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It's too much design. It's distracting. You notice it. Is the clip necessary? The lined paper background?

You notice the first time you use it. The 10th? The 20th? After you've used it for a while, it's just a nice detail on the back of your mind, and you're immersed in your text.

I've never seen a dialog box like that. What was wrong with the standard and universal "plain" native dialog box?

It was too plain and boring?

Besides being nice in itself, beauty also inspires productivity.
Compensate the band for their efforts - it's really not hard, your attempts to muddy the water with asinine value qualifications notwithstanding. You don't owe them anything more than what you would owe them by acquiring music through legal means - but you do owe them something. At least as long as the means of profit is tied to distribution. I have nothing more to say about it - you obviously can't see the forest for the trees.

EDIT: I'm going to add in that I'm also not going to bother replying anymore because you obviously think the downvote button is the 'nuh-uh!' button. How productive.
> NOTHING has been taken away from users re: freedom, from OS X 10.0.1 to 10.8.

Well, no, that's not quite true. See also: PTRACE_DENY_ATTACH in random binaries (e.g. iTunes) and the gimped DTrace implementation.

Are these showstoppers or the end of freedom as we know it? Not be a long, long way. Are they (fairly small) limitations on the freedom of users? Yes.
Some issues...

Even using the grid normally, it ends up using more horizontal space than on the viewport, forcing a horizontal scrollbar (Chrome 18).

Another problem: setting max-widths on units. Any proceeding units are handicapped by this and often just leave empty space to the right.

I also don't like the presence of three sets of classes when two would be appropriate. "ingrid" as the container, and "span-x" for each column division. And this is unavoidable, as you need to define "in-[parts]" in the container to even use the span-x classes. I understand that it's less work if you stick to equal parts, but this is not the majority use case in my experience.

I find the naming scheme awkward. "in-twos" and "in-thirds" instead of "in-halves" or "in-threes". Keep it consistent.

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All in all, I wouldn't recommend this to my mother.

I use Nicole Sullivan's snippet in her github project,
https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/...

(demo: http://oocss.org/grids_docs.html)

And it's been damn bullet proof, being used in production code.
> Let, say, Verisign sell code signing certificates for OS X.

How many security breaches has Verisign had? Allowing 3rd party authorities to issue certificates would simply weaken the security that the feature provides. Moreover, it would mean that Apple cannot revoke the certificates, defeating the entire point of the feature.

> it seems like you cannot disallow all unsigned software, but make exceptions.

That would be a pretty broken feature. The only ways for OS X to handle that would be for it to say "screw it, I don't care what's in this specific directory, you can run it", which means that the directory becomes a vector for malware, or to disallow updating the directory once you exclude it, so that the OS can be sure that what you allowed is actually what's running. Both of these are pretty terrible options.
It's "tomorrow" now, have you moved the domains?
"No, you stated what you THINK they will do."

I didn't think I would have to point out that I'm not psychic, and that it was only an opinion/prediction. I will try to be more clear in future.

"Second, they cannot just get a certificate, because they will have to interact with Apple and the developer program. You know many malware writers that want to give their details away?"

Sorry. I forgot that identity theft was impossible, and not rampant and easy and used as a matter of course by malware authors.

The last three lines of your comment are complete nonsense. You have failed to parse and understand what I wrote.
Where's their incentive to do that?
The real time complexity of a hash table lookup
What do they mean when they say the gravitational constant has changed less than 1 part in 100 billion? Surely that's within experimental error? I think they mean to say "there is no evidence that it has changed at all".
Good point, and the wording is a bit unclear over whether that goes on the "Sharing Sheets" or is more like the Twitter integration.
I've been building and ember app in coffee script. Works well.
I'm all for OS X adopting more and more of iOS because it's great for the user experience. However as a hacker it feels wrong to have a computer that is as locked down as iOS devices. BUT Apple showed me that they are listening and still want to cater to developers when they announced GateKeeper (http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html).

I have a few friends who are switching to Unix instead of Mac OS X because of the direction it's going. For me, it's going to be all about how much Apple allows developers to innovate on their platform. We'll see what happens, but GateKeeper is a good sign.
I love you Paul Irish. I was just complaining about this exact same issue about 3 days ago and when I found this article I was like YES HE AGREES WITH ME!

Especially when dealing with fluid layouts, this guy is a lifesaver
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Can anyone comment on any differences in Mission Control (e.g. Spaces) between 10.7 and 10.8 beta?
Ask HN: Does anyone know what's happening with Google One Pass?
Recently there was a flurry of reports related to some French publishers delaying their implementations of Google One Pass due to an upcoming set of updates to the system.

We're interested in using One Pass but at the moment it seems to be semi-invite only.

The rumour mill suggests something is coming soon but we can't afford to wait indefinitely for further information because of client commitments.
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Apple Mountain Lion - Security Excuse
It's known that MacOS and all other Unix based systems are very safe compared to Windows based system.

But I think it's genius to use security excuse so developers have to publish their apps to Mac App Store. Imagine all new users using the ultimate security level - Run only apps from App Store.

The only option to run an app in a practical sense is to publish to App Store. You could also make a tutorial to your users about how to change their security level. I wonder if they will trust you.
I got a little choked up when I did this and saw the fluidity. It was beautiful.
I'm sticking with 10.6 for as long as possible for one reason--I like arrow buttons on my scroll bars. I know thats a bit luddite, but sometimes (especially navigating large datasets) they work much better for the work I do.
Seriously. The last thing I want is my Macbook Pro to behave like my iPhone.

I love them both, but they are drastically different products and uses.
Does it work on Mac OS X Leopard on PowerPC?
Are you making the assumption that people would be afraid of your application because it could potentially be malware, or because they don't want to switch to the third mode? If it's the latter, I hope the control is on an individual applications basis so that I am alerted about other unsigned applications even after having allowed yours.

If it's about the first, I think the users who can get a Bittorrent client up and running (and have an interest in it, in the first place) are also able to read reviews and ask friends who may have recommended them this application.
Startup: Would you pay a small fee to locate a great domain name?
I just had this idea since a lot of my friends seek my guidance when it comes to choosing a domain name for their venture.

$100 flat fee and I send you 5 to 10 quality domains related to your desired keywords, characters etc. Thoughts?

Thanks!
A few days ago I had an article that was popular on HN. I was watching my live Analytics tracking and saw that I had an inbound referral from "chat.stackexchange.com"- I looked up the full URL, and tried it in my browser.

Just like that, I was in the chat room discussing the topic of my post with the people that had found it. It occurred to me that if they were using almost any other kind of chat system (like an app, but also including IRC) I would never have been able to do that. It's a shame, but I suppose there are also privacy concerns at stake.
Expectedly, but somewhat of a bummer, it requires Lion :(
Depending what you call malware - some people feel that an application which silently uploads your address book is functionally equivalent, and there have been plenty of these available on all platforms.
I read it the same.

M = 1'000 in Roman. So MM is a million.
MIT almost produces an optoelectronic computer chip
I've been using Lion since it came out and installed it over an existing SL install.

Go to sys prefs and turn off "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" and most of the problems with Lion are solved.
To be honest, if they are able to maintain those services without downgrading the search-experience, and remain true to their "no tracking, no bubbling"-ideology I would welcome such services.
I've come across a lot of people who find it stressful and time consuming finding the right name.
What they cover for the general public is usually only the most visible features. There's additional new stuff under the hood, which will be available for 3rd party developers to use in their apps.

The benefits might not be apparent immediately, but they'll start showing up in apps written to take advantage of 10.8's features. Some improvements in the frameworks will effect existing apps that use those frameworks.
Looks like it requires 10.7.3

EDIT: probably shouldn't have fed a troll
EDIT2: No troll here
It would - I agree completely. But are you better served by pirating their music, which only gives the RIAA more ammo regarding piracy stats to get their asinine laws passed, or just finding music from people that satisfies your requirements and paying for that? I'm obviously a fan of the second - I consider it a form of boycott.
"So, no there is no way to click through to the video"

Because the site set it up that way. Intentionally. So, yes, I blame the site.

Sites with a clue (like YouTube and Vimeo) have been serving HTML5 video for a couple of years now.

It's just a matter of adding another step to your automated transcoding workflow (you have one, right?)

For a small indie site the disk space consumed by keeping video in 2 or 3 different formats might be an issue, but for CBS?
A schemaless, embeddable Python ORM on top of SQLite (or, an embeddable MongoDB)
I noticed that Chromium (18.0+) asks if you want to allow the full screen API on that page (ala geolocation), but Firefox just enables it automatically.
I don't know how many purchases it will really drive. You can do all those those things with an Apple TV and an iPhone today, and almost all of them with just an Apple TV.
You like restoring all your applications by hand every time you have to run Software Update?
Prevent snooping on Facebook discussions by Encrypting them!
Encrypt Facebook is a Chrome extension that would prevent snooping on the discussions,status updates in groups by storing it them in an encrypted format on Facebook's database instead of normal text and also it would convert encrypted format back into normal text whenever that particular group's url is accessed in Chrome.

Download it from here - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eplekfcbehiijhdllcjenbokkmajncjl/

See more details including the image screenshots over here - http://www.spacenext.com/encrypt-facebook.php

Please suggest me ways to improve it and I can be contacted at @ramanean
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Personally the issue I have with the Lion implementation of Spaces, is that it is not two-dimensional. I use a 2x2 grid of spaces on Snow Leopard, and I love it because I have my workflow set up to go around in a circle:

Coda in one screen, Tower for version control and deployments in the next screen, Terminal and MySQL Chrome for managing the remote server and verifying deployments, Chrome for web testing. After I've made the loop so to speak, I'm ready to go back to Coda to fix a bug or work an another feature, and the circle begins again.

So my mental model works in a circle, with each next step only a screen away. In Lion the screens are laid out in one line, and I feel like it is harder to get to the screen I want. I have to remember the number of the screen rather than just the position of the screen. (For example upper right, lower right, lower left, upper left.)
Will definitely take that onboard
It looks like the two fingers have to come in from the right side of the scroll area (like pulling down on the top of the screen--the right side in this case), so it's distinct from the other meanings.
I would disagree. Neat as Airplay is, it isn't going to move Apple TVs.

Apps and/or Content deals with video distributors (Comcast/Verizon/etc) are going to be where it turns the corner. I suspect the whole hobby has been in a holding pattern while Apple has tried to line up the content deals and that the fallback plan is to just enable Apps and let the chips fall where they may. [1]

That's probably even the stick they'll use to get the cable companies to the table: Either they sign up and get preferential treatment in the interface, or they get shoved into being a dumb IP pipe that much faster.

[1] Delaying as the internals for an Apple-quality, app-running, 1080p set-top box get cheaper and cheaper hasn't hurt, I'm sure.
What features have been taken from OSX and put into iOS?

Oh, not much--just the whole kernel, userland, graphics layer, and half of the Cocoa API.

EDIT: Also, Spotlight.
Combining this with HDFS-fuse or equivalent would be sweet! http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MountableHDFS
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Depending on how much money your company has lost from this, I'd say its the foundation for some substantial lawsuits
Adsense? Are you serious? Google isn't a search engine. It's an ads engine.

Without Adsense, there is no Google. Everything else is just a platform for it.
Am I right to say there's no no-commercial argument in the UK; but copyright infringement without trading means the rights owners get to sue for loss of earnings, whereas copyright infringement as part of trading means the police (or some other body) gets involved.

UK "Fair Dealing" (Fair Use) is much stricter than the US equivalent.
As I pointed out on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/jhummel/status/169561232045649921 it seems that the * selector doesn't apply to pseudo elements. If you're going to take this route it might be a good idea to include *, ::after, ::before { box-sizing: border-box } to make sure everything is being sized the same.
The last three lines of your comment are complete nonsense. You have failed to parse and understand what I wrote.

Yeah, because it is so off base, right, you writing:

"If malware on OSX is as small a problem as you're suggesting, why is Apple bothering with any of this? Is it to wrestle further control of the app eco-system on OSX? Or is it just security theatre? Or both? Something else?"

And me translating the above as you saying that if they don't do it to defend against ALREADY EXISTING malware then it's either a security theater or a mystery to you why they'd do it.
Update: they are already there. Working now on the Amazon Machine Images
I'll add my voice to those that would like some much better documentation from ember.js. I'm starting to finds some stuff on stack overflow but it has taken a while to find. A few things that would help tremendously when people get started:

-Examples of the built in controls(tab,select,textfield,textarea). There are only like 6 of them but when you find out they exist and are not documented they feel like 600. The sroutcore history amplifies this assumption.

-The fact that sub views(ie textfield) don't bubble but are really easy to implement by extending TextField. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8646238/handling-blur-on-... (PS. Why is this? It seem silly that I can't do {{view Ember.textField change="parentview.change"}} in my views.)
Do you not need to actively defend patents like you do with trademarks?
Ask HN: If GoDaddy has no due diligence, which host/DNS providers actually do?
Any real examples would be great.
Yes it should. If you don't want that space to be from within the element, then you should be setting a margin, not a padding.

Box analogy: when you add foam padding to a box to protect its content, are you effectively widening the box or reducing the volume it can fit?
I get it about Forth, but not so sure about vi/emacs/makefiles - what does the author think was used to build his beloved touchscreen displays?

Ipad software is not written on an ipad.
Sigh.

Others have hinted at this, but I'll say it outright: I've been a pretty solid Mac user/developer for 25 years (with a 3-year interlude on Windows + ThinkPad towards the end of classic MacOS, when the lack of true multitasking and a "real" operating system just got unbearable).

I suppose it's inevitable, but I really hate to see the Mac become just another part of the whole iOS ecosystem.

There's nothing specific I can point to, but it does feel like the end of general-purpose computing for those of us who really like Apple hardware.

Edit: Perhaps I'm wrong, and the cloudification is happening everywhere: with Chromebooks/Chrome OS, with Win8, etc. So maybe this is the inevitable regardless of which platform(s) one enjoys.

Linux, here we come? ;-)
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Practically speaking, I don't see this being much of a problem. If Apple does disable your app, but your app is not malicious and users actually want it, they can just return to your site and download an unsigned version. This would be a minor annoyance to your users, but if you are having the kinds of troubles that cause Apple to disable your app, you probably have much bigger things to worry about than a few thousand customers downloading your app again.
"If an app is found to be malware, Apple can revoke that developer’s certificate, rendering the app (along with any others from the same developer) inert on any Mac where it’s been installed. "

Yeah, it's not a great reach to think that in five years there will be no Option 3 and malware will include any program that the government of the nation that your computer is in deems undesirable. Apple and Microsoft will likely be forced to have such capabilities by various national governments.
I have yet to use Lion, so I cannot comment if the iOS metaphor suits the personal computer, but I am all for the vendors trying something new. The desktop metaphor has been used for multiple decades now, with very little variation. While it has proven to work well, is it the best we can do, or are we stuck with baby duck syndrome?
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I always liked the site but to be honest after using it as my default search engine briefly in chromium, i found it didn't quite compare to google in terms of:

1. Performance. There's a small but significant gap between the two services in terms of the speed in which they serve redirects and search results.

2. Features. Although a lack of features like mail, maps etc. is, I suppose, part of ddg's philosophy, I feel like it's merely inconvenient compared to google where all it's services are immediately available with a click. Also, ddg doesn't save any web history which can actually be very useful for people using more than one computer.

It's not that I dislike ddg and what it does. It fills a nice gap in the market and I like it's principles of privacy. But for now, performance trumps freedom I guess :p
I wish the addressing mechanism of iMessage was more clear. If I send someone an iMessage from my Mac, does it show up as from my email address of my Apple account? Is the phone number of my iPhone automatically registered as an iMessage-eligible recipient when I set up my Apple account on my iPhone (currently doesn't appear to be).
Heaven forbid you actually learn some CSS and change a couple of HEX codes.
Hey Jérôme, your site's blog really needs some padding on the left when viewing in a small window.
You'd have to either make your operating system work very well with both touch and mouse/trackpad/keyboard (very difficult), treat touch as a gimmick (as with those Windows 7 HP iMac-like things with touch screens), or make touch (which is ergonomically highly problematic on anything but a smallish tablet) the first-class citizen.
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where did it go in the first place?
OS X Mountain Lion Brings The Mac Into The Game
Yep, I stumbled over it while researching the Cache-Control header.
Btw, if people want to play with Django+MongoDB, there is this:

https://github.com/jpetazzo/django-and-mongodb-on-dotcloud

Clone the repo. Push to dotCloud. Done. You just deployed a MongoDB server and a pristine Django configured to use it :-)
I was attempting to prompt you into retracting your ridiculous statement about malware not being a problem. I wish I hadn't bothered now. I'll leave you to it.
I prefer an economy-size hardware footprint.
-> How is a highest capacity fully loaded MB Air economical?
Funny you should mention that particular case, because it is fixed in Mountain Lion: http://screenshots.dustincurtis.com/Contacts-20120216-082547...
I wonder how many include the google !bang to go direct to google. I love DDG, and have it as the default search on all my devices and browsers, but more than 50% of the time I go directly to google with !g in the search, and another 20% i guess i start at DDG but then add in !g when i find the results inferior.

For many searches, google's results I find are better - a common issue I've found it DDG's results are just too general for quite specific searches - .e.g the top result is teh homepage of a brand when I search for something more specific like "brand something something" (sorry i can't come up with a great example right now).

I still use DDG as I can use the rest of the bang syntax to get to wikipedia et al, and for certain things the results (e.g. code/technical) are clearly superior to googles.

I hope DDG logs all the times I go to DDG, then add in !g, to get some great analytics on when I found the search results lacking!
I feel the same way. But what in Mountain Lion sounds anything like that?

All I see is popular out-of-the-box iOS apps/features being brought to the out-of-the-box OS X experience.

What power users don't already have growl, dropbox, a dedicated notes app, a dedicated reminders app, an integrated chat client, etc?

These Mountain Lion features are only iOS-like inasmuch as iOS had them out-of-the_box, while OS X users looked to third parties to provide them. If you ask me, Mountain Lion sounds like a more reasoned approach to "bring what works about iOS to OS X" than misfires like "Mission Control".
watch WAT, it's awesome and includes the same joke :-)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
I'd be surprised that people would just turn that feature off pretty quickly after getting a new Mac. There are tons of application out there that aren't sign and aren't malware. People will come to view this feature like the annoying warning about bad SSL certs.
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MM is a million.
mm is a millimetre.
The old microsoft box model was basically this one, but the implementation was so full of bugs that it ended up being "test and change until it shows the way you want".

There are even lists compiling those bugs, such as http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html
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> In the Linux world, most software begins as a .tgz, and earns packagers as it becomes more popular.

But _normal_ users, that is not-very-technical people using Linux as a desktop, _never_ see that tgz. They wouldn't even know how to install it.
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