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Here is another option for those books you really want to keep but don't want them to take up space:

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Why would the Enterprise buy Tablets with Windows RT? None of their apps will run on WIndows RT. Wouldn't they want to buy Tablets with WIndows 8 so they can run both legacy and Metro Style Apps?
And that pattern dodges the base case - Win 98: bad? I don't think so.
We just moved across the country from California to Virginia. We didn't have much in the way of furniture before, but we did give everything away that didn't fit into the bed of our truck.

When we arrived we made it a point not to buy a single piece of furniture. We relied entirely on unwanted furniture of friends and the Craigslist free section. With the help of our pickup truck we had a fully furnished home within a month for nothing more than the cost of gas. Next time we move a long distance we'll just give it all away and collect all new furniture at our next home. Its really liberating not being attached to anything in our home.

We don't pay for anything more than cable internet, pre-pay data and basic utilities. We don't even have a TV. We get all our movies and entertainment at the library for free. They allow for up to 6 DVDs for each of us, so we really don't miss TV or cable.

We also use Google Voice for all our phone calls and texting. We have a single Android phone and a $30 pre-pay plan with T-Mobile for going out. We use a couple voip apps so we can have both of our numbers available on the phone. Most of our calls and text messaging happen on our computers anyway.

We save on water by leaving the bathtub plugged up after our showers. This water goes into buckets throughout the day to flush the toilets. We never use the dishwasher and we wash laundry by hand when it's not a heavy load. This saves us as much as $40/mo on our water bill.

We aren't poor and could live much more luxuriously, but we choose to live this way in order to gain a richer experience of life.
> I know it's a weird diet.

Not at all, sounds pretty close to what could be considered Paleo/Keto (bsides the rice)
I'm not sure we disagree too much. My view is that you need to teach strong fundamentals so you don't need to think (ie, worry) about them later. This reduces degrees of freedom, and frees up your mind. The reason you do this is precisely that it lets you focus on higher level abstractions. It might just be me (probably is) but I found that math got more intuitive this way. Also, if your aim is to make the basic building blocks both reliable and intuitive, it will get used more in daily life. If you need to reference a text, it will ~never happen. [1,2]

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[1] What are <legos>, but simple geometric objects?

[2] Life is an open book test, there is just not time or the bandwidth. And I'm not talking about memorizing a calculus text, etc just for fun. But more basic - the bulding blocks. But if you want to play for high stakes later on this is the Ante, IMHO. That probaly wasn't clear in the initial comment I made (as several people have pointed out logic~abstraction, etc). So I'm not saying this should be the limit or ceiling of an education. Its just the opposite. But its shocking the kinds of things that happen otherwise. And its not fair to the kids who never get a shot at doing serious work, because their fundamentals are unsound. "Subtle bigotry of low expectations" and all that.
Thanks!

1. I think your example shows sed/awk's failings with JSON data :) I don't want to write a JSON parser by hand every time I want to pull a field out of an object, and parsing recursive structures with regexes is never a good plan.

2. It reads JSON items from stdin into memory, one at a time. So if the input is a single giant JSON value, it all goes into memory, but if it's a series of whitespace-separated values they'll be processed sequentially.

It's cat-friendly: if you do

cat a | jq foo; cat b | jq foo

then it's the same as doing

cat a b | jq foo
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I keep XP on an older machine because Win7 does not run DOS programs anymore, and Win7 broke the windbg debugger.
Everyone forgets that XP is very different from XP SP2. SP2 was a major update that replaced most of the binaries and offered significant API and security upgrades that were essential to everyone.

Before SP2, XP didn't offer much over Win2000 and NT4 other than a slightly lower price:

http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18829228/windows-xp...

In that same vein, Win8 doesn't offer much over Win7 if you're not using a tablet.
I installed Windows 8 this weekend on my primary machine (my school has an MSDN subscription). My initial impression is that it's actually an upgrade on the desktop - the Start screen really is better as an app launcher, and the app search works quite quickly (it was always dog-slow on Windows 7 on the same computer); the small upgrades to the task manager, taskbar, and Windows Explorer are nice too. It took a bit of time to figure out the new UI (it's all hot corners, but they're well hinted if you know to look for them), but it's pretty reasonable. That's the good news - the bad news is that all Metro apps (especially the Microsoft-branded ones) are useless, ad-ridden, under-featured dreck - if you clear them all from your start screen, it's a decent OS, but even Solitaire has ads, and takes a good 10 seconds to load because of its pointless XBox live integration.
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I don't get it.

As someone currently living out of a 40L bag [1], I don't feel any great cognitive load or emotional weight lifted. We sold all of our stuff (books, desks, cars, house) in order to do a round the world trip. The process really sucked.

You do save money from living without cable or not buying so much 'stuff', but I find that to be the limit of the benefit. I have no reason to believe that we won't be buying back many of the things we sold prior to travelling. In all honesty, living out of a bag makes me want more. I miss having more than three shirts or two pairs of pants to wear.

Minimalism is fine, but all the proselytizing around it makes no sense to me.

[1] http://orofino.me/daniels-rtw-packing-list/
Thank you for that insightful post. I always look to UI designers for macroeconomic advice.

My favourite bit is where he offers no evidence, no objective sources and absolutely nothing but talking points.
That 'page' icon sure is big.
Well, I suppose it's just a difference between countries. My books are definitively available at my local library.
The key distinction here is between wealth and income. Most angel investors are funding startups from their existing wealth(i.e. funds from a previous exit) rather than income. And any income they do get is probably taxed at the capital gains rate. As far as I know, Obama wants to raise taxes on income, not wealth.
Or they're after more leverage in their dealing with Oracle.
Hi Nathan!

Errbit is great, but I think there's room for diversity. After all, Redmine, Lighthouse, and JIRA all exist but address different use cases.

Coalmine has features that Errbit doesn't (and vice versa), but ultimately we want to take it in a slightly different direction from Errbit and other Airbrake-like tools.

As we get closer to 2.0 in the coming months I hope to make that distinction even more clear.
The negativity about vista was largely technical (it was unstable), and was adressed in SP1.

We can also look at gnome 2, gnome 3, and unity for other examples of horrific updates that went smoothly.
Don't forget Windows 2000 which in my book was the Windows 7 of its day. I was one of the stubborn ones refusing to upgrade my windows machines until it was pretty much unavoidable because 2000 wasn't supported by the software any longer. Even though the leap from 7 to 8 certainly is bigger than 2000 to XP ever was it kind of feels like history repeating itself in a way.
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The crux of my message was that my sister-in-law's son gets to enjoy a plethora of different toys (and he really does love them) that aren't injection-molded fossil fuel by-products.

Another way to look at it is that he wouldn't have most of those toys if they were physical items - a free piano app beats that $20 toy piano that his mum glanced at in the shop and decided not to buy because she needs to buy more nappies.

It's also interesting how, because touch-input results in a direct and near-instant output, that it can be understood by an infant quite rapidly. To them an app is a real mechanical object.
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Bootstrapping 2 kids and a startup for the last 3 1/2yrs. Definitely two jobs.

This is what made a difference for me between chaos and depressive thoughts to happiness and success: Alway Be Present.

When you spend time with the kids, be present and have a good time. That means no checking email, no thinking about the future, no thinking about the past. Be with them, as they know and feel when you're physically present but not mentally. This is good for everyone; spending no-guilt time with your kids will reenergize you and make you a better (smarter even!) person.

When you are working, be present too. If you are pretending to work but thinking you should be with your kids, drop everything and go play with them. What will make your life miserable is trying to work while feeling guilty for being a bad parent. You won't get anything useful done, and you won't be a good parent either.

Also, when you hang out with the kids, make it also a fun time for yourself. Get out of the house, do fun stuff, be a kid with them. You'll be killing two birds with one stone.

VCs reading here might not like this: companies are disposable and kids will be with you for all your life. Chose wisely where you want to make the bulk of your mistakes.
There are microwave/oven combos. Haven't seen one with hotplates on top yet. I have seen microwave-sized ovens with 2 hotplates on top though. I used one of those for a couple of years.

Okay, after looking around at Amazon for a bit, there also are microwave/oven thingies with 2 hot plates on top (like the Steba KB 52). They are somewhat expensive though.
It's technically legal, but now it seems the Brits are getting a little jealous and want some of that pie for themselves.
You're making this too easy.

Pretend you are scuba diving with a propulsion jet, and need to share your location urgently.
That quote from the ex-Microsoftie is the classic. Most ideas will fail. Right. Let's attribute brilliance to a master of the obvious. But the one idea that succeeds, even if it's "a way to kill aliens faster", will undoubtedly hear from a patent troll, like IV. Are you "OK with that"?

They will go after whoever is making money. And what do they contribute? Nothing.
I'm going to assume you're getting downvotes for saying that jquery animations are better performing than native CSS animations. From everything I've seen, that's simply not true, regardless of the platform.

I sure hope the downvotes aren't for saying that iOS's uiwebview is the best one we've got. Android web views mean using the android browser rendering engine, which is terrible. It might not be intentionally crippled like apple's is, but it is less capable to begin with.
Checked out the CSS -- the icon has an id of "page" which is associated with another element that has the same id. Hopefully someone at Microsoft sees it.
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Not locking the door but had the discussion with the kids.

Also if you read your kids stories (and I highly recommend it) and you include a generous helping of stories about kids who are independent and loving it (Little Britches, the Boxcar Kids, etc) they too will look forward to being independent. All three of my kids got a checking account when they were 5 (USAA is great for this), they were doing their own laundry by the time they were 10 and making their own lunches. By the time they reached 13 we started a program where each night one person was responsible for dinner that night for all five of us, didn't matter what it was, just had to be reasonably nutritious. Spaghetti? Pretty easy. Mac-n-Cheese, whitesauce with cheeses and some boiled noodles. Croque Madam? Ham sandwhiches with an egg. Steamed vegetables? straight forward. Etc. The goal of my wife and I was that our kids when they hit 18 needed to be able to manage a checkbook, cook their own meals economically, and manage their own laundry/hygiene. When they went off to college that was going to be expected after all.

The benefit to the parents is of course that the kids require less "time critical" time (its really handy to be able to say, "I'm going to be late, you're on your own for dinner." and to know that they will be able to make themselves a nice dinner.) And to not worry about whether or not they have a healthy lunch for school or clean clothes to wear.

By the time they are 18 they pretty self sufficient and that is a huge win. The trick is realizing that kids are much more capable than we often give them credit for, and they feel better about themselves when they feel they are in control of their own lives.
Unrelated to the article itself: OP, cut down on all the social-share-widget-scroll-js-be-my-friend nonsense on your blog. It's irritating, obnoxious and doesn't make me want to share or retweet or do anything except get the hell off your page.

I've read several of your blog posts and cringe each and every single time. Two scrolling widgets and a popup in the bottom corner as soon as you start to scroll down?

Huffington Post isn't even this bad.

Unfortunately, ranting aside, I'm sure this probably works great and converts much higher than tactfully placed icons. Such is the way of life on the internet I suppose.
I get this strange feeling you might not be supporting a similar purely technical description of the story had it been about the Taliban finding a new way to remotely detonate IEDs to blow up Western convoys using a cool spread spectrum in order to avoid jamming.
I've come to the same conclusion. "Modern" medicine is just marginal assistance to your body's own healing mechanisms.
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This probably isn't going to be much help, but I've been thinking back to when I was your age a lot lately (I'm 35). Your generation has so many resources available to learn programming, and so many opportunities to create through the open source world. This is a great time to be learning how to program, and I wish you lots of luck. This career can be a real pain in the butt a lot of times, but it's also a lot of fun.
Wasn't Windows 2000 targeted to the high end of the market only, and Windows 98 SE still the mass-market choice?
https://github.com/NielsLeenheer/html5test/pull/211 has a proper detect.
Shutting down using Win 8 takes exactly the same number of clicks as in Win 7. Alternatively you could just hit the power button and it'll shut down fine.
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I guess things will be clear once the social bubble bursts and dust settles.
See a lot of parents posting here about their success in raising children while working at a startup.

But I have a question that will sound condescending no matter how I phrase it: How many of you are developers vs product managers, business people, designers etc?

The reason I ask is because development is hard. It takes time to figure things out, and it's difficult to half-ass your way out of something when the clock hits 6pm without it coming back to get you the next morning.
But shapes, textures, smells, etc are important too. A cheap rubber toy piano might very well be better than an app. Not to mention that they're easier to share with other kids.

Personally, I can't picture my childhood without those "injection-molded fossil fuel by-products" called LEGO.
That save icon. In 2012. Why?
You summed up my thoughts too. Windows 8 starts up about twice as quick for me, which is great. The explorer changes are nice enough, and if you don't like the rather large ribbon UI, you can just hide it.

However, I also agree with you on the apps. On a laptop, I haven't once used a Windows 8 app for anything (other than the weather app once or twice to try). First, the apps take awhile to start. Secondly, they are unintuitive on a laptop. Third, the ads. Why are there ads in the apps made by microsoft? Customers aren't going to like seeing ads in a OS they just paid for.

Also, navigation between Metro apps and desktop apps is somewhat confusing. Mousing over the top-left corner seems to only show your last used application unless you awkwardly swipe your mouse downwards. The only easy to use app switcher seems to be alt+tab.

Overall, Windows 8 isn't bad at all. But it is somewhat confusing. And if it seems confusing to people who use technology all the time, will it make any sense to those less tech-savy users? I don't think it will, but we'll have to see.
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What does Windows 8 bring over Windows 7 that justifies an upgrade?

Real touch screen support and an app store.

I know that it may seem like not much given that it's focused in the Metro UI, but I think it can be a lot bigger than many here suspect.

I've already had a friend ask me about the Sony Vaio Tap 20. A 20" all-in-one that has a battery so you can take it to the kitchen or coffee table. All for $900.

Windows 8 gives you the ability to have the desktop experience, which is at least as good as Win7. But also to have a first class touch experience on the same device.

It fixes the problem I have of taking a tablet and a laptop on travel. I need my laptop for work, but the tablet for everything else.

Right now it may seem like a contrived example. I think in a year Apple will be doing the same thing. And in 18 months we'll have trouble imagining why this was at all controversial.
Not for everyone in enterprise, certainly. And most people will still have desktops. But for a job that involves travel and a significant amount of work in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, Windows RT tablets are a good fit at a comparatively low price.
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One fairly obvious example would be that facebook still have twice as many users on their web app as their native
So you don't buy into the argument that vertical touch screens are unergonomic and unpleasant to use over non-trivial amounts of time, because they require holding the hand up to the screen?
I have the impression tha for many people writing these kinds of posts, much of their world (hobby, work, etc) is actually online. Then I wonder, did these people cut down on software, too? How many webapps do they use? How much of a mess is their Dropbox?

I, for one, have had a very chaotic period of life or a very simple and structured one, best visible by how much a mess my computer was. Only regarding material goods seems a bit half-assed then, imho.
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Corporate IT is inherently conservative. Frankly, any company doing a full roll-out of a new version of an operating system in the first year after release is probably irresponsible, and any company planning their roll-out before the software is even released definitely is. Good admins always wait for SP1. I wouldn't try to extrapolate anything about the quality of the software based on whether or not corporate sysadmins are deploying it.
Most of the negativity about Vista was related to changes that were a good thing in the long run, but didn't have 3rd party support (updated drivers) out of the gate. SP1 fixed some problems, but in my opinion the bigger reason for SP1 being reliable was that the ecosystem had gotten its act together.

Windows 8 might not have a lot of native metro apps in their store yet, but at least everything works properly. Fewer companies have the option of screwing it up out of laziness.
This reminds me of the 'bottom of the harbour' tax scheme from the 70's in Australia (though that was properly criminal).

Something I liked about how they dealt with it was they changed the law retrospectively meaning companies/individuals had to pay back tax they had avoided from previous years. I would love to see this done more where there is blatant tax avoidance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_of_the_harbour_tax_avoid...
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Sigh, another story of "outrage" about how a company is legitimately avoiding taxation.

Guess what, if you are an international company you can take advantage of the rules that the local politicians put in place.

I ask people though what do they really want? Do they want Ebay to pay 45% in tax to the UK so 350M pounds of tax revenue from Ebay? Then the next complaint will be "Gee nobody does business in our country!" and you have to take the train over to France or something to buy stuff from Ebay.

So the actual choices are "access to ebay" or "no access to ebay" which do you want?
It takes a bit of tricky counting to make the pattern work. 98/ME/2000/XP/XPSP2/Vista/7.
This can't be right! Whatever happened to WinXP emulation mode or Dosbox?
Agreed, it's much better to adapt your grid to your content than pick a ratio first and then jam things in there.
am I the only one that stocks up on paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, household cleaning items, spare towels, another pair of sheets, different sorts of toiletries and backs of those toiletries so that I'm not going to the store all the time. This stuff takes up room!
I'm pretty sure I made no comment as to which is better, jQuery or CSS3 animations.

On mobile there is no question whatsoever that CSS3 animations are much better. The big issues tend to be regarding 3d stacking contexts. You can end up with strange artifacts, z-index breaking transforms, and sometimes downright wrong positioning. Also GPU accelerated elements can sometimes come out blurred. jQuery animations fix this but perform much worse.

On desktop it really depends. Browser compliance is an issue a lot of the time. You can actually slow down a 2d transition by using translate3d or any other GPU accelerated value. GPU acceleration hasn't had all its kinks worked out yet in browsers but its very likely that CSS3 transitions will be miles ahead for regular use cases in the future. I'm not saying that CSS3 transitions are worse, just that they are not better all of the time (only most of the time).
I'd like it if the middle column were the only part of the page.
Comments like "cancel your gym membership" make me think of something like "use a PC from 1995" as an equivalent idea. I like the idea of minimalism but in general downgrading your ability to function (such as using less productive tools/working out in an environment that is less efficient/less likely to promote productivity) is not the right way to go about it. I understand the POV as stated, but it could be mis-applied and cause many people to get lazy and float along/use less sophisticated tools.
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Oh. Right. I guess we're "punishing success" (or some other horseshit terms) by expecting companies to pay their fair share in taxes. And even though corporate tax laws are written in large part by these very same companies, I'm sure we should regard them as completely legitimate, as well.

What an absurd argument.
because it has been the save icon for 30 years and no one has thought of a better one.
We had all that when Windows 95 came out too. My dad and I stayed as MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 holdouts for a good year or so.. ;-)

Luckily, nowadays it's easier to try out new systems, watch video reviews, and get a feel for new products, so it's even easier to be open minded nowadays.
I'm a dev at a startup. Sometimes I work at home late at night on work stuff after my kid is asleep after working all day. Who cares where you work from?
I have also been trying to slow down and it has had a profound effect on my overal performance and happiness. I think cutting out youtube and hacker news is a bit much though.
Not to mention only 64-bit Win7 removed NTVDM.
I know it's worth forgetting, but don't forget Windows Me too ;-)