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No, it's not. TWC's TV/Phone/50Mbps Internet plan costs me $170 a month. (I think I have HBO in there too.)

Now incidentally, a firmware update bricked my cable box and I haven't had the desire to talk to anyone at Time Warner about it, but $170 is a fine price for 50Mbps Internet. (I don't use the phone either. Again, not wanting to talk to anyone in a call center, this is the best I could do.)

Their DNS does lie about NXDOMAIN responses, however. If you try to resolve a nonexistent domain name, it returns NOERROR and an A record pointing to their servers. I run my own DNS server fed from the root servers, so I don't really care, but I thought I'd mention it. The technician that did the install was also not happy that I didn't have a Windows or Mac computer for him to insert a shady-looking CD in. "What kind of router do you have." "It's an OpenBSD box." "..."

(I had Speakeasy before and kind of miss them. 24 hour phone support, and they were always extremely knowledgeable. Someone I talked to once also used OpenBSD at home.)
Yeah, you wouldn't think so though, given the one-digit difference in name and the way they place it right next to the PA248Q in their marketing materials. That's marketing departments for you, I guess.

Thanks for the tip on Trace Free. It does something for sure.
There's nothing wrong with tags for music libraries - just that ID3 and the tooling around it sucks - especially genre handling, the artist/performer distinction and the inability to handle my own arbitrary grouping that doesn't correspond to any release information.

I love apps that allow me to easily switch between using tags and using my own folders.
Same here. You can also do q/ which gives you the history of your searches.
They're definitely working through the list: I was on the waiting list since August/September and I just got an invite last week. (Received my debit card in the mail yesterday, too.)
What is supposed to be there? I only got a 404 error page.
I think that isolating data and applications into
their own directory on a PC makes total sense.

Only if you're starting from a position where there is only one kind of application to handle one kind of data. But as a counter example to that, the entire philosophical underpinning on unix is that stuff should be plain text so it can be easily handed between different programs.

I can just imagine the day when I try and pipe the output of one command into another and an ascii paperclip pops up in my cli to scold me for trying to use cat's 'data' with uniq, or something. I shall keep a cyanide pill handy in my desk drawer for such an occasion.
Wow is this from April 1st? These guys sound so serious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhZKNZO8mQ

Published on Mar 31, 2012 by Google
This was an April Fool's joke from earlier this year.
Crazy idea, but what if you get some enterprising young startups to bet on you early? I think having some big projects, even if you don't want to build one yourself, bet on you as a technology would be the best path to put to rest these concerns. I think there is a need to demonstrate it's effectiveness in a complex piece of software.
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Ah. So that probably means a consistent copy or backup is probably practically impossible.
It's a different way of thinking about the problem. Most of my friends are not trying to optimize their life. Instead, life happens. The way to be happy is...to be happy, to change the things that you can change that make you unhappy, and accept everything else and not worry about it.

It's not an act any more than you choosing to view the world through the lens of an optimization problem is an act. You can't really judge what someone's desires are - just because they don't desire what you desire doesn't make it wrong.

Reminds me of something a girl I once dated once told me. We were talking about a mutual friend of ours, someone who (like me) tends to view everything through a hyper-logical lens and treat it as an optimization problem, and she said something along the lines of, "I can't read anything he writes. It's like everything has to follow logically from some past premise, but he doesn't realize that not everyone starts from the same assumptions as him. How can you relate to someone like that?"

FWIW, I've thought like that for much of my life (which is perhaps why said girl and I are not together), so I do understand what you're saying. I'm trying to point out that it's possible for people to genuinely be happy doing whatever they're doing, at least until something better comes along. And I'll go out on a limb and say that most people think like that, and the type of achievement-driven, believes-they'll-be-fulfilled-if-they-had-$10M mindset is overrepresented on HN. (BTW, people generally tend to associate with others of similar worldviews - remember my date's comment of "How can you relate to someone like that?" - which is why the bulk of my friends are perfectly happy doing whatever they do, and perhaps the bulk of your friends are always striving for something better.)

(It probably also helps that there're lots of jobs available for Xooglers in Silicon Valley, and that category is already fairly self-selecting for people who enjoy programming, so the universe of "things I enjoy doing that will pay the mortgage" is quite large.)
Where are the startup hotspots in Australia? Sydney? Melbourne?
I think at some point Apple will sell us "folders within folders" as a gorgeous update that took so long to really get it right.
I actually bought the paperback of this but haven't got around to reading it yet.

How long would it take someone of average programming skill (with no lisp/scheme background) to bang through this at say 4 hours a week? Is it even worth reading the entire thing as opposed to a few chapters?
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Some people can handle directories just fine. But, a lot of people simply do not grasp the concept. For many, many years I have been trying to explain hard disks, folders and files to family members. They simply don't understand the concept. Opening a folder and double clicking on a file to open it and a program to read the file starts: they do not understand it.

For these ordinary users of computer appliances the iOS way of handling files is simply a blessing. You use an application to do something, to write a text, to listen to music, to communicate. Applications that can interact with each other, will interact with each other. Simple.

For an ordinary computer appliance user it is not necessary to be confronted with a file system. Just as a lot of other technical details are hidden from ordinary users.
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One opinion, repeated a zillion times, does not make an argument; it makes a rant.

I see only a few arguments in this text:

- the author does not think nested hierarchies are difficult. If he added "for nerds", I would agree with him.

- the author equates having limited nesting with the 'data silos' situation on iOS and (from what I read in reviews), in slightly lesser sense on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

- claiming that the mouse is hard to use because it provides "indirect manipulation". That may seem so, but the human brain is exceptionally good at transferring motor skills between modalities. For example, anybody who can write can write with his feet, nose, car, or whatever, and the handwriting will (except for the quality of fine motor skills) be recognizable as yours (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/211551/)

- equating having limited nesting with vendor lock-in. Proprietary file formats are fine for doing that. I do not see why you would need to do anything more.
From the article: I have honestly never seen a single person have any issues with directories, nested or no, and as old as the concept might be, the people I interact with seem to be able to handle it just fine.

Twitch.

The author's clearly been interacting with different people from the ones I know. 80-somethings who didn't grow up with computers frequently get hopelessly confused by directories. The philosophy professor who's been using a Mac since the mid-80s is a bit harder to explain. And then there was the time I got called in in the early 90s to fix the office PC used by a succession of secretaries -- running MS-DOS -- and discovered they'd saved something over 2000 Word Perfect files in the root directory because none of the temps the company had employed over a 12 month period had ever heard of directories.

In my experience many casual users (for values of something like 10%-50% of computer users these days) simply do not "get" hierarchical storage at all; they find it as baffling as predicate calculus. Hence the desire of some software vendors -- who are trying to provide machines that anyone can use without training -- to move away from it, at least on the user's side.
Don't forget the friends list, in-game/cross-game chat, and growl-style notifications when your friends start playing something so you can hop in a game with them. All those other things you mentioned are huge as well, and I just don't see Microsoft replicating all of these things well. Cross platform is also nice, where applicable. Having to be online and have steam running before playing is the only major complaint I have.
I registered as you suggested. I agree that getting productive in 10-15 minutes is great, but the setup time, at least for me, even if it takes a whole day, is a negligible overhead in my life as a programmer. Currently I run multiple servers on Amazon and as someone that programs in more than two languages, I drop an instance of whatever I am working on (Ruby, Java, Django as examples) and they really do not take much time at all. I am sure this post shows my age, but I am trying to understand the real value a service like Appfog provides.

Also may I ask how do I setup ssh trust and how do I access the command prompt.
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I'd use bitcoin myself: lower transaction costs, make micropayments possible, even allow the tracking of coins if they should get usurped. Lastly term the investments as tips rather than investments. Then make everything transparent including the way coins are spent by the startup, revenue received and returns as "thank yous" to tippers. Have a limit to how much a startup can receive.. a certain proportion of tippers need to approve their initial tip to the startup in order for it to raise more funds: build a trust quotient. The startup can game the site by tipping itself to build that trust? Have people send in a copy of their ID and attach it to each user.

other ideas: don't even have the startups register as businesses. Have them only accept bitcoins. Make the site as transparent as possible: who has given to what and when? Have all revenue and expenditure by startups go through the main site for tracking, and the main site can collect a fee for it as it passes through. The main site pays all the taxes.
Interesting comparing this to Seedrs (http://seedrs.com), the closest UK equivalent.
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If I recall correctly this was published as this years April Fools by the Gmail Team.

Edit: Indeed: http://mashable.com/2012/04/01/gmail-tap/
... That only applies if you haven't moved your cursor to a line in the command history which doesn't have commands. Otherwise just hitting <enter> will run that command line. So it's safer to tell people to enter :q<enter>
The same can be applied to legions of other programmers that what to everything in C, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, whatever is their be and end all language...
The original article wasn't very good, but this response is even worse. It appears the author is lacking any form of creativity to think beyond the idea that folders are the only paradigm for ordering files that could possibly work.

In practice, if you forget about system files and such, I'd estimate 9 out of 10 people have all their documents in a single flat folder, which they only access through their word processor or whatever they use to open them. They have all their pictures and video in a tool that organizes them into albums and such without them having to deal with folders. They have all their music in a program that keeps them in a library somewhere, which they never manipulate on the file system level. And so on. Or (also very common) they just dump everything they touch on their computer on the desktop. This is not because making folders is 'too complex', but because users can't be bothered to come up with hierarchies to order where there files are 'stored on the file system' or whatever, they just want to make their changes persistent and be able to quickly find their files later.

For the vast majority of people, folders are an anochronism. It's not that they are 'hard' or 'complex', but they are simply not essential, and actually quite limiting for file management. The whole idea that the artefacts you create or consume are best structured as a tree really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Especially not if you want to have all your data available on multiple machines which may have wildly different file systems such as desktops and mobile devices.

This doesn't mean we should all have big piles of files with no ways of structuring them, but it doesn't mean folders are the epitome of file management either. A database-like file system with powerful search options could definitely be much better. From an end-user perspective, organizing files by the applications they can open them also seems to be a pretty good idea to me. Attaching metadata and tags to files so you don't have to superimpose them using a tree-like structure would be a huge improvement.

I'm not saying that what Apple is trying with iOS and now OS X is so great we should all hail it as the future of file management, but personally I think they are moving in the right direction. Ideally, end-users should be able to operate their devices and get to their files without even knowing it has something as abstract as a 'file system'. Just sit down, get the file you want using whatever criterium makes the most sense for finding it, manipulate it, and have the same file available on every other machine. I think this is the vision Apple has, but it will take lots of time to get there.

Also, people mailing files to themselves to get them on their iOS devices literally has nothing to do with how the iOS file system works. Folders or no folders would not make any difference.
> The article I'm about to link to, by Oliver Reichenstein, is pretty terrible

Funnily, I liked linked article more (better written, also easier to read). Although I partially agree, partially would argue with both.

I think hierarchy-less approach, properly designed and implemented, would work OK for most users. Folders just look like the most basic and generic way for organizing stuff, which isn't necessarily the best, and probably deserves optimization for particular use cases.

However, take for example cases when computer is used for production—say, DTP or video/photo editing. If you take away the freedom to organize files hierarchically, it would impose certain restrictions on the workflow. The “genericness” could be an advantage for more complex use cases.
They have stated, publicly and clearly, that they are not working on a game console.
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All these sites seem to be down. Is that for everyone else too?
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Two months later, I can say that the decision to join nReduce was a right one. The requirement to ship every week keeps you motivated; this is exactly what I needed. As I said in my intro video, "My name is Alexander and I never finish (personal) projects." I'm sure there are many other developers who have 90%-ready projects but never get to showing them to the public.

If you are one of these guys, consider joining nReduce. It's been two months now and Feetlot.com just got its first users (who are loving it; and if you buy shoes online, check it out). I honestly think that if I hadn't joined nReduce, there would have been no alpha by now.

There is one month left till the demo day but already now I can say that I've reached my initial goal of launching an alpha and getting first visitors.

Thank you, nReduce. Keep it up!
Definitely agreed. I'm working on a 1.8.7 site for the last six months, and it's been perfectly workable. Some gems do make the assumption of 1.9, though, which can suck.

(We just upgraded to 1.9.3)
The ways something can be abused are not arguments against proper use of it.

"It's manual work that the computer should partially be doing for us."

I disagree, partially ^^ Tags, or where something is located; both can be part of the content.

The cool thing about folders is, if you don't want them, simply don't create them... but don't take it away from those who do themselves more good than harm with it, please :/
3 rounds of communication to reach consensus for every transaction? Off the cuff, it seems like that would hinder the performance. I haven't tested it, though..
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The explanation advanced for the drop in ASP (= users buying older cheaper devices) is dubious.
Using the ASP here is assuming all the devices have been sold in USD.

Over the last six months Euros and Yuans decreased in value. And Apple devices are also sold at a "constant" price in these currencies. This more likely to explain the drop.
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"It's not just you! http://quora.com looks down from here."

Funny thing is, it's actually up for me :D
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AppFog's service extends across different infrastructure providers

Dropping into the IaaS world for a minute, is this as common as it seems me to be?

Personally, I run servers over number of cloud providers, and then have a few VPSs around too, plus some servers at home, and lots of people I know are the same.

Is this a common thing people do?

I've been thinking about doing a dashboard type app to display/manage servers across providers.

What tools are people using at the moment for this kind of thing?

(I'm actually running a very short survey on this at the moment. I'd love it if people would do it - happy to share the results here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LDNZFG3)
>LG re-cuts the slightly better ones into smaller panels (24" and below)

This is news to me, my father sell LCD inspection equipment that is part of the assembly line, if a screen doesn't meet the yield, it's rejected. Panels can't be tested until much later in the assembly line process so you can't just re-cut the glass like wood into smaller bits.

Apple probably doesn't inspect the panel until it's completely put together, which is too late. So there is no way they can just take back a bad batch and re-cut the screen. Most likely, Apple receives a shipment, tests a few panels, if it doesn't meet their yield, they reject the shipment and LG will sell the panels to a 3rd party that has lower standards and the 3rd party will rebrand them.

What Apple forbids and LG does are two completely different things. How would Apple even check? Also, once a shipment is rejected, Apple doesn't have any say, they didn't buy it, so why do they have the power to forbid reselling? Even if Apple does find out, it's not like they can kill the contract, there are only 2-3 players in the LCD business that can meet Apple's standards. AFAIK Apple mainly sources their panels from LG and Samsung. Apple would be at a huge disadvantage in getting a competitive price if they ended their relationship with LG.
> Why can't TechCrunch ask and answer questions like these?

And this is why I no longer click on TC links.
I am under the impression that most monitors these days are LED instead of CFL.
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somewhat, shocking. i guess i'll be moving away from Oauth, feels like a relief and scary at the same time. what are some good alternatives?
It's a totally fair gripe. One thing HN's format is piss-poor at is providing context for stories, other than the headline (and that's had its own set of issues with rewrites).
And once uploaded, Microsoft will inspect your files and ban/suspend you from SkyDrive, Hotmail, Xbox Live, and the Marketplace if they don't like something. [http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...]
"the author does not think nested hierarchies are difficult. If he added "for nerds", I would agree with him."

Imagine you badly need to go to the bathroom, and the only building nearby is a huge hospital... will all the complexity hidden away in the various sections, rooms, and the patients themselves, delay your quest for the toilet even one second?

Also, the brain can only keep a bunch of things in mind at a time,no matter how they're presented. When complexity crosses the threshold, we group stuff together. And we also do this with a flat list, in some way or another. Reality and our concept of it is very deeply nested, but since we only handle a bunch of abstractions at the same time, that's fine.

With folders, you have something that is explorable. You can still search, but if you don't have folders to begin with, you can only search -- and anything you don't think of searching for is either lost forever, or can be seen only as part of a huuuuuge list.

IMHO it's regression alright, no two ways about it.
GitHub is not a download site.

It's a service that enables collaborative coding by providing hosting for your with git repositories. Think of it as a SourceForge of 2012(though, this could be a debatable topic).
Because people are learning something they didn't know?
Surely also the big question is how much real long term value has been created, versus how many photo-sharing apps aqui-hired.

I bet that $1b could do a lot of good finding cures for diseases, rather than pumping up web startups to be sold on. But I guess there's not so much profit in that.

Note that I'm not beating up on YC here, I'm just stating an opinion on web-startups in general and the ridiculous valuations of them lately.
FWIW, The + and * registers appear to behave the same on gvim for windows. I think * is actually expected to represent the system clipboard.

:help clipboard

Also another AWESOME tip , if you set an "a" among your guioptions, your visual selects and mouse selects automatically get copied to the * register.

: help quotestar

I realize that X environments mainly do this already, but not the visual select. Most of my editing is through SSH so I don't get to use the gui features much. The only time I use gvim is in windows, so it was pretty revolutionary for me.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft will end up doing to Steam what Apple tried to do with Amazon, and not allow them to sell games anywhere but in their store in the future.
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It may be a common thing individual developers that play with everything do. I doubt it's common for businesses to deploy production apps across multiple clouds. Unfortunately I don't think that survey will be able to answer that either way.