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Am I the only one who doesn't use bookmarks?

No. I do, but there are a lot of people with different approaches, so all that can be said is the number who bookmark is large and the number who don't is also large.

What does everyone else use bookmarks for?

Presumably to save effort and as a form of external memory. In my case, I bookmark with probability proportional to how difficult it was to find. In particular, I only ever bookmark knowledge and information and do not use bookmarks as a storage for trinkets (alas the things which interest me are likely dull graphite to most). Also, I have not done any tests but it appears google searches are non stationary - old search terms do not always return the same results. Finally, for me, it is a very frustrating experience when I am looking for something I know is there.

Is there some awesome use case I've been ignorant to since 1996?

Yes, but the answers are subjective and incommensurable with the ranking criteria of those who would ask a question like that.

Am I just a freak for never wanting to revisit things?

No. The word freak is only part of the used vocabulary of those severely lacking imagination (to clarify, this is not targeted at you but those in habit of calling people freaks).
The key is useless without the server and feature it is issued for. There is no need to secure the transmission of the key. Automated delivery over http(s) is starting to get more and more normal (most screen servers don't have such capabilities yet, so you will need a Theatre Management System or separate box which will receieve the key and deliver it to the server).
On more than one occasion I've run across developer documentation with a specific class buried somewhere that wasn't easily searchable using Google. Typically these have been those multiframe one-class-per-page javadoc style API references. It's quite helpful to bookmark the root frame and have it available at a click... great for exploring a new API when you may not want a specific search.
The secret security services supposedly have a lot of oversight at all levels; including politicians, which in theory are accountable to the public.

(http://www.gchq.gov.uk/AboutUs/Pages/index.aspx)

I agree that's suboptimal.

I am much less worried about letting GCHQ trawl my traffic data than I am letting my local council noodle around in it. Mostly because GCHQ probably already do it - they certainly have the capability, but also because local councils have shown themselves to be corrupt and "data-leaky".

I'm not bothered about my traffic data being trawled. I oppose this bill because it's stupid - the people who have to keep data are not clearly defined; hiding some of that data is trivial for criminals; keeping that data is an unreasonable burden on some (but not all?) ISPs; etc etc.

It's frustrating that there are some really clueful politicians and advisors, yet governments keep pumping out really stupid laws about computers and networking.
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A common case where it goes very wrong is disconnection logic. It's rather complex and gevent has a very naive view of it, which means you can get stuck greenlets.

Micro-benchmarks rarely are complex enough to expose design problems, my point was that one should at least use the de-facto standard, if not several alternatives too.
> HTML and CSS gracefully degrade.

I've seen this sentiment tossed around a few times now.
I guess it's valid as long as
(a) You're not working to strict wireframes, or
(b) You are, but you don't have deadlines
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My understanding is that they need a warrant to look at the log of your traffic. Presumably they'd need to look at the log of your traffic in order to see if you're using a VPN or Tor.

So what you're suggesting means they'd need to look at your traffic without a warrant in order to determine if they need a warrant to look at your traffic.

[edit] Also, presumably they can already get a warrant to tap your traffic. All this new legislation means is that they can look at historic traffic too?

Don't get me wrong. I am British, and I do think it's fucking disgusting. But don't forget, it's just a proposal.

[edit2] I was wrong. It seems they wont need a warrant to see who you're talking to. Just a warrant to see what you're saying. So yes, I guess they'll be able to tell that you're using a VPN without getting a warrant first.
It's been a long time coming, the dashboard has been slow as shit both to download and render for a long time now.

I've been using the desktop client exclusively because the website is often so painful on my 2008 macbook, but it only shows new tracks, not all the other interactions that show up on the dashboard, which means I'm missing out on a lot of good tunes.
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* > It contradicts the story of that old and wise guy who decided to give money to the children who were harassing him.*

Source? I never heard of that.
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Correct. The DCI says the secure clock only can be adjusted 6 min per year, 20-30 min with a code/package from the manufactorer. If it's adjusted over this limit the mediablock will have to be changed.
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Like Minority Report except instead of three psychics it's a pattern matching computer algorithm running over your data.
i wonder whether "letting go" describes all of their memory management concerns

i found javascripts lack of weak references extremely problematic when trying to develop a larger backbone app
FWIW we have the "wand" feature which will fill in, and submit, a form for you with previously used values (it's the key icon on the toolbar or ctrl+enter).

I know this is not quite the same implementation that other browsers have.
On windows right clicking on a file and selecting delete sends it to trash, right clicking, holding shift and selecting delete skips trash. This is at least windows xp old. On windows 7, don't remember the others, if you hold shift while right clicking more options appear (probably depends on the file).
> We nerds need to accept that we ate not apple's focus anymore.

Anymore? It's never been Apple's focus
I also use the tab stacking feature, so many related tabs are grouped together. Right now I have 2 full column of tabs and groups on the left side of my screen. It's actually very comfortable, although sometimes I clean up a lot of them. Like another user said here, I use them as bookmarks, or in my case as "read-later" lists, so I never completely forget about something I want to do or read.

I think it's a matter of habit. You can't use so many tabs if you don't have (at least) a multiline tab bar, preferably one aligned vertically.
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The devil is in details. Go is great for hi-level or simple stuff like that, but is not really usable for system programming. If things are a bit more complicated, the go runtime stays in the way. For those problems, after a while, the bare metal support was removed from the language completely...
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See the calm when ID cards were first proposed. Most people just didn't care. There were some vocal anti-ID card campaigns pointing out the real faults of the proposed scheme, but most people either didn't care or thought it was a good idea. (A lot of wingnut racists who thought (wrongly) that it'd sort out the illegal immigrant "problem".)

It was only as time went on and the costs increased and the benefits decreased that more people started being against the card. The death knell came when the government announced that each card would cost > £100.

See also the number of people who think that everyone should be on the Police DNA database; the number of people who'd volunteer to have their DNA on that database. It's only relatively recently that people have started campaigning to have data removed for people who haven't been convicted or charged of a crime.

There isn't much fuss around cctv cameras; or around automatic number plate recognition cameras; or around laws enforcing specific fonts to allow anpr cameras to work.

Your last sentence sums up the problem nicely: most people care more about X Factor than about privacy.
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> This is not what always happens, but Apple is rich, and they know if they treat their customers well, they'll be customers again

Yes, pretty much. And "genius" have a lot of leeway in their handling of people coming in. They generally seem expected to try and make customers happy as much as they can, and I regularly see comments about completely unreasonable replacements allowed by apple stores.
Why should everyone pay for the speculators?
I use Pinboard.in a lot. I do not use it for "frequently visited sites"; I can type the URL faster than clicking, especially with autocompletion.

For me, bookmarks are mainly for 1) things I may want again and only vaguely remember 2) articles I'd like to read when I have time.

Examples of stuff I've recently pinned:

- An article that has a quote from Linus Torvalds that I'd like to use in a blog post I may write someday
- The best Inkscape tutorial I found in maybe 10 minutes of searching
- An HN article comparing A/B testing with multi-armed bandit, which is irrelevant to me right now but maybe someday I'll want to read

In each case, I pin that thing, give it whatever tags make sense to me, and possibly write a quick description.

There are 51,200,000 search results in Google for "Linus." In my personal pinboard, there are 2. Guess which I'm going to try first if I vaguely remember something I once saw about him?

Probably 80% of my bookmarks are never used, which is another reason why the "tag now, search later" approach is so nice to me; those neglected ones aren't cluttering up a GUI, making it hard for me to find what I want right now; searching cuts right to what I want.

Pinboard.in is fast, simple, super-effective, cheap (but not free, so I'm the customer), and cross-browser (since it's a bookmarklet).

It also lets you mark everything private by default, which I like. Too many things are social these days. I don't want to broadcast my opinions about sites; I just want to find things again later.

It's one of my favorite tools.
That's a real issue. In terms of the act of shooting photos I prefer analog. I can't even tell why so, my best guess is the effort I put behind. But you're right, digital is why more convenient. And since less and less people are using analog, the harder it gets to develop your film properly. After the labs screwed one film too much you start to value digital. In this case at least original "file" remains.

But maybe I'm simply a late adopter in some cases. :-)
If someone really wanted to make a pirate version off of a cinema copy, they could. This DRM, like all DRM, is pointless since by definition you must be able to decrypt the stream at some point, and at that point a copy can be made. The rest is just security through obscurity.
And you are developing yourself? Used to do it with my dad back the day, it used to be real fun!
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Not a moment too soon: just as I round out my DX lens collection.
Biology has a term called "in silico"; means 'contained in digital format'
The point is to show that Go is superior to C (which obviously is true but not for the reasons mentioned in the article).

Anything counts.

Go code is obviously formatted with gofmt.
C code is obviously not formatted with "indent -kr".

Liberal use of comma operator unseen in real world.

Look at example of yes(1) with error-handling.

Author doesn't use strdup(3).

But even if he did, it still doesn't make sense to call fprintf(3) once due to allegedly hard error handling.
Error handling is not common path, fprintf(3) doesn't fail!

He concatenates all string into once which makes it O(n^2) because of many many times strlen(3) is called (and kernel copied argv contents before that!).

I bet he did error checking wrong on C side (just checking return value should not be enough). It'd be interesting to see same code on Go side.

Obligatory quote:
"considering that bad code can be written in any language, any language
comparison performed using examples must be judged by the quality of the
examples in each language. it can't be all that hard to write a bad
example in language A and a good example in language B, and then proclaim
language B to be the winner -- this is how people compare languages all the
time, so either those who read them are bad programmers in any language (or
are not programmers at all) and don't know how to reject the bad examples,
or they already agree with the author of the comparison that language B is
better than language A. in either case, it's a waste of anything but
marketing money.

...

#\Erik"
Pinboard.in is similar but has a one-time fee. I use and love it.
It looks really nice!

Since you seem not to use the menu for anything:
You could disable the legacy menu button on ICS devices by setting the targetSDKVersion to 14 or higher. But do not forget to test your App on an ICS device. By setting the targetSDKVersion so high you tell ICS to disable certain legacy compatibility behaviour.

Partly documented here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERS...
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. Thanks to Nespresso coffee maker machine and Refillable Capsules compatible Nespresso that we can easily make coffee and even tea in a jiffy, no matter how many guests we have. But are coffee capsules enough. We surely need much other stuff to make the coffee time wonderful.
I'm disappointed that they still don't seem to support the file API in JS :/
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Funny, I find it sad that we need so much tinker-knowledge about obscure command lines of build tools to program stuff.
Works in Chrome for me. (Windows 7, 64 bit, no extensions installed.)
Ever heard of Oberon, Modula-2 and Modula-3?

These languages also had OS fully implemented on them, just with tiny bits of Assembly to do the very low level stuff, similar to what C would require anyway.

The only advantage of C is that its runtime is so small, that in practice the OS is the C's runtime.
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Don't know to be honest, unless EVERYONE is running encrypted traffic/VPN/Tor then the few that are using it stick out like a sore thumb. It is bound to raise some suspicion. I am British too btw and hoping it is just a proposal at the moment, but these things have a way of being watered down to make them "more acceptable" or revived under a different guise still have a whilst still have the core concepts in them.

Problem is I don't trust our government with our data, they've shown sheer incompetence far too many times when it comes to IT systems. And it's always a case of do as we say, not as we do as the expenses scandal and the current Leveson enquiry is showing.
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End user simple usually means more complex for hotels. It's already been said most of their IT is outsourced.

It could be possible to set up more of the enterprise configuration, where each user has their own password onto the WiFi. However, that means creating and destroying authentication accounts on a fairly regular basis. It's so much easier for the hotels to change 1 login key every week to a bunch of random characters and to hand that out to guests.

If a guest has a problem, everyone at the desk knows the passkey, and they can help them on. Otherwise, the front desk won't be able to help. I think most guests would rather the front desk solve their problems if possible. They don't care about the wifi being secure. If they do, they're already using corporate VPNs.
Yep, in my bathroom? B&W is much easier to develop than colour (C41 or E6)
Because like it or not, a lot of the money is simply gone. Sure we need better regulated financial markets and less corruption in politics and the media, but in the mean time something needs to be done to get economies back on track.

Increasing taxes on "the rich" and companies are good to some extent, but they will only take you so far.

The kind of austerity that involves taking away allowances and tax credits for the poor and middle classes is idiotic. Devaluation certainly does affect the innocent, but overall it is much more equitable (and workable).
Depth of field is exactly the same between full frame sensor and crop sensor with the same aperture and same focal length. The difference comes to play when you use the same aperture and same field of view - different focal lengths, ex. 50mm f/2.8 on crop and 75mm f/2.8 on FF-sensor. You can consider the crop sensor just as the name says - a crop from the full frame image.
That is what cross-compiling is for.

You use the compiler toolchain in OS A, while generating executables to run on OS B.

With a bootstraping compiler, you can use this technique to bring a native compiler to new platforms.
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It is not a simple internet connection already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_sys... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMinder
Depending on how good your computer is, Opera will buckle sooner or later if you have very demanding pages. That does not usually happen with Chrome (unless you have a huge number of tabs, which doesn't usually happen to me).

Our usages differ quite significantly. Why does that make Chrome stone-age?

"You can also use ghostery (an extension) to block all these resource-consuming background scripts, just in case you have reached the limits of your hardware."

Plugins that are available to pretty much every browser aren't a compelling argument for superiority (http://www.ghostery.com/download), just developer awesomeness. I notice that under Opera it says "/Almost/ full detection", so it's not even as fully featured as on other browsers.

If you're allowing plugins, I'm not sure I can think of a feature in Opera that you can't acheive in Firefox. But of course the argument is that Opera gives you all of them out of the box (whether you need them or not), in which case you can't use widely cross-browser plugins to try and bolster your argument.

"And by the way, one last thing. The default option for Opera is to restore your tabs from your last browsing session, which was not the case for Chrome and Firefox last time I checked"

I almost never want to restore the last session, and when I do Firefox and Chrome (and Opera if you change the default settings) give me the option to without forcing it upon me.

A lot of the defaults in Opera seem to be geared around managing a large number of tabs. I don't have a large number of tabs. I have a few windows with max. a dozen tabs each and I use bookmarks and other tools to manage things I want to keep around long term. I know lots of people who do the same. Yours and my use cases differ. That doesn't make Opera or Chrome or Firefox poorer, it just means different design trade-offs have been made.
Enjoyable response given the fact that you brought up the ridiculous notion that the MBP was the lightest laptop of 'it's size'. Of course you are carefully amending the claims now ("lightest of its size using a 3rd generation core i7 with a nvidia 650M GPU and..."), unsurprisingly, but the original point was one hundred percent wrong.

You were wrongly saying?
I don' think you can prevent analog camera's from recording video with watermarking. If you somehow prevent windows from playing back video based on some watermark scheme someone will just write a Linux program that strips / adds watermarks.
The thought of only having two choices of mobile phone OS is disturbing. I hope that Nokia's gamble on Microsoft pays off and they keep the pressure on Apple and Google to keep things moving forward. More competition at this point can only be good for us consumers.

It is, of course, sad that so many jobs will be lost. Although I can't help thinking that since Nokia no longer has to develop an entire OS, it would have quite an excess of engineers. Obviously that's only part of it.
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Nothing at the moment. Their affordable full frame camera used to be the 5D MkII, but the MkIII is much more expensive. A spiritual successor to the 5D MkII is rumored however. See www.canonrumours.com
They're not the first nor only but Apple does have a lot of employees dedicated to open source projects.
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Unfortunately this is a double edged sword. Their incompetence also caused the a lot of trouble like in this example http://beusergroup.co.uk/index.php?id=695 where they proxied file sharing sites thus forbidding access.
Seems like not enough people use it.

Well, since this is a tactic that works best if the bad actor never finds out about it, isn't it possible lots of people do it without ever talking about it?

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Why does this question matter to you?
In my opinion you have to overcome at least one of two obstacles to make money with a product:

- Either know an interesting domain / niche-market which is not known by thousands of other developers (This is suprisingly hard for me)

- Or you have to work your ass off / be very smart to create something which is significatnly better then the free alternatives. Because, most of the time, there are free alternatives, and most of the time they are good enough. Sometimes they are not just good enough, but they even have enthusiastic fans.

(The third alternative is to create something so innovative that has no competitors, but there is a huge risk that the idea is just not good enough, there is not enough user need for it)

I am working on a markdown editor for windows (in fact multiplatform, developed in Qt), which no doubt will be the best in its category. The question is not that whether will it be the best or not, the question is this: Is the free alternative good enough? The answer is not trivial.
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This very blog post announces drag and drop support.
Awesome. I have tipitap Coloring, but the colors are a little difficult to select.Yours is very simple with large selectors (especially on a tablet!) and the drawings look very good. Congratulations! My kids will love this.
It's still a whopping 10%
"take time to set up"

Chrome and Firefox have the option option to sync your extensions, as well as bookmarks etc. and settings. I just have to login to Chrome or Firefox on a new computer and it's pretty much identical.

Contrast that to Opera Link, which as far as I can find doesn't sync extensions or settings, so I'd have to configure it and change all the default settings I don't like.

I'm pretty darned sure IE6 doesn't have the ability to sync settings.
Seems to me it was more likely they stopped because it wasn't giving them their jollies like they wanted. They wanted him to be angry angry. Instead, he calmly gives them money. Not fun.