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This is totally awesome, however one of the biggest things for me since i've recently bought a mac and coming from linux is the focus follows mouse issue, which i know has been attempted to get working but failed.

Other things i miss are basics like double clicking the title bar to maximise, right clicking to create a new file and a few other things i miss from linux.
No, that doesn't work when you're comparing something to a tragedy. You can't ignore the seriousness of the matter without it being a statement all in its own. The kind of comparison made in the post is hyperbole.
Haven't they missed the point, which was that users are happy to share too much information, and part of that is because privacy controls are different across all networks and are hard to find and change.

EDIT: Sorry, that's an awful sentence.
Because backwards compatibility matters more. There's anyway many other alternatives to Java if you need something else but still use the JVM.
> As an example, at one point it apparently would simply refuse to start on the Droid X, despite running great on the original Droid I had to test it with, and the VM I set up to emulate the X. Without access to a physical Droid X, it couldn't be debugged. The app doesn't require anything from the hardware besides a GPS, so I was at a loss for what would cause this.

What ended up causing that problem?
This seems to be a copy of Mathias Bynen's Dotfiles (https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx, 'sensible hacker defaults for OS X'), with a few minor changes. Specifically, comments explainung each line have been changed to echo statements, and the following lines have been inserted:

echo "Use current directory as default search scope in Finder"
defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope -string "SCcf"

echo "Show Path bar in Finder"
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowPathbar -bool true

echo "Show Status bar in Finder"
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true

echo "Set a shorter Delay until key repeat"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 12

Also, some commands have been commented out:

# Automatically hide and show the Dock
# defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true

# Show remaining battery time; hide percentage
# defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowPercent -string "NO"
# defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowTime -string "YES"

# echo "Always show scrollbars"
# defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Auto"

# Disable window animations and Get Info animations in Finder
# defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true

# Don’t animate opening applications from the Dock
# defaults write com.apple.dock launchanim -bool false

# Disable opening and closing window animations
# defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false

# Empty Trash securely by default
# defaults write com.apple.finder EmptyTrashSecurely -bool true

# Remove useless icons from Safari’s bookmarks bar
# defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar "()"

# Disable send and reply animations in Mail.app
# defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true
# defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool true

# Disable Resume system-wide
# defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

#Fix for the ancient UTF-8 bug in QuickLook (http://mths.be/bbo)
# Commented out, as this is known to cause problems when saving files in Adobe Illustrator CS5 :(
#echo "0x08000100:0" > ~/.CFUserTextEncoding
Yes, that's true. And a pragmatic approach to piracy would probably benefit content producers / distributors.

But that's a lousy point to hang an analogy off. Hyperbole is preaching to the converted; it's not going to convince anyone else. There are important points to be made about civil liberties and tying piracy to drugs is means those points are harder to make.

(And I'm someone who doesn't use drugs, but would legalise almost all of them.)
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I guess the difference is in how you judge which of two companies is superior. I tend to think that the one that gets more/better business (from selling more, making higher margins, etc.) from voluntary customers is superior.
That HN comment may have a historical significance you can't see now, but it will be lost because of automatic copyright. The most valuable historical material are the thoughts and experiences of "average people", because that's how we can truly understand an era. How will people in 500 years understand this era when it is likely that most of the popular culture and social commentary will be lost by then?
There's no such thing as degrees of DRM
Could you make this bookmarklet toggle between regular/dotsies?
> 2) For the most part (there was some wackiness with architecture changes), Windows will do something much, much closer to the Right Thing on a reinstallation. Your data's where you left it. Your applications are still installed and work. It is not, on Windows, taken for granted that you must pave your machine (yes, I know you can put /home on another partition, that's only part of the problem) in order to upgrade.

You must not have installed Linux Mint or Ubuntu lately, because they both do this.

> 1) Windows releases are much slower. Most Linux distros have a new-shiny problem: I can't trivially (by which I mean, click a button and emphatically not muck with the command line or PPAs or equivalent user-hatefulness) get the newest OpenOffice or Firefox or Chrome or whatever on an older version of Mint (or Ubuntu--and dist-upgrading Ubuntu is a dicey proposition if you like having a working computer).

Not sure why this is an issue, because "shiny-new" Linux distributions come out of the box with a quality web browser and LibreOffice, and the versions are always recent enough and updateable. That's more than I can say for Windows, which comes with Internet Explorer and no office software by default, unless you count wordpad, which is clearly not what we are talking about.

I understand in an enterprise setting those arguments might not make sense, but in a home-desktop setting, they certainly do.
Should be, but Wordpress is built to accomodate everything, and a caching layer baked in by default would screw up so many plugins, half the community wouldn't know what to do with their blogs.

If it was baked in from the beginning, no problem, but there is so much plugin momentum in Wordpress now that throwing a caching layer on top of it would confuse the hell out of a lot of people who just want to write words.
But it's a bad comparison.
Instead of bashing we should be thankful for the choices.

I can't read about this so called fragmentation anymore, it's ridiculously overblown, seriously.
First of all, Android provides are really good set of APIs to make the development of apps really easy across multple devices with very different hardwars specs.
There may be device specific bugs, but well.. That's business as usual.

If you guys are all for comparison, than write an Android program for 1 device(and test for it) and compare it to the iphone version.

Comparison is really flawed with iOS vs Android, it's stupid.

Also, it's not like iOS apps are bugfree. I have seen enough bugs on my iPad to say that general app quality is not as different as people claim.
I've programmed ATMs, and dendory has it exactly right: those are completely regular stock PC hardware running a completely regular copy of Windows. The only thing special about them is that they're physically secured and have some very unusual peripherals and assorted drivers.
There's simpel-fonetik, which is extremely intuitive. It's basically a mapping from IPA to latin letters. Example:

When you read Simpel-Fonetik words, you must pay attention to each letter. Remember: each letter has always the same sound, the sound given in the Simpel-Fonetik alphabet, regardless what letter is next to it.

And here it is re-written in Simpel-Fonetik:

Wen ju riid Simpel-Fonetik wörds, ju mast pei ätenshon tu iitsh leter. Rimember: iitsh leter häs olweis the seim saund, the saund given in the Simpel-Fonetik alfabet, rigaardles wat leter is nekst tu it.

http://www.simpelfonetik.com/
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My original objection was based on intuitive understanding of those sentences, and you're right, it's false when you take them literally.
Is the $30 billion number substantiated anywhere in any way?

All I can find is WSJ saying "$2 billion", "$7 billion" and "$14 billion" with no reference to this specific hack...
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There is already a tool which has all the features you need to help web developers: http://code.google.com/p/wro4j/wiki/Features

It can be used during development, as a runtime or buildtime solution. Also it can be used as a command line tool. It supports almost all known processors (less, sass, coffee, etc) and allows static code analysis with jshint, jslint or csslint.
enables tap to click, which you may not like - personally i loathe it.
So where's Apple's offering in the sub-$50 range?
I'm utterly convinced that some people are missing the part of their brain that detects satire.
I think "Map bottom right Trackpad corner to right-click" is annoying. And I'm not sure why you'd want "Remove Dropbox’s green checkmark icons in Finder"?

Other than that, looks great :)
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Hi redbad,

Keep in mind that real people are searching on the other end, so there needs to be a balance between expended effort and income. We tried what you're suggesting, but it just didn't work.

As per your example, let's say I find a flight for $400. Would you pay without seeing details? If not, would you paying seeing the details, but without booking instructions? If not, would you pay after booking even if it meant the hassel of returning to our site, pulling out your CC details and then paying?

Our experience is that only a fraction of people will pay in this scenario.

This aside, we are targeting people who we can help the most. That is, people flying to remote places, or on complex itineraries, or who just want to absolve themselves of the stress. In our testing, these people have no problem paying up front. And if they're not happy, we do everything we can to help.

The real challenge of this business is managing the interactions between the two sides of our marketplace. Most of our early assumptions were proven false. :)
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That new codebase was iterated on for five years before a viable browser was released, and two more before Firefox 1.0 appeared.

The history of the WebKit codebase stretches back as far as Gecko. The earliest KDE HTML work I can definitively establish is in 1997. We got Konquerer in 2000, but Safari didn't emerge until 2003.

5-7 years before something other than IE could again be competitive... Do you really think that disproves Joel's point? I think it may be quite the opposite...
That could probably be done. What's the use case? Maybe if you think of a good plot for the http://dotsies.org/game I'll take a stab at it :)
Well, yes. A lot of those people are going to be on HN as well. There are people who take things very literally. (To the point that analogy and metaphor become confusing.)

BTW: I love down to fax.
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Thanks for eloquently stating a problem I've noticed for a while. I think there's a fear of not coming off as a hard-nosed, logical thinker, so the constant need for citation is a proxy for "I believed XYZ because some authority said it was true. If I'm wrong, it's not me, it's because I was mislead."

The world is full of single data points. If you see an anecdote, see it as a data point, but more importantly, see it as a metaphor which could apply to your situation.

Sometimes I think some people wouldn't hug their kids until a study said it was ok (hrm, weren't there studies in the 50s saying you should do the opposite?). I'd like to think I'm rational, but sometimes you need to move beyond the cover-your-ass safety net of "the study says" and do what feels right. Citation? Here's a meta-study that most medical research studies are false (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/).
As much I'd love to read it myself, it's a tl;dr at 25,000+ words. Can anyone summarize?
The quality of the two companies is irrelevant - the point is to avoid having well funded companies invade and monopolize markets, and then using their monopoly to hike prices above where they were before they arrived and milk the area.
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My app was written for the G1 by a friend on a correspondingly early version of the SDK back when the G1 was the only Android handset, and it doesn't scale up to full screen on the bigger phones. It might be the case that they've released autoscaling and it just wasn't around when it was developed, or it might just be that he used the SDK improperly and neglected some existing autoscaling options.
tl;dr: my friend Ken is a patent troll taking on Google and I think that's just swell.
Yeah… But still it’s a bit confusing. It’s almost an exact copy, and no real functionality has been added (except for the four commands jamessb mentioned). I feel like I’m missing something — this is something you would expect to see in a fork, rather than a separate gist.

Oh well, glad to see my dotfiles are of use!
It seems to have fixed itself since then, so I never figured it out.
So let me get this straight. This guys buys stock in a company that sues Google. And he tells everyone, how certainly they are going to win?
If a post gets me emotionally fired up, I often type up my response. Read it. Then delete it. Then type it up again. I find just getting the emotional response out helps.
Certainly, if you define 'superior' as whoever gets the most sales regardless of the utility produced, then there is nothing to debate.

The argument against this is that certain tactics (such as predatory pricing) for achieving this are designed to produce a monopoly, and a monopoly results in higher prices and lower utility than a competitive market.
Already posted --- discussion here --- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3779960
:-) someone call the SEC!
I disagree. Most of them are extremely intuitive. Heck, I've once found out about new bangs I didn't know by typing in the name/abbreviation of the site as a bang on a whim, and it worked!

Also, if you think the bangs are unintuitive, what's your opinion on keyboard shortcuts? It's basically the same thing.
You also seem to be implying that nothing that actually results in an improvement should be patentable.
> MacBook:~ ralf$ defaults write enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items -bool true

Okay. Now just to check…

> MacBook:~ ralf$ defaults read com.apple.dock enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items
2012-03-31 12:46:35.173 defaults[33945:707]
The domain/default pair of (/Users/ralf/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist, enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items) does not exist

Hm?
for hackers? LOL.
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Thanks for that explanation. I've seen the "riding the elephant" analogy before and it's quite fitting. Usually the rider can't do much, but this trick seems to work.
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A better title for this article would be "Why Vringo might be going to $0". Seems like a classic stock pumping scheme.
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Regarding your last "if they still won't budge" and going to a different dealership, that part can be your most powerful weapon: always be willing to walk. Walking away is an important ingredient in any kind of negotiation, not just car sales. Many times I've had the salesman call me later the same day with a better price a lot closer to what I'm willing to pay, especially if you visited the dealership at the end of the month.
So now 'hacking' == 'working' or 'productive' ? Since when is this, I did not get the memo.
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Sorry, but I have my Firefox at about 600px width and your logo still obscures the text. User-agent sniffing won't solve this one, you should do media-queries based on the actual window size.
Long-winded writer. Very rough summary: Use the internet.
I've always found with a sufficiently large organization if they had the choice between using their clout to purchase cheap but inferior goods or slightly less cheap but better quality goods 90% of the time they choose the former.

Invariably there are exceptions to the rule when competitors want to differentiate themselves. Walmart is cheap quality cheap, Target is better quality cheap.

Acer was trying to get out the cheap computer business and the CEO got fired for it. No one ever gets fired for squeezing a few more cents out of the system.
Would be even funner if it was "You DTMF?"
Maybe the writer felt the need to say she has a pretty face, but didn't know how to say it directly.
I don't know whether you're serious, but iPhone 3GS is $1 on AT&T (on-contract, I know.).
my biggest gripe with mac os having recently moved from windows is hitting the maximise button on finder and it barely filling half the screen.

other well documented one is the ability to turn the laptop screen of when using another screen but still the laptop keyboard
You wouldn't, but the other 95% of the population would :-)
... and start getting in trouble for price fixing once they start cooperating?
That should probably be

defaults write com.apple.dock enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items -bool true
Yeah, I don't understand why this gist has been created. Just learn from Mathias's dotfiles repo which also has other useful settings.
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Well, he did patent it first. You could also frame it as the "small inventor who goes against the big coroporation".

That said I had to sigh little bit as I read the author. James Altucher is more a guy who tries to write literature with every article and a common theme in all is his nerdyness (reading books all day, playing Go/Chess all day, never winning the girl, losing the girl) and his failure in the dotcom economy to getting obscenely rich (respectively losing all in the stock crash after.) He sometimes linked on the Freakonomics blog.
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Hold Shift while hitting the green plus ("resize window") button to make it maximise the window.
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Hi,

I'm not an expert in the field ( yet ), but from my own point of view and experience,

1- To start developing in android, if you don't know Java, you should first learn Java (it's not obligatory but highly recommended), if you are willing to learn Java and if you can understand French, I recommend SiteDuZero.com, it's really helpful as they start from scratch, and by the way there are lot of courses about almost everything.

2- I've always used Eclipse, I don't know if it's the best, but I've never had the need to look for something else.

3- No one can answer this question, it's up to you to know your strengths and weaknesses, but I think that for example: 4 hours in a row is better than 2 hours in 2 days.

And good luck.
Great stuff. I'd love if it kept spinning if I released the mouse button during a movement.
Then the commodity is the iPad. Eventually this may change but it's 2012 and a serious competitor hasn't been built yet (going by what I've seen from CES).

There are still some major differences between the early 80s and the current market:

* IBM: They owned the office long before Apple came along and continued that dominance with their invention of PC. IBM isn't in the tablet business. RIM tried to make a play and did poorly. Increasing corporate tablet sales are going to Apple.

* Price: Compared to a Mac the PC was cheap. Nowadays tablet makers are having a hard time building <$500 tablet that will sell.
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Honestly I never did program on an ATM so I may be wrong. But I'm willing to assume that unusual peripherals and drivers are analogous to the portability issues across android phones. Genuinely asking, not claiming to have the truth.
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I just use secrets. It was found here. http://secrets.blacktree.com/

I'm not sure why the site is down. But I mirrored it here.
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Curious to find out in which way this app was breaking their API policy.
In Europe maybe. In the US, hardly. We're talking early nineties, not the sixties. In the IT academia there were hardly any leftists that would oppose a language on the basis of it being used by the DoD.
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Fight hyperbole with hyperbole?

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Fresh out of the oven is also a factor for choosing a place. Who wants pizza that has been sitting around for a while.

The pizzas at pizza shops like 2 bros pizza are fresh during high volume times. Usually only 0-5 minutes fresh out of the oven until the next pizza is put out and sold..

I may not consider it a nice place for a date, but it's a quick and cheap lunch option once in a while.
Dealers use term "Hold back" (dealer incentives) that will give them a hint You know how it works.

Also, has anybody used truecar.com - does it really work with prices or its just to get you in dealership to tell you they are out of that specific "deal".