, whatever? I could turn this over to the authorities and they’d have their work cut out for them.
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I'd like to think so, and it certainly would be nice if it turned out that way, but it's not entirely clear to me that that's inevitable.

A difference between investments of this kind and ordinary purchase transactions is that in the latter situation, the business selling the product expects to have repeat business. That is, there's a cycle wherein the business can sell a product, and the purchaser's reaction to the product can propagate through the market to influence subsequent transactions.

In the case of an investment like this, however, the good being purchased, which is a future return, may not even be expected to be produced for years after the transaction occurs. There's no chance for the information cycle to work; all the investment occurs up front. A swindler may not even need to establish a positive reputation to attract investment; a good story would likely suffice. Indeed, that's the whole point, isn't it?

I like the idea, but I think the per-person limits should be reduced by a factor of 10, maybe even 100. That won't lock swindlers out, but it will force them to work quite a bit harder.
You can drag a window to a corner to get it to fill a quarter screen. Kind of hard to hit the lower corners (it is not the screen corner but the top of the taskbar).
Lubin may also want to investigate another rigged scheme swindling Maryland residents, for which there are no income requirements or limits on amounts-at-risk. In fact, a defenseless Marylander could lose his entire life savings, and then even more by maxing his credit cards, with absolutely no legal recourse. The URL for this scam is:

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I would have read with bated breath if you'd explained the problem with recruiting, and how it can be fixed.

But instead, you just shared a link. To your paid service.

I can feel the marketing, and I don't like it.
I think the cons run the reputation system. Its just gambling anyway. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be any risk. So how can you tell the difference between a "genuine" reputation system, and one that has been gamed by con-men? I don't think the sample size will be big enough to distinguish between cons and legitimate failures.
Sorry my post does look to reflect that they did, but yes the full CHRP never shipped, but the portions that allowed NT to run on the PPC did. There was a working version of NT that ran on Apples and the clones.
Great quote: "In my own naive way, I would never build a company anywhere but Iowa so maybe I just don't know any better. My personal feeling is, if you want to build it, where you are is just an excuse. Figure out what the area has to offer you and then leverage that. Hustle your ass off and make it work."
You want to use a distro with an LTS release. Switching to Arch and being surprised that pacman -Syu causes occasional breakage is not a failure of Linux at large.
Of course, if they demand a "private cloud" (WE CAN'T JUST LET AMAZON STORE OUR DATA THINK OF THE CHILDREN), then it's just on several servers in the basement :-)
I find that's one of the worst things about recruiters, not only do they have a really high number of false positives, they are awful at picking out non-traditional candidates that any engineer would say "wow" to. The only possible function I can think of for recruiters is to shuffle around mediocre, faceless programmers from one large company to another.
I wanted to scream out loud while reading this. This. This is why we can't have nice things. BECAUSE NOBODY CAN TOLERATE RISK ANYMORE.

YES, if you make investing possible, some investors may get exposed to swindles! Deal with it! It's worth it for investing to be possible!
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