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Frugalware is also nice. Used it for a while. It was an awesome alternative when Arch got really unstable for a while some time ago. I use Arch again, but for everyone out there who has some problem (or simply needs a more stable approach) use Frugalware. It's also nice for people coming from Slackware or BSD.

Most things are close to Arch Linux, so it's pretty straight forward to switch between them without having to get used to another distribution again.

In short I think it can be a better alternative for people who don't like to hack (so much) on their systems.

http://frugalware.org/
Sub-nitpick: Depends on how you're handling the blade.

A dull blade on a round onion is not safer than a sharp blade on that onion. Running your hand across a dull blade is safer than running your hand against a sharp blade.

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I don't think this will continue into 2012, with the way Larry is focusing on the core products.
Java has references but not pointers, in that you can't do arithmetic with them. This actually does increase safety substantially; you can still get a (badly-named) exception by trying to dereference a null reference, but it's a lot harder to turn what was supposed to be a pointer to an input buffer into a pointer to your program's executable code.
1. I agree. I need to improve that. I think I just don't have the distance from the project anymore to properly articulate it to someone seeing it for the first time - I'll work on this.

3. I've built a similar system for a previous employer, where I iterated the design of the software for seven years! I have a really good grasp of the domain, and when I saw what else was available in this market I knew I could build a better product.

Colleagues of mine who work in maintenance love this new system (though they're not the ones who would purchase it), and I've got one potential customer (maintenance manager) who really wants to start using it; they're waiting for corporate approval. But that's limited feedback I admit.

4. Absolutely agree. Tailoring the message to the managers is something I need to work on.

5. I'm targeting more specific things than CMMS: I tried a lot of keyword phrases and found that half a dozen of them like "Web Maintenance Software" had decent click through rates of say 2% and higher. I'm absolutely new to that game...

6. Thanks for your very down to earth and focused advice. It's unfortunate that the people I'm targeting don't have a big web presence. I'll keep trying!
Haha exactly what I thought. Looked like some people forked it on Github though https://github.com/trybeee/GitStats
You know the bookstore is bad if the Philosophy section is filled with copies of The Tao of Pooh.

Or it's a GREAT bookstore!
What were the main features that you liked about it, but haven't found elsewhere? I liked being able to email files directly to the drop. I suggest that we make a short list of awesome features, and maybe someone will take up the cause.
I would not call that "in between". It is more like two dimensions:

scientific publication : pseudoscience = New Scientist : Sensationalist Publication

It is comparable to Scientific American.
A large company in effect already is an employer union; whereas you typically negotiate as just one individual (unless you're part of a union), the hiring manager isn't negotiating with you by himself as a human free to use his judgment, but as part of a large organization that's agreed on common terms coordinated across all its hiring managers and departments. Hence the difficulty in negotiating changes to employment agreements: rather than a situation where, e.g. a representative of the company and a representative of the employees get together to negotiate things like non-compete terms, a representative of the company, which has worked out a coordinated strategy, is sitting down with an individual who isn't coordinating with anyone.

The union analogue of a group of companies, representing a large sector of an industry, coordinating with each other, would be more like the old-school industry-wide unions, which would present demands to employers as a unified front, and simultaneously go on strike from all the employers in the entire sector if their demands weren't met. That's not allowed anymore; since the Taft-Hartley Act (1947), unions have to individually negotiate in good-faith with their employers, and industry-wide "labor action" is banned.
Sweet video! I would suggest adding a clickable link on your youtube video description.
It's an easy way to abstract away that bit of the tutorial. Rails makes it absolutely trivial for the purpose of setting up an Ember.js example if your focus isn't on the backend itself.

Rails scaffolding creates RESTful resources by default (and Ember.js plays nicely with it too). Starting from a "blank slate" Ubuntu server install, you could have a dev server providing this groundwork in about 7 commands in under 5 minutes. If you were to do this in J2EE (nothing is stopping you), setting up the backend would take significantly longer than the frontend ideas being explained.
It will continue in 2012 as in the filing Google said, “Acquisitions will also remain an important component of our strategy and use of capital, and we expect our current pace of acquisitions to continue."
Which, to be fair, is her second bullet point.
"It's an internal CRM system, so why not shove it full of in-jokes and vi-keybindings for navigation? Why not give it a REST API and a CLI app to consume it?"

Because the users of the system don't care about any of that crap, so it's a waste of time and money, which most companies don't have extra of to spare.
From a privacy perspective, how is choosing ads different from doing syntax highlighting and blame? These things all require the service provider to have access to the data you give them.

Maybe it is because when ad-picking is done well, it benefits not only you but also some advertiser; perhaps that makes ads seem to serve someone else's interests instead of yours+someone else's interests.

There are other worries expressed in this post. I think one of them is that Google might make wrong inferences and therefore do a bad job of choosing ads (matching them to some one-off project you did for a client on a topic that doesn't interest you). I guess what makes this bad is the distraction caused by an irrelevant ad. Syntax highlighting, when done badly, would also be distracting, but I suppose it is much easier to get syntax highlighting right. Is it really the prospect of uninteresting ads that is the main concern?
We iterate quickly, so systems like Campfire or wikis are useless. There's no point in writing documentation and employee on-boarding instructions if they're going to be out of date in two weeks

That's a terrible thing to say.

Remember, documentation is like sex. When it's good then it's really, really good. And when it's not good then it's still better than nothing.
Yep. That's exactly it, it's on a cheap server and too much traffic. Anybody experience this before and/or know some quick solutions?
Most "ordinary" business people who do project planning work have probably heard of BaseCamp too.

I think this might be the tech bubble showing. I've never heard of any non-tech, non-startup companies using Basecamp. I'm not saying that they don't, of course, but I'd be interested to hear some case studies in its use outside of tech-savvy crowds.
Have you found a difference in freshness of packages since you switched? I really like how in Arch packages tend to be much more up to date than other distros ( a side effect of the rolling release)
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." - Eric Hoffer

Rare to admit maybe, not rare to occur.
"The fact that i have to predetermine the length of a string is laughable... Thats not the case with js or even with php to some extent."

It's not laughable. Most implementations of JS and PHP are probably written in C or C++. While using dynamically allocated strings in higher level languages like these are indeed easier than null terminated strings in C, at some point someone somewhere had to write code at a lower level to support this.
great idea, so great that i'm helping to spread on facebook...
Still has field to find a way to keep just one file to all social networks, but maybe it will make the end user confused...
This looks like a great frontend for FUSE (or MacFUSE by Google, http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/). I think you guys nailed the user experience because FUSE can be really difficult to setup for n00bs.
Sony made this same mistake in the 80's by buying a movie studio. I can't see Apple going down this road of diversification through acquisition.

Then again, Sony's terrible product divisions are propped up by their massive sales in life insurance and the company wouldn't exist without it:

http://www.splatf.com/2011/11/sony-profits/
Thats a really great story. Im glad you finally had success :)
I hope this works as proclaimed - the only two questions i have left are:
do traditional desalination techniques require more energy than boiling the equivalent amount of water? if so, this might indeed be a breakthrough.
and the second question: will the membrane ever need to be replaced?
I have an ArchLinux installed at home. Well I am unsure on what to think. It can be used to go on the internet, have the latest software but if you are serious on coding stable things well... you're going to cry.

Since you always have the latest packets ready your code is going to be often broken by changes in the libraries (damn Boost!). Other problem, if you leave your computer untouched for 1 months you'll have 1 Gb of updates to do.

But it's still a very good distribution, just be careful about what to use.
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Personnellement je suis pour une rencontre (après à voir comment on peut faire ça, après tout nous sommes tous un poil occupés je pense).
As someone with programming background, I actually wish there are more stories on the opposite direction (programmer who gets kickass awesome in UI design (HTML + CSS)).

I think that the complexity of CSS compatibility (what browser supports what not... even there are minor quirks between Firefox & Chrome, not just IE.. don't get me started on IE7 & 8 either), it is very easy to raise a white flag and say "that is it..I am going back to deal with backend only tasks, nothing that consumer will see on the surface).

Perhaps, OP already has a knack for UI design (as he/she mentioned in the post that he/she is a UI designer by trade before Ruby), so kudos for getting a nice grip on Rails. As for me, I wish I can master the UI design etc.
They say they have 96 billion in cash, yet their financial statements only list 54 billion. Where is the rest? Is it in a subsidiary? If so, aren't there also liabilities in the subsidiary? I don't get it.
As a developer who has been using Linux as a desktop and enjoys tweaking every little thing: I think Arch is fantastic. It took my understanding of the OS and exactly what is going on to the next level.

However I work with developers who don't want to tweak every little thing they just want their OS to work and let them be passionate about development. They should stick to OSX, or if they are feeling adventurous try Ubuntu. I also would not suggest Arch if you have not used another more friendly Linux distro for a while and had the "opportunity" to troubleshoot some issues and enjoyed it.

To enjoy Arch you really have to be passionate about Linux and tweaking your machine, otherwise you will just be frustrated. For those that are I cannot recommend Arch enough.
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That's the beautiful thing about arch. While figuring out configurations, tweaks, or problems for yourself may seem daunting Arch has fantastic documentation through the web on tons of issues, ranging from software- to hardware-specific. It is one of the best documented linux distros I've had the pleasure of using.
It's great to see people picking up development, but in all honesty, it does make me a little sad to see people heading directly to Objective-C. Obviously I understand the reasons why (an iPhone app is definitely top on the "awesome" factor right now) but it seems so limiting.

I wish something like Appcelerator was a little better than it is, allowing people to make native apps across platforms using JavaScript. It's a fantastic idea, but I'm not a huge fan of the Appcelerator implementation.
I'm the same way. It began when I was an undergraduate: the sight of crowded bookshelves in a professor's office – one actually sagging under its load – flipped the crazy switch in my brain. After I got my first real job, the project of accumulation began. Having a large home library is not without its problems, but it's also a real source of joy. My only regret is not taking the time to learn some basic carpentry skills.

I would hate to do serious research in a world of ebooks – and any sufficiently serious reader becomes a researcher – but for general use, they probably are a good technology for most readers. Defenders of the paper book need to remember that mass reading of paper books is a historically recent phenomenon, for some values of "recent".
No prob! exactly why I wrote it.. during times of learning code; motivation is like gold
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Or, if your data requires a high level of privacy, encrypt it before you store it somewhere else, in a way that the storage platform can't decrypt it. E.g. tarsnap.
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Make the proof part of the challenge.
Do you think it's a left brain, right brain sort of thing? I mean what controls someone's ability to draw better than others?

I've noticed usually the better someone can draw on paper, their web design reflects the same.
Why do you care so much about an app that you're not competing with?

Fart apps were wildly successful too.
I'd totally forgotten about that project, used to use it with MacFusion. We'll check out the project again to see which of the services we could integrate (or what code/libs we could use).
Jump-up-and-down moments, ah... those are great!
Your main concern seems to be that Google mixes personal and other (e.g. professional) data. Can't you just use different Google accounts for personal and professional work?

To follow your example (Google buying Github and mixing client data with your personal account), how is having a separate Google account for client work less practical than having a separate Github account?
It's interesting how relative people's experience can be: for me, it was the opposite, as I feel that Arch has let me save a lot of time. I was using Gentoo at the time I decided to switch to Arch, and the relatively deeper understanding of the internals of the OS that is necessary to keep a stable Gentoo system made Arch feel like a very well-designed Lego toy. I guess that LFS people coming to Gentoo would feel the same :)

TLDR: I love Arch, I feel that I don't lose time on it because I made the switch from Gentoo.
On the water filtration front, one thing I'm curious to know is what happened to the LifeSaver bottle. Was that just the victim of TED hype?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeSaver_bottle

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_f...

From the Wikipedia page: "In 2007, the LifeSaver bottle was tested by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the results found it to completely filter out all bacteria and viruses."

This may be a stupid question, but is that simply nothing remarkable?

Since graphene seems to be the best thing discovered for filtering evaporated water, not liquid water, is the LifeSaver not as great a solution as the TED video makes it out to be, for some reason?
The article is talking about companies that hijack information for themselves, and I see a link for scribd. It seems that things will not change so soon.
Great idea, however If I want to share a set of photos on multiple services, I have to waste a lot of space !? will symlink works?
Thanks kmfrk (a mouthful)

We'll try and make the website more friendly. As ever, juggling with multiple priorities.

We're in SF, haven't seen people throwing themselves at us just yet, but can't wait :)
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Heh, wow. I read the article and managed to miss that sentence completely. Thank you for pointing it out.
Pretty interesting and creative way to pitch the project: They created their main web site [1] as if the product already existed, giving the potential donor a good feeling about the end goal.

[1] http://ninjablocks.com
Couldn't agree more. The urge and desire to start learning was constantly squashed by the daunting task at hand. Once my ideas began to coalesce into something coherent, the passion and interest superseded the difficulty or fear I'd never "get it".
until you zoom. If you zoom, the left bar sticks to the left of the window and increases in size, but when scrolling horizontally only the body content is scrolled. The result is that the width of the reading space as a percentage of the width of the browser decreases as you zoom in.
Getting through the initial hurdles of getting wifi working and daemonized, getting X to start when you boot (if you want to run X), etc. can take a little time because it's not something you normally have to think about with the preinstalled distros. But once you get through those things it's pretty smooth sailing. Pacman is fantastic, and AUR is unmatched. The benefit of knowing exactly what is running is worth the initial pain.
Here's why acq-hiring is a disaster. Let's say FatFrog is the acquirer and BuzzFly is the acquired.

BuzzFly's founders usually have earnouts ("golden handcuffs") and thus have an incentive to stay, but merging them with FatFrog's executive hierarchy is difficult and rocky. They tend to be resented, especially if there's an age difference (i.e. the BuzzFly founders are 25 and FatFrog execs are 40+). The executive merging is difficult in acq-hires because no one will take orders from a 26-year-old whose IUsedThisToilet virtual bathroom graffiti app just got bought for $87 million.

BuzzFly's top programmers, who are by this point the vitality of the organization, don't have the huge amounts of stock that would be incentive to stay. Their company also just got acquired so this is a great time to go for a major external promotion, especially since titles in a soon-to-be-eaten company are pretty easy to self-upgrade. So the top engineers face the "decision" between (a) use the transient "hotness" of their startup name to get a huge promotion to a VP-level role in another company, or (b) become some subordinate Software Engineer, Level 4.B.ii at FatFrog while watching their original work (whatever remains of BuzzFly) goes into maintenance mode... and has to be rewritten in C++.

The weakest engineers, who never could have gotten jobs at FatFrog, but were able to get onto the BuzzFly train when Buzz was desperate, stay along.

So the actual result of an acq-hire is that the execs are rejected like a bad transplant, the best engineers bolt, and the worst ones stay on board.
Dropbox has repeatedly stated that they have no interest in selling to anyone.
It's nice, but it doesn't quite "mirror all the content I have" because it doesn't transfer comments. I claim ownership of all comments left by me, and by others, on my content. When a social network deletes a picture of mine, all the comments are lost, as well. This breaks the conversation, and cannot be fixed by simply re-uploading the original content. I understand that you cannot transfer comments from one social network to another, but the basic problem remains. Solve that, and you've got a real winner.
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And who says Rails doesn't scale?
Apparently this blog post reminded a friend of mine about an article he read in the nineties called The Hybrid Manager. Essentially, we as developers love technology as it really interests us. But unless we're writing tools to aid development we need to understand at least one other business i.e. the business we write code for.

I don't think enough coders know how the high-end financial world works or what opportunities and interesting work it has. More computer scientists in my industry please, we need your pragmatism!
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Look at your own iphone screenshots. Does it say IIIico or lllico? I'm not sure if it's important but given the phone font it's a no-go.
NetBSD and debian both customize 3rd party software to fit with the project's desired software policies. That is quite different from arch which just packages everything up as-is.
That's awfully generic and doesn't address the criticism. What are the examples of useful type coertion? What do they achieve? Are there no better ways to achieve those same goals without introducing bug-prone, WAT-inducing behaviors?

For example, string concatenation could have been handled by a separate operator.
I don't know how this is in other disciplines but in mine journals are most of the time "hosted" by schools or specific research groups. If the case is as simple as described I wonder why academics haven't abandon their publishers already.

I have no evidence of this but I suspect that publishers "support" high profile journals in one way or another - may it be something like helping engaged reviewers to publish/edit books, sponsor conferences, etc. It seems somewhat native to think that there is not competition among publishers in order to get high profile journals publishing with them and they will have to bring more convincing arguments besides "we will get you listed on Google scholar & Ebsco. I would really love to hear the opinion by someone knowing the system from the "business" side of journals, i.e. the hosting/sponsoring.
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We don't really care, it was just an easy way to try to make people smile and upvote the article in HN.
Granted. s/most/some/
Your solution to defeating Hollywood is to give Hollywood complete control over access, distribution, and possession of every bit of content?
Yup! Nailed it.
Amazing how a person with no experience in creating apps can design an app and launch page that looks better than about 50% of the apps out there. Well done!

You should put the price of your app on your app's site by the way - I like to know the price before going off to the apple store.
I think it has a lot more to do with memorization of all the little quirks on what works on what browser and what doesn't.

With languages like C#/Ruby/PHP/JavaScript, I find that I can soak up that knowledge better than HTML/CSS, because I find it consistent and organized (...not too sure about PHP's quirky API naming conventions). For CSS, it just seems like there is a myriad of tricks you gain through out the years, and I guess it just takes more effort to get good at it.
Reddit's probably was using trying to use EBS as a backend for a transactional database. The issue is that EBS makes no guarantees on latency, only that they'll never lose your data.
I doubt Rails is doing the caching.
Arch is great, but my favorite thing about it is that it stays out of the way. It led me to using new tools like XMonad and MPD. I could be perfectly happy with using the same setup on debian-unstable, but never would have got there without Arch.

The package manager Arch uses, pacman, recently introduced package signing (albeit with a few bugs to iron out.) I wonder if more people will start to use Arch as a server OS now.