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> Tiled windows are a waste of screen space; I have far more open windows than can ever fit tiled.

That's what multiple workspaces are for. Tiling WMs are especially great when working with large and/or multiple monitors. You're not forced to always use tile mode, you can easily switch between layouts via hotkey: http://xmonad.org/tour.html

Also, a lot of smart people disagree with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3964530

> <Package management>

You don't want to update for fear of breaking something, yet you admit your problems stem from never updating.

Have you thought about Debian Stable/Ubuntu LTS releases?

Are you really complaining that Debian/Ubuntu package availability? Even if the main servers disappeared, you're ignoring the fact that there's plenty of mirrors. What happens if microsoft.com disappeared?

> <file browser density>

Hit Ctrl -: http://i.imgur.com/0xWSw.png

Explorer looks less dense, doesn't have tabs, split panes, copy queuing, real file modification tracking (Explorer requires F5 to see changes). It doesn't auto-adjust column widths, look at file size as an example. Not to mention the explorer.exe process doubles as the WM, so when it crashes all windows get reset.

Nautilus has a better hotkeys. Alt + Home to jump back to home directory, F9 to see symlinks to common directories, Ctrl + H to toggle hidden files, Ctrl + 1/2/3 to change views.

You could have not chosen a worse program to compare between the two OSes.

> <driver issues>

That's a result of market dominance, not anything intrinsically different between Windows and Linux. Congrats!

Have you tried installing a clean version Windows 7 on a laptop? Have you noticed how many proprietary drivers you have to download and install? I did this a few months ago with a new X220 and spent 4 hours finding, downloading, and installing drivers. If Lenovo.com disappeared, I'd be SOL.

Take any laptop and clean install Ubuntu and Windows without internet access. You will have a better working system with Ubuntu.

Due to lack of proprietary drivers, Linux actually has much better support for older hardware. Not to mention a large source of Windows BSODs are due to low quality, 3rd party drivers running in the kernel.
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When you order by name it's what esrauch said.

As for the sorting in the App Store, Apple strips all the non-letter characters, and orders apps which match the search query according to their download numbers.

So, if "Camera+" had 100k downloads, and "Camera!" had 10k downloads, "Camera+" will be above "Camera!" in the App Store search.
There are some more rules explained in this slideshare: http://slideshare.net/kolinko/app-store-seo-tutorial
> it should come as no surprise that the energy you get out by wasting your fresh water isn't as much as the energy you put in to get it in the first place

Agreed, but maybe the effect can be used to alleviate the cost of getting the fresh water? For example, it doesn't cost so much to heat up a building once it's been heated up if it has heat exchangers in its HVAC: the output heat is used to heat up incoming hot air. A wasteful process can be made more efficient with stupid tricks.
Headlines That Capitalize Every Word can be annoying. Normal capitalization provides semantic value.
This post really speaks to me. I've been working on a project called carrier.io for a few months now which attempts to apply what they're talking about to the physical movements of items -- that is, the shipping industry. I believe that technologies made popular in the last few years make this much more possible and I don't think existing groups are moving forward fast enough in this space. It's great to hear people talking about it, finally.
One thing I hope this promotes is a good interface for accessing device hardware via HTML. In particular i had a hard time trying to access a webcam feed to embed in a webpage when i tried it a while ago. The ability to simply capture images/audio/video for use in a web app, from your phone or your webcam, would be tremendously fun.

As far as i'm aware the current solution for this is still to use Flash, or a native application. I'd be happy to be wrong. In any case making a phone entirely controllable via web standards will ensure that such capabilities are avilable and proven.

If anyone has more info on webcam integration with HTML5 video, this stackoverflow post could use some love: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318834/whats-the-status-...
GeeXboX (http://www.geexbox.org/)

OpenElec (http://openelec.tv/)

XBMC (http://xbmc.org/)

None of them have particularly good "elevator pitches" for what they are or do. I hear people like XBMC.
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that the copy was not paid for; just talking about the licensing restrictions.
The trick to your claim is "fully equivalent hardware". I just bought a System76 laptop after a lifetime of using macs exclusively, and there was just no contest on price. To get a roughly equivalent machine from Apple would have cost nearly twice as much. Yes, that would have included a few nifty little things here and there that simply weren't available for the machine I got, just as my machine has some things I couldn't have gotten on a mac.

But to claim that Apple is competitive on price is just absurd. They're very competitive on hardware/software integration, on usability, an aesthetics, on stability. But not on price.
Looked into selling our 64GB WiFi+3G iPad 1 just after the launch of the new iPad. Going rate on eBay was ~AU$350, originally AU$1050. For that, plus the losses in fees, we just kept it.
I understand what the leanback format is, but what is the placeshifting experience?

Also: if you want to say thanks, just click the tiny triangle pointing up next to my name. That's how we give out happiness around here.
Form a rational framework for evaluating what people say when you are trying to learn from them.. Basically, when people just give you their opinion and refuse to back it up, remember it is only opinion and NOT anything close to fact. Most BS is easy to detect if you just think about it for a little bit. In some cases, you won't have the knowledge to evaluate a statement well. Try to just go back to these tidbits of information when you have an opportunity to test them or you learn something new to evaluate them.

As to the rational framework you should be using, I think the important thing is to have one. Each will suffer from systematic biases and failures of some kind, but as long as you have one you're getting somewhere.
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I've heard variations of this since 1999 or so on slashdot. I'm somewhat reserved on Linux becoming a desktop platform.
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There's no VAT if you are outside Germany.

10x the performance of 'cloud' VMs at the same price.
How Apple presents statistics in its favor when they clearly aren't
I hope they pair it with a hardware solution to emulate RFID cards and key fobs. Work badges, transit cards, Zipcard, key fobs to get into the apartment building--we all have a ton of these, why not distribute them electronically?
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I thank you for the respect you show when you disagree. I hope I can do the same. I do indeed think about this kind of thing often and as carefully as I can.

The thing is, freedom in the general sense does produce happiness. If you doubt that, consider the contrary case, how we suffer when our freedom is taken away. In its most general sense, freedom is our ability to pursue happiness and avoid suffering. Of course our well being requires it. Freedom is good, in spite of its costs, because it makes us happy. If it didn't, why would we risk our lives and livelihoods to obtain it?

Nevertheless, I think it's important, when making moral judgements, to focus on happiness and wellbeing rather than a proxy like freedom. In a world of maximum freedom, where everyone is completely unfettered, we actually find ourselves less happy. We immediately form groups and establish social norms. We make laws. We constrain freedom in order to maximize wellbeing.

The suffering that I experience at the loss of my freedom to take what I want from those around me is exceeded by the security I feel knowing that the same protection is afforded to me. So yes, freedom is good, but so is security. So is prosperity — taxation robs me of my freedom to spend my income as I see fit, but the benefit I receive more than makes up for it. The only way I can see to measure the trade-offs between freedom, security, prosperity, health, etc is to value them for the wellbeing they bring to us, rather than try to assign value to them directly.
An Explanation of the News From Apple
Ahh, yes. Thanks for asking.

It occurred to me I probably should have included this info in my original post only after the window for editing it had passed. I'd previously written a bit about how to optimize the Thinkpad power consumption on another HN post here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564400

FYI, I find that the kernel flags are necessary even with the latest kernel. I'm currently on 3.3.8-1-ARCH and experimented with turning them off because the power regression that started in kernels > 2.6 was supposed to have been fixed and merged back into the kernel code. But I found that passing the pcie_aspm=force flag at boot time still results in a significant savings. Indicating that the regression (for at least my configuration) might still be there.

If you have an Intel video card, then check out the other kernel args I'm passing as well for additional power savings (and there are more parameters you can play with outlined here http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel...)

I experimented with a few different combinations before settling on the ones I posted in my HN link, but they're what gives me optimal battery life on my T420.

Despite what the other poster had said, I'm getting battery life now that's significantly better than what I get booting into Windows on the same machine, which usually stays at around 9-10 watts idle. I'm getting 6.8-7.8W

Without any optimization, my battery life was much less than I'd expected to get from the 9-cell (~7 hours). But with the power management script and the kernel flags, I can get 13 hours with light use and 10-11 while doing development (i.e. apache, mysqld, eclipse, multiple browsers, etc... all running).

edit: FYI powertop2 was the beta release of powertop at the time. the source has been merged back into powertop so you can just use that.
Not really true. Russia, for instance, didn't get standardised testing until 2003 and still the universities do not really respect it.
That's what the 30% markup is for...
I'm actually a designer and musician. Apple's recent media production tools are excellent. Logic, FCP, iMovie, Keynote, Quartz Composer, etc. are best in class. The move toward iOS influenced software is a net win IMO. Fewer details to worry about, more fluid interfaces, and command line utilities from the Linux community aren't going anywhere.
Thanks. How often are you in Seattle?
The installed base for iPad 1 won't be anywhere near as large as that for IE6. It's a ridiculous concern.
You could always install Firefox on Windows 2000, too. Didn't mean IE6 wasn't a major problem.
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Sublime Text makes me feel silly for loving a text editor so much. Now if only it would do text completion across multiple files...
I like Homebrew to, but compare it to Arch Linux's package manager and user community and you'll see that it's far from competitive.
Same. Then I read the article and couldn't figure out who was crying. Had you not posted anything, I'd have spent the rest of my evening scratching my head on that one.
Petabytes on budget
Sure, it shows how far ahead of the game Apple was in 2007.

But they've left the door open for competitors, in my opinion. If Google had the distribution issues plaguing ICS sorted out they would be in trouble, IMO, particularly because the iOS UI conventions are more awkward on tablets and that's currently Apple's stronghold.
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My favorite: in HTML editing mode you can press Ctrl-Shift-A to select enclosing tag and modify both open and close tag at the same time. Very handy when editing HTML files (although I'm not sure if this is Sublime's built-in or from any third party package I installed.)
> Why is this the top link on HN?
>

Because this is the response of the "university system" trying to protect its cash flow. Perhaps you missed it, but udacity said recently it will do some certification program for "minimal costs", which was the beginning of the conversation. Education should be free (Khan style), says Udacity.

The University establishment's response is "here we will give you certificates, but you have to give us three grand."

Money for certificates, knowledge for free.
I used to think that but now I think it will be delivered via the cloud. Integrating software is much easier than integrating hardware.
Exactly. Plus, for the kind of people that really need a machine this powerful +/- $1000 isn't decisive.

And the cloud of uncertainty hovering over the Mac Pro has got to have a lot of people worried. It's bad enough that you can't get anything resembling a roadmap from Apple but it really looks like the Mac Pro is headed for extinction.
Supposedly it integrates with third-party apps. If done well, this would be great--in Seattle, I have to integrate directions from Maps with information from OneBusAway by eyeball.
My MacBook Pro from about 7 years ago has ports on both sides, and the optical drive slot in the front. More recent ones have the ports on the left side and the optical drive on the right. I think Apple just moves them around to match the constraints presented by the components inside the machine.

Having a USB port on each side is nice, IMHO. For example, I have a pair of external speakers where the right speaker connects to the USB port, which is a bit awkward when you only have USB ports on the left side of the laptop.
It could be incorporated into GPS turn-by-turn directions on mobile phones and dedicated GPSs.

Think about it, you request a route to some place, and the GPS prompts you with several route options. Some routes could very easily be incentivized. Thinking about how Apple plans to update transit times and traffic estimates makes this almost seem to come as a natural extension.

But by the same token, it enables the scary thought of your GPS charging you extra for taking some routes!
Let Victor Borge explain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA
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Vim equivalents if you're feeling jealous (matching the order in the article):

J Join line.

ddp Swap line with the one below.
ddkP Swap line with the one above.

dd Delete current line
yyp Duplicate line

gq} Rewrap a paragraph.

Vu Lowercase a line
VU Uppercase a line

Sort the selection by the Unix `sort` command (eg. sort -rn for reverse numeric order):

V <select your lines>
:!sort

It goes a bit pear-shaped for these ones, though:

Title-Case:
:s/\<\(\w\)\(\w*\)\>/\u\1\L\2/g

Twiddle/Flip Case:
function! TwiddleCase(str)
if a:str ==# toupper(a:str)
let result = tolower(a:str)
elseif a:str ==# tolower(a:str)
let result = substitute(a:str,'\(\<\w\+\>\)', '\u\1', 'g')
else
let result = toupper(a:str)
endif
return result
endfunction
vnoremap ~ ygv"=TwiddleCase(@")<CR>Pgv

I'm a bit stumped on toggling comments, though. Any ideas?
Is there a CTags plugin you can use?
This is pretty cool, good work.

If you're a web developer+designer, it's probably not as useful, but for everyone else it rocks - and I hope to see people use/customize it to their liking. I love how it pulls so many services together. It seems like there's still some desire for some basic template for blogging after Dustin Curtis' last ordeal and now this, although it kind of seems like Twitter's Bootstrap has solved all of those basic problems for a lot of people.
Now that I've gotten used to first class refactoring support in the Jetbrains products any other editor just seems archaic. IntelliJ has all the features mentioned in this article and intelligent code restructuring.
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My guess is that Apple asked Facebook not to use the same name as the built in camera, and Facebook complied to avoid damaging their renewed relationship.
It’s a massive Ad Hominem on my part, but I can’t help but wonder when I read such passionate words, “Why is this person fixated on this particular topic?”

Because in their view, which may or may not be correct, they are injustices which receive very little mainstream attention. Is that not enough?

I’m not going to say he’s a racist.

I'm not going to say that John Doe has ever had any inappropriate relations with his students.
I fixed this issue just haven't pushed to rigoneri.com yet.. Thanks!!
Mathematician here. Anyone care to clarify how he came up with 129,000%? That is, one-hundred twenty-nine thousand percent? I'm not good with numbers. Thanks in advance.
Yes but apple doesn't use that. See kolinko's comment.
C++ is a nightmare language for tools developers, and is in slow decline anyway.

Java and the JVM ecosystem is still the biggest market out there and none of the current alternative JVM languages has really nailed the complexity/usability tradeoffs. There's a lot of opportunity here and Jetbrains' experience building tools gives them a unique vantage point.
What iOS 6 means for Microsoft: Not a thing
Those formulas are models. They describe the world and can predict it's behaviour, but can also break down under certain conditions. For example, what happens when I put 240V across a regular 20Ohm resistor? According to V=IR you get 12A running through it - but I doubt you'll get that for very long.

By your argument, V=IR must then be a "model" and is useless, with no predictive power, etc, etc. In practice, the only difference between those formulae and a more complex model is one of degree.
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IAM roles for EC2 instances – Secure Access to AWS APIs from EC2
I seriously had just spent like two hours looking for an app exactly like this and BAM I came across this post.

Thank you and oh, I like the new site.
> By adressing not the anxiety itself but the root of anxiety.

It is better to address anxiety itself because then one does not have to address the root of each and every anxiety that props up.

Note that I wrote "anxiety" and not "the anxiety".
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This is super exciting for most AWS users, who had to solve this problem in some sort of "hacky" way.
Once upon a time we put a man on the moon.
Ubuntu has a huge community that makes any question you have easily Googlable, as well as a much more mature ecosystem in general. Even if they're built on the same foundation, these little things really make a difference and ease headaches.

And really, you can't write off the simple fact that its been around and strong for so many years. You can rest assured that it will continue to be.
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Possibly, but that's a lot fancier and less "just works" than I'm interested in. I just want the same extremely simple "what words have I seen before" autocompletion that you get on a file-by-file basis, but as if I had every open file concatenated into one.
"I never said ESR criticized RMS because of the reasons, I mentioned."

Then why you mentioned those things in comment which discusses ESR's critique of RMS? Just because you had a random thought and had to express it before you forget it, no matter the topic? And why you immediately added "But I see ESR as a epitome of hyperbole, bad mouthing, hating people because of their belief, faith and their way of life. Advocating violence"?

Looks like is it you that is badmouthing people because of their beliefs, not ESR, and I also notice a lot of the same un-loving feeling in your responses that you attribute to ESR. I will ignore the attempt to derail the discussion and change topic to Iraq and Muslims, however, since it is completely offtopic (and again, contains multiple false statements). I just will notice that "advocating violence" in context of political discussion and political critique and meaning by it supporting actions (however they may seem wrong to you) of legitimate democratic government in totally unrelated case is extremely disingenuous.

You proceed to declare utter baloney and try to assign this baloney as if ESR ever said it, which also is obviously false and I wonder how you can expect such cheap rhetorical trick to convince anybody.

I think everybody here knows how ESR has made his name, and it has absolutely nothing to do with "bashing/thrashing/badmouthing people". Again, why you expect this obviously false statement to sound convincing to the informed audience is a mystery to me. However, (lack of) your personal respect to ESR is not important, as points he makes do not become less valid because you personally disrespect him.

The most sad part of your comment is however the last link. And the most sad part of this link is that incoherent drivel by some anonymous internet trolls which consists completely of "bashing, trashing and badmouthing", is presented as "Rational Wiki". Sad and deeply ironic.
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The title originally indicated that the analysis was done by Alexander Sotirov, one of the co-authors of "MD5 considered harmful today"[1] among other things. I am not sure what happened to the attribution.

[1] http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/
Do you know if there's a way to skip the current or next match when doing this?
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working in the long term for every manifestation of anxiety (not talking OCD here).

Moreover, you'll get different burst of anxiety that are going to pile up, even if you adress them individually but with the same method ; you'll be mentally exhausted way sooner and way more often than if you had worked on the root.

Of course if the root is one of the 80's wave of imaginary parental incest abuses it's a different matter.
Sort of FYI, Google's original effort at providing their own database for map information was that Navtec would not license them the right to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation.

Of course Navteq would allow them to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation, but Google didn't want to pay the price they were asking for license fees.

Earlier Navteq and Tele Atlas had a duopoli in worldwide map data - no-one else had as good coverage as they had. And they used tiered licensing structure. On lower tiers, you were allowed to display maps, but you couldn't use them for turn-by-turn navigation or for example dynamically show locations of your friends.
I'll skip the Windows/Google comparisons, because Apple is not them and has never been like them, and get to my main point: I agree!

Apple prints money, and could afford to choose only the cream of the licensing crop (which, to be fair, will be pretty curdled). Here's where we violently agree:

All this Adam Smith idealism is great until we look at the real world where [stuff is] too high for competition to actually produce ideal outcomes.

In this hypothetical I'm not considering "competition." I don't know if this was obvious from my last post, but I'm wondering what would happen if Apple licensed OS X to a high-end desktop manufacturer that would make Mac Pros on its behalf.

Let me be clear: there is a 0% chance this happens. At the same time, it is clear Apple is not interested in the high-end desktop game. So it's fun and interesting to consider the possibility that Apple -- a company with negotiating power in spades -- could pick from any manufacturer on this planet and choose a licensing partner.