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Considering that animated advertisements are the scourge of the Internet, if it weren't for the legitimate uses of the things you mention, I'd consider the crippledness a feature.

Advertisements should be text or images. Even animated GIFs are pushing it.
Open and Shift modifiers are listed in the help in Lion.
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Interesting, thanks. Looking forward to that post.
I am an Asus owner (my third laptop in a row), and am actually considering getting a ZenBook, BUT it has no dockstation, while the MBA has THUNDERBOLT, which combined with a Thunderbolt display gives you an amazing configuration. Don't trust me, go look it up:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4832/the-apple-thunderbolt-dis...

http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macboo...
Actually, LOTS of people benefit. In no particular order:
1) Wackenhut (GEO group), private prison operator, and the entire prison complex (guard's unions etc)
2) Law enforcement. Even if the DEA had a 99% interception rate, that economics of the trade mean that it is still profitable at 1% supply. Hence, no matter how many busts the DEA makes, they will always need more resources/money/helicopters etc.
3) Banking and Finance. Drug money is the global financial system's liquidity float. It kept Wachovia solvent for nearly a decade.
4) The US Treasury. Do your own research. Suffice it to say, opium production in Afghanistan now exceeds pre-Taliban levels.
It has been developed and revamped over time. Counter-Strike today has not much to do with the original HL mod.
Thanks for your story, it's good to hear some success from someone who felt the same as I do now. I certainly hope I get past that hump, but after 2 years of using jQuery I haven't yet. I can see there being a turning point in 4-5 years, but that's in itself still rather depressing. Here's to hoping it's sooner.
I linked this elsewhere on the thread, but you might find it interesting in the meantime: http://fabric-engine.com/2011/10/couldnt-you-just-use-javasc...

There are more details on KL, and the reasoning why we didn't use JavaScript
Have a link to benchmarks where Ocaml beats C? In my experience Ocaml is usually only about 2x slower than C, but never beating it. Also, Ocaml is statically typed. Type inference is just inferring the static types.
I ditched ColdFusion for Ruby as my go to language years ago. Rather than reiterate the overwhelming negative aspects of ColdFusion, I suggest you spend a bit more time with Ruby, Python, and other languages; don't be constrained by one.
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It does follow redirects but I think javascript redirects are causing a problem occasionally, still a couple of issues I need to work out. The occasional url does not get parsed properly for some reason which is probably causing this error.
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No paid plan at the moment, but if was something that people were genuinely interested in using, I would consider a (very cheap) paid plan. It will be sticking around 'as is' for a good while at the very least though.
For sure, but IMHO it makes this more of an advert than 'news'. It's certainly a much nicer implementation.
1) Go to the Terminal menu > Settings, click the Settings pane.

2) Select your preferred theme (left). It's probably the one listed as "default."

3) Click the Keyboard tab.

4) Click the "+" button to add a new Key to Action mapping.

• Key: cursor left

• Modifier: option

• Action: send string to shell:

• In the blank blank space: \033b

Note: This is the ESC key followed by a lowecase “b“.

• Click OK.

5) Click the "+" button to add a new Key to Action mapping.

• Key: cursor right

• Modifier: option

• Action: send string to shell:

• In the blank blank space: \033f

Note: This is the ESC key followed by a lowercase “f“.

• Click OK.
all the real estate agents who lost their jobs have gone into recruiting now.
I didn't know what skyrim was, beyond a vague awareness that it was a game, so I went to elderscrolls.com, only to encounter a flash-wrapped video with no volume control.

I see this particular usability faux pas way too often. If you roll your own flash video player rather than host videos elsewhere or use one of the mainstream well-designed open/commercial flash video player apps, let viewers control the volume.

Binary On/Off sound toggles on flash apps are ridiculous. Furthermore, a custom flash video player app should remember the volume setting (per-domain) so viewers don't have to monkey with the volume every time that flash app appears.
Thanks, that was interesting.

While I have you here :) , can you please elaborate on your Bullet/Fabric demo? Specifically, how did you get the Bullet C++ code to run on the Fabric Engine? (Since that doesn't use C++?)
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/ocaml-vs-f-burrow...

You're right about OCaml generally being 1.5X slower than C but it does beat it for some problems which is impressive for all the additional features it provides. I must have been looking at the numbers wrong last time I checked.

Type inference is much different than static typing because it allows functions to be specialized at run/compile time which can result in having to write much less code.

For example, in C a map function would have to be written for every datatype (or lose the benefits of static typing by using a void*) where as in OCaml/F# you get type safety and specialized / inlined code for free.
"We will have more people in the hospitals for things that don't require medical care with less room for people that actually need it."

That's actually the problem with the current American system. Because people have to pay, they avoid going to the doctor early when the care could be preventative, and instead end up in the emergency room. Healthcare is something that is cheaper when used frequently.
Nicely captures my issues with tech recruiters. The other big disconnect is that since tech is in so much flux, you want to hire smart generalists who can pick up new technologies in a few days if necessary.

Most recruiters have no clue how to find "smart developers". So instead they do a google search for "Java developer looking for job" and spam you with the top 10 hits with some great insights like "OMG this guy's great... he's only done Java for the last 20 years!!!1!". They don't understand why that's NOT a good thing in tech.
It's a political article. It's toxic.
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Well, I think the whole post is written because of the last line!
So if 1,000 fashion graduates join HN and start upvoting articles about what type of fabrics are in season, you'd be fine with that?
Agree. People sometimes see geeks as (dont have a good english word for it, in german we say "Fachidioten", maybe One-subject-idiots) One-Subject-Idiots.

I think its awesome that HN somethims gets into other subjects, the community holds a nice balance without to much regulation.
Sure - we designed Fabric to be extendable, so it can include existing c++ libraries. So we just integrated the Bullet SDK. http://fabric-engine.com/2011/11/building-extensions-on-wind... covers the extension model in detail.

Does that answer your question properly? I can get more info if needed.
i think this is a pretty interesting way of validating but it involves spending some money which most people might not have. I was thinking more about the "out of the shower" aha moments where you really just want to get instant fly-or-die feedback...is it valuable to just go ahead a build an MVP or really try and talk to people about it to see if theres a need (although talk is really cheap, hence the need for an MVP)
You still have to save one first time, else the OS wouldn’t know where to put the file and how to name it. Lion only auto saves after that. That is irrespective of whether your create a new file or duplicate a file. (Apple could have been a lot more radical here, I’m unsure whether they should have been. That certainly would have meant a lot more work and it would have been an even more complicated transition.)
Well, at the scales we're dealing with, healthcare is an infinite resource. Emergency rooms in the United States cannot turn anyone down, and even uninsured Americans will end up going to the hospital when something serious happens, because the choice is between debt and debilitating illness, people will pick the former.

Wouldn't it be a lot better if we could spend more resources on preventing disease by removing the disincentive for going to the doctor for early detection? Not to mention, with communicable diseases, herd immunity is a very real thing.
I would avoid using ambiguous catch phrases or buzzwords completely. For serious discussions anyway. If you are marketing, or just chatting it's fine. But if you're in a professional technical meeting just don't do it. Don't talk about "the cloud". And please don't say "AJAX".
Absolutely. I think people disliked the move away from the more “natural” exposé window sizing in SL vs Leopard. SL went with the equal-sized boxes approach. But that was one of the very few changes.
Dwolla is one of many companies violating money transmitter laws. Having a bank processor as an investor does not make one exempt, nor is such an excuse consistent with the fact that Dwolla had to register as a money transmitter in Iowa.

Our formal complaint to the DFI is below.

https://www.facecash.com/legal/20111102.dwollapacket.pdf

As I've made clear in the past (http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/brown.html), I'm not at all a fan of the laws, but if I have to obey them, so should everyone else.
says Melanie Senter Lubin, Maryland's securities commissioner. "We are concerned about anything where investors have the potential of losing money or where they're making an investment without the information they need to make an informed investment decision."

One of us hasn't understood what an investment is, and I think it's her not me.
Until the profits collapse the market will be inundated with wannabes.

When will this happen?

The guy the poster was talking to sounds like a younger brother of some guys I dealt with in the 90s.

That said, I've dealt with a handful of 'okay' recruiters, as a job-seeker. At least two.
I've got that action keybound to alt-space on my desktop.

Which would be WindowMaker.

Key benefits: virtually no development, Steve Jobs designed it, but for engineers on UNIX (well, NeXT), not idiots, and it's ~20 years old, so it's balazzzzzingly fucking fast on modern HW.

Stays the fuck out of my face, lets me get shit done.
Thanks, that does answer my question.

I asked because I work on compiling C++ into JavaScript, and I was curious if your technology included something to compile C++ into KL.

I assume integrating existing C++ libraries to Fabric Engine has no security model, then?
Duplicate → Save, Duplicate → Save.

One step turned two. Worse? Yes. Tedious? No. It’s worth it given the other conceptual changes and the fact that this is very much an edge case.
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> 3) Banking and Finance. Drug money is the global financial system's liquidity float. It kept Wachovia solvent for nearly a decade.

Wow, I had no idea this level of corruption existed: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-d...

This indicates to me that there might be a strong connection between the prison-industrial-complex and the military-industrial-complex with that connection being drugs. Meanwhile, Big Finance amorally profits from all (including illegal) activity.
First, you're confusing technologies. H.264 is a video codec that YouTube uses for all its video. The HTML5 and Flash players and any custom players (Android or iOS's app, for example) use it.

The HTML5 player is just as usable, if not more so, as the Flash player. Go give it a try again: http://www.youtube.com/html5 You might not even notice the difference.
Right - they have to be 'trusted', much like a plugin. People will have to explicitly choose to install them. Right now we bundle them all in he plugin, but that's just until we write the manager
Looks a little like ShiftIt (a similar utility) http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/
Those 2.0% the bank take for every transaction is because they own the transaction network.
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For me, the only problem I've encountered since installing Lion has been that Tweetdeck is no longer usable. I experience some strange window-focus issue where while that app is running, doing something entirely unrelated like typing a URL in Chrome's address bar will cause a random application to jump to the foreground. I've tried re-installing AIR, Tweetdeck ... though not Lion. I have no idea how to solve this. It worked fine prior to the Lion install.
There's also relatively little feedback reinforcement for the good (quality) recruiters.

Since remunerative reward is based on quantity, not quality, market incentives are diametrically at odds with what both hiring managers and talent would benefit by.

One solution is to not do business with or encourage the idiots in any manner whatsoever.

I also jealously guard my time. If you're wasting, it, particularly on the phone, assuming you've reached me in the first place (I'm increasingly extremely phone-hostile), I'll respond with "Thanks, not interested, have a nice day. <click>". That's a single sentence, punctuated with the call termination.

I've only got in a fight with one recruiter over that -- he called back. I noted that he was wasting both of our time and tarnishing his (and his employer's) reputation by the second. He didn't call a second time.
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Makes sense, thanks again for all the replies.
The Internet and the Web aren't the same thing. Please don't talk as if they were.

Fixed.
1440x900 screen, absolutely can’t stand maximized windows – hate them, actually.
What I'm most curious about is what keeps the demand for drugs in the US so high? If the demand dropped off, so would the supply, prices, and number of criminals.

I recognize that I'm a deviant on the other side - I abstain from drugs, alcohol, and smoking. A bias for optimum brain, liver, and lung capacity/health seems like the rational choice. So why do so many forgo that? More pointedly, why do more Americans forgo that than citizens in other countries? My hunch is pop cultural influences (is there an episode of Entourage or How To Make It In America where someone doesn't use?), but a root cause analysis would be nice. Maybe it's related to per capita GDP? Education? Economic divide?
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I'm sorry, but you don't seem to realize that going with Flash instead of the "pedantic and hyper-technical people" was a deal with the devil. In the short term, you got to do some cool stuff, but in the long term, only open standards will ever truly make progress.
Aaron, I hold you in the highest regard, but this makes you look less than nice.

Essentially what you have done here is rat out a competitor who may have broken a law (how do you know they have not registered?), presumably because you are in competition, not because you are concerned for the well being of your fellow citizens.

If you really are not a 'fan of the laws' and you are just mad at having to obey them I think that you should stand up against those laws, rather than to rat out those that break them.

It's like someone driving 55 Mph on the highway calling the police because they're overtaken by someone else doing 60, after all, if you have to obey the law so should everybody else.

Technically you're in the right, but this leaves me with a weird taste, especially because you say you don't like those laws.
Economics has the exact opposite issue. We have this very strong theory about optimizing homogenous agents that create a pareto efficient outcome.
Any empirical fact that doesn't fit (which happen to be almost all of them) is simply thrown out.
Considering this it is quite logical why the main policy recommendation for the last 30 years was deregulate everything, remove all government intervention. The hope was to be finally able to observe some facts that could actually be reasoned about with the existing theories.
I don't really know why people are so upset. I was a hardcore windows user and I've been a Mac user now for 11 months and I love it! I don't think I will ever go back to windows and to say that Mac is going off track and turning into windows because of something this small is just crazy.. Short of something like the iPad, OS X more than Windows is A step in the right direction of how personal computing should be, it "just works"..
Thanks. Will try it.

Edit: Yup, flawless installation and fast. Thanks again! I wish I had found this when I was trying to re-install Python Imaging Library after upgrading to Lion. I might have saved half a day.
Not sure. Why?
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Theres no reason why Adobe [ or more likely, a startup ] cant write a superb (web based) animation editor for designers, which spits out HTML5/CSS or SVG + Javascript.

Couple that with basic workflow and 'publish to site' and you have a product with very wide appeal and usefulness.
Whoever wrote this is a complete idiot and doesn't know the first thing about computer forensics.

Check out this gem:

"I use spammers and pedophiles as test subjects when I’m working on something. This is mostly because it’s unlikely that they would go to the authorities and point the finger at me, knowing that I could easily turn around and say something to the effect of, “Well, yes I did pwn his box.. but you should have seen all the child porn I found on it.” owned x 2."

Well, owned x 3 because the first thing that this would do is backfire, after all if you admitted to hacking someone's box they could make a fair claim to you having put that data there.

The last thing you do when you go after a pedophile is to hack their computer, any evidence found there is tainted, and you are now a suspect with a confession on record.

There are several other laws this guy broke in his vigilante action against this spammer, he's set himself up quite nicely for a lawsuit, after all he's handed the prosecution all the documentation they could possibly wish for.
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flash has been abandoned. developers won't (or at least shouldn't) use a closed platform whose developer has expressed a lack of faith in it. even though flash will still be developed for x86, it's clear that adobe is getting ready to drop it.

and yeah, this announcement is about mobile flash, as used on android phones, not about flash lite. that's been dead for years.
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It is rare to see a publicity picture that has Mexican cops not in masks. This is in court rooms and press conferences, not nighttime raids.
"Maryland's securities commissioner"

I think this is someone who understands quite well where her bread is buttered.

Heaven forbid people fall out of her control.
Ok, so no one likes the law. I've read your stuff - you are scared of going to jail while your competitors are building up cash to defend themselves against potential enforcement. Meanwhile you are filing complaints against them.

You are complaining about a slow government, while your competitors are moving around the government, building their business and waiting for the whistle to be blown (if it ever is).

Seems like they are taking a risk, and putting themselves in a position to gain reward.

In the end, won't your competitors be the people that actually impact legal change by spending earned dollars to fight enforcement in the courts? How does your strategy to impact change through filing complaints have any chance of success?

Do you always drive under the speed limit, 100% of the time? Do you call the police when you see people speeding? Do you complain about speeding laws? Or do you take part in the class action lawsuits that crop up when a group of citizens is sick of being fined by illegal red-light cameras?
The solution to solving the "swindles" problem will be reputation. With the internet it's possible to record an incredible level of detail regarding the reputation of people seeking investments and the business they are building (if it already exists).

If swindling becomes a problem, you can be sure that the market will work to provide a solution to that problem.
Fair points, all.

The list of registered licensees is public...

http://www.dfi.ca.gov/directory/mt.asp

...as are lists of recent applicants (updated monthly)...

http://www.dfi.ca.gov/publications/summaries/2011/september....

http://www.dfi.ca.gov/publications/bulletins/2011/october11....

The complaint against Dwolla is one of 34 I have filed with the DFI. I don't plan to file any more complaints, but I'm not done yet.
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The speakers (on a 17" Macbook Pro) could be relocated, they're not much use where they are when I type since my hands block the sound partially anyway why not move then and expand the keyboard?

No, pressing the Delete key makes the cursor go back a space. On Linux and Windows Delete pulls the text in from the right towards the cursor deleting it.

I know Apple Macs are different but it seems odd why they wouldn't keep similar methods of using the keyboard, they made Darwin based on BSD (yes?) they obviously didn't keep the Delete and Backspace or does BSD not have Backspace only Delete?

As I said I'm new to Mac but triple booting would be nicer if 1 of the 3 OS versions didn't have a keyboard that was so weird.
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"When I'm working on anything I "autosave" by reaching over slightly and hitting CMD-S every time I make any small amount of progress."

I would say this is exactly the problem they are trying to fix.
No, it's like trying to get into a job, where if you don't have a given set of technology acronyms, your resume is shown the round file.
Solution: anyone who is going to lose their job because of the end of the war on drugs just continues to receive their current salary until their Social Security retirement age, regardless of whether they take a new job or just stop working. It's the only way you'll get buy in from the lower levels of the prison-industrial complex, and ultimately cheaper than continuing what we have now.
Their behavior is just as frustrating from the other side. Since my resume says I've used Python for scientific computing, I must be a Django expert that has experience building scalable e-commerce sites, right?

That's what 90% of the recruiters seem to think, and I get a neverending stream of jobs from them not even remotely related to my experience.
For an old (but still largely relevant) laundry list of things on Mac that drive Linux fans nuts (and generally, back to Linux), there's a 2006 ORA DevCenter article by Chromatic, "Switching Back". Both the column and comments are still highly germane.

http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/linux/2006/06/01/switching-back...
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As someone who's more of a generalist than not, it's almost impossible to arrange interviews through recruiters -- most of them are only looking to match up acronym/skill/buzzword X with length of time Y. A big part of that comes from missing the technical background to properly appraise the value of those technical skills.
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