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Most people who actively want Linux are content to install it themselves. They don't pre-install Linux because nobody really cares, and they don't want to deal with supporting it. They ship with FreeDOS in many cases because they have an OEM agreement with MS that forbids shipping computers with no OS.
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I have multiple machines. I'm a UNIX/Linux sysadmin "by trade" since 1995 and use whatever machine / OS combination fits the task at hand best.

At work I have a Core2Duo Mac Mini that runs Windows 7 in a VM for my "work stuff" on a second monitor. At home I have the current Core i5 Mac Mini for my main system, with an AMD Bulldozer-based Windows box for games and things that require Windows. Sure, I prefer *nix, but I'll admin and use whatever gets the bills paid.

When it comes to laptops, I have a 2010 Macbook Air 11", a 2010 Macbook Pro 13", a Thinkpad T61 with Ubuntu, a Lenovo G470 with Win7, and a Thinkpad X120e running Windows 7.

A couple of hours ago, I sold the MBAir and MBPro to friends and ordered the new Core i5 11.6" Air with 128G SSD and 8G RAM. It's not often that I will buy the "current" machine without waiting for a refurb to be available.
OS X turns off the delay if you map that key to something else. The only workaround I've found in Linux is to force the LED on with setleds so that the hardware thinks it doesn't need to enable the delay.
Here is a link that doesn't require a login:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Network...
The thing is that the UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is public, so anyone can enter their buildings. That, and the fact of having a distracted crowd, makes it a tempting target to a pickpocket. It doesn't have to be a student. It could be anyone passing, entering, grabbing something, and leaving the place before anyone notices something strange.
The Oatmeal is plain awesomeness.
I attended the last meet up in Boston whilst visiting and I have to say this Ruby group is pretty special. I will, for sure, be watching via Hangouts when it goes live!
This I know: both of those men will be remembered long after the world has forgotten about Malcolm Gladwell.
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> I'm not advocating for a removal of all browser features, merely removal of those which are unrelated to the browser's core purpose of document navigation and rendering.

Fair enough, but what people consider to be documents has changed. Some documents have 3D elements in them, for example architectural content. And some documents benefit from embedding sounds, like Wikipedia pages that contain small relevant snippets of audio. So I think it's hard to know where to draw the line.

But again, I do agree a line needs to be drawn. The browser industry as a whole should work together to define that, in a standards-based way.
Funny thing is that the megaphone holder is the one with the keys to the gun locker....
>Current models of the entire planetary ecosystem are admittedly quite primitive, but they often have proven to be predictive.

I am not sure the current model has predictive power. Predictions in science have to be specific enough to yield testable result. However, predictions of this sort have been vague enough to be inclusive of any anomalies. And this characteristic is a common hallmark of non-science.

I am not saying that climatology is non-science. However, I do think that there are claims being made that are not entirely scientific.
I've been using a Mac for a while but have yet to find a way to remap Command-Q to something else. I've accidentally exited more than my share of apps instead of closing a window. IMO those are just too close together. I would rather have a Cmd-Shift-Q or something similar.
Show HN: Klippie - klip klip klip
After a pretty good start with my previous website that [still] helps people save parts of website, I thought about taking that idea further. One of the reasons was that being a programmer, I wanted to save code without losing any formatting - like, finding something super important on Stack Overflow, and wanting to keep it for reference.
So, I built Klippie. It helps you "klip" parts of websites without losing any formatting.

Here's an exmaple of Java's modifiers: http://klippie.com/klip.php?klipID=166
Another one is Facebook's PHP SDK from GitHub: http://klippie.com/klip.php?klipID=157
While we're talking about Facebook, here's a chart of FB: http://klippie.com/klip.php?klipID=221

There are still lots of features missing, but right now it's at a stage where I'd like to see if anyone going to use it.

Yes, there's Clipboard. But I think Klippie has potential, what do you guys think?
No, they're not right about it.

I completely agree with you that making the computing experience simpler, more like poking buttons on a high-end blender, is what most consumers need. Satisfying what most consumers need is most likely what the companies need. The companies have as much right to want what's best for themselves as I do. They're not doing anything wrong, IMO.

That does not automatically make their design decisions a reflection of their superior knowledge of what's good for me, even "kinda".

Linux-like customization on top of Apple-quality hardware/driver foundations in form factors like the iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, and MacPro, would be what would be good for me, but I'm not saying anybody owes it to me.

I am thinking, though, that as the two major personal computer platforms become more closed, it gradually opens a market for some savvy company to go in the opposite direction: targeting those who want more customization, not less, without sacrificing hardware quality.

If that ever does happen, that will be what's good for me.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 from 2005. It has a WUXGA display (1920x1200) on a 15" screen.

Sadly, screen resolutions have been decreasing and moving towards 16:9 ratio. It's nice to see Apple emphasize the screen again and push competition.
Breaking out of the iOS jail is fairly easy. For a long time, you could jailbreak from a web page!

Breaking from an app, to other apps, is easy but pointless, as your app and developer licence will get revoked fairly quickly.
I remember DEC sending out a fix for the "day 10000 bug".

Some system counter would wrap around if it was up for 10000days (27years)! Compare it with the Windows95 49day bug that nobody ever reached.
And counting .. !
Web apps are by definition more secure. Well, as secure as the browser, and those are very secure today.
And the sheer unadulterated wonderful pointlessness of it !
I'll have to disagree with you as I own both a 3 year old Thinkpad and a 2 year old Macbook Pro. The keyboard of my Thinkpad has been giving me problems for over a year, and I haven't had any problems with the keyboard on my Macbook.
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"As others have noted, it was wealth Americans never really possessed."

If a person sold a house bought pre-bubble during the bubble, the wealth was very muched possessed. If a person invested money in real estate during the bubble, they very much lost wealth. Likewise, if their 401k took a hit when the stock market dove, or they cashed out their retirement savings when they lost their job, the wealth lost wasn't on paper, but very much real.

Yes, some people's gains and losses were on paper, but for others, the losses were jobs, homes, and savings.
Economists do widely (universally?) agree that VATs have the lowest inefficiency (deadweight loss) of any form of taxation, and are thus the most efficient (not necessarily most fair, which isn't an economic question. You can solve a lot of the fairness/regressivity issues with VAT through some kind of blanket, potentially refundable per capita credit).

I dislike VATs philosophically due to the massive data they collect and turn over to the government, and how they open up a lot of activities to regulation, but in practice, they do seem to be a superior option.
@mnicole thanks for the really solid feedback.
All the points you've raised are quite reasonable. If I'm hearing you correctly your biggest concerns are around the 'cheap' factor and the risk of rip off while also maintain quality content and viable pricing?

I don't want to appear to have an answer for everything but we have a pretty complex community based curation solution that will very much be powered by it's users in the future and we have some ideas on how to work with top designers but at this stage it's very much about proving that there's a need for a tool like this.

Bear in mind, our focus isn't on ripping off - it's actually on allowing creatives to sell the building blocks of their design work between one another. It's really about the 'foundations' and not complete design work. This is for content creators/professionals to rapidly share assets between each other - think about how you use font libraries rapidly rather than perhaps cheap assets. We're not there but we're working on it! :)

On the UX point - can't fault you for spotting that - very eagle eyes, we're still working out some UI kinks and already looking at more drafts of this.

Any more feedback would be appreciated.
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I don't get it. Why don't they just discontinue the Mac Pro?
It wasn't the content of your comment, it was the tone. If you sound like a prick, people will downvote you regardless of whether you have a clear point. (Which, incidentally, you didn't.)
@quiark.
Again, really appreciate the feedback. I'm actually on a similarly sized notebook right now so seeing the same issue you're experiencing. It is a little cluttered and I suppose in honesty because we'd had feedback in the past that users wanted to see as much content as possible we focused on squeezing in a lot.

The download graphic was a last addition so absolutely something we need to address.

Really useful, again thank you!
I work at a company of twelve (Fictive Kin, whom you might remember from Gimme Bar and LeakedIn that were on the front page last week), and every single employee is a remote employee. We have people on the US East coast, Canadian East coast, US West Coast, Central USA, the UK and Denmark. So when you factor in time zones, varying civic/religious holidays and the fact that many of us attend and/or speak at conferences around the world, you'd think that team "management" would be a nightmare.

As it turns out, it's not that bad at all.

Having everyone working remote is actually a blessing - it means that all of our processes are optimized for an asynchronous workflow. We use a private IRC server for all internal communications, email for conversations that need to be a bit less ephemeral, a tracker for our various projects (Pivotal, in this case) that need attention, Dropbox for file transfers and wireframes/mockups, Google Docs for spreadsheet-y things, Google Hangouts and Skype for video/audio communication, and our organization Github timeline for all things code-related.

Additionally, we try to keep the management overhead to a minimum: Weekly company calls on Fridays where we discuss internal dev/design things that happened over the week and what movies we saw or what level our Diablo characters are at, and then project-specific calls as needed during the week. All but the all-hands call on Fridays are optional; if you don't have anything to say, then you just don't join the call. We also try to get together for a more face-to-face gathering once a quarter, and try to pick a fun and convenient city in the world to meet in.

It's not black magic. It just takes good people and some minimal async-focused processes for it to work. Hire bad people, stuff goes bad. Implement too many synchronous (read: obligatory meetings, calls, timesheets, status reports, etc.), and stuff goes bad.
The planet is fine it's not going to collapse.

A few species on a thin smear of biosphere on the outside of the planet might be in trouble - but the planet is perfectly safe until the sun expands.
Because there's still a handful of people willing to pay $5000 for an above average desktop computer.
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I realize this is anecdotal, but my 2009 macbook pro 13 is in great shape. Screen, battery, and keyboard are all great. I've watched the new macbook pros come out for 3 years now, and I have felt no serious desire to upgrade.

The only thing the newer macbooks would beat mine on would be games, and I just don't play very many. When I do its usually casual like Plants vs Zombies or whatever.

It's lasted longer and fared better than any other laptop I've owned (14" vostro, 13" inch vaio, 17" HP). It has simply been the best laptop I've every owned.

I have done upgrades, the best of which being an SSD. Without that, I'm sure I'd be feeling the pain of old hardware. I pulled the optical drive out and moved my mechanical drive to that bay for extra storage.

The casing has a few very minor nicks, and I did take it in to the apple store to get new rubber "feet" a few months back (under warranty).

I love my macbook pro. Someday I'll upgrade again, if the logic board gives out or something. Probably to a new macbook pro. Perhaps not though, the other manufacturers are catching up with their ultrabooks.

This laptop has been the first computer I've owned where I haven't felt like I was "fighting" with it to get work done.

The "retina" display is the first thing they've done that has me actually wanting to buy new hardware.

I've never used a Thinkpad, though, so I can't say whether it would have fared better or not.
Hear, hear. Remapping capslock to control is one of the first things I do upon setting up a new OS, and I use vim. ctrl+[ is equivalent to esc, and with the Control key easily accessible from the home row I still get to use the window manipulation features (which all use control chords) in Vim without inducing carpal tunnel syndrome.
Think is exactly why macbooks are so popular. I think if a laptop manufacturer spent some (a-lot?) of effort on hardware design to compete with Apple then there would be huge demand from developers. As a developer now I have a laptop choice of

a) Horrible design with linux installed.

b) Beautiful design with a BSD like os installed.

It really is a no brainer.
Even Linus uses a MBA I wonder when hardware manufacturers will start to realise that people actually care about owning beautiful things.
Not really, when you think about the number of units in those buildings total (I'd guess a few thousand at most) versus the boom in Bay hiring.

I lived in NY before SF and at least subjectively, it feels like more new (incremental, not replacement) apartment units were put into say, Sixth Avenue between 23rd and 35th in the last decade than in all of San Francisco. (I'm guessing that is about ~3,000 units based on 10 blocks of ~40-story apartment buildings on two sides of the street.) SOMA lofts are nice but at only 3-4 stories high, they don't add a lot of units to the count.

SF is the second most densely populated city in the US behind NYC. If we need more housing, we need to build upwards.
"They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing-stones. We do not know who else may be watching."

This sort of study is not science and only as good as the quality of their assumptions. I'm glad the authors and all participants got their names in a prestigious journal and I hope it helps their careers.
Also, make proper use of graphics switching. I live with intel integrated graphics and won't even bother to try and switch to my ati because after about two weeks of searching forums when I got the laptop, I just gave up. This means, among other things, that I don't get to have webGL.

Still, Linux all the way since everything else is awesome!
I agree that inheritance is bad (for society AND for the recipients), but I think a lot of the issue could be addressed through social pressure to donate much of a fortune past a certain level on death (or irrevocably donate it while alive, retaining control, as a trust). Failing that, a 25-50% inheritance tax probably works, although without the free step up in basis in the current code.
Right now transit directions are dead in the water since nothing in the App Store supports the new API yet.
I know, but that's really no excuse. I don't have a problem with Apple dropping support for old hardware, but this feels a little forced on a device that's only two years old.

Of course, forced obsolescence is a fact of life with commercial, proprietary products, and of course you're not entitled to software updates apart from bugfixes.

But it's very different world compared to the PC world where companies like Microsoft and other OS vendors have an incentive to stretch compatibility as far back as possible.

As more and more developers drop support for iOS 5, an otherwise perfectly working device becomes less and less valuable, which is a shame. Of course an option is still to jailbreak it.
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Disable the navigation bar, and alt+d brings up a navigation window. No more using the mouse to click on a skinny rectangle, and you get some screen real-estate.
You might as well be making up the part about black people. I checked, and ESR's actual argument is that black people have a lower average IQ than caucasians even after adjusting for things like socioeconomic status and childhood nutrition, that this IQ difference has significant effects on the observed distributions of things like income and crime, and that these same statistics prove that racial discrimination against individual people is idiotic, since the relatively weak Bayesian evidence from someone's race is greatly outweighed by, say, actually talking to that person for half a minute. (He makes exactly the same claim about caucasians having a lower average IQ than Ashkenazi Jews, BTW.) In addition to these claims about fact, he also makes the normative claim that racism is immoral.

I know that doesn't make quite as snazzy a sound-bite as "the intellectual inferiority of black people".
Your parents bought their house for $10K in the 70s.

In 2007 it was worth $400K, now it's worth $200K - your parents have just lost $200,000 !
4 years ago, I spilled coffee on my MacBook. It started to act a little funky about detecting the battery, but otherwise worked fine. Since it was under (the extended Apple Care) warranty, and the Apple Store was a 20 minute drive away in Providence, I figured I 'd bring it by. They replaced the damaged logic board for me, gave me a refurbished battery (mine was down to ~70% capacity, unrelated to the spill), and then voided the warranty for any future repairs. I thought that was mighty fine of them, to be honest.

I'm still typing on it today. But man, those new retina MacBooks are tempting.
This may be due to settings carrying over from an older Firefox install. In my experience, Firefox has been quite good at not clobbering settings unless they decide to remove the feature entirely. I had forgotten they added "tabs on top" until I saw this, which actually reminded me to try it out.
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"almost every architecture supports 32-bit copies"

How much of that was true at the time that function was created?

Also, on 'just use memmove': it would not surprise me if ancient Unices used memcpy instead of inlining it to copy really small buffers (such as 14-byte-max filenames), not for speed, but for the byte savings (even if singular 'byte' is the correct way to phrase that). With small buffers, the overhead of that 'if' can become substantial.
Cynical view: Preinstalling Linux would create expectations that all their hardware have readily available, working, non-buggy Linux drivers. Preinstalling FreeDOS sets up no such expectations (especially since basically everyone will blow it away immediately).
Really happy for them.
We can't wait for them to open source and integrate their technology to Delight (http://delight.io). It's going to take mobile usability testing to a new level.
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You shouldn't mix up RMS with the Pirates. While there are obvious similitudes (particularly in terms of privacy, DRM, etc), RMS was initially opposed to their platform of reducing or killing copyright, since that would limit the effectiveness of the GPL without really fixing what he fights against - after all, lack of copyright doesn't mean you'll have access to the source, which is a precondition of freedoms 1 and 3 [1].

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Lots of iOS 6 features doesn't require more processing power. They could have easily turned off the features that did, just like they did with iOS 5 on the iPhone 3G / 3GS.

But they don't have an incentive to do that, and it would mean more work for them supporting a shrinking user base.

However, customer loyalty may have been increased quite a bit by providing updates for more than 2 years. I'd have much less of a problem with Apple dropping iOS 7 support on the iPad 1, for instance.
I suggest we add Apple/Android criticisms to Godwyn's law. whenever anything negative is said about Apple, someone inevitably turns it into an Android bash instead. The same applies in reverse.
In this instance, the grandparent was spreading FUD about Apple, so the usual Apple/Android digs have come out.
"Dead in the water" means no progress will be made.

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/dead+in+the+wat...
I was interested to see "The Transamerica Pyramid Building is a registered service mark of Transamerica Corporation" at the bottom of the page.

I can't see how using a photograph of SF requires this disclaimer.
$15,416.00 for the fully pimped version. Sploosh. What kind of multicore Linux box could I build for that? (I love Macs, just not this range).
Apple doesn't allow third parties to upgrade iOS's built-in apps. If you're running Windows XP you can replace IE6 with a modern Firefox, but if you're running an iPad 1 it's WebKit version whatever for the rest of time. (The only "browsers" allowed by Apple are basically thin shells around the built-in WebKit.)
Public uncertainty does not prevent isolated individuals from getting science done. There's no reason to suspect that publicized uncertainty about global warming has anything to do with objective difficulty in obtaining solid evidence rather than its tendency to attract polemicists, cranks, and opinionated amateurs.
Do it! You can fork my site right now, if that'd help:

https://github.com/waferbaby/usesthis/
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It's definitely an aesthetic niche - but you can easily get a Thinkpad with Linux pre-installed, and quite a few people like the design/functionality of Thinkpads.

I think your choices are more 'Utilitarian/Functional design' vs. 'Beautiful design'. Admittedly, Utility/Function designs are often ugly.

Another side to the coin is that I enjoy the look and feel of Apple keyboards - but I can't stand working without home/end/delete keys.
I respectfully disagree. It may "just work" on thoroughly tested hardware configurations, however as a blanket statement that is simply not true.

Anecdotal illustration : I'm writing this from a machine running Xubuntu because of a relatively obscure Unity bug wherein the X server fails sporadically while, say, loading a text file. This most likely is a compatibility issue relating to my graphics card.

TLDR; I'm a fan, but it doesn't "just work".
I do not understand. What is the appropriate use case for a Mac Pro where something equivalent and much cheaper cannot be used?
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data scientist = glorified programmer.
A significant number of apps require the latest version of the OS. The utility really does drop off if you are a major OS version or two behind. Trash? Maybe not, but definitely worth much, much less. I agree that 2.5 years is far too soon to stop updating the iPad’s OS.