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I do.

5 overall states for email:

unread

read+star (urgent/reminder)

read (todo/reference for current tasks/projects)

archived (done + keep for reference)

deleted (done + not needed for reference, or ignored altogether) - so "your amazon order shipped" etc.

I don't keep the inbox empty, but there are only emails regarding ACTIVE tasks/conversations in it, its natural state is 0 unread emails, as if you don't do that, well chaos awaits.

Archive Tip; you can reply+archive; gmail resurrects the whole conversation if you get a reply back, so you can pick up the whole thing if something you thought was done with gets resurrected. (useful for those "here's an answer, hit me up again if that's no good" replies)

The flip side is; I don't bother with labels at all, search just seems to render that redundant as far as I can see.
Newegg has always treated me right, even paid to ship a defective monitor back and shipped me a new one, zero hassle.

They may not be amazon-level customer service but they are up there.

If you get the wrong customer service person on the wrong day, anyone can have a bad experience.
Not necessarily. A colleague of friend of mine's son (!) in Canada had a 2 year, 11 months old MacBook Pro (before unibody). He didn't have an AppleCare or anything, nor the idiot used Time Machine. He spilled wine all over his MBP and it died. He brought it to an Apple store and told them that he knows he's an idiot, and his warranty is long due, and would be happy to pay if they could just restore his hard drive for him because otherwise he would lose 3 years of data.

I'm told that the next day, he went to the store and they gave him a new, top-of-the-line 15" Unibody MacBook Pro with all his data preloaded on it. I have no way of proving that this thing actually has happened (but no reason to believe my friend was lying; as he's a respected and very honest man). This is not what always happens, but Apple is rich, and they know if they treat their customers well, they'll be customers again AND all their relatives & friends would be tempted to try Macs if they knew they could get a royal support like that. So, it's not a philanthropic thing, they do it for their business, but as they're very rich they are more generous than other manufacturers.

And just one other anecdote: another friend of mine's MacBook Pro died suddenly (no AppleCare either). Sent it to an Apple Store and they changes motherboard, RAMs and HDD free of charge.
I am already a slave to my Gmail, so I really don't see how putting even more pressure on my back would do me any good. What I really like to see are tools that actually help me get to the bottom of my inbox, Boomerang being a great example (email "snooze", very useful for cooling some threads down - http://www.boomeranggmail.com)
If that's true, I hope that reduces SSD/Flash prices for consumers.
This certainly applies to the pre-2008 models but I thought that was not true for the recent models any more.
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The problem with leaving things in my inbox is that if I don't deal with it immediately, it quickly disappears in the stream of incoming stuff. So in theory I could "just develop the discipline" to deal with important / worthy items at the time of reading, but expecting myself to manufacture that discipline out of thin air actually stresses me out way more than a commitment device.
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For a time, Unix was specifically developed as an IDE; the PWB/UNIX system was basically a version/distribution of Unix intended for development, even of programs for other machines like the IBM System/370.

Time marches on, however; and modern IDEs offer rich tools like refactoring capability, in-place documentation (IntelliSense) and fully integrated debugging tools that are a considerable evolution from what was available in the 1970s, that can only have come from having all the tools be aware of the language that's being used. From dumb, simple tools that munge streams to text to smarter, context- and semantics-aware tools that operate on program representations -- that's progress. Accordingly, Unix itself is no longer an acceptable IDE.
Fair point. On reflection my biggest problem isn't just tinkering, I don't mind that, but the fact that now when it fails it can fail HARD. That or it just wont have something supported (multi-touch, graphics, webcam)

It's good to know you got your zenbook working, I really like the keyboard and size on that laptop but the fact that I could brick it just makes me uncomfortable.
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I think i might have a bit of ADD.

I cannot concentrate on one thing for too long. For instance: I was busy doing an iOS self study course , then jumped to an asp.net MVC course and now i am writing this question to HN.

ANY suggestions on how to focus on one thing at a time?
I keep getting frustrated with my self due to the fact that nothing ever gets done.
Thanks
> why clutter the UI with completely useless options?

A dropdown box does not clutter things. Seriously. It would take 10% of the space of the current weird graphics, and the new one actually frightens me: how is it going to handle setting the resolution of external displays or overhead projectors?
Disagree. And if you're telling someone they're doing something wrong, you may be overemphasizing your point.

I use priority inbox to filter out the messages that I ignore 99% of the time. For items I need to act on later, I use stars. With P.I., I can hide or show my Priority emails, my starred emails, and everything else. So things that are new can get my attention, or I can focus on finishing something up, etc.

I don't disagree that your system works effectively for you, but I think it's a silly statement to tell someone else they're doing it wrong (especially silly to capitalize the phrase Doing It Wrong.)
Generally speaking you don't want a screen to break no matter what signals you put into it. It would really suck if a virus could actually destroy your computer.
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Same here; FF 14 told me some script was taking too long run and if I wanted to stop it - twice.

My machine is slow, but not that slow!
The first thing I remember from a multiplayer networking tutorial is that it is close to impossible to distinguish cheaters from really good players.
The SSD connector is incompatible unfortunately.
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Do you know how to see the 'read' system label? It doesn't show up for me in 'manage labels'.
> Meh, I think you are over-inflating the benefits of a debugger. Everything you described can be achieved through proper testing.

You're falling into the trap of "one tool to solve all problems." Why waste your time writing tests to "gauge efficiency" when a profiler tells you more, more effectively?
It's different from real estate because domains are not like real estate, although squatters like to use comparisons to real estate as apologia.

A developed property in SF/NY isn't like a domain name, because at some point someone invested capital to build, much as someone must invest capital to build a website that resides at a given domain name. A completely undeveloped property in the middle of SF/NY has no intrinsic value: it's value based upon what's around it (e.g., the massive developments we call a city).

If we must have a real estate comparison to a domain name, it would be this: an island, made only of sand, out in the middle of an unending ocean full of other islands made only of sand, so geographically separated as to be completely isolated from each other.

One, this ocean does not exist on earth, and if it did, the real estate business would not be built around the buying and selling of these islands of sand for the purposes of development.

This feels a bit like a straw man, I know, but I'm trying to illustrate just how untenable the comparison between squatting and real estate truly is.
Same on iPad.
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No, but it's good to recognize they did the right thing eventually. This isn't "providing an incentive", it's showing them that good behavior is expected.

Anyone who has raised kids understands this basic psychology.
There is precedent. Not in a legal way, but in the judgement of the public.

You say that you don't think that a big company will pull apps or content again, and then you provide an example of the same behavior from a big company (Google), where public outcry was limited.

The Amazon incident was why I said "or content" in my original comment. It's already happened more than once, as you note, and some cases prompted outcry and were reversed, and some did not and were not. But more importantly, none of these were cases where a court ordered the company to do this, and it matters far less (to Apple, Amazon, or Google) what the public thinks about an action that they were forced to do by law. They'll just shrug and provide the injunction.

Any application that requires making a backup and restoring after every killswitch usage is not going to continue to have a customer base, and therefore there will be few or no updates, and that will be that. It doesn't matter that it's technically possible to get around the problem, if having to do so reduces your audience by 95 percent.
Reduction of one molecule; oxidation of another. The long version comprises textbooks, but that is the short version.
Not sure what your point is , or just trolling?
Yeah but then you can't do wild changes on the fly to vars, which was what I was alluding to.
Yes that's a product choice we made. All the UI is designed around javascript, all the nav is done through ajax.
Are you sure it's a "general problem"?

Just as much as fixes can be "one-off"s, so can problems. Is there a repeated pattern that I missed? If not, I'm not quite sure how one makes the leap to the generalization of this problem.
You can already get pretty close to this with a Thinkpad. I have a Thinkpad T420 and it runs Debian Wheezy flawlessly. Of course you will have to make some tradeoffs in the weight/battery life department because Linux isn't as good about battery life. However, I am able to get about 5hrs with an extended battery and it still feels lighter than a 13in Macbook Pro. You can also replace the CD/DVD drive with an extra battery if you want longer battery life without affecting weight much.
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There was never an intentional move to create a "two-party" system. That's an accidental byproduct of the winner-take-all system, which tends to reduce the number of parties. But we've definitely had some time periods where there have been 3 or 4 viable parties.

But that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is the divide between the Senate (2 senators per state) and the House of Representatives (based on population), and the inclusion of techniques like the filibuster. It's harder for one party to get a majority in both House and Senate than it would be to just get a majority in a single parliament. It's even harder to get supermajorities in both. It's even harder to also get a friendly president at the same time as all of those other things. This means that there's almost never a time when one party can just ram through its whole agenda. There's almost always gridlock.

From what I've seen of single-house multi-party systems (like parliamentary democracies) there's a lot more compromise, which is a good thing, but there's also a lot less gridlock, and that's a bad thing.

It's actually a good thing that successful bills tend to be either issues the vast majority of the country agrees on, or else very watered down.
I'm using the Qt Creator IDE right now, in Linux of all places.

The Desktop GUI I'm making involves about twenty libraries, multiple threads and other complexities.

I could make my job even more complex by diving in and learning a command-line way to do everything. But it seems to me, my personal approach is, I move ahead by dealing with the necessary complexity and letting the unnecessary complexity fall away.

I mean, I'm sure there a way use ls with wildcards in a way that doesn't puke all subdirectories out at you when you're trying to find a single file in a large directory. But the fact that ls does this by default seems like strong evidence that the interface wants you to remember random bs - indeed, I've read stuff here where people were saying essentially "vi is good because it makes me remember arbitrary commands, strengths your brain". It might even be true that it strengths your brain but I think only a subset of even geeks want to relate to their computers like this and this subset isn't the same as geeks who can create useful and powerful programs or the most productive subset.

Also, I don't see any inherently more powerful tools here. Qt Creator can show me the meaningful references to variable foo, excluding comment "foo". I can't see grep doing that (even though I use grep for some thing but I still memorize ten cli options). All the tools are pretty Turing complete if you dig so it's hard to claim one thing is more powerful than another.
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Feedback:
...and its only purpose is profit.

1. It's bad for security. This will make phishing a whole lot easier.

2. It's bad for usability. Humans have come to learn that .com (and its ilk) signifies a website address. With now unlimited TLDs the only way to identify a domain is by a solitary dot, if that.

3. It will probably break stuff. Many a software / regular expression out there assume that domains will end in a relatively small list of TLDs. The new domains will not work with this type of software.

4. There is no benefit. The benefits listed on this page http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/benefits-risks all equate to selling more Internet real estate and profiteering for the sake of profiteering. ICANN is abusing its power.
That's something we have been thinking about. We are just afraid it would open a door for spammers and trolls if we didn't require an oauth signup to post.
Looks like this approach is useful for more than just "google disabled my account that runs my legitimate business" cases.
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And some of us meat eaters wouldn't mind healthier alternatives in our meat dishes if they 1) were in fact likely to be healthier, and 2) still tasted good.
With a Macbook Pro, you get one of the lightest laptops of its size

Samsung series 9 notebook - 2.8lbs.

Macbook Pro - 4.4 - 5.6lbs.

Apple is a remarkable organization, but they are still using the same Intel processors and chipsets, SSDs and wifi chips as everyone else. Where they have a longer battery life it usually is because they filled every crevice with battery, as with the new Retina Macbook Pro. It could have been much lighter if they didn't so intently focus on a 7 hour battery life.
No, not all of them. Just those that try to make a buck and try hard to make the world a better place by creating useful things (what have they given away? not their money; their time, which is the most important thing they have. they could go on vacation 200 days a year, but instead they try to create things to enrich the world and themselves).
For trivial cases gevent might be fast, but its design is simply flawed, it doesn't handle all the intricacies of networks.

Regardless, using a single library, and not even the mainstream one, makes for a poor benchmark.
Usually glucose is transported, as it doesn't freely pass through membranes. I believe the same is true for the glucose in the csf.
Why do LED lamps heat up? If all light sources exhibited thermoelectric cooling, this wouldn't be an invention.

Are you asking something more specific than that?
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Happens to me all the time. Here's my self diagnosis:

1. If I'm restless, I need to get excess energy out of my system. I run in the park. Do whatever works for you: gym, sports, bikes etc.

2. Try meditation to calm your mind.

Ugh what's this new age meditation crap?

It's nothing. Its a practice where you sit (or stand, walk, sleep, shower or whatever) and you consciously try to stop thinking and instead feel whatever sensations you're experiencing.

Ugh, is that all?

Yes, and its the hardest job in the world. You mind will wander away in seconds, and your job is to be aware of your mind wandering and then bring it back to stop thinking.

Eventually you'll become more calm, perceptive and you won't need any drugs to cure the "ADD".
Sandi Metz is awesome. Her SOLID ruby talk might have been the best I've ever seen (google for it).
There's another gem you should take a look at, too, called 'rapns'. The maintainer is pretty active with fixes and it maintains persistent connections with a daemon.
Sounds almost exactly me. I leave important emails in my inbox that I'm working with (and one or two from my parents). I have a max of about 10 at any time. Zero unread.

I would love to see these states represented:

- Unseen (sent but I haven't opened my inbox or cleared the notification)

- Unread (seen but not opened)

- Read

- Read & replied

Then I can delete and archive when I want.
I've always missed this feature from Seaside/Smalltalk. (Not to mention having a proper language-level debugger at your disposal.)
The test will persist and always be there to test again where as a gauge will be a one time thing.

What happens next week when someone does an x += hugeBlockOfText in a loop?

I'd rather have a set goal and a test/process that validates it over a one time event where human error is involved. You want X process a million records in under three seconds? Build a test.

I'm not advocating one tool. I'm simply saying that everything described so far is better solved with a test first approach over a debug first approach. Build a test to replicate the problem. Solve the problem. Keep the test to prove that the problem is solved.
They've been dropping: http://camelcamelcamel.com/SAMSUNG-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7PC2...
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A key indicator of that is it treating ASCII LF as a line separator not a line terminator, creating text files that don't end in LF.
I've upgraded my cpu to a core2duo p8400 cpu on my 13" thinkpad sl300, not THAT big a deal.
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This is still just threaded comments with some fluff on top for discovery and community. Threaded comments have been around forever, and they don't scale well for big communities.

Someone needs to take the idea of "semantic comments" and run with it to visualize community reactions.
Wonderful reply. Apple won the smartphone market, and certainly raised overall ease-of-use standards in the market, but that doesn't mean that smartphones would have been objectively worse otherwise - just different, possibly better or worse. We would possibly have much more freedom in terms of app stores.

The fact that Apple stamped its mark on the global phone market and is making huge profits is absolutely not an inherent reason to be thankful for them. They won most of the market and now enjoy a massive network effect advantage (larger market => more developers developing for iOS => improved and cheaper app offerings => larger market); why respect them for doing the equivalent of what Facebook did in the social networking arena (make the most popular UX in the market)?

To be sure, a few companies deserve actual respect - for me, those are the companies that treat their customers well, are highly socially responsible, encourage openness, and play fair with all. Even better if they go beyond immediate profit goals to genuinely drive innovation. Most companies just want to make a buck by winning the market - nothing wrong with that, but that doesn't inherently deserve respect.
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My guess would be that the poor performing implementations are using the naive select() solution, instead of one of the more logarithmic solutions like epoll or kqueue.

Pretty surprised to see node.js behave so poorly. We had discussions recently at where I work as to what server solution we should use for a multiplayer platform, and as I had recently built a socket/connection handling server in C they asked what I thought about node.js, and my only concern was that if the underlying code uses select(), then it's going to be a poor choice...but I don't think anyone got around to testing it.

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That's an odd response given the way you initially phrased it. It wasn't an economic comparison for your company directly (arguably it was indirect support for supporting industries). You talk about burning cash (which I would read as not spending efficiently at a minimum) and buying liquor. You've rephrased your disagreement now that domains aren't ROI oriented.

Is your objection really objective or emotional?
I've got friends who swear by Unity for this reason.
Couldn't you do almost the exact same thing using pdb, without all the C API / register stuff?

Maybe I misunderstood the post, but it sounds like you're just stopping right before the request returns, reloading the module, generating a new response, and allowing execution to continue.

Why is GDB required for any of this?
Looks like he's pointing out you spelled "a lot" wrong.
Your body uses glucose as fuel. You can generate it from other kinds of fuel sources, but unless you're in a diabetic coma, I guarantee your body has plenty of glucose in it.
That's pretty cool. Remembering back to the old Minix/Linux flame fest I would not have ever predicted it would end up this way.

I'm struck by the fact that these sorts of things are often given to people who have persisted, year after year, in pursuit of singular excellence in a particular topic. I highly respect folks who have that level of grit.
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It's a Grammar Nazi, who doesn't like to give attribution to the images he/she appropriates.

Full post here: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
Why? Why is "we made a mistake, we're offering to fix it" not enough? What more could they say? Do you want the name of the rep who made the mistake? Do you want them fired? Neither one of these seems remotely reasonable, but I'm not sure what else you could want.

It was a simple human error. Customer service agent was wrong about the policy. It happens.
I've been using GNU screen for years and am happy with it. A brief bit of Googling suggests to me that the main advantages of tmux over screen are that its code is designed better and that it's actively maintained and, therefore, less buggy. It also seems like its configuration is more logical. As someone who has already configured screen to my liking and who hasn't run into noticeable bugs, I don't have any real reason to make the switch if those are the only advantages. Are there others? (e.g. better features, etc.)
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They also have gotten pretty bad publicity in the past for their bandwidth restrictions to torrent users. Might be affecting the bottom line (more than piracy is affecting NBC).
There are already small devices that regulate insulin levels. How would this improve on those?
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"Would a real meat eater rather eat a $5 burger made from (well you really don't want to know what burger meat is made from)"

Umm, yes please? Y'know what burger meat is made from? It's made from cow. Don't be squeamish, your ancestors ate far grosser bits of animals than you're gonna get in your hamburger.