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Yup this alt+tab switching behavior change is a real pain for me.I was under the impression that this is an issue only with Unity/Gnome3, now I got to know the actual place from where it all started. After seeing this change consistently across all the major UIs, I am starting to feel that this change in alt+tab behavior should have some strong reason for doing so and I am not aware of its actual purpose/use. I would be glad to know from someone on how this feature has simplified their work or improved their productivity.
Are you really sure? To the best of my knowledge, your karma total determines the ability to downvote/flag.

(Note that the required karma total is periodically raised, perhaps the threshold got raised above your current karma at some point in the past? ISTR that it last got raised about a year ago.)
Fixing bugs can be very enjoyable. I like watching House MD for the same reasons. I feel like House's quest for a diagnosis given a subset of the symptoms and his way of trying to provoke new symptoms to appear in order to narrow the set of possible diagnosis, is just like trying to find the cause of a bug. I don't know if other programmers watch House with this analogy in mind, but I wouldn't be surprise if it's the case, the analogy is really strong.
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I don't think there's many places were a train is a good substitute for a 5+ hr flight.
Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as a dick. I'm glad that you've taken the feedback of your readers into consideration.

I'm a big fan of Redis, and it's a key component of our stack. Sorted sets are useful for a lot more than just leader boards, though that is a good use case for them. It's a bit late here, so I'm not feeling up to writing a big post, but I'm considering writing my own blog post on my experiences with Redis.
4 albums have been added to the pool. I purchased for over $10 yesterday but I don't seem to be able to get those 4 new ones...anybody have success at this yet?
I would have loved for someone to point the numerous events going on for kids all over the world, like NASA summer schools and the like. Your kid is probably a bit young, but if you keep your eyes open, you can find the good stuff in time. As others said, focus away from school sounds good. The nice thing about these activities is that you meet other kids like you (giving you a better frame of reference and tons of awesome friends) and that it's the topic that counts, not how you perform in comparison to the rest of the student body.
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No but for replacing quick hops trains make a whole lot of sense. Drastically less messing around at each end and train stations are often right in the centre of the city. Add to that the increased comfort a train provides and it is an easy argument to make.
I've had to do that once or twice before, and I don't aim for pixel perfect rendering, since it's a sisyphean task. Instead I go for almost pixel perfect.

Pixel perfect on a web browser doesn't make a lot of sense since people could resize their browser, increase/decrease font size, etc.
It has a slow processor and is stuck on version 2 of the Kindle OS (the processor is the same speed as the Kindle 3, but much slower than the Kindle 4, and the RAM is the same as Kindle2).

I just upgraded my Kindle 2 to the new Kindle (the $79 one), and it is 100% better. Both because the screen is much better and the processor is twice as fast (which makes a big difference in responsiveness). The newest DX has a better screen than the Kindle2, but is stuck on a much older platform than the newest Kindles. Seems like it would be a waste to buy it now.

I suspect that the DX is never going to be updated, and will be phased out once Amazon runs out of stock (likely with the "replacement" being the 8.9" or 10" Kindle Fire).
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AVI is still the major format for non-HD videos from the torrent sites...
Lulz at the history major needing adderal/Ritalin to write papers/gpa. Most likely he was procrastinating all night too, and using the drugs as a crutch to be coherent at 3 in the morning. Many people have survived ochem/thermo/analysis without anything other than coffee, you just have to be _interested_ in the subject.
I think people are missing the point here, whether or not that is art doesn't matter, the question here is if one is allowed to break the law just because "it's art".
I was actually going for a reference to Marley & Me. Though, I'm not entirely convinced that it is indisputably incorrect in this case. Even if it is, I highly doubt that it is the worst mistake in my post.
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Travel in the United States is enough of a bother without doing so alone and as a minor. Not something I wanted to deal with. Besides that, there are apparently a lot of problems with liability when someone pays for a minor to travel and it doesn't involve an adult.
For me it is very repeatable, I can call it up if I'm not in a very wrong mood. Interesting to know it's got a name.
I talked to several religious people about how they know there is a god. What they described to me sounded a lot like this feeling, just a different conclusion from mine - if I interpreted them correctly. If this is true it might be quite common.
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Here's another viewpoint for you to consider:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy#...

Unfortunately the article you linked doesn't read in a very balanced way. For instance:

"If you were to injest a mere 2-5 grams of sodium fluoride (a common ingredient in toothpaste), you would probably die. The amount of fluoride in a typical tube of fluoride toothpaste is sufficient to kill a small child if it were consumed all at once."

To ingest 'a mere' 2 grams at the WHO's guideline water fluoridation rate of 1.5mg/L would require drinking over 1300L of water (nearly two years' worth at 2L/day), and many other substances that are beneficial to (or even required by) the human body are toxic in large doses. As for toothpaste - well, it usually says clearly on the packaging that you shouldn't swallow it, and certainly not an entire tube at once. Likewise mouthwash, soap, etc.
That's an argument for including Actionscript in the list. That way a beginner might know the following:

"This language has a niche in which it is great"

"This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it"

"I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code""

"I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language"

"The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread"
I disagree. Your analogy doesn't work. If you took DOOM, re-created the graphics in slightly different colors and styles because you didn't want to get sued for copyright infringement, but implemented the exact game mechanics, the story, controls, and all of the major concepts of the game, and called it FLOOM, you'd be crossing the line in a way you are not by simply creating a search engine.

This is basically Zynga's methodology for creating products that they've clearly used a number of times with clear evidence. I don't think they see themselves in the business of designing games since they leave that to the companies they steal them from.

I think it's a false dilemma to say that we shouldn't criticize Zynga for this because it comes at the cost of being able to criticize them for other reasons. For some, this is just as an important reason (if not more important) than the ones you listed.
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I actually use this to the opposite effect to convince myself whether an app is worth the cost. I think of it as "for the price of half a latte, I get to own and enjoy an app for the next N years". Seems like a great deal to me. If all I have to do is buy some developer the equivalent of half a latte for a productivity app I'll enjoy daily, I think I'm actually getting a steal.

BTW - I did buy Shift Jelly's PocketCasts app from the Android Market for something like $2.99. I highly recommend it, the app has un-tethered me from iTunes podcast syncing. Now I just download/stream exactly the episodes I want to listen to.

The app has some rough UX edges regarding behaviors of the back button, etc, but I'm going to write the developers about that.
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Premise: Recently, there was a bit of a storm in this community involving "racism and meritocracy". This was largely started by the comments made by a black entrepreneur.

Question: Do members of racial groups feel the same (possibly perceived) discrimination in Silicon Valley? In other words, do (historically ostracised) people such as Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Muslims feel the same unvocalised anti-minority sentiment?
Maybe everyone aside from those at EA are too afraid of Pincus to say anything? If you're in the Valley, you know what I'm talking about.
I've actually never met a developer that navigates a file using line numbers. Maybe it is the norm but I haven't seen it having worked with a few dozen developers over the years.

Getting quick at line up/line down (C-N, C-P) and page up/page down (M-P, M-V in Emacs) seems to be a more common way of navigation. (C-S for quick search in Emacs being the other)

I use "Go-to-line" almost exclusively to jump to the line where a stack trace is telling me there's an error. (TDD or not, stack traces are a way of life)
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I personally have no idea if it is common or not.
They don't necessarily exclude one another, but they certainly can. Whether it matters to you or not depends on what your definition of "others" is, which is what I was trying to point out.
First of all, it's nice to see people getting excited about html5 and to see it being adopted widely... This article however, seems a little bit too excited about jumping into html5 and a little too quick to dismiss the techniques about the past. In the process it makes a few mistakes.

A good example would be the <meter> element which the spec specifically states:

The meter element also does not represent a scalar value of arbitrary range — for example, it would be wrong to use this to report a weight, or height, unless there is a known maximum value.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-meter-element

This code is certainly not "bad code":

<section>
My height is 5 feet and 10 inches.
</section>

That's perfectly acceptable.

I think marking up your height and weight and calling it better is dubious. Some would argue that the meter element itself is a bit dubious. I'm still not sure how I feel about it. A lot of the html5 elements are quite nice but you shouldn't go changing everything over just because it's new.
No, but a device dropped on the floor during an evacuation could mean some steps on it an slips. With a human pileup as a result, when seconds matter to save lives. That said, maybe the should ban magazines and books too then.

Lean back for ten minutes and think deep and meaningful thoughts. :)

Edit: spelling, hardcopy thought added
I've been wondering if independent software vendors might benefit from some humanizing of the sales effort. Instead of charging $2 for an app, how about framing it as "buy the developer a taco", or for $4 "buy the developer a grande latte". The amazing $10 app could be "buy the developer a roll of sushi". You get the idea.

Psychologically, I find it much more satisfying to be rewarding friends & associates with more tangible things than some dollar amount.

Does anyone know if this model has been attempted before?
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EA also has some history of allowing semi-independence of studios they buy out if they have enough clout and fight for it. Maxis managed to even stay in a physically different location, partly to maintain cultural independence, and partly because Will Wright didn't want to commute to Redwood City. Admittedly, being Will Wright is sort of an exceptional case when it comes to negotiating clout.
Anything with semiotic intent constitutes art. Anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist and needs to go die lonely in a ditch.
It was just an example I made up.

Yes there are better ways to use <meter>. Maybe for showing the average rainfall in an area!

And the reason for dismissing the techniques in the past is because I have shifted to using HTML5. Even the theme I am using for my website, uses HTML5.
Lithium Ion batteries are allowed on planes as well. Is this conclusive proof that they can't damage the plane if they catch on fire?

All decisions are trade-offs, banning laptops and cellphones today would probably bankrupt the airlines since nobody would fly. Likewise, non-critical computer systems in an airplane have less stringent certification standards than critical systems (it's OK for the electronic flight bag laptop to occasionally crash if you keep a stack of paper charts in the cockpit).

It's not like a plane is likely to just go down because of interference, but instruments acting will certainly increase the workload of pilots, making an accident more likely. Likewise, people shining lasers at airplanes tell themselves that this is OK, surely the pilots can deal with a little light disturbing their night vision? They don't appreciate that the pilots already have a high workload during landing.

The wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft) has a link to a NASA study of interference events showing that they can in fact happen (although not often). Of course, you can still claim that these pilots are making stuff up or that this is another NASA conspiracy, but it's actually possible to read up on the subject instead of just offering wild theories and speculations based on your own opinion and wishes.
> Then think of the miserable yet brilliant nerd languishing in some dank cave of an apartment because he can't figure life out. Forever Alone...

As one of those nerds in his early 30s living all alone by himself in a 5x5m studio, what's so wrong with "not figuring life out" and instead only caring about what interests you most? :)

Mind you, I used to have a social life until not long ago (when I was still happily married to my soon to be ex-wife), but at some point along the road I read Seneca's "De Brevitate Vitae " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Brevitate_Vitae_%28Seneca%29) and I realized that much of what I was doing at the time was really meaningless and not what I really wanted to spend my time on. And then my wife did me a ton of good and left me :), but it was for the best, cause as Seneca was saying you cannot buy back time wasted on meaningless pursuits (acquiring riches, high political honors etc.).
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"""As one of those nerds in his early 30s living all alone by himself in a 5x5m studio, what's so wrong with "not figuring life out" and instead only caring about what interests you most? :)"""

Dude, that totally counts as "figuring it out" :)
The bleeding over seems to apply to Google's title. In my browser, it shows up as "xoferiF allizoM - hcraeS elgooG"...
This is a lot like the 37signals model of consulting: "sell your soul" to clients until you can afford to take a leap on your own product.
> it's going to be tht much more difficult for flight attendants to get everyone's attention to give instructions

I've taken the plane more than a hundred times, I know the instructions and I know no one has ever bothered me when I leave my ipod/phone/nintendo ds turned on. Sometimes the flight attendance asked me to turn it off so I comply, otherwise I don't. Also especially because I like to listen to music when I take off and feel like I'm in a movie.
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"Just ﬂipping the gradient direction is the equivalent of the environment light changing direction when you hover over/click a button, this makes zero sense."

Inverting the gradient for pressed down button can also be seen as a convex surface becoming concave; think a membrane button. (A flat button wouldn't have such a gradient.)

While that kind of "faux membrane" buttons are not very common in real world, the inverted gradient effect immediately gives me feeling of "popped in" button. Am I alone here?
Exactly.

In addition, keeping passengers calm and relaxed is also a key point of security - roudy/drunk/agressive or even violent passengers can cause a lot of trouble on a flight when there are relatively few, fairly untrained flight attendants on board. Thus, if everybody was chatting away on their phones with annoying ring-tones going off every 2 minutes this would probably start aggravating people, so its just easier to say 'no mobile phones' - and if people have the impression it is a point of safety then they are more likely to obey them.
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Everything adds up. You take the fluoridated water, I'll take the spring water.

Even as a kid, I could never work out fluoridated water: it was supposed to fix your teeth, but then it produced dental fluorosis. How moronic.

If you want to mess with your pineal gland (amongst other things,) ingest fluoridated water.
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>iMessage only lets you send non-sms messages when the other contact is online (blue "send" button)

in theory yes, in practice it tries to send imessage when _i am_ online, but my recipient isn't
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Why is reading authorized, then? Or, worse, sleeping / wearing earbuds? Or doing anything except getting ready for the coming catastrophe?
Pretty much every single element of the iPhone 4s is a copy. Admittedly, it's mostly a copy of other Apple products (most significantly, the iPhone 4), but that doesn't change the fundamental nature of the device: It's a copycat. (Or, if you prefer, it is a subtle refinement of earlier designs. Same difference.)

Given that, the article's assertion that "copies never achieve the success of the thing they copied" is practically self-refuting. I suppose what ACTUALLY means is that "copies of design elements that originated from a different company never achieve the same success as copies made by the company that first originated them". Which isn't exactly a stirring battle cry for originality, and is trivially disprovable to boot.

And of course, that's also not really what he's saying. Traced far enough back, most of the elements of the iPhone UI don't originate with Apple either. Apple claims they invented multi-touch - by which they mean they were the first to stick capacitive multi-touch onto a mobile device, using the technology of a completely different company who also hadn't actually invented multi-touch. If that's an example of Apple being "innovative" the term has no meaning any more...)

tl;dr summary: The author appears to believe that the definition of "innovation" is "things Apple has done", whereas the definition of "copying" is "things done by companies which are not Apple". For people who use a different definition of either word, the article is amusing.
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Another thing that drives me crazy on Mac text editors: selecting something and hitting Cmd-F won't use the selected text for the search. (at least on Xcode, Sublime Text, and Google Chrome).

So I have to constantly do the sequence: swear out loud - press escape - Cmd-C - Cmd-F again - Cmd-V.

That's just dumb.
3. Consumer electronics are not a big threat to air safety, but they can (and have, see Wikipedia article / NASA study) interfered with airplane navigation instruments.

Since it's much more likely that 1 out of 100 or 300 active devices will cause interference during takeoffs and landings than 1 out of 4-5 that are turned on by accident or ignorance, it's better to err on the side of safety and tell everyone to turn them off.
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in history (e.g. rome) there always were government slaves

No they weren't, but I don't see why that matters.
> Now Arrington reveals that it's essentially a hitjob by scorned investors and direct competitors.

He reveals nothing of the kind. It's speculation.

And frankly, the chummy relationships in the Valley itself are really no better. Plus, Arrington's entire schtick as a startup blogger/investor depends on a frothy startup environment, which another dud IPO--namely Zynga--would directly endanger.
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I'm finding it a bit painful on Unity now too, but I'm wondering whether the problem is actually with the terminal programs rather than with the alt-tab behaviour. Most of the time I actually do want to treat all the windows of a single application as a group. But terminal sessions seem different to me - two terminal windows are not related closely to each other just because they are managed by the same application. Perhaps I need to find the setting that stops terminal windows from being grouped together...