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This is because they could not fit Gnome on the disc. It was about 40 megs too big. I saw the memo the other day.
While money doesn't make the world go round it does pay for producing your next set of products. So if you aren't making money on your current handsets, eventually you'll run out of capital to continue developing your next gen handsets.
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What a trollish headline. Yeah, I'm sure the guys who just threw an object the size of a minivan 350 million miles through space and hit a target the size of the parking lot in front of 7-11 can't figure out bind.

I'm guessing there's lots of Apis from the wayback that are URL dependent and diverting just web through all that madness over to the www servers isn't a cakewalk.
I may have sounded a bit negative, but I don't think it was a "bad" move, especially seeing as how I am personally excited about Grid even without it currently having this feature.

It just shouldn't come as a surprise when a lot of people question the choice of leaving out the #1 feature of spreadsheets. Even on version one.
Also, stressing how american you are and then calling yourself DietPepsi, just seems like trying a bit too hard.
The value is in changing social perception of the issue.

It's a lot easier to pass legislation to make tracking illegal for users who have explicitly opted out, for example, than it is to pass legislation making tracking illegal period.

That is, DNT is a first step with more steps planned, not a complete solution for the tracking problem.

But if Microsoft derails the first step, then the followup steps can't happen, which is somewhat unfortunate.
I upvoted you even though I disagree with your conclusion.

"Why do anything that robots do better and cheaper?"

That is a question that is going to be very very interesting in the rapidly approaching future. Robotics is really a game changer. It has already changed out lives for the better and will only continue to do so. The answer to "Should robots do this?" should always be a resounding "Yes.", where it serves to improve our lives.

However I refuse to continue that answer with "...and humans should not." Some of us feel comfortable that our particular niche is safe from obsolescence. What those people are good at and what they want to do happen to overlap.. at the present. But what of the people for whom that is no longer the case? Should they, in a post-scarcity society, be denied the opportunity to do what they want to do?
Is this even lighter than Cinnamon? I've been using Cinnamon with Mint 13 for weeks now and I love that OS. If it weren't for my Hitman games, I wouldn't even boot to Windows at all these days.
I don't necessarily disagree, though I seriously doubt Canada or Mexico would ever invade the US, as there would be too much to risk and too little to gain for the cost. The sad thing is, and I feel really strange saying this as a former member of the US military, we also are supposed to be able to combat our own military should they one day be used against us. Though the US military has not been used against the people of the US since Posse Comitatus (excepting recent drone strikes in foreign countries), history (and present day) is full of examples of this not always being the case.

I don't think you can talk about the point of the second amendment completely without mentioning the fact that it was envisioned to apply against both foreign invasion and domestic tyranny. I'm pretty sure 'self-defense' was a given to the founders, and did not enter into the thinking for it - they were explicitly laying out out the need for civilians to be able to rise up against their own government.
What are some reasons Apple wouldn’t be in business forever?
I've complained about this trend in the past, and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. I have the Evernote Clearly bookmarklet in my toolbar (it seems to work better than Readability) and I find myself using it more and more often. I don't mind not quite black text on a very (very) light grey background, but far too many websites just don't have enough contrast to be readable.
This is a disaster waiting to happen.

Non-tech users (probably 95% of Googles customers) have no idea how this happens. It's not immediately obvious to a non-tech person how your personal e-mails suddenly get blended into search results on another page. This will both freak people out and it will invade their privacy.

I really hope this will be opt-in.
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> I don't want every random reddit video that I click on
> to show up in my YouTube history

If you disable YouTube history, then you won't need to play weird games with your cookies.
I agree. For reading, high contrast is exactly what I want. Despite all these trends in UX design, the best user interface is still a white piece of paper with blank ink.
> Improved defense against spiders: The src= attribute of <a> elements is set using javascript after the page loads.

Wow, that is a pretty aggressive change. Are fossil repos under heavy enough attack to warrant such a change?

At minimum I hope that is configurable and defaults to "off".
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App.net is a real-time social feed without the ads
By spending effort and providing tools for data recovery and file system repair (since btrfs is neither stable nor mature these leave much to be desired but the effort is clear and it is quite a contrast compared to ZFS).

The ZFS stand on this is that nothing can go wrong. If something does go wrong, which by the way is impossible, you better have your backups ready because you are on your own.
Thing is, search is getting hard. I use Google+ and I'm glad that SPYW is enabled. The people I follow on Google+ (mainly tech figures, I use it like a more in-depth twitter) have things they talk about that I don't always hear, and things they +1 that I don't always see. When I search for something, modern SEO makes sure that I always see the results that advertisers want me to see, not necessarily results that are good. Google tries hard to overcome this, but it's always temporary.

By using SPYW, I see things my peers are using/liking. It's like a "Ask HN: What do you use for..." thread, but relevant to my immediate interest. Getting search more personal is the way Google is getting search to be more relevant. Google already knows your Gmail information. They already know what you're searching for at the moment. If the two overlap, what's the harm in giving me the option to see both at the same time?
Absolutely. I've been on Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE) for several years, but I tried out stock Ubuntu on my netbook a few months ago — just to see the Unity desktop firsthand. This is a cheapo Dell netbook from 2009, 1024x600 resolution. Unity was so slow as to be completely unusable, and it took up precious screen real estate with a launcher bar I could not remove. It basically turned that netbook into a brick.

Now that I'm back to XFCE, with the panel set to auto-hide, I can hack with that laptop again, no problem.

I don't think you ought to need the latest and greatest machine just to run a responsive OS. XFCE is simple, fast, and gives you what you need with no unwelcome surprises.
I used to play Startcraft II a lot. Now I just watch the videos and streams. Less stress, easy to do anywhere, better gameplay. You could say that it is because this is "e-sports" and not typical of other genre's, but there really is a lot of entertainment value in watching other people play games. I remember back in the day when I had the only Nintendo on my block, the neighborhood kids would come over just to watch me play. And they didn't even really want to play. If I would offer to share, they would just get frsutrated because we would make much better progress when I was playing.
The age of the technology is not the same thing as the quality of the infrastructure. I wouldn't judge on that regard. However, the upgrade from .NET 2.0 is not difficult, in sane situations, so there's a question of what's going on there.
Yes. I am a C++ developer with about 20 years of experience with C and C++ plus various and sundry other languages and environments...

In 2004 or so I took what was going to be a short term job (exactly the situation you describe, minus C#/.Net) using a 10 year old Borland environment (BC++ 4.52 and 5.0). I ended up staying there about 18 months.

I have not had another C++ job yet and it's not due to lack of effort in finding a job. I'm very friendly with a few of the recruiters in the area and several of them have told me companies are scared of me because my recent experience was "old" (paraphrased). My resume was otherwise pretty current, Boost, Embedded Linux (with a current GCC), recent MSVC C++ etc.

I'd say stick with the newest stuff you can find unless the commute is a real killer.
ZFS was released in 2005, and appeared in Solaris 10 in 2006. Close enough?

More importantly, what's the problem with scrubbing instead of fsck?
I thought Google's goal was to be as creepy as possible but not creepier?
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...or a different search engine
I think you're missing the point of what I said. I didn't say that story-based games should be movies rather than stories. I said that if games don't utilize the interactivity of the medium, they may as well be movies.

If the interactivity is what draws you (as it does in your example of Mass Effect), watching a video of someone else playing the game is not going to be nearly as satisfying as playing the game yourself.

My point was that the only games whose sales will be materially affected by Let's Play videos are the ones which may as well be movies anyway.
Pricing seems a bit steep for what you get, especially since it is not obvious before you buy the app.
It looks pretty much the same as these Mac Transformation Kits they had for Windows a few years back. Anybody who ever used a Mac can clearly see that this ain't it. IMHO it pretty clearly fails in delivering what it promised, but if you like this half-mac, half-unity style, I guess you might like this.
If he's pretty much a drag, I'd say drop him. Your partner must share the same vigor as you do in building up a business.

Edit: I remember partnering up with a close friend of mine to build a website. He kept procrastinating simple tasks which got me frustrated. It was even hurting our friendship. I finally worked on the tasks myself and never brought up serious website discussions with him again. We are still good friends now, though.
I think that this mentality is because people don't see their device as consisting of various different components acquired separately, they view it as one device with functionality that is sometimes insufficient and needs to be supplemented. Somewhere in their head they view the purchase of their physical device as the payment to get everything they want out of it. I think that people often view software not as providing features but as fixing bugs. They aren't getting the ability to do X, they're fixing the fact that their device doesn't already do X.

Second, people seem to be more comfortable paying for something that they invested in. Driving to a store and standing in line is physical investment and it makes sense that the person on the other side of the counter wants something of value for the exchange. But browsing for an app takes all of a few seconds and once you find it.

Also, I think that people view app ownership as different from physical ownership. The app developer reserves the right to do anything he wants with the app in the future, so the app could change or get a UI the user likes less. The app may have extra levels of payment inside of it for more content. The app won't transfer from their Android device to their iOS device or to their laptop, it's locked into that one platform. The app may be obsolete on their next device anyway. And they can't even share it with a friend if they wanted to.

Contrast that with coffee. You know exactly what you're getting and you can do anything you want with it at any time. They can give it to a friend if they want to. You get this warm fuzzy feeling that, once you hold the cup, nothing can deprive you of the full benefit of the coffee in the way you want it and you expect to get it.

On an intellectual level, it really is silly that people are so resistant to paying for apps, but I think there are a lot of subtle factors at work in the average user dissuading them from doing so.
HiDPI/Retina image upsizing by clients & servers, not javascript
I email myself stuff all the time just as a "fyi" personal cloud bookmark service. Even disregarding that use case, sometimes I'll think "I know I saw this somewhere" but not know where. If it was emailed to me and I don't remember that it was emailed, I won't even think to search Gmail for it. It's not like you're giving Google any more information than they already have.
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Pretty soon we'll be down to 'Zitzlers' and 'Popplers'.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Popplers)
>> You don't start with using a lock either. You start with the general consensus that stealing is socially unacceptable, and you make it illegal.

And then, as a sensible person, knowing that there exist people who don't care about laws, and knowing that law enforcement can't catch all criminals, you also use a lock.

I would love to have laws and penalties for lawbreakers here, but this is the internet: it spans many legal jurisdictions. Law is not a panacea, and it's also much harder to get than a software patch.
Honolulu has sweet-tasting tap water...
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this so far, but isn't this just begging Apple to sue them directly on the same grounds for which they're suing Samsung (ie, universal search)?
>Who gives a damn about mobile? Some of us have work to do

Who gives a damn about these "personal computers"? They are toys for obsessive nerd hobbyists. Some of us have work to do.

Who gives a damn about this "multimedia?" It's all toy sound cards for vidgames and silly fragile CD ROMS. Some of us have work to do.

Who gives a damn about the consumer internet? It's all AOL sex chat and Pez dispenser trading. Some of us have work to do.

Who gives a damn about these "social networks?" It's for sex-crazed drunken college students, child molesters, and shut-ins. Some of us have work to do.

Who gives a damn about this "Linux?" Its a neo-communist academic experiment for people too poor to license a real commercial Unix (TM) or even Windows NT. Some of us have work to do.
Good for you. I bet majority of non-tech savvy people don't do this or even know how to do this
It's supposed to be pretty close. There's a reference marker on the rover with a few different colors that is used to index the black-and-whites to color. There are a bunch of people arguing about how the hue isn't perfect, or this or that shade of red is a few nanometers off, but as I understand it, in terms of color reproduction it's no worse than a cheap cell phone camera.
Recent versions of ZFS have solved the problem of drives ignoring the synchronize cache command.

Now ZFS always keeps around the latest 3 transaction groups, regardless if any data on any one of those transaction groups has been freed/updated already.

So if the last transaction group gets corrupted during an abrupt power down, it can always go back to the latest consistent one.
Hey Matt, Been waiting years for this, it's much appreciated.

Any plans to include Google Drive results too? I'm opted in to the Apps Search lab in Gmail, so it would nice if that applied to universal web search results too.

In case anyone is wondering, the "Apps Search" lab[0] in Gmail is described as follows:

Extends search with Google Docs and Sites results.
Apps Search will find the most relevant Docs and
Sites and show them below Gmail search results.

[0] https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#settings/labs
No, that's the whole point of the article! Pure black text on a pure white blackground is too much contrast, which is uncomfortable for the eye over a long period of time. It's bad for readability.

Use dark gray on white, or black on light gray, but don't use pure black on pure white. It's too much.

Remember, the contrast between white and black on computer monitors is greater than on the printed page, because computer-monitor white is brighter than a page usually.

The printed page only achieves this level of high-contrast when you're in broad daylight, like on the beach. And of course, most people wear sunglasses in that case, because it's too much.

(Of course, there are exceptions to every graphic design "rule", but avoiding pure black text on a pure white background is pretty standard one for webpages.)
You do know that the "free users" are actually the product that Google sells to advertisers? The more "free users" there are, the more money Google makes.
So you're telling me that you would financially back a company that intended to release a photo-sharing application that did not provide an avenue for users to upload photos? Isn't shipping version 1 worthless if what you're actually shipping is version 0.01? (Yes, I realize they haven't released yet.)

I don't think he was being inane, witty, or that he is a part of one of the "worst forces at work in the world." He is simply stating that to advertise your product as spreadsheet software, it should probably include some of the features that users expect to be found in spreadsheet software.

The way I see it, GRID isn't spreadsheet software at all (and doesn't seem to want to be based on the website), and shouldn't be advertising itself as such.
Thank you very much for the constructive criticism. I have remedied points 1 and 4. I did not see any problems in my post with spelling, shouting, or personal attacks. Again, thank you for the feedback!
You're right, I was being imprecise. I should have said Gnome and Canonical should stop obsessing about mobile and tablets. I guess I see more evidence of them obsessing about tablets and netbooks than about mobile. The thing that really bothers me is when I see the "workstation" experience get worse so that the tablet/netbook experience can be made better. I spend all day in front of a workstation, and maybe an hour a day with a tablet.
What bank? Seriously, I will consider switching.

Including business accounts and brokerage accounts (which are often handled separately with different security processes), I've had numerous accounts with many different providers, and never had anything close to that level of security.
ZFS was released in 2005, and appeared in Solaris 10 in 2006. Close enough?

Followed by that was people having issues with data corruption... ZFS is great, but it does break from time to time (whether it is better than other file systems is subjective when you consider the options of restoring it). Low failure rate is, for many, a weak comfort when data is irrecoverable.

More importantly, what's the problem with scrubbing instead of fsck?

Scrubbing repairs data, not broken file systems. Scrubbing is of course great but it isn't the answer for everything.
I pretty much agree with everything you say, but I would caution against thinking its too easy. This is a very hard, very expensive problem. Your other comment about mass/weight ratio is spot on. What we're lacking in space is industrial capacity. We have to build and test everything on the ground, and the it can easily get lost on the way up. Very expensive eggs in highly fragile and expensive baskets, as it were.

One thing I've not really heard talked about is orbital industry. What I envision would be factories in orbit that do everything from processing raw materials to making finished products. Typically people assume that those facilities would only support resources mined from the moon and asteroids.

But as an early step, what about just launching raw materials into orbit. Build cheap, reliable rockets. Stuff them full of cheap, bulk materials. Iron, aluminum, copper, etc. If 10% of launches fail, it's not cheap but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than losing high end equipment and people. In many cases, it might even be feasible to scavenge some of the raw materials on the ground after an accident.

This might be a good way to bootstrap a reliable orbital infrastructure. Build stuff in space so it can be cheaper, bigger, and more robust. If your ship to Mars doesn't need to land, and makes the trip many times, the lifetime cost of such vehicles drops dramatically.
I don't think you ever truly get over a burnout like that, especially not if it has any long lasting effects.

Too much was familiar to me a couple of years ago. Glad it is not so anymore.
On the other hand, if you're NOT installing from a single CD (which, by your hypothesis, most people aren't), then it really makes no difference what's the default desktop on Debian. It's easy to install whatever you want.
because that niche is already pretty well filled with excel, and it's hard to unthrone a program that is actually really good at what it does.

On the other hand, casual users aren't a natural fit for excel. The program has way too many complicated features, and isn't as simple as it could be. This seems perfect for the casual user that just want to create simple stuff that looks good.
Landing the same rover using the same process on the moon would have been almost as difficult. The difficulty being in the skycrane assembly and not having the option of manual control. A manned mission would be landed more similarly to landing the Eagle on the moon, and would have the option of realtime manual landing. It wouldn't take 14 minutes for the crew to find out if it landed safely or not.
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I'd laugh if the implications weren't so serious.
I don't understand how accurate representation of color becomes a concern in the areas graphic design. Sure, black is almost never a good choice when practicing any sort of representational art. Mixing it with other pigment in a effort to darken it saps any nuance or sensitivity that may have been present in your colors, and will almost never be true to the colors you are actually observing.

I don't however, understand how any of this is relevant and applicable to most design. Offhandedly disregarding all use of black is quite silly, and shows a lack of appreciation of the interplay of colors. Designers aren't artists. Designers very often make no attempt to represent any real thing. So why should physical phenomena enter the equation?

It is also incredibly important for designers to be sensitive of color, and to be aware of how they interact and play with one another. All of that is a given.
Bryan, what's your opinion re: the stability of the LLNL port of ZFS on Linux? The 0.6.0 release is apparently just around the corner and several high-profile people in the community, Russell Coker for one [1], have started using this on production systems. I'd love to make the move to ZFS as well but am still afraid of data loss. I started using XFS on Linux in 2002 and my gut feeling is that ZFS on Linux is now at or around a similar point of maturity. If you could share your opinion I'd be really grateful. Thanks so much.

[1] http://etbe.coker.com.au/2012/07/31/zfs-debian-wheezy/
A lot of small websites , phpBB communities etc are entirely ad supported because the owner may not be doing it as a money making exercise, the ads just cover the hosting costs.

The fact that results from these smaller sites show up in google searches (i.e not behind a paywall) is a good thing for the web in general as they often have good content, a few non obtrusive banners at the bottom seems like a small price to pay. If a site just bombards me with aggressive advertising I simply don't go back, these sites rarely have good content anyway.

I think that having access to free high quality information for people of modest means is a big net win for society at large, but maybe I'm just a socialist..
Sounds like a re-implementation of Web Intents: http://webintents.org/pick

Does Chute register as a 'pick' intent handler? If not, do you plan to?