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Wikipedia will be destroyed when governments figure out that they can control what is and is not "authorized popular truth". Wikipedia doesn't stand up for truth, it only seeks to be based upon the data sources, even when we all know they are officially verified government propaganda.

That's why history books in middle school are completely screwed up with lies. You can't empirically test history. If wikipedia is to survive it will have to make a principled stand against official propaganda machines, official government sources and popular truth, myth and political agendas.
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The source isn't that interesting. It just was a lot work ;)

But http://www.cappuccino.org is a good starting point.
At least it was SOCA, not CHAOS or SPECTRE. Then we'd be in real trouble.

Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."
OP is referring to this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/...
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"It was just an unlucky coincidence that Apple avoided by chance."

The fact that they were not specifically thinking of the terminal (which you are assuming) does not mean that it was purely by chance. That's a non sequitur.
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guerilla tactic: if the trial ever proceeded it would have launched this guy's film career by giving him immense public exposure instead of just another sob story on reddit.

why did it take the lead of the studio's lawyer's team to make the phone call - it would imply how seriously they were concerned about real potential risks.

instead his surrender was exactly what the studio lawyers aimed for.

btw since this was 10 years ago it's conveniently outside the statute of limitations for slander - so he doesn't have to prove this story is even real and not just viral promotion bs for his lame student project.
I really can't immagine that hidden non-standard gestures ever becoming the future of interfaces. Its beautiful, but wtf how am I supposed to remember how to use it?
I think the overall problem is that wikipedia attempts to substitute policy for expertise.

As other have pointed out, wikipedia has to deal with lots of bad edits from people who are not motivated by a pursuit of facts or truth.

To deal with this, they've come up with a set of policies that the editors seem to enforce fairly rigidly. This does an okay job of preventing the wackos from taking over. Unfortunately, since the editors often lack the subject expertise to distinguish cranks from experts, these policies end up making it harder for experts to contribute in some cases.
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Well I feel completely scammed out of my email address by ZenInbox.

I usually never sign up for these pre-releases, but after I read through the intro, I "signed up for the beta" expecting to actually see some of the app that was described as so amazing. Instead I am now subscribed to a mailing list.

I just don't think that is cool. At the very least you disclose this before I gave you my email.
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"And if you wonder how you were supposed to install these packages without network access: by periodically calling ifconfig and ip route add until you finally managed to fetch all the data before NetworkManager would mess it up again."

Doesn't make any sense either, NetworkManager is a service that can be stopped like any other one.
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There are a whole lot of factual errors here, or at least conclusions kind of pulled out of thin air. To wit:

> This may well be true, but my own suspicion is that it had as much to do with Apple having hundreds of core system developers already familiar with the C++ APIs, and a limited timeframe to get Mac OS X released.

Actually, NeXT already had a perfectly cromulent Cocoa-based "Finder", called the Workspace Manager. This was the program used in NeXTSTEP and later in Rhapsody. Apple threw it away and replaced it with a Carbon Finder built in-house. They were quite specific as to the reason: to guarantee that Carbon was bullet-proof, Apple built the Finder "to eat their own dog food" (though he didn't originate the term at Apple, I think Steve started using it too).

> [regarding UFS] In order to maintain compatibility. And it wasn't just ported code -- HFS+ support was rewritten from the ground up as a UNIX file system. Surprisingly, the result wasn't a delicate hack, and the fact that we're still using it today (on iOS too!) speaks to the engineering capability of Apple. (And NeXT, since it's all one big family now.)

It wasn't just compatibility. Though it was case-preserving :-(, HFS+ had some big advantages over UFS. It supported Unicode. It supported metadata. It supported soft links which were preserved in removable media. It had much better networked file support. And so on.

Also: IIRC HFS+ wasn't rewritten from the ground up. Apple already long had a version of it running on UNIX systems they had developed in-house.

> Quicktime was also ported to Windows.

The point is, NeXT already had a multimedia, sound, and (limited) video system. It was famous for its sound system in particular. But (Carbon) Quicktime was better. So they used it instead.

> In order to maintain compatibility. The recommended way to write games on Mac OS X has always been the OpenGL APIs, and you can hardly describe OpenGL as a legacy Mac technology.

You absolutely can! Porting OpenGL involves a huge number of low-level ties to the operating system. NeXT had its own 3D facilities as well (OpenGL under NeXTSTEP, and Display Renderman), which were entirely tossed out in favor of the "legacy" OS 9 version.

> Java came from Sun.

On early OS X, the bulk of the Java facility came from Apple. Sun didn't support the Java port at all. NeXTSTEP, or more properly OpenStep, had a Java port from Sun which was entirely replaced with the OS 9 Java version.

> Font handling in Mac OS X is part of Quartz, a new technology developed for OS X.

Not correct. Font and typographic engine technology was derived from ATSUI, Apple's advanced typography system. And why wouldn't they? It was the best in the world.

Look, I don't dispute, by any stretch, the notion that the crucial parts of OS X were NeXTSTEP. I'm a NeXTSTEP guy! But your dismissal of Carbon and OS 9 technologies that found their way into OS X is both overly casual and in many cases simply false. To this day OS X still has a huge number of OS 9 technologies embedded in it not because of compatibility, or just because of compatibility, but because they were the best technology. Apple's not stupid.
I'm probably out of my territory (I don't have a phone right now[1]), but my first UI instinct would be to allow address book entries to be grouped (or tagged or labelled, the actual mechanism is secondary), and on first request from the app being asked what groups I'd like to allow it access to. Bonus points for the option to create a per-app group and put some users in right there and then.

But as I said, outside of my territory.

[1] I'm not that old, really.
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Hey tommccabe, we're very sorry about that. We don't store your password in clear text (irreversible salt & hash combination) However we have been provided with feedback that this isn't something people appreciate and its already fixed on QA.

Our next release addresses this issue, should be out in the next 2 weeks.
Oh come on. Grow a pair of balls - if you've just been 'trapped' by a link then have the guts to go to court and fight for something. Don't be such a bloody wimp.
Hey there Kleetus!

So far, the only thing that we use Flash for is for Websockets transport (if your browser doesn't support Websockets, it falls back to use Flashsockets... Socket.IO FTW), and the Youtube videos embedding.

The Youtube Javascript API for embedding videos automatically chooses the best method of embedding videos in your browser based on your system and machine. If you have opted-in to use the HTML5 version of Youtube embeds, you should get HTML5 of Youtube embeds on every site you go. :) To do that, you have to go here: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Everything else is done with HTML, CSS and Javascript though. I hope you're good with HTML5 and CSS3! We are strong supporters of HTML5, so we try not to use flash whenever we can. :D

We'll be adding more OAuth methods in the future, such as Twitter and Google. Thanks for the suggestion!
I played with it last night. The UI is really intuitive and the model makes sense - worth a dollar.
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It's because people will pay money for the iOS app. I've met many people who, when asked that question, reply "I just like apps. Any time I find some website that I like, I check to see if they have an app". It's some sort of cultural thing.
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Biostar is the bioinformatics, computational genomics and systems biology stack exchange website for asking questions.
http://biostar.stackexchange.com/

You should be able to find some interesting topics on Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
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Cool project! I ended up doing most of it by hand. I started by just playing around with variables.less, but it wasn't giving me the variety I wanted, so I added an extra less file for more custom stuff.

You can check them out on the gh-pages branch in GitHub: https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch
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“We noticed while building our Ruby community site that there were a lot of issues with niche communities, whether it be out-of-date material or just the fact that the site didn’t have a human feel to it.”
Perhaps - but the point is that the link is sitting there without any warning at all about the fact that the site is threatening anyone that clicks on it. At the very least there should be a [WARNING]. Who's to say that someone won't post a honeypot link of the style mentioned in the above article I just cited? If you didn't read that, you should. Entrapment on the internet is real.
Actually, I hated the design.

The vertical pinch is awkward and if you try a horizontal or diagonal pinch (which is more natural) then it deletes or completes a task. Also, scrolling up too quickly suddenly puts you in new task mode.

And while there's some innovation (or experimentation) with the user interaction, there's been no real innovation which how a todo list should function. In this respect, I much prefer TeuxDeux. It's still clean and unfettered by tags and descriptions etc but adding tasks to particular days gives you a really good overview of you day/week. It also removes the resistance when you start the day because you're not thinking "what shall I work on today" or "what shall I cherrypick from this humongous list".
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Thanks for the swift reply.

Good to hear that you like BB.js

I'm just starting to learn, so it is always good to hear about nice experiences.

P.S. Your site really looks smooth. Good job.
I would imagine that the best Indian programmers are every bit as good as the best American or European programmers.
It's just that at the low end, people who are not good programmers in first world countries will gravitate towards something else as there are plenty of other ways of a making a similar level of income whereas in India options are more limited so people will stick with a career to which they may be ill suited.

From what I've seen Scandinavian countries seems to have a very good track record for creating innovative programmers. A disproportionate number of highly original languages , frameworks , software and games seem to come from there.
Does this sync data over icloud or some other cloud? Would this integrate with my iphone or ical?

If it's only a mobile tool. It becomes very limited.

It's difficult to build a great interface but even harder to build a great product.
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Pretty simple actually. Two albums cost, what, around 20 ~ 40 depending upon the band? Buy enough swag to make up the cost. More of the profits will go to the band than would have before.
I rather enjoy opting-out of this crap. The TSA folks seem to respect it, especially when they ask the reason for their clipboard and I say "health." I've never been millimeter scanned and frankly the radiation aspects of it scare me.

What I don't understand is why anyone wouldn't opt-out. Even when I've been on the late side for my flights, the time a pat down takes doesn't make a difference in catching the flight.
> The problem is when some site has unusual password requirements that SuperGenPass can't support. Then I must make up and remember a password for that site. :(

PasswordMaker is similar to SuperGenPass, but you can create exceptions to your default password scheme on a site-by-site basis. So, you can use lower complexity and shorter passwords for sites that have bad password policies, but still use better passwords for those that support them.

http://passwordmaker.org/
Why isn't anyone mentioning the fact that if this kid (at the time) owned the rights to the I, Robot via permission he could have sued the producers of "I, Robot" for a portion of their profits.

This was a defensive lawsuit that had nothing to do with shutting down his student project -- it was to protect themselves from a party that could have potentially tied them up for years in court demanding money if he had properly lawyered up.
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"* no easy refactoring. In VS i love how i can just hit F2 on a method name, rename it, VS shows me all the places where it will rename it and pressing OK. This works flawless everytime and makes refactoring so much more painless than working with a scripting language and a text-editor only"

Using vim (or sed for whole directories of files) you can do the same thing using a search and replace regex.

in vim:
:%s/<find>/<replace>/gc
Yeah, this is the 6th (!) post about it that I've seen today..

(Edit: I have edited this post twice. Initially I put 3 times, then 5, now 6 - WHEN WILL IT STOP?)
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This app looks really nice, but what was so bad about the native music app? Third party apps that try to replace a native iOS app are usually unable to replace all of the built-in functionality. For example, will this app show the album art on the lock screen?
Well, Steve Jobs shaped the image of Apple as a company and it's products, and ensured things worked the way he wanted them to, right or wrong, from the inside out.....

There's a reason people go nuts over most apple products, and it's not because Steve jobs gets up on stage, and it's not because of technical specifications.... it's because he managed to setup the company to produce and market products that carried a bit of that magic with them for some reason. The packaging, the styling, etc...... we can argue that a box is just a box, but I can't help but notice when I give someone an iPod for christmas or something the fascination they have with simply opening the box. They start delicately examining the box and protecting it, usually keeping it afterwards for no explicable reason, even before getting to the product at hand.
So a box is more than just packaging obviously... if it has that effect on people, it bolsters the brand..... pretty simple.
> Has it actually ever happenned before?

Yes -- I updated my first comment at note [2].
That's fine if you're doing it to yourself. If management were to try to impose this, I would look for a job that has more regard for the dignity of employees.
It is; there are various outreach efforts to bring Wikipedia editing to the classroom (and other similar arenas). The GLAM and Wikipedian in Residence schemes work with various cultural institutions and ones such as Campus Ambassador are active on college/uni campuses.

Most only just getting into their stride, but I think the world is more open like you hope :)
I know it's just "one example", but is it really that hard to remember that a few programs have that particular combination reserved? In most terminals I know, you just do Ctrl+Shift+x/v/c. Pressing one more key because you are in a special environment is hardly a big deal.
If such a link is suspected then we should spread it far and wide, rendering it effectively useless.
Honest question, can't you moderate yourself? I always have, but perhaps my body chemistry is such that it "works". I do have a pretty big "buffer". I can drink a relatively high quantity of alcohol and I've only been SICK once - never had a hangover.
It would be interesting to see some numbers though. I wonder what percentage of free users upgrade to a paid version. I wonder what it costs to support the free users. I have to assume it works for them, or they probably wouldn't have lasted as a company. But, speaking anecdotally, I've used several of these products and have never felt the need to upgrade.

Also, you could make a case that these are not truly freemium, since any commercial use requires payment.
Thanks for the compliment! I'm glad that you liked the site! :D

I am still learning about Backbone.js as well, there are so many things that you can do with it that I haven't really utilize all the features yet. If you need any help with it, feel free to buzz me!
Looking at the Talk page itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Haymarket_aff..., at the bottom, thanks zqfm), it was not clear to me reading his Chronicle article that he did not cite the primary sources in Wikipedia. Rather, in Wikipedia, he cites his own blog post, and in that blog post, he cites primary sources.

As ZeroGravitas points out, consider the case of a crank who links to his own blog as a source, and that blog post cites primary evidence. The Wikipedia editors now have a job that is identical to academic peer-review. I don't think that should be their job.
During 2010 and the first half of 2011, my significant other (female) was randomly selected for the scanners 11 out of 12 times. The 1 time she wasn't selected was because the scanner was not in operation. I (male) was randomly selected 0 times.

Every time she asked for a pat down, the female TSA worker (who would be performing the pat down) would scowl at the young male worker. It seemed that female pat downs were in higher demand, making her job harder.

Now that more scanners have been installed at the airports we frequent, the TSA workers try to send almost 100% of the people through the scanners. Though, my significant other now gets directed over to the metal detector if there is a long line for the scanner.
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That's not at all equivalent.
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MySQL Cluster seems like an awesome solution to applications with a high write to read ratio (which applies to several that I currently work on). I'd be curious to hear cases of people successfully using MySQL Cluster and some of its pros/cons in real-life applications.
http://stats.wikimedia.org

Specifically: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm

The decline of existing editors has stabilised a bit - the trend downward is now fairly slow (and there are a few upswings). New editor pick up has recently slumped a bit more dramatically.
A valid argument.But few students have the wherewithal to "lawyer up". Not to mention that the "kid" wanted to make movies, not get himself in his own court room drama.

So defensive it may be, but that is just a symptom of an exceptionally litigious system, that overwhelmingly favors big players.
Who is Isaacson trusting? Bill Gates? If so why publish text that Gates disagrees with the truth of. Amelio? If so why publish the fact that Gates disputes that version? It sounds like he doesn't really "trust" either account, and why should he?

Gruber presents this as the best example of Issacson not trusting something true Jobs said and "trusting" the lies of others (as do you) but really it's just nerdy nitpicking about how far you should emphasise and editorialise the subjectivity of 3rd party accounts, there's no quote from Jobs being disproved in this example it's just Amelio (who in the anecdote just picked NeXT over NT!) describing Gates angry reaction at the time and Gates commenting about it later. Gruber's reaction is a total non-sequitur. He can't cope with an angry outburst by a rival that's just lost a business deal being left unchallenged, when the context is clear.
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I wish more apps would get out of their own way and employ standard UIKit. I'm all for experimenting with UI on a new-ish platform like iOS, but the amount of parallel energy expended on checklist UIs is just depressing to me – esp. when the standard Cocoa libraries are more than adequate. There are just so many cases where turning the UI upside down is counterproductive.
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If by 'here' you mean HN comments and text bodies, I'd support that 100%. While many would go over-board, I think that the communication quota would increase given better looking communication.
> I'd be willing to speculate that there are many MANY more examples where it did not work and the company either went under or had to perform a complete reversal like this one.

So the freemium model is like any other small business?
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I'm sure there's a lot of non Canadians here =) but please consider tweeting or facebooking this. Your Canadian friends may see the message.
The Spotify app does it, so I imagine it can if it's been implemented.
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Universities, by nature, have very rigid course structure that must be followed. Add other responsibilities like administrative formalities and deadline based work and universities become the last place an entrepreneur would be found. For example, if you watch the show Numb3rs, one of the issues that the crime-solving math proff has with the university is his lack of presence to teach and guide students. That is, what I believe, the problem with universities. Perhaps the online universities will resolve these issues as there will be faster processes and online paperwork that could be done at leisure. ( I ha e not read the article yet)
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Just awesome, that's exactly what Bootstrap was missing! I hope your project will grow big, good luck!

P.S. That would be even cooler if there were more dark themes.
Why does every damn developer have to make a todo list application nowadays?

The "hot app" lately has been these supposed productivity apps, e.g. Wunderlist, Evernote, Clear, Document Cloud, kippt, ...

It's getting a little tiring :(
He probably had 'Non exclusive' rights to make the movie.
This. Because if my task list isn't in lots of places then it will not be used. A pretty interface to a text file would be fine, but I also want that text file catted out when I open my terminal and accessible to edit on all of my computers. Simplification is one thing, but some features are too important to leave out. In a way, comparing to Dropbox is a very unfortunate choice.
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