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This is awesome. Though, I'm always hesitant of any wireless device controlling my car.

Question for the author: I'm assuming this works from anywhere in the world. Does your car have like an online interface or anything so you can check its current state (i.e., it's on, trunk is popped, etc)?
No system is perfect, and having no generic TLDs doesn't solve every problem with IP ever. It just removes much of the ambiguity on who's jurisdiction each individual incident is.

Then the US stops getting to play copyright police with the .coms. It doesn't solve this frankly convoluted scenario when you are deliberately trying to be covert and avoid detection.
> resize/maximize/minimize a window,

(http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/docs/gnome/ch01s02.html)

Alt-spacebar Opens the Window Menu.

etc etc.
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1) I like the live typing, though it does sometimes lead to people ignoring the rest of somebody's message after reading the first sentence. It's good for collaborating on documents like class notes, to-do lists, and other things. Maybe it would be nice if you could adjust the level of syncing: every character, every word, every blip, etc.

2) You could turn on email notifications. I suspect this wasn't done by default because for people like me who had waves constantly being updated and changed, the notifications would have flooded my inbox. The integration definitely could have used some work, but there were ways for you to be notified.
With Unity you can press Win+1, Win+2 ... Win+N to directly jump to an specific open window. Much faster than alt+tab.
> "Regarded as international" or not, .com .net and .org get administered by US entities.

And people argue about that constantly, insist it's unfair, or shouldn't be the case. And there is some truth to that. In reality we can't truly genericize TLDs, someone will have to be the admin. This at least makes it somewhat clearer who has rights over what.

Does it solve every problem with IP ever? No. However, it would stop countries trying to apply laws to TLDs that they have no jurisdiction over and then insisting the US is playing police when they can't do so.
This article seems very specific to cattle-call hiring of summer interns. The work doesn't begin for several months after the offer is made and this is a somewhat unique situation to students and internships at large companies.

When an offer is made for full-time, permanent employment a response is normally expected pretty quickly - within a few days. The interview process may take weeks or months but once the offer is made, it's expected that all parties are fairly serious and you are ready to turn in your 2-weeks notice if you are already employed, or possibly start right away if not.

The rules may be different for these two situations. In the latter, I definitely would not suggest accepting an offer and then backing out as a strategy. If you do, at least be aware that you may be burning bridges along the way.
I'm no OS expert but I'm pretty sure that assuming that app isn't doing anything then it's pages will be swapped out to disk (in essence , quitting the application from a memory perspective) if there are more pressing requirements for the memory.

Yes, but let's say you open an email client to receive notifications. Then you perform various tasks that involve opening new applications for a limited period of time, and they keep running after you're done with them. Eventually they'll use all the memory and the email client, since it's been idle for so long, gets paged to swap.

Now you get a new email notification and you click to open it, which forces the system to page something else and "bring back" the email client, which creates a huge delay between the click and the email window showing up.

If the temp applications had been closed as each task was completed, the email client would've never been paged out, so it'd remain fast when it was needed.

This might seem a contrived example, but if you have some applications that you tend to leave open, it can be hell.
I read the title and thought "so what? Anyone can pull up an old blog post" but then I read it and I'm glad I stumbled onto this. Gruber gets a lot of flack from people claiming he far too biased even for an Apple fanboy but I think it's interesting to see this first post where he's quite fair and certainly critical with a hint of skepticism as to whether Apple could follow up on its recent success at the time.

As Apple succeeded over time his positions make total sense to me and don't quite seem as skewed as many often claim.
After 10 generations, the virus had mutated to become airborne

Can someone more qualified than me comment on this? I was under the impression that this is as ridiculous as saying that you started out with dogs and ended up with cats 10 generations later. That viruses belong to specific families, and those families include how they're transmitted.

My knowledge of this field is extremely limited; can someone please clear up my confusion? :)
I just bought it, and I don't see C418 there. What is the name of the game?

edit: Nevermind, it's Minecraft.
In theory yes, however alternative desktops are not supported. The choice of desktop is the primary difference between Ubuntu and (say) Debian which doesn't worship any. Not that "support" exists anyway, but there's no point in using Ubuntu if you use a different desktop.

I also agree about your non-free software argument. Plus all the useless, additional services ubuntu is trying to push (Apple-style).
btw, turns out the redirect I set up two days had broken a couple of links, but not the ones I care about. Fixed now, though.
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Ask HN: Should I learn Ruby on Rails or Python?
I'm familiar to C and C++ syntax and plan to learn a new and more powerful programming language this winter. Should I go for Python 2.x(since I'll be working on linux)or shall I learn Ruby on Rails? I want a more versatile language since I'll may change platforms.
1) Yep

2) Not a huge fan of this

3) Disagree. It's far more performant than Wave when it launched, but this new GUI is on par or worse than the current Wave experience. At least for me, I guess your mileage may vary.
Perhaps I should use different terminology, but in my own interactions with people, I do find myself distinguishing people who "seemed interesting" from those who "really" turned out to be interesting. It mostly has to do with long-term perceptions after we've interacted for a while, and whether the interestingness turns out to be sustainable and have depth.
I run Ubuntu 10.10 as my main OS and it screams. I Installed Mint 12 on a test partition and it is a significant slow down, particularly regarding all things UI. Ubuntu puts out a pretty steady 50fps with translucent desktop cube in 1920x1200, Mint 12 can barley transition between workspaces without a choppy slow down. 5-10 second lock up whenever I use ctr+alt+T. Window color inversion (and apparently most of compiz) is broken. Installing nvidia post release caused Gnome to become totally inoperable, I had to boot with Gnome-No-Effects option. I prefer Mint's Gnome 3 to Ubuntu's Unity, but speaking practically, staying with 10.10 is my only true option. I am disappointed.
No problems here using plain ol' debian on my laptop. Stable and fast.
this sounds like an interesting project
another hacker friendly (off-camera) flash photography resource is strobist at http://strobist.blogspot.com/
"The user went to some trouble to get that arcane tool."

Troll much?
You've offered no specific replies to the multitude of problems in this thread so I figured I might just ask point blank:

Is crashing out after a couple swipes on a first generation iPad accepted and not a problem in your eyes? Because EVERYONE with a first gen iPad is having that exact problem, and you've chosen to completely ignore them.

Crashing is ALWAYS a bad experience, regardless of what preceded it. It's not subjective, or ambiguous, or possibly the users fault. It's 100% the fault of your memory intensive page, something that you refuse to take responsibility for or acknowledge is a problem.

From that, I can only assume this crap is geared towards iPad 2 owners only, giving me a bunch of extra reasons to hate it. Not only are you going to code a convoluted solution to something that isn't a problem for 2% of the web, you're also going to cut that in half to 1% by ignoring original iPads.

So frustrating.
I can say that, with Gosu, our goal is not to be innovative with syntax or semantics. Rather, our goal is to make common patterns today easier to deal with.

As an example: the open type system allows developers to mix various resources (xml files, wsdl files, json/jschema files, etc.) along side the gosu code, and access it all in a type-safe, easy-to-tool manner. This isn't particularly innovative from an academic perspective: there are no theories at work here, just some practitioners trying to make our lives easier. On the other hand, it is a very nice advancement for day-to-day coding.

As a broad generalization, I think that the technology community over-prioritizes innovation: I believe it would be more productive for most people to take the best ideas of the past and get on with the laborious task of sanding down and perfecting the implementations.
It is obvious that the best organic result for a nav query like [best buy] is bestbuy.com. The issue is with queries like [some product], should it show amazon first? or bestbuy? or some local reseller?
Your impression might be biased.

People don't like to vent about how their window manager doesn't get in the way of getting work done. Unhappy people do, so you never know the ratio.
Uh, it looks like that accusation of bias comes down to PolitiFact grading Republicans as wrong more often that Democrats... I don't want to get all political, but there's another potential explanation for that, yes?

(There's also the accusation that they target Republicans more than Democrats, but that's easily explained by their methodology, from that post: "If we look at something and we think that an elected official or talk show host is wrong, then we will fact-check it." If we posit that Republicans are wrong more often than Democrats, we would expect them to show up more often.)
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No, the part where instead of getting better, Google search keeps getting worse. The verbatim mode is finally there but much of the time when it mucks with my search terms it's wrong. The UI is also cluttered. They are doing a lot of things that do nothing to improve the quality of the search, so when I want to learn something, I often skip Google and go straight to Stack Overflow or Wikipedia. I did jump the gun on this issue, though...turns out some googlebot blocking was involved.
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"... software that flags suspicious claims in news articles and helps readers determine their truthiness."

+1 for use of the word "truthiness". I can't believe the impact people like Stephen Colbert have on our culture and lexicon.
> Most experts concur that the manufacture of a lethal anthrax aerosol

They didn't make a lethal anthrax aerosol, they used a completely harmless vaccine strain of anthrax, I would say that classifies them as amateurs.

If it really required vast bioengineering expertise to make an anthrax aerosol, one would think they wouldn't make such a ridiculous mistake.
Approximately 80% of the time, the software that works on one computer will work on another. In most of the remaining cases, the software will still work on the other computer, or at least have an acceptable substitute. For example, Microsoft Office works on a high 90's percent of all personal computers.

It is only if you have an exotic car^W computer that you'll have trouble finding parts^W software.
It was hit and miss at google. Some teams loved it, and some teams hated it.

It was cancelled because the number of external users didn't meet google's expectations, not because of how it was used internally.
A kind guy who is interested in Wave, and regularly contributes patches to improve the original version open sourced by Google :-)
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have you read that article in detail? i have spent some time on it, and am having trouble following the argument. at the start they say that approximately equal numbers of statements are taken from either side. then later they seem to be saying that a bias exists because the republicans lie more than the democrats. what i'm having a hard time understanding is why that is a bias - perhaps some republicans simply lie more?

again: it's not they are focusing more on one party than on another (they don't: "the number of public officials subjected to PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter lens from each party is fairly even during the period under analysis"), but that they catch more lies from one party (the republicans) than the other. in particular, it appears that palin and bachmann are responsible for raising the average number of lies for the republicans.

so why is this bias? why isn't it simply that palin and bachmann are liars? what am i missing (i am not american, so don't know much of the context - i just read the article and couldn't follow the logic of the argument)?

one possible alternative is that they are ignoring lies by democrats and instead checking only true statements. but in that case you'd think there would be a smoking gun - notorious statements from democrats that weren't checked. the article doesn't give any evidence for that.

ps also, i take issue with your final disclaimer. you can make judgement calls and still be better than coin flipping. just because it's not an automated, exact science doesn't mean that it cannot edge closer to the truth. almost everything in life is not exact, but we still know some people lie more than others. one way to do this is by looking at what is given (for example, this article) and checking whether it makes sense. maybe i have made a mistake - if so, hopefully someone will correct me. eventually this thread will lend weight to one conclusion or another...
Nice, some new music to hack to for the rest of the day. :)

- $1 - $9.99 gets you 10 albums.
- $10+ gets you 17 albums.
- Each album must downloaded separately as a zip file.
- Four simultaneous downloads allowed, max.
- I'm averaging ~100KB/s per download.
- I've seen file sizes between 60MB - 400MB.
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Huh. Expansion works now. I guess I was just missing the button. Sorry about that.
Super Meat Boy soundtrack and the VVVVVV soundtrack? I'm actually more excited about this than the last couple humble bundles I participated in.
Ugh, that is hype and nothing more. I've been using ubuntu since version 4 or so, and Unity has made me switch the windowing manager. Simple as that. It impedes my workflow and it doesn't even come close to what a simple, developer centric manager should be in my point of view. I installed the WM that comes with Lubuntu and unless Unity changes for the better, it will not be on my workstation.

I can also say, that many developers I work with feel the same way. It wasn't as if we didn't try to get used to it.
Linux is an exotic car. People trying to push linux on the general population so that they have an "easier time getting parts" are just as annoying as people who drive expensive cars and think that everybody else should too. I don't care if the expensive/exotic car is Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, Plan 9, BeOS, OSX,... ...It's just fucking annoying.

Interestingly, if you are unable understand that, I don't really give a shit. I believe I have now clearly articulated my position, the rest is on you.
If you're looking for truth in media, you're looking in wrong place.
Scala is becoming popular fast
You're comparing apples to oranges, kind of. What you're saying isn't necessarily reflective of Mint 12; it could just as well be Ubuntu 11.10.
No, WIAB has persistence system, even if the implementation is not finalized and can change.
That's great that you're really getting into photography, there's nothing like working alongside other photographers to really get good critiques about both technique and aesthetics.

Just remember though, science will only get you a very short distance in photo, it's an art based mostly on intuition, so just try and get the science part to the point where you don't think about it so much, to the point where it's automatic.

Some people take the science part of photography as being 90% of what it is. They shoot beautiful, extremely boring nature and studio photographs that no one really wants to look at. Be careful about overloading your brain with technical stuff, if you learn a bunch of new techniques, be sure to pare them down and keep sizable majority of your mental capacity available to relax and be creative.
Can you give some example ?
Rubbish.

Visual programming is becoming more common, but it is coming from the text environment. IntelliJ is showing the way: wizards that are embedded in your text editor, so you hardly notice them (e.g. renaming a variable.)

That's where the technical leverage is: improving our current development environments, not in completely changing the way we write code.
Also, you can only download each album 20 times and it shows you a visible count. Not exactly a repressive restriction or anything, just thought I might throw it out there.
Bah. I pay for the Economist, and I've paid for LWN in the past. I think a subscription model for premium content is more respectable than deceptive advertising.
After I discovered this feature/shortcut I started not caring anymore about Unity bugs. Navigating applications this way is much faster than alt+tabbing.
Another useful shortcut is alt+` (backtick). It cycles through open windows of the same application. If you have 10 PDFs open, you can cycle through them with alt+`.
Even better than 2 monitors is a single 2560x1600 30".
I'd say it's exactly like antibiotic resistant bacteria, in the presence of antibiotics they can outcompete the normal strains.

However, in the wild given no antibiotics the non-antibiotic strains will outcompete them.
I never said monads are made useless in a language with unrestricted side effects. I understand very well their utility even in the presence of side effects.

However, if you'll take a look at the example monad code, the bind and return methods themselves use side effects. I think that speaks for itself.
-Lack of customization

-Lack of bottom taskbar... I greatly dislike the combination launcher/taskbar style of Unity/Mac (Win 7 pulled it off better.) I could fix this except for item #1.
Apples or Oranges? Python is a language, RoR is a framework. Would make more sense to ask your question about Python and Ruby, or Django and RoR.
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Unity isn't for developers.
I don't understand how this can be any more effective than just cited sources at the end of a paper...
Uhmmm, ruby on rails is a framework. You should be asking whether to learn Python or Ruby. Why not learn both so you can expand your vocabulary and narrow down once the situation demands it?
It's refreshing to have a company that treats their customers (in-store, anyway) with respect.
Huh, that wasn't the question at all.
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The reason to avoid running the CoffeeScript compiler in the browser is that it takes time to compile a script, time which can be easily saved for the user by sending them a pre-compiled version. Of course running the CS compiler in the browser is great for development, but in a production environment every millisecond counts.
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I had no trouble setting this up with QuickSSHd (not affiliated): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.quicks...
The author is referring to the fact that the taskbar/dock in Unity doesn't offer the same affordances as the old Gnome2 taskbar. For example, in Ubuntu 11.04, there was no way to open a new terminal from the dock. You had to click on the terminal icon, then click File->New Terminal. As someone who routinely opens a number of terminals for various tasks, that one regression was a source of significant slowdowns.

In addition, Unity is slow on any system that doesn't have a separate graphics card or the latest generation of integrated graphics. There doesn't appear to be a way to turn off the graphical effects to speed it up. Combine that with the usability regressions, and Unity was a definite no-go for me.

That's not to say that I "hate" Unity or will never use it as my desktop environment. I think Unity has a lot of potential. Unfortunately, like all too much software out there, it was released before it had been fully finished. I look forward to trying Unity again when the next Ubuntu LTS (12.04, I believe) is released. Hopefully it'll be far more usable and "finished" by then.
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Alt-spacebar requires multiple keystrokes and does not allow easy tiling or snapping to corners/center.
I concur, I'm using a few applications - Yakuake Terminal, Chrome, Thunderbird, Eclipse+viPlugin, Empathy and Skype.

Unity took me a while to get used to, but I've found it to be fantastic and look forward to seeing the production release with Ubuntu 12.04.
I agree. Especially on my 13" laptop, Unity gives me by far the most screen space of any other desktop environment out there (including OS X), especially vertical.

It has a few bugs, but they're not that big a deal.
And there's precisely the point: "it will not be on my workstation".

Unity is aiming for the desktop market, not the workstation market.

My desktop is Windows, because it allows me to consume media, browse the web, shove stuff onto my iPod with iTunes, and at no point do I actually have to think.

My workstation is debian with fvwm2.

Ubuntu is "linux for human beings", not "linux for development workstations". This is not necessarily a problem.
As already pointed out, one is a framework (RoR), while the other is a language.
As you talk of learning a programming language, I'm guessing you meant, should I choose Ruby or Python?

To pick between I would suggest you try and write a couple of simple scripts in both and see which suits you better.

You should also think what you would like to use this knowledge for in the future. Do you want to build web apps, manipulate text, write desktop apps? Once you know this, it'll be easier to make the right choice about which tech to use.
How are other desktops supported less under Ubuntu than they are under Debian? (The "useless, additional services" bit confuses me too, TBH. Could you provide some examples?)
I think the only thing wrong with Unity is that it came without instructions.

My dad, a non computer expert, updated to a recent Ubuntu and wondered where did all the menus go to. He called me saying that he needed help.

Even I'm a power user, it also took me time to adapt. The first days I was trying to do things the old way. For example trying to find the applications by clicking instead of typing. After I realized, I think I'm now faster than before. I was already used to Quicksilver and Launchy, so pressing the start key, typing a few letters and pressing enter feels fast and easy.

I was also annoyed by windows maximizing when I dragged them to the top. No one told me what was that about. Today I realized that I can easily drag windows to the left or right borders for having two windows side by side, which I find very useful.

So I think what's missing is a welcome video tutorial that explains the changes and tells us how to be productive with Unity.

I wonder about one thing though: aren't geeks doing most things with the keyboard? I don't think you notice Unity much if you stay away from the mouse.