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For the first time I am seriously considering whether to replace Emacs as my primary text editor on Linux.

I've been compulsively using Emacs for the past 5 years. Thanks to Emacs I felt
in love with (a dialect of) Lisp and experienced the freedom brought by a truly
programmable text editor. An enlighting experience.

About a couple of weeks ago I began using Sublime Text 2 and... wow, it gets so
many things right and out-of-the-box that I'm now fighting an inner battle to
make a choice.

I am by no means an "hardcore" Emacs user but over the years I accumulated more than
seven hundred lines of elisp code in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el. A large portion of
that file glues together stuff like ido-mode, ido-ubiquitous, smex,
AutoComplete, find-file-in-project, etc making my Emacs a lot Sublime-like.

I recently threw most of that stuff away and began working on sublime.el, which
tries to emulate Sublime Text 2 as closely as possible.

However Emacs is showing a lot of warts: ido's fuzzy matching becomes painfully
slow when dealing with lots of entries, I have yet to make find-file-in-project
behave the way I want, provide most-recently-used heuristics to ido (for any use case not covered by smex),
there's no consistent way to set a unique indentation level across major modes,
long startup times (though the emacs-as-a-daemon/emacsclient pair mitigates
the issue somewhat) and, in general, the UI is antiquated¹.

My only gripes with Sublime Text 2 are that there's nowhere near the amount of
documentation Emacs has (for obvious reasons) and that it is a (mostly)
proprietary piece of software. What if Jon is hit by a bus², looses interest in
his project or finds it unprofitable and decides to stop all development? I
would really, really hate to depend on a piece of software which is never going
to get at least bug fixes. I honestly hope that Jon is considering open-sourcing
it, should he go AWOL for any reason.

By switching to Sublime Text 2 I feel like I am betraying Emacs and all it
represents in the name of convenience. Choice, how paradoxical thou art!

I am sorry if you find this disquisition boring but I had an urge to write it
down somewhere. How liberating!

__________

¹ E.g. there's probably a way to get like find-file-in-project to show stuff as
neatly as Sublime Text 2 does but as far as I know nobody has done it, yet.

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Very interesting, I´m thinking that voicebunny would be useful to these types of projects because you can ask recordings on specific language accents.

Also Voicebunny also has a quality check and a guarantee included in the service.
Thanks for the history lesson and the thorough response. I'm going to sleep a little better tonight.
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Hacked this together to do the job:

https://gist.github.com/1884821
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Could it be this article?
http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar...
They have one of these at my local University, and it was actually really cool. I was able to get a number of out of print books from Google Books. It is also neat for small bookshops that can't afford to pre order dozens of books that may or may not work out, but rather print them on demand.
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Can anyone explain how this differs from HTTPS in terms of features and goals?
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I dropped emacs, vim and notepad++ for this.
> rather than one by one in the "Open With ..." dialog

That option means don't just open this .txt file, but all .txt files. That is the option that associates .txt with this editor, yes. But then you have to do it for .php files. And .rb files. And .py files. Etc., one by one.
Google associates demographics and interest categories with your account, which probably remain after you purge your search history.

You can manage them here: www.google.com/ads/preferences/
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like other browsers are free to implement the "pepper" API as well. It seems as though they are not saying "we're only supporting Chrome". They are saying "Chrome is the only browser that has implemented Pepper so far, and we're only supporting Pepper on Linux".
Then why aren't you busy moving blocks of binary information in and out of CPU registers?
In that case I realy hope to see this site change soon: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:Pepper
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620376
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I'll start:

function λ(code) {
return eval(
"function () {"+
" var $=arguments;" +
" return " + code + ";"
"}"
);
}

var sum = map([1,2,3,4], λ("$[0] + $[1]"));

I'm not really serious, but I'd like eval-less version of this, very, very much.

function(x,y) { return x*y; }

is so verbose.
"What's on the moon that is immediately valuable? That's the ticket right there."

There's an old joke that, if we'd found oil on the moon, we'd have colonized it in a heartbeat.

Putting aside the absurdity of finding large stores of organic material on the moon, the point is still valid. People usually need an economically viable return on investment before funding such big outlays. It's actually pretty remarkable that our government funded manned space exploration to the extent that it did. And, absent the space race with Russia -- and its military motives -- I wonder if it ever would have.

At the end of the day, I'm perhaps a tiny bit more optimistic than you are about the future of space exploration. But let me reemphasize "tiny." I don't think anything dramatic is going to happen in our lifetimes. And, cynically, I don't think anything short of a tangible ecological disaster of epic proportions, or a second militarized space race with, say, China, is going to get us off our butts.

It's telling that even Star Trek, that most optimistic of sci-fi series, didn't set the dawn of serious space exploration until after a World War 3.
Please explain why the specification makes continued use of the word "license" -- a word that has little meaning outside the context of Digital Restrictions Management.

Why did they feel the need to use the word "license" and not just "key"?
Think licensing.

If the Adobe blog post is correct and the pepper plugin is only distributed with Chrome and isn't open source and part of Chromium then how is another browser going to support it? They'd have to tell you to install Chrome and then open the plugin from within Chrome's installed directory. Pretty ugly solution.
If it's open source and part of Chromium then they can at least take the source out and ship their own, assuming the licensing allows for that and is compatible with their license.

All in all, this sounds like a pretty complex scenario for non-Chrome browser.
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Yeah. It seems if people are forced into doing something to be able to earn money that's enough incentive. It's a little silly, but maybe it allows them to better curate people / review applications?
The thing that amuses me is it took me a while to find the equivalent of the keyboard shortcut "gh" (go home). I think I finally found if you expand the gmail logo and click gmail under that, it does what I wanted.

I am deeply grateful for the fact that they have not messed with the keyboard shortcuts yet.
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That seems kinda’ irrelevant, you know, him not being Google and all. He gets to do batshit crazy things because it’s just his own small website. Batshit crazy things are what make personal websites fun. That doesn’t mean Google should do them, too.
Except that other browser users won't be able to acquire Flash Player without installing Chrome:

the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe
Im taking this online course, it is very interesting if you have some prior knowledge and experience and you are self-taught like me, because can make sure if you are making things right or wrong, plus learn new things.
I'll join the others in saying that the icon doesn't look good to me. On my Mac's dock, the white outline around the key looks really poor at a small size - it's clear what it is when magnified but just looks like an outer glow at dock size. At least we can change it though :)

Fantastic editor however. I'm finding it's pretty much replaced vim for me with vintage mode - I've never been a particularly hard-core vim user however, so I'm sure there's plenty that more knowledgable users would find is missing from Vintage mode. Features like the Cmd-P fuzzy filename matching are just too useful (the vim plugin equivalent is really slow in comparison)! Quite a few colleagues have switched from various editors and IDEs (e.g. jEdit, Eclipse) after I introduced them to it also.
Hello Mat. VoiceBunny co-founder her. We tried to identify good talent at Fiverr to invite them over to VoiceBunny, but we found only a handful of good voices out of over 300 people that were offering their voiceover services there. How did you find good voices there? We would like to invite them to VoiceBunny so that you get the same low Fiverr prices with the added benefits of the API and VoiceBunny's 100% money-back guarantee.
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Yes you woudl have though that this is not exactly rocket science. Or have a mechanical switch to isolate the batery coudl this be conected to the Parking Brake.

Jermy Clarkson must be pissing himself laughing over this
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A couple of friends once registered a domain called Googirl, back in 2003/4. It was meant to provide a search engine for... well... girl pictures.

They had it sleeping for a year until they went full throttle and released the site. It became very profitable, and then one day, Google dropped their hammer on them.

I can only imagine this being just one of many stories about this.

Microsoft did the same with MikeRoweSoft.com (fascinating story if you care to take a look)
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As crazy as it sounds, this might really be a good idea.

It needs to reach critical mass before working for real though - and unless some big player picks up on this it's not going to work.

But again, as crazy as this sounds, I like the idea.
The risk reduction is negligible if someone is doing a
portscan on your host. Connection attempts to non standard
ports will eventually occur.
The better solution is to use single packet
authorization.[1]

1. http://cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
I get the feeling this isn't going to be that much of a problem. I've not got the flash plugin installed in Firefox and I'm not finding any great hardship these days.

Perhaps it'll kill Flash a bit quicker considering the amount of Kiosks and Internet cafes running Firefox+Flash on Linux.
Excellent point. While Amazon is unlikely to vanish over night, can your business really rely on it being there tomorrow? Even if it's still there you could be prevented from accessing it for a variety of reasons (billing, legal, technical). Do you have a plan for that? How fast can you recover from it?

We're very careful about not putting all our eggs in one basket and have servers at two different VPS providers (Amazon-EU and Gandi.net in Paris) and backup (and only that) at a third. Our DR manual includes instructions on how to restore an EC2 machine to a Gandi VPS and vice versa.
Hmm, i haven't read the draft but doesn't just https cover what you're saying?
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Let's hope this is one more step to Flash irrelevance.
I don't count the times that Flash caused me trouble, and I'll be happy to see it go away.
I'd completely forgotten this, though I have it as a preference pane. Thank you for reminding me.

SublimeText 2 is recognized in the app list, with a long list of extensions supported, with a single checkmark to add it as an "Open With" option to all of them and a button to allow making it the default.

(Note, it's not always what one wants as the default, consider .html for example, so more granular settings may be in order.)
It's true that no one would send a gift to an unknown person, but perhaps you would like to send a gift to someone you know only online, for e.g. someone might have helped you out on an online forum or someone's blog post might have helped you out or you might have met someone online in a chat room perhaps etc.
Currently there's no quick link to switch to Google Groups from homepage. I don't know if they're willing to kill Usenet and Groups for G+
Thank you Jayson! You made my day (and the day of our team!) I'm one of the co-founders of Voice123 (and now also co-founder of VoiceBunny). Some of the great talent you can find in Voice123 is also available in VoiceBunny. While Voice123 continues to focus on its online casting service (we're rewriting the Voice123 codebase from scratch!), VoiceBunny is meant to allow you to automate the process of getting voices via its API.
I'm glad this is being discussed. It's is an important proposal, and as long as it's thought about carefully, will help move our web video service forward.

My experience recently is with Lovefilm, where they switched to silverlight delivery of content citing "anti-piracy measures" [1]. If we want to move to a www with HTML5 only video, an addition to the standard is required.

Whilst there will no doubt be people opposing any copy protection, I'm sure many can cite examples where it's exclusion is hampering the web.

[1] - http://blog.lovefilm.com/uncategorized/why-were-switching-fr...
Hell yeah! Europe will kill ACTA! :D
Just reminded me to uninstall my flash-plugin.
Adios flash ads!
Hello html5 ads.
sigh
> I (symmetrically) encrypt my private key

That's basically what a passphrase does already.
So, Google agreed to make Flash on Linux available only via Chrome? Damn...

But, if major Linux browsers implement Pepper API, on the other hand it will mean that we (the users) won't have to bother installing (deb/rpm/etc) packages every now or then. Maybe it will turn out better.
I think it's reasonable to assume that Adobe wants to kill Flash on GNU/Linux, but can't yet do it for Chrome due to some engagement with Google. If this is really their intent, they are going to have much more trouble justifying a kill operation on other platforms.

I forsee a slow and painful death for Flash.
Adobe killing AIR for Linux didn't impact/slow AIR's growth in the slightest, so I would have to assume this change will also have zero impact.
Here's the direct link to the original article in case you're interested: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/14/1115076109
Diesel cars are very clean these days. The problem is that until recently in the US the standard of diesel typically found was of a lower quality than EuroDiesel. Now it has tighter regulations, but diesel cars still carry the stigma.

Not only that, but diesel is rare in North America. You cannot guarantee that the next gas station you pass will serve diesel. That alone is enough to put people off buying them.

Ford, General Motors and all the Japanese brands offer diesel models of their fleet in Europe but they don't tend to sell them here.
It is providing a mechanism to make it significantly more difficult for the end-user to directly copy/retain the video as it is being streamed to them. 7.3 in the spec is the best example demonstrating how the license model of this implementation differs from how SSL behaves.
For reference, here are the thoughts of Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla (and those of Simon Fraser from Apple) on Pepper: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/plugin-futures/2010-April...

The thread (which continues into May) goes over pretty clearly why they felt Pepper was a bad idea.
I'm sure adobe will mourn all 3 of the users they'll lose by doing this.
We would not be talking about the Leaf, the Fluence or the iMiev if there was not for Tesla. Remember that some of these companies use technology from Tesla(Tesla is licensing it to major players).

Tesla is doing what it knows to do best, innovate and take risks. This is what startups are for. Once it is proven that works the big companies will follow.
I really love this new tool. I think Amazon has some amazing technologies and services.

Why don't they hire a designer and awesome UX guy and fix their terrible interfaces?

I know most people use the API's, and I realise it's not really stifling their business, but I still don't see why a little more effort can't go there. I am sure there are a lot of people around the world that would be very happy for the console to have some more features and be a bit easier to use.
Yes there is the hassle of creating accounts with giftsbuffer.com and Amazon.com, but considering that you can continue to maintain your anonymity, seems like a minor inconvenience.

Steam is an excellent service, but does Steam work for console(XBox. PS3) gaming as well?
Hi! VoiceBunny co-founder here. Our marketplace is new and the median prices are coming down on a weekly basis as more talents compete for work. Also, you are free to set the prices you want to pay. For ideas like hearablog.com, we are also implementing a royalty-based system, where talents get paid as the recording makes money for our client.
HTTPS is fundamentally uncacheable. This specification seems to allow encrypting the media once, and streaming that to everyone.
One Night Stands happen, at least according to popular mythology. So obviously women can be convinced to have sex.

Your worldview is a bit bizarre, dude :p
HTTPS is is fundamentally incompatible with caching proxies, CDNs, etc. This scheme would (amongst other things) allow secure exchange of keys (and other data, such as license) while distributing the bulk of the content via http.

This means that the heavy lifting of distributing video can be done by CDNs, with the high-value keys/licenses going over secure links.

And there's more to this than just the transport encryption: it provides a standard API for decryption modules in the client, so a browser doesn't have to understand the details of every technology.
HTTPS streams cannot be cached, and encrypting large media streams on the fly to all your clients would be rather expensive.
First, I see using the word "chicks" as insanely offensive.

Well, you need to get out more then, methinks :)
I guess the Google is initiator of this project and thus won't care (will make adobe not care) about other browsers implementing this API.

Just another step in pushing Chrome down everyone's throat.
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You can list and remove keys with ssh-add:

ssh-add -l
ssh-add -D

See the ssh-add man page for more options.
Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?
since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)
I'm going to switch for sure
I'm still on the fence about this
I just don't upgrade
I don't care about privacy
I don't mind, you are not forced to use those services
I already use Linux
The proposal is an additional layer of cruft that doesn't assist copyright holders in any way with protecting their content. Content protection should be as simple as refusing the stream content to unauthenticated and unauthorised clients. 1990's era HTTP specifications are perfectly acceptable (and widely supported) means to accomplish this.

This proposal _is_ DRM in the sense that it makes it much harder for paying legitimate users to access and control what they've purchased. It continues to provide incentive for users to pirate content using far simpler and more accessible channels.
Hello! VoiceBunny co-founder here. We're trying to figure out a way to avoid some talents from abusing the system by having multiple accounts. Forcing them to login with Facebook helped us reduce the abuse. We'll remove the Facebook requirement soon as we come up with new solutions.
ACTA - No consultation means no European legitimacy
On one hand, Doctorow knows how to tell a pretty riveting tale.

On the other hand, this alarmism is just as absurd as it is on the ACLU's "zOMG pizza!" flash presentation.
Or just maybe any improvement makes Flash usable on Linux without crashing the browser. People might actually start enabling Flash on Linux if that happens.
You need to hire a sysadmin (or operations engineer or whatever they're called these days). You're talking about developers spending time on implementing backup, which is wrong. That's not what developers should be doing. Sysadmins may occasionally write software to solve a problem, but they're not software developers. Software developers may occasionally do sysadmin type work, but in my experience most of them are notoriously bad it it (setting up mod_python because they have a blog post with step-by-step instructions from 2004 bookmarked where that was the best way to do stuff - or leaving gigantic virtualenv turds with complete python binaries in your SCM because they don't understand what virtualenv is for).

Sysadmins also have toolkits (you know, screwdrivers, torx bits, zip-ties) and have scars on their arms that prove they aren't afraid of sharp-edged hardware stuff that sometimes starts smoking for no discernible reason and doesn't turn on any blinkenlights when you push the button (many software developers panic at this point). This comes in very handy when you just "left the cloud" and you're experiencing first-hand the reasons why people moved into the cloud in the first place (hardware sucks).

Sysadmins also know about this backup stuff and will tell you to shut up when you start talking about doing it with cobbled together shell scripts. They'll probably recommend using something like Amanda (or a commercial equivalent), that makes sure your backups happen regularly, are complete and actually contain the stuff you needed to backup. Good ones may even know to test the backup occasionally by restoring a server just to see if it actually works afterwards.

(Apologies to any software developers who know their sysadmin stuff.)
Everything about it is shocking; it's a testament to the depths of human stupidity.

All it needs now is a cult of religious devotees, and then it will truly be perfection incarnate.
Good. So now I don't have to use it anymore.