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Mr Jobs dedicated their last days of his life to draw and ketchup things on paper on the hospital.

Does the reporter honestly think that he hated the stylus?. Of course not, he just realized that it was not practical at the time, it was not practical to carry pounds of extra weight for using stylus as you need a backplane active matrix that consumes battery all the time.

In the video you see Atmel people drawing and the enormous lag it has, this was unacceptable for Jobs of course.

I made my own homebrew software for the DS lite that used the stylus, for instant(no perceptible lag)sketching, with antialiasing and 3d. It worked very well, but after a month of using it, the screen wore out because the screen is resistive and plastic. A little expensive note pad!!
> Spaniards can feel united in the fact that they are all Spaniards

I see your point, but Spain is not the best example. See: the Basques, Catalans, etc...
It's because of cross-origin restrictions. Try http://enable-cors.org/ or the site itself. I guess they could use a proxy if they want it to work for every URL.
I've started programming at the age of 9. I remember, my first language was PHP. I really didn't like it, just wanted a point to start from. Then, after my switch from windows to linux, I learned bash (well, it's not so programming language, but it was funny too).

While falling in love with bash and system administration, I found Python, and read it's great for system administration purposes as well. Oh guys, it's very cute language, I then also learned Django and began interesting in web development more and more, and got an aim to write clean and simple code.

After playing enough with Python and creating some app in it, I started being interested in Ruby. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Rails, great community and developer gems ecosystem — everything is so cool. I love it most of all.

However recently I've tried node.js and it expressed me as well. I don't know node much, but I love it anyway and I hope I'll learn it well, too.
Not that it diminishes the interestingness of this post (quite the opposite), but it's worth noting that this is not achieved using plain-vanilla JavaScript. From the product page:

"The high-performance parts of the application are written using a performance-specific extension to JavaScript, called KL (Kernel Language). This language is similar in scope and syntax to JavaScript, but has some key differences that optimize it for writing high-performance code.

Fabric applications are described as a dependency graph (think of a flow chart). The dependency graph describes data, and the transformations that must happen to that data.
Fabric analyses the graph to discover where it is possible to perform tasks in parallel. (task-based decomposition)
Fabric analyses the graph to discover where it is possible to perform the same instruction on lots of data at the same time.

All of this is possible because Fabric has the LLVM compiler embedded within it. This means that applications are dynamically compiled on target. The Fabric plug-in has to be written for each platform, but Fabric applications only have to be written once.

Fabric handles CPU multi-threading automatically, but the developer must explicitly write code for the GPU using OpenCL."
I'll have to look into the heroku then. I've had an amazon AWS account for some time (though I've mainly used it just to try things out myself before recommending to a client), and so don't appear to be able to use the one year option.

Thanks for the links!
The way I understand it, 'Muck Work' was meant to be a go-to place for people specialized in all the things musicians would like to outsource. To my knowledge, it never launched (Hey Derek: am I wrong?)

Regarding trust issues, that is an excellent point. It is ironic that you would like to help, but can't for lack of trust.

The easiest way to overcome that is to make small promises, then keep them/over-deliver.

Most people who try to help musicians have good intentions, but are not actually effective. They make promises, then fail to deliver, leading to disappontment for all.

My two cents: a person who would like to help should just identify an area in which they have real experience, and focus on that, insted of 'dabbling'.

For example, I have professional photographers, sound engineers, designers who essentially donate their time, or work at a huge discount, as a way of supporting my work. I find that VERY helpful.

As a counter-example, I've had people offer to help cold-call potential clients, but these people have no experience cold-calling, so it has been a big waste of time.

oDesk has been infinitely more helpful in a matter of months than any of the 4-5 people in 1st world countries that I've had try to help over the years (which led, in turn, to me being extremely cautious about help).
I'd like to know the set of people that:

* Go beyond Alpha's capabilities in home use

* See the need for full-on Mathematica

* Are dedicated enough to make full use of it

* Don't already have access to full-on Mathematica somehow (work/uni computer, etc)

* Can't buy a student license ($140)

* Really wants to spend $300 on it.

Hm, how will I ever figure all that out? :)
The myth of shareholder capitalism (2010)
Are the slides for that talk available?
There is a lot of emotion people have in a question like this.

I think the best answer is BeOS wasn't as complete as NeXT. Specifically it had a fairly poor network stack (it was being retooled around the time BeOS became part of palm, no idea if it was finished)

It lacked the kind of print support MacOS and NeXT had. It lacked the same caliber of internationalization. All fixable stuff but also all stuff requiring some investment.

It also remains to be seen how well BeOS would actually scale, it was an RTOS with a UI, it could absolutely do sexy stuff on low powered machines of the day, that doesn't mean it could run a 12core dual i7 machine well. Maybe it could, we really don't know.
NeXT was a bigger, more mature company with more assets and revenue, so even if you discount Jobs, buying NeXT for 429mm is less overpriced than Be for 275mm.
Adobe manager puts partial blame on Apple for mobile Flash failure
I think you are over worried about your educational background, and its kind of messing with you. If google or anybody thought your background was crappy, you wouldn't be interviewing there at all.
Show HN: Search through whole lists - Listsear.ch
Hacker News is ostensibly a discussion among people interested in, trying to found, or working at startups, and I think I can safely assert that at-will employment is a clean simple win for startup founders.

Agreed, at-will employment gives the general audience here more advantages. However I wonder if limiting the power of start ups would help start ups?

If it becomes common for some start ups to try to claw back stock options, then highly valuable employees might, in future, not accept stock options in lieu of salary, since they have a legitimate fear that it might amount to nothing. This means start ups might have to pay higher salaries, and requiring more capital. However if a company were to agree (somehow legally binding) that it would never use "at will" to fire someone (i.e. it will never fire someone for no reason), then a highly valuable employees might accept stock options in lieu of salary.
An odd rant. I will say that lion has been the buggiest version of macos x ever, but I suspect it's because they futzed with the file save APIs which touch everything. If it's still this flaky at the dot 4 release I might start whining.
In other words, a better headline would be "Fabric Engine fast as multithreaded C++ (and can be glued to JS)"
When researching potential clients I needed to Google close to 1,500 different companies. They were all listed in Excel already. Searching for them one by one would have taken ages, so I looked for a way to speed up the process without finding anything (just see http://listsear.ch/?e=searchlists).

Listsear.ch is the product of that "itch".

After copying in a list (see http://listsear.ch/?e=movies or http://listsear.ch/?e=firms) and clicking 'Search list' a link to Google is generated for each list item. All of these links can be opened at once, although the exact behavior varies a bit from browser to browser.

Crossing lists seemed helpful, too (e.g. http://listsear.ch/crosslists/?e=movieratings).
I'm somewhat of a new mac user, so I can't speak historically, but I will say that lion was quite a downgrade. It broke things that were previously working fine (my network drivers and my dev tools), removed useful features (rosetta), and really didn't add anything new that I care about. I never use the app store; I dislike mission control; really the only thing I actually like is the better window resizing.
Well, not the one in 1911.
Flash is dead. Long live the internet.
Making Your Tech Conference Presentation, and Experience, Not Suck
I'd love to see an Android client. I use Dropbox a lot with my phone, and really need some sort of encryption solution for it.
Project Hawaii: Speech, OCR, rendezvous backends for mobile applications
Well, I am really starting to hate Tim O' Reilly, too.

I remember a time when O'Reilly books were the golden standard for things like Perl, Python et al. Nowadays it seems like they are producing crap, half-written books by the ton.

Oreillynet was also, one time, one of the best places to go for nice, informative articles and tutorials. Nowadays it's just an assortment of lame blog entries and book promotions.

And don't let me get started on "Safari books online", a sub par reading experience if I ever saw one.
While this is interesting, not all CPUs are created equal. I can run the var-mt.cpp example on POWER hardware in:

real 0m25.680s

My point being, that node.js doesn't work on this box, nor does Fabric. So when developing specialized algorithms you sometimes might want to run them in specialized environments.
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In fairness, Jobs hated Apple's management too. In the biography he refers to them as bozos.
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There may be a good point hiding there, but I don't think he made it particularly well. He argues that OS X is getting worse.

His specific complaint was that he couldn't find the Library folder to delete his mail. Two things to keep in mind: first off, people who set up Mail extremely rarely will want to delete their email. So on the list of use cases to optimize for, that one lives near the bottom of the ladder. Secondly, the Library folder is, for all intents and purposes, something that should have been hidden to begin with. The kind of stuff that goes into a Library folder goes into hidden directories on other OSes anyway (think Application Settings on Windows, or .config, .gnome2, .kde on Linux). The fact that Apple only just now got around to hiding a folder that did nothing but clutter up the home directory for most users is significantly more surprising than the fact that it's hidden.

There was another complaint, which was that upon putting the relevant files in the Trash, attempting to empty it yielded file in use errors. That is indeed a problem, but he complains that he can't skip all of them, and that this is an old issue. So how this is related to OS X getting worse is unclear. It's definitely extremely annoying, but then I also don't think people find themselves deleting thousands of files of which several are in use very often. That said, one wonders what was using those files (unless he'd forgotten to quit Mail, but I doubt that).

Basically, “the latest frustration”, his leading example of something that is “worse in Lion than in Snow Leopard”, seems to not be a very good example at all. What's missing are the ”so many [other] things”. I want to hear them, because I haven't found too many, and I think it would be interesting to see what others genuinely think is worse. Some disagree with the changes in Spaces, for example, which is understandable. What else?
Thinking that installing "Pimple Popper" is a good idea might be the root of your problem of home screen overcrowding.

Sure there are a lot of crap apps, the same way there are a lot of crap websites or crap restaurants, because there will always be some people who think they know better or enough to start something and some people, like the author, who will install them hoping for at least a minute of fun.

This pseudo-rant could be about "stop making clothes and decoration gadgets" if the author never cleaned her room and found her house very cluttered with crap she doesn't need.
Been waiting for Heroku to improve Cron, this is great.
From what I've read, "realtime" threads with higher priority could preempt other realtime threads, meaning they could be pre-empted.
At first I thought the same. But I'm slowly coming around. I'd still prefer Snow Leopard with Lion's full-screen and mission control, but I trust Lion will improve with age.

That said, I have my most productive dev environment now on Lion. The speed with which I can move between apps write code, compile, test, etc, is actually starting to push my laptop.
Tim has issues with one application, but blames the entire operating system. Is this fair? Further, the trash bin problem of not having an "Ignore All" button has always been around. That does not mean the operating system is becoming worse, just that an age old frustration (albeit a very obscure one) is still around.

I have some issues with Lion, but they are grounded primarily in my complete satisfaction with Snow Leopard and lack of desire to change (if it ain't broke, don't fix it).

When Tim says "there were many things worse in Snow Leopard than in Leopard," I cannot recall a single one. In fact, the Snow Leopard release was undoubtedly a very well received one.
I think is THE golden opportunity for Linux on the desktop. But the best candidate - Ubuntu - also made terrible mistakes - Unity -.
Don't forget PeerCast.

I actually remember using PeerCast a long time ago. It was based on the Gnutella protocol IIRC.

The term "peercasting" also seems to have not survived to this day.
I prefer Lion to Snow Leopard.

I find myself appreciating the more controversial changes, like reversed scrolling and hidden scrollers. I followed Gruber's advice and suppressed the impulse to switch the defaults back to Snowpard behaviors and find that I'm less happy when I have to use Snowpard now.

Meanwhile:

* Mail.app under Lion is the best mail UX they've ever shipped. It's not a small improvement over Snowpard; it has a more reasonable layout now that makes Smart Folders make more sense, and search seems to have been completely rebuilt and actually works now.

* I find myself liking Mission Control enough not to mind not having vertical virtual desktop arrangements.

* Preview can sign documents now!

* The Filevault fix is huge for me (Filevault is now a bona fide block level FDE), since it means I don't have to use PGP WDE, which was a debacle.

My sense of it is, there is zero opportunity for someone to compete with Apple and Microsoft on conventional desktop operating systems, and the problems O'Reilly has with OS X are not generally going to be shared by people like my dad, who are (a) the only people Apple really cares about because (b) they're where all the money is.
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No joy on FF7 Mac.
What network drivers did Lion break? Are you plugging custom network hardware into your Mac? Why?

We're a pretty dev-tools-intensive shop here and while the transition to XCode4 has been hiccupy, I don't think Lion has broken anything for us.
Apple Replacing First Gen iPod nanos Over Faulty Batteries
Seems like a pretty expensive marketing tool.
What about a paid GNU/Linux distro that runs perfectly on recent Apple hardware? No drivers bullshit, just works?
Heavens Above can help you with that: http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&la...
> If you found a bunch of house keys, each one labled with the address of the house, would you go to each house and open each door?

I'm so tired of these analogies. The Internet is not like the physical world. Why don't we talk about what actually happened, rather competing to come up with the worst analogies?
Overally I don't consider 10.7 being worse than 10.6, I'm ignoring Mission Control stuffs as I was ignoring Exposé. But there is one thing I find it maddening above all is the settings and behavior of Terminal.app, I understand _nothing_, this is insane. The behavior of Terminal.app is insane, it's even harder to explain since I fail to understand its logic.
"sum of differences between rightmost male pixel and leftmost female pixel over all rows"

I tried this, and it worked for a few test pictures I downloaded, but it fails for the given Tokyo panorama: the dark edges and sharp corners in some buildings confuse the algorithm. The matching must be done on somewhat more than pixel values alone...

EDIT: See how my implementation fails: http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/TokyoPanoramaUnshred...
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But can you figure out to ask it what satellites will be overhead in 1 hour?

... because I sure can't.
Portable Standing Laptop Desk?
I'm not sure if anyone else hates sitting down all the time, but I really want to be able to stand while I'm working on my computer. However, is there anything that they sell to use on the go?

I would use something that could be put on top of a normal desk. But I can't seem to find anything that is really portable (fits in my bag)

Anyone know if something like this exists?
The problem is not only the absence of "Ignore All", but the fact that Lion's applications have some strange bug with opening files and not closing them. Snow Leopard had it too with built-in screenshot tool (or Preview, I don't remember exactly).
Any ideas on how this model compares to HipHop (Facebook's PHP-to-C system)?
Yahoo Android app store in Japan is Live. Planning to launch by Q2 of 2012
Artur Bergman, "Full Stack Awareness"
Check out iTerm2 if Terminal.app isn't doing it for you anymore. http://www.iterm2.com/
iZ Corporation's RADAR runs on BeOS. It's a DAW system of exceedingly high quality. We can only guess how well it'd scale, but Be looks to me not to be the sort of software that helps sell hardware.
I think "solving problems" is fine because for the most part that will be why people will use what you built. But I'm with you on "changing the world". When I hear about wannabe entrepreneurs who say they are out to change the world with their photo-sharing app ("we're gonna change the way people share and communicate with their close friends!"), in a way I'm impressed by the dedication and motivation, but wonder if they're just saying that to appear confident and motivated or if they're just delusional.

Someone was telling me that they were working on something that could become a fundamentally new mean of communication comparable to emails or SMSs. I later worked on said product and it was of course nowhere near the hype (though still cool).
Yes -O3 is the maximum. Anything higher than (-O1000) just runs -O3.
So this software involves installing a plugin in the browser? In an age where users are being warned by the browser makers themselves to be careful about that sort of thing?
I can't see this ending well.
For those criticizing- He has given one example of what he thinks is wrong. Not all posts are meant to be essays...

Briefly though, (as another user who switched from Mac OS X), I can certainly give examples of what he says:

Not all of these are specific to OS X, its the overall hardware and software that is getting frustrating.

More user-hostile

- If you replace your SuperDrive with another drive, you CAN NOT boot any operating system (other than Apple's) off usb drives or even external DVD drives plugged into usb slots. So with two hard drives, you can not install Windows or Linux. [1]

- Batteries are not considered user-swappable anymore. [2]

More buggy

- Battery life degradation when moving from SL to Lion. Apple forums are full of examples. [3] (78 page thread, no confirmation or fix from Apple).

- We all know how annoying the switch to Mission Control was, right?

[1] http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1125135

[2] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1756

[3] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3194235?start=0&tst...

[Edit: formatting]
Unless you pick your PC carefully with the purpose of breaking Linux, it mostly works out of the box. That said, installing Linux on a Mac seems offensive, like replacing the dashboard of a Maybach with the one of a race car. Macs are a beautifully designed combination of hardware and software that may work for you. Or not.

I like Lion better than Snow Leopard, but neither works for me for work. Casual browsing and presentations are fine, but, for serious web application development, I want Linux.
That's true of every other RTOS out there, in fact, it's required to be this way in order to provide deterministic latency.
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I'm very new to Mac I just got a Macbook about two months ago it's my first ever apple computer. I got it to become familiar with it since I like to be familiar it and other operating systems.

My first impression after using Linux as my primary OS for the last ten plus years is OS X is very Linux-like in behaviour.

But I feel like I am in a glossy, trendy prison with a guard constantly next to me. Everything works well because it was all made by Apple or at least with hardware it was hand-picked by Apple to work with their OS. If Linux or Windows made a computer and the hardware was specifically hand-picked for each OS version I'm sure it also would run as smooth and be as glossy as OS X.

Rebooting after software updates was alien to me (use Ksplice on Linux) but I figured OS X was BSD/Unix based and never expected so many reboots for simple things.

I never use the App store either because I don't see why I need to enter my credit card information to update a free app.

Plus the lack of real separate delete and backspace keys is driving me crazy! (yes I know fn+delete is Win/Linux "delete")
Scientists make magic auto-origami using ink and light
I purposely left off a lot that has fallen by the wayside. Sopcast and Veetle are by far the most popular today. Veetle is for all intents and purposes Flash based P2P and so it's very popular.

With Adobe's decision to dump support for smartphones, tablets and TVs, we're likely to see a huge push from them in this market, as IIRC they enabled P2P technologies in flash a while back. If Sopcast releases a browser based version, I see no reason why it can't rule the space given it's already overwhelming popularity.
I've used Windows most of my life, use Linux for work, but I LOVE my MacBook Air.
I wouldn't call that code C++ at all, it's C with a few C++ keywords/niceties. [1],[2]

[1] https://github.com/fabric-engine/Benchmarks/blob/f11cf6cc8cf...
[2] https://github.com/fabric-engine/Benchmarks/blob/f11cf6cc8cf...
What's wrong with Terminal.app behavior?
Thanks for the tip will definitively try it out.

Edit: Wow I just put my shell command /bin/zsh and the default behavior seems to fit my needs without reading all the options. It closes all the tabs when I quit, it doesn't keep a kind of useless history displayed when I start a new session, the theme thing works right away. Thanks, I will be using it from now on.
"your activity on the web, every search query you make and product you buy will help fund our project." - http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851

help fund your project and sell my soul too...
“We all know how annoying the switch to Mission Control was, right?”

No, we certainly don’t. I love Mission control and I think it’s an improvement over Exposé. Don’t pretend I’m agreeing with you.

For me personally Lion has been a solid improvement. Quite a few things that used to suck about OS X still suck but I have seen nothing but improvements or neutral changes with Lion. (Yeah, I have some minor quibbles, but mostly about apps I hardly ever use anyway.) I had no technical issues at all. Again, that’s for me personally.